skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When we multiply the width of the lanes (38′ 9″) by the length of the block (425′), the result is more than 15,000 square feet of space for cars, just on a single block of McAllister Street."

Wow! That's amazing. Add that to the 425 x 425 square feet of the block, which is 180,625 square feet and you'd really have some more square footage! Why, it's...

8% more.

I don't think you're going to solve SF's housing crisis by raising the amount of square footage on a few select streets where this works by 8%. The math on this doesn't work when put in proper context. 15,000 square feet isn't anywhere near as much as it sounds.

You need to solve the core problem, which is probably something more like politically-mandated stasis because everybody's really excited about somebody else solving the problem but doesn't want anything they interact with to change moreso than "the streets are just too darned big".
The article references 2006 - that was Vanilla time.
The requested magic with payment inputs is tricky. Commas and periods are both used for thousands and decimals sometimes interchangeably within the same country.
Is the unknot (as in, a loop) representable in this notation?
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Absolutely true for regular passwords. In the specific case of the blog post, it can work however, because it's just the numeric two-factor part.
> It's full of harmful chemicals because of the way it's processed.

Like which chemicals?
Interesting, I admit I had never heard about it. Are the prices competitive ?
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"Adar and his co-authors also describe how Skype phone calls today sometimes contain “fake static noise” because when users experience a completely noise free line, they are prone to thinking that the call has in fact dropped."

Cell phones have been doing this since the first GSM phones. Look up "comfort noise". It saves bandwidth by not actually transmitting low level background noise.
Its not just your code that needs timezone awareness, users are all shockingly bad at understanding timezones. Daylight savings in particular needs to die.
I am all for being a techno optimist but Marc comes of as someone who haven't really understood the problems that he is helping create which is sad because he is influential enough for it to matter.
Envato.com is highly successful and was founded by a designer.

Here's a clip of the founder discussing his founding story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvzF6Umvjk
Every word in his rant is gold.
The decision to put type annotations for variables in comments was made specifically for backwards compatibility reasons.

Remember that Python has supported function annotations since 3.0 [0]. Python 3.5 will only add the option to type check those same annotations.

Any type annotations that can be checked by Python 3.5 can also be parsed by earlier versions of Python, though without being checked.

The only wart in this master plan is specifically the one where you want to type annotate variables (as opposed to functions). Comments are the only way they could do this in a backwards compatible way.

The Python devs are well aware of the ugliness of this compromise, which is why they end the section you linked to with this:

> If type hinting proves useful in general, a syntax for typing variables may be provided in a future Python version.

I can't comment on Go, but I wouldn't call Python's choice here unreasonable.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/
It would only set a precedent for fugitives if it is deprived of any context associated with this case.

So in order to dictate "how and when" one can be questioned by the police, as a fugitive you first have to get political asylum in a other nations embassy, sit there for 3 years, and then have the statue of limitation reaching into the last 3 months, and the total cost of the police operation should be around $10 millions.

The risk that this "precedent" should impact even a single fugitive interview in the next 100 years is likely to be small, or actually very small.
It's a custom developed planning/forecasting tool. It's a P x Q thing, but the P and Q are variable as to the type and mix of the Ps and Qs and need to be combined/sliced into many different ways for analysis/planning/forecasting. The team actually developing it has been very challenged.
Lighten up, everyone likes a good rant once in a while (especially as good as this one). Not every link on HN can be to a white paper or similar.
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Try living in Nepal [0] ;)

[0] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/nepal/kathmandu
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I think the operative word is "premature". If you actually have a reasonable idea of how much data you're going to be working with, it's not premature at that point to put some time into optimization.

Also, I would restate the rule as something like "don't spend too much time prematurely optimizing. If you're building a lookup, it's obviously a Good Thing to use a hash instead of a linked list, and in 99% of cases shouldn't take you any longer to code.
I don't know that any of my professors did the stuff he mentions. However, he's quite right about the piece he was responding to.
most corporate level SSD's are actually better than entry level consumer ones.
"These are really just proverbs, and it is not unusual to find pairs of proverbs with opposite intent"

Or, taken to the limit, "Moderation in all things, even moderation."

(It may take a moment's thought to see how I got from here to there.)
Been following Nametiles / Passcard development for a bit. One gap I think NameTiles could really help fill is Authorship.

For instance, in a WordPress post, you have the author (ie "This post was written by +larry"), so it'd be cool if the WP plugin used a Nametile on the author link.

Then, somewhere, I should be able to see everything +larry has written on any site, so that I can keep tabs on stuff he writes on his various properties.

I know Google dumped showing Authorship in the search results (I'm not sure if they're using it at all in their algorithm), but I think this is the best use case.

I like certain authors but don't want to follow their social media. I just want to see the stuff they've written.

And that, IMHO, was the actual purpose of Authorship anyway! Google lost their direction with it and made it far too complicated (as they often do)...

Anyway, just one of several cool use cases for this. Congrats on the cool idea and launch Larry!!
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if you can agree that i got arguments that convince - i do you the favor. :)
Read the last third of the article.
/// is metadata/docstrings - it's a convention from C#. So a /// block is parsed by the compiler and tooling (to generate documentation xml files, for example), while a // comment is not parsed at all, just stripped.
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Not according to the article :O

I presume it is assumed that corporate policy has better data integrity best practices than your average Joe Homeowner.
> Cell phones have been doing this since the first GSM phones. Look up "comfort noise". It saves bandwidth by not actually transmitting low level background noise.

It'd be nice if this could be disabled, in favor of a clearer call.
So, for those interested in learning could we possibly have a quick short answer for each one of them?

K
Just bought a Lenovo laptop over the weekend for my wife. Sounds to me like it's no longer being installed on the laptops, but will check it to make sure Superfish isn't there.
I've personally seen this in two separate projects that decided they needed their own XML parser. In one case, they simply didn't know better. And proceeded to get the basics wrong, like empty elements.

In the other case, they used XML for no good reason, then, gasp, decided parsing 30KB XML files all over the place (thousands a second, deeply integrated into all parts of the code) wasn't very quick. So they copied libxml's source, then hacked it up, breaking things like character encoding. Oh, and they added an XML pre-processor while they were at it, to do file includes and variable substitution. Thus it's not even compatible with XML, yet they still pay all the overhead. Awesome.
There's a difference. The hard parts are done. The easy parts are broken. We know they can do better, but they do crap, and this literally looks like them saying "fuck you users, we'll shit on you because we can get more money this way".

Want some examples? Random things we had better 60 years ago than today: kettles, shoes, clothes, watches, utensils, furniture. There's a purposeful downgrading going on.
Well, you're assuming that streets need vehicle traffic. If zoning were relaxed on the narrow streets so that people could run shops and small businesses then you wouldn't really need to drive to buy stuff.

Regarding pricing, much of the good pricing is due to manufacturing scale, which you would still have with a distributor or a cartel consolidating orders. I don't see how big box stores are the only way to have low prices.
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"Notably, Lenovo did not preinstall the Superfish program on any of its computer models that were marketed to businesses or more sophisticated computer users."

That's a particularly damning accusation.
bing is decent on mobile.
That might be why people don't press the button near my work. I am always confused why there are people standing at the red traffic light of a rather small street without seeing any cars and without pressing the button, willing to wait for 10 minutes without realizing that they have missed something. Pressing that specific button at least results in 10 seconds waiting time if there is no car, and the light will never switch without the button.

Btw. do you really have traffic light buttons that don't do anything? Here in Berlin many automatic traffic lights have something that looks like a button but actually isn't one. Underneath is vibrating button that will show blind people that it's green without a sound. Many many people don't see that this is not a button, and don't think a moment about the blind sign (yellow ground, three black dots) on top of it and press it anyway, hoping it has an effect.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
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These are not actually interview questions.
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This is basically my set up too.

My advice to anyone looking to get started is to just buy the most expensive speakers you can afford (used market is good for this), pickup an older amp for peanuts on eBay that can power said speakers, and some bargain bin cables from RadioShack.
I'll check it out, thanks! AirDroid is a first good-enough solution I discovered, but it has way more features than I need - you can tweak and manage your mobile device from the web browser in all kind of ways, but the only thing I use is downloading/uploading files.
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wow. I love pmarca's Jerry:Newman comparison, but with Gurley's portfolio as impressive as it is, maybe George Costanza:Lloyd Braun is the better Seinfeld analogy
Wait... a POWER PLANT?!

I undertand relying on piles of crappy Excel models built by underpaid, skill-lacking interns in cash-strapped e-commerce companies where investors don't really care about the real profit margin, but... I mean, we're talking about millions of dollars of hardware and human lives here...
These kind of buttons aren't commonplace in many areas of that planet. But they are very common in elevators for the door closing. In other areas I also have never seen one, but in many elevators of Berlin the button for closing the door isn't even connected to the electricity.
I think you're correct in that its overused, but the jump from using a spreadsheet and programing even the simplest macros, is a big one for a large portion of the those use Excel. Much less using a RDBMS or programming in Python. Even trying the macro recorder makes most users assume 'that's not meant for me'. If the requirement of the job include building a model that can be used and manipulated by anyone than Excel is the only tool for the job, anything else requires more training.
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Seagate is also a manufacturer of SSDs…
Don't get me wrong, I really like Peter Thiel, but it's hard to consider him 'Libertarian', whilst selling advanced snooping software to the U.S. government.
I care about privacy but with some restrictions I still use Google, Twitter, and Facebook.

I did switch off of gmail for general use, but I forward some emails to my old gmail account for experimenting with Google Now on my Android phone. For example, I will forward emails confirming airline reservations and car rentals so that information ends up in Google Calender and Google Now. For the same reason I sometimes will turn on location services on my phone.

I use Firefox for my web browsing, but use Chrome when visiting Google, Facebook, and Twitter web properties. I check cookies set in Firefox to make sure I have not enabled tracking.

I am making some real compromises in privacy and convenience, but for now this 'middle road' works for me.
JEDEC is not some oxide-industry puppet group. It's a major standards body.
Not necessarily. Many of the higher end and business models come without spyware of any kind, not just this particular piece of software.
What a bunch of nonsense...
Here is the presentation:
http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/Alvin_Cox%20%5BComp...

All what they found is that there's a correlation between load, the operation temperature during which data was stored, and the ambient temperature in which the device is kept while switched off.
This means that at an active operational temperature of about 40c (which is normal for most consumer drives) and a storage temperature of 30c (which is pretty much the upper maximum of storage temperatures under residential conditions) your drive will retain data for at least 52 weeks.
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The amount of creativity and intelligence in the valley is only eclipsed by the narcissism.
When I worked at one large corporation, they always kept the temp around 63ish. The sales people joked it was to keep us awake and dialing all day.

Of course they outlawed space heaters, but that didn't stop anybody from bringing them in. The funny part was trying to coordinate them so we could warm a certain set of cubes without blowing the fuse.

It was our way of getting some feeling of control back. It's interesting how important this is to people - to feel like they're in control of their surroundings.
You're right, it is just ludicrous.
The paper took something out of context, didn't really understand what it reads and published nonsense.

The original blog post linked from the article is https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24#ssds-evidence-sto...

It actually raises a point for a specific use-case, when a computer with an SSD is taken for analysis (f.ex. a court case as evidence by the police) the SSD is kept powered off and may lose its data and thus be worthless as evidence after some time if the system is not kept in a normal temperature (around 25C).

It's not a normal use-case and in fact it may be to the benefit of the user to use an SSD in that case in the hope that the data will self-destruct with complete plausible deniability.
For the office's window automation systems there are buttons in our building, but they are always overwritten by automatic behaviour. So you open the blinds and while you do it the automation system thinks it would be better closed and starts closing it again, completely ignoring that you are currently pressing the button.
I guess not everybody perceived the tone in the same way. It seemed much more neutral to me.
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2/3 top-level comments are confusion re. the title. Can we have a different title for HN in this case?

EDIT: Title as I write this: CloudFlare “Interview Questions”
I think it's important for every company that the CEO answer support mail from regular customers at least a few hours every day. Then he/she will get a better understanding about the product(s).

About sharing images, I find setting up a FTP-server is the simplest solution. Most file-browsers have FTP built in and allows features like drag 'n drop.

The problem with usability in free services like Google, is that they earn more money the more time you spend on the site. So if it takes ten minutes to do something that should take five seconds. Their metrics will show one hundred times more earning from the slow and tedious version. Guess what version they want you to use!?
You are a very whiny person
They have carefully left out certain key capabilities in the Matlab compiler, that renders it not very useful for some applications. So it is cool, but check the list of compilable functions.
I can't replicate your "Android UI failed" problem on a Nexus 5 running Android 5.1
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Consider that it is perfectly possible for some Swedes to be "fanatical" and for some (or even most) to want to abide by the law. The question is whether there are some Swedes with sufficient reach willing to go far enough.

E.g. some years back, Swedish police black bagged two political asylum seekers from Egypt and illegally handed them over to the CIA, knowing the CIA would fly them to Egypt and hand them over to Mubarak. Sweden asked for a "promise" they'd not be tortured, which they promptly were of course. The entire operation violated by Swedish law and international law, was condemned by the UN and Sweden has been ordered to pay restitution over it.

Yet a few years later, Swedish military police uncovered that the CIA were still conducting illegal rendition flights via Sweden, with the cooperation of Swedish ground staff. We know about the latter only because Wikileaks years later reported on how the US ambassador to Sweden was called in to the Swedish foreign ministry over the matter. We don't know whether there have been further "issues" because it has never been investigated thoroughly by anyone that we know of, and certainly not publicly.

Clearly some Swedes - including police officers - were ok with blatantly ignoring Swedish law in the first matter, and some were willing to continue cooperating with the CIA illegally even after the massive uproar of the first revelations, and after it was clear political authorities at least in public opposed it, and at the same time as other parts of the Swedish government were prepared to take action against it.
There were a number of lawsuits that were filed against Lenovo as a result of Superfish. I believe the Joint Panel For Multidistrict Litigation will soon (May 28) hear argument about whether and where those cases should be consolidated for pre-trial matters. See: http://www.jpml.uscourts.gov/sites/jpml/files/Hearing%20Orde...
Except for the "craigslist early adopters", almost everyone who has done online dating has done so based on word-of-mouth recommendation from people they trust.

Success = recommend to friends; Viral.
Had the same issues multiple times with their Amsterdam data centre.
I'm pretty curious about who this "Sterling International Consulting Group" suing Lenovo is, their website (http://www.sterling-consulting.com/) 404s...
nice try, but adobe got in the game long ago :)

https://color.adobe.com/explore/newest/?time=all
Very little substance? I dunno... what would you have liked to learn? What questions are left unanswered? Maybe I just don't know all that much about Marc Anderson but I thought it was interesting insight into the person.
Even when using a library that supports timezones (and DST), handling them is still a pain, especially if one has to deal with timezone aware and floating datetimes at the same time.
The requirements for an enterprise SSD is lower than that of the consumer SSD under the assumption that such SSDs are hardly ever left unpowered for an extended period of time.

The SSD is in fact better because it better uses its internal resources to optimize for things other than retention without power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality
What do you base your assessment on?
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In my experience, the simplest way to program with times and dates is nearly always to convert to Unix epoch as early as you can in the process. Do all processing in Epoch, then convert back to something readable by humans at the last possible moment. This approach won't work in all circumstances, but it should be the standard approach unless there's a compelling reason not to.
Thanks! I think part of the vision for this technology is that since primary key for people's identity (or identities!) to tie to together parts of their identity across different platforms and services.

Google, Facebook, etc have tried to do this before, but it never works because their business concerns always get in the way of the technology.

Imagine Facebook agreeing to make Google Accounts their primary key for their userbase. It wouldnt even happen over Zuck's cold dead body - would be a horrible business decision.

Passcard is in the blockchain and the only ownership is people owning their identities, so anyone can build on it...just like I built Nametiles!
I use it as a caffeine delivery system primarily.
I agree that you have raised an argument. I haven't read anything to indicate you understand the issue at a higher level. It would definitely help me respect your argument as sincere if you argued the counter with sophistication.
I just went and checked. Surprisingly, they added the month view to portrait and brought back the week view (who had the idea that "week" has 5 days is beyond me). If you turn your device to landscape position however, you get only the week view, with no ability to change it.
According to the slides, Enterprise SSDs are tested to much stricter standards (one order of magnitude better error rate).
Good luck with the waiting. Notoriously bad at customer support as well.
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Hello friends,

Any thoughts on this subject?

Thanks!
The more modern ambulances are already switching to those vehicles, and this is in Atlanta suburbia where space is not exactly a problem.
I appreciate your well-put-together response.

"And unlike the UK, which have repeatedly frustrated US authorities by allowing lengthy court proceedings over extraditions, Sweden has kidnapped and black bagged political asylum seekers to illegally hand them over to the CIA, knowing they'd be handed over to the regime they were seeking asylum from."

I've commented on this elsewhere in the thread. To be fair, this is one incident we're talking about. It's not like it's some common occurance, nor is it in this particular case clear-cut that they wouldn't have been extradited even if they weren't handed over to the CIA.
The methods used however were of course very questionable; which is why both of the men involved have received financial reparations afterwards.