skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Looking around on Twitter and in the comments sections of other sites reporting on this verdict, I'm seeing a worryingly positive response based on nothing but negative feelings about Gawker. Yes, Gawker sucks, but never forget that there are bad people who want to pick easy targets for example cases in order to set bad judicial precedent, and this is some truly atrocious precedent.
If you seem very hungry to learn, then no, the lack of domain expertise is ok.
Perhaps its just your lack of imagination.

If you didn't live in the US, then you'd be living in another country. Like most of the locals, you'd probably adjust to getting many services the way they are provided locally. In time, you may even come to find some of the things you take for granted about the US now to be just weird. This is not to disparage the US, but to offer perspective.

"the worst thing about living overseas is that its full of foreigners"
That's very deceptive. That restriction was applied to US companies' foreign subsidiaries in 1992, and to all foreign companies in 1995. Castro came to power in 1959. Thirty-three years of economic catastrophe is enough to make my point.
You're right. No one who has ever done a wrong thing is ever allowed to have a negative opinion about what someone else is up to. ;-)
That's right. "Thank you for all your hard work. We no longer need your services".
...really? I was under the impression everybody that reads HN would have been around the Google-or-similar hiring circuit at least once. I have twice and I'm not as experienced as you are.

Daily 10K I guess.
That U.N. hearing made several of my friends suddenly extremely interested in politics. And not in the way the U.N. bureaucrats would have liked.

They're currently sharing pro-Trump memes on Reddit.
At best this is an argument for tort reform*. Gawker's actions here are not defensible.

Edit: meaning improved protections against baseless lawsuits that could be damaging regardless of their merit. The simple way to protect your news company from being sued for releasing leaked sex tapes is to simply not release leaked sex tapes, which I think will be the major takeaway from this case.
Hey Sam,
For a non-technical founder interested in building tech products; is it more important to learn how to code (well enough to build a prototype) vs understand software architecture (to manage the building of the product)
Never thought of that, honestly - I'll look into it.

I've had surprising amount of folk ask in seriousness why I'm trying to take money away from the budget starved city, though.. That mindset might push back. Still worth a shot! ;)
If the thought is that randomly selected start-ups might possibly outperform hand-picked ones, then I suppose anyone with a few million $$$ laying around is free to test that hypothesis. If true you could make bank!
There IS another solution to this. When someone asks how much you are currently making, you should flat out lie. They won't check.

I've job hopped a bunch, and usually I just take whatever I was currently making, and add 15%, and say that that was my base.

If employers are going to play negotiation games, you shouldn't feel bad about playing them too.
Execution > Ideas. Most startups end up being famous for something else than the original idea. Read Founders at Work to get a glimpse of this.
How long does it take you to load 2 TB into SQLite? How long do queries take? I believe you, but I'm in disbelief that it could be close to as efficient as throwing into ram. I mean, an EMR cluster takes like 5 minutes to spin up.

Where do I learn how to do this? I've tried loading a TiB (one table one index) into SQLite on disk before, and it took forever. Granted this was a couple years ago, but I must be doing something fundamentally wrong.

I want to try this out. I've got 6TiB here of uncompressed CSV, 32 GiB ram. Is this something I could start tonight and complete a few queries before bed?

Actually, out of curiosity, I looked it up on the sqlite site. If I'm reading the docs correctly, with atomic sync turned off, I should expect 50,000 inserts per second. So, with my data set of 50B rows, I should expect to have it all loaded in ... Just 13 days. What am I missing?
>but there are plenty of necessary concrete jobs as well.

Fewer and fewer of them unfortunately. Just wait until self-driving trucks put 5 million truck drivers out of work...
I've thought about this too, but I'm not sure I've got the patience to listen to articles read in TTS voice.

Anyway, on iOS if you enable voiceover you can read the entire screen by swiping down from the top with two fingers (I think - check the Apple website for accessibility information if not!)
I was hired straight out of school in June 2013 in mountain view as a level 3 SET at 105K salary, 15% bonus target, and $100k of stock, vesting over 4 years.

The next year, I was promoted to level 4, and got a raise to $134k salary. I also got a $35000 year end bonus, and 5k of other bonuses.

This year, as a level 5 SWE, my gross income (unless Google's stock price changes significantly) will be $323k - 176k salary, my 42k year end bonus from 2015, and $105k of stock, most of which is vesting monthly.

SF and mountain view have the same compensation, I think.
I was thinking at first that it was ridiculous to examine questions about a life "well lived" through people who haven't lived too much of one (ages 18-28), but then I wondered if people actually maintain the same relative level of "social-ness" throughout their lives. For example, let's say in your twenties, people who are "very social" have 10-20 friends whom they see often, but in your sixties, people who are in the "very social" category typically have 5-10 friends that they see often. My thought is actually that once you are in a particular "category" of socialness, you probably continue having that same level of socialness throughout your life. Probably very social people in this study were also very social at age 5-10 - so maybe age doesn't matter. I am assuming that all people are less social as they grow older - but I actually don't know if this is true.
this is not the choice of the public group... any user of a public group can choose to have their data not available when someones query the API of that public group...
Same here. Always moved away and up, usually in the 20% range. Thus the importance of always being working on a portable skill.
Yes. Just as you can quit, walk out, and be done. For no reason. But they can't fire you for health reasons, personal reasons, etc.
Do you only invest in single product companies? what if a company have multiple rebranded products (3-5) based on same code and at the end adds up to respectable revenue figures and very good ROI?
Awakening of empathy is one of them. There is also tele-empathy which lets you sense people who you could not have possibly read through body language.

Direct experience of "oneness" is another one. This can range from feeling the interconnections of everything, to feeling that all is One (monism), and there ever just the One.

Seeing through your acquired self is another. That sense that the acquired self -- the socialized personality -- has never been real. People often come back from that one thinking "my ego died". (Well, it often resurrects ;-)

Another is direct experience of Nothing (similar to the Oneness experience), where things somehow, mysteriously, spontaneously arises and passes. Also related is spaciousness.

Then there's a host of parapsychological effects which might make you feel crazy. They don't feel as insightful as the examples that I listed, but they do break down the conventional beliefs most people have and think of as "normal". For example, clairvoiyance, clairaudience, etc.

There are actually transpersonal psychologists holding Ph.D.s who specializes in counseling for spiritual emergence. There's a great thread on Quora related to that integration process. I'd find it right now, but my wife is waiting for me to go with her to the grocery store. ("Chop wood, carry water" You never thought you'd understand that koan, eh? :-D)

Feel free to email me at talktohosh at gmail.com if you want to continue this conversation.
Mcdonald's Japanese Anime Commercial
The "Precautionary Principle" nonsense has always been my least favorite aspect of Taleb's shtick. You're asking too much of Taleb, however. It is not his place to be right all the time. Rather, he must always point out how often those in charge are wrong. That is how he can contribute to the progress of humanity.
Oh the poor struggling ecosystem of sanctimonious bloggers who have completely pissed on this idea of a "fifth estate" by collusively censoring all discussion of how they suck.

That will be soooo terrible if we set a precedent that "journalists" actually have to actually give a shit about the standards of their alleged profession.
100% agree with you. I've been able to get 30-40% raises YoY by job hopping roughly every 1.5 years. It's enough time to get experience somewhere, but not enough to become complacent. YMMV
Seems like this viewpoint is based on preconceived views of 'europeaness'. However agree in general that this articles claim of African fractals doesn't seems to be based more on geometric patterns that please they eye more than mathematical principles
Not sure why this was downvoted, it's not illegal and companies do it via background checks.

Quick searches reveal this is a popular question, spot checks of the answers agree that it's not illegal and quite common.
Consider doing a ladder transfer to SWE or SETI. If you're performing well, it will be a probably successful but bureaucratic process... But certainly less work and less risky than quitting and finding a new job.
Ehh. Another "libertarian" discussion without any reference to the fact that prior to the mid-late 20th c. in America, and in most of the world even today, "libertarian" is a synonym for "anarchist". Unfortunately, it got mangled along the way.

As always on political terminology, Orwell was most astute:

"Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different."

"It would seem that, as used, the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, youth hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I don't know what else."
Yes, but I (1) was reluctant to believe that many of them would so flaunt their ill-gotten gains that they would have their kids paying full tuition at a US university and commuting to class in a Ferrari and (2) did get an impression that at times such government bureaucrats got strung up, a firing squad, long prison terms, or some such.

It's on the other side of the plant form me -- I don't have good information.
From a legal perspective, this case only sets precedent in Florida (it was tried at the state not federal level) unless it manages to worm its way up to the Supreme Court and get heard. While there are less important states it could have been heard in, there are also considerably more important states where the precedent could be used to greater impact. I'm undecided on whether that's good or bad.

Financially speaking, the jury has objectively awarded Hogan a ton of money ($15mm more than he was seeking even) -- and punitive damages have not even been decided yet! It's not inconceivable that the total amount will approach Gawker's entire net worth. But that isn't how damages are decided -- something like this can clearly have a considerable negative lasting impact on the ability to earn in the future, and I think it's clear in this case that Hogan has been impacted in this way. I'm sure that played into the jury's math. Without knowing more about their deliberations, I think it's too early to say if they erred on the high side.

From the perspective of media companies starting to worry about being torn to shreds for posting this sort of thing, all I can say is "good". Freedom of speech is extremely important. A free press is extremely important. Posting an illegally obtained sex tape and then further refusing to remove it is not a victory for either, it is sleaziness and pandering to the lowest denominator of society to make a buck.

The best way to combat that tendency of some parts of the media is to make the buck not worth grabbing -- when you risk having to pay it back ten times over.
You're drawing a false dichotomy. Capitalism is good for a country regardless of trade arrangements. It's even better when you have trading partners, but you don't need them to reap massive benefits from a free market system.

Capitalism is really bad if you're trying to hold onto your dictatorship.

Cuba "opened up" economically before, in the 90s. They were under a lot of internal pressure after the collapse of their sponsor, the USSR. As soon as the economy recovered enough to secure the stability of Castro's ruling mafia (party officials, military, etc.), he reversed the market reforms and ratcheted up repression.
Circler: CLI Client for CircleCI
Excluding Jason is perplexing to me. For context I've started 6 companies, one went public and was a unicorn. I've worked with Jason as an angel in my companies and I've been on a board with him. Jason has been an awesome throughout several years of doing business with him. I can't envision a scenario where he wouldn't be founder friendly and I'd love to have him as an investor in any future project I pursue. Any first time founder would be lucky to work with Jason.
newsfeed.fb.com uses Vue.js instead of React
You might be happy to hear that Jesus College at Cambridge just decided to remove the Benin Bronze they've had since 1897 and that it might go back to Nigeria: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/12188018/Cambridge-coll...
Shameless plug, check out my HN app for WP8.1 called Hacky News. It's very fast and has collapsible comments.

Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/store/Apps/Hacky-News/9NBLGG...
The Right to Privacy (1890)
Wow that's some biblical denunciations right there. Nidhogg!
What would a YCombinator look like if it was for projects aimed at moving human society to a sustainable footing? what features of YCombinator would you keep, and how would you modify it?
Unfortunately although the practice is horrid, I dont see much to justify the claim
Anyone know of a good org mode plugin for vim?
Baumol's cost disease.

Baumol and Bowen pointed out that the same number of
musicians is needed to play a Beethoven string quartet today
as was needed in the 19th century; that is, the productivity
of classical music performance has not increased. On the
other hand, real wages of musicians (as well as in all other
professions) have increased greatly since the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
Thanks. I'm sure many of us will come here to complain about it then immediately benefit from the info you've provided!

I wish authors would qualify more of their exotic initialisms in general.
I remember this from my welcome screen on an Amazon-blessed laptop: "There is no expectation of privacy while using this system".
Ugh, no thank you. I've liked some of Jerry's opinion pieces in the past, but I think he's way off the mark here, especially with this:

> The causes they enunciate are tarnished, just for being in their mouths.

That's the kind of thinking that gets you atrocious policy, especially in the judicial sphere. As I said below, people who want bad to enshrine bad precedent will pick the most unsympathetic targets in the courts in order to get it - including law enforcement (actually, especially law enforcement. Why isn't Apple helping the FBI stop terrorists???)

The courts sometimes see through this trick. Did you know that your Miranda rights exist because the Supreme Court threw out the conviction of a scumbag who had, indisputably, robbed and raped a mentally handicapped girl? It's sad that they didn't this time though, and that apparently the vox populi didn't either.
Unlikely. New grads get 100k easy, at any company in the Bay Area, NYC, or Seattle. Thats just the market rate.
I was an intern over the summer, just graduated and was offered 95,000 salary, 27,000 signing bonus with my first paycheck, and another 20,000 over months 13-24. In addition, I get 53,000 in RSU that are payed out: 5% after my first year, 15% after my second year, and 20% every 6 months after that until I've been there for 4 years. Finally, i got a 10,000 relocation lump sum.

I have friends who interned the summer before and they were offered the exact same thing.
This is for SDE 1 position.
What'd you do/take instead? Company/Salary?
25-35 white male
150k base + some equity I haven't paid attention to
Senior software engineer (front-end)
NYC
Have you actually worked with him? I have for many years and he has been one of the most founder friendly and dedicated people I've ever met!
It certainly is making me regret my life decisions.
I can second this. I worked for a similar unnamed incubator company in the Bay Area and a vast majority of the ideas sent to us were from good-hearted people, but absolutely ludicrous and—at least from our opinion—would never be able to become successful businesses. Some people just really seem to have problems understanding product-market fit.

My guess would be that applicants to Y-Combinator are probably along the same spectrum–some great ideas, some decent ideas, and a lot of junk inbetween.
There is a link, but buried in the article text. I agree they could do a better job about making it more discoverable.
Wow thanks! I couldn't find it in search :-) glad you found it.
But... we just told them how! I'm imagining someone saying, "sorry, I never learned how to wash the dishes... I won't be able to help you with that task."
No, it's pretty spot-on.

People try to divide security vulnerabilities into "super-obviously-bad" and "no one will ever find / exploit / do much of anything with it."

The problem is that rather often little holes can be leveraged into bigger holes. The argument against the change I'd requested was that no one would ever write a program which would process the trace hook events. Because they just wouldn't. Except no one needed to - there was a program that took trace identifiers and dumped the events for all to see.

That's an argument to "difficulty to exploit". The same thing has happened with various race-related exploits -- a race that's fractions of a millisecond long is considered "unexploitable" until process scheduling, and how to control it via various means is discussed.

It doesn't matter the problem space - fixing bugs in code, configuring servers securely, proper OPSEC, choice of programming languages or development methodologies. It always comes down to security versus convenience. Sometimes "convenience" is replaced by "cost" or "resources". In this case, the NSA didn't have the "resources", which is a proxy for "convenience" because if giving Clinton a secure BlackBerry had been dead simple and free ("convenient") she'd have gotten one.

As for being "well-rehearsed", yeah, I've spoken publicly on security and try to make my little anecdotes fun to read or hear.
Most other media sites do not have the history and reputation that Gawker does.
How about getting away from San Fransisco?
Shanley also signs off a lot of her content with 'kill all men' and has doxxed critics before.
Compared to an engineer at a startup in SF making $150,000/year and paying over $3,000/mo [1] for a one bedroom apartment + California income/gains taxes, you're not doing too poorly at all. Your quality of life is also likely better and you're less exposed to crime.

[1] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-ren...
Don't seem THAT underpaid. Check glassdoor or other stats for regional average.
Downvotes? Lol.
Start reading some oldschool science fiction: those are to point out possible outcomes, both bad and good, of technical evolution.

Self driving cars in our current world, in our current system will not go well. We need changes in the heads first.
It would be cool to use this to fix movie footage in post production. You could just copy a face over if the actor screwed up
I'm at a YC startup that's successful. How do you look at early employees of such companies, and how I tactfully apply? There is no way I could without it getting back to my CEO (or so it seems to me)
> You know with current technology we can't have completely driver-less cars.

Why not? Doesn't the Google car have a near-spotless record with minimal human intervention?
What's wrong about a precedent that an online blog platform should not be permitted to publish people's sex tapes? That does not seem like a particular dangerous precedent to me.
You HN people don't really understand sarcasm, do you?
How do you handle different rates for different zones? Does the city hand you the zoning information + coordinates? In general, I'm curious how you work with the various municipalities.
No, they did not fail at all - far from it. They collectively paid only a $400M settlement, which is likely only a small fraction of how much they got out of the scheme.
What's the time table for Gawker's payment? Can they appeal without paying?
Майнинг криптовалюты без вложений на автомате
Soon, coming to anthropology journals near you: "Facepalm: A universal gesture?"
I would argue that learning how to code well enough to build a prototype is the same thing as being able to understand software architecture to manage the building of the product. A better question would be learn how to code vs be able to lead and manage a team.
> I rarely see offers that are even 80% of what my salary expectation is

I'm suspicious that this is a silent-evidence phenomenon. I'd assume that the duration a job listing is up correlates inversely proportional to the compensation. If that's true, all the great paying jobs are optically invisible.
Perhaps because they are also known to be profitable.
In many states you don't have to pay until the appeals process is complete, but in Florida you have to pay (or at least post a bond, it's unclear) immediately. There's a good chance Gawker will be closing down.
> Before anyone goes on a "Gawker is a terrible site, they deserve it" tangent, keep in mind that this does set precedent for other individuals to sue other media companies for massive amounts of money, which could be another problem for an already-struggling ecosystem. (Although in fairness, this incident is particularly egregious, especially as they disobeyed a judge's order to take down the video)

1) Nonconsensual porn shouldn't be posted to the internet. The details can be discussed just fine without the visual.

2) It most certainly shouldn't be kept online after a judicial order to take it down.
is YC fellowship more solo founder friendly than your regular YC program?
Every HN reader is an above decent potential founder or at the very least potential product starter/inventor/maker... That is 310,000 potential companies. I do not see anywhere else you could have that many of the same profile.
Nick Denton statement on the jury verdict:

https://twitter.com/nicknotned/status/710973280308559873

Hulk Hogan statement on the jury verdict:

https://twitter.com/HulkHogan/status/710988297284292608
Mind if I ask what city? Some cities and states have grant programs for exactly this kind of thing.
Does it, though? I mean, I've played KSP, I know the rocket equation. But with a space gun, your vehicle only winds up moving as fast as the propellant pushing it out- so that mass of fuel (more explosive than fuel, I guess) still has to be accelerated to near-orbital speeds in order for the gun to work.
I have been asked for proof of current salary (paycheck stubs, etc.) to be included with all my onboarding and HR forms when the current salary formed a basis for my new salary, FYI.