skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then I am deeply skeptical of nutrition science in general.

Yeah, me too. And I acknowledge that these studies don't inspire confidence about health results, but I do think it's clear that organic food (especially animal products) is very much distinguishable from orthodox food. And it's reasonable to be concerned about some of the chemicals present in some orthodox food but absent in organic food.

> Moreover, if organic food had a large effect on health we would expect today's rich kids to be substantially healthier than those of my generation, who ate Wonder Bread and Jif, but I have seen no such evidence.

I'm not sure that's true - in order to properly assert this, you'd need to know that Wonder Bread and Jif had substantial quantities of pesticides that are prohibited under an organic label at the time you ate them.
If you look for a coding job in Europe, Zurich is a great place to live and is the only place where net-salaries are on par with the Bay Area.

Salaries are in the range of 7000 - 12000 CHF / month after taxes and apartments can be way cheaper than in San Francisco.

I am a technical recruiter with a software engineering background and I live in Zurich. You find my email address in my HN-handle.
Wow, your housing in Brooklyn is MORE affordable vs SV? What neighborhood are you in? Brooklyn has some of the highest housing costs in the country and is on par with Manhattan at times depending on the neighborhood.
this skips the entire point - it says within their power. Servers cost money. How is it going to be "within their power" if they have no money?
I live ~1 mile from Google in mountain view and a few blocks from here: http://www.orolomahomes.com/site-plan/

tl;dr: 1300 sq. ft. new 2 bedroom townhome for 1.3 million.
One of the biggest issues with thinking innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt only applies to courts is that courts are not divorced from public opinion. The whole 'tough on crime' stance happens because in public opinion, a guy is guilty with far less evidence than the court needs. If the court cannot also find them guilty, the public sees this as a problem. Nothing direct happens, but as this occurs time and time again people begin to vote for those who don't allow this 'miscarriage of justice' to continue to occur. So over time, the public selects for people who act in ways that do not support innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. DAs willing to ignore evidence. Judges willing to present cops as being more trustworthy a source (such as allowing them to show up in uniform). And even crime labs who are a little willing to help convict the guy who is 'obviously' guilty.

In short, because public opinion eventually impacts the courts through some path, if the people don't believe in innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in the case of public opinion, then the courts will eventually lose that focus as well.
You can write much view code in a way that abstracts over the DOM/Native platform, too, using standard abstraction techniques.
as if they would know the words..
If that's a thing, then we're all famous, and famous doesn't mean anything.

Is there any media in which a random person can shout content out into the void and expect immediate uptake?
Starbucks to Open Stores in Italy (where the idea came from)
It's not really clear from the graphic but in the paragraph above, it says it's searches of places outside California.

I agree that LA is a pretty good place right now. Industry is good, and you get a lot of the cultural benefits of a big city without the ridiculous costs of the Bay Area or NYC.
or in 5-10 years discover that it's worth jack? Maybe...
You might even say it's people like you he/she is tired of!
Yes, Twitter absolutely is and will continue to be (for the near future) a very important part of the online ecosystem.

But. With every change to put more ads in the faces of users, every change to control the feed and get rid of the real-time nature of it, Twitter is killing itself. Once Twitter moves to a fully-controlled feed model, Mr. Wilson will no longer see those tweets from LeBron and DeMar and Kristaps in real-time, because his feed will be showing him stuff from an hour ago that is "hot" or that is sponsored or otherwise generates money for Twitter. Something with autoplaying video from a "sponsored submitter". Something without clickable links so it won't take you out of the Twitter sandbox.

There's a stench of death about Twitter. It's not dead, definitely not. But its owners are clearly intent on killing it.

That aroma is real and it's only getting stronger.
They are talking about how the internet, which was once seen a conduit of 'truth', is just a conduit which also spreads bullshit, and that there is no 'truth'. You are talking about education and scientific rigor as a means of talking about truth. While what you say may be true it doesn't seem applicable to their arguments.
Hey plexicle - I also bumped into this one when I started with webpack; I've written the approach I use as a blog post, hope this helps: http://jonnyreeves.co.uk/2016/simple-webpack-prod-and-dev-co...
A good Bachelors degree will prepare a good student for replicating science, and a good Masters degree will definitely leave a motivated and skilled student with a good advisor a master of his or her specific field.

The problem is that grade inflation means the majority of students will fall short of these goalposts. I agree with your assessment that undergrad degrees represent hurdles, regardless of whether a student is planning to stay in academia or not.

My experience with getting a Masters degree was that it was really tough work that required my full dedication for two years. But I had a world-class scientist as an advisor breathing down my neck the whole time and expecting results, and my experience doesn't seem to match that of many other MScs I know. Some departments seem to be "degree factories"; it takes an unreasonable amount of effort to follow up students in the classical "apprenticeship" tradition described by GP. It would be very strange if every department at every university managed this level of dedication, with student numbers being what they are.
“Snapchat has been hit with this attack, all employee IRS data compromised”
Having just seen Mandrill's "free forever!" tier turn into a $240/year minimum spend, color me a bit skeptical.
These kinds of stories annoy me to no end. This guy happens to black, so therefore we must celebrate him?

How about just celebrating him for what he did. Who cares about his skin pegmentation?
Of all the comments I see stating how happy they were to _leave_ San Francisco. I'm wondering if there's anyone in the opposite - happy _moving to_ San Francisco.

I live in Mid-Ohio (Columbus), and have been contemplating a move for some time. I know there's lots of tech companies outside of the Bay Area, but it seems like there's sooo much concentration there that I want to experience it at least for a short while. I was planning to try it out for a year or so, but now I'm not so sure.

FWIW, I make about 100k and but plan a significant increase when I transition into my own consulting full-time.
Well, you can't format a SD card with a unix file system on Windows..

Seems logical to me.

You can format the SD-card with a 3rd party app that's free. Okay, i'll download that..

Actually, i don't really understand the problem and i also don't agree with developing anything on windows is a huge pain...

I run a lot of github projects just fine on my Windows 10 without additional hassle if VC++ is correctly configured :)
I'm curious what difficult issues you encountered. I've been using Mithril for a relatively simple SPA and it's been straightforward so far.
You can now buy a Cardboard VR viewer direct from Google
Reminds me of that commercial from a few years ago where they show all the young awsome tech workers in some startup-y environ - and they are praising how awesome they are as they do anything but work, then the black guy is riding a scooter down the hall and they say, at the time he gets hit in the face by an opening conf room door "and you never answer the damn phone"
Yes, we have! Our games are in compliance with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.

Notice that our games have static entry fees, static numbers of participants, and static rewards. The game for each state is based on the accumulated statistics from each precinct of the state.

For those who are curious, this is the exception of the law under which we fall:

(ix) participation in any fantasy or simulation sports game or educational game or contest in which (if the game or contest involves a team or teams) no fantasy or simulation sports team is based on the current membership of an actual team that is a member of an amateur or professional sports organiza- tion (as those terms are defined in section 3701 of title 28) and that meets the following conditions:

(I) All prizes and awards offered to winning participants are established and made known to the participants in advance of the game or contest and their value is not determined by the number of participants or the amount of any fees paid by those participants.

(II) All winning outcomes reflect the relative knowledge and skill of the participants and are determined predominantly by accumulated statis- tical results of the performance of individuals (ath- letes in the case of sports events) in multiple real- world sporting or other events.

(III) No winning outcome is based—

‘‘(aa) on the score, point-spread, or any performance or performances of any single real-world team or any combination of such
teams; or
‘‘(bb) solely on any single performance of
an individual athlete in any single real-world
sporting or other event.

(https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-120/pdf/STATUTE-120-Pg...)
Google self-driving car strikes public bus in California
You have 16K followers, you're not a normal person.

> Is there any media in which a random person can shout content out into the void and expect immediate uptake?

Not into the void, no. But that's not how other social media platforms work, only Twitter.
A question I have for you folks who left SF for a smaller town: Aren't you worried about what you'll do if/when you lose your job or have to leave? In the Bay Area, you walk across the street resume in hand to one of the 5 tech companies in that office park and you're all set (in the best times), or you tough it out through a 3-6 month job search (in not so great times). In small town America, you may be working for the only tech company in 200 miles. What happens when the recession comes? I moved from small-town tech to SF tech for the employment security.
AI-hard - nice. thanks for teaching me a new word.
Instant Gratification Driven Development
Agreed. My argument was vs my parent's statement that it wouldn't be useful (for the pursuit of truth) even when it was possible.
IBM Adds Post-Cyber Attack Planning with Resilient Systems Acquisition
Yeeeaaah but.... there's a significant difference in functionality, don't you think?
I'm working on a trust that will be created in the event of my death (or the company's death) that can keep the servers running for a very long time to come, even with no paying customers. Will make that public when it's finished.
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Here is dd for Windows. http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
In a huge number of places, 6 years ago was pretty much the low-point in house prices after the crash.
It is also bad statistics.

The expert points out that it is 1 in a million. The jury will think this means that there is a 99.9999% chance this guy is guilty.

But how it works (assuming the DNA is the only evidence to connect this guy to the crime) is that in a city of 100 million, there are 100 possible people who would match, so the actual chance this one guy who was found by DNA match is actually the guilty one is only 1%.

People are willing to convict if given 99.9999% certainty. But who would be willing to convict with only 1% certainty?
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

"How we use information we collect

We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results and ads."
Man, this is such a breath of fresh air after seeing the startup scene in general treating user data as trash when the service folds. That's not your data; your users just let you hold it for them.
Agree with the sentiment, but it's not simply a matter of sprawling. In practice there will always be a need to live in close proximity. The community creates value.
I know entire organizations that run off excel spreadsheets
Lots of stuff happening in the metro area.

Boulder is more startupy and small to medium size companies, but just southwest of Boulder is Interlocken, which has some biggish tech companies (Oracle and Level3 being the largest). Downtown Denver has all manners of software companies, from startups to big telcos. And then in south Denver (about 1-1.5 hours of commuting from Boulder) are a bunch of larger corporations (it's called the Denver Tech Center).
I hope this individual brings in enough value to offset the approximate 20 some odd employees that their single compensation package could have otherwise paid for.

That's literally an entire new product team for this one employee.
I wonder if they have any special considerations for non profit companies
So basically, Docker can't make heads or tails of networking without human
intervention, despite making it complicated behind an opaque layer of
mechanics. Good job, I say. Really good job.
What I'm saying is that the ones who could move did, and if stuff gets bad again, they will move back to where their parents live to become part of the "Why Bother" generation (per that article, though I think it should be called the "Who Can Afford This Rent" generation). Just from personal observation, a lot of people I bump into along the major west coast cities are not originally from there.
Inverting the S&P 500 numbers the grandparent posted.

On a practical level, inflation is always relative to what you're actually buying. If you're buying S&P 500 index funds, the inflation rate is the price appreciation of the S&P 500. If you're buying real-estate, the inflation rate is the rate of increase in housing prices.

(Perhaps this is a bad example because you typically wouldn't be buying stock index funds after 40 years of earning, but the point is to illustrate opportunity cost. If someone's goal is to pass wealth on to their children, for example, then the price of income-producing assets is a lot more relevant than the price of milk.)
Think the real contradiction is.. that something so valuable is something that is so hard to monitize.
Actually I know someone who bought a 3 bedroom place 2 miles from Apple's new HQ in 2010 for 650K. They took out an FHA loan for 3% down with a PMI. This was a really smart decision because in 3 years their house value increased to 850K, bringing their loan to value ratio within 0.8 thus allowing them to refinance and get rid of the PMI. They had a monthly PMI of 350 dollars. That amounts to $12,600 extra for 3 years. 17% savings in downpayment amounts to 110,500. So essentially they saved 98K.
I agree, but beware the sunk-cost fallacy. What matters is whether Twitter could turn a profit today. If so, the original investors may lose money and the company might even go bankrupt, but the service should still survive.

(This is why Iridium is still around but the Concorde isn't.)
Everyone's doing replication work in undergrad, it just happens to be replication of the "highlights" or most important results. Farmed out the replication of every result to undergrads would, one be a practical/logistical nightmare, and two lead to less reliability in what a degree means. One student could spend their time working on a important result gaining tons of insight and expertise while another could be stuck replicating a task that turned out to be worthless bullshit and have very little to show for it.
The difference is you could have lived in that house or rented it out and created additional income. In the book 'Ascent of Money' Niall Ferguson does a breakdown on the housing market in London vs investing in the stock market through index funds and shows how housing really was one of the better investments. It's worth checking out the book for that section.

The issue I see is that hindsight is always 20-20 so even if housing was the better investment in the past, I still wouldn't want most of my savings/wealth to be invested in an asset that isn't very liquid and is susceptible to swings in the market. However, if you buy in a place like London or San Francisco those swings are probably only minor setbacks if you're in it for the long haul.
Completely agreed. I think committing to doing X words a day is a much better system than this. Sometimes you need to pause and mull something over, which is not necessarily the same as going into "editing mode" that I think this is supposed to curtail. I think a similar window that showed just showed # of words and % toward daily goal would be better, at least for me.
Wow I needed this last week! I was tutoring and I wanted to get this point across using IDLE! Gave up and used PyCharm (made things worse).

Gonna keep this bookmarked for later...
plus political uncertainty. Do you have any experience with Cyprus? From what I ve heard Cyprus isnt that great either.
Nobody starts a company going "and if we fail, fuck the users." The problem is that maintaining service takes resources that cease to be available when you fail. This "Promise" does very little to allay those concerns.

What's your plan to maintain those links and user data if you get acquired/shut down?
I have that many followers because I'm noisy, have been on Twitter for a long time, and very occasionally post original content to Twitter before I post them elsewhere. Patrick has more followers than I do; how'd he get there? Blog posts and Bingo Card Creator.

It's true that if you're LeBron James everyone will pay attention to you instantly, and if you're a random programmer it will take an investment of time and energy to get anyone to pay attention to you at all, but that doesn't seem like a flaw in the platform so much as a description of how the world works.
McDonald’s New Happy Meal Box VR
My point is more that, while Dan A.'s chart does a good job of addressing individual parts of React Sadness, it is sort of moot, because those choices will already be made for me, wholesale, via tangential incentives and community mob rule, instead of consideration and consensus on a per-project basis.

It doesn't matter (for example) if I am/am not comfortable with ES2015 syntax. A junior developer already made that decision for me when he decided to implement the modal window by adding React, Babel, and Webpack to the project, instead of just writing a two-line event listener and a CSS class. Meanwhile, my colleagues are standing at the kegerator toasting his choice, because how could we ever have maintained or optimized such archaic vanilla JavaScript before without arrow functions and DOM diffing!?

React is not bad. In fact, it is great. But instead of being "an option" it is becoming "the default." Sadness results from being forced by industry trends into using it everywhere, despite knowing that it doesn't solve any problems that I did have while introducing new problems that I didn't have.
Yes, I know about how Google uses the data.

But in your quote there is nothing about selling it.
In Palo Alto, it's easy to speculate with empty plots of land.

Example:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2240-Columbia-St-Palo-Alto...

The owner of this plot was able to hold onto a huge empty lot (with weeds) for ~$1000 a year in property taxes until 2014 when it was sold for more than $2 million with an original purchase price probably under $30 thousand. In less than one year, it was flipped for $3.3 million.

06/01/15	Sold	$3,300,000+56.0%
08/15/14	Sold	$2,115,000+41.5%
07/21/14	Listed for sale	$1,495,000
Give React a try with Meteor and your head will explode.

Suddenly everything works out of the box, you get nice ES6 syntax out of the box, files structure is flexible out of the box - notice a trend?

Meteor and React is hands down the best way to use React in my honest opinion. Meteor 1.3 will come out very soon and will have full NPM and module support, after that I think Meteor will take the web by storm and become the defacto way to build modern webapps. None of this webpack silliness.
Just curious what you mean by "if you look at what it does, it's all vanilla stuff".

What would "non-vanilla stuff" look like?

It's all just code, right?
It's worth noting as well that houses don't disappear when landlords sell them.

Most landlords don't build new homes to house people. More commonly they compete with owner-occupiers to buy existing property. Remove the landlord from the story and the renter may well become a buyer, at a lower price.

p.s. Thank you for your comments in this thread and elsewhere - you have inspired me to finally read Henry George.
Right, exactly- Twitter has always been a circle jerk, the people who use it are the large investors, celebrities, politicians and in general moneyed people, which leads them to think that twitter is valuable, since they "use it themselves" and "all their friends use it". These people are somewhat detached from reality.

But the advertising money and growth is in the massive numbers of ordinary people that click on ads, including those Snapchat and Instagram users that Twitter is actually loosing.
This would be a good place to mention Silk Labs' Sense. They're an ex-Mozilla team designing an IoT platform with privacy baked in from the ground up. They recently launched a successful Kickstarter, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal/sense-personalized-...
Note that not all user data (e.g settings, drafts, etc) is being saved; only the published content.
If mobility is your priority then you shouldn't buy. Buying may have financial benefits although that's not a given. IMO, buying because of the financial calculations is not a good idea--especially in an expensive area.

What it does buy you is that you can customize your place to a significant degree and you can't be forced to move if you don't want to. If you're not at least planning to stay put, it probably makes no sense for you to buy.
14 years of cyberstalking: One woman's fight
I wonder if we're making out CSS to be harder than it is. Yes, there are difficulties and common problems in practice, but news tool and approaches introduce their own. The biggest of these: overhead in the form of tooling, performance and a higher barrier to entry.

Consider the cases where CSS's common painpoints are maximized: complex pages with a lot of (3rd party) components. Does the added cleverness of the tools make that much difference, or does ultimately, a complex page come with unavoidable challenges by definition? So far I'm not completely convinced that the value-add is big enough to warrant such a different approach.
As I mentioned elsewhere, there are certain things that can be done to keep the service running for at least your lifetime--I'm working on a trust that will be created in the event of my death (or the company's death) that can keep the servers running for a very long time to come, even with no paying customers. We will make that public when it's finished.
While I like both Svbtle and Medium, I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to pay for a server.

Having said that, Svbtle's kudos are a nice thing. Is there any simple, trusted upvote-as-a-service thing out there so that I can embed it in my blog and don't have to maintain a server+DB myself?

Everyone and their dog offers free advanced analytics, but I want a simple upvote button API :) Edit: nope, FB is not what I want.