skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People increasingly use laptops as their primary computer. If they enable this feature to use on their home network, they could easily forget to disable it then they bring the computer with them to a more hostile environment. (But, on the other hand, isn't the Windows Firewall in Vista and newer designed to handle this, by having separate rules for "home", "work" and "public" networks?)
I have a prediction (made a while back) that YC will fund a non-profit in this space. It will be an amalgam of a christian church and a lodge/service organization like Rotary. It will have a focus on building relationships and serving the community, have some sort of program for children, maybe time for meditation and short, TED-like teaching.
The question is whether it is the kind of community that should exist, that you want to be a part of.

And the answer is - no, it is not.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990221
As someone who lived in a co-op in college, I agree completely. I also think it's pretty important for the members to directly own/rent the house instead of some corporation.
I think US Men have a lot more acceptable codified physical contact than non sexual/familial M/F contact. Greetings can involve hand shakes, fist bumbs, 1/2 hugs, or bumping shoulders etc. Two Male friends walking side by side it's OK for a third friend to be in extended contact with both. Hand holding might seem off, but when a guy is really drunk the steadying hand on a forearm or solder is considered OK. Even the 'extended' hug is considered ok if someone is dealing with significant trauma.

PS: WW_ aka 'Professional' wrestling is often called gay because it's a male version of soap opera mixed with theater. Actual wrestling has long held 'sexual' overtones likely due to what it looks like to observers. where boxing/judo/karate sparing can also have a lot of physical contact, but rarely comes off as gay.
In my case the software used mmap-ed file for storage - I couldn't believe how easy is was to work with the data this way!
It is 165F in Iran right now
> "Other people are data-thieves too!" and "We've been stealing data from for a long time" are not justifications for MS's current bad behavior. This isn't about Google, even though they are worse in many ways.

I think the issue is really this: how many people complaining about these issues are using an Android or iOS device? How many are using OSX or search using Google? How many use Gmail?

So you say it's not justification? Actions speak louder than words. I've seen people posting about this on Facebook.

This doesn't excuse the behavior, but the reality is, the people complaining don't really care to change. They just want to pretend to be upset. Take the article this is linked to. The website on which it sits. The amount of tracking that occurs. The uproar is huge, no doubt. But I wonder how much of the uproar is sincere. And how much is just aiming for cheap internet points and likes.
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I don't know that, nor do I know about cycles.

My statement was too glib (I edit most of those out, but you got me this time). I do think that one can't understand discussions like this without understanding implicit resentment. Underneath "others are stupid" lies "my intelligence goes unrecognized"; underneath "others are undeservedly rich" lies "I deserve better"; and so on. The drivers, at bottom, are personal, which explains why the discussions aren't intellectually interesting—they're driven by a different kind of interest. It also explains why people are quick to anger and/or show up with guns blazing: these feelings are already in cache. It also, sadly, explains why such posts invariably get many upvotes.

Actually, the discussion might become interesting again if people would speak openly and personally about such feelings. It's the posture of pseudo-critique that's the problem: the format of substantive discussion without the content. The real content there is the emotional charge in the language.

My point here doesn't have to do with VCs or startups or UBeam but with the quality of discussion we want on HN.
> A few weeks after Homejoy announced
> that they're closing down, ...

If it's been weeks, then maybe the question is valid.
Their blog post[0] on July 17, 2015 announced their imminent closure.

[0] http://blog.homejoy.com/homejoy-says-goodbye/
I actually think it's very possible to have an "intuitive understanding" of Banach Tarski (I would say I have one, but perhaps we disagree on what is mean by such an understanding).

My "intuitive understanding" of this comes via an intuitive understanding of a paradoxical decomposition of the free group and its Cayley graph, which is flashed briefly in the video here[0] but sadly not discussed at length.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA&feature=youtu.be...
Sure, you should 'have to' .. anything less would be tantamount to accepting a major cultural shift akin to warfare.

But then again, I think there is a lot of room for people to accept social responsibility for the human issue of immigration, and I think any social system which encourages people to learn languages outside their own is bound to produce a more tolerant, resilient society. Right now, so much hate and prejudice is predicated on the assumption that "they don't speak our language" .. if, for example, it were considered highly illegal to ever go to war against someone whose language you cannot speak, this would be a better state of affairs. "Kill no man whose language you have not learned" might be the mantra I'm going for here ..
My father-in-law is very involved with the local Rotary where we live. I've attended a few meetings and play in the annual golf tournament. I've recently thought that they need to adapt in order to attract younger people (I'm 40 and I feel young around them) or a new organization needs to start (see my other comment in this thread).

What I like about the group is they build real, face-to-face relationships with one another. Plus, they do a lot to raise money for the community (helping local HS groups, families in need, etc.).
Out of curiosity, why secular humanism vs existential nihilism? I don't think I'll switch sides and time soon, but if I did it would be to nihilism.
Casey Muratori considers const a complete waste of time, so apparently that's a thing with some C/C++ programmers.
If you want to be that pedantic, there is little difference between a monitor and a printer. There are a lot of configuration differences between 3d printers and normal.
FYI, I updated this blog post based on the comments in this discussion.
Modern apps seems to do their best to require lots of ports numbers, often with very little justification. It's incredibly annoying.

Some of it understandable, e.g. when one port is for stuff that is always meant to stay behind your firewall, and another for public access. In that case it actually makes things easier to do properly. But so often it appears to be entirely gratuitous.
Tool to SSH to Ansible host
I agree with you about problems in system evolution. We both see this in our work. And about that Ariane incident, you're also right. More detail here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_%28spacecraft%29. For anyone interested, I can recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Space-Systems-Failures-Satellites-Expl...

Your second paragraph sounds like a call for literate engineering, akin to Knuth's literate programming. I like this idea.

About CAD tools for aerospace, it really depends on what CAD tools you use. Things like Pro/E and Solidworks explicitly allow you to put in specifications and tolerances, and also for interference checking and the like. For electrical design, there are tools that allow you to put in electrical requirements and run simulations on your design files to test against those requirements. So there are some ways of catching problems ahead of production.

Now, those tools aren't available to everyone. So I'm on job #3 in this industry. Job #1 had me doing all my electrical designs in AutoCAD LT. No checking or simulations there (can't even generate a bill of materials with this either)! All we had was a library of symbols that one of the engineers had made. Job #2 had me using Cadence ORCAD, but without any of the add-ons that made it useful (could generate a BOM, but couldn't customize it, which meant that I was assigned to create an Excel macro to customize the BOM to meet our specific stock-keeping system's requirements). Job #3, I have nothing because all the vast majority of the electrical designs are done somewhere else (they use CATIA). Whenever I actually do some design work, I'm reduced to taking screenshots of relevant areas in other schematic PDFs, then stitching them together in MS Paint, and then pasting those into a Powerpoint template. I wish I were kidding.

But with job #3 most of my time is spent on other things besides pushing dots, like testing and evaluating upgrades to our embedded systems (this kind of thing is one reason why I spend time here).
This is not code - it's a trap!
Great. I'm an immigrant currently living in France but looking for a job in UK. How can I contact you for more details ?
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Education and Healthcare: Two services which should not be offered by businesses seeking to make a profit. I think future generations will look back and ask: "What were they thinking?"
> displayed a lack of interest in privacy

The tech industry really needs to stop confusing "lack of interest" with "total ignorance". Very few people have any idea that this kind of data collection happens at all (because the tech industry hides a lot of it), and even fewer understand the consequences of permanent retention of data and what machine learning can do to it.

> If you are paranoid about your data privacy

http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-ame...
What happened to altdevblogaday.com anyway? It had content similar to this.
HN does have much of that, but it also has much that is better. Let's be the kind of people who pick up litter (or at least take care of our own) instead of thinking "this place is a dump anyway".
Reactions vary. From what I've read, Greeks on the islands that are seeing a big influx of immigrants coming by boat from the Turkish coast have generally been treating immigrants well, or at least as well as limited resources allow. I gather that immigrants in Athens are not treated as well.

An article about the islands: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/greek-island-re...
I guess Zapier and IFTTT already started the way for software agents. If we call them Agent 1.0, how do you see Agent 2.0?
This is not what the user requested but it's definitively worth for the attention they put on privacy and activism. The tech collettive is totally autonomous. Here is the Manifesto http://www.autistici.org/en/who/manifesto.html
Did the same for me. Incognito mode in Chrome fixed that though.
Also if the opposite sex thinks you're gay but you're straight, it's harder to attract them.
"Build loyalty to charge people more and pay drivers less". The fact they redacted this paradoxical statement is all telling.
Ask HN: Has anyone documented “lessons learned” from hackings?
It would be amazing if there was somewhere that listed known hackings and the ways in which they were hacked and the lessons learned.

Then at least others might have a chance of avoiding repeating history.
Maybe. But he was put in charge, and left in charge, by Page. He can't be the only one left holding the candle.
Those gifs are less than 1kB each. Just include them in the CSS as base64. Or don't, doesn't matter for a site with such simple code anyway.
I think one resolution is the finite speed of light. Even if there are infinite stars in any given direction, they haven't been around long enough for the brightness to be infinite.

This "paradox" is basically just theorizing an aspect of the heat death of the universe.
Funny, my company is called Serve2 :)
Show HN: Learnpad is an HTML/CSS/JS editor for students to use in the classroom
Uhm, it's not like they are going to make a street fight, you know. And, by the way, street fights are quite different from MMA as well, and are done with pepper sprays, shockers, sucker punches, fingers to the eyes, teeth, bats, rocks, whatever… It really isn't for sure that an MMA champion would win a street fight against "just somebody".

So, again, this argument is worth nothing and whole point is simply about marketing. As well as that "women are not supposed to be able to do" thing. I'm quite sure there are plenty of women which would take me in a fistfight, because, well, they train for that way more than I do. But if you are comparing men against women in the same sport… well, it's already discussed.
> Build more housing (won't happen)

Why not? Eventually non-owners will form a majority of voters and will vote to remove ridiculous restrictions.

Generational rent-seeking can only persist for so long.
You see it wrong.

When demand for housing (or any other product) exceeds supply the price goes up.

The system SF has is actually broken due too to much regulation. Regulation that inhibits the creation of new housing which would increase supply and lower prices.
Ok sure then you are then advocating taking property lawfully obtained and giving it to someone else?

And what do you mean by "predatory real estate owners and bankers". It's a free market system if you can't afford to live in an area then live somewhere where you can afford given what your job is. Nobody is entitled to a particular job in an area (if they are not paid enough) if they can't (with the pay) afford the rent. I'd love to live many places but I have to consider the practicality. Hawaii would be nice! [1] As far as people getting pushed out because of rents being driven up, the answer to that is not to take property away from lawful owners.

Want to "lower the rent"? Government buys at fair market value some apartments or housing how about that? (Sure that will happen, right?) Fine as long as the rightful owners agree and everyone else in the community uses their tax dollars to pay for acquiring that property.

Given you are so unhappy about this would you use your tax dollars so that others could live and not have high rent?

[1] To clarify not because of housing prices but because of economic opportunity. NYC would be nice also however housing, traffic and so on are out of my comfort zone.
G+ was a Facebook clone. You can't release the clone before the model it's based on, or else the universe folds onto itself, or something.
Please drink a verification can - http://i.imgur.com/3VfoZDm.png
ESCORT+CALL+GIRL+ANASTAZIA+-+Golden+Diamond+Escort
"It is 165F in Iran right now"

No, it's not. As the article explains, 165F is the "heat index" (a measure of what the temperature feels like with the current humidity), not the temperature. The actual temperature is 115F[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp...
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> The bigger problem is that average Joe doesn't give a sht. As long as the refugee/immigrant is not there, to get his job* he doesn't care. When he finally arrives and takes his job, instead of getting mad to the people who is exploiting the situation, he gets mad to the immigrant who can barely speak the language.

I think you dramatically underestimate the place cultural differences are taking in the growing frustration of the people of Europe. Three things:

* - Because racial statistics are forbidden in Europe, whenever someone complains that element from a certain group are causing problems their opinion is immediately dismissed as being racist. If you spend even a week in Paris, chances it will be hard for you to stay neutral and support that Muslims/Gipsies aren't committing more crimes than any other groups combined.

The problem is, people aren't oblivious to what happen around them. When some of your relatives/friends gets assaulted in the subway once by someone from north-african ancestry, it is a coincidence. Twice, it was bad luck. Third, something is going on.

* - More people complain that they do not want such a steady, and large immigraiton flow. Politicians, because they are either powerless or stubborn ignore the people -> Far right politicians, who have put secure borders and immigration quota at the DNA of their programs are on the rise.

Rinse, and repeat.
I don't think there's any question about BJ Penn's motivation.

Start of his career:
http://i.imgur.com/qg7cg2Z.png

A few years in:
http://i.imgur.com/txcwmaw.jpg

He lost his drive very, very early on in his career.
Wow, really fast, feels like fully loaded single page app and only downloading jsons
In the Rotherdam case police ignored reports of fear to be labeled racists ...
That is why you should never learn from one exclusive source, especially if they don't provide valid arguments, and imply "trust me".

I saw a couple of his introductory videos and I think he is great to teach specifics about game programming, but should definitely not teach how to write C.
Homejoy officially closed its doors on July 31st.
I don't have an Android or iOS device, nor do I use Gmail. I certainly don't have a Facebook account. I use Free Software and pay fastmail.fm for my email services.

It is never a good idea to project your own hypocrisy onto everybody else.

As for people caring to change - you're assuming people even understand that this is happening and what the consequences are. Even in the case where someone does understand, the common attitude that I've seen is feeling trapped without any non-spyware options. How many people "don't really care", and how many are unable to move because of vendor lock-in?
A company in the SF Bay Area tried to start a ship breaking on Mare Island, but couldn't make it work. Many ships are taken to Brownsville Texas for ship breaking, including the ghost ships (old navy ones) in Suisun bay.
Actually I cancelled my upgrade. I'll sit this one out until it makes sense to actually do the upgrade - at the moment, I'm not seeing any benefit to be had in doing it, and a lot of liability.
They are different articles about the same issue and I'm not trying to discourage discussion about it. It just gets old seeing the same thing on the front page but that's just my opinion and you don't have to agree with it.
"I didn't imply others were lazy, I'm just proud that America is different because we work hard"? Seriously?
True, but it means taking the rest of Xamarin, too. While Xamarin is brilliant, and by far the best cross-platform SDK I've seen for any set of targets, it's still riskier than native platform development for most developers. I'd use it for a client who has a C#-oriented in-house team and the ability and resources to commit to overcoming the vicissitudes of cross-platform development, but I wouldn't just to get LINQ.
It's not paradoxical, there is no contradiction in it.

They really hope to capitalize on their first mover advantage and name recognition to be able to raise prices, lower compensation and still keep the customers and drivers.
If you don't mind the moral implications, try the self destructing cookies plugin.
Wonderful work!

> We update the map every year, draw in new buildings, paint in new colors of houses etc.

It would be cool to have a time slider control to see how the city has changed over time. Similar to what Google Earth does for selecting aerial photos from different dates.

> I´m on the map, good luck finding me!

I'll take a shot at it... I only see a handful of people depicted and they're on the little boats. Are you one of them? Do these possibly represent each of the project collaborators?
Lot of good points, thanks.

>You don't need 2 MB worth of stock photos. Recently, there was a page on HN with an uncompressed 12 MB banner photo. That is insane.

That seems to be a big trend nowadays and a huge pain.
FB is also struggling... it is not any more this one point of social media. Many young people are not even on FB. This is why e.g. WhatsApp is so critical for FB.
Beautiful. Amazing to think 4 kB executable file can do all that.
Calling these spaces communes is ironic considering how incredibly capitalist they are.

1. Regulatory failure leads to a lack of reasonable real estate options in growing cities.

2. Striving young people want to move to the major cities for career reasons anyways.

3. Aspiring capitalists deploy capital to convert existing housing stock into microunits while charging a premium.

Nothing in this is communist at all.
I think that Windows 10 is good enough to convince a lot of people to spend much less money on a Windows laptop rather than a Mac.

I have wondered for years if something would happen to force Apple to reduce prices. Their gear really is expensive. Perhaps Windows 10 will put some pressure on Apple as far as laptops and desktops go.
His argument is that he reckons that over his career he made very few bugs that could be avoided if he had used const. He admits that it's specific to his coding style and may not apply to other people.
True, though in Melville's time the word "sperm" did also mean semen, and the homoeroticism isn't just in the word "sperm" but the whole of the passage.

Moby Dick has a ton of homoerotic scenes like the man donning the whale's penis skin as a robe, or the various bed-sharing scenes with Ishmael and Queequeg including gems like "Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy we were," and "Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner."
So you think that YC should ignore the announcement, and still wait not only until after the announcement, and after the actual closure, but after the weekend after the closure after the announcement? That's what the original poster was asking. Why wait so long?

The announcement was two weeks ago.

The closure was Friday - two days ago.

Why is the quote still there? Why was it not even set up on the 18th to be removed programmatically on the 31st? It wouldn't be hard - even I do that.

Seems a valid question to me. Given what I know of YC, I find it hard to believe that it's just because the closure actually happened on a Friday, they're not working over the weekend, and they'll do it on Monday when they're back.
As the father of a 5 year old girl and a 2 year old boy, I can only add "huh? I'm confused."
where did it mention that in the article? I don't see it
Not just the police, in one of the cases a council worker spoke out clearly on what was happening was sent to "sensitivity" training.

Unless you combat this stuff openly with the full power of the law you create a breeding ground for the far-right.
Maybe artists should accept the fact that the supply of music vastly outstrips the demand.

99% of consumers would be happy if there were only 10,000 employed musicians in the entire market.
> It is never a good idea to project your own hypocrisy onto everybody else.

I didn't. I was speaking generally. I don't call you out specifically. In fact, I explicitly make mention that there are probably people who are sincere about this. What I wonder is how much of the uproar is from people that do use an Android or iOS device. That do use Gmail. That use Facebook or Google+. Or support companies that share data.

Simply put: next time, don't be so antagonistic. I wasn't projecting anything onto anyone else, including you. Rereading my comment, I can only assume that you misread what I wrote, and assumed I said things I did not.
I started to learn typing as a kid on an old manual typewriter (didnt have the patience to fully learn but that's not relevant). I do not remember the brand but it was fricking heavy and solid and mechanical, not one of those electrical lightweight types. The point is, this simulation is just not good. You never missed that many keys. If you typed out an entire paragraph you might lose a letter or two. It NEVER happened this often. And yes, I was banging on the keys. This is a simulation of a POS typewriter - just because things are mechanical doesnt mean they suck.