skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so I've lived in both.

The size of the campuses in Silicon Valley literally cannot fit in NYC. No comparison.

Its fantastic that Google bought a block of Manhattan for 1 billion dollars, but Google's Mountain View campus is ALL of Mountain View. These are sprawling districts that cannot fit inside of a skyscraper.

The next fundamental difference is the variety of VCs. NYC cannot replicate this, and there is nothing eroding about it. NYC has one or two VCs looking at the same industry trends. Silicon Valley has many VCs interested in completely different things, different portfolio niches.

NYC has variety of industries and conveniences.

Silicon Valley doesn't even know how backwards its infrastructure is, while trying to change a world that functions better than it does already.

San Francisco masquerades as Silicon Valley and an international city but it is neither. New York, London and Hong Kong are international cities, SF struggles to keep up with the tech bubbles that it remains on the periphery of and only recently gained relevance for.

There is more tech focused stuff in SF and Silicon Valley, but New York has enough satellite offices to keep you occupied.
If in fact there are other viable cases, in the absence of Thiel the injustice would then be that Gawker can behave badly indefinitely because most of the victims will not pay the necessary amount to litigate.
Slide to the left and right for the next and previous images?
I know several people that don't know that imgur was born from Reddit, so I am also happy to see this.
I get the feeling that Imgur set unrealistic expectations when it launched, and they can become very difficult to back away from when they become untenable.
To some extent, I think this comes down to familiarity with the functional approach to solving these kinds of problems. Certainly, before I started writing code in Rust, I also preferred the imperative approach you would take in C and Go. Over time though, I've found that I increasingly prefer this way of expressing chained computation.

That said, there's certainly a point to be made (and indeed other commenters have made it already) that this isn't code you would want to maintain. For production-level code, it'd be broken down more, so that individual pieces could be reviewed and tested in isolation. The code example here was to demonstrate the expressivity of the language more so than the One True Way of doing it.
and now we need half as many cabbage farmers, which means that half those people doing manual labor can do something else, which in turn makes the economy more productive

either way, you get more of something in the economy, even if it's not money for those in poverty. in this case, it'd likely lead to food becoming cheaper and more people being able to eat

I fail to see how education hasn't benefited those in need in this (somewhat contrived) analogy
probably they only do it IFF the image receives a sustained rate of visualizations?
That would explain why it didn't happen to you (nor me) for "simple" usage.
> The brand and reputation of the universities are what allows them to charge so much for tuition and get prestigious faculty (i.e. grant money).

The effects of this issue are not widely understood by the general public. The general public think this kind of thing doesn't hurt the quality of education in the US. We know better.

Only we know because we all attended schools for science which are inundated with Chinese students, particularly at the graduate level.

The schools' reputations will not be hurt until someone sues them. I'm convinced someone in this thread could bring a case against their school and do a lot of good for the US educational system.

http://thefire.org/
I wonder how this correlates with income inequality over the same period (using housing, gas prices and COLA as a simple yardstick) in those same regions.
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I think the missing part is the public uproar. I remember the public reaction to reddit's lost canary as, "ehh?"
I get redirected to the shitty ad page even on my desktop now.
I agree completely with keeping parks and other green space, but disagree with so little density in the actual built up areas.
Of course theres no BART in Marin due to racist local NIMBYs so there's a bit of a paradox involved.
Right, Math being "pretty weak" was a bit of an overstatement.

I meant that for a major that's generally considered to be hard and lead to a lucrative career (it's part of "STEM" after all), it's not that different from Pol Sci or Business (and it does worse than Accounting or Economics, both of which are non-STEM), which most people probably wouldn't expect.
One thing the author totally overlooked - when you have a large percentage of the population that spends an extra 2-6+ years in education, that same large percentage of the population spends 2-6+ less years producing things for people to consume. If those same people aren't more productive as a result of their education, this means that the net productivity of society is lower as a result of the education, while the number of people in the society is the same. End result is that the stuff:people ratio goes down, and poverty naturally increases.

Education has an extremely high cost both in terms of lost productivity and resources consumed to provide it. Misapplied education will throw additional people into poverty, every time. Possibly directly, through onerous student loans, or indirectly by consuming resources that could have been used to produce basic goods for consumption.
Seems like WIRED has gone passive-aggressive on Thiel. Any idea why?...
nbolt.io sounds better in my opinion.
A simple shell script with curl piped through sed or awk...
I would be absolutely fucking terrified to engage autopilot at all in Mountain View, let alone at 25mph.

It's a great feature, but it's a great feature for boring driving.
test link: http://i.imgur.com/PhY2HUP.jpg

is this happening for anyone in thread?

maybe try holding down CTRL and hammering the link to see if it's a probability thing?

I have never seen the behavior being described.
Well put. This should be a script for HBO's Silicon Valley. If it isn't already.
Author states that if you contemplate the two graphs you'll have an epiphany. Quite right, it went "Wow, that is not how you analyse data and I'm sure I heard about an actual investigation with cited sources and actual math and everything which came to pretty much the opposite conclusions". [0]

[0] https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/valueofcollegemajors/
people learning to code isn't about getting people jobs in which they can code. it's about allowing people to solve repetitive tasks in their daily lives and jobs

if everyone were able to code, there'd be much more automation of menial jobs, which generally means a more productive economy in the long run

it's the same thing that we do with running scalable information systems; automate the mundane so you can do things that really have an impact on quality, rather than spending hours doing something you could code and be done with it
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India’s largest smartphone maker looks to Apple to reinvent itself
The advantage over Google is that DuckDuckGo is private.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
I've been trying out different Romance languages, and have heard that learning Esperanto makes learning such languages easier. Does anyone know if that's true or not?
No worries, I DO like the idea though!
To me it sounds obvious, education improves your competitive position. If everyone improves their competitive position, nobody does. It is the employers who are better off, not people.
>...there are perfectly valid ethical questions about Thiel's involvement and motivations in this whole debacle.

Your post basically reads like a law school ethics question/answer. You did a great job issue spotting. Law being one of the most highly regulated industries there are rules on point, so I can answer some of your questions.

Here is how the Florida Rule of Professional Conduct reads "Rule 4-5.4(d): Exercise of Independent Professional Judgment. A lawyer shall not permit a person who recommends, employs, or pays the lawyer to render legal services for another to direct or regulate the lawyer's professional judgment in rendering such legal services."

In other words, under the rules Bollea is the Client. As such has full decision making power with the attorney-client relationship. Not only would funny business result in the disbarment of the lawyer, there are also a lot of practicalities to law that prevent the undue influence on the lawyer.

For example if Bollea wants to settle its not like Thiel could direct the firm to trial for a chance at a bigger judgment over Bollea's wishes, there would be record and it would be grounds for a malpractice claim and disbarment. Lawyer's can't even withhold settlement offers from clients, without there being a record, and again grounds for malpractice and disbarment. Your issue about dropping the claim against the interest of Bollea's ability to collect is interesting, but again if it can be shown Bollea suffered damage (lost ability to collect full judgment through insurance) because the lawyers breached their duty to the client that is grounds for malpractice.
I've never driven a Tesla to compare, but the 2017 Audi A4 does lane keeping much better than I expected and would say the A4 is comparable based on what others have said about Tesla.

I think Mercedes has a pretty comparable system as well, but can't speak from my own driving experience.
Reminds me of this strip from Sherman's Lagoon http://i.imgur.com/zBigP.gif
It would be pretty much impossible to buy that unit at that price. The new normal is that you list your property at below market rate and a get nice silent auction going.

for example a friend of mine just bought a condo in vancouver last week, List price was around 500K, he put an offer of $530, got a counter of $550 and it finally sold for $580.

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/fierce-bidding-wars-a-new-reality-in-lo...
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It utterly does!
for x in xrange(1,101):
if not x % 3:
print "Fizz",
if not x % 5:
print "Buzz",
if (x % 3) and (x % 5):
print x
else:
print ""
Reminds me of:

"She drove my computer, pulling the information she had into various spreadsheets. She translated my muttered, vague ideas into charts.

“This is called data mining.” She said the last words in English.

“Which of us is the canary?” I said."

-- the city and the city, China Mieville

As hammock2 mentions, it's hard to believe this requires much effort to keep running -- if the lack of standardization is the issue, couldn't they rather transition to supporting rsync-style (as mentioned by
rsync) canaries only? (Yes, that would reset a lot of canaries)

Third party monitoring does seem to add value to to canaries. One could perhaps argue that it's a job for archive.org -- but seeing as this is all set up, it seems like a shame to shuttle it.
The 2015 UBS Future of Finance Challenge, so to speak, leaves you with the convenient impression that the investment bank is fighting becoming obsolete due to technological innovation; until it becomes this accessibly clear that the grand objective is understanding how the Bitcoin machinery works for example to improve the techniques of banking secrecy.
Peter Thiel’s dangerous campaign against Gawker
One popular, reasonable definition for "systems language" is "used for writing programs that don't have a GUI" (other than web-based ones).

Another popular, reasonable definition for "systems language" is "something one could write an OS in".
The specific facts of this case are pretty damning for Gawker. They were openly contemptuous of a court order to take down the video. They deserve this.
Good to see such articles that provide an insight into various aspects of a programming language.

A couple of other beginner-friendly resources would include:

- An alternative introduction to Rust [1]

- 24 days of Rust [2]

- CIS 198: Rust Programming [3]

[1] http://words.steveklabnik.com/a-new-introduction-to-rust

[2] http://zsiciarz.github.io/24daysofrust/

[3] http://cis198-2016s.github.io/
But 90% if not more, of the good content comes form Reddit. If Reddit stops using Imgur, then it will turn into 9GAG, and all the users will wonder why all the content is shitter than it's ever been, and many will leave.
Honestly, for your purposes it sounds like learning basic Latin would be a much better choice. Having Latin syntax and vocab in the back of my mind definitely helped when I was learning French and Portuguese (even though my Latin is terrible, just knowing things like verb conjugations helped a lot with seeing the patterns in what initially looked like arbitrary differences between the two languages).
and that's the problem. our "modern" education frequently just ends up being a ranking system, rather than teaching people how to think, learn, and get excited about things

can you imagine how much better the world would be if kids came home from school telling their parents how amazing numbers are?

to anyone that doesn't think that's possible, I'd suggest looking at how kids react to kerbal space program. there's plenty of examples of 8-15 year olds getting excited about putting things on the "mun" with simplified orbital physics. try and teach that the way we teach it in school, and they might pass a test and then forget it a year later
Because they probably aren't charities, and can't afford to donat e Free resources for your perpetual enjoyment?
Following that link on mobile safari leads to a page that contains ads and comments in addition to the image.
This article was written in 1993, a year where Japanese GDP per capita was 25%+ more than the US's. This was the peak of American fear against Japan taking over the world, economically.

With the empirical foregone conclusion that Japan was better than the USA, many people including this author seemed keen to find reasons. Many people ultimately traced it back to the fundamental values of the US.

Yet looking 23 years forward in the future, the US GDP per capita is now about 50% greater than Japan's. In fact, Japan has barely moved in these 23 years, and it's interesting to note everything the author citing above as Japan's philosophical advantage being recast by more recent commentators as weaknesses. To wit, here are the following praised ideas, and the most recent critique of them in light of some developments in the last 23 years:

- "Nation/group above the individual" -- Japanese stagnation has been strongly blamed on a culture where companies have less ability to hire young but very talented employees because that would upset the age-competence hierarchy, and other such rigid structure.

- "Deliberate development needed for growth" -- Witness the Chinese high-speed rails to nowhere, the failure of the US federal forway into being a solor company VC.

- Close association of banks/conglomerates -- Theories abound of Japanese zombie banks and companies with negative value being propped up by bad loans.

And sorry for bashing on Japan -- I have nothing against them personally. They just happen to be a stand in for a star of the alternate non-Anglo economic theory in the essay above.

(These cycles of being anti-US-value when another system is dominate has been surprisingly common. Communism was championed most strongly within the US itself exactly at times when the US was in a recession but the USSR was doing well. For example the early 1930s or early 1980s.)
This happens all the time (#2), it's literally happening to me right now. Look at the map of Ellis and Owner Move-In evictions in SF. Thousands of people are being displaced.
'The pop-up design had been described as a "nasty trick".'

This is also sometimes called a dark pattern http://darkpatterns.org/what_is_a_dark_pattern/
The sex tape itself was widely published on the internet, but most publications responded to Hogan's lawyer's C&Ds. Gawker did not, but more importantly, they separately published the fact that an audio tape exists in which Hogan made blatantly racist remarks about the person dating his daughter, which caused sponsors and others to pull away from him. (Though they didn't publish the tape itself, as others did, perhaps ironically.)

This is what's considered to have caused the damage to his career, rather than the fact that he likes sleeping with his friend's wife.
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Peter Thiel's attack on Gawker is called “champerty,” and it used to be illegal
Result: http://i.imgur.com/86BlJiS.png

There does appear to be some kind of heuristic at work here. For example, following the above link results in the traditional behavior for me, but following your link leads to the full imgur page.

EDIT: Ah-ha, figured it out.

1. Click on an i.imgur.com link

2. If it takes you to the full page, right click on the image and click "Open in new tab"

3. The original i.imgur.com link will now take you to the direct image.

Amusing heuristic. After following these steps, I'm unable to reproduce my own screenshot. http://i.imgur.com/PhY2HUP.jpg always takes me to the direct image.
I find it shocking that accounting and economics aren't considered STEM. (Though at least some subsets of economics are on the official DHS list.)

I would expect (but do not have data to support) that those who do accounting/econ who take a more math-oriented approach do better than those who take a less math-oriented approach.
No free speech. It hurts their educational systems very deeply. They also have a culture of bribing/gifting, from middle school up into the business world and government.

It all boils down to the government wanting to hold onto Asian culture, avoid conflict, keep control and save face.

They view democracy as America's attempt to insert a US-friendly leader. Democracies are arguably the best peace keepers humanity has ever seen, however, China does not view it this way.

This is my perspective after living in SE Asia for 2 years and Taiwan for 2 years. I travel through China occasionally.

Visit China, you can see for yourself
pkgsrc is great and I prefer it to Homebrew on Mac OS X, but it only updates quarterly. :(
also on mobile, every time you look at a photo there's a banner encouraging you to get its app
I noticed that a lot of the Rust programs on Rosetta Code use the functional style as well. You could do that in C# and D too if you wanted—it's just that the people adding Rust entries to the site prefer functional style.

Rust does not force you into the functional style, and usually I use imperative style when writing Rust code, except when the task is so simple that writing e.g. a for loop would be just noise. For example, if I just wanted to convert every string in a vector to uppercase, I'd probably just write "list.iter(|string| string.to_uppercase()).collect()". But if I were, say, hashing every string in the vector, I'd probably use a for loop over an iterator.
and still probably a good 295 years until the these machines receive basic rights.
Yep, the spectrum of light emitted is what matters. A histogram or spectrum intensity curve printed on the cardboard package would be ideal. Sadly, I've never actually seen that in consumer grade stuff.

I've found that most LED bulbs you can find in supermarkets are really quite bad in this respect.

For my home office, I got something called "True-Light" E27 bulbs. The specs are 12W, 5500K, 920lm, CRI 94. They emit a passable bright, white light.

My favourite light source are still E11 halogens. Just pepper the ceiling with them, add dimmers, and hope it doesn't heat up the room too much…
unfortunately nothing is free in this world
Esperanto's design may have been a good idea 100 years ago. But its design is too shortsighted for this modern world. All it solves is spelling and pronunciation problems, when it could do so much more.
Core: Minimalizing use of smartphones
"Well duh, ostensibly high-paying jobs are good, remember?"

To whom, exactly? If those jobs are going to people who are moving here from somewhere else, then who benefits? There was a thriving city here long before tech startups came along.

The cruel irony of this kind of job growth is that it doesn't benefit the people who are being displaced. I personally think we need a more balanced approach: we need to build more housing, but we also need to start implementing some disincentives for companies to locate offices in San Francisco. It makes no sense, for example, that we're giving tech companies tax breaks to move their employees here.
> Can't imagine that AWS bill...

That's not how things work over here.

We can and do imagine. We even calculate estimate values so we don't have to stay in the dark and reason without a solid basis.

I'd encourage you to find some traffic numbers provided by imgur and some S3 pricing to do a rough estimate. Maybe someone more knowledgable will pop in and improve on that. When we argue everyone involved shall be wiser after. That's how it works around here.
You cannot buy a decent house in a good suburb on the SF peninsula for a million dollars.
huh interesting. the first time it brought me to a page but after that it's direct link
What we actually needs is a web standard list (via API) that provides the shortcuts and the search URL like so (as an example):

!gh { https://github.com/search&q=$QUERY$ }
!ebay { http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?&_nkw=$QUERY$ }

Then all browsers (and other apps) could provide these standard shortcuts in their search functions.
> because the new building next door is filled with 'luxury' $5000/mo rents, which might drive the rent up in their building.

This is such a stupid myth. On par with "vaccinations cause autism" or Bigfoot.

Science has studied how price depends on supply and demand very thoroughly. Increased supply always leads to lower prices.
and he really does not care
but people now live in a society which has been made better by more-educated people who have produced better products more efficiently etc.
You're both right. No one who studies Galileo disputes that he ran afoul of the Inquisition. The question is whether the specifics of his case justify framing it as part of an epic battle between science and religion (or reason and ignorance, or any other binary opposition really), and I think the parent comment is correct in suggesting that most historians today would answer "no" to that. Mario Biagioli's book Galileo Courtier is a really excellent work of history that I recommend to anyone interested in the details - it's more about the role of patronage in supporting Galileo's work, but gives a lot of insight into the systems of authority at the time, and Galileo's unique personality.
[ deleted ] -- I removed it because I got tired of trying to explain the nuance.
More readable, and IMHO more idiomatic version: (Disclaimer: never tested)

let mut idx = HashMap::new();
for fname in &args {
let f = match fs::File::open(fname) {
Ok(f) => f,
Err(e) => panic!("input file {} could not be opened: {}", fname, e),
};
let f = io::BufReader::new(f);
let mut words = HashSet::new();
for line in f.lines() {
for w in line.unwrap().split_whitespace() {
if words.insert(w.to_string()) { // new word seen
idx.entry(w.to_string()).or_insert(Vec::new()).push(fname);
}
}
}
}

People who was introduced to the functional approach for the first time seems to enjoy it so much that everything becomes a hard-to-read mess of functions. I had similar experiences with Python list comprehension and C# LINQ.
Its a pretty cool phenomenom
no software is written with this in mind, so it wont work right without extensive babysitting (that nobody will do).