skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you rather be one of 25,000 engineers at google, or one of 50 at whatsapp? A ton of people would chose the latter just to be in a more important core role. And if we use the acquisition price as a proxy for current market value, the per engineer capita is 20 times better at WhatsApp. I don't have any inside info, but I'm betting any of those engineers that had options are very very happy with their current job.
Windows is slow? Compared to what? In what task? Running a game? Boot time? Opening Firefox?

I have problems with Windows, but it's the fastest desktop os I think, mostly because it's graphics stack is way the best of all. Running a number crunching C code is exactly the same on Windows or Linux. (See all the benchmarks on the Internet.)
I see Lyft more as Uber's more frugal, down-to-earth cousin.
I'll wager the complexity of WhatsApp is not 1% of 1% of Amazon.
* Less likely to be assumed a criminal, drug user, or other lower ranking member of society

* Less likely to die of curable diseases

* Lesser prison sentences for the same crimes committed by minorities.

* Less likely to get passed over for a job interview

* Easier time dating
British jihadists had phones hacked by GCHQ before being killed by drones
It sounds like a really awesome workflow, although parts of it really only work on very large teams. I bet the version control system would be very cool though, hopefully it gets a github equivalent and has better branching than mercurial
Death is inevitable. Cigarettes are addictive - there's a physiological impetus to continue smoking if you're addicted. Marijuana is significantly less addictive, and it takes very little willpower to stop using it during times of hardship.
Cheaper to fly to the USA and back to buy CS6 than buy Adobe CS6 in Australia
At least, as long as drivers are human [0]. ;p

0: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/01/27/how-ubers-autono...
Well we would not say that we are better than Canary. In fact we think Canary is a great security device. The reason Butterfleye does not look like a hidden camera or discrete is because we wanted it to be more home friendly and serve other purposes than security for example to be able to communicate with your home and people/pets inside your home while you are away.

Really our technology is what makes our solution more advanced and convenient to use.

1. Canary is bound by AC power wires
2. Canary will not work if your Wi-Fi happens to stop working.
3. Canary will not work if you power happens to go out where you are located.
4. Canary will give false alarms as it does not integrate infrared technology into their motion detector.
5. Subscription fees are not liked by their customers and Butterfleye provides at least 24 hours of rolling storage for free.
6. Butterfleye will connect through 3 different protocalls WAN/LAN and direct stream so you can take it camping or in the middle of no where and still work.

On top of all this the way we monitor is more efficient as we don not record empty rooms and take up energy, storage, and bandwidth doing so.
I'd guess HiFi is pronounced Hi-Fee as it takes the "fi" sound from "High Fidelity".
> If you don't think it's possible that other people see color -- well, that's just willful ignorance.

I didn't say that anywhere. Yes, of course, bigots do exist.

Perhaps the greater point is that we shouldn't jump at any conclusions, including one that proposes this kid was singled-out because of the color of his skin or his religion. Nobody knows, right?

I am proposing it was ignorance on the part of the teachers, particularly the Engineering teacher.

Had I been in that position I would have had the kid do a full presentation in front of the class on how he built the clock and how it worked and perhaps see about having him teach the other kids how to build their own in school or as a home project.

Had other teachers expressed concern I would have said something like "Calm down, he is a great kid who'd been tinkering with technology for years. We need to encourage him, not smash him down. He just build a fantastic clock. How about everyone learns from him.".

Then again, that's me. A non-engineer engineering teacher might think he is looking at Martian technology that could end life on the planet.

This kid should not have suffered one bit due to the ignorance of the adults that surrounded him at school.

Beyond that, I think about what he said in the video: They took him into a room with five cops who interrogated him. I, as a parent, would be angry beyond description for that alone.
I don't see what your concern has to do with marijuana taxes. Education funding is always in jeopardy, and has been for decades. Marijuana taxes are another source of funding, but nothing else has really changed.

Marijuana taxes are not the sole source of education funding, and they're not even close to being the biggest funding source. Politicians will have to budget funding for education just like they always have.

Edit: FWIW, I looked it up, and we (Colorado) spent $4.2 billion on K-12 education and another 2.8 billion on higher education in 2013. The marijuana tax revenue number mentioned in the article is only $70 million, which is less than 1% of the total education budget.

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobhea...
Really interesting article. Sounds like a great solution to the problem in git of submodules. Definitely worth looking at. Thanks for posting OP.

IMO this system would best be suited for large companies, but I could see the VCS that they are developing being used by anyone if it gets a github-esque website.
I've written a lot of software in cafes. The combination of background noise, interesting people to talk to once in a while, people-watching possibilities, the travel to/from, switching physical space, etc., have always been helpful.

- Happy Donuts in Palo Alto was a particular favorite, and still my go-to when in the Bay Area: a great hangout for Stanford students, software developers, late-night stoners with a need for donuts. It was sad that homeless people would show up at 1 am to try to sleep as much as possible before daylight, interrupted once in a while by staff waking them up (legal issues I think). An early-thirties lady walked in with her parents late one night and stood under the huge cosmic donut on the ceiling saying "this is the place .. this is where I wrote [my dissertation]." Good vibes all around. They supplied Google with donuts for a while.

- Three Bees in San Mateo, Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto, Stanford CoHo, and Tart-to-Tart in San Francisco were other favorites.

- Current hangouts are Camino Bakery, Krankies, Ardmore Coffee, and the Coffee Mill in the Winston-Salem, NC area. As a remote software developer I need to get out of the basement several times a week.

[edit: spelling]
it's difficult, and multi-faceted, and still it must be tackled. the system is the crux of this issue, there would be no issue if the field were not uneven.
Contents of Moby Dick => Ahab's leg.
> it takes very little willpower to stop using it during times of hardship.

...and yet that's often a great time to smoke a blunt. Fewer side effects than alcohol.
The Federalist Papers comes to mind. It used a pseudonym, but the pseudonym was shared among three authors.
This is one of the most interesting interview ideas I've read in a while. I'm sure a lot of people would love a writeup of your experiences with it.
* raise interest rates

* Until recently be a credible candidate for president of the us
Yes... I believe the Mayor of Irving is an elected position by the people. It's a better indicator then being the 4th biggest metropolitan in the country like that matters.
Could you tell something about the level of documentation? For instance, do you have to write a paragraph of documentation for every function that you add to the system? How about adding preconditions and postconditions, and other invariants?

Also, is the code that you add to the repository always inspected by other people? Is that done systematically?
It seems that clock only took him 20 minutes to make, the night before.

He's made other things as well that are impressive. He makes his own radios and fixes his go-kart. Lots of potential there.

As for me, if flushing the toilet doesn't help, I need to call someone.
lol if you think teachers have a "shorter work day/work year"

My girlfriend is a High School teacher in NY, and easily works more than I do. You have to factor in planning and grading which is all done after "work".
In order to be able to communicate with a journalist without being traced by the government you already need something like TOR. (For example Snowden used TOR, https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secret... )
I'm working on an MVP for online shell history (bash/zsh) as a service. Source a script, add a command to your $PROMPT_HISTORY, and all your shell history will be available online.

It will also provide some graphs along with insights/advice, for example, suggesting possible aliases to save time. Looking to get it out in the next week or two, would love to hear if you guys would be interested in something like this!
I still think there is potential in Lyft's original idea "Ride sharing" rather than a taxi competitor that both of these companies have become.

Really curious why such an option still doesnt exist:

"I am driving from Soma to Palo Alto so just notify me about the customers trying to do the same thing"

Lyft shouldn't be anyone's full time or part time job. In my opinion that's the only way they can co-exist with Uber.
​Italian Ministry of Defense Moves to LibreOffice
I don't work for FB, but word through the grapevine is that FB wanted to use Git, but the Git folks refused to talk to FB about making it scale. By contrast, hg was happy to have them as users and contributors.
Blog post about the choice of replication scheme chose for Apache BookKeeper:

http://fpj.me/2015/01/23/so-many-ways-of-replicating/

Critique of the chosen replication scheme:

http://www.ioremap.net/2015/04/28/apache-bookkeeper-or-how-n...
A friend of mine visited me in Denver from another state. He came back from a weed store with a little bottle and exclaimed "dude, this was only 10 bucks! It'd cost me like $50 back home!"

I'm really looking forward to seeing data on what happens to the black market for other drugs, with marijuana now easier to get legally than illegally.
Outlier here too. I start in the bottom left and move to the upper right. So essentially my 8's are all upside down.
> When on vacation in Poland, I had the opportunity to meet some Ukrainian emigrants. And they asked me in Polish, in earnest: "...so, are black people dangerous? I hear there are a lot of them in America."
> They had never met a black person in real life.

So their only impression of what African Americans are really like is presumably formed via American media?

Hmmm....
If you watch the video that pic was taken from, you will find that that is a device 'like' the one taken to the school. Here's an actual pic:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/10BF6/production/...
Except Woz did what he could to make it seem like it was a bomb, then left it in a locker.

Very different from Ahmed's situation.
Well a lot of the current diversity zeitgeist is (mis)represented in terms that are too simplistic.

diversity is good/desirable -> minorities are more valuable than white people at your company (since you clearly already have enough white people) seems to be the point of a lot of blog posts/conversation. This kind of thinking is most clearly visible in when companies state that they try to hire X underrepresented people to some position, as if you just need to get a certain number (and/or when corporations lower meaningful meritocratic barriers to hire people that otherwise wouldn't have been in the ballpark).

"meaningful meritocratic barrier" to me means "show me you can do fizzbuzz", rather than "tell me which ivy you came from"

There is obviously a case to be made for diversity (independent of morality), but most modern literature doesn't seem to address that at any meaningful level of complexity. I discovered this when talking to a colleague who was annoyed with what seemed to be a devaluing of potential hires just because they weren't "diverse" enough.
It's still amusing to me that handwritten signatures, particularly in this day and age, are treated as secure or even meaningful for these kinds of purposes.

Certainly they're useful symbols, but in the era of photoshop and copiers, a signed document without notarization isn't any more secure or meaningful as proof of anything than an unsigned one.
CIA confirmed Oswald contacted Cubans, Soviets before assassination, memo shows
> Are you aware of how extremely predatory many of these for-profit colleges have been? Their students aren't getting something they want.

I don't know what this statement means.

If you're suggesting that people attend these institutions and then aren't able to find work in that field, I would say that's true of many other institutions as well.

Those majoring in English in a standard non-profit college aren't likely to become authors or English teachers. Those going to law school aren't likely to become lawyers. So what?
No. What matters is not the content but whether or not you believe the content. And knowing the source is very important for making that assessment.

Suppose you hear that Barack Obama is a Muslim who is secretly plotting the demise of the United States. The credibility of that statement changes a lot depending on whether it comes from an anonymous source or from, say, Loretta Lynch.
Couldn't Colorado just use the additional tax income for more long-term projects (building new schools or upgrading existing ones, for example) or products that could enhance education in schools (more computers, tablets, textbooks, etc), that wouldn't require an ongoing commitment of funds every year?
Sure, but we didn't earmarking marijuana taxes for education so that we could improve education. Any informed voter would know that. We did it so that we could get uninformed/uneducated voters to pass the legislation. Now, I don't mean "uninformed/uneducated voters" in a negative way. Most voters, even intelligent ones, are classed as uninformed/uneducated when it comes to most topics. Because really, who has time during their day to research all of these measures? And funding education sounds good. So a little "end justifies the means" was used here to make moves towards ending the war on drugs.

I want to re-iterate, using marijuana taxes for education had nothing to do with improving education. Those who have studied the educational system in the U.S. know that funding is not the primary issue. The system itself is sick, and not from malnutrition. It is misguided, is mis-incentivized, and in many ways corrupt (mostly due to incompetence).

For example, in the past few years when schools have gotten additional funding, they have tended to spend it on technology. They buy iPads for students and teachers, smartboards, and online learning management services (Blackboard, Google Classroom, etc).

None of those things have had a meaningful impact on the quality of education. The schools continue to underpay teachers, promote hostile work environments, continue to promote overpriced, poor quality textbooks, don't feed their poor students, force teachers to buy their own supplies, make students sick by not running AC, accept donations from their teachers and parents, and the list goes on.

What I'm getting at is that additional funding for education is not, and will not ever be about improving the quality of education. If voters want to improve education they need to focus their attention on fixing the system itself first. Funding should only ever be increased in tandem with efforts to root out bad actors and steer our sinking ship of education away from the rocky harbor it's currently in.

Blindly increasing educational spending is the same as blindly donating food and money to the proverbial "Africa". In a similar manner, the corrupt governments where that money and food goes steal those resources to continue to fund their wars and terror. We need a Bill & Melinda Gates for education, not more fund raising.
Is that a reasonable metric in this case? I'd be more interested in the tax other countries have on marijuana/alcohol
These types of bonds do exist. They are called "linkers" and many governments issue them. In the US, we have TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) and some savings bonds that are linked to the CPI.

One major issue with these is that the inflation adjustment typically lags by 6+ months, so they are not a good short-term hedge. But they are very popular.
Sounds SGTM to me.
Ask HN: Staying at your first job for just a few months
There may be Mercurial plans for the future, but to date I've never encountered it at Google. Lots of people use git, though, including folks outside of Chrome and Android who are working against Piper.
Hey great, I (asian man) get to work in tech.

Do I get to raise interest rates?

How about being a credible candidate for US President?

Can I pay money to fuck kids and spend only 5 years in jail?
* Have a speech impediment and not be held back, even from high office like president of the us.

(I have rebutted arguments that "It isn't racist to discriminate against blacks for having the black accent because it just proves they are uneducated and inarticulate" by saying "George W. Bush. If articulate speech is really the criteria, how did he ever get to be president? And if we can hire an inarticulate white guy but not an inarticulate black guy, then something in there is still racist somehow, no?")
Is it just me or did the phrasing in the following sentence make it seem like they were helping with rides from the US to China...

> We are partnering with China’s largest rideshare company, Didi, to make it easier for people to get friendly, safe and reliable rides when they travel between the U.S. and China.
HN is a strange and wonderful place full of all kinds of people with all kinds of opinions on startups.

And yes, easy money can help unlock demand, but it can't generate it in a sustainable manner.

> "Actually printing money" - and then what? Dropping it to the eager consumers out of helicopters? [1] They've given banks all the money they need, and then some. Banks act as the gate keepers of loans and investments within the economy, vetting those who are likely to pay back. That is their business.

They are not finding enough demand within the economy to push out more money, even with short-term interest rates near 0 for the past 6 years. So they sit on it, earning 0.75% on their reserves.

The Fed does not have the power to solve this problem, in my opinion.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/helicopter-drop.asp
That's an elegant way to think about it.

Perhaps one slight deviation in Lyft Line is is when other people being picked up by your car are running late [0].

0: Personal experience in SF in October.
So loans are funded by the public?

Of course, with the banks as intermediaries.

Why are folks like you so afraid of discussing issues that might challenge your worldview? I would argue that only by being able to articulate answers to these questions (some of which you claim have such obvious answers) can we obtain a better understanding. Maybe your schooling encouraged a blinders mentality, but I humbly suggest you be open yourself to provide answers and not insults.

The last part was a bit offsides, sorry about that, but it was directed mainly at the econ education community, not at you. I'm happy to discuss anything, as I hope this thread indicates. I've come to my understanding through a long and winding path, including half an econ degree at Berkeley, some marxism, a trip through anarcho-capitalism and forcing myself to concentrate long enough to get through (most of) Steve Keen's work.

I'm advocating a 100% reserve ratio on demand deposits only, duration matching of non-demand deposits and a citizens dividend for economic stimulus. Ain't no school gonna teach you that. :)
You caught me going against my own complaint :) I guess the difference is that theirs refers to the company, whereas mine refers to the product.
They're not treated as secure. They're mostly a symbolic gesture that indicates the final version of a document and provides a concrete act that can be the basis for a lawsuit or prosecution in the event false representations are made about a document.
True, I was being a little reductionist there. But I think that the charter school movement took off shortly after and directly because the voucher movement sunk. There's a lot of isomorphic economic policy between the two, although if I had to pick I'd say charters are better than vouchers.
Perspectives on a Universal Basic Income [pdf]
That's actually a good question. What would a world wide environment look like. Currently we have the web, but that isn't really a world wide environment in this sense. I think that this could be a way it would look, but more of a combination of this and a way to split everything down into the parts again without breaking the system. However, I've never worked at G, so I can't know if they have a method for this
Technically the structured settlement is the original settlement, the $500/month. What this guy forged signatures on were transfer approvals.

The charges against the paralegal are one thing, but probably more interesting is the fact that since none of these transfers had the judicial approval mandated by the law, none of them are actually valid. Not sure how easy it is to go back and undo or redo all those sales.
That is not a picture of the actual device. That's an example of something else he had laying around. Here's what he actually brought to school:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/10BF6/production/...
I'm so open minded I know all Texans are racist /s
QE1 worked, in that it saved us from a depression. But the jury's still out on whether that was just a can kicking exercise to be reckoned with at a future date. The other QE's by any measure, have been a failures, at least when compared to QE1.

And when almost all major global economic indicators are looking negative, it's hard to talk about QE in terms of it being successful policy.
I claim no special skill or insight into economics, I'm just tagging these posts so people don't mistakenly think that what is presented is mainstream economic theory. Based on our experience in the last decade, as a first order approximation heterdox claims about QE unsupported by evidence should be greeted skeptically.
Oh fuck off, you dick.

What happened was stupid and an over-reaction. But equating it with the Charlie Hebdo massacre is an insult.
Did you consider making a simple Chrome app of this?
Now I know why my google plus page takes half a day to load.
words to stop using in blog posts: "mission", "reconnect", "communities". Can you please talk like normal people instead of this marketing bla bla?
Post 9/11
If I recoup with latest news: The ranking algorithm is in one repo, Chrome and Android in another, and all the rest is in Piper? What is all the rest? Gmail, Calendar, the defunct Reader, the car, Maps, and OnHub... How does that fit with Alphabet? Is Piper a cross-functional initiative of Alphabet now?
Not particularly directed at OP, I haven't tried or even downloaded the app. But am I the only one that when I see 'Node' and 'Desktop' in a headline immediately think 'this may be really nice but it is just gonna be to big for what it does'? And, as a followup, what is the appeal of using Node for desktop dev?
> Because a teacher's job is customer service and the customer is always right? ;)

Yes?

Good customer service is making sure the customer walks away happy in the long-term. Sometimes you do that by giving homework and tests. They might be miserable in the moment, but they'll be happy in the long-term.

Viewing students as customers may not be ideal, but it's certainly better than seeing them as a burden.
Big banks want to adopt Bitcoin tech for the financial sector
I have no idea what CMU is, sorry.