skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. According to this: http://furmancenter.org/files/publications/HVS_Rent_Stabiliz..., in Manhattan below 96th street 35% of rent-stabilized apartment dwellers moved in more than 20 years ago! (Versus 2.7% of those in non-stabilized apartments).

Another interesting fact from that paper: the median person in a rent-stabilized apartment in core Manhattan has a higher income than the median person in a non-stabilized apartment in most of the rest of NYC.
How does this relate to to the post other than general, tongue-in-cheek criticism?
Why do you understand him to be an otherwise terrible person?

Who'd he hurt? Who did he cause harm?
Yes, I agree it would be a great feature. But it looks like that I need some more knowledge in machine-learning, to do this job well. Maybe in future I will be able to do it.
> You're right, it's like subscribing to a service that does it for you.

You mean the blacklist services? Those are just a list of URL rules for your browser to reject. You still request the content from the web and the content provider obliges.

> No, if they had an easy way to enforce your viewing of ads that scaled, I think it's fairly obvious they would

Given that I have seen several websites that do this, I think you must be wrong.

> It's more like the distributor responding with both marketing material and content with the understanding you are to view the marketing material along with the content, and you routing the marketing material to the trash from the post office

Yes, it is like that, and I having no qualms with doing that. If I received a free magazine full of good content, along with a separate booklet of ads that are intended to be views with the content, I would have no problem reading the content and ignoring the ad booklet.
My guesstimate for 2015 is about +200

You could also be inspired by the "jerk-off calculations" from Silicon Valley and take Toms numbers from 2010 at that point, referencing the amount of repos (at that time), the number of GH users (at that time) and the size of the repos (at that time) and then quantify these numbers into a model.

You can then use that model to estimate the 2015 numbers (holding constants like "they still use Ruby mostly" or "they haven't swapped out slow Ruby parts with high-performance X-language", etc.)

Based on their size though, adding that a lot of other code-hosting tools have since gone into shut-down mode, I'd say that even with major performance boosts, they must be (at minimum) around +100
Yes manufacturers can do it. I agree 100%. The point is that they aren't able to get anything for it! The CSPC test has FALSELY COMMODITIZED bicycle helmets where all helmets are SEEN as having the same level of safety regardless of the truth. Which then makes it very tough to sell people on extra safety, because all helmets are supposed to be AT LEAST SAFE ENOUGH thanks to the test.

I'm not trying to get the last word here, I'm trying to actually convince you of something. I know I'm doing something wrong, but I can't tell what. To me it's incredibly obvious that this particular standard is causing undesirable outcomes in society. I'm doing my damnedest to try and convince you of that. I'm having no success whatsoever. Intuitively it must be my fault; only I can tell if you're getting the gist of what I'm trying to communicate. It would be folly for me to blame you for not understanding my bad explanation.

1. Helmets only help you when they crush or break or deform. If they don't do this, they haven't really protected you.

2. Helmets are very strong, this is so that they can survive a very bad, high energy accident. This is required as per CSPC.

3. EPS doesn't start to crush until you've exceeded its compressive strength. In helmets, this is dictated by the maximal impact that it has to withstand.

4. Lower than maximal impacts will cause very little of the helmet to get used, or perhaps none at all. That means that the helmet did little or nothing to keep the person safe.

5. Crash severity is probably distributed as 1/x or as Poission meaning that low energy events are far, far more frequent than high energy events. Probably by several orders of magnitude.

7. The false commoditization of helmets (due to the CSPC test) makes it very difficult to convince people that there is anything else even worth looking at for safety (since everything is definitely safe enough), and even if you can do so you still have to design your standard to be in excess of the CSPC standard.

8. This leads a great many people to suffer concussions where a better designed helmet might have prevented them, while still providing an excellent level of safety for truly severe events. It is entirely possible to make a helmet which wouldn't pass the CSPC test that can provide good protection against concussion and death at the same time.
IBM pledges to devote 3500 researchers to Apache Spark
Hi Ian,

Thanks for the feedback! Rent/Buy filter is already on the short term roadmap. Actually, your main idea is one that we've been dabbling with in various forms close to the one you're describing, as we're mainly dogfooding on the movie discovery UX we'd like to use ourselves.

In the end, it's still just the plain WatchList feature you're seeing for time to market reasons, but we're back to the drawing board and will definitely release something similar in the mid term.
How will that invalidate the info they have?
Presumably Apple has the same rights and abilities to consume and display RSS feeds (and to make money off them) as the author of any paid or ad-supported feed reader.

I agree the part about indemnifying Apple is a silly overreach, but this seems like a bit of an overreaction.
A Jellyfish That Quickly Puts Itself Back Together
I'm sorry but no - this does not answer the question. Expansion joints and "lateral dampers" do not make the problem of a joint offset go away. In order to resist a horizontal or vertical offset of 20+ feet with the tube "remaining stationary" then the pylon must be built to allow an extra 40+ feet to account for this movement.

How, exactly, does the pylon not suffer the same design flaw as the tunnel under the use case that you yourself brought up of a horizontal or vertical offset occuring along a splay?
Gonna be hard to replace a faulty hard drive, though.

And arguably if you put a server on a satellite, governments will be the only entities capable of reaching it.
Generally, this kind of agreement has to be signed and in writing :)
So this is not going to go well for Apple.
I suspect they know this though.
Categories will be added in a few weeks. And each link will be have a chart with historyc data.
I gave a talk on Clasp and my Chemistry at Google in Cambridge Mass last week
That means one compromised password - your master password - compromises all your sites. That's the kind of risk I can't stomach.

LastPass is a huge target, yes - but (if we trust them) the data is only decrypted client side, so they have no access to it. Which means the only viable exploit is in the lastpass browser extension.
Unless I'm mistaken, this update makes it in line with the consoles. I have an Xbox One, and it currently looks much like the site does now.
Clasp: Common Lisp Using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming [video]
Well, there's between one and two trains per hour between London and Edinburgh, each holding about 600 people. So that's more just on train capacity, and there's up to 53 flights a day between London and Edinburgh. So that's another 6000ish seats per day.

Just doesn't add up.
Wow - a regulated rental market that makes San Francisco look comparatively sane.
Somebody want to make an IronKey for cell phones?
The part later was clearly either not run through legal, or more likely, legal gave them one answer, News didn't like it, News won.
What do you mean? Do you mean the coops that have a max income? Because those obviously don't count, they can't rent out a studio for $2k when the resident isn't allowed to make more than 75k. Or do you mean applications that make you sign away your first born and tell them your deepest darkest secrets? Because everyone I know has had to do that, it's just part of the process, mainly because of how hard it is to evict someone in NYC, and doesn't mean you get cheaper rent.
The key phrase here is sign up. I can't just send you an unsolicited text message subscribing you to Cat Facts (only $29.99/month!) unless you follow my intricate opt-out scheme.
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The government spends billions on useless new fighter jets. How it is not exploitative to not pay software developers what they are worth?

The government is not a charity and doesn't deserve ours. It is the government that spies on us, runs a war on drugs that has seen countless minorities thrown in prison. The government tortures, commits crimes against humanity and god knows what else. Oh yeah, they still haven't closed gitmo.
I'm glad that you don't use Flash or Java. However, I'm sure you can understand if they're (a) very common, (b) bundled with adware, and (c) make one of many fine counterpoints to the "you have a moral obligation to view ads in order to support the artists who made the stuff that you're consuming" argument.

That might not be your argument, but it is an argument that's in the atmosphere. This is a thorny problem, not a cut-and-dry case. The greater good is supported when artists can be fairly compensated. It is also supported when we annoy the art-consumers less. It is probably also supported when our political stances are small, simple, and ideologically pure. It is probably also supported when poor people can consume art. There are a lot of different factors that play into the "is it OK to block ads?" question, and it's not obvious that there's a simple solution which resolves all of them.
Why not just use KeePass? It seems to work great. A bit less convenient, but overall a nice option.
I tried to use something similar a long time ago (SuperGenPass). The problem I had with it was that often times the password would not meet the password requirements of the site. Sometimes it's too long, sometimes there weren't enough numbers or symbols. I couldn't use it if I'd have to remember that it didn't work for particular sites (after all, the whole point is not having to remember information for each site). How does passwordmaker fair with that issue?
Windows 8.1 and above now have a type of "poor man's bitlocker" simply called drive encryption. It works on non-pro/non-enterprise systems.

It requires a TPM, uEFI, and Microsoft Account. But once you meet the requirements it gives you a "basic" level of encryption which for a petty criminal is hard to break. Most Surface Pros 3 will have this enabled already.

http://www.howtogeek.com/173592/windows-8.1-will-start-encry...

Legit Bitlocker is superior in many ways (in particular not having to store a backup key in a Microsoft Account, and having more choices about how to decrypt). But for consumers it is a very welcome addition.
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I realize that someone would have to come up with something better first, and my comment about "disruption" was meant partially as a joke. I do, however, struggle to understand the deference many people on HN seem to have for the ad-based business model. It is to the point that I've seen people who block ads accused of "stealing".
And when the device dies?

If you're using a reasonably trustworthy password manager with a strong master password, your biggest risk is data loss, not mass password compromise. Syncing to multiple devices and cloud backups dramatically reduce that risk while only marginally increasing that of compromise.
Great work, and great talk. Thank you!
Their store looks like they only have volume encryption on Windows, and container encryption for Mac, Linux and Windows, unless I'm mistaken.

https://www.jetico.com/online-shop/shop/index/all-products
I can echo the dissent to this view. Not one european nation came out as a turf for religious freedom. Quite the opposite, most nations came out as religiously cleansed.

Ethnicity, Religion and Nationhood are different things. Todays meaning of "nationhood" was probably formed in this time of wars. But most of Europe's nations of present day are culturally dominated by one the belligrent religions:

Catholic: Italy, Belgium, France, Austria, Ireland, Poland
Protestant: Great Britain, Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Baltics

Today, there are only two exceptions. Switzerland and Germany. Germany didn't exist as a "nation", but in each of the many German states, it was either one or the other religion. As was the case in Switzerland's Cantons.
> <div style="width:1100px">

Why in the world would you do that?!

> several people with Asperger syndrome have already claimed that the method is useless for them

Does anyone have a comment on why that would be?
my question is, do i still have to google some arbitrary and arcane silverlight hotkey code in order to change video quality?
Historically it was partly because the later-developed parts of the city were built on less viable land (i.e. swamp/landfill)
We're sorta shifting that way with txt lingo slang.

If an official shift were made to simplify spelling, we would lose out on literacy for all work not translated to the new system.
Two Remembrances of Ornette Coleman
Yeah, I wondered if some sort of on-ramp/off-ramp or multi-lane system might work, but given the distance it would take to get up to full-speed (or decrease speed to stop), that could greatly increase the cost of construction, especially if there are a lot of stations.

For the Hyperloop to make any sense in a shorter distance metro setting, you'd probably want to have no stops between where you start and your destination. (So you might go directly from Anaheim to Santa Monica, for example) With smaller cars/trains, this may be possible (since you might be able to fill trains quickly enough to not make people wait too long), but potentially very expensive to build enough lanes to manage that amount of traffic with greatly varying speeds efficiently.

Without that sort of system, however, I think the additional stops would delay you so much that the gain over a traditional metro train would be small and not worth the extra expense of building it.
I was thinking back the other day and realized that a VR version of Myst or a game like it where there are defined transitions that jump and don't require full locomotion could be absolutely amazing VR experiences. Probably would need some updated puzzles though.
“MANDELA’S WAY”: A LEADER’S GENIUS DISTILLED INTO PERFECT LESSONS
Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel
You have oversimplified the history. After the Fourteenth Amendment arrived, there was considerable confusion about what it actually meant for state laws. And it took a long time for the very complex details to get ironed out. That is why the case I pointed to was nearly a century after the 14th amendment was passed.

See http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/03/12/the-14th-amendmen... for a detailed (and admittedly somewhat opinionated) history of this topic. And see http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14.html to start digging in on exactly how complex the current interpretation of the 14th amendment actually is.
Password reset page is down:

"Oops! Our servers are a bit overloaded right now.

Please try your password change again shortly, we will catch up soon."
Wear contacts? Even if not all the time, disposable single use contacts are cheap, comfortable, and probably a requirement if you are farsighted and want to experience this.
The one issue I've had with it is it won't hide the share feature on each link of Reddit.
> The subtitle of the article is "Because you want the $ of jQuery without the jQuery". With such an ambiguous statement, I think we can afford ceronman the benefit of the doubt.

Headlines are supposed to be ambiguous, in the sense that they are much shorter than the content they accompany (and thus there are fewer possible headlines than there are possible articles). You're expected to read the content.
OpenSSL immediately comes to mind, but I don't think JavaScript really fits the model - it is still evolving into a better language. In a very real sense, EMCA7 is an entirely different language than EMCA5.
Not only do I see this issue groby_b rasies as a huge one but I'm not sure how this is supposed to work for sites that have various password requirements. Most of them don't display the requirements on the login page (or even on the signup page sometimes) so now I need to remember that on a per-site basis which is just as bad as having to remember different passwords IMHO.
If you enable adverts next to your content, you get a cut of the profits (presumably 70%). By default, there are no adverts.

(Updated the comment to remove uncertainty now that I have a citation: https://developer.apple.com/news-publisher/)
I think the problem is that you are imputing a position I have not taken.

I'm not especially convinced that the density of foam used in current helmets is egregiously bad, but that's a little different than being opposed to regulators and industry taking steps to make better helmets (it perhaps makes me a bit blase on the issue, and I anyway tend to come off as irreverent, whether I intend to or not).

The conversation also shifted a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9720536

and I didn't really come along for the ride. I see how dismissing the idea of CSPC fines might come across as argumentative, but I really don't think that is a risk (especially in the face of extant private standards), and it is a different issue than the good Samaritan and false commoditization statements you have followed up with.
No one is "owed" anything, I'm simply pointing out two things:

1. Be skeptical of offerings that are below market rate in exchange for intangibles, like being "part of something". You often discover that there are certain people on the organization who get to both be a part of something and have good compensation. Now, if the argument is "the package has other benefits like retirement etc etc, then sure, that is orthogonal to my argument about "sacrifice". In fact, if you simply enjoy the work then I also think that's fine. I'm saying don't be convinced about something's importance. Notice in my comment I specifically called out startups and gov.

2. This entity seems to find seemingly limitless pockets for other things, making this sacrifice suspicious.

Fundamentally I believe in treating your employees well. Sometimes amazing tasks require arbitrary salary sacrifices, more often though someone's taking a big paycheck.
The article continues the long tradition of giving Apple business advice it neither wants nor needs. Apart from the Mac's value as a developer platform for iOS, the Mac's market share as a PC, though small, is growing (5.7% in 2014) while others, notably Dell, are declining. And market share numbers don't capture the Mac's influence in Silicon Valley - look around the room at any presentation in the Bay Area, including Google IO, for the Apple logo on laptops.
Something like this[0], maybe?

[0] http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator/
Does 1password work on android and ios now?
Pedro comacho
The former informer of the secret police
Is still standing outside the club
Pretending to be blind
He watches the last plane to miami
Disappearing in a flaming purple sky
Now he knows
He has been left behind

For those that missed the last plane to Miami (meaning all of you), the author was bitching that the rule in programming 'functions should be short, one page, etc' is as wrong as the rule that in writing sentences should be short.
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I'm not really sure what the point you're trying to make is. That Last Week Tonight really is legacy media because it's owned by the same company that owns CNN? In that case, the Washington Post isn't legacy either, because it's owned by Jeff Bezos who owns Amazon, which is slowly destroying brick-and-mortar stores.

I think what I meant was "Last Week Tonight isn't beholden to politicians" (but I didn't get that out quite right) which affords them the luxury of pointing out how stupid a lot of policies are. They don't need to call $politician up for information or a quote or whatever, so it doesn't matter if $politician doesn't like the show and won't play along.

I think the show will continue for quite a while due to excellent ratings, and those ratings are largely because they're doing the actual work that reporters are supposed to do. I think a lot of legacy newspeople confused what you did in order to do your job with the job itself. In other words, that the ends were the results they were after (having an article, getting on TV, etc) rather than having something important enough that there was no alternative but to write an article or what have you. Getting published was the goal, not having something worth publishing.
Which hereditary monarch would that be?

I was born in California.
This is a slightly different PDF from the same research group [1], which is what I was looking at. A couple other statistics that stick out.

There are more rent stabilized apartments in NYC than market rate apartments. Over 20% of all rent stablized apartments in Manhattan go to people over 65. Less than 5% of people in market rate apartments are over 65 years old.Over 65% of people in a rent stabilized apartment in Manhattan are white.

I think people have a picture of rent stabilized apartments as the place where your local bodega employee lives. The fact is the neighborhood rent stabilized apartments are where retired people live.

[1] http://furmancenter.org/files/FurmanCenter_FactBrief_RentSta....
Lab mimicry opens a window to the deep interiors of stars and planets
Except we're discussing the self-hosted version here ("use whatever you want as long as it's selfhosted").
http://finalkey.net/ looks like a step in teh right direction, although I'd prefer to see something a bit more compact, and ideally with an independent user interface.

Something like a smartcard, with an eInk display and membrane keypad, that lets you select a credential and then provide it to the application via keyboard injection, or where possible over using challenge-response over the existing smartcard interface so the secret never leaves the card.

There was a hardware bitcoin wallet not that long ago that was further down this road, I think maybe https://www.bitcointrezor.com/ ?

The biggest problems I can see for usability are:

* what can you do when you don't have it with you? - One answer would be some printable one-time tokens such as the fallback that google auth uses, that you can carry separately.

* Can it be backed up? In theory, the keys are in there permanently, and cannot be accessed by design. Having some Super Mega Master Password that allows a full copy to be made onto a second device that can be kept elsewhere might be sufficient.

* How to handle situations where you can't use USB/NFC for it to communicate. It would need a display to give you a code/your password to enter or something.

A smaller issue would be if you're planning on fully interoperating by generating and storing individual site/system credentials on there, it would have to handle the idiocies of various systems that impose password restrictions like special chars, numbers, maximum length, etc. If it's autotyping as a fake keyboard, would also need to deal with the 'retype your password' field somehow.

All in all, I think it's totally doable, but I'm not sure I'd trust a kickstarter-like project to get the details right, given the general (maybe just perceived) level competence of kickstarted projects. Crypto Is Hard. You can't really start having a 'stretch goal $10M - hire a real cryptographer to check we didn't twiddle our nonces' or something.

A decent and well-reviewed thing like this is probably somethign I'd buy though. I've just got a Yubikey to play around with, and need to start setting that up for SSH and other keys to my more important accounts.