skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not an unreasonable perspective but you didn't go far enough. If business owners were to pay workers enough to live at market rates in San Francisco, what would the effect on prices be? How much would a restaurant meal cost? Then, once prices resettle at $50/entree, how appealing a city would SF be?

Note: Paul Graham recently spoke on how important affordable restaurants are to creating startup hubs![1] That's macroeconomics for you.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/pgh.html
I'm not from Seattle nor do I live in Seattle, but I'm pretty sure this is not the case.

There ARE other cities with a lot of quality, diverse tech jobs outside of the Bay Area. I live in one of them and I don't consider it a 'career limiting move'.
Gunner turrets do not necessarily include permanently mounted weapons. See: B-17 waist-gun turrets. All weapons in the plane were removable. Nobody wants to leave automatic weapons lying around where they would be easy to steal.

Your link includes an armored vehicle in which an automatic belt-fed weapon could be mounted (and which are commonly possessed by SWAT teams). It's a military-grade APC, there is no honestly viable quarrel with his title.
Well, you could say Gawker also got "owned by a billionaire"...
> Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute claim to have hatched a bipartisan consensus plan for reducing poverty. As exciting as that sounds, the details of the plan, unfortunately, won't be available until David Brooks unveils them at an event on December 3rd.

This is really all you need to read. He's attacking strawmen for the rest of the article, because the actual Brookings/AEI report is more detailed and specific. You can find it here: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2....
LinkedIn is just looking out for you. They know kids will continue your legacy, bigger userbase. Cough cough. >.<
so...no objection to any billionaire with a grudge starting a secret trust fund for anyone to use to to sue you?

I love liberty as much as the next guy, but libertarianism all too often seems to mean the liberty of the guy with money and power to mess with the little guy.

Seems a little weird that a self-professed libertarian like Thiel aligns with Trump, noted authoritarian who's not above calling for violence against those who disagree with him, wants to go after Jeff Bezos and Amazon because he doesn't like what the Washington Post says, calls the CNN control room to tell them what to cover, while at the same time threatening to cancel CNN's 'FCC license' and take them off the air.

Personally, if a boot is stomping on my face I'm not that concerned with whether it's a private boot or a public boot. I'm not cool with government telling the press what to print, and I'm not cool with large capital pools going on secret vendettas against media that doesn't do what they want, and making sure they get sued on any completely unrelated thing that comes up where they might be vulnerable.
Yep. Imgur realized that being solely a user-friendly image host wasn't much of a money maker, so they started gradually turning into the Photobucket style messes that it was originally aiming to destroy. Now they run their own community/discussion site and try to show it down the throat of anyone who lands there trying to look at a picture. It's not been good for the user experience of anyone who was just there for one image. And it's also in pretty direct competition with reddit's popular non-text subreddits.

I really can't fault reddit for taking this step. They're the ones who have the ad views on pages linking to (or embedding) these images, they may as well streamline things and manage the uploads/hosting in house.

One hopes Imgur could see this coming.
At the rate that browser vendors seem bent on adding niche features, it would seem they could scrape together the resources to work and obscure protocol like HTTP properly.
Fear of being left behind. Uncertainty about the future of Bitcoin. Doubt in the community.
Freedom of the press for only publications we like is not really valuable.
http://tryvoices.com/ - great app for calling representatives
Isn't that kinda counter productive? I would assume that a degree from a US university would count for much more which is part of the reason why so many of the Chinese upper class are sending their children to the US - the stamp on the paper is worth more than the actual education.
Its true but its not limited to SF/Bay Area. I had the impression the other day that city-specific industries are much like Universities; so you see that MIT, Berkeley etc. that had CS dept's early on now have the best programs in CS. So it is with cities: the tech industry was born in Silicon Valley so of course there are a lot of Software/EE engineers out there.
Its almost 1/3rd last I checked. But thats not everything you pay a difference on when you build something. The high cost of living and many other things in the bay area factor into everything.
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Alright, this is just one of those topics that it's hard to get prior Google results out of that were good. All papers have same terms in them. (sighs) I did find something to illustrate the problem, though.

http://alacron.com/clientuploads/PDFs/Applications/FocusedIo...

This describes micromilling semiconductors with focused, ion beams. Now, you said not FIB lithography. I can't be sure this is what you're talking about but it's pretty direct. Regardless, all the schemes work similarly in that you work on one part at a time across a chip or wafer. In this one, you can see the precision work is so time consuming that it can take 8 hours for first, metal layer in a chip with quite a few of them. Another part says days. Whereas, even old uses of masks with steppers were cranking out three wafers per minute. See the difference? That's why the direct technologies, even multiple beams, are usually used for just the photomask (most fabs) or for prototypes (eASIC).

I did find that fab I was telling you about that used tech like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/01/business/chip-maker-withou...

It was doing it on nodes that are ancient by today's standards. Yet, you could do quite a bit with them. The lead time was only four weeks for quite a few chips at a reasonable price. Better capabilities can be had at less price today. I keep saying target 0.35 micron initially as it's inexpensive with many fabs available and last cheap one with visual inspection possible. Plus, OSS flows should work on it. Use one beam fab for cheap ones plus one for at least 90nm with 65nm or 45nm high-end.

Far as recent companies, the eASIC process is maskless at 90nm, 45nm, and 28nm for prototyping. THey mainly do structured ASIC's. Here's an example of the prototyping cost:

http://www.easic.com/easic-introduces-45nm-asic-value-shuttl...
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There is so much pressure, career-wise, to move to either the Bay Area, the West Coast in general, or a major urban hub.

I honestly like living in a semi-rural part of the Midwest. I like seeing fields and forests while driving to work. If I want to get out to some wilderness, I can do so in 15-30 minutes. I travel in a car that, I feel, offers me freedom. To boot, I have a nice, reserved spot in the garage below my apartment. I live downtown and I still feel great freedom/"space". I cant imagine being able to do anything like this in a place like SF or even Chicago.

My cost of living is very cheap. My commute is 15 minutes. I live close to my family. Why should I want to leave?
It's also really good at 25Mph - when the roads are not busy in my area I take it out and drive slower and on curvy roads that might be normally 35-40 I slow down autopilot to say 25 and it's really good. At speed there are still a few turns it misses. A year ago at speed it couldn't do even half of what it can do at speed today. So it's also improving with every update
> It's not so cut and dry, which is why people are rightfully worried about a billionaire's personal vendetta to destroy a press organization?

He can't do a single thing to them unless they break the law.
These FDI restrictions were placed for multi-brand retail stores like Walmart.

I guess Apple stores are considered multi-brand because they sell some products from other brands as well.

These restrictions are only for foreign companies. An Indian company can sell 100% imported products without any restrictions, but they are required to pay import duty.
It appears this may be one of nature's "shock absorber" effects in response to reduction of fish population. The increase in cephalopods increase the food accessible by fish.
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Professors aren't what they used to be. Many schools have dramatically reduced the number of tenured faculty.

They the newer folks young and dumb, and they cannot fight the administration like faculty did in years past.
Not linking to my financials... The figure in the stories I've seen pegged his earnings at $6 million a year on $44 million revenue. $5 a post is a years old number, but still.
Interesting that this has been out for 3 years and this is the first I've heard of it. I'll have to try out the tool to separate out sources from various recordings we make for noise control projects (for example, separating out the wheel/rail contribution and engine/motor contribution from DMU/EMU train recordings, or fan contribution and transformer contribution in electrical substation recordings).
I'll bite:

Is it ever ok for a person to argue against policies that increase population in the city where they reside?

If so, what are some ethical reasons for resisting and/or advocating against population growth in a city?
By increasing the most substantial cost that startups face, VCs end up owning larger portions of each startup.
Because having chops in one area doesn't necessarily correlate to having them in another (i.e. student vs employee). Couple that with individual valuation and personality evaluation, and it seems foolish to accept the university's assessment. Maybe if you were hiring in groups and needed impersonal metrics it would be different.
It would appear that your primary takeaway is that we put stuff in a different directory, for an apparently arbitrary reason. I agree, that would be silly -- if it were the case.

With /usr/local/{bin,lib,include}, how would you install multiple versions of openssl? Would you violate convention and do something like /usr/local/openssl-x.x.x/{bin,lib,include}? How do you avoid file path conflicts? When a package is built against a particular version of openssl, how do you ensure that version of openssl sticks around, and that that, upon execution of said program, the dynamic linker loads specifically that version of openssl and not one of the others?

While I encourage you to consider those questions, the short answer is "you can't". At least, not with conventional package managers like Homebrew.

Because Nix builds each package in a unique prefix (governed by the hash of all of the build inputs, recursively), the Nix package manager can use chroots (and Sandboxes on OSX) to ensure that packages are deterministic, and that each package refers specifically to the versions of the dependencies they need (dynamic libraries are fixed via rpaths and we apply patches for references to executables -- so "python -m foo" becomes e.g. "/nix/store/<HASH>-python-2.7/bin/python -m foo").

If you don't use a unique prefix per package, the problem of "how do I install stuff without worrying about path collisions amongst the multiple versions of requisites" becomes intractable. Ditto for build determinism, binary caches, lightweight environments a la nix-shell, etc.

I suppose we could shoehorn each package into /usr/local/<HASH>-<NAME>-<VERSION>/{lib,bin,include}, and then we could tick the "use an existing directory under /" box, but is that really better? I don't see what we gain from that, since that's already an abuse of /usr/local.
My point is not that it wasn't picked up right away -- it's that the discover only became news when Americans got hold of it. More, the reporting is more about the American confirmation and interpretation than the Hungarian discovery!

It's honestly a bit jarring.
Is Ethereum not on its own blockchain?
I can't speak for the other commenter or for other countries, but in the U.S., being "extremely wealthy", to the point where you've become a public figure, changes the standard of privacy and slander in the eyes of the court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan

> New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that established the actual malice standard, which has to be met before press reports about public officials can be considered to be defamation and libel; and hence allowed free reporting of the civil rights campaigns in the southern United States. It is one of the key decisions supporting the freedom of the press. The actual malice standard requires that the plaintiff in a defamation or libel case, if he is a "public figure", prove that the publisher of the statement in question knew that the statement was false or acted in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity. Because of the extremely high burden of proof on the plaintiff, and the difficulty of proving the defendant's knowledge and intentions, such cases—but only when they involve public figures—rarely prevail.

As it's taught in journalism schools, this precedent is seen as the major driver of American press freedom.
The only part that matters: "having more education does not necessarily increase people's productive capacity".
An aircraft can't afford to be hauling around 2-3x as much battery as is actually necessary to fly, as is common in electric cars. I can assure you than when an electric airplane is at the limit of its range, its performance characteristics will change in a negative way.

Electric planes are already at a 100x disadvantage in terms of Specific Energy - liquid fuels (JP-1 jet fuel or gasoline) contain about 46 MJ/kg while Li-ion batteries contain about 0.36-0.875 MJ/kg. They cannot afford to make that a 300x disadvantage. It doesn't work in terms of lift.

As someone else posted in a thread, electric power already takes you from a 900 mile range to a 150 mile range. 50 miles is not acceptable because you're talking <30 minutes of endurance including takeoff, and you have zero safety margin if something should go wrong.
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I'm also introverted, but it was my choice not to take the easy way out. >90% of students in my classes cheated on everything - if there was no way to cheat, the world would end for these guys. It's hilarious when you see students sharing answers on an ethics exam!

Cheating may get you the degree and a good GPA, but you really won't learn that much. I for one came to university to learn as much as possible.

In the end, I graduated with first-class honors and had the highest GPA of my cohort. And even though I graduated from a no-name university in the Middle East, I'm going to start a PhD in Electrical Engineering at a top 10 school in the US this fall.

I like to think it's all thanks to doing things ethically rather than cheating my way through college, but perhaps I'm just lucky.
Are you asking whether there's a social-engineering attack vector here? Probably, but this sort of change is reversible (assuming your infrastructure is even slightly reasonable). If someone wanted to report me as dead, and went to the lengths of fabricating an obituary about me, I wouldn't be upset at LinkedIn for disabling my profile, provided there was an easy-ish way for me to convince them that reports of my death had been greatly exaggerated.

As security policies go, a setup that with a small chance of temporarily marking someone as dead when they're not seems better than one with no chance of marking someone as dead when they are.
Your eye is constantly moving around, even when you think you are staring at the exact same point.
It seems like when installing Nix, it needs to create a 'nix' directory in your root directory. While I haven’t tried installing Nix yet myself, I’m guessing this probably won’t work on OS X v10.11 El Capitan due to System Integrity Protection¹. You’ll have to temporarily turn it off² first before attempting to install Nix (and then optionally turn it back on after).

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¹ — https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/system-integrit...

² — http://www.madrau.com/support/support/srx_1011.html
Now imagine that B was a 60-80 post-curve and your financial assistance was tied to this number.
> A libertarian using the power of government

despite the somewhat narrow notion of what "libertarian" encompasses in US politics, even there they aren't equivalent to zero-government anarchists.

> to crush free speech

i'm increasingly believing that the notion of "free speech" has asymptotically zero meaning in general discourse. that said, an interesting counterpoint is in the article: "Mr. Thiel has donated money to the Committee to Protect Journalists and has often talked about protecting freedom of speech."

it certainly appears to me that he sees gawker as a particularly hostile and unethical enterprise. the cases wouldn't exist without gawker's behavior, and the judges ostensibly render judgement according to the law.
The point is any anti-collision system should be smart enough to tell the difference between a car and a bag. It should NEVER let you plow into another car just because you tapped the brake. It shouldn't even matter if autopilot is on or off. Only if this was a child or animal, could I see the bag argument.

Also, it was a UI failure not notifying the driver clearly that auto-pilot has disengaged. Even the primitive cruise control in my car has a big green light, that turns off when you tap the break. The more autonomous a car is, the more important it is to clearly notify the driver of control handoff.
> What would be the best way to get some of this time spent trying to do things right compensated?

That depends how quickly you can get the money out of the bank, and get yourself out of the country!
For someone to be wrong, they have to have made a some statement that turned out to be incorrect. The people that disagreed with Columbus' calculations said that the earth was larger than Columbus gave it credit for. This was not an incorrect statement.
Turns out a S3 bucket in itself isn't a website.
Still it is used by StackExchange
I originally tried to find lastname.com, but that was already taken. So I got lastname.me. Now my email is firstname@lastname.me. Later on I registered firstnamelastname.com and fistnamelastname.me just to be safe.

The .me domains are more expensive, but I really like them for use as a personal domain. I pay $75/y for three domains.
The statistics would be a lot more informative if they broke out the educated segments of the population by field or college major.

I don't think many in the 21st century would expect a bachelor's or associates degree in english or history to provide many opportunities for additional income.
Would probably be my first choice these days too...
You're very welcome -- thanks for raising the question :)
this question seems rather loaded.
As a former Chinese international student graduated from one of the top Canadian universities with distinction, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, the toxic culture permeated the Chinese visa student community is definitely responsible for the high rate of cheating. Most Chinese visa students came to study in the west did not came to pursue academic excellence. They (and their parents most likely) see it as a way to beef up their profile with a foreign diploma. This was a culture that I tried so desperately to stay away from when I was in school.

On the other hand, I feel bad that the broad generalization impacts tremendously negatively those Chinese visa students who did pursue their dream and passion which led them to a foreign university. I worked hard to graduate with distinction, and learned my stuff well enough to go on and have a successful career, but I always feel I have to go the extra mile just to prove myself; I have to go above-and-beyond just to gain equal footing. I cannot quantify the negative impact the those people cause, but it's incredibly unfair to be prejudiced just because I may look like those people.

Academic dishonesty is certainly not a Chinese-only problem. The media singling out a group such as the Chinese visa students is certainly a popular thing to do to gain clicks, but it's a little unfair.

</end-of-rant>
It's not reversible. The damage to the brain during the course of Alzheimer is destructive (causes your brain to shrink over time).
I'm usually defending European regulations on this site, but that doesn't seem sensible and very much French (France's "you have to play x% songs in French on the radio", applied to Internet services).
Is it possible they have less predators?
At this point it is appropriate to exercise skepticism towards claims of random acts of racial sadism that just happen to comport with popular "social justice" narratives.

http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/reports
> Ultimately college is about what you learn, not your classmates

Some would beg to differ. The veracity of that statement is certainly variable depending on your field of study.
Ooh, that's an excellent point -- thanks for bringing it up. I've had Nix installed since early 2014, so I haven't run into any trouble with SIP yet. Looks like we might need to update our docs, and maybe have the installer give a helpful tip.
Incentives.
This is something of a repost: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Uncommonly%20Difficult%20IQ%20...

That aside, these tests are far too old (ca. 1995) nowadays to be the real deal. Look nearby and you're sure to find more up-to-date stuff, though.
Just for profile avatars, right?
This seems like a common pattern

1. Realize you need to make a lot more money (to meet investor expectations, pay for the fat the company has accumulated, etc)

2. Panic

3. Apply dark patterns (http://darkpatterns.org/)

4. Something better comes along and eats your lunch

5. Repeat.

It's sad because imgur was originally created as the "something better".
I was taking a school bus license endorsement exam and saw they throw out a Chinese girl for cheating. The examiner said it was a fairly frequent occurrence. They couldn't read the questions or answers but they could match the picture with the correct line of answers on the computerized testing machine after enough memorization.
I agree that the user experience overall is just plain shitty on imgur right now.

The home page itself is riddled with "viral images". Why would I use imgur like a *chan site? That need is already filled and done much better by other sites.
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You'll have to add a -P to `setsebool httpd_enable_homedirs on` to be super-effective.

Which sorta supports the OP's point.

The -P means persist through a reboot.
It is. Establishing a new blockchain is a hard thing to do. Ethereum also benefits from network effects between contracts: any contract can call another one to use its functionality.
That isn't even the bad part - the bad part is that give some big complicated docker image (or any build in general!), you really have no practical way of knowing what's different.

That should scare people.
Thanks for the explanation...yeah, as I said, you're talking to a layperson :). I just realized that it was possible that the training was done on images where the color scale was changed, so thinking about it in terms of "well blue patches are so easy to see" is obviously wrong.
> It's also possible that Meyer was right

How is "it" possible given the fact that the engineers all made the last minute changes Mayer demanded and the outcome was unsuccessful?
You still haven't made a case that Thiel's actions are unethical.
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And now HN has started to push a political agenda...