skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of the weather, which is a big deal to a lot of people, the problem is exactly in what you said: there are two huge tech companies. And that's it.

Basically, if you move to Seattle, you are pretty much restricted to working for Microsoft or Amazon and that's it. Period. Nothing else.

It's a huge career limiting move, make sure you're okay with it.
Beyond good and evil and morals, I think Thiel is being really gentlemanly about this. How hard would it have been to get very good looking people to seduce the people responsible (or their spouses, offsprings, parents), have some wild stuff going on, get that on video, and publish that online...

Would Gawker still feel as strongly about freedom of expression when their significant other's or their daughters'/sons'/parents' legs are spread all over the internet? If that video was sent to them, would they publish something like "Watch the sextape of the people who pulblished Hogan's sextape",

I can think of many, many ways Thiel could have harmed them. He's a very smart man and I'm sure he could think of many more, but he held back going at it in a civilized manner only legally backing a law-suit.
Where the solid object is a car or truck, yes. Phased array radar is good enough for that, and there are lots of deployed units on the road. Telephone poles, deer, and pedestrians - maybe.
Source?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/25/media/peter-thiel-gawker-hul...

'Ayyadurai told CNNMoney that Thiel has "zero involvement in my case."'
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Microsoft brings its own problems in. While it's true that NT's security model is much stronger than the Unix style (no ACLs on anything??), MS has really gone overboard recently. Install IIS and see the myriad things to check off. Dynamic compression is separate from static compression and you must install them apart from IIS alone.

The absolute best example: You cannot listen to HTTP without extra permissions. You can bind to port 80 and parse HTTP yourself. But if you ask Windows to do that for you, it's access denied. This is entirely illegitimate and many people just deal with it by running with admin permissions, rather than screw around trying to setup ACLs on HTTP prefixes. (The only context in which it makes sense is port sharing, so as to register certain prefixes. But in that case the port'll already be in use.)
> The tech community likes to deflect criticism of their sudden influx of relatively high-income workers and say "don't blame us, it's a supply problem."

Well duh, ostensibly high-paying jobs are good, remember? Like, the tech sector is one of the few remaining industries with lots of jobs that pay well, and now we gotta demonize them too? Would it be preferable for everyone to be equally poor?

And it obviously is a supply problem. The California Legislative Analyst Office was pretty clear on that:

> While many factors have a role in driving California's high housing costs, the most important is the significant shortage of housing in the state's highly coveted coastal communities. We advise the Legislature to address this housing shortfall by changing policies to facilitate significantly more private home and apartment building in California's coastal urban communities.

http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3214
> Robots are capital. Real estate is mostly land. Capital produces interest. Land produces rent. These are different things.

Not according to neoclassical economics! Land is just another form of capital. I still don't understand why though. Some say it's political but that feels like too much of a conspiracy theory to me. There must be a good explanation but I haven't found it yet.
Gawker didn't lose this trial because they ran out of money to pay their lawyers, they lost because a jury of their peers found they were guilty as sin.
Doubt the employer would notice it, being that GPA and performance are not necessarily correlated. Doping in any situation gives an edge at the upper levels, but won't make an average person superhuman. (It makes superhumans even more superhuman).

We frown on doping because it's dangerous due to bad health effects. Forcing someone to use performance enhancers to compete and damage their health is the ethical problem in my mind. Collateral harm.
At one of my jobs, we used CPU (pre-Intel design), made by a defense manufacturer, in our control systems. When mfr. decided to discontinue CPU manufacturing, we bought all the inventory from last few production runs. AFAIK, we are still running those control systems using the same CPUs and hardware for now 30+ years.
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Blockchains aren't plain old data structures. Their value comes from consensus, and it's way easier to use an existing consensus than to establish a new one.
> Either we can build everything from source, so that we have reproducibility (see e.g. emerge for a practical system, although it is still not bit-for-bit reproducible) or else we can ship everything as a blob so we have total consistency (e.g. Docker, Go).

Nix is really both of these combined, and is not like apt/dpkg in how it separates source and binary packages.

A Nix package is really instructions (including all compiler flags) of how to build something from source [1] and nothing more. Due to being pure functions, given the binary inputs (e.g. a zlib dependency previously built) and the instructions, any two people will always get the same binary output upon executing those instructions [2].

Furthermore, without executing the instructions, I can generate the unique identifier of the resulting binary package by hashing the inputs and the instructions. This unique identifier can be used to determine if the package already exists locally in /nix/store, and optionally be used to check if some trusted binary cache (such as Nix's binary cache) already has the binary package.

There is no binary package in the sense that apt/dpkg have source packages and many derived binary packages which are installed without need of the source package.

For example (contrived and simplified):

gcc-uniqueGccHash = bootstrappingProblem()
libc-uniqueLibcHash = buildLibc(gcc-uniqueGccHash)
zlib-uniqueZlibHash = buildZlib(gcc..., libc...)
myprog-uniqueMyProgHash = buildMyProg(gcc..., libc..., zlib...)

To download "myprog" from a binary cache, I can't calculate uniqueMyProgHash using any old versions of libc and zlib; I must have exactly the same hashes that were used by the system that built "myprog", all the way up the dependency chain. And I'll only ever have that if the builds are reproducible and/or I downloaded them all from the same binary cache.

[1] In practice, there's nothing stopping the instructions from saying "download this binary blob" instead of "download this source tarball".

[2] The problem of build reproduciblity is not solved, but many outside of Nix also see this as important, see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
Being able to use the courts to sue for defamation is pretty widely accepted as legit by most if not all strains of libertarianism. It's actually a clear example of a valid case in which governmental authority is necessary.
Yes, I can see the motivations of someone who confessed bankruptcy or near bankruptcy who initially sued Gawker for damages - got a very large award, and only after Thiel got involved decided to drop a part of the lawsuit that might help him actually receive all/some/any of the award - as not being worthy of any question at all.

Your own link says he is no longer a millionaire. He changed from financial motivations to moral superiority after the investment of someone who wants to destroy Gawker (not that Hogan might not also want that)... reducing your ability to receive damages doesn't seem to align to me as well as it does to you.
12,000 people moved to San Francisco in 2014. 4,000 homes were built. What's the problem?

https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/what-housing-crisis-3c0568a5d...
Is there any evidence that these cars, abused as they are, are less safe when under autopilot than the average driver on the road?

This is the only reference I've seen to that http://electrek.co/2016/04/24/tesla-autopilot-probability-ac....
like the Nazi's?
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Link to the $5 figure, or their financials? Sounds interesting.
I pay $10/y, one of the benefits of having a rather not popular last name
> I'm guessing it would impact airlines minimally

Maybe by itself, but when you factor in how awful air travel is getting, it might have a bigger impact than it otherwise would. I'm planning a flight from Austin to Chicago later this summer and I'm seriously considering driving because my last two experiences flying have been so awful thanks to the TSA.
> What concerns me the most is that the newcomers might lack the environmental commitment, and tip the scales from valuing conservation to valuing rampant development.

Actually, if you care about the environment, dense development is the best option.
Isn't this the same argument that gets thrown around when people point out the long term precedent implications in having Apple write a backdoor for the FBI?

"You are defending a murdering terrorist!"

"No, I am standing for the security of our communications infrastructure and, by extension, our society"

Now:

"You are defending a criminal low-brow rag that cares nothing for violating someone's privacy in the name of profit!"

"No, I am questioning whether we want people secretly funding punitive lawsuits for their own ends, regardless of merit. I also think I personally would be fine with it if you remove 'secretly'."

Sometimes the means matter, even when you agree with the immediate ends. I respect Thiel a hell of a lot more than I respect Gawker, and yet I am not sure this is how we want to do things.
This sounds super interesting and I'd love to read about it, but I do not have an iOS device and cannot open the app store because I am not on a Mac at the moment. Possible to link to a web page?
Doesn't the IRS view that if you cannot substitute labour, then you are not a contractor?

http://art.mt.gov/artists/IRS_20pt_Checklist_%20Independent_...
"Services rendered personally."

(Couldn't find the same simple checklist on irs.gov).

So it seems quite within his rights to outsource, no? Unless there's some clearance restriction or I'm just misunderstanding these guidelines?
fixed! Thanks!
That makes a lot of sense. Massive crunch time recently has caused an RSI flare up, that has settled down now that it's over.
SF used to be beautiful. With tons more development, it will just look like Hong Kong/Singapore/Chicago/Manhattan, etc. and that beauty will be lost
All of the Big 4 are there :)

I just hope housing there is affordable without a roommate by the time I can graduate.
I didn't either, and don't believe I knew anyone that did (grad and undergrad CS, knew 2-3 other students who likely did not). Anecdotal data point, but there it is.
Not sure why you were downvoted for this. One of my bigger criticisms of Thiel would be that he seems to have a very hypocritical sort of "libertarianism" - e.g. founding Palantir, basically another spy agency for the US gov. But hey, I guess if you can make a buck...

That aside, I don't think this is the best example. Litigating through courts is pretty fundamental to anarcho-capitalist ideas, so this seems fairly consistent with that worldview.
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds – From Google’s Design Ethicist
One time I saw a car driving very erratically through an intersection and going into a reserved lane they were not allowed to.

The driver was texting while driving.

I've seen more instances since then.

If you ask me, people can't be trusted to be safe anyway. I'd rather have imperfect autonomous cars than people driving.
Eh, it's a difference of a few million, maybe tens of millions. A small price to pay to watch this pustulent sore on humanity's face collapse and burn as a result of your actions.

Me, I'd take that cut.
Well, "press freedom and free speech" are about what the government can and can't do. Private litigation is rather orthogonal to that, no?

Edit: Actually, "free speech" arguably includes the funding of private litigation.
antihistamines that don't make you feel loopy or predispose you to alzheimers.
It's a fine line.
"The fact that it was in a job interview just shows the that interviewee either didn't understand the context of the question which is strong evidence that they are probably a bad manager or they didn't care, which is even stronger evidence of a bad manager."

By "they" you mean the CEO, right? Because it scans as though you mean the interviewee.
Thiel says he decided several years ago to try to cripple Gawker
I'm also not an expert, but I suspect a confounding problem is the fact that they eyes never stop moving, even when it feels to us like we're looking at a single point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement#Saccades
This is good, except that I oppose subsidies for "below market rate housing". If workers are needed in an area, businesses will eventually need to pay them more. Subsidizing their housing is a backdoor subsidy to the business owners who don't need to pay their workers enough to deal with living in the Bay Area.
Because the actual building they live in gets demolished to build another building. Or because the new building next door is filled with 'luxury' $5000/mo rents, which might drive the rent up in their building.
Linkedin keeps suggesting a girl I went on a date with ONE FREAKING MISTAKE OF A TIME, who I seriously never ever want to talk to again, is a potentially awesome connection. I know it's because she let them scan her email inbox. This actually disturbs me more than something which is obviously a mistake. If my professional connections mistake me for a nazi war criminal, well, they're so stupid, they're not worth knowing.
This isn't the only childish myth that refuses to die. The so-called Galileo affair and Copernicus' alleged fear and trembling over publishing "his" heliocentric theory are two notorious and by now classical examples. In both cases, the supposedly grand Manichean battle between Religion and Science was nothing but the fallout of the provincial squabbling of petty men. Copernicus -- who was a classically educated cleric -- was reluctant to publish De Revolutionibus on account of hostility from rival astronomers (and though the Church had no doctrinal interest in something as theologically irrelevant as which rock orbits which other rock, Paul III and Cardinal von Schoenberg did take interest in his work). Furthermore, Copernicus' original contribution was not the idea of a heliocentric "universe", but the mathematization he produced that "saved the appearances" accounted for in the geocentric model. The Galileo "affair", which stretched for some 30 years IIRC, culminated in house arrest in the papal apartments overlooking the papal gardens, a fate far better than that of many in the 15th century or the 21st century for that matter. Ultimately, his house arrest was largely the result of Galileo's habit of harassing people and making enemies, some of whom were clerics, and nothing to do with doctrine (the story goes that Galileo was arrested and forced to abjure the very same heliocentrism Paul III and others encouraged and found so fascinating under pain of death, but anyone free of prejudice and acquainted with the history knows this account to be comically stupid as it is presented). There are many more such fabrications and misconceptions.

At least some of these myths are known to have their origins in the 19th century and in the slanderous writings of fanatical Enlightenment and Protestant writers whose rabid hatred for Rome seems to have, in their minds, given them license to resort to libel or corrupted their thinking. The author credits two men in the article who certainly had an axe to grind.
It's important to understand the other factors alluded to by the California Legislative Analyst Office, among others. Specific to SF is a sudden influx of wealthier residents. With such a huge gap between their income levels and say service industry or blue collar folks, they are going to throw the market rate for housing way high. Increasing the supply of market-rate housing alone may not bring things down enough, at least, not without much greater developer concessions than have been suggested.
To be fair in terms of human anthropology, people in MENA are still considered caucasoids/caucasians.
Your statement is not false, but if you're into software engineering it's awesome know so many people who are world-class engineers. I've heard from multiple people that they've grown more in a year of being in SV than the 5 years before. Why? Because a lot of their friends are engineers (Kinda sucks too but...), you casually meet a lot of people working in cool stuff, you go to a lot of really really good meetups, and what you're doing at work is probably only a handful of companies in the world are tackling (at least me and most of my friends are working on stuff like that).

Yeah, you can do software from anywhere! But SF/SV is probably one of the best places in the world to do for it.
Whether they are called Indians or not has nothing to do with the myth that Europeans thought the Earth was flat.

The myth says "Columbus thought the Earth was round, while everyone else thought it was flat". Even if that myth was true, they would still be called Indians, because Columbus named them that.
I'm not sure if you are disagreeing with me or agreeing and adding on.

If you are suggesting that rational behavior is emerging every time, or even much of the time, somebody says "Wall Street is too focused on the short term", I shake my head in sadness at the money you are planning to lose.
I like to imagine that something like containers could provide a rationalised POSIX successor like Plan 9 while still cooperating in the main with a less-clean kernel like Linux. Not certain exactly how that'd work, but it might provide a nice path to building cleaner systems.
Why would those be Daniel's intentions though? What does he have to gain by doing that? Susan obviously has a tremendous to gain by doing that sans prenup, which is precisely why people perceive her reluctance to get one as a red flag, but unless I'm missing something, Daniel wouldn't really gain anything by doing that except a whole bunch of legal fees.

If he wanted to leave her, why marry her?
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I don't really have the time, energy, or knowledge to create a fully cited refutation of the author other than to say that this just seems really wrong.

It might not be technically wrong because the author seems to be citing facts and I'm sure they're correct. But it seems wrong in the sense that they're missing the forest for the trees. Between 1991 and 2014 a lot has changed, particularly in the earning power of the generation being cited as being more educated. This is probably has very little to do with their education, more like it's kind of a macroeconomic ... situation ... they were born in to.

And this is for a country that already has the highest GDP in the world.

Maybe a better way to look at it would be to use people who were born into poverty and see if the rates of escaping it have changed because of more education....I don't know...this just feels like this author is picking a weird fight with education.
You can also not use a dimmer, or use a (quality) dimmer intended for LED bulbs. (Many dimmers supposedly for LEDs will still not turn on instantly.)
Bad news for Imgur...
While the cost of housing in the bay area gets a lot of press the entire infrastructure of the bay is getting stretched by the current tech boom. The traffic is already the second worst in the nation [1], and existing public transportation like bart[2] and caltrain[3] are already overloaded.

While I'm generally in favor of development I think that this simplistic approach of just going around local planning departments is just going to lead to more problems. I think it would be better to cut state and local funding of counties if they don't match growth targets that region commits to. This way we incentivize communities to embrace growth while letting the residents still have a strong say in how and where their community grows. Letting developers call the pace hasn't made for good urban planning in other parts of the country and there is no reason to expect it to do a lot better here. Let's incentivize these parties to work together rather than giving one all the power to drive the process.

[1] http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/trafficindex/list
[2] http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-gets-candid-...
[3] http://www.caltrain.com/Page3882.aspx
There are a couple of other companies here that didn't make your list... not including the pretty active startup scene. Sure it's not any near as vibrant as around San Francisco but to say there are only two tech companies hiring people is pretty ludicrous.
"The sob story in this piece is hardly moving - as someone that's been working in Silicon Valley for the past 8 years, it is an extremely open place and have never seen anything approaching this type of behavior."

In light of the first part of this statement I wonder if maybe you just didn't notice.
Is there anyone who thinks Thiel isn't a jackass? Seriously, I want to see the other side of this, provided ofc there is one.
True, but they're definitely in the same realm if you will. Just like Great Britain is part of Europe, and New Zealand is part of Australia. (Continentally-speaking!! Don't flame me, Kiwis).

Madagascar is Africa, Japan is Asia. I don't know what to categorize Iceland as, though.
This is an important point. With the court verdict as it stands Hulk Hogan was right and Gawker was wrong. The fact that it took a connection to a billionaire for someone to defend their right to privacy is a sorry state of justice in America.
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No, but in engineering the flunk-out rate is near 70%, or at least it was 25 years ago when I was a student. I don't think there is grade inflation going on there.

I only witnessed cheating twice; Chinese and Indians. In general though, the Asians worked their asses off; 1st generation immigrants "off the boat". Very tough competition.
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my initial thought was the usual thing, that it has a totally different meaning when used by black people than when used by white people, but then i realized, because the way you put it, "...every movie with black people has them screaming it", that i really haven't heard it used by actual black people in the flesh all that often. i would guess no more than how often i've heard white people using it, again, in the flesh.
I'm surprised Seattle doesn't make the list. Maybe thats based on parkland within the city. To the east you have immense tracks of wilderness in the cascade mountains and to the west the olympic peninsula.
We can defend the press' freedom to express any opinion or fact without allowing them to publish people's private sex tapes.
Last time I've opened an imgur link on mobile I got served with an ad popup and a "virus warning" dialog. That is something I haven't seen in a long time. Imgur seems to go the way of SourceForge.
This is not Reddit.
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I heard the hype. Figured I would give it a try.
Installed emacs with nix
Install spacemacs on top of new emacs. Throws odd errors.
Uninstall emacs with nix

Install emacs with brew
Install spacemacs on top of emacs
It works!

To pull users from brew it needs to work at least as well, especially for common tools like emacs. Go check out the number of issues related just to emacs installs, it is kind of amazing.