skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YC company One Month did a video podcast about HN: http://hackernewsnation.com/

It was very dudebro.

YC company Heavybit did one too which was also dudebro but less-so since it was audio only. (it appears they deleted the podcast)

Bottom line: there's no reason for a HN podcast. Not much happens since it's mostly a link-aggregator with little meta-discussion.
You're not at the end of the line in the East Bay, then. The BART ride alone would be at least 40 minutes, and that's if there wasn't some kind of delay.
I have a list of favorite startups here: https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/good-startups

Highlights:

http://are.na (private and collaborative research platform)

http://un1verse.co (mobile card-based programming)

https://www.notion.so (powerful collaborative documents)

http://mine.nyc (z-axis for content on the web)

http://ascribe.io (registering content ownership in the blockchain)

http://urbit.org (radically simple complete re-write of system and network software/infrastructure)

https://artadvisor.io/ (artworld intelligence)

https://graphcommons.com/ (collaborative graph databases)
Inspect it for hardware modifications, and, assuming there are none, perform a factory reset and you're good.

The amount of engineering the Feds would have to do to ensure a hack evades those two safeguards is prohibitive.
They can also make it official law. It's not illegal under the FCPA to pay official rush fees, just the unofficial ones.

So in corrupt government X, you make a special western investment tax. The funds of that tax goes to a special fund used for development projects. Those development projects have to go through a convoluted procurement process, which co-incidentally only gets approved with a few politician's organizations. Those organizations then go on those make-work projects, and siphon off a lot of funds and never get them done. The make work projects also help them get re-elected because they create 'jobs'.
> Affirmative action means that you take action to diversify your applicant pool.

Wikipedia describes it differently:

"Affirmative action or positive discrimination is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group [...]. The nature of affirmative action policies varies from region to region. Some [...] use a quota system, whereby a certain percentage of jobs or school vacancies must be reserved for members of a certain group."

Wouldn't using a quota system be lowering the bar?

Using your definition, if I recruit in California, and I expand to begin recruiting in Oregon, then I have diversified my applicant pool. Have I successfully employed affirmative action?
Show HN: Silicon Valley inspired SWOT board
Spanish Ebook on Rails “Aprendiendo Ruby on Rails”
Doesn't this prevent Nevada and anyone else from demanding source code for slot machines and other gambling machines, to audit it for backdoors and other flaws? The last I heard, they're not even allowed to use off-the-shelf video drivers. Every line of code has to be (theoretically, anyway) audited by gaming authorities.

I suppose those are usually delivered under a "negotiated contract."
Boats typically need their bottom cleaned regularly if they are kept in the water. Based on the other comment (the turtles came to the boat), I would guess the bottom had thick growth that attracted the turtles. Also fish are attracted to shade (it's common to see fish hanging out in the shade under piers for example).
This is an important point. I was a hiring manager at a large company. Resources for recruiting activities were not unlimited so choices had to be made. Top schools that helped facilitate the recruiting process were always on the list. We hired from everywhere if the applicant was good. But a lot of good schools were not very organized or proactive in promoting recruiting by employers.
They had a working demo in 2012. Here it is.[1] You're looking at a single big ultrasonic transducer sending to a bunch of little ones. The little ones are the same ones RobotShop sells.[2]

They're very vague about how much energy went in and how much came out. The big heat sinks on the sending side suggest that a few hundred watts are going in. The meter on the receive side is just showing voltage, so there's no indication of the actual energy transfer. There's no beam forming or steering.

Anybody could reproduce that demo, but it doesn't prove much.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHxyweJcZI
[2] http://www.robotshop.com/ca/en/hc-sr04-ultrasonic-range-find...
This is wonderful, and correct, theory. As the Futurama joke goes, "you are technically correct; the best kind of correct."

What the Haskell community keeps running into is that most people don't think in theories. Trying to prove the theory to be practical has a poor success rate. They need to implement useful things that people love, then show how the theory got them there naturally.

Sentences like this:

> Category theory codifies this compositional style into a design pattern, the category.

To the average person, a theory codifying a style into a pattern just isn't useful. What does that do? Monads are a common joke to this effect. They are wonderfully useful but poorly understood by most developers. It isn't being right that matters if few understand you.

Why was Rails successful?

Sure Ruby is nice, but Python is very similar (and it wasn't the `do...end` blocks.)

It's because Rails could be used to easily build functional CRUD apps — Whoops! it works — that made difficult easy. Sandy Metz doesn't get heard if DHH isn't building Basecamp.

As a philosopher, it pains me to know people don't think that way, but if you aren't changing people's lives then all the theory is just mental masturbation.
That is exactly how they deal with that. They make them use offline non-admin computers with all the ports burnt off. If they need to look something up, then only a few trusted people can go to the 'internet' computer, where everything is recorded. For good measure, the offline employees are recorded too.

But it's also incredibly inefficient compared to the average 10 person game studio. In the USA, nobody has to do that to make a computer game.

You also missed the part of %80 of the staff walking away to start their own venture.
The state of the art in diversity appears to be blaming whites for the under-representation of certain minorities groups (blacks, Hispanics), even when that under-representation is actually due to the over-representation of other minority groups (Asians): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527668

How will a diversity consultant (whatever that is) help with this? Recommend Anti-Asian quotas, like the kind elite universities in the US already employ?
You know what’s even more trivial to parse and generate? Arrays of uncompressed binary data.
I suppose. But it's based upon a couple of theories that I disagree with: a) the people you need are the ones who apply unprompted, and b) it's ok if you throw out your best potential hires.

My experience is that large companies mostly end up being seas of mediocrity, and I think lazy hiring is a big cause of that. I think one of the drivers of it is companies seeing programmers as fungible resources, so hiring becomes less about getting the best possible people carefully fitted to teams and more about getting adequate people with low managerial effort.
You seem to have read parent as saying "if you can afford to live in the city, it follows that you are doing something fantastically productive". I initially read it as saying "if it is important that you be so close to so many others, it follows that you are doing something productive, and it follows from there that you can afford rent." I wonder now which was meant.
How much - in actual numbers - is the increased risk?

How does it compare to the risks of alternative courses of action such as moving to a neighborhood with a higher crime rate, tolerating an increased commute (hours of life directly lost, increased risk of road accidents, increased chronic stress with accompanying health risks) or moving to a different city before having a replacement job lined up?
> The money goes into my landlord's retirement account basically doing nothing.

Is your landlord's retirement account a sack under his bed? If not, that money is being invested in publicly traded companies or in bonds to fund public works. It is creating jobs, just not in your neighborhood.
IIRC the employee in question was also going to be laid off anyway.

Also it kind of undermines a meritocracy when you require gender and race parity IMO.
I'm surprised HN is so against this article. I'm unhappy with the idea of "full Sprig" or "full Josephine". Furthermore, a "full Sprig" or "full Josephine" society is impossible with their current business models as I highly doubt their contractors have enough money to use their own services, especially if they get sick and have to deal with their uninsured medical costs. The lack of regulations around these services is just a way for the company to transfer more liabilities onto their contractors (cough employees) and reduce costs for themselves and their customers.

I think all of these startups are "solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand"[0] and do so by taking advantage (and perpetuating) massive income inequality.

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-worl...
Most businesses from the beginning of the internet to a few years ago? (I'm not sure how common it is now).

The "quote" (paraphrase of a very-common attitude) is from this link in my first post:

http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/d...
This is separate from the question of providing fair and gainful employment for everyone --I think that's a goal as a society we should strive for _even if_ it puts us at a disadvantage. My question was more geared toward questioning the received wisdom.

I'm curious, what do you think of the opposing goal of eliminating the need for all employment through automation?
Given the non-trivial value of his equipment (the MacBook Pro alone was probably >$1500), a slightly more constructive use might be to donate it to an organization that can use it in a non-sensitive environment (e.g., a school that could give it to a student).

Sure, the equipment might not be trustworthy in a secure environment, but I highly doubt that anyone would really be interested in a high schooler doing his/her CS homework on it.
I'm not seeing anything close to what magit provides for git add --interactive.
I think you are overestimating both the ability and the budget of the FBI.
Handwritten Math Executor by Physics-AST.Advanced Version of MyScript Calculator
Do we really need cross-platform app development framework? No, It should only be focused on Android. Why the hell iOS? There are other frammeworks for them.
Note that Haskell functions, when considered as values, do not actually form a category: https://wiki.haskell.org/Hask
The tweet https://twitter.com/Sidragon1/status/588433855184375808?ref_...
Sony has a massive number of employees on every continent.
Is Waterloo known for a large number of black students? Honest question.
Sense of altruism, more like it. I don't see the sense of entitlement in spending years in low-status, low-paying positions to research Alzheimer's.
I have an email address in my profile. We should talk.
We (CloudFlare) do. We have done onboardings in real time with people under attacks. We do full length contracts because that works better for customers, though.

We don't proxy smtp. There are solutions to deal with that in a hybrid way, though.
Didn't Google drop their degree requirement entirely?
I cook all my own food. I think it takes longer to deal with ordering it and having it delivered than it does to prepare--if you just want basic healthy dishes. A lot of the HN crew came from upper-middle class families, so they didn't learn this from their parents.
Is this the guy who claimed he hacked into an engine control computer via the in-flight entertainment system network?

So is this evidence that he didn't actually do that, or just that the FBI was unable to decrypt or otherwise get anything useful from his devices?
I always wonder why child "protection" services feel the need to harrass middle class families running a little low, when they could go to ghetto and have an unlimited supply of totally ruined families to have fun with. Multi-generation alchohol and drug abuse and all that stuff available in numbers.

Stop harrassing us until you solved them. Bye.
The more interesting companies are in the bay area I find personally. In Seattle you have amazon, which has a horrible reputation, and Microsoft, which has another kind of bad reputation, but is better than amazon. In the SFBA, you have facebook, apple, google, and many many others.

Also I don't find jobs / people in the state the most accurate indicator. To someone living in LA, moving to SF might as well be moving to Utah. The open positions / qualified people is the far more useful metric, and SF will still beat all of them on that.
Another question is: are black software engineers under-represented at Twitter? Not blacks, but black software engineers. There may be more or fewer black software engineers per capita among blacks compared to other races. For example, if more or fewer blacks graduate college per capita among blacks, then we would likely expect to find more or fewer black software engineers per capita.
Or 10-20 minutes if you live in oakland and your company is on market st. It's faster to live in oakland and get to work than live in the western side of sf in that case.
Hi PostThisTooFast,

Thanks for your feedback and making the correction. I agree with your thoughts on flat UI. Whether it is pathetic - I'm not sure about that as unfortunately the world has been forced to use it in some place or the other.
Weren't most cuneiform tablets receipts anyways?
Nice, but I have an issue with the legend. At first it looks like a heat map so the yellow pedestrian deaths look like more extreme areas than the red driver deaths.
I believe that any such problems are due to non-totality and/or non-strict semantics, and generally aren't important in practice. For example, from the abstract for "Fast and Loose Reasoning is Morally Correct" (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/fast+loos...):

Two languages are defined, one total and one partial, with identical
syntax. The semantics of the partial language includes partial and infinite
values, and all types are lifted, including the function spaces. A partial
equivalence relation (PER) is then defined, the domain of which is the total
subset of the partial language. For types not containing function spaces the
PER relates equal values, and functions are related if they map related values
to related values. It is proved that if two closed terms have the same
semantics in the total language, then they have related semantics in the
partial language. It is also shown that the PER gives rise to a bicartesian
closed category which can be used to reason about values in the domain of the
relation.
Sorry, I've dug through a couple of boxes (like I said, several years ago) and can't find it. I'm pretty sure the pregnancy issue was also covered in a RAND paper, but there were some interesting complications with that specific paper: the study was only included in an early draft... pretty politically charged issue. If you want to look for it, I believe it was written in the mid to late 90s and the final draft was prepared for something going on in Congress.

> ...but I'd like to see an analysis of the field effectiveness of units in combat as well as training.

That would only be an effective analysis if a long term trial were to be conducted, 10 years might be enough. The context of this conversation is kind of funny, because the USMC's success is rooted solidly in homogeneity - the long term impact is the real point of concern.

> ...I'll note that plenty of female Marines (and soldiers) have over the past decade and a half of war operated effectively as light infantry in high OPTEMPO environments...

Not really. I can't really say it without sounding like an asshole, so I won't try :) The infantry experience is very different, and comprised of much more than simply being in a non-permissive environment - not comparable.

> ...the enemy doesn't care if you're an officer leading an infantry platoon or a logistics convoy.

Oh yes they do, it would be totally insane to conduct an attack on an infantry platoon in the same way you would attack a logistics convoy. In 2006 my unit took over a formerly national guard AO, they got direct fire pretty regularly - and so did we for the first few days. After the locals figured out that we weren't national guard, we experienced no more direct fire - just IEDs and mortars. I don't think it is a stretch to say that females would likely be treated differently by the enemy.

> Unplanned pregnancies...

I guess I was too subtle, I wasn't talking about unplanned pregnancy. This sort of behavior is not limited to females of course, I once saw a guy shoot himself in the foot, but the pattern of predeployment medical issues is much clearer with the females.
Beatmakers don't sleep
Look at the founders of the author's employer: http://s831.us/1lcWYYh.

They can afford to live anywhere they want and start their company near their homes.
Modern (science-based) medicine is a miracle of biblical proportions.
Ask HN: How does a static site generator work?
Short of reading source codes, I can't find any reading explaining how they work.
I don't think there are any real tricks, cooking is all about practice. Just buy some recipe books or download whatever recipes tickle your fancy (I think Indian and Chinese are delicious, often simple, cheap, and healthy), choose stuff you think you can do, and start doing it. If you feel completely lost, a lot of cookbooks start with some explanation of techniques, but it doesn't take much to get started.

You don't even need recipes to get good results quickly, just being able to saute some garlic in olive oil and chop vegetables to add to it (just buy whatever looks delicious in the market) can make your pasta a bazillion times better...

Practice makes perfect (but getting started is pretty easy too)... :]
People get to invest in Amazon voluntarily. Taxpayers do not have a choice.

Our national debt comes out to about $150,000 per payer of federal taxes (almost 50% of wage earners do not pay federal taxes), which means we are burdening our children with this debt. They too are forced to pay for our choices.

Investors in Amazon are not requiring their neighbors or descendants to participate.
Ta! :)
It basically gives you that. The P6 version (".ppm") is a tiny text header followed by uncompressed RGB pixels in binary format. It's about as simple as you can get for an image. Here, for example is a program to generate a red/green gradient:

#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char **argv ) {
printf( "P6 %d %d 255\n", 128, 128 );
for ( int y = 0; y < 128; ++y )
for ( int x = 0; x < 128; ++x )
printf( "%c%c%c", x * 2, y * 2, 0 );
return 0;
}

Boom. Done. I use this format all the time because it's so simple that I can write programs to generate it off the top of my head. No external image libraries to link, or even a need to consult the spec at this point. A few quick lines and I've got my image. If I really need something like a PNG or JPEG, I can just pipe it through ImageMagick:

./gradient | convert - gradient.png

It's not a format I'd store my images in long term, but for quick-and-dirty image creation it's hard to beat.
Backup to an external hard drive that you only leave connected during the backup, or a cloud service (ransomware could theoretically target these but so far have not), or do a "pull-style" backup where the machine doesn't have write access to the backup location.
This is not actually true. Although the conditions for permanent residence are pretty lenient on paper, they are hardly ever given out. Less than 5000 were issued in the 10 years to 2014 (in total, ie less than 500 per year). In practice it's FAR harder to get a Chinese green card than an American one.

Also, many of those 5000 "foreigners" are actually the children of senior Chinese officials who have taken foreign citizenship then returned to China. The number of "real" foreigners with permanent residence is even lower.
I'm about to move going from 1100sft to about 800, and bemoaning that change... it's hard for me to imagine 400... I lived for almost two years in under 500sqft, and don't think I could ever do it again... as soon as I was able, I moved into the biggest apartment I could find close to where I wanted to live.

I'm only making the change I am now because it's actually closer to the job I started a couple months ago, and I'm hoping in the next 18 months to have my credit clear (still paying off medical bills from 5-6 years ago), my car is paid off in 14 months, and want to have enough for a down payment for a house.

It's hard for me to imagine living in SF, where rent is significantly more than I pay now, and the pay doesn't quite correlate.
"Media organizations have several proven strategies to push our buttons: voyeurism, outrage, greed, fear, prurience and envious aspiration are at the top."

Goes way beyond that...

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
https://vimeo.com/39566117

The corporate attack on education:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMP-cy1INA
I think this is missing the forest for the trees. It is totally fine to tell people in China your idea. But the point is, your local employees might steal the execution as well. That is, they'll steal blueprints, designs, code. They'll poach other employees. They'll take with them knowledge of your suppliers, your buyers, your customers. And so on.

In SV the common wisdom is that it's fine to tell people your ideas. But nobody is suggesting you give out your code or your blueprints and designs, and put up a spreadsheet on your website of the contact info for all your suppliers and buyers, and all your customer data.
This is very relevant http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/31/436...

I have been starting to think, what if in the future we have all of these platforms - like Uber - and the just suck? Honestly the mediocre UberX drivers now are considerably worse than the average cab driver (city specific.)

Some combination of IP law and marketplace-platform dominance may enable fairly mediocre exchange platforms to exist at scale for a really long time and be difficult for anyone to disrupt. Craigslist, eBay, aren't that great and in some cases are downright horrible, but once all of the buyers congregate there, its hard for innovation to exist in either the classifieds or auction space. What if IP law, patents, trademarks, made it really hard to even offer specific types of services?

Contrarian thinking, and quite negative, but seeing Uber go from incredible and high quality to fair made me realize that maybe at scale some of this stuff won't be as joyful.
Not in EU; don't know anything. What stops people from simply contracting or incorporating in another country like, say, Panama or something, and billing from there? Then VAT would be out of scope wouldn't it?
You really can't see a difference between needing to reverse engineer something and just getting the source with no strings attached?
Please don't alter the scroll behaviour..
you stay in a postdoc because you think you're entitled to a professorial position. You could advance to a staff scientist position or move on to industry, or just do something else. If you've spent 12 years doing something, it means you were probably a bad experimentalist, really unlucky, or just bad at 'playing the game'. If you're in science and any one of the three above applies, you should quit. The market was trying to tell her that, she didn't get the message, even when her institution forced her out.