skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent the last 3 years searching for a really good CRM solution. I've tried many, many different suites including the well known names and the not so well known ones.

If your requirements are fairly simple you might like SalesWise. Slick UI and minimal data entry although a little sparse on feature set and integrations but that will get better during the course of the year. The biggest takeaway for me in all this time has been that ultimately you have to build your own CRM that adapts to your workflow. That doesnt mean you have to code it ground up though. The 3 platforms that seem really promising in this area -- depending on your needs -- are AirTable, Pipefy and Podio. Check out their pre-made templates.
If I had another lifetime to live, I would pour my heart and soul into astronomy. Life is too short.
>No, no, it's not that stuff

Maybe it's the combination of many potential social problems, and the author is writing about one specifically? I don't see anywhere it's stated that this is the biggest issue facing youth of colour.
> But, it's cold and rainy 7-8 months out of the year

No, no it is not.
I sometimes feel like Twitter is morphing to where the PR flacks come to say something. Which perhaps is good enough. I don't follow any of the a16z partners on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
It shows the effect of inflation, though. Someone who put $1900 under a mattress 40 years ago would find it's worth about $65 today.
You can read the first chapter for free, and there is 50% off today using the code "mlpoccia"
Disregarding your elitist stance comment (and your other race assertions -- SERIOUSLY?), which I thought were poor and totally mischaracterized what I wrote, I think that you are choosing to discard a lot of what past years have taught us about the American education system.

Where you see "attempting to give exposure to programming" I see students being PUSHED by the environment (parents, teachers, peers) into doing something that they may very well not enjoy or be good at, simply because it's been reduced to a good CAREER. Is that something that we need to further encourage?

Moreover, re: exposure to programming, I dare say that we don't need it _at all_ these days since it's everywhere.

Knowing what we know about the American education system (ranked as among one of the worst in the world, every year) I think my interpretation is a lot more realistic than yours.
You're right that there's significant legal and regulatory hurdles that have to be cleared, but I think they're more of an issue for broad adoption. SF will have a driverless taxi service probably within the next 5 years. Once that's in place it's only a matter of time/strength of the taxi lobby that's going to stop it, (and Uber has shown that can be broken even in places like London).

If you're talking about _everyone_ in major economies having a driverless car, yeah, I think 40 years is realistic given the replacement rate for cars alone, nevermind the legal issues.
We had a quick look -- we think it was taken down as part of an automatic github+travis redeploy which took longer than expected. The deploy scripts could use some more work.
Our property taxes are still actually pretty low -- around 1%. My sister just bought a house in Ohio for 20% what our Bay Area house host, but their taxes are more than half as much as ours. In fact, their taxes are half their mortgage while ours are practically negligible.
then you will have same conversation with my generation (X) and after another 10 some other generation will have same conversation with millennials :-)
Meanwhile, check out:

https://github.com/blazegraph/database

Also down:

https://blog.blazegraph.com/?p=977
https://wiki.blazegraph.com/
Summary:

1. The term "Monolith" has a bad rep.

2. "Majestic Monolith" means eliminating needless abstraction and avoiding
distributing your system (unless unavoidable)

3. The term also means writing "beautiful, understandable, and succinct code ...
that makes us smile when we write it ... and later have to extend or patch it".

4. Everyone has to understand all parts in the "majestic monolith".

5. The "Majestic Monolith" puts pressure on / incentivizes programmers to keep the code-base clean.

6. Most programmers will rise to the occasion.

I think most programmers would agree with the meanings/goals ascribed in 2-3 (possibly also 4, if 4 is understood as deeply understanding the structure of your software product), as just generally good rules for building software in general.

1, 5, and 6 seem highly subjective to me. I tend to think if you're building anything
stringently according to 2-3 you'd probably be fine and could call that method whatever
you wanted to.

There were some interesting ideas in here, regardless of whether or not the argument for the majestic monolith succeeded.
My wife and I don't need a four bedroom house for the two of us either, but land is cheap, houses are cheap, and I still have a tech job in MI working remote making six figures. Never set foot in SV.

It's not about need. It's about the fact that my life is pretty awesome, I have tons of spare cash, I can relax on my deck and see nothing but trees and squirrels and my dogs running around.

How much room does a family of three need? I think 4 acres is better than a two bedroom, third floor apartment surrounded by pavement and cars.
People would argue over the fairness and accuracy of the metrics, resulting in changes and various kinds of work; the system itself would require development and maintenance. It is not a zero-cost solution.
I think you have that backwards. Especially since you mention Palo Alto as being the exception.
Apple issues repair program as some MacBook Pro systems may have video issues
Actually, it sounds like the self-driving car got muscled out by the bus. They claim that the the car AND the driver of the car thought the bus would let them through. Now this is a problem with the car not driving defensively enough, because either the car miscalculated the bus's ability to slow or assumed the bus would be able to see the car and react accordingly (or, just possibly, the bus driver is an ass who tried to shut out the car. I know, its practically unheard of, but its possible). I don't think this is a deathblow to self-driving cars, nor is it a sign that they are worse at driving than people, only that they are still being perfected and that the single greatest threat to a self driving car are people because they are the ultimately unpredictable.
NEWSFLASH: buying land and sitting on it to exploit scarcity creates no wealth. Therefore if you buy lower and sell higher that money comes from wealth created elsewhere, making you a leech. If you buy somewhere to live in, fine, but more than one place to speculate: you are leeching off of the labour of others.

Is that entirely true? If you're willing to take on the responsibilities of being a landlord, and rent out your property, you are providing utility to those renting from you.

I think more people would agree with you if you were talking about those CREATING scarcity, by arbitrarily raising prices in a real estate market that has an inherent cap on supply.
Software Engineers in Vancouver make ~US$45,000 a year...

It's much, much less affordable there than Seattle or SF, trust me.
> buying land and sitting on it to exploit scarcity creates no wealth. Therefore if you buy lower and sell higher that money comes from wealth created elsewhere, making you a leech. If you buy somewhere to live in, fine, but more than one place to speculate: you are leeching off of the labour of others.

I disagree that this is leeching. For one thing, there's no guarantee the speculator's land is going to go up in value. It could just as easily flatline or decrease.

For another thing someone has to own the land. Whether it's another person or a government. A speculator can't force anyone to sell their land. On the other side of the purchase, there was a previous landowner who wanted to sell. The speculator created a market in which that seller can sell their land. Are you suggesting it should be incumbent upon the seller to discern the motives of every buyer and only agree to sell to someone who's not speculating? How could they? Also, why would they artificially limit their pool of potential buyers? They don't gain anything from that.

The buyer presumably created some value at some point in the past in order to have the wealth to buy the land in the first place. Owning it and maintaining it in a salable condition until someone needs it is a useful service.
MapGraph -- the GPU-accelerated graph engine -- has been rolled into Blazegraph 2.0, and it looks like this means OLTP and OLAP can be combined into a blazing-fast, single OLXP system.

From: https://www.blazegraph.com/product/gpu-accelerated/

The original work was funded by DARPA and presented at the
2014 SIGMOD conference in a paper entitled, MapGraph: A
High Level API for Graphs [1]. This work is available in
open source. Later work, in collaboration with the
University of Utah SCI Institute [2] and funded by DARPA,
applied multi-core techniques running on over 750 M cores
on the Titan Supercomputer to extend this to Multi-GPU
traversal with Breadth First Search (BFS). On a cluster of
64 NVIDIA K40 GPUs, it demonstrated a throughput of 32
Billion Traversed Edges Per Second (32 GTEPS), traversing a
scale-free graph of 4.3 billion directed edges in 0.15
seconds, which was featured in a presentation IEEE Bigdata
Conference.

[1] https://www.blazegraph.com/whitepapers/MapGraph-SIGMOD-2014....

[2] http://www.sci.utah.edu/publications/Fu2014a/UUSCI-2014-002....

VIDEO: Blazegraph GPU and DASL at Super Computing 2015 (https://vimeo.com/148519808)

It's GPLv2 and now has support for SPARQL and TinkePop3/Gremlin.

See https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gremlin-users/8fS_ak-tWNs/...
It's not so terrible if you are in Greece. I would not call a 500euro base salary expensive, that might even get you someone with postgraduate studies in the current conditions. On the law system I totally agree. Good for law related startups?
Done and fixed the profile too.
Sorry but I LOLed. I would've never believed you had I not made the same move, but in reverse. I lived in a good 2BR apartment in the best part of Manhattan downtown -- we even had a fireplace (but no fire escape...such is the situation with old Manhattan construction)...Now I live in Palo Alto. In a converted garage. And while it is technically a 1 bedroom, it is much, much more than what I paid for in New York. Quality of life is much worse in Palo Alto too.
Or even better: base58 encoded[0].

>Compared to Base64, the following similar-looking letters are omitted: 0 (zero), O (capital o), I (capital i) and l (lower case L) as well as the non-alphanumeric characters + (plus) and / (slash).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base58
I wasn't trying to imply that formal verification can't work around undecidability in practice. But you are correct in saying that you can often avoid undecidability by restricting yourself to certain idioms, type systems, etc.
Not a company, although they are spanning one out of it, but the team behind Julia (the programming language) started from different locations and didn't meet each other before a year (can't find the article about it right now, sorry).
I would guess Mercedes owners would be more obnoxious than Audi owners though? :)
The driver was also blind to this, according to the article.
Although, in this case, it’s on neither (Bulbapedia isn’t hosted on Wikia).
Author here. I know Flowstate, which itself was a copy of "Write or Die". I did not know they used the tagline "The Most Dangerous App" though, and now feel shitty - I don't want to steal their tagline! Need to come up with something different. I wrote this for a friend who doesn't have a Mac but loved the concept.
Well maybe it's all part of the plan. First teach him about financial literacy, then teach him about intellectual property laws.
Another original idea for debugging with "codeplaces":

http://blog.hostilefork.com/location-parameterized-assertion...
I wish I could figure out how to get it to run each statement in parenthesis as a separate statement then combine them. A lot of time when I'm trying to combine a lot of different values it'll get confused and just evaluate one of them individually. Same thing with happens with units sometimes.

Maybe I'm just not writing my queries just right but it's my major pain point with Wolfram Alpha.
> our system is at large scale, many thousands of events per second, so a microservice architecture is required.

I'm not sure if you're making a performance argument, or an organizational one. Microservices don't make things faster though. Introducing IPC where there wasn't any previously is not going to make something faster (it's going to be significantly slower 99% of the time actually) unless you also increase resources dramatically.
Absolutely. Unfortunately I know many, many who have a few tens of millions; unfortunately^2 I am not one of them. People say it's the Chinese buyers with the all cash offers, but I see locals do it left, right, and center with money made in SV within the last few years.
No I will continue just for him and hey look at that, you're both in security.
Dealing with Data Deluge at LHC
We did use WACC, which invariably led to arguments about how to correctly calculate WACC as well. For a division of a large company, it can be non-trivial to decide what the appropriate WACC is.
CA laws (guns, primarily; taxes, secondarily, and a bunch of other stuff. Guns are a personal thing for me, but the rest has business impact.). I'd also like to actually be involved in my community somewhere, but everything about SF (and CA) is repellent to doing that. (In Bellevue/Issaquah/etc., I'd happily be a volunteer EMT or even reserve PD officer; might get involved in local non-partisan politics. There is no way I'd ever want to do anything like that in SF.)

There are also no non-SFBA cities in CA that I'd actually want to do an infosec startup in. The set of places I'd personally consider (in no real order) is: Seattle, Portland, SFBA, Austin, DC-Metro, Boston, Boulder/Denver, SLC, Raleigh/Durham. I dislike NYC and Chicago but those are also viable (also dislike Atlanta; might be ok). I actually like Las Vegas, Nashville, and Louisville, but they would be challenging. I think Houston, Dallas, Miami, Phoenix, LA, San Diego, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh could work, but not sure. Some other big university places (Ann Arbor being the canonical example) could be fine if you're from there.)
It seems that's the case with more than just science, but possibly a good rule to follow with anything.
Concrete is most certainly a weather condition [1]. And better weather doesn't always make for a better environment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
It is not unusual for someone in that position to be renting an apartment for $1,000 per month which, accounting for the increased salary by living in the bay area less opportunity cost of buying vs renting in ATL, is still a net win for that individual in their stage of their life. They key here is that this person can buy the so-called $40K house after 1-2 years of saving and living here, where as you will still have a mortgage.
I moved the opposite direction. Granted, I'm only in my mid-30s, but I have no plans to move back to the Northwest. I love it when I visit, but I realize what you see of an area when you visit is very different from when you live there. I always visit when weather is nice, I don't mind the traffic as much when I'm on vacation..

Granted, the traffic on the Peninsula has gotten really bad in the past few years, it's ALMOST as bad as Seattle!
From a safety engineering standpoint, handoff is a very, very bad idea. When you automate the common operation of a system, how is the operator supposed to get a feeling for the system? And when the operator doesn't handle the system regularly, how is he supposed to handle a situation that's so dangerous and unusual that the automation can't handle it?

If you have years of experience driving a car, maybe it'll work. For some time. But what if your last manual intervention was five years ago? Or twenty years ago? The rarer handoff happens, the more stress it puts on the manual operator, and the more likely things go wrong.

It's much better to have a safe default reaction (stop the car, shut down the reactor, ...) that kicks in when normal, automatic operation can't continue.
Your numbers are way off. Salary doesn't paint the entire picture. Median total comp for a fresh out of college (L3) at Google is ~165k.

L4 is ~215k. L5 (Senior) is ~265k.

Factor in free breakfast/lunch/dinner, free gym, free laundry, generous 401k matching, other perks and discounts, and the gap widens even more.
You can also introduce bottlenecks this way. The most obvious of which is now you've introduced a socket boundary and very likely at least one network roundtrip for a piece of functionality that used to be local.

That said, one of the reasons I like using Erlang for building services is the structural primitive of the OTP Application. It makes it pretty easy to build something self-contained that exposes a function API but can be deployed local to your other processes on the same VM or be trivially moved out to a dedicated machine/cluster as a remote service with almost no change to the programming model for interacting with it.

Deciding where a piece of functionality should live is almost purely a question of how much latency you're willing to tolerate. Though to be fair, this is because the OTP Application construct gives an incentive to not build a true monolith from the outset, despite the fact that everything that makes up your whole system might be in one big release tarball.
Both "private" and "property" have changed meaning frequently over time, both legally and as social constructs. One American judicial philosophy is "pragmatism" -- that a judge should rule however is best for society, then explain why the law should be interpreted that way afterwards. In this fashion, the law can keep up with the times.

It's likely that most judges follow this pragmatism, even if they claim to believe in a different, more idealized philosophy. It's hard to falsify that hypothesis. We'd have to find several cases where the judge admitted that the ruling was worse for the world and yet must be enforced as the best interpretation of the law or precedent.
Having moved from Seattle area after 15 years to Tampa -- and having purchased a 2 acre property for my family (wife, 3 kids, 3 dogs). we need 2 acres.

Having owned a number of houses - the biggest reason is peace. I've owned houses where I felt the neighbors looked in your back window, everyone could hear what others are doing in their yard around you...

Walking out and having a bit of space is wonderful. And tools like slack and hangouts are making it easier to work remotely as well.
Interestingly the industry (in the US) is also full of hundreds of thousands of people on ~$80k/year and no way to get a raise without uprooting their whole family and moving to an area with a high cost of living.

People with 10+ years of experience.
Would a better variant be to kill the buffer if you actually moved focus from the text area? That way you can pause and think without losing flow, but there's still the threat that if you choose to distract yourself, there are consequences.

The 5 second thing can just halt the timer. So you have to actually spend 5 minutes writing, more or less.
If you're a celebrity, its a must-use product.

If you're a normal person, nobody cares about you on Twitter. You get virtually no feedback on the content you produce. It's a one sided tool for following, not sharing or creating.
Use something like:

<YourComponent ref={yourRef => this.yourRef = yourRef}/>

I think you should be able to do this.yourRef.state, but if not, you can always implement a getState() method in YourComponent.
Unless you love cars, in which case driving is a joy. California has some of the most enjoyable twisty roads on the planet. I've got a couple of cars, a motorcycle, and a handful of bicycles.

And I can bike commute. Yes, in the suburbs of the bay area.

I get what you're saying, but it's too absolutist. I would simply never, ever live anywhere I couldn't keep a car. I enjoy being able to bike or take public transit where I want to go. I've spent entire months with cars parked in the driveway that I never use. But I simply cannot live without the freedom to load up the car and take a multi-hop roadtrip. Out to the woods to go camping. Up to the mountains to go skiing. Yes, some of these things can be accomplished, at some pain, via transit. But not all.
Google self-driving car crashes into bus in California
What resources did you use to learn Javascript properly? I have been meaning to go through this book: http://eloquentjavascript.net/
> How do you use 4 acres, physically?

Oh, there's a lot of things you can do with 4 acres. You can maintain extensive gardens and supply substantial quantities of your own food, as a profitable hobby. You can consider owning small farm animals like chickens, or maintain apiaries. Children and pet cats/dogs can run around outside and the children can exercise their imagination through unstructured play in a safe environment, especially in a multi-child family, potentially replacing overly-structured and expensive after-school activities for all but the youngest children (with many opportunities to increase their physical fitness through such activity). You or your children can also practice sports, such as baseball.
After leaving the YC startup I co-founded, then doing consulting in SF for about 6 months after, I decided to leave the valley at the end of 2015.

Where did I move to? Medellin, Colombia. While I'm not sure I'll stay here forever and may move back to SF at some point, I'm definitely enjoying living down here for the moment. I'm doing remote software consulting, so I am geographically agnostic.

I definitely miss friends, the hustle, and being surrounded by smart people in SF. However, there are a lot of things I do not miss about SF. For example:

Prices: SF <> Medellin

Rent: $2000 (mediocre) <> $300 (nice, best part of town)

Nice restaurant dinner: $30-40 <> $10-15

Uber (20 mins): $25 <> $3
>complaining when you make 150k a year

Californians everyone, Californians....
"Most people making money on real-estate are doing so not on yield but on capital gains."

If this were true, why would you have a problem with landlords in general? They are providing a service at cost. If a landlord is not buying land in a speculative market, what is your criticism of them?
Silicon Valley does have extraordinarily good weather for my tastes as well as access to great recreational activities etc. But I'm not going to pay to live there just for the weather. Whether or not one cares for Ohio, there are lots of areas in the US where acreage is relatively affordable. Personally, I like having some separation from neighbors.

(I live a little ways outside of Boston. The weather here is probably not better overall than Ohio--which I wouldn't describe as cold and rainy for 7-8 months of the year.)
I think he said it: he can sit on the porch and see nothing but trees, dog, nature. Separation from the neighbors. Many people seek that, in fact.
Are you talking about SF or the peninsula? Because SF weather is much colder than the rest of the Bay Area.
Agree. All this stuff turns into fodder for anti-tech sentiment.

-I'm not saying there shouldn't be any, but a lot of it is baseless.
Isn't that exactly what he's not aiming for, namely "15 files and 900 lines of configuration that seem completely overkill"?

This seems to remove complexity but it just hides the complexity in the dependency. When something doesn't work out or he wants to change the behavior he still has to delve into these "15 files and 900 lines of configuration".
Have you tried ember-cli? It does all of this out of the box.