skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make great points. I'm new and can't really speak to your rhetorical question of "what were they thinking?!?" but I do hope for my own job security that support isn't an afterthought :-)

First, I should point out that what we are talking about here is Google's "Bronze Support." This is similar to Amazon's "Basic Support." In both cases it's not what you should be thinking about if you need a case response time SLA, or the ability to wake up engineers at midnight. If your business depends on any platform provider I really hope you buy a support plan which gets you the ability to talk to support and engineering whenever you need. Google definitely offers these. They start at $150 per month. (https://cloud.google.com/support/) End plug.

On StackOverflow: let's stop calling it "support." It's a Q&A site with good SEO. If you have a question which "belongs" there it's a fine place to ask. We're moderating our "go to StackOverflow no matter what" messaging, but I can't see tossing it completely.

Anyway, when it comes to free support, I partially agree with your point about a single forum, in that can be confusing. Again, keep an eye on https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/3466163?hl=en&ref_to...

To your point about a single forum for everything, I respectfully disagree. Free-form discussion is different from bug tracking. Highly structured Q&A has a place too. It seems to me that every product should have
- a discussion forum where users can discuss the product and raise issues
- an issue tracker to collect bug reports and feature requests
- a designated place for Q&A

On each of those three, support staff and (preferably) engineers should participate daily. I think the situation with Compute Engine is closest to our ideal right now: it has a lively Google Group, actively triaged issue tracker and a sponsored tag on ServerFault (which I hope we can agree is a better destination than StackOverflow)
I think it's a mistake to attempt a "naked" human settlement. You should start with a robot settlement.

That means sending robots that can set the basic infrastructure (extract water, fuel, set up hydroponic farms, 3D printing, etc) for humans to live there.
This will give you a considerable safety net to succeed.

One thing that echoes my mind -- not for today but in 20-100 years from now -- is the question of Mars land ownership. And how likely will cessation occur.
> anger about how she was treated

There's the problem.
CSS filters are cool! I also made something similar few months back: http://lalwanivikas.github.io/image-editor/
These "badly tuned" cars could also have worn out valve seals/piston rings which can cause excess amounts of oil to burn during combustion, adding to the chemicals spewing out the exhaust.
So that's a pretty significant conclusion to draw without any hard data on the "tuned-ness" of a car.

I wonder how much could be attributed to old cars instead. That's something that would be easily measured by identifying the cars. But that may open a different can of worms if they determine people with the oldest cars are the biggest polluters* because it could be seen as an attack on the poor.

* Odds are the old cars are the biggest polluters.. less efficient to start with, more likely to be out of tune, more worn parts, etc. But I don't have any data to state that as a conclusion.
Honest question: could someone summarize why would one use mercurial vs git? Both seems really close in features. What would be a use case where one would outshine the other?
And 16-container ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world. Perhaps these ships are softer targets to correct than tens of millions of cars?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1...
Yeah, sure, and Atwood has done what exactly to further our causes and rights?

Seriously, that article is a bunch of self-indulgent bullshit and Atwood cashing in on the suffering and suicide of an otherwise decent person.

EDIT:

Thanks for the downvotes.

Again, from the Atwood article:

"Play other, better moves – and consider your long game."

With the charges he was facing, there wasn't a long-term game. According to wikipedia, was looking at a total of 35 years in prison and $1M in fines. There is no long game there other than trying to invest in cigarettes and bars of soap and pocket radios. There are no better moves.

"I say this not as a person who wishes to judge Aaron Swartz."

Every time I read something like this, there's always an unstated "...but I totally am and will!".

The whole thing is kinda victim-blamey.
more rules specifically allowing this behavior will have to be written into the bills. the specific ruling did not rest on the 4th Amendment but instead what was written into the Patriot Act which means, amend the Patriot Act and its back to court to try for a Constitutional issue
Or, given the case at hand, they had some things on him he didn't want "leaked". Might sound paranoid, but that is one of the core reasons why such systems are so bad, right ?
"badly tuned" for minimal emissions, I assume; tuning for maximum power is somewhat different than for minimum emissions.
The Fed chair is among the most independent officers of the U.S., but they are not completely unaccountable. As a civil officer of the U.S., the Fed chair could be impeached by Congress. But the standard for impeachment is high; I doubt a good-faith disagreement over monetary policy would do it.

In general, it's hard to pass major laws. I'm not sure laws governing the Fed have any special difficulty. Gramm-Leach-Bliley in 1999 (which banks lobbied for) and Dodd-Frank in 2010 (which banks lobbied against) both had major impacts on the role of the Fed. There are plenty of issues with a 10+ year gap in major bills.
Best part about having a programming blog: writing a quick post about how you fixed some error, then a year or two later, googling for the error and finding your own blog post on it.
I don't agree that brains can learn on their own, unsupervised.

Firstly, the brain has a basic feedback mechanism, which can be thought of as basic supervision: it receives quick feedback on certain kinds of hardware issues its actions caused. Most computers don't even get a similar level of feedback (eg, that they tied up the cluster on junk computations).

Secondarily, modern humans are booted through this mechanism by already running humans, in what is direct supervised learning: from the time we're infants -- and for the next two decades -- our actions are supervised, commented on, corrected and our exposure to materials is metered and selected to create a (theoretically) optimum consumption plan.

That we get any results out of computers with a couple months of training when comparing them to humans with a couple decades of training is testament to the fact that computer learning is orders of magnitude more effective than human learning.

I find it very strange that people leave out the 2 decades of hardware tuning and supervised knowledge building that humans get when discussing about how awful it is we having to train our machines if we want them to be smart.
Does not work (osx):

~/tmp/elixir-weather $ ./weather Amsterdam

=INFO REPORT==== 7-May-2015::16:37:56 ===
application: elixir
exited: {bad_return,
{{elixir,start,[normal,[]]},
{'EXIT',
{{badmatch,{error,enotsup}},
[{elixir,start,2,[{file,"src/elixir.erl"},{line,34}]},
{application_master,start_it_old,4,
[{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,272}]}]}}}}
type: temporary
Failed to start Elixir.
error: {error,
{elixir,
{bad_return,
{{elixir,start,[normal,[]]},
{'EXIT',
{{badmatch,{error,enotsup}},
[{elixir,start,2,[{file,"src/elixir.erl"},{line,34}]},
{application_master,start_it_old,4,
[{file,"application_master.erl"},
{line,272}]}]}}}}}}
This is why we should move from mandatory emissions checks on all vehicles, to spot checks of the worst vehicles (but we'd need to get the police excited to run a test.)
It's a question of vulnerabilities. It's not just about shelf life or growing season... it's about surviving blights and such. Look into the history of the Big Boy banana (and the current concerns about cavandish bananas) for more on this.
Living in a state (Michigan) without any sort of vehicle inspections, I can usually spot a vehicle that will be especially bad well before I smell it. If I'm driving, I'll punch the recirculate button to head off the issue, and look at making lane changes (or even varying my route) to avoid vehicles. This doesn't work as well if I'm walking or biking, however.

I have asthma, so I'm especially sensitive to this. I'd love to see mandatory smog checks introduced here, but I know that this will never be politically feasible. At least our road salt tends to take old vehicles off the road fairly quickly...
We had the same discussion in my office.
If I am developing a feature (in a separate branch) - why shouldn't I rebase to make a single commit out of this feature ?

Is this really interesting for you that it took me 10 commits to do sO ?
Even if one of the commits was just a "I have to switch an fix a bug and want to commit before switching to another branch" - commit ?

I think there is nothing wrong with rebasing and to merge commits before pusing them.
I second this, I was actually recently being asked about industries, and the quick answer in retrospect is the above. New Challenges all the time, even if you have a pattern that solves a problem there's always the minor details to figure out.
What are people thoughts on allowing (or how best to allow) users to embed iframes in rendered markdown text fields?
I agree with the idea that one effective way of learning about something you don't understand is to write an article about it. The act of writing it forces you to clarify your understanding to the point that you can explain it to someone else.

Here are some articles I wrote where at least 50% of the article consists of things I didn't understand prior to writing the article:

http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/09/what-every-computer-prog...

http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/02/react-demystified.html

http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/05/deep-wizardry-stack-unwi...
>I'll never understand why different [organizational unit] does things differently than me. My way is superior because I've formed a mental model of it.
Here's the actual decision: http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/NSA_ca2_20150507.pdf

Concurrence by Judge Sack: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/clap...

Here's what struck me as the most interesting comment from Sack - "Considering the issue of advocacy in the context of deliberations involving alleged state secrets, and, more broadly, the ʺleakʺ by Edward Snowden that led to this litigation, calls to mind the disclosures by Daniel Ellsberg that gave rise to the legendary ʺPentagon Papersʺ litigation."
It is true that the time to fetch, render, and deliver an image the first time it is requested can be a bit longer, because of all the processing we're doing in the case of that single request, but because we then cache that fetched image, all subsequent requests are delivered an order of magnitude faster (50th percentile 45ms).

The majority of the time taken in the first request is actually in fetching the image from the origin source, so once it's cached in our system it becomes a much faster operation: and of course delivering the cached image without it traversing our stack is even faster.

So yes, the initial request can take time, but all of the subsequent requests of that image are much faster than the alternative. And when you take into account that our service makes it possible to send the correctly sized image for the display (instead of loading a preset size and displaying it smaller), and optimal file types based on device and browser (webp for chrome, etc), load times/page weights on all of those requests are significantly improved.

In general, anyone who serves multiple requests for their images over time will see a marked improvement on page weight/speed, compared to rolling their own solution where they have preset image sizes and deliver jpeg only.
I've delved into this question some time ago and it's hard to make it work. First of all, the IMU measures the second derivative of your position/orientation, so you get double integration error, which blows up really quickly. Second, since it is completely relative, your accuracy is only as good as the best static accuracy of your GPS. So the conclusion is it's usefulness would be limited to filling in gaps in the GPS while at movement, decreasing latency, and improving velocity measurement; nice, but not game changing. Lastly, I believe the greatest problem is the diversity of IMUs out there: you need a lot of consistency out of the IMU to get anything done at all (this may be solvable if you settle on a single manufacturer).

Lately I've put more faith in using cameras to get good positioning everywhere (as good as you can get your GPS accuracy, it's not going to work under a canopy or inside a building, and because of double drift IMU's just cannot solve it either for more than a short time span).
If one needs 9000L of air to burn 1L of fuel, that would be 9000(0.1mm^2) not (90000.1mm)^2. 900mm^2 is much saner don't you think. I doubt the car would be able to scoop 900000mm^2 as it is 0,9m2. Can you imagine that amount of air fed into engine? Me neither.
I think that largest problem with Event Log is overreliance on structure. Often you have one particular log record that you know is the problem, but no idea what it means because you have some generic event code and bunch of meaningless structured data.

Freeform text logs usually contain more detail as to what exactly happened.
Even if you can manage one per OS, it's not good enough. Have you ever worked in a non-monoculture or dealt with recovery of a system severely damaged by malice or accident?

I doubt my Linux (including webOS & Android), FreeBSD, and OS X boxes are going to settle on a single binary format in the next couple of decades or even a single API & toolset. In your brave new world the very first thing I'm going to need to do if I have to combine logs across them is to extract data from at least three formats and the most convenient format is often going to be text - i.e. right back where we started, but with extra work for each OS. More likely you'll get a mix of things using the system APIs, custom binary formats, custom text formats, and syslog. Adding more steps to get at the same data doesn't help.

More importantly, binary logs are unreliable when you're dealing with a system that's completely trashed. You can often get usable text logs off a disk that's throwing I/O errors every few dozen bytes or even from a corrupted raw disk image. They may not be cryptographically "sealed", but I'd rather have them than an error message about the binary format being corrupt. That should be an implementation detail, but I haven't seen much interest from the binary logs camp in making the file formats resilient.
JDK 9 REPL: Getting Started
Here in Europe (well UK and Spain whee I have lived and owned a car) you need to get a check every year for older cars, and that includes an emissions test. Don't you get that in the States / Canada? (It would appear that the study was done in Canada).

Saying that, go to many less developed country and the cars are far worse condition.

My friend always used to claim that the environmental cost of producing a new car took 9 years to counter with the efficiencies in fuel consumption. No idea how true that is, anyone know?
If people start thinking of individual car trips as spending money (rather than the generalized cost of having a car), I wouldn't be surprised if people drastically reduced their travel and, correspondingly, consumption (by not leaving their houses). People seem to highly resistant to impulse purchases for dollar amounts smaller than they are willing to spend on road travel without thinking. This would be a Very Bad Thing for the American economy, so I'm not surprised that we are encouraged to reason about gas milage in language that makes this more difficult.
Ask HN: Should I take a trainee job, if I'm just in for the learning?
I'm a software engineer and want to get some first hand impressions in usability engineering. So I had the idea to take on a usability job.

Now that I have found an employer (1 founder, 2 employees) to give me that opportunity I don't know if the idea is still so good.

My boss would mentor me, but he also says he want to grow the company. Problem is, this is a consulting agency and I don't like this kind of "always at customer offices" work. I think it's a good method to learn many different things in a course of 1-2 years, but I wouldn't want to work there when I feel confident enough to do usability work on my own. So I'm not in for his "grow the company" thing.

Is it okay just to do it for the skills and leave or should I search for something different?
It's just as simple doing the same conversion for mpg. If I'm going 250 miles and get 25mph I instantly know that's 10 gallons multiplied by whatever the cost of fuel is
The actual judgment: http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/NSA_ca2_20150507.pdf

From the ruling:

> Because we find that the program exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized, we vacate the decision below dismissing the complaint without reaching appellants’ constitutional arguments.

It appears that the government is starting to lose the ability to always dismiss constitutional rights abused on "state secrets" grounds. Which is great! Finally, we can actually start to hear the real legal justifications for these mass surveillance programs and watch them start to crumble when they are put forward in a adversarial court. However, organizations like the ACLU and the EFF need funding to be able to dismantle these illegal programs. I recommend signing up for a monthly recurring donation of $19.84.

https://www.aclu.org/donate/

Also, this will give significant weight to the Fight 215 coalition (https://fight215.org), which this ruling is directly related to.
I Spent 7 Years (and My Soul) to Get Half Decent at a Baseball Simulator
I promise I'll turn this FAQ you just posed into a wiki page... in the meantime,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467096
This Researcher Is Tallying All the Arrests from Dark Web Markets
As someone working on an project for DARPA & the FBI, having a dump of all of the court documents from PACER would be awfully useful.

(https://github.com/memex-explorer if you are curious)
You could just have your own technical diary so to speak if you don't want to share it with the world.
How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world
So it basically looks like whatever the spider consumes (as food?), it will incorporate into its silk if not needed. In the interest of science, might be interesting to try different food coloring, spices/aromas based sprays to see if that would make the spider silk more colorful or create fragrant webs -- Also, this could be a special evolutionary trait to attract food (right aroma/color?)
It's not clear to me weather they included big trucks - the ones hauling stuff. They're diesels which make more particulates and in large quantity. If they are not included, then they should be, because it would be stupid to further regulate cars until we know if they're actually making most of the pollution.
The go team was quite happy to accept my (individual; non core developer) contributions of md5 and sha1 written in ARM assembler given the appropriate review, so I don't see why Cloudflare's contribution should be any different.
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit from Redditor Who Found an FBI Tracking Device on Car
(Worn seals & rings leads to oil burning, not excess fuel consumption)
Banks Now Eyeing Cell Phone Metadata to Determine Your Loan Risk
He wouldn't have been engaging in much political activism sitting in a jail cell for 38 years.

I can't feel disappointed in Aaron at all. I would probably do the same thing in his position.

I'm disappointed in a society and a 'justice' system that pushes for this to happen.
Can we have some proper references rather than the Daily Mail. Its the UK's equivalent of Fox news. They have a pro car owning readership, so any headline like this will be welcome to them
Inflated False Positives in FMRI: SPM, FSL and AFNI
It isn't a strawman at all. It's a real problem that exists today for folks who need to access old documents from the 80s, for example.
"I think something closer to a personal wiki would be better. All links to entries would be versioned so external links always point to the content they intended, but the entry would contain a link to an updated version if it exists."

I haven't seen a great implementation of this idea that also has a decent timeline view that people can subscribe to. Of course, if you don't care about people subscribing, then no problem, but if you are interested in that sort of relationship with people some "subscribable" is a necessity.

I've fiddled with trying to synthesize the timeline quasi-manually (think the space some wikis give you to say what a change is at the bottom), along with a checkbox that indicates the "minor change" ("don't put in the RSS feed"), but it's definitely something that only a handful of people are going to do because it's enough work to maintain one view of your content, maintaining two is even more.
'Dark Sky' Is the Open Source Dark Matter Simulator
Reading this, I can't help but think how much of Twitter's job has shifted from doing the work to tap-dancing about the work. So much of this is about failure to meet "expectations", failure to meet possibly-arbitrary comparisons to possibly-relevant things.

I also hate, hate, hate the cult-of-the-CEO viewpoint here. It could be that Twitter's CEO role is so central that a) all the issues trace back to its current occupant,and b) all problems can be solved by installing a new occupant. But if that's really the case, then I'd call that a very badly designed system. In what software would replacing 1/4000th of the code solve all the performance and user interface problems? It seems like the model is less, "creative, involved, self-directed workforce" and more "3rd-world cult-of-personality banana republic".
"Fractal cabbage" is kind of awesome.
Iran’s 'Smart' Instagram Censorship Isn’t That Smart
Blogging is far preferable to commenting in a public forum because I don't have to see it unless I visit.

To use your own analogy: commenting on Reddit/Youtube/HN is like farting in public. Blogging is like farting in your own home.
This Database Gathers the Resumes of 27,000 Intelligence Workers
Fight Bad Guys and Produce a TV Show in This Very Meta 'Power Rangers' Game
Emissions tests in the US are at the state level, not federal. For instance, the state of Virginia has emissions tests. However, the state of South Carolina does not require a test.
The Challenge of Recreating Earth
Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act
Tmux 2.0 released
A DIY Laser Set-Up to Accurately Measure the Speed of Light
Voting with Dollars: Politicians and Their Staffers Roll with Uber
The constitutional challenge was dismissed because it was found to be constitutional under existing jurisprudence. See discussion in the lower court's memorandum opinion and order starting on the bottom of page 38[1].

Smith v. Maryland, abridged, said that we have no privacy interest in the metadata sent to a third party in order to complete a call. In the words of 4th amendment jurisprudence, we don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in items we voluntarily disclose to third parties. As such, the collection of this information by the government is not a search for 4th amendment purposes, and therefore falls entirely outside 4th amendment protection.

THE ACLU's constitutional argument is a novel one that has not yet become binding precedent on lower courts, call the mosaic theory, though it is gaining ground in some recent Supreme Court decisions. See Orin Kerr's paper on this theory of a search.[2]

[1] (pdf warning) https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/order_granting_governments...

[2](pdf warning) http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...