skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course the outdoors and mountains are very attractive but they're not a viable workplace. While many of your city complaints are valid, it's not as if the suburbs solves all of them.

Given all the technology that supports remote working, it's a terrible shame that we still take this for granted.
This is the resources link I forgot to post http://metaruby.com/t/opal-resources/201
My favorites include:

http://buckinstitute.org (Berkeley Labs)

http://calicolabs.com (Google/Genentech)

http://genopharmix.com

http://sens.org

http://humanlongevity
Every step backward along the chain of causality is an equally valid reason.

Someone believing the propaganda is as much a reason as someone writing it, or someone ordering that it be written, or someone inventing the casus belli behind it.

It is a fallacy to assert a true root cause in anything, because no event is so cleanly disconnected from the rest of history that you can definitively say that a deciding event is truly independent of all those that came before.
Hacker News needs a downvote option to filter out bullshit articles like this one.
>Sure, and if you live in the suburbs there is plenty of parking but nothing to do.

It all depends on the person. When I was younger I enjoyed city life, but now that I am older and have kids I prefer hanging out with them at the park near my suburban dwelling.

The city offers certain people plenty to do, and the suburbs offers other people plenty to do. Finding out which one appeals to you and getting there is one of the tricks to enjoying life.
> "The sjw's are out to get me!!"

That has a lot more teeth than the leftist equivalent "the terrorist are out to get me!!".

Remember, the TSA has a failure rate of 95% according to Homeland Security:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/01/tsa-fails-95-percen...

And on top of that, our borders to the South are open which means terrorists could come in from Mexico as well.

However, despite the TSA being admittedly just security theater and the US borders being wide open there hasn't been another terrorist attack ever since the 9/11 false flag.

But you and your leftist comrades are still shouting "The terrorists are out to get me!!".

I really, honestly, personally think that you are the idiot here, not those rightfully raising the SJW flag right after an SJW almost sinked Reddit.

Get a grip.
I'm curious amongst urbanite hackers here:

How many would turn down a job at Facebook, Google, Apple or any other company primarily due to their suburban office park nature?

Could you see yourself choosing a poorer quality job from an urban company over a better suburban company?

Right now I'm a 15 minute bike ride away from my downtown employer. It'd be pretty hard to convince me to give that up. I've done a 30 minute bus commute to the suburbs and that wasn't very fun. I can't imagine doing a 1 hour plus commute.
Compare "144 deaths... more than 1.7 million robotic procedures" to "3.7 million surgical procedures at 102 hospitals in the Netherlands during 1991 – 2005, postoperative mortality from all causes was observed in 67,879 patients" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perioperative_mortality)

Seems like a huge improvement over non-robotic procedures, though, the comparison is obviously flawed.
Ask HN: UK or French Startups Considering YC Fellowship ?
Are any YC Fellowship applicants near London or Paris interested in forming a local group ? Please get in touch.

For me, this would be a prerequisite to put forward a YCF application. I'd like to hear from founders who think the same !
Actually it isn't (several studies have highlighted this).
The reason why a lot of cities aren't better for the environment is that the insane cost force many people out to the cities edge who then have to commute in... negating a good deal of the concentration benefits.

Further, cities can wreak havoc on health due to the concentration of pollution, noise, etc ... Increase mental health issues due to stress/etc.

Human beings weren't meant to be crammed into concrete jungles in shoe boxes filled with noise and chaos.
> There is currently a post with several thousand points: a picture of two women on the back of a garbage truck with the caption "Actual feminism."

I don't see any problem with the picture itself or its description. Isn't feminism after all also that women can work in previously male-dominated jobs? Challenge accomplished for these two, I dare say.

As for "dirty" jobs, well I highly respect garbage men/women, even more so when they strike in Italy again and pictures of trash-filled streets make headlines.
Thanks. If you have any issues, shoot me an email at mail{at}bibhas[dot]com.
I would also add why big corporations are staring to build NEW multi-million dollar campuses instead of renovating a lot of these office parks.

I live in Minnesota and United Health Care has done both. they've bought newer buildings that were vacated and just built a huge (72 acres) campus on the outskirts of the city: http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/print-edition/2011/09/...

Cargill several years ago built a huge new campus at an abandoned Super Value production plant:

http://www.opus-group.com/OurWork/Excelsior-Crossings

Also, I've seen older 1970's corporate buildings demolished and there's an area in a nearby suburb where they're trying to rejuvenate the area where nearly all the buildings are empty with a $500 million project plan:

Demolition: http://hillcrestdevelopment.com/pentagon-park-south-tower-de...

Renovation of area buildings:
http://hillcrestdevelopment.com/renovation/pentagon-park/

Redevelopment Plan:
http://www.startribune.com/edina-aims-at-a-signature-project...
But there's also the quote that successful complex systems only evolve from simple systems.

Steve Jobs solution was to make a simple 80% solution. And of course that works in the consumer market for a great many things, particularly innovative new products. However some things are irreducibly complex and still require a solution. In these cases visionaries fail us, and what we need it is practical iteration to get us a working solution. The end result is always ugly, but it works. Until we have bigger brains I don't see how we can avoid this fundamental limitation in our ability to build systems.
No, not at all. I'm just a regular middle aged driver with perhaps 300k miles under my belt and I've passed numerous fatal accidents on the roadway.

I just sat back and tried to estimate (since of course, I don't have a CB in my car and can't follow traffic details like a trucker) but I'd guess I've driven past at least 5 fatalities -- and that's just fatalities I've noticed (body on stretcher, read about it on the news later, etc)
Aah interesting, I have been planning to give meteor a spin. Any reason for supporting only Mongo ? Is it because libraries are yet to come out ?

Edit: punctuation.
That could be solved easily (and probably more accurately) by just having a few nudge buttons or some other UI. Use them for those "Move left a few more inches" or "Back up just a little more" situations. These cars should be able to do fine maneuvering/adjustments much better than a lot of people can.
My apologies for coming up with an imperfect analogy. In the future, I will endeavor to find a perfect analogy before I attempt to use it humorously.

Thank you for taking the time to show me the error of my ways. What would HN be without people like you to clear up analogical inconsistencies?
TFA:

The [FBI] alerted the State Department, the Post reported, which in turn “secretly tipped off” an unnamed west African country – generally presumed to be Senegal – in the hope that it would intercept Sanneh. The coup plotters suspect that the information instead ended up in Jammeh’s hands. “When we, the people in prison right now, are going through this ordeal, Gambians are thinking: is the US hiding something?” Faal said. Later, after the Post story appeared, Faal added, “I would go so far as saying they killed Njaga. They are responsible for that.”

Article linked from TFA [0]:

I’m failing to see the friendly aspect of this all, save for the fact that Gambia and the Jammeh regime participated with the US in the CIA torture programme,” said Smith.

FBI and State knew about it, so obviously CIA did as well. (Presumably from NSA's extensive domestic monitoring, but I digress...) CIA had a previous relationship with Jammeh from their torture dungeons operated in the Gambia. The presidential guards were lying in ambush and knew the plan and timing of the attempted coup exactly. They only attacked the presidential palace because a planned Jammeh holiday trip to the countryside was cancelled at the last moment. I think we can read between the lines here.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/gambia-failed-c...
totally radical brah, surfs up.
I thought each host needs an entire /24 subnet, and the pods that run on the host get individual IP addresses. Am I mistaken?
The real question rattling around in my head is:

Why was this designed such that the failure of A SINGLE STRUT would be catastrophic?

I don't like to blame a vendor for what should be an engineering problem, whether this means design or testing.

The problem here --assuming it is as described-- is that someone designed a system with the assumption that none of these struts would fail. And, furthermore, executing on a design where the failure of ONE strut could cause a disaster.

Anyhow, that's what it looks like to me given what's been released.

I could be totally wrong.
Centralized Log Management and Monitoring for CoreOS Clusters
So they should get away with it to ensure that their funding isn't cut? I'm intrigued what you'd consider a "big enough" risk that they should face punitive measures.
I like Smola's ML book, and it's great to see a full-depth ML course online, I'll certainly watch some videos. Other than that, the audio quality could be better.
Nobody cares about free parking unless they have a car. Nobody cares about having a 'big shiny building' as credibility often comes from having things like a solid product, or capital in the bank.

The 1960s are over. Nobody cares about your crappy office tower in the middle of nowhere. The ones that did are retired.
Really great, like it. I'd also love to see the examples get more complex as the engine gets more capable. I mean the engine is pretty cool already: https://github.com/gasman/bonsai-c/blob/master/examples/add.... - but it doesn't give any impression about what it currently is capable of. (e.g. in the README it tells about the lack of string support, et al.)

Will follow the progress of this project!
Increase telecommuting would solve a lot of the transportation problems. I've been full-time remote for awhile now. I turned down an offer that was almost double my current salary because I don't want to commute.
I wish I had similar problems, surfer problems.

Nice video though. It's really clear to me what your product is supposed to do.
Crowdsourcing Smartphone Data Could Provide Advance Notice for Earthquakes
Anything connected on the internet is hackable. We've seen this time after time, so I'm not surprised.
It doesn't. I know this since I was working on a startup using 30 second clips from itunes and consulted with multiple music lawyers who told me it was a grey enough area that I would get sued. I've advised for other music startups and they face similar challenges with music (one just hit 1mm downloads and got hit from Apple -> RIAA about the content).

Its incredibly frustrating when interesting applications like Shred pop up and the music folks make it difficult. Hopefully they can get some licenses and not have to sell their kidneys to do it.

This talk from Dalton is dated but still pretty relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOlrN5-UGU
> there are very few permissively licensed projects which aim at end users.

Lack of citation and data noted. I'm assuming good faith and going to approach this as I would a fellow colleague :)

I'm also going to assume you perhaps haven't been introduced to the vibrant ecosystem of permissive licensed software.

The article also doesn't mention how GPL is a show-stopper at some companies where we are building proprietary solutions.

Oracle, IBM, Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Boeing all are monetized empires that profit not just from binary blobs, but from providing a superior product. Also, being the patent holder is lucrative.

How do you intend on running a business and feeding your employees, let alone making investors happy following the virtues of GPL? Consulting and support only goes so far.

> Most of them are stepping stones towards further software development.

Ever hear of DragonEgg? (GCC was used to bootstrap LLVM/clang in it's early days.)

Devs use GPL software to write permissive software. Sometimes they do so because they have no choice but to reinvent the wheel because of GPL's rules.
Alternatively writing web apps using Knockout seems so much nicer than WinForms and INotifyPropertyChanged hell. Maybe WPF solves this, but I wouldn't want to go back.
Cydia iOS 8.4 jailbreak tool updated as TaiG 2.3.1 jailbreak
I think people are quick to single out the researchers because there is more at stake when researchers act recklessly. When a journalist does something reckless, it's a problem with that journalist. The Constitution protects other journalists continuing to do what they do.

When a hacker does something reckless, it's usually painted as a problem with all hackers. Which then fuels calls for draconian laws which would hinder future research.
> Even if you don't believe they're all psychopaths, even normal people act according to incentives, and no one does anything without some sort of (perceived) benefit to themselves.

I really don't think people in local government are any worse or better than people working in X, for any X. If you think otherways - your choice, but would be nice if you show some proofs.

As a programmer you are making decisions how to use others people money (your code will, and you decide what it does). As an architect you decide how to use others people money. Same for lawyer, banker, insurance agent, business analyst, contractor, ... This is true for most white-collar jobs.

I don't see how you can think local administration clerks are worse and we are better. It's intelectually lazy.

In the worst case - local administration comes from people, and are choosen by people. They are on average only as corrupted, as average citizen.

> Do people want to look at buildings that are clearly just plain ugly? Do they want chaos and mayhem?

Yes. Apparently they don't care. As long as they get paid for that billboard, and it's legal - they are blind. Look at this:

http://grafik.rp.pl/g4a/905243,471826,9.jpg

http://static.wirtualnemedia.pl/media/images/2013/images/szy...

http://www.poranny.pl/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=KP&Date=2007...

http://ekoszalin.pl/sds/2013/06/11/51b71d299cc20.jpg

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/b2/da/d4/z13949618Q,Reklamowy-chaos-w...

Tell me with a straight face it's not out of control.

This is how my country loooks like now. It can be solved, because I've seen it solved in countries like Germany, Czech Republic (and to lesser degree even Lithuania or Slovakia). It's simple - you restrict billboards and advertisments in the city. No need for definition of "bad taste" in law.

Then there's simple bad planning (or no planning). This is most true in new suburban districts. Typical image: http://m.ocdn.eu/_m/45a8af04428ecb9e04a332883176027c,29,1.jp...

Randomly choosen plots, random road network build after the fact so that everybody has some way to drive to their house, no matter in how contrived way. Costs for building infrastructure much higher than if someone spend a month thinking beforehand. Again - chaos. And it can be easily solved with proper urban planning. It's not rocket science.

As for bad taste - this is harder problem, but it can also be solved. Just to show what we are speaking about:

http://www.malak.com.pl/termomodernizacja/elewacje-rozane3.j...

http://www.malak.com.pl/termomodernizacja/elewacje-teczowe2....

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8974/1118221.jpg

http://naszglospoznanski.pl/wp-content/uploads/przedszkole_f...

This is understandable reaction to 50 years of gray communism, but still. At least the next generation will fix this with some paint.
I think that is starting to happen.

That said, I think there's a possible silver lining to gentrification that needs to seriously be considered: There's a lot of evidence to suggest that mixing people of different socioeconomic backgrounds has a large positive impact on social mobility for the less wealthy people in that community. This in turn has a large positive impact on the community's long-term economic growth.

In light of that, I think we need to be very careful about not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If gentrification takes the form of wholesale displacing entire communities then yes, that's a problem. But if things can be arranged such that wealthier folks moving back to the city leave their gated communities behind rather than bringing them along for the move, then the long-term outcome could be transformative.
EB is more like Heroku than it is like AppEngine. As far as I'm concerned, the thing that makes AppEngine amazing is Datastore and how easy it is to do monstrous, sophisticated Map/Reduce over your data. I haven't even started using Spanner/Dataflow yet. It's an amazing platform (that is not without its rough edges, mind you).
So it is legal?
The researchers created an entirely unnecessary risk on a public road. There's nothing more to it than that.
> But most of the time I think developers are just invoking the mythical "user" in defending their own choices in software design, not users'. Users have little if any choice.

Agreed, but the problem is much deeper than this: different users want different things. You'll only hear from the users who don't like what they have.
Isn't this one of the goals of self-driving cars?

Having vehicles that don't require human operation means that cars can spend less time in parking lots as depreciating assets and more time filling transportation demand. By reducing inefficiencies, it should free up traffic congestion and make it easier to commute to these office parks, right?
Nice writeup. I may have missed this, but how did you get the data? Did you scrape the site?
Yeah, I've heard it called "server relief." Slow password hash is computed on the client, then transmitted to the server and run through a fast hash before being stored.
User Interviews for a SaaS Product
There's also increased demand for "walkable" neighborhoods in suburban areas. Higher density housing with grocery stores, doctor's offices, restaurants, and bars all in a single development.
You're blind because you're an r-selected leftist with a tiny amygdala and hence barely any capacity to recognize a threat in the making. (This is just my hypothesis, don't take it seriously)

Put the pieces together. She's a woman. She confuses differences in personal productivity for "fairness and justice" (clear mark of a leftist). She tweets a story larger than 140 characters (low IQ, as most leftists). She acts naively as if protection from the law will protect her from companies with lawyers (leftist delusion).

Don't beat yourself up about not seeing the threat. r/K selection strategy basically breeds two different species of people. I can't imagine what it must be like to be like you and not see that communism is taking over through Cultural Marxism, either.

> The term "Social Justice Warrior" is often used to dismiss people who argue against discrimination in various arenas. If you want to be taken seriously in discussions about discrimination, then perhaps avoid it.

Is that the principle? I'll prove to you you're a leftist hypocrite.

'The term "misogynist" is often used to dismiss people who argue against the idea that feminists work for equality'

And yet leftists are the biggest offenders of this principle. They are the first to call people misogynists, anti-semites, homophobic, etc. Those are pure ad-hominem that the leftist never cares to correct; until they THINK they found something like that being done by the other side. Except, dear scott_s, that SJW is NOT name calling. It is accurate labeling. Just like saying leftist isn't name calling. We just don't want to talk ad infinitum about your flavor of democracy - it's wrong in principle (mob rule). An SJW is a person that has internalized key teachings of the Frankfurt School and other Cultural Marxist doctrines through the current education system and the media. That's all. And it shows, in you, in the girl tweeting about Google salary spreadsheets, and every other leftist. It shows.
Well, let's just have these guys arrested for marauding around the freeways with a "loaded gun" and we'll let the Russian hackers figure out the Cherokee's vulnerabilities.
> Calling the police will not have them go to jail or have their data deleted.

Do we read the same Internet news? Having seen the way the law enforcement + prosecution machine works in cases like Aaron Schwartz, I would be surprised if these researchers did not spend time in jail, and didn't at least face charges of some Serious Nature.

If there's a case to be made, the police will build it. If they build it, the DA will prosecute it, and there could be (is going to be?) things like charges under the CFAA, since they could certainly try the perspective that the access needed to be authorized by the auto manufacturer, rather than the owner of the car.

I could totally see how invoking the power of the police on these researchers could, through the kind of progression we've seen many times before, destroy their lives. I really hope that's not the case -- I'd much rather they got some kind of warning like, "Don't you ever do this on a road with other people on it again". Even so, I agree with many others that their actions were pretty reckless, more so than I realized when I first read the article. This is the kind of thing that should have been done on a private test track, and doing it around others was reckless and negligent.
I'm in a few google groups that only get used for discussion style emails, where nobody actually uses the web interface. I'm also on a bunch of email lists using mailman and run through the computing society of my alma mater (as well as some similar lists from other nearby schools.)

Is there some feature set you want that you can't get by setting up a google group and then just using it as a discussion list in old-fashioned email?
I don't think she's an SJW and putting quotes around it doesn't mean I ever said that (I didn't). I just think she's a shitty employee.

Whether or not it's legal for her to discuss those things, it's also legal for her employer to be upset that she's making the work environment more difficult for others.

The problem with these noble issues is that there's a view that you can do no wrong as long as you're fighting for what's right. She clearly sees herself as some Snowdenesque whistle-blower, and she's surprised that it's cold in Russia.
One common occurrence where I live is that county and cities are buying up the old office parks and even strip malls to convert them into government buildings. Most are ideally located as well as being offered up for sale cheaply. Seen even a few charitable organizations buy up parts of a strip mall for the cheap space by square foot.

Besides the age a lot of REITs cashed out awhile ago and I am not sure the market is there. Plus people are even further out and those who tended to move had the means to do so and their spending went with them.

Suburbia certainly isn't dieing.
I have a set of snow tyres, and chains are illegal on regular roads, even in snow.