skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan has something similar to this. You can build buildings of a higher restriction (residential being more strict then industrial) in a lower restriction zone.

This article describes it rather well.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Yep sounds about right.

At UMDCP people asked me for directions all the time, and I was happy to help. Not once did I ever ask anyone if they were lost. Nobody gives a shit. They really, truly just don't. Anyone who "does" care actually doesn't, they're just trying to break the ice or whatever.
Get your degree.

Seriously, the lack of a CS degree will screw you over. Maybe not with this job, but you don't expect to work at this place for your whole career, right?
Jet.com Is Making Its Employees' Salaries Transparent and Non-Negotiable
> This is just a neural network fed with some dog pictures, it's not really "thinking", it doesn't "create" anything.

That output image, was indeed created by the program.

We tend to think that only we, humans, have the ability to create, but some animals create, like birds do nests for example.

Also, the fact that you can understand how a deterministic program produces a pseudo-random digital work (like an image in this example) does not make the program "dumb" nor intelligent-less --if we could only understand better what means being intelligent, maybe we not be having this conversation :)
The PS4 will get an officially licensed media remote
There are now more than 8,500 Apple Watch apps
Breakthrough Initiative: aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth
The article says it will be published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics this week, an "open access" journal, for real-time peer review.
Why Focusing Can Often Feel Lazy
It would be a massive undertaking that would involve shakeups at the core of our society.

Maybe.

If the main issue is cultural attitudes (either of the people in question, or of the people running the schools), sure.

But if it's mostly about access to resources (as suggested in another post here, time-at-keyboard), that's merely a large undertaking and doesn't need to be coordinated as well. In this case, the greatest requires resource would probably be patience.
Great post! I think those notes are not limited to engineers and designers tho. They are interesting for marketers, finance professionals... It could be called" "Career notes for everyone"
I'm missing something, what actually "executes" the command here
echo "$2" > "$btrfs_path/$uuid/$uuid.cmd"

Is something watching for .cmd? Is this some behavior of util-linux (for which, my few seconds couldn't find solid documentation on)?
Microsoft Research Software Radio (Sora) Opensourced on GitHub
You say in Africa where black are majority it is ok to be racist against them?

Your logic is so broken I don't even know where to start.
No amount of speed matters until you have extensions. Without uBlock, it'll just be an ad filled mess.
Wow, Docker in 100 lines! It runs as root? Oh. It is written in bash? Oh. It needs a ton of manual setup? Oh. It doesn't actually implement the package format which is most of the point of Docker? Oh. So is it that easy to reimplement Docker? Despite the obvious snarky intent, it appears not.
There's also a video introduction by Seth MacFarlane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrXeRK2B6z8
I don't know about the entire team, but Patrick and Ivan were at Neustar for a while. They're both at NewRelic right now.
But all of the examples you cite (with the exception of Photoshop) are used by developers. The article was talking specifically about serving the interests of users of applications.

I actually think you chose a bad example with the Adobe suite. Not one of the creative apps runs on Linux, I need an internet connection to keep the DRM system happy, and I have no guarantee that I will be able to open a PSD/AI/etc that I created 10 years ago on an older version of the software - a major concern for a serious amateur.
For those who can afford it, it's not a problem. I'm more opposed to how we subsidize it through programs like "Section 8".
Well, how do you know for sure? None of us can conclude if it's truly a Big Racist Thing by her fellow Stanford-ians without more data. We're not physically her. And, dismissing her feelings is an invalid reaction - they are her feelings.

From her words, she's basically feeling confirmation of being stereotyped for her race. She's talking about her feelings in this article. Read the article for how it's intended. The tone is emotional, not scientific - she says some speculative exaggerations "[not a day goes by when I'm questioned]" and doesn't back up the racism conclusion from A/B testing, or any investigation of why she is being questioned daily.

It's undeniable there exists racism, and she's apparently experienced enough of fallout from it to have the phrase on hand, "stereotype threat and feelings of isolation."

Now, should her feelings of being underrepresented in society be:
A) ignored and dismissed
B) accepted and discussed

B. Next step could be instead of dismissing, to reach out to her and say, "We are concerned and upset your personal experience is unpleasant in the STEM education world." Everything else, the reconciling / realizing it's "not a big deal" is up to her to decide. She's not at the point where she's publicly rationalizing yet - I guess she's rolling in the emotions currently. So join in with her. That's a first step to helping balance out the unfairness of being a minority.
> Whatever has happened in the past, this calls for all possible steps to be taken ASAP.

That sort of thinking has never led to irreversible disaster! ;)
Rediscovering Books in a Digital World
Ask HN: What are some successful startups from really isolated cities/countries?
What startups do you know that have achieved some success (not only in its country) and came from non-traditional startup cities/countries, specially the most isolated ones.

By "some success"I mean one of these: a)Generates revenue in more than 1 country b)Has a lot of users c)raised a lot of money ....
> I did admittedly miss the "nine months" portion of that, but that's still only one company out of many.

Yes, it's the company that owns Jeep. The company that has a demonstrated the security flaw. How different automakers responded to different security issues isn't related to this article or discussion.

> Also, note that my point - that auto makers mostly ignored Miller and Valasek, according to the article - would not include senators (unless said senators build cars, of course).

Senators may not build cars, but they can (and are trying to) force auto makers to take security seriously.

The argument in this comment chain has been whether this problem could get the attention it needed without such a dangerous publicity stunt. The fact that automaker and lawmakers were convinced to take action by less dangerous demonstrations shows that this stunt was not necessary.
How would you architect a “standard” web application to protect the database?
OK imagine a "standard" web application. Some web server, some language like PHP, Ruby, whatever, some database Postgres, SQL server, MySQL, whatever.

How would you architect this to protect the database?

Would you have the database on a separate server?

Would you allow direct connections to the database from your web application code?

How would you defend your database in case hackers crack the web application server?
I'm wondering if any startup founders actually commit suicide because their startup is failing, or if they are just depressed and suicidal completely coincidentally. I ask this because I've never been in a situation where I could ever see suicide as a viable solution to any problem, and can't really wrap my head around some event happening which drives a previously sane and rational person to suicide, or even though of suicide
>All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win.

All else being equal, the best-funded company will win. All else being equal, the company with the catchiest name will win. All else being equal, the company with the best product will win. All else being equal, the company with the best-advertised product will win. All else being equal, the company with the most stories being written about it will win. All else being equal, the company with the better cafeteria will win. etc.

all true statements. don't mean much though...
From: http://sheplusplus.stanford.edu/sheStatistics.pdf

"At Stanford, computer science is the most popular undergraduate major--220 students declared
CS during the 2012-2013 academic year. The introductory CS106A class is 40% female, but
that drops to 30% in the subsequent CS106B and 20% in CS107. The major is approximately 12
percent female."

It would be interesting to see real survival analysis of Stanford CS majors sticking with it.
Ask HN: Do you support IE8?
My understanding iz ZMQ is a messaging/rpc mechanism while
WDT is aimed at large data transfers (though it also works well with lots of small data as it's streaming)

Also I don't know that ZMQ uses multiple streams ?
I think it's a much more interesting question to ask who owns the output if it is trained on copywritten data. It works by iteratively tweaking the image to look more like whatever it looks most like. It's not hard to imagine that a simpler model that has only seen one picture of a dog might iterate a mildly dog-like image into exactly that dog training image. Clearly that should belong to whomever the original photo belongs to. So then what about the grey areas beyond that simple thought experiment?
My point wasn't about Chrysler specifically. My point was about auto manufacturers in general (and I've made this clear from the beginning). By pinning it to Chrysler alone, you're also reaching, I'd reckon.

Also, it's worth noting that the root flaw here - a hole in UConnect - is not limited to Chrysler. The article mentions tracking and surveilling GM vehicles, too (particularly Dodge), which makes sense, seeing as a lot of recent Dodge vehicles have UConnect as well (per http://www.driveuconnect.com/features/uconnect_access/packag...).

> For starters, it looks like they [Cadillac] were contacted by Wired, not the researchers, so it's unclear whether they were contacted before the dangerous freeway demonstration took place.

The article doesn't actually say that. Infiniti was contacted by Wired according to the article, but the initiator of Cadillac's response isn't specified (as far as I can tell).

If they were contacted in the same manner as Infiniti, then it's implied that said contact happened after the wireless hack, since the Infiniti contact involves a notification that the researchers' predictions were "borne out" in at least one of the three of them (in this case, Chrysler).
Setting Up Django with Nginx, Gunicorn, Virtualenv, Supervisor and PostgreSQL
Not really. If you don't know what you're looking for, search with instant feedback wont work, because while you might find something, you don't know if you missed a better option (under another starting letter or substring).
Deer kill more people than sharks, but one is more fearsome. Jaws and The China Syndrome have served the same purpose. It wouldn't hurt for some folks to start making some pro-nuclear movies.
Sure, that's commendable. But let's state these in less divisive terms. We can all enumerate this experiences. We've all had them, in varying degrees.

Do you think if a non Latin walked into a Latin recording studio that someone would not look at it as not ordinary, or an accordion player walking into a rock studio?

The way to eliminate these tendencies is to make them not exceptional. There was time when Asians were not a majority in science majors... But now they are expected there.

In a perfect world we would not make wrong assumptions, though we'd like the right assumptions.

A fat person might not be presumed to prefer an elevator or a diet soda over a full soda. Or presume American Republicans to be bigots or democrats spendthrifts.
I can't believe it was written by Google engineer... It's like promoting of approach "my module works" - when you use unit-tests only, everything can work fine but not in collaboration. How it's not obvious for that Google engineer? I'm sure it even sounds offensive for a lot of Google engineers, especially for those who work on e2e-testing tools. See how many downloads one of them have in npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/protractor

It's the most awful article what can be found in that blog.
No, because I don't work for Apple with an endless supply of money, I can't polish every damn thing because I need to finish it.
Here's Python 3:

from unicodedata import name as ᚾᚮᛗᚨ
ᛊᛈᛚᛁᛏ = str.split

def ᚢᚾᛒᛂᚺᚱᛂᚮᛊᚨᚾ(ᚥᚮᚱᛑ):
ᚮᚢᛏ = []
for ᛍ in ᚥᚮᚱᛑ:
if 'ᚠ' <= ᛍ <= 'ᛪ':
ᚾ = ᛊᛈᛚᛁᛏ(ᚾᚮᛗᚨ(ᛍ))[-1]
ᚮᚢᛏ += [ᚾ]
else:
ᚮᚢᛏ += [ᛍ]
return ᚮᚢᛏ

Apologies if my Old English is crappy, I used Wiktionary.
Apparently, yes. What, did you think that they actually meant "Microsoft loves Linux"? No, they're supporting Linux in the server business because that's the only way they can seriously take hold of it. Embrace it, if you will.
Every printer I've ever owned has worked out of the box with Linux, so pretty well it would seem.
The thing is, after reading all that, I think they're referring to their test suite startup time.
Text Items Rendering, Shapes Preservation and VSD to PDF Conversion Are Enhanced
As if capital and real-estate markets were capable of taking a sufficiently long-term view to worry about 50 years in the future!
Woolworths $100 Gift Card Email Scam – MailShark
And discrete spaces, I believe. And there are compelling reasons that the real world is better modeled by a very fine discrete space.
After some point it's diminishing returns though. Obviously nothing can be 100% tested.
You can just modify your HOSTS file and get system-wide ad blocking.
jspm can actually remove a lot of the friction you mentioned:

1. seamless ES6 transpilation at runtime (no build steps needed)

2. load libraries in any package format as ES6 modules (Globals, CommonJS, AMD, ES6) from any source (local repo, Github, NPM)

3. no need for injection (you can import css and html programmatically using extensions)

It does introduce some friction of its own due to it being a relatively new project, but not enough to offset all the benefits it brings, in my experience.
The OpenELEC set top box Linux distro has the new Isengard version of Kodi:

http://openelec.tv/news

It works great on my Raspberry Pi 2
It could have been demonstrated, yes. It's the effectiveness that's in question, seeing as similar demonstrations weren't particularly effective.

And yes, they could've easily done this demonstration with better safety constraints (particularly regarding communication between the researchers and the driver; said communication was seriously impaired), but the implication is that the researchers believed a "live" test to be necessary to actually get that attention. The point is less "this is what happens to your car" than "this is the sort of danger your car poses to the general public".

My fear, of course, is that even this won't be effective. Hopefully proper basic security measures (like, say, not connecting the transmission, brakes, and steering to the bloody Internet) will be taken seriously before some multi-fatality catastrophe happens because of such security flaws.
Surprising Database Bottlenecks You'll Never See Coming
The woman is still in the class, so obviously affirmative action hasn't affected her. However it is a fact that Stanford uses affirmative action (see https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?artic... for example). I think jquery was pointing out that this affirmative action might explain the reduction in diversity after the "weeding out", which the article author mentions. It's nothing to do with racism or assuming that black people are stupid.
So I have an anecdote here.

I work for Google in the New York office. For those of you that don't know, several years ago Google bought the former Port Authority building in Chelsea for ~$1.9B. It is I believe the second largest office building in Manhattan by square footage of usable area.

Google's presence here has steadily grown in the almost 5 years I've been here at least tripling in size. I live in the area and honestly it's amazing. Having no commute of any kind (unless you count a 5 minute walk a commute) is life-changing. Being in a dynamic, interesting area is a gift.

For those that want more suburban lifestyles, there are a plethora of options <1 hour from the office in Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester. Most people I know who are married and do this have just one car since public transit is sufficient to get to and from work (only a madman would choose to drive into Manhattan).

Contrast this with our headquarters in Mountain View. Actually, it's not even accurate to say that anymore as it now encompasses some of Sunnyvale and I believe we have or will have a presence in Redwood City and other places.

All of this is essentially low-to-medium density office parks surrounded by a sea of parking space.

Some commute in on Google buses. Those who want a more urban lifestyle life in SF and spend as many as 3 hours a day or more on the bus for the privilege.

Living near campus is expensive and, well, boring. There are no cheap options. Compare this to NYC where you could buy a cheap (<$200k) apartment in say Jackson Heights or Sunnyside (in Queens) and be 30-40 minutes from the office.

Because there are thousands of people in the NYC office, certain things become possible. You get a wider range of cafes (there are more in MTV but they're far more spread apart). Certain social activities can thrive within the office that seem to falter in MTV due to the much lower density.

So it's actually an amazing office to work in and honestly I'd probably have to kill myself if I were forced to relocate to MTV (well OK, maybe I'd just quit...).

My point here though is that office parks are a depressing and unsatisfying experience for any company or employee. They're not desirable in any way, even the high end tech campuses of Silicon Valley are just glorified office parks when it comes down to it.

Honestly I don't know how any in the Valley does it. Maybe it's different if you get to work in SF but even then you have to contend with finding and paying for a place in SF. And if you need a bigger place (eg you have a family) then you just don't have the options you do in NYC.

As for the lower end of office parks, technology has to be a factor here. With the ever-cheapening cost of bandwidth it becomes even easier to chase ever-cheaper real estate with ever-more-mobile low-paid office jobs doesn't it?
Do rivers actually have a well-defined length? I know coastlines do not, and rivers seem similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
Stay in school. You're in 3.5 years already, just finish it out. If they really like you, they'll understand and the offer will remain open for when you finish.
I think it's not that obvious. For example, Maxwell's equations represent essentially a complete description of classical electrodynamics. Even though in most formulations it involves densities, it will work fine for point-like charges where the density is singular but integrable. Of course, when QM comes in the theory expands to quantum electrodynamics (QED), but Maxwell's equations match very well (exactly for linear media?) the quantum mechanical predictions when you average the probabilities.

It sounds reasonable to expect a fluid theory that explains well macroscopic phenomena, even if the fluid really is granular, where we could hope the approximation would hold on average or something like that. But apparently it turns out that N-S doesn't model important qualitatively distinct phenomena.
In an alternate history, what would have been a good way for node.js to reduce the number of stat calls? What would the tradeoff be?
It seems like it's based on computer models, so it really depends on how well the models predict reality. Just fitting past data will not be sufficient.
As a web developer I read this and think "progressive enhancement." HTML & CSS are designed in a pretty decent way: ignore the stuff it doesn't understand. The second half of this article makes me want to do better. Write better software, create things that matter and will last long(er).

Very entertaining and funny article, btw.
The reason the browser is named "Edge" is so the icon can remain very close to the Explorer "E". The average person is going to make that connection which was entirely the point.
Malaysia Drops the Pretense of Not Censoring the Internet
to be honest most of the work is done by iproute and unshare in this case.
unshare basically calls clone() (syscall) with the correct namespace related paramters, iproute deals with veth.
EFF to Commerce Department: We Must Revise Overbroad Export Control Proposal
A decade ago I brought the test time from 86min down to a few seconds.

An intern had thought that synchronizing things with "sleep one tenth of a second then check that flag again" at the heart of the product and reading and splitting by line a file where some lines might be 86Mo long were good ideas.
I guess the answer is no.
Congratulations on the offer. Obviously they want you.

On one hand, there's a lot to recommend putting off the start of your career. On the other, if you're already awesome as a rising junior, you'll probably not be any less awesome as a graduate and have opportunities at that point. For me, the kicker is that you cannot get into the program you want at your university, and studying something that you don't love borders on tragedy [in the large, not on a class by class basis].

However, unless the employer is paying for the immigration attorney, I'd be skeptical of the prospects just based on my lay person's reading of the TN Visa requirements [1] and the description of the plan of attack as a loophole and the next step as an H1 visa.

Good luck.

[1]: http://www.nafsa.org/_/file/_/amresource/8cfr2146.htm
Wait, why would it be a bad thing if they needed to publish the fixes for bugs they found? Wouldn't this be better for even more people in the future?
I'm not sure exactly which comments you're referring to. However I think the comments are casting doubt on the author's interpretation of her experience, rather than her experience itself. Nobody doubts that people asked her if she was lost. There is just some doubt as to whether it happened because of her skin colour.

Initially when I read this story I was gobsmacked. How could there be so many racist idiots at Stanford? Then I thought of other possible explanations: perhaps she was just looking around at the architecture and just looked lost?

I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt, so I don't think it's fair to automatically assume racism. Could she not just politely ask one of the people "no, I'm not lost, why do you ask?"

[edit] please a comment explaining what you disagree with, rather than just downvoting.
Having the database on a seperate server doesn't imply it's safe, if the web application has access to the database.

If you are new to web application security, OWASP is a good starting point: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
The city in no way subsidizes us. Unless, of course, you mean that because we have the option of not living in the city then they don't get our property tax dollars because we chose to live somewhere else.

I pay taxes to my county and my suburban municipality. The city-proper does virtually nothing for me.

The city is not entitled to any of my money.
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Uber says drivers are expected to collect HST
What is your point? That it could somehow be more economically worthwhile to build a levy than deal with the underlying cause to the ocean rising? If that's correct than you honestly have 0 business weighing in on this decision in any way. At what point in your world does it become "economically viable" to save civilization?
git-annex-centric benchmark of the filesystems