skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea, but it looks like one of those domain squatted spam sites right now....

"The best sites to get free, high quality $THING" over and over looks a bit... bot-generated.
I think this is the root of it. The high cost of living (high property values, high taxes, high regulation around inputs like fuel and wages) mean that being able to put four walls around a family and feel even a modicum of financial security requires a staggering -- a simply staggering -- income.

If one looks at the inputs into the cost-of-living issue, I suspect one would actually find that much of the pressure cooker atmosphere is the result of bad policy. There's no shortage of land, energy, labor, or even water* in Silicon Valley. But there's an enforced shortage of these things, and the resulting high prices create the "banishment effect" for these children.

* Since I'll take some flak for this, here's one supporting view: http://www.city-journal.org/2015/cjc0402vdh.html
I used Elm in a personal project. It's a joy to play with but the standard library has some bugs that made it impossible for me to continue development.
No, they're not that different, no you don't need more sex than one woman can give you to remain mentally healthy, as evidenced by all the not-crazy monogamists. You're an idiot.

If you want more than one partner, go for it, become a polyamorist. Lots of men and women do.

But your generalisations and your attitude towards women are childish, you need to grow up.
I'm not deeply involved with the Node community, but on the surface this sounds like really exciting news. From what I understand core development has slowed down quite a bit with Node.js, and there were some issues with the governance model, and io.js set out to solve these problems? It would be awesome to get these benefits without having to split the community.
Code talks. Show us a version of dpkg that doesn't have those problems and maybe someone will adopt it.
As a Santa Monican I am glad that life and governance are not reduced to the maximization of an objective value function.
Compared to the time investment in reading a book, $50 is already incredibly cheap.
Anecdotal, but there are studies out there in child/family studies that back my experience: I'm a foster parent. My foster kids have more access to the riches of the world... are less hungry, have more toys, have more movies, bigger TVs, etc. Not to mention, I treat them in such a way that doesnt get the state to want to remove them from their home. However, one of my foster kids once said to me, "I really like you and your house. You have a nicer house than my parents and more toys. But I like living with MY parents more." This kid was <7 years old when (s)he said that. Even young children recognize that there is more to a parent/child relationship than "stuff". What it boils down to is: they want to be with their families.

I've noticed that a lot of people who live in Palo Alto or similar areas work ... A LOT. Which means more time with their job and less time with their families.
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Hell, the executive and the chain of command both would have a hard time forcing the hand of a recalcitrant NSA: "Joint Chief Smith, we're happy to discuss your objections to our policy, but first we'd like to review some saved communications we have that document some of your conduct. On page 2, we cover your first year at West Point..."
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I think the term "general warrant" was used. Hopefully this gets you started, and hopefully others comment with more information.
I don't understand. The purpose of the penalty would be to prevent the noise from happening, not simply to raise money after it already happened.
Yes. When nobody owns something, nobody takes care of it. Consider the sound environment. No one charges you to broadcast your music or your voice through the air. Another example would be odors from cooking or smoking.

People in proximity share resources even if they don't want to. Anonymous temporary interaction affects what people think they can get away with. If we're neighbors for a year, we can sort out our differences and come up with some rules. I promise not to have a loud party without telling you in advance, for example. If we're having a shorter term interaction, say over a weekend, I don't know your expectations, and frankly i don't care. so i'll just go ahead and be loud till you call the police.
AirBnB takes out insurance for that very purpose, damages are insured up to 1 million dollars.
Are you saying there is recourse for short-term rentals, but not for noise violations? If that's the case for some odd reason, then it needs to change.
I see, so there's no need to even use an external library.

It doesn't look like they are using the PureRenderMixin for the benchmarks. Would be curious to see how they compare then..
Snowden did the right thing. He should be pardoned for that.
I don't know about Palo Alto kids specifically, but I do know that there have always been a lot of suicides among Caltech students as well as the faculty. I don't know about the non-faculty staff.

A friend of mine, Misha Mahowald, made it plainly apparent that she would win the nobel someday, then hurled herself in front of a train at the age of 33.

A brilliant young astronomy professor, whose name I don't recall, paid cash for a brand-new red convertible sports car, drove it at twice the speed limit from pasadena to palomar mountain then over a precipice.

While I was at the Intitute, I was told that there were quite a few suicides among caltech students but that the institute worked to keep them quiet lest there be an epidemic of suicides.

Not long after I left - but with the intention to return - I thumbed a ride with an off-duty pasadena emergency medical technician. When I told him I was a Caltech physics student, he shouted with great joy "CALTECH HAS SUCH SPECTACULAR SUICIDES!"
> I'm unconvinced that accepting large amounts of technical debt allows startups to react faster.

Accepting large amounts of technical debt enables you to deliver faster if your initial assumptions (both about what you want and how to achieve it) are correct, but slows you down if any of those turn out to be wrong.

OTOH, it might offset that slowness in whole or in part that by speeding up your ability to determine that they are wrong.
I prefer to call it "fundamentalist positivism" or "determinism" since it is not entirely clear that material behaves like this sort of materialist thinks, and there is abundant evidence that the right hemisphere has a legitimate role in cognition.

Otherwise bravo sir. Hopefully this fundamentalism will go where other fundamentalism before it have gone.

It's sort of obvious what's happening here: over pressure and conformism to prepare kids for high end drone roles in the new global economy. But I have no proof, and of course [citation needed] and all that. Perhaps I am suffering from the Dunning-Kreuger effect. Did I hit every cliche? Dunno... extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I live near Irvine in SoCal, and I wonder if similar things occur there. It's definitely one of those places where all the kids are expected to be above average and to perform, the schools operate as feeders for top-ten universities, and the parents tend to be a tad on the helicopter side.

I have kids and rent right now. Not sure where we will buy, but it probably won't be Irvine. If my daughter ends up being (gasp!) artistic or just a "laid back" person, I don't want her jumping in front of the LA Metro Rail.
> Right - the noise has already happened, though.

Well, that's a physical limitation. Arrow of time and whatnot. It also applies to all penalties. Of course, the point of the penalty is not simply to raise money or get revenge after a rule is broken. The purpose is to disincentivize breaking the rule in the first place.
The largest he labeled “Palo Alto,” the second “Male.” In the center circle was the word “Asian.” “It seems,” he wrote, “that the demographic most at risk are Asian (Chinese) males in high school (hey, that’s what I am!).” It was an unmissable observation: Zhu’s suicide was the third in a row by an Asian male.

In Palo Alto, and here in the comments as well, people refuse to discuss the most obvious connection to the suicides, the huge Chinese immigrant population in Palo Alto. And the pressure applied by tiger parents.
Fine the property owner either way. If the tenants were there with the property owner's permission, it's the property owner's responsibility.
So their eradication could be a solution to the food crisis? Interesting thought.
How about you wake up yourself, call your congress-critters and express you opinions, instead of falling back asleep. We NEED you to participate in democracy. You, an intelligent internet user that is smart enough to seek out and use a site like HN are far far above the average voter in terms of awareness of internet freedom issues and their implications. Whatever your opinions are, they are likely much more informed than the average US citizen's. Please, please, please, wake yourself up and participate in this great experiment.

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

http://www.senate.gov/
> She nets about $1000 a month doing this and manages to take 3 single residential units off the market in the process.

That doesn't make any sense. $333 from an apartment per month in Santa Monica.

You've been lied to.
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https://torrentfreak.com/judge-an-ip-address-doesnt-identify... ?

not quite what you're looking for, but effectively the right thing. an ip address does not identify you personally, the same way a drivers license does.
Take the salary, and renegotiate options on raises/promotions at a later date.
o.f() and (0, o.f)() have different semantics - the latter is closer to temp = o.f; temp().

For that reason the optimisers see the code being function-call vs. method-call. Given the usage of function and method calls are generally different the compilers make different optimising decisions.
Essentially the American state religion to which your refer is largely predicated on the concept that any law may be ignored by those in power so long as the intent is to produce "good outcomes" for some state perception of good. (i.e. 'the constitution is not a suicide pact' or read "Enemies: A History of the FBI")

Law (so far) is merely stains on paper until interpreted by the mind of an individual in some context (time, place, society). Societal context is some collective consensus over right and wrong -- some popular mush of common sense, the influence of which can be seen in the evolution of, for example, supreme court decisions over socially controversial issues. Where large numbers of individuals subscribe to a particular set of beliefs about what the law is, and proceed to act accordingly, a very convincing illusion of government emerges. And one may refer to this as a state religion in the sense it is entirely an emergent property of belief rather than reality.

Thus, absolute law is a myth. Pardons are an outlet for the elected leadership to short-circuit the legal process when, in a given instance, punishment is perceived to exceed the crime. It is thus arguably irrational to assert that a pardon is premature in the Snowden case, considering the outcome thus far.

Of course, those capable of issuing such pardons are themselves true believers. Snowden has committed blasphemy against the state religion. Thus a pardon can only occur should some popular unrest threaten those in power.
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Not always necessary, but I think it's useful, if not important, to have by default in any infrastructure which uses long-term VMs and doesn't just replace "immutable" VMs every time a setting is changed. You always want some path to get data into the VM without networking or VGA, otherwise you have a big problem when something goes wrong with the network and you need to fix things in VMs which you don't want to reboot. This is a corner I'm sure enough sysadmins have found themselves in.

For extra-security-conscious deployments, most hypervisors let you remove most hardware, and qemu gives you enough flexibility to define nearly every device on the VM's motherboard at the command line rather than taking a pre-configured motherboard setup. The default settings in most hypervisors give you lots of unneeded hardware, but this hardware is really convenient for any user who is just trying to get a VM up.

I realize that, from a "secure defaults" perspective, the CD-rom and unused serial port increase your attack surface, but I also think this trade is worth it in most scenarios, but it's a tough line to draw.
At the very beginning I thought Snowden was a plant, mostly because he claimed to have hundreds of thousands of docs but was releasing very few, but as time went on and more kept on being leaked I realized it couldn't be.
In 2009 how was the term used by pg?

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Small nit: The fact that most elements on the page are immediate children of one parent doesn't necessarily negatively affect parallelism. It only will if all those children are "display: inline". (For example, if your entire page is one giant paragraph hundreds of thousands of words long, then you won't get much parallelism out of layout. But you will if you have hundreds of thousands of separate paragraph elements, even if they're all siblings of one another.)
This is amazing for Javascript!
That's my impression. The world is full of nanotech factories - we call them bacteria. They assemble molecules as necessary, but they don't do it the way it's done on the macro scale, because the macro-scale model doesn't transfer to interaction at the nano scale.

If the grey goo scenario was possible, I suspect it would have evolved as a life form.
Hopefully this doesn't mean io.js won't slow down again :\
AP as well as "honors credits" are graded from 2.0-5.0.

To achieve this, you take probably 3-4 honors classes freshman year, along with the dreaded dead weight PE and a language if your school doesn't offer an AP language.

Then you transition to 2-3 AP classes as well as 2 honors classes (Precal and English) sophomore year, as well as secondary PE.

Junior year and senior year you take 5 or 6 APs.

Then, if the competition still has not been shaken, there is option of enrolling in supplementary colleges at the local JC after school or over summer (which, nicely, also are measured out of 5.0 on the HS transcript).

I enrolled in a mid tier private college instead of a UC due to fear of working harder than I did in high school.

I cannot believe how much free time there is. I'll probably transfer up soon. We'll see.
So you lack empathy and can't understand that the stresses of their community while not equaling yours can easily rival it in stress and seriousness to a teenager.

Kudos on making it out, it's sad though that you can't see it from a child's perspective.

I guess you just need someone that's in a more harsh ghetto to make your story sound like it's irrelevant since their situation was worse. Try Latin American ghettos, SE Asia, most of Africa, etc.
I'm skeptical that 3d printed objects could replace very much of what we now obtain from factories. In industrial design, the materials and fabrication process are (supposed to be) selected very carefully with an eye towards cost, physical properties, chemical properties, etc. Even my phone case, which might be the simplest product I own, was made not just from any old plastic, but from a very particular plastic that's optimized for phone cases.

Whereas with 3d printing, we're currently stuck with a kind of plastic that's optimized for compatibility with a 3d printer. It's unclear whether we'll ever be able to print from other, better plastics. And that's saying nothing of other materials like steel, glass, and ceramic, which are often necessary in useful consumer products.
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Time Warner Cable supports IPv6 as well.
turn on....tune in.....drop out....
They do implement `shouldComponentUpdate` on the todo items in a way that should give about the same performance boost. (All the pure render mixin does is implement that method using shallow equality.)
If you leave your gun loaded and your kid shoots someone - yes.

If you leave your gun and someone 'steals' it to kill others - I don't think so.

It's all about intentions of third party which is one of many paradoxes of the law system.
It gives me some hope for this country that this issue doesn't fall along the normal party line divisions.
The American population tends to forget about incidents mere months after they happen. Small releases over time was how Snowden made sure that people did not forget about it. I believe he even stated that was why he handed over the documents in large groups, but not all at once.

I do not think he is a plant. * Puts on my conspiracy hat * But maybe that's what they want me to think?
> Could it be that people actually buy the "entrepreneur / do-it-your-way bullshit" for themselves but fear to apply it to their kids?

Most of the Gunn students' parents aren't on HN, nor are they entrepreneurs (nor are most people on HN entrepreneurs). For the record, suburban Palo Alto is also very different from SOMA in SF. I know that this seems like a very _minor_ distinction to outsiders, but it matters: the kids (and their parents) aren't usually exposed to folks living with roommates, those who are "getting by" with freelance jobs while building more valuable career skills, and so on...

> Also, I'd like to point out that most of the greatest scientific minds of our era did get mediocre grades in school (I'm not talking about the Gates or Jobs college dropout fairytale).

A mediocre grade, by definition is a C. While I'm
willing to concede that one doesn't need straight A's to be a scientist, it's hard to see how one could make any contribution to a relevant STEM field with C-graded understanding of basic algebra and proofs (without, e.g., making up for it elsewhere such as via community college courses taken on the side or re-taking those courses in a university).

I'll say without hesitation that "take hard courses, don't worry about dragging down your GPA by a few points" is _great_ advice, but that's not the same as "all else being equal, mediocre grades have no consequences."

However, that advice implies getting to a university in the first place, and that's the problem students in Palo Alto are facing: even ten years ago (when I was graduating HS/entering college -- note I graduated from Monta Vista HS, a school that's somewhat similar to Gunn, but ahem -- farther from Stanford and Caltrain) the perception (which isn't the entire story, but still has a strong basis in reality) was that 1) one can't get into a good (UC Berkeley, UCLA, or another equivalent public or private university; Stanford or MIT are a different matter altogether...) university without a (I'm using the older SAT scale...) 1400+ SAT score and 3.8+ GPA 2) without attending and graduating from a good university, one may still have a decent career, but one will be less secure (whether financially or in terms of career mobility, job satisfaction, or even selection of romantic partners) in other ways. I don't think the situation got any better since then, if anything it intensified greatly after the 2008 crisis (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_is_Over).

(Note: there are definite advantages to attending a name-brand university, but it isn't -- at least, yet -- the absolute requirement, without which one will never be admitted to the a rewarding and successful career.)
Input and output of floating point involves a decent amount of bigint math to do correctly. It's not surprising to me that it is slow -- doing it quickly is still an active area of research.

Writing a bit about that is still on my todo list.
A woefully tragic "flyover state".

OMG, how do people even live there? ;-)

My quality of life here in Oklahoma far outstrips mine when I lived in SF, Redwood City & Pacifica (I did like a lot about the Bay Area though, just not a good match for me).
Why are kids killing themselves in utopia?

It's not their utopia. It's their parents' utpoia.
Motion blur isn't relevant to static images, and Link's Awakening uses flip scrolling so most of the screen is static most of the time.
python would let you concentrate on the code and not on other issues. It also has quick access to many data structures like sets and maps with shorthand syntax.

e.g. checking for set membership:
if 3 in {1,2,3,4,5}:
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The risk, of course, is they might rule it's legal.
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TechCrunch covered about a hundred companies from this last batch and gave extensive coverage of YCs demo day. 500 Startups just had their demo day and it was pretty much crickets. What gives?
The drone would hopefully though still be hovering above you so would help any people in your group find you faster
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Speaking about maker books, check out the Humble Make Book Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books. For $14 you can get 13+ really good books.
There isn't any mystery. Property owners in residential neighborhoods absolutely do not want a stream of transients passing through the hood. This is not new. Airbnb just flew under the radar long enough to avoid the hammer of long standing inn-keeping/boarding-house regulations.
The Agile manifesto was originally written, from what I understand, by people who actually understood software.

I just don't understand what logic brought us to this place where it's not seen as weird that someone wholly non-technical and unfamiliar with software can be a manager of a software team (or run a software company, for that matter).

I'm not arguing that software is somehow 'special' either - I'd make the same argument if say, for example, someone wholly unfamiliar with steel fabrication was acting as a factory foreman. Or if me, as a software guy, decided to just one day declare that I'm qualified to successfully manage a farm.

I feel like this is a big part of the problem. Not the whole problem, but a big ccontributor.
Until its criminal; then its a matter of law.
Isn't that a bit too agnostic (and fatalistic too) ? I mean it is us who are causing the downfall afterall.

I agree that on the large scale we're no less "natural" or "conscious", but surely we can be better than a Meteor or a Supervolcano.
But that's circular, right? HTML isn't a programming language, because you can't program. Maybe its like pornography; you know it when you see it.
That's not true. There is a whole class of problems that are trivial to prove an answer is correct, but very difficult to find the answer. Like factoring the RSA numbers, or finding a large prime number, etc.
Private network is just another layer on top.

Google did not just throw away this layer, but replaced with device authentication. They are essentially using two factor authentication.
Have you listened to any recently released records? They're loud as hell.
Many people have recognized this fact. Hemingway for example.

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." -- Hemingway

In a world of corruption such as this, the smarter you are, the harder it is to remain unconscious of that fact and thus not be miserable.

Figuring out what to do about it, which means also having realized that it is not impossible to fix, is the only cure (other than lobotomizing yourself).

For those in pre-solution-realization phase, read "Atlas Shrugged" for the start of an effective cure.
That's very true. But consider: millions of creatures went extinct before our time. What we see today is just those that happened to be extant as we came to civilization. Are they more important than all those that came before? Are they significant at all?

Some say yes; others think perhaps an albino tiger isn't all that pertinent, when we can (soon) create a pink polka-dot tiger that fetches your slippers.