skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> Khosla bought the 53-acre property for $32.5 million in 2008 and kept the beach open to the public for two years despite the fact that he was paying $500,000 to $600,000 a year in maintenance costs and liability insurance.

> In 2010, after receiving county court orders -- which he believed were unfair -- to keep the beach access open 24/7 and charge visitors $2 for parking, Khosla ordered his property manager to close the gate permanently.

Seems like it's not so clear cut. I mean, he was eating 500-600k a year without complaint maintaining the property for the public. That's pretty generous. Seems it was a dispute over parking and fees...and considering how trivial $2 is compared to the 500k+ he was already paying it just feels like there's a bit more to this story than "Koshla is an evil 1%'r".

edit

So, it was exceptionally hard finding anything from Khosla himself on the issue. But I did find a few more details on why the beach was closed.

So, when he got the property he allowed the same access as the previous owners. Which was generally accessible during the day, but typically closed at night, during bad whether (often during winter), and when "inconvenient" which I assume is when property managers were on vacation or whatever. This level of access has been confirmed by the previous owners, the Deeney's, in their court testimony.

So, for some unknown reason, the county issued an order to the property manager for them to a) reduce parking fees to $2 (which is what they were in the 1970's) and b) to keep the gate open 24/7.

Khosla's managers/attorney's/whatever thought this was a significant historical change in access policy and so fought it, closing the property until the dispute was resolved.

I got all this from the following article: http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_2616631...
Indeed, there is no "Sino-Japanese" language. This is an adjective which is used to describe words of Chinese origin in Japanese (and has other uses):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese
Ask HN: requesting beta testers for the 1st AR fitness game for WATCH
You're conflating different issues.
> In the questions at the end, he points out the bug bounties are a PR Problem. When you pay a bug bounty and fix, the researcher needs to shutup instead of going public about the vulnerability. Of course, the researcher needs the publicity to build a business & credibility. So bug bounties are likely to die.

Because security researchers need to build their business, they will find vulnerabilties and disclose them, no matter what. The biggest splashes in the past year were Heartbleed and Shellshock. Correct me if I'm wrong, but neither were driven by bug bounties.

Bug bounties are a PR problem, but they are a smaller PR problem than a zero-day disclosure that results in massive exploits. The point is get the company slightly ahead of the PR curve, not to kill disclosure (which would be impossible).
You could do things that are not in competition with any company (or in minimal competition). For example visiting and having a chat with lonely elderly.
DARPA is providing Boston Robotics hardware platforms to some university teams.
I've tried gaming on my phone, and I simply can't play a platformer on a touchscreen.

I need to be able to feel the buttons as I'm pressing them.
Wifi Calling and Tips for Studying Abroad
Yes -- this is what happened to me. I will try deauthorizing it from Google to see if that fixes my problem, actually.

Edit: So I revoked access through my Google Account, and it's still doing it. Emailed privay@quora.com to see if they can help.
Yes, such a big improvement. With SBT's 'sbt docker:stage' command it's pretty much trivial to get a Play app running on a cloud provider that supports docker.
They appear to be banned. All of their comments are dead even the non-controversial ones like this. Too bad.

Why don't they let up/down votes sort out the quality of comments and stop banning non-spammers. Seems heavy handed.
It stops when we organize by the millions and agree to withhold our labor and money from the political and economic system until we get a government that actually represents our desires. The internet will be the core technology for accomplishing this goal. We are in an era of mass propaganda, mass surveillance, and mass obfuscation, but beautifully, the internet is the wildest tool for mass education and mass awakening that has ever been. That's why they're trying to shut it down-- they are scared, because the internet is an existential threat to centralized knowledge and centralized power.

I agree that the "democratic" government is the enemy of those who fashion themselves as free. Lately, it has seemed like there is an endless parade of bad proposals, but take heart-- many of them have been exposed and defeated by popular resistance.
Google Now on Tap is a stupid name for a very smart product
Given network latency it seems dangerous to abstract out the client and server distinction.

As for MVC, I think there has been an ongoing shift away from it, or at least a refinement, for a long time. Functional programs looks quite different. React is a good example, emphasising unidirectional data flow rather than the cycles in MVC.
Videos would be great. Suggestions:

For Hosts:

How to Violate Your Lease Agreement by Renting Out Your Apartment the Right Way

Dealing with Cockroach Infestations

For Guests:

How to Clean Up Properly After an Orgy

How to Blend In at an Apartment Community You Don't Belong At
I don't know what you mean by "backing terrorists"... actually I'm not sure of your definition of "terrorists", but if you meant members of the Basque separatist group ETA, you should be aware those ex-militants were sent from France through Panama to reside in Cuba after an agreement of the Spanish government (under Felipe González) with Cuba.

disclaimer: I'm Cuban
If you can't explain you obviously haven't thought about your beliefs very deeply.
>Aside from these core issues, I'd also speculate that a tremendous quantity of money is trapped in financial instruments. If it's in a financial instrument, it isn't exactly employing people or building goods or creating demand for goods. The same could be said about the billions of dollars held close to the chest by the oligarchy.

We can further unpack the huge amounts of money trapped in financial instruments. There are really two functions for financial instruments: investment in productivity growth, and rent extraction. The pool of capital for private-sector productivity growth is glutted; in fact, it's being held back by stagnant consumer demand and high rents.

So beyond stagnant consumer demand, we've got a lot of rent-extraction (asset and real-estate bubbles being created to extract resource, information, and land rents as debt-service or legal expenses) and a major dearth of productive public-goods investment (public health (ie: vaccination and disease prevention), infrastructure, education, etc.) loading down the economy with dead-weight losses.

(We can also simplify our model by construing capital/labor bargaining as capital owners extracting a rent from laborers for usage of their capital, ie: money, machines, land, etc.)

>There's a huge opportunity here to have a government public works program or some other major initiative to mobilize the underclasses, but it won't be taken.

The basic problem is that many, possibly even most, of the rent-extractors adding dead weight to the economy are using their wealth to buy themselves government policies favorable to rent extraction rather than wealth creation and distribution, ie: further neoliberalism.

Let's be frank: an economy in which the workers are healthier and more educated, the work is more mechanized, and collective problems (like transit, urban development, and disease control) are handled collectively is more productive! It outputs more stuff! So you don't have to be a socialist like me to realize that reducing the net output of the economy to enrich a few people at the top is a bad idea!

You just have to use accounting metrics that don't count increased rents as growth.
Great site! Just a little confusion when searching. I thought there is no searching for a few seconds until I accidentally pressed a key on my keyboard.
I cook my own ramen, and I can assure you is super healthy, because I control the amount of sodium.
I use dashi for the broth, but if you cook your own broth, it's even healthier.
No, it's not. It's called volunteering.
That is not what I stated. Banning is saying that we can't discuss why 2+2 is not 5, because that subject is banned.

If a lot of people come often come to a wrong conclusion, you should be able to teach and discuss why that happens.
Banning subjects is running away from debate and discussion. It fails to teach logical analysis and investigation.
There's an English public school chemistry teacher who believes in creationism and young earth.

Here's a clip of him talking to Dawkins.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdlfm8_creationist-teacher-...

They might not allowed to teach creationism as part of the national curriculum but there are creationists in English schools and it's probably useful to have laws preventin them fromteaching creationism as science.
You're right to bring up the other ways cops get "permission" to abuse people. But just because there are other excuses for abuse doesn't mean race isn't one of them.
I think you missed his/her point... OP wasn't saying that Bézier curves in car models were something new. What OP said is that (as an example) latest car desings are hard to do with constructive solid geometry but easy to do with B-rep
> one guest left a New York restaurant with the impression Bernanke, 60, does not expect the federal funds rate, the Fed's main benchmark interest rate, to rise back to its long-term average of around 4 percent in Bernanke's lifetime, one source who had spoken to the guest said.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA4F0OG20140516
An ever increasing quality of life, in the western world, honestly isn't needed. The Quality of Life for the Middle Class in the West is good enough.

The problem is, to bring everyone up to the 2015 standard of the West's middle class requires a helluva alot of growth.
This is what happens with unpaid internships?
>VCs are good at telling the 7s Who Look Like Them apart from the 5s Who Look Like Them...

I don't understand this quip. Assuming you're talking about ability rather than attractiveness, it's odd that you leave out <5 or >7. Does that mean you think VCs have a blind spot for both superstars and low performers?
Why can't hiring people be cheaper?

1. Get rid of the minimum wage. It makes as much sense as rent control... none.

2. Help out the needy by introducing a minimum income and/or an aggressive earned income tax credit.

3. Everyone knows kids are expensive. They shouldn't be. Scale 2 according to household size.

4. Set the levels of 2 high enough that citizens can pay their own taxes (both halves of the pension tax) and buy their own benefits (disability, health, life, 401k 'matching', etc.).

...watch the number of entry-level jobs explode and the demand for robotic work tank (like McD's filling sodas with robotics).

Side benefits:

A. Small companies will be better able to compete with big companies with employment lawyers and HR departments.

B. Bootstrapping and entrepreneurship becomes more viable.

C. Corporations lose some of their relative power due to A and B.
Attacker Used Hola Free VPN as Denial of Service Botnet
Well written and funny! ...but I'm weary of the first world whining about open plans. I spent many years in traditional floor plans and many with open. I prefer open and find that headphones and slack provide 90% of the privacy I need without sterile cubes or isolated offices. YMMV. It also makes business sense: it's cheap and flexible like cubes without feeling like a filing cabinet for people. Again, just my opinion, but if the worst part of your job is that you don't like the floor plan, you should count yourself as very lucky.
Google turns off SMS for calendar. Boo!
Oh yeah, that makes more sense.
We've always been at war with eastasia.
Not for me, I was able to get to the confirmation email, now it is just stuck in a loop.
BARACK OBAMA CALLS TO GAY COUPLE DURING COOKING SHOW
Golang's CSP idiom precludes that sharing. The language itself was explicitly designed not to preclude it: if you know what you're doing (or, unfortunately, don't), you can easily design concurrent data structures using locks or atomic operations. Golang doesn't even cordon this stuff off as "unsafe"; like in most languages, shared mutable is the default.

That said: unlike, say, string counting idioms in C, the share-using-channel idiom in Golang is powerful, in the sense of: it's what most people reach for by default.

For a language as opinionated as Golang, it's extraordinarily pragmatic. It is designed first and foremost to be a tool, and then a lot of other things, before being a statement about how to design safe programs.
> people tend to flock over to the propietary option

Because it Just Works(tm) and there's no fiddling or faffing about necessary. I'm all for [FL]OSS applications, but sometimes proprietary solutions, even if they do the same task, are just easier to use and integrate (both technically and bureaucratically)
IRC is better and actually more popular. IRC solved the problem of instant messaging over 20 years ago, and solved it very well. This is a problem that everyone and their mother attempts to re-solve and they always end up with a solution that's inferior to IRC. Just deploy an IRC server folks!
A coworker has has a small tool for accomplishing this:
https://github.com/LesterTheTester/dfrnt

It has been integrated with Travis CI and GitHub pull requests so that non-passing diffs are appended as a comment to the pull request by a bot account.

If there's an intended diff, a pull request can also automatically be submitted against the original pull request which, on merge, updates the "gold master" images and allows the original pull request to pass.
Also, there's nothing stopping your company from making the product better.

You shouldn't be spending 2 hours each day solving the same problems. If you make fixes, push them upstream (and others will too), then everyone gets a better product.
I think perhaps it's a matter of perspective. If you view the external source (magnets, etc) as part of the robot, then it's just a robot with two (or more) discrete parts. Is the robotic arm that gets it's power and direction from one or more cables connected to external systems not a robot? The difference here is that the control and power are more exotic than we are used to seeing.
Lightning-Fast Sass Reloading in Rails
Say what you want about Vinod Khosla, but that doesn't make him wrong. Disproving what he said would make him wrong.

I'm not a fan of the man personally, but I think he's right--and it's not surprising. When you bring in a VC, you get a team which is personally, emotionally, and temporally invested in the project, and you bring in an outside person for whom this is only a small part of his larger financial investments and give him a significant amount of control. Of course taking away control of a project from the people who are most invested in its success is going to decrease its chances of success. I'm not sure why this would be a topic of debate.
Strong agree, network based firewalls don't make sense based on performance needs and placement at the edge of an increasingly ephemeral network perimeter.

Host and edge / stub firewalls with strong orchestration will be far more pervasive along with lots of network traffic auditing and anomaly detection that happens in near real-time, but out of the line of fire (out of band).
Google unveils Project Soli, a radar-based wearable to control anything
Is there such a thing as tasteful clickbait? You won't believe the answer [lol]
I only ever heard of Hola being used to circumvent localised content restrictions such as on Netflix which is kind of a poetic justice, but it's a shame that there were undoubtedly some 'legitimate' (for want of a better word) users who will have been affected by this.
It's a little more indirect, but yes.

Any time you prompt the user without their asking and they put up nothing of value, the false positive rate will probably be relatively high. If only a small proportion of people sign up, then a small false positive rate (compared to the total number of visitors) can dominate. Thus I don't think the numbers given demonstrate effectiveness, and you shouldn't use something that doesn't demonstrate effectiveness.

I'm a little surprised this opinion has turned out to be so controversial.
This way I could express that the majority of the speakers struggle with reading/writing asymmetry, whether they are Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese speakers, in Taiwan or speak another related language.
“ How to put together a customer validation framework for your ideas?
Tenouk.com
I generally use an Agent in Elixir for anything shared and there's very little cognitive overhead (though perf does take a hit). Agent.cast/2 is helpful for low latency modifications (at the cost of losing back pressure).

As stated, it's a tradeoff.
I would have agreed with this, but the permissions they ask for are pretty benign and clearly relevant to their mission.
I think the only interaction most people have with Asimov's laws is just reading them and thinking they seem reasonable. If people actually read the stories they'd learn that the robots are constantly put into situations that pose exceptions to the laws or force the robots to make decisions that fundamentally break them.
Really?

Care to expand a bit? This sounds quite interesting!
Ask HN: Celebrate Friday by donating to cancer research
Hi there,

Let's all do some good today over at http://AlliesForACure.com.

I created this site along with my brother. We're supporting our friend who is currently attempting to raise $100,000 for cancer research as part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Man/Woman of the Year contest.

The contest is drawing to a close soon, so I figured, why not see if HN can take down the site with traffic and donate to a good cause while we're at it?

Brief technical background: it's a simple .NET MVC5 site hosted on Azure with some (hopefully enough) caching in place. Not making use of Azure's CDN service yet but hoping that caching a good deal of the response saves on some costs.

We trust you'll send traffic in good faith (please let me be right about that; the site isn't free to run.)

If for some reason the site truly is crushed, we'd still surely appreciate a donation -- the official URL is: http://www.mwoy.org/pages/nyc/nyc15/DonateNow?fundraiserPageURL=http://www.mwoy.org/pages/nyc/nyc15/aschnall

Thanks for considering!
As with everything in engineering, this is a tradeoff. Not all access patterns work well with mark-and-sweep (or equivalent full traversal patterns). In particular, without needing to release or allocate memory, a GC pass wastes cycles. Furthermore, data structures must be compatible with the GC: traversal is proportional to the number of pointers (rooted or dangling) in the heap and stack at the time of running.

Generational garbage collection helps this, but for large numbers of pointers, you're going to see performance decrease unless at some point you move the pointers out of collection contention--think an allocation pool to reduce the depth of traversal early. I believe google just released a library to help with this, though the semantics are specific enough you could easily make your problems much worse.

GC is never a flat win.
Maybe he was talking about Mandela.

One man's "Terrorist" is another man's "Freedom Fighter".

The US viewed Mandela as a "Terrorist"... and Cuba viewed Mandela as a "Freedom Fighter".

In the course of history... these things happen.
SMB Special port is even worse than expected http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0HQOKmAPRA

It's funny how limited these things were, yet I'm more immersed than Crysis or GTA. Maybe a psychology/nostalgia. But even these accounted for, I'm amazed that people were making fun toys out of such constrained hardware. It's all stupid and bare, but a bunch of invisible blocks gives big surprises. A tiny palette swap and you're into a secret coin-filled cave. It's like stories, a few words trigger your imagination better than pseudo realism. It's also a bit relativist, in 85 it was the best medium so we'd never question the visuals, and would go along with that adventure. Until SMB3 quality leap, the SNES etc etc. A recurrent question of mine nowadays is how low can you go (cpu/ram/colors) and still make a special gaming experience. Back in the days that was the art.
[hiring] Full-Time Ember.js Developer (contract, Remote)
Codex is looking for a full-time remote ember.js developer to join our team to help build and maintain our exciting new Backbone product for the film industry. The app is a standalone Ember.js app (ember-cli) which talks to our restful json api built on express, neo4j, and redis.
The product is nearing an alpha release.

http://www.codexdigital.com/products/backbone

Necessary Skills

* Ember.js (ember-cli)
* Flexbox
* ember-data
* Bootstrap (customization via less)
* Git
* Automated testing

Bonus skills

* Jira
* Docker
* Node.js / Neo4j
* Film industry experience
"SMS notifications launched before smartphones were available."

Google Calendar became available on April 13, 2006. I got a Nokia smartphone in 2002. They were available way before 2006.
Friends is P2P which could be useful for cutting out points of failure.
IRC solved basic communication, but the necessity of bots for things like authentication for usernames, logging, and retaining permissions are inelegant kludges, in my opinion. If XMPP has problems, so does IRC.
http://www.cfr.org/cuba/state-sponsors-cuba/p9359#p1 has some context.
B2B Content Marketing Trends and Challenges for 2015
You will never beat a tuned system without GC with a GC system because of all the instructions necessary to traverse references and such. Having lots of cores and lots of RAM just means you can eat the cost more easily. It just means you can afford to let the VM do the work instead of the programmer.

Also, no matter how much RAM you have, cache sizes are more or less the same, and cache line misses hurt.
I agree that the WSJ statement is very misleading, but I believe they meant it in comparison to Q1 2014, not in comparison to Q4 2014.

From the WSJ article:
"Profits [...] advanced 3.1% in the first quarter of 2015 from the fourth quarter of 2014, after falling 3% in the prior period. "
In a limited way, yes, that's why unpaid internships are now limited to two months as far as I know.

Even then low paid, longer, internships still do displace legitimate jobs to some extent.

As I said, good manners and sound business practice are wishful thinking at best.
Ubuntu Community Council reaffirms its decision against Kubuntu's leader
Snapchat for Voice with a *Secret*
Funnily enough there are actually multiple Slack-like chat app projects underway in the Meteor community. I guess building a chat app is the new building a todo list app?

Yesterday at Meteor's main meetup Devshop this was presented: http://spacetalkapp.com/ and the speaker mentioned that there's a big community effort underway to keep improving it.

Let's see which one wins the race :)
Hey, I don't see Mario Paint on here! :)
Shared memory data structures are rarely necessary. When one is, I would be willing to go the extra mile to facilitate it. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff.
Clearly you don't have the issues other people have. There are real productivity hits to being interrupted constantly, and we can't all substitute music/headphones because that's just as disruptive for some. Its disingenuous to imply they're just lazy whiners.
Awesome, I knew about PlayChoice when I was a kid, but I never knew about VS Super Mario Bros.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcRHqfBhTh4

It really does look quite a bit harder.