skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I must be missing something, because I see this argument a lot, but I don't get it. How is it too hard to post? You type the words you want to say into the box, and click the button.

I saw the "missing manual" article that went around the other day, and I agree they have way too many bizarre and undocumented behaviors, but you can ignore that stuff 99% of the time and be fine.

Edit: I should add, this is a genuine question. I really do want to understand what people find hard about posting on Twitter.
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No, I haven't. I'll try and pick up a copy.
isn't this what DKIM and SPF and all those fancy email security things are for?
There are lots of places with thriving technology scenes. It's not exclusive to the Bay area. A high skill programmer is going to have no problem findings jobs in places like Portland, Austin, Seattle, Denver, Boston, or New York. With the rise in remote work moving beyond even those places isn't going to be problematic for most.
What's Facebook's contribution to mankind?
As much noise as I hear about this, it's not really that simple. In my estimation, lengthening the exercise window just ensures that dilution will happen faster. If you have 5% of a company locked up by people who no longer work there, you have to find a way to reward current employees. Sure, cash is one way, but it might be easier to issue more stock, most likely of a different class. It might sound good on paper, but ultimately I really don't think this (edited: "this" = extending the window) will have any real positive impact for employees leaving the company.
Amateur at this point. Majored in the topic at uni, and have maintained a significant interest.

As Cutler's article goes on to explore, George may have been on to a good point, but fettishising land over productive foundations may be an error. I found Cutler's mention of Carlota Perez to be of interest, I'm reading the cited book currently.

As for Fairhope:

1. How land values vary relative to comparable areas with different taxation bases.

2. Overal equity / equality. Comparing economic mobility for those of differing parental family wealth, for example.

3. Overall economic activity. Does Fairhope do better or worse than comparable regions.

I've got a hankering suspicion that differences may be too small to measure / matter.
I was very happy to move to SF from the midwest, because: much better job (albeit with lower pay and much higher living costs), more walkable city, can-do/optimistic/accepting culture, better weather, more options in the job market. But things were much cheaper then and something's gotta give. If not for rent control, I might have moved away already.
This is exactly why I think many state borders in the US need to be redrawn, for better administrative efficiency and less political problems. New Jersey as a state should not exist, at all. The northern half should be part of a new city-state called "New York City", which includes not only present-day NYC boroughs, but Jersey City, Newark, and the rest of northern NJ in the west, White Plains and all that area to the north, and Stamford and the eastern half of Connecticut to the east, as well as all of Long Island.

The southern half of NJ should be part of a new city-state called "Philadelphia", which also includes Philly, the surrounding area in PA, and maybe Newark Delaware.

This pattern should be repeated across the nation, with state lines redrawn so that no large metro area crosses a state border. If a metro area crosses a state border, we're doing it wrong: there should be a clear hierarchy with towns/cities being lower-level than states, being lower-level than the federal government, and having cities spanning states breaks that and creates confusion and generally a big mess, as is seen with the screwed-up transit systems between NYC and NJ.

While they're at it, they should re-organize the states so they're roughly the same population. So tiny-population states like Rhode Island and Vermont and Wyoming need to be merged with neighbors somehow, and huge-population states like California and Texas need to be broken up. This would lead to better representation in the Senate.

There's a web page here about someone's idea along these lines:
http://www.tjc.com/38states/
This was a class project in the 70s, but the idea is sound and makes even more sense now with greater urbanization since then. They also reduce the total number of states, which would save taxpayer money overall by reducing administrative overhead.
Good schools? Are people too conservative there?
Separation of concerns is not dependent on having a network layers between your function calls though. You can have a well structured monolith with different inner well separated parts. It's just easier to cheat in code than over the network.
I think you're greatly overestimating the level of determination of the average corporate acquisitions team to ensure the legacy product gets killed rather than left in "maintenance mode" or merged into a new service with grandfathered rates.
Vitalik has actually said he now feels having three clients (written in go, c++, and python) was a mistake as it took up a lot of development energy in the early days.

Parity is actually not one of those three but was only recently created by Gavin Wood after he recently left EthDev. Gavin Wood was one of the principal authors of the C++ client.

He shared some of his thoughts on using Rust for the new client here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/44y9vv/announcing...
Just about the best comparison you'll be able to find: http://www.tested.com/tech/564110-should-you-pre-order-oculu...
The cost of room and board at Harvard is $60K/year, so sending 7 kids through Harvard for 4 years is $1.7M.

While you can spend that much for a home in SV, you certainly don't have to.
Apparently the Odroid C2 has 2GB of RAM and gigabit Ethernet for $40, it just hasn't been receiving the publicity of the Pi 3. For example, for some reason the Hackaday post only compared the Pi 3 to the $70 octo-core+USB3 XU4 and then immediately dismissed it as too expensive.
$140k is only a base salary at "FaceGoogBox" if you're relatively young in your career. And it overlooks the meaningful equity/bonus.
Great news, I will. I guess that option wasn't obvious for me when I was looking over http://stardog.com/#plans
Have you spent any time with PowerShell? It's completely amazing. And I say this as a hard core Linux user since 1996.
Sorry about that, fixed. Here's the link: https://data.triplebyte.com/extending-stock-option-exercise-...
Turkey could never have something like Silicon Valley. Islamic culture is far too repressive for something like that to organically grow; SV was the product of a culture which rewarded individualism and free thinking, which is the antithesis of Islamic culture.

There's a reason SV is located in California, and not Alabama or Mississippi, let alone the middle east.

Turkey is NOT European, and it's not about geography so much as it's about culture. Spain is far more similar to Sweden than it is Turkey.

Now, if Istanbul declared independence from the rest of the country which elected Erdogan, then maybe you could argue that it deserves to be in the EU as much as other places like Kosovo or Serbia. But Turkey as a whole belongs in the EU about as much as Iraq or Saudi Arabia.
There's a lot of hate in these comments, and I think a bit unnecessary.

The fineprint says of financial insolvency: "In the event that one of these extreme cases comes to fruition, the founder of Svbtle currently intends to take additional actions in order to continue honoring the above promises". Surely the meat behind Svbtle is the user accounts, the kudos, the database. That's expensive. If Svbtle were to shut down couldn't the owners just create a snapshot as a bunch of static files, wack it on a $10p/m VPS behind nginx and a free cloudflare plan? They could even release it for anyone to mirror.

The idea is noble and seems great. Stop jumping to conclusions, this guarantee is still better than any other shaky blogging startup without one.
True, the number of fender benders on the first snow of the season is very high because people haven't adopted the winter braking distance model in their head yet.
> I remember driving home in a massive rainstorm at night about two years ago with around 2 meter visibility and was going like 20mph because I could not see shit.

I'm a relatively new driver (1.5 years or so since taking my license) but this happened to me twice, i.e. catching a rainstorm so big that I could barely see in front of me. In both cases I decided to stop in a refuge on the right-side of the road, waiting for the weather to improve. Sure enough, after about 20 minutes of waiting the rain eased down. What I'm saying is that under some circumstances (like close to no visibility) one should just stop and wait for the external factors to improve.
Try snowshoeing
I keep a developer journal. But that one is very technical. I've not yet been able to jump to non-technical journaling.
I am from Europe and all European companies/offices have same attitude. Even you have global customer/projects and nobody (from customer side) cares if your are sitting here or 500 kilometers over there. They still expect the same service.

From my point of view there are issues like "knowledge sharing", team spirit, group problem solving, reporting, etc. All of these "important" reasons are raised to be on-site, even you have project specific position where you are the only one who has required knowledge (nobody for sharing), you are the only one working on project (like migrations).
The FBI can almost certainly crack the San Bernardino iPhone without Apple
your content is vastly more likely to survive for a long time than if you used your own server (probably)

I had to chuckle.
A note on notation:

The standard notation for a cons cell with car "x" and cdr "y" is (x . y), not (x y). The latter is a list, equivalent of (x . (y . nil)).

So (1 2 3) is equivalent to (1 . (2 . (3 . nil)), not (1 (2 (3 nil))). The latter is a nested list, which is equivalent to (1 . ((2 . ((3 . (nil . nil)) . nil)) . nil))
Why would that be "controversial"?

It sounds like (without looking at your site: it's blocked for me) you're basically just setting up something like a dating site, but with a focus on meeting friends nearby rather than dating partners.

I've never seen a dating site (except Tinder) which didn't have basic properties plainly visible for every person in their profile: sex, age, marital/relationship status, religion, ethnicity, kids, and usually a bunch more like pets, income, job, etc. People discriminate when looking for dating partners all the time, and for good reason. If you're a 20-year-old hetero atheist female, you're probably not going to want to date a 70-year-old hetero evangelical female. It's not that different when looking for friends; most people form friendships starting from some shared trait or experience, and tend to avoid people they aren't likely to get along with. Religion is a pretty big factor here: a devout Muslim is not likely to get along with a devout Jew or Christian, and similarly an liberal atheist or agnostic is not likely to get along with a Bible-thumping conservative Christian.

So why wouldn't you want to help people find people they can get along with? If all you're doing is trying to push together people because they just happen to leave within a half-mile of each other, that's doomed to failure IMO.
Pretty much sums it up. The majority of Bitcoin developers have always had the mindset that alternative consensus implementations will never be able to match, bug-for-bug, the reference implementation (and there is no official spec other than the reference implementation). Ethereum was developed with the mindset that having multiple implementations will help catch bugs in the official spec (yellow paper) before they are released.
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I would have found it more meaningful if you had waited until you had those things in place to make the announcement of the promise.

Or at least mention you're working on them in the promise.
We should hopefully be able to open source a cleaned up version of the solution that Jordan alluded to, but we have a long list of components we'd like to work on, and only a finite in-house development resource.

I think it's important to understand that React Native is not an attempt to replicate the entire iOS native framework - it's a set of UI components that aim to provide a better developer experience for the common app development challenges we face at FB, combined with a framework for building new components.

When we encounter an uncommon challenge (i.e. something that we haven't already had to solve and build a reusable JS component for), we simply drop down to the layer underneath and create a new native component.

That's why I struggle to understand the argument that "React Native doesn't do this one thing I need, so I can't use it" - we put a lot of thought into the plugin architecture of RN, and making native plugins is trivial for anyone familiar with iOS or Android development.

If there is something you already know how to do natively, you can leverage that knowledge to build an RN plugin and then get the best of both worlds. If you don't already know how to do it natively, there's a good chance that someone else already made a plugin that will do what you want.
Yes this is correct. All of our other tools and libraries consist of us paying up front for the version we need for our release. If they release a new version, and our application needs that new version, then I am all about paying for it, but having to come back and pay every year whether we've incorporated a new version or not is very challenging for us and our clients. What if every piece of software and library we used required this? It would be an absolute nightmare.
I'd even argue that social engineering has been the primary security problem since the birth of the internet.
We've seen cases where the newer Thawte root certs were not included in the trust chain. That might be the issue.
I bet he would have spent a lot of money to get into that position too. Except he and his family were of very limited means.

Really, if you want to play the "other people have it harder" game, I will readily bow out; of course there are.

But within the confines of "here's someone who had a major influence in his profession", to dismiss his skin color as not being of note, to ignore the additional obstacles society would have placed in front of him, is to deny him some credit for having overcome those obstacles. That's why it's mentioned, that's why it matters. I agree, ideally it wouldn't matter; the fact is is that because to some people being black is a detriment means that being black includes extra obstacles, and it's worth recognizing those who overcome them.
Sure it will. Keeping options is strictly better (for the employee) than not keeping options. Vested options are compensation for work that has been done. Everything you say can be true, but that does not mean that companies should not let their employees keep their options.
Excellent point! I tell my wife most of what I'm thinking, so maybe that's my hangup.
Again to emphasise: most of the problems here are of behavior, not technology.

I'd strongly suggest you look up Akerloff's "The Market for Lemons". That details how information failures hurt all market participants.

And I'd again emphasise that there are areas in which image can help and more importantly, many more in which it CANNOT.

Pick your battles.

As for video: it's very high-bandwidth. What's the difference between, say, 15 seconds at 32 fps, and the coverage of, say 4-16 well-arrayed photographs. Square-on front, back, and sides, or a well-selected set of oblique shots.

Again: where catalog marketing (and online sales is just updated catalog marketing) breaks down is that the communications channel is very thin. I can tell far more in two seconds of handling a piece than I can in a minute of reading obfuscatory marketing copy.
I think 10 years is just a bit optimistic. I think it'll take about 10 years from the time we have the software/hardware at a point where it is ready. I think that could be 5 years. I think it'll be another 15-20 years after that where the majority of cars on the road are self driving. Baring any crazy legislation, which I don't think would happen, in the US anyway.
Does anybody know of a startup where common stock is issued right away (or let's say after a probation period), and then the employee issues options back to the startup, which expire at fixed intervals corresponding to the vesting schedule?

For an early startup, this would mean when there is a liquidity event, almost all of the gain would be capital gains.

In Canada, it would be even better: people can defer taxes on stock and option grants until disposition (sale/bankruptcy). And the stock could be placed in a registered (i.e. tax-sheltered) account.
Great list! Thanks!
Because this is exactly what people do before writing sad posts about how you “have to” use Flux, ES6, Webpack to use React. People get that impression because they search for “React boilerplates” and extrapolate. It’s great that you avoided this trap!
I don't think you and OP are necessarily contradicting each other. OP explicitly says that if you are a big company planning to get bigger by doing lots of hiring or acquisition, his advice is not addressed to you, and you should take advice from big companies. He's saying if you have a small team that is going to stay smallish, that's a different situation that warrants a different strategy.
Pilots on modern large aircraft are more like managers that tell the aircraft what to do, and do fly them to keep with minimum legal requirements (minimy numbers of landinds etc...)
They typically mostly fund schools, which long-time home owners generally aren't even using. One of the whole reasons to buy property is to have some long-term residential stability, which doesn't happen if property taxes can increase rapidly. If I'm holding onto my home, I've only captured value in a theoretical sense. I don't have any cash to pay for the increased property taxes until I sell.
How did you go about finding people to talk to?
We definitely see Spark + Scala + Blazegraph DASL to be a sweet spot for combining the ease of Spark with the GPU performance. Have a submission in to the Hadoop Summit in June on it: https://hadoopsummit.uservoice.com/forums/344955-data-scienc...
Ever used \b? This is like that, but for other patterns. Very useful in many situations, like tokenizing (because you have to match on things the last match already consumed).
Ya. Usually what it comes down to is you need to wait. I bet your agents price would sell within a month.

I asked for a higher price on my house, and it took about 90 days to turn it over... was worth the wait though, say 15k more in my pocket.
Oh, and the warm winters bit :)
Wow , I wasn't aware of rent control in SF, but a quick google search shows there's a big debate. Any suggestions on where to best look for apartments? From my brief visit (1 week trip) I really liked pretty much all over the downtown area, although it looks crazy expensive. I'll be living with my gf, so the rent would be split between the 2 of us which makes it easier.
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> You can buy a 4 bedroom house with a three car garage and a big plot of land for less than a 1 bedroom apartment in SV.

Sure, you can, but your salary would be much lower (half?) in Cleveland. And unless you're fully remote, there are far fewer tech jobs in that area. (I also live in Ohio.)
Silicon Valley Shaken as 19 Startups See Their Valuations Slashed
Should be all resolved. Tuning EC-2 up for the /. effect...
So you'd say that conferences could be great if people have numerous meaningful conversations, but that doesn't happen as often as you'd like?
There are existing fairly-good mechanisms for people looking to network whose primary criteria is shared religion (shared absence of religion has somewhat weaker tools in many locations, and I suppose a tool focusing specifically on that audience might be valuable.)

So, while religious filtering might be of some importance to some users of a new friend-finder tool, there are, I think, fairly good reasons to think that the people for whom it is most important are exactly the people that don't need a new tool at all -- people who network through their religious communities.
It has focus on great production features without diving into config until you are ready.

For something more approachable but less powerful check out https://github.com/insin/nwb.
With cost of living going up, minimum wage going up, you think business would think to bump their base wages up to account for cost of living. But not everyone does, and some that do don't do it by much.

One example is my gf: set production assistant wages have not gone up with cost of living in the area, at least for the companies she works for. Set production assistants are freelance, non-reliable work with sometimes terrible hours. You think they'd make okay money. But even in L.A. where the industry is at it's biggest, they're usually shortchanged.

Another example: A friend of mine accepted a position as a mid-level gameplay programmer at a place that is choosing to pay them hourly so they can make them work overtime without having to pay $100k or more, because of CA law. Yet another business strong-arming someone who wasn't in a good position to negotiate due to circumstances. Hopefully that friend can work their way into a senior level position soon, but even then not every place pays senior level as well as they should.

Industry can be very stingy, focusing on the short-term business instead of long term employees.
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It's not unheard of for employees to file a class-action suit against their employer, but that typically only occurs in very large companies where there's a significant "divide" between the aggrieved employees and management. That seems rather unlikely in a company as small as Snapchat.
And in the US, don't pilots still have to do the landing part?
It just seems like a matter of time before most people feel like I do about this: once you've had a device or two bricked because the manufacturer went out of business or just doesn't feel like supporting it is worth their while any more, this simply becomes an unacceptable condition for a product.
>> And unfortunately there's no easy way to use the best of both sides.

It doesn't seem too hard to go in that direction. For example you can use satellties or drones or other sensing mechanism to survey a city in real time and tell the driver X minutes in advance before he would need to take control of the wheel - and of course you could adapt this recommendation according the skill of the person, his current state(being drunk) or other data.
Okay, maybe you can help me with something.

There's this pattern I've noticed — chiefly, though not exclusively, amongst us nerds — where, when something doesn't comport with our individual, personal experience, it's immediately judged not merely to be wrong, but obviously wrong, and fatally flawed.

It's like another, equally ugly face to the attitude, broadly held by the general population in the US, that "My opinion is just as valid as your facts", except it's "My expertise trumps [1] anyone else's equally valid, hard-earned, and applicable expertise!"

I really don't get it. And it's a thing I still, after years of work on, struggle with in myself.

Any thoughts on why we, a subset of the population that tends to be defined by priding itself on its intelligence and rationality, can be so egregiously head-up-its-own-ass like this?

[1] Word choice very deliberate.