skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Later in the wiki article: "Wagner operates his various business interests from a holding company called Bright Station. Bright Station has revenues of $50 million and employs 450 staff." Am I the only one who thinks $111,111 in annual revenue per staff member is really low for a supposed tech holding company? The multiplier should be much higher than that (or they're paying slave wages plus stock options to make those numbers work).
I want to encourage everybody to set up their own e-mail infrastructure, as it's both fun, rewarding and useful.

However, deliverability has become really difficult. It seems during the ten years since I last ran my own e-mail, it has become an oligopoly. I have SPF, DKIM, DMARC and reverse DNS, my IP is not on any blacklists, and still my e-mail ends up spam listed in both Gmail and Hotmail. It seems to be getting a worse treatment by Hotmail but it's hard to say due to the small volume.

It is getting better but slowly, it seems.
Apple Needs One More Big Thing
In most markets, you can get a pretty good 1 bedroom apartment for between $900 and $1000 per month. Thus, the cost of rent in SF is around 4x the cost of rent in a normal market. You'll pay an extra $36k per year to rent in SF v. a median rental market. CA also has a much higher state tax rate than most places.

Worth keeping this in mind when you're comparing SF salaries with real-world salaries. If Google hires someone right out of school to work in SF at $100-110k, it's really like getting hired right out of school to work in a normal market at $60-70k, which isn't nearly as rare (but still pretty good for a brand new guy; in positions where I used to do hiring, we'd usually hire these somewhere between 45-55k).

I think the best way for a programmer to maximize salary is to work remotely for an SF company, getting paid an SF salary, and living in an area with a reasonable COL and (preferably) low-to-zero state income tax.
Warm mixed asphalt roads should cost about $1M per mile. It's expensive, but it's not ludicrously expensive. If well done, in a warm environment, of low traffic, no truck levels, then you won't have to repave for upwards of a decade.

Source:

Maintenance a private road outside the USA. Labour is cheaper, however, everything else is more expensive so it balances out vs US numbers last time I checked.
I agree with you - why not choose a more "boring" name that would make passengers feel more safe?
If you know your design you could have a jig with many "print heads" and print all the maxels simultaneously.
Repository: https://github.com/dreamdom/JsSpeechRecognizer
Express is alive and well, I just developed two new middlewares for it in the last week. Koa has been straddling 1.x to 2.x rewrite for quite a while. In the meantime Express chugs along powering 1000s of websites. The performance difference is negligible and Express still beats Hapi by a long shot.

Long live expressjs.
I may just be being a luddite but there are 3 or 4 cards I like to have with me along with a little cash. I go back and forth whether it's worth carrying an actual wallet or not. I don't want to be in a situation where, if something happens to my phone (including running out of juice), that I have absolutely nothing else on me.

(I also print out airline boarding passes unless it's not convenient to do so for some reason. I'm not fanatical about it, but if it's just 30 seconds of effort, I figure that I might as well.)
You're also missing Maildocker
Feel like their tagline should be "We're making supersonic flight a reality. Again" :P

Looks interesting though
Right. -X overrides this default behavior without otherwise affecting the semantics of the request.
Pretty amazing that materials science (lighter, carbon-fiber aircraft; hotter, more efficient/powerful turbines) has made this economic. Concorde never was.

NYC-LON seems like the one market where this enables something fundamentally new (well, Concorde did); single-day business trips between two major business centers which were otherwise a full day apart.

Transpacific flights would be nice, too, but cutting an already absurdly long flight in half doesn't make as big a difference. I personally would generally prefer an F cabin + great Ka-band Internet for 14h, vs. a coach/Concorde sized seat for 7h.

I wonder how long until there's a Business Jet variant of this, or a Government/Military/Scientific version -- the operating costs of commercial aircraft tend to be much less than purpose-built government aircraft, so there's probably a mission/role for it.
Anybody have a tip on how to watch on Windows 7?
I agree. Of all the options, quite possibly one of the worst names you could have picked. I'm surprised the negative associations weren't obvious to them.
Mostly because of their successful ad campaign for many years.
Have you looked at the NTY piece? They flat out lied about a ton of things(which is why Tesla added logging after the TopGear incident).
Apple and Google have lost data for me during migrations in more egregious ways. There's unfortunately a subculture of the software industry that cares more about delivering products on time than delivering safe products.
When our CEO added me to our angel list account, I recieved this email from them:

Hi [My Name],

I'm building an AngelList profile for [our company] and need your help.

Can you do me a favor and confirm that you're a team member by clicking here:

https://angel.co/l/[shortlink]
To prove that you're the real [My Name] you will be asked to create an account if you don't already have one.

This is important to us; confirming that you're a team member will help us build our profile.

Thanks,
[CEO's Name]

P.S. If you would like to visit our profile first, go here: https://angel.co/[our company]

They're really aggressive about impersonating folks, my CEO didn't write that and was very suprised by the content of the email.
Given SpaceX's well documented experience, I would not trust any cost estimates from the legacy aerospace industry. It's a deeply moribund field as a result of decades of stagnation and dependence on government/military funding.

Still I would be absolutely floored if they could do it for under $500mil, so what you say still applies-- maybe just not quite to the point of billionS with an S.
Everyone is welcome to be technically illiterate, just as they are welcome to be illiterate in the traditional sense. Neither case is conducive to navigating society, regardless of personal desire or explanation why that desire should be met.
Surely Seattle salaries are lower because no state income tax and cheaper housing than the bay area?
We live in a world right now where interest rates are bouncing off zero and sometimes going negative. Capital is probably the least limiting factor here, assuming there's a viable plan and clear market.
If you have personal problems with people - check references. People will rarely state that such a person who causes problems is a "joy" to work with.
Agreed, terrible name. Can you imagine getting on an airplane with Boom painted on the side or waiting in the Boom terminal? I like fast airplanes, but I think they need to come up with a better name.
Thanks for the suggestion; I did some quick research and added dedicated-ip, templates and inbound-email to the comparison.
Open this network stream with VLC:

http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1603kjbnadc...
Hopeflly PDFBox is more stable than Apache Tika. Tika has become bloated with all the different formats that it supports.

Latest version of Tika parser has 44 compile time dependencies: http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tika/tika-parse...
Not the OP, but I would have used the word "caginess" or "excess self preservation".

You don't want to hire a shark who's going to work against you.
"I'm not the one who set up that assumption."

Even if you didn't, you certainly continued it.
As tangent, instead of focusing on NYC to London, a Mach 2.2 travel actually will make travel from Americas to Asia more comfortable. US to India and US to China routes benefit the most, and perhaps where people will be interested in paying top-dollar vs. Europe.
One issue with this is the "boom" (from their name). It only works across non-populated areas due to the noise as their sample routes show. It's going to severely limit the opportunity.
It could work until they have an accident, at which point the double meaning will kick in hard-core... especially since the traditional airline industry will PR flak them. (Flak pun intended.)
This trend (SnagShout and similar businesses) has killed Amazon's main value for me: finding the "best" thing in any category. Now, when I sort by rating, I have to scroll through pages and pages of generic-ish Chinese products that have bought 5-star reviews.

Don't get me wrong: some of those Chinese products are fine and have served me well, but many of them have turned out to be garbage.
I think mentioning these points upfront is a great way to give potential employees some idea about what kind of environment they should expect and whether they will be a good fit or not.

To me, at least, having this kind of information would immensely help me narrow down my list of possible employers.
I think people are assuming that this prioritization is going to cause way more delays than it really will.

There are about 120,000 Tesla owners out there right now. Maybe 130,000 by now, my facts are slightly out of date.

How many of those will be reserving a Model 3? These are people who 1) already have a car 2) which is still pretty new, since most Teslas on the road have been sold in the past couple of years 3) are now used to driving a large, powerful, luxurious car.

Why would they be buying a Model 3? It'll either be because some other car needs replacing at the right time, or they need an extra car, or they don't like the Model S and want something smaller. I don't think that's going to make up a huge proportion of the current owners.

I'd guess a few thousand at most will be reserving a Model 3. That's going to push other people's deliveries back by, what, a month or two? When the wait time is already a year and a half for the first person in line, I don't see this making much of a difference.
Hmmm...yes maybe that picture of him in the Bowie getup was the giveaway for that conclusion?
All largely irrelevant to the issue that no real crime was committed. In any rational world, there has to be some difficulty to a hack before it is a "hack".

No locks were broken - not even the weakest 1bit password. Weev only incremented a number of a public endpoint.

The prosecution in his case, as in Aaron Swartz's, conspired to use their legal enforcement powers to intimidate the innocent. They literally, knowingly, tried to charge people for things they knew at the time weren't crimes, because they had been "humiliated" by losing earlier.

(*Innocent of the charges at hand - questions of someone's "other" guilt are out of scope.)
It would presumably need to be several orders of magnitude higher as I would probably buy more donuts than I would submit non-compliance reports. And let's not forget it's the government that's running this - they don't necessarily need to turn a huge (or any) profit to make this work in the long term.

Donut with receipt: $ 1.49
Donut without receipt: $ 1.00

Taxable reward from
gov't for reporting
non-compliance: $500.00
The issue with it is that supersonic flight (due to noise) is only allowed over non-populated areas so a business jet variant is less useful unless you spend most of your time flying over the ocean (and not coast-to-coast for instance).
Startup business backed by VC is kind of unsound.

The traditional way maybe longer : minimal investment and constant self sustainability, but it seems also better at helping founder adapt to changes in costing and technologies.

When you have 50 customers it is easier to recognize you made a mistake in architecture and change it. While aggressive market spreading with freemium lock you in faster and makes you less agile.

Also you get very soon aware of your real costs.

But, the problem is VC+startup tends to aggressively compete with sound business in a way that has nothing to do with pure merit but often just the capacity to access capital (which according to most studies relate to birth).

I am an hardcore historical liberal, I don't really think that birth is a merit that is leading to a competitive market. Else, most of the leading economical nations would have remained monarchies. I also accept people have the right to live in dignity from their work and do not have to be all entrepreneurs.

I kind of think people misunderstand what liberalism is.

It is the right for people to choose a dignified existence through work with a clear contract of one hour worked has to be paid, and the right if people wishes to be entrepreneurs that have the possibility to access to a truly competitive market based on their merit without distortion.

And like any liberal I think it contributes to prosperity wealth and happiness of the Nations in an efficient way.
Completely agree, startup success is as much quick thinking and process as it is new ideas.
I'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple.

It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016.

Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?
I know almost nothing about law, but that has to be illegal in some way, right?
It can be a seriously discussed wild guess. It's not like there's some dichotomy to be satisfied there.
Is it the height of a normal car yet? :/ I am kind of tall (6'3.5"), and it is comical just how poorly I fit in a Tesla. I can sit more safely (which is the correct word, not "comfortably": my head bangs up against part of the ceiling in a way where even a very minor collision would cause me serious head trauma) in a Miata. I would love to get a Tesla, particularly this new cheaper one (as I can't really justify >$100k; I waste a ton of money on my current car scheme, but it is still cheaper than a Tesla), but it feels like trying to buy a trendy shirt and realizing they don't bother making it in my size as my size simply isn't as trendy as their shirt :/.
re: poker face - I would reword this to "communication style" - does this person communicate in a style that I (and my team) can understand?

Being open may depend on cultural norms, more than a "poker face." It's definitely a warning sign that Bad Things might happen in the future.
Can you really DoS an API protected by your password?

I would be surprised if they let a bunch of spam out before shutting down your account, they all seem to watch your behavior pretty close.
I love this approach. I'm also wondering what you think about giving well-designed work-sample tests over Google Hangout instead.

The candidate shares their screen with you, so you can watch as they solve the problem in their own dev environment. You can understand how they approach problems (quick and dirty, slow and methodical, lots of rewriting, etc), and you can ask questions at the end. You get a good sense for how they work as an engineer even before having to bring them onsite.

This seems to resolve the time asymmetry of take-home tests as well -- the interviewer spends as much time watching as the candidate spends working.

The only downside I can see is that you have to design your problems to take about an hour instead of the 2-5 hours you could imagine for a take-home test. But, you can break them up into multiple rounds, and give additional exercises to the candidates who do well on the first one, for no more total time cost than a collection of onsite interviews.

For what it's worth, I've done this at my startup and hired a great developer, and got very positive feedback about the process from the candidates I didn't end up hiring.
How do you manage Opt-outs across multiple accounts?
I was thinking they were like $40. $80 sounds a little steep.

I see some non-Apple branded chargers on Amazon Prime for around $40. I wonder if those chargers have the high quality electronics in them since they are from companies that are trying to develop a good name for producing accessories?

The Apple accessory that I feel is worth the money is their $30 ear buds. I use ear buds a lot. You can get decent ones for $15-$20, but I think the apple ones are worth $30.
And the environmental impact is... what? Amazing that this is not a consideration, especially since we are now in emergency territory:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/global-wa...

It's great for you to leave SF in the morning, go to Sydney to watch the opera and be back in SF by midnight. But is the environmental impact of you doing that worth it for everyone else?
I would LOVE to see an AI vs AI game though where the AI had no restrictions on APM/micro.

I mean, what would an AI come up with given just mass zerglings vs mass zerglings. Would love to see the strategies possible with near unlimited attention and APM.
I made a $5000 reservation for the Model S long before it was available, and they told me a number that was my place in line, and that they'd contact me when it's my turn. I chose the color and everything.

It's funny because they still haven't contacted me, nor did they contact anyone else I know who placed the reservation. Worked out fine for me, I've been mostly in Japan, and now that I'll be back in Seattle I'm planning to contact them and really curious what they say.

Everyone else got their car eventually but had to call and check multiple times. To each person they apologized and said it must be an oversight.

The whole thing leaves a really bad impression of the company. I wonder how they account for the money on their books over the past four years.
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So are they building their own plane, and launching a new airline? Will they also sell the plane to other airlines? Or is this trying to be vertically integrated, like Apple / Tesla?

Also, I echo the other sentiments here about the name, really don't want to fly on an airline named "Boom". Nor "Explode", "Kapow", or "Blast". And god forbid if one of their planes crashes during test flights, the PR nightmare that would result.
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Yeah, it's also super inefficient/cramped/etc. compared to a G650/BBJ/etc, so it would only really make sense as a "second" business jet in a corp/personal/royal fleet, or, more likely, part of a fleet somewhere like NetJets. It's the "entire aircraft, on demand" part on a mostly finite set of routes, not the "fly anywhere you want", with this.
Your parent comment is flagged and shows no text, so I think I mistook the tone of your response. Disregard my previous comment.
To be specific, the relevant date is when the car was "placed in service." That is, when you take possession of it.
Worst company ever. Need a domain asap for a tech demo with weird DNS requirements. Their systems fucked up horribly, ended up buying 5 domains trying to checkout, then refused to refund any of them as 'domains are non-refundable'.
The difference is that unlike building your own expensive and potentially dangerous liquor still, a personal supply of cannabis can just be grown in a sunny plot of land, or if you want to get real fancy, with indoor growing equipment that also has "legitimate" uses. It is a weed, after all.
> They also tried to sue Top Gear for criticising them

Considering Top Gear[1] scripted it out to make the car seem shitty why would you be surprised that they tried to sue?

> had a massive battle with the New York Times, because the NYT instead of publishing a puff piece published an article critical of Tesla's Model S.

Um, yeah, the review wasn't good from a review-standing-on-its-own standpoint. There was much back and forth but ultimately the review was inaccurate / imprecise in many areas[2].

> All of the Tesla fans love to blame all of this stuff on everyone else (the person who got banned, Top Gear, NYT, etc) but ultimately the point still stands that Tesla actively goes after people who offend them. My only point was that it could happen to YOU or ME if we're not careful.

Yup, fair enough. But also keep in mind that, as an owner of a company, you have the right to "fire the customer". After working in retail there were plenty of times when a customer, even rightly so, criticized things you do but ultimately you can't just keep them around because they're disrupting others (one reason among many, many reasons). I'm not sure if there was ever more to the story than was published or not (I've seen plenty of people tell a completely different story after leaving our store to other people). It didn't seem like a nice thing to do but I also don't care that much that Musk did it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_controversies#Tesla_R...

[2] http://www.poynter.org/2013/elon-musk-on-new-york-times-tesl...
Fastest jet in the world still doesn't solve tarmac delays at JFK.
Be interesting to see how they manage to increase range and payload substantially where Concorde wasn't able to.

Interesting from a tech point if they manage to build and certify a brand new supersonic airplane based on new materials. From a customer's stand point though, hardly anything new.
I'm curious what's your project?
> Have you looked at the NTY piece?

Yes, and the rebuttal, and the follow up. Have you?

> They flat out lied about a ton of things(which is why Tesla added logging after the TopGear incident).

I suggest you go back and look at it. It isn't as black and white as you seem to believe. Tesla muddied the water, in particular as few read the rebuttal or follow up, but ultimately the original article is still an interesting look at what owning a Tesla was like in 2013.

Plus the Top Gear thing was OBVIOUSLY comical. Since Top Gear is a comedy show after all. Tesla just had an incredibly thin skin about it or didn't understand what Top Gear was, the segment was entirely predictable.
Chromium OS is their desktop OS.

You can run native code, apps can be written in JavaScript. There are APIs for basically everything.

This is their desktop OS.

You're not missing any features. Perhaps you're missing "the killer apps" b/c they haven't been written yet.
We as a whole are richer.
>>But do you need to be a paying Apps member to do this?

The issue would likely be the limit on messages per day. Google spells this out for paying Apps members (https://support.google.com/a/answer/2956491#sendinglimitsfor..., see "Limits Per Customer")

They don't say what the limit is if you're using SMTP relay as a regular gmail user. I suspect it's much lower.
In the context of a public cloud we need more users.