skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their not without faults - no company is.

I personally - as a die hard fan - think their moving towards more consumer facing ideas then professional facing ideas.

I think the iPad Pro is a great idea with the stylus / keyboard.

I think a lot of features in OS X are bad ideas - I've never once made a program absolute full screen - who works like that? (personal opinion). I'm all for size and portability but a Macbook Pro with no built in ethernet or cd / dvd? Sorry, their not completely dead yet. A lot of offices still don't allow wifi and theres always a need for an optical drive. Sure - I have a thunderbolt ethernet adaptor and I can get a external drive - but 1 more thing to carry is 1 more thing to loose.

I do see convergence - with the Ax processors getting faster with every generation - watch in a few more, Intel processors get dropped - OS X gets renamed to Desktop OS (following the naming of WatchOS and TVOS), becomes a branch of iOS and the App Stores get unified. 1 app, downloadable across all devices, using App Thinning to distribute app assets as needed.

This obviously will be a problem for pro apps (going back to my gripe) - could you imagine Photoshop being sold in the App Store? Hell will have frozen over for that to happen.

But I've gotten off track - It's impossible to please everyone. A company becomes more consumer focused and you piss off the pros. A company becomes more professional focused and you piss off the consumers. Still - sure as hell beats using Windows - but even MS caved. Windows 8 was a great idea - unfortunately, their target market is businesses and businesses a: don't want to spend money on training employees on a new interface and b: won't spend the money on touch screens - which is why 10 exists how it does. For consumers, 8 was great! For businesses, 8 sucked. 10 is the happy median. Not everyone is pleased with it, but it pleases enough.

Apple is in the same boat. Pro's rave about Apple when new products come out, but they need to please the consumer so they spend money before they please the pros (of which there are ALOT less of)
So if you are living and working in SF and making $150K (plus bonus, stock options etc) and you decide to move to, say, Phoenix and buy a house for $140K, they'll say, "OK, minimaxir, we'll be cutting your salary to $90K to reflect the vastly diminished cost of living, although of course we'll be able to give your desk to a new hire and save money on office space!" -- ??

Seems unlikely. If you're contributing, no rational company is going to suddenly cut your salary. Basically, no one cuts salaries in the U.S. unless it's a company-wide belt tightening move to stave off bankruptcy.
Care to elaborate? You either live with several other people, make upwards of $500k/year and live very modestly, or both.
Dear ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself
Cool quote. Maybe now we "grow" software, in the sense that any application consists of probably thousands of interconnected systems/libraries/frameworks that work together in a way that is organic or emergent.
I'm aware of death penalty abolitionists who argue that innocents have been executed. I'm not aware of persuasive evidence. If it were trivial to find some, surely you would have just posted a link instead of an insult.
> Basing your assumptions on Unix work over Docker woo is like basing Microsoft assumptions over Slashdot comments.

I admit it was a kind of low jab.

So what cool stuff is being done in mainline GNU/Linux that isn't present in Aix and friends?
For the same reason as why you shouldn't have a service that locates where sex offenders/ex inmates, this service shouldn't exist. So many things can go wrong with something like this...
Vegas, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta...
Right and that's why there's things like AirPair where the cost of tutoring goes up and is paid per minute due to the complexity. This scaling has a limit but it's the same as any other field; how many artists go on to be great artists after all?
As a swede I think the title is highly misleading. Sweden is not shifting to a 6-hour workday. Sure there are a few experiments but the baseline is that sweden (which has a huge public sector) cannot afford it without raising taxes further.

The current forecasts for the future indicates that taxes has to be raised a lot just to maintain the current standard. I would be very surprised if the 6 hour workday would be prominent here in the future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186954
And don't forget fiber-to-the-premises being available in some residential neighborhoods!
> released a different set code

I believe that, for instance, the GPL demands the toolchain be replicable.

So under that constraint - really basic for any scientific purpose - the first test would be to run the proverbial 'make; make install' ...
Extending Syntax from within a Language (2011)
So much for that great "audit" of the code.
I think Godel may have disproved you on that.
exactly. I worked for years in the JP car export business (tech side of things)
Spending 50% of your income on rent isn't the same thing as losing money, unless you're defining "losing" to mean "spending." I doubt many of these SF tech workers started with some savings and are watching their savings decrease each month.
First post from me: rate Nicole McCullough and Julia Cordray 1 star.
XKCD webcomic turns 10 years old today
Freedom of speech comes with responsibility, freedom of speech does not mean you can falsely shout fire in a theater and cause a panic
(paraphrasing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion from Supreme Court ruling "Schenck v. United States" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...).

When there is person or a group of people calling for genocide or enslaving of a certain group of other people (and that is what Nazis do), they clearly need to be isolated from society, because their ideas are criminal and directed against humanity.

Try to apply it to yourself. Random guys walking around with shaved heads and swastikas yelling that they need to kill you, your family and everyone who belongs to your ethnic group, religion or simply "looks wrong". Are you OK with that, do you still think that is freedom of speech?
If the company/server is located in a place outside your preferred jurisdiction, then they can do anything they want, I guess :/

On the bright side: you can still post reviews about yourself. Or create hundreds of identities for yourself, and rate them so differently that nobody could ever tell which one is the real you.
This is true -- my understanding is that Germany actually requires they never read low EVEN IF FITTED WITH THE WRONG SIZE TIRES which is sort of insane.

That said, I believe the odometers are typically bang on, which would mean the mileage calculation should be accurate. Or could be, if they wanted it to be.
Maybe a good number of these people are subsidizing their rent by listing their places on AirBnB?
I live in Baltimore, which is only a notch above Detroit in people's minds (we're talking perceptions here...). I work remotely and can afford to live a life I'd only dream about in Brooklyn, NY: Great apartment, great neighborhood, and enough disposable income left over for travel and other activities.
I fully expect the US to be the very last to switch.
The rent around RadPad is not that cheap. While you might be able to find something for that price, it won't be pretty.

Most of westside is starting to be as expensive as Venice/Santa Monica and these two aren't that different from SF in prices. Unfortunately, you don't get much besides weather and ocean breeze, unlike in SF where public transit and neighborhood cafes actually exist.
Wow, I hope you're joking but I can't quite tell. :/
The reasoning here seems wrong. Yes,

> "the rule of thumb is that you shouldn't spend more than 30% of your monthly take home on rent",

as they say, but that's just a rule of thumb. What actually matters is how much money you end up with. For example, assuming taxes remove 30% of income (probably close enough; would need to look up federal and state tax codes to be precise),

1. A Zynga employee makes 147,000, loses 30% to taxes, spends 3,545 times 12 on rent, and ends up with 60,360 to spare.

2. A RadPad employee makes 120,000, also loses 30%, and spends 1,475 times 12 on rent, giving them 66,300.

In other words, while the Zynga employee spends 47% on rent, and the RadPad employee a mere 23% - less than half! - the difference is much smaller than that would imply. At the end of the year, the RadPad employee has an extra 5,940.

Certainly a significant amount of money, and noteworthy in that the person has a lower salary but still ended up with more income after taxes and rent, but the amount is in the single digit percentage of the salaries we are talking about here.

More importantly, the problem becomes more obvious if we look at second place after Zynga. Doing the same calculation on a Google employee, then we get that despite paying 42% on rent, the employee is left with 71,128, which is more than the RadPad employee.

In other words, looking just at % of take home spent on rent is a useful rule of thumb, but looking at the actual money is better, and it can lead to different conclusions than the article would imply.

edit: Perhaps the best conclusion from their data is that it actually doesn't matter where you live, since salary actually compensates surprisingly well for location. Whether you work at Google or Zynga in SF, or RadPad in LA, you'll end up with +- a few % of the same amount of money in your bank account anyhow.
Update: she woke up, 1985 or 86 is when the law was introduced, and she says she always gives it a year or two after that.

Also the law has been updated multiple times.

Hell i figure if the house is still standing after the last one and shows no damage, were good to go. (Proper check for damage, not me checking haha).
Come to Boulder. While rents in the Denver area have been climbing recently, they still fall short of the craziness of SF/NY (some facts, here: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_28740315/denver-area-a... "median price for a two bedroom is $1550") . And we have 4 real seasons and skiing, unlike LA.

If you want startups, Boulder or downtown Denver are pretty good, or if you want more established tech companies, Interlocken or the Tech center are where it's at.
Sounds like you either earn a ton of cash or live far from the city. I'm spending ~30% after tax.
So they can detect sarcastic positive reviews?
NOOOOOOO. Don't tell anyone. It is terrible here and there is lots of sadness from all the rain. I hate Seattle.

Seriously though F* 405 traffic. The new "Toll route" is a nightmare and now everyone is using side roads making my drive to work from a quick 10 min jaunt into a 25-30 min parking lot.
Loads great in Emacs eww.el browser :)
10.4 was pretty good.

My point about the .1 and .2 releases were that they're buggy, too. I look into my crystal ball and predict that 10.11.1 and 10.11.2 will both have serious issues (though not as much as 10.11.0. You really have to wait for the waves of bugfix releases after a point release to end before it's safe for human consumption.
Agreed, that would've been much worse.
It was for a few years. We moved last fall to 3rd and Bryant.
siracusa stopped doing the reviews http://hypercritical.co/2015/04/15/os-x-reviewed
The contributions, from the Wikipedia entry about him:

"In March 1995, Kildall was posthumously honored by the Software Publishers Association (now the Software and Information Industry Association) for his contributions to the microcomputer industry:[3]

- Introduction of operating systems with preemptive multitasking and windowing capabilities and menu-driven user interfaces.

- Creation of the first diskette track buffering schemes, read-ahead algorithms, file directory caches, and RAM disk emulators.

- Introduction of a binary recompiler in the 1980s.

- The first programming language and first compiler specifically for microprocessors.

- The first microprocessor disk operating system, which eventually sold a quarter of a million copies.

- The first computer interface for video disks to allow automatic nonlinear playback, presaging today's interactive multimedia.

- The file system and data structures for the first consumer CD-ROM.

- The first successful open system architecture by segregating system-specific hardware interfaces in a set of BIOS routines.[22][23][24][25]
"
I think you should only work for an early stage startup in >= one of two cases

a) you love the company and the mission
b) you are a founder or a very early employee

I am not sure the expected value is there from a pure financial point of view for late employees, compared to working for an established company
Ping me, ill help ya look.
I have to ask: which neighborhood do you live in, and how far do you commute? I'm moving to NYC in two days and I still don't know where to live (thankfully, my company will pay for a nice apartment for 30 days).

I actually wrote off SF and the entire Bay Area during my job search, largely due to the cost of living. I know that in New York I'll at least be able to find a 1br for $1700 (in Western Queens or Wash Heights, whatever), which is 25-30% of take home.
Can you give some examples for both trendy and not trendy areas?
Bainbridge Island where Orange is greater than Green.
I didn't event realize it was a slideshow until I read your comment.
Raced a Porsche Cayenne Turbo on the 101N in Palo Alto, kept up till around 140mph, at which point my transmission ran out of gearing and he kept going. I was impressed.
Reference please that the longshoremen don't work night shifts.
Now, if Washington state would only ban noncompetes like California... Until more states ban noncompete contracts, I'll be staying in California.
There's Redox, which was just discussed on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295187

There are also a couple of projects re-implementing the standard UNIX utilities in Rust and Go. I suspect that, like Linux couldn't have exploded in popularity without an existing and excellent suite of utility programs, it's unlikely a new OS could take off without the same existing for it. Though, implementing a UNIX-like/POSIX-compatible kernel might be a reasonable starting point. So far, however, the folks working on operating systems in Rust and Go are wanting to implement actually new operating systems, not merely reimplement UNIX in those languages. Which is to say, maybe an impossible goal, I dunno. No other kind of "make a better OS" project has actually succeeded without massive financial backing, and there have been many.
Most of this was in our existing framework Luna, https://asana.com/luna, but some of the newer pieces are using React/TypeScript and the next generation of our reactive query system which we'll be talking about more in the future.
Complex cross-geo projects aren't the same as local projects, except everything happens overnight. There are explicit and implicit expenses involved in managing and supporting projects in widely varied time zones that aren't obvious until you're involved in one. Especially if there's hardware involved.
I'll give you Denver, definitely high quality of life in Colorado. Not Vegas, most definitely not Texas (save for Austin), not Phoenix, and Atlanta is nowhere near friendly unless you work from home and never need to get into a car.

Chattanooga is good, Nashville is good (but getting pricey), lots of space and smart people in North Carolina (Asheville or Raleigh Durham Research Triangle Park). I've heard good things about Des Moines (not a fan of the cold though).

At this point, its just masochistic for SF startups to require their tech staff to live in the area, and throw away so much of their income to landlords.
Oh, I didn't expect this. Thank you!
Citation needed was the insult here. This isn't some arcane area with difficult to reach resources. And given the subject matter screw politeness. Go do some fucking legwork, asshole.
this is fine if you have f-u money, but for everyone else it sucks

Your online presence is becoming your new, indelible permanent record. Anything incriminating, so long as it’s archived on a major search engine or social network, can and will come back to hurt you. The rich, such as Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam who was fired from the annotation service after posting comments about Elliot Rogers, don’t have to worry so much about the consequences of reckless online behavior because they at least retain their equity in the said company, so being fired is just like a permanent vacation. Now the 9-5er who gets fired only has unemployment to fall back on. Much worse. But those online comments will also hurt your future job prospects, leaving you with no recourse but to request they be removed (fat chance) or pay inordinate amounts of money to a reputation firm to bury the results. If you’re really smart and talented your skills may be so valuable and rare that employers may overlook your past transgressions. So we see with the abnegation of privacy and anonymity, like most changes of the post-2008 economy, primarily impact those who are the most vulnerable, and there’s nothing anyone can or will do about it. The only solution is be careful what you post on Facebook, Twitter or elsewhere, and if someone slanders you, there isn’t much you can do that won’t cost a lot of money and time.
So I threw together a histogram [1] of car CO2 emissions as reported by manufacturers for 1200+ model/engine combos. It's not exactly uniformly distributed, to say the least, there is a strong peak at 99 g/km etc. Now that's maybe not conclusive evidence that they are lying, but it's certainly suspicious.

[1] http://asmunder.github.io/2015/09/A-histogram-of-CO2-emissio...
Data read from files is also tainted.

I disagree with the 'false sense of security' as well - just like every other security feature from any system or technique you care to name, taint checking improves security but makes absolutely no claim that it magically makes your code completely secure.
System Status as SMS Text Messages
Kind of like the new look, more modern but it's only a new css...

some of the polish i'd like to see:

- @ mentions in firefox that works

- link from 1 task to another, the linked task should have a mention of the link.
- loading the task detail panel is waaaaay to slow
- You don't have enough info about your sub tasks in the main view
- desktop notifications?
- desktop client ?
Yes, death penalty abolitionists argue that innocents have been executed. In other news, sun rises in east.
The link has comic sans embedded in pictures, how would an OS deal with that?
"usually saw at least one person smoking meth, shooting up heroin, or pissing on the street."

This is why I like living in an area with -20F winters... keeps out the riff raff, oh and winter sports too.
> “People do so much research when they buy a car or make those kinds of decisions,” said Julia Cordray, one of the app’s founders. “Why not do the same kind of research on other aspects of your life?”

So, what kind of decisions is this supposed to help me make? Whether to be friends with someone? Isn't getting to know them "doing the research" for that?
(To keep the meta posts in one place)

Even the OpenBSD project is talking about "disruptive innovation"! The tech industry has really collectively jumped the shark.
The fact that tax money is spent on various social protection things, like health care, allows to legally limit one's apparently personal choices, like smoking, that increase the tax money spending due to those choices. Such is the nature of most, if not any, tax-funded welfare features.

Which is one of the reasons so many people oppose government administered healthcare(At least in the US). Once the government is financially responsible for your healthcare, it has a legitimate stake in regulating the lifestyle decisions that you make.

For example, if the overwhelming evidence shows that consuming pork results in increased healthcare costs over time, the government has a compelling interest to prohibit the consumption of pork or since we know unequivocally that use of tobacco results in increased costs for healthcare, (as you mentioned)the government has already taken steps to limit its use but has not yet gone to far as to prohibit it (in large part) because the tax revenues collected on its sale are not inconsequential.
I suspect they are stricter now - and I though Snowden socially engineered his way around some of the bariers.

And I suspect actual access to the live data might be more locked down. Snowden seems to have harvested a load of docs about the process but not that data.
"Citation needed" isn't an insult. It's pointing out an unsupported assertion. "Go do some fucking legwork, asshole" is an insult.

I note with some dismay that you still haven't identified a single innocent who's been executed.
This is a horrible, horrible idea. I mean, people are already using platforms like Facebook to bully people, not caring it's done in public and under their real name. Now there's a platform optimised ror that mode of interaction. I hope the founders are simply cynically using the shock value to make a quick buck and don't actually think it's a good idea.
That seemed odd. Why jump through a hoop just the first time?
May be intended to be joke, but the weather is atrocious, and the traffic is worse than the Bay Area (but probably not worse than LA). People are nice though!
Source: Lived there 22 years, moved to the Bay Area a dozen years ago, bought a house here, love it. Also, nobody complains about all the "outsiders" driving up housing costs here, whereas in the Northwest, blaming outsiders has been a mantra for decades.
>[your name] it’s there unless you violate the site’s terms of service.

Well thats a new take on T&C.
Is this submarine hiring post for SpaceX? They have offices in Hawthorne and in Redmond; both are nice (Redmond is way nicer IMO).
My 167+405 commute is ~75 minutes. I have to admit I'm glad the toll route doesn't extend down my way or I'd be tempted to use it.
This reminds me of the tutorial named "You could have invented monads" [1]. So apparently, somebody did :)

[1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
I recently turned-down a great job offer for a Bay area tech company. Their office was just too far outside my commute range. I even offered to remote-work part-time and be in the office some days a week (I had already been a 100% remote worker for 3+ years, so I had a proven track record as a remote worker). But the founder insisted everyone be on-site, daily, even though many aspects of the company were quite comfortable and capable with remote-work (they had a remote team in Europe).

This "must be colocated" mind-set is lose-lose no matter which way you cut it. I turned down a compelling/interesting job, the company lost a great-fit. If I had taken the job, burdened with an absurdly long daily commute, we both would have lost time/productivity to commuting (not to mention the broader societal costs).

Maybe it's going to take a billion-dollar startup to scale-up with a remote/distributed approach to really shift things.
Does OS X place any of its own files in /usr/local?
Not all the time. These points:

1. There are times when doctors, in order to reduce pain in their patients, accelerate their death as part of pain management. This is usually done at the end of long incurable illnesses or injuries from which recovery is unlikely. The consequence of alleviating pain can be death. Whether it is thought of deliberately or not by the caregivers/doctors does not matter. The point is that the event of death is hastened directly by the act of helping the patient.

2. The patient is choosing to end his life. (I hope you don't ask what is to be done with depression/suicidal patients.)

... and lastly, and simply:

3. Many times the assistance may be done by a non-doctor - so the Hippocratic Oath may not apply directly.
Which is probably the only sane way to cope with such an event.