skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft and Amazon only you say? Don't know where you'd get that data from.

Google has a big campus here in Fremont and Kirkland, and they're building a huge new complex in South Lake Union (Amazon's stomping grounds).

Facebook just opened their brand new office in SLU.

Samsung is here. Adobe is here. Atlassian is here. Uber is here. DocuSign is here.

Expand the metro area to Bellevue (since we included Microsoft above) add companies like Redfin, Zillow, Expedia, FICO, Disney.

Edit: Oh yeah, forgot Intel and EMC as well.

I'm sure there's many I missed but there's WAY more than just Microsoft and Amazon.

... Just don't tell anyone. Go to Portland instead. I hear they want you ;)
(And, yes: education can of course grant skills which are genuinely required for certain jobs. This being Hacker News, I suppose we'll hear that everyone should learn to code. I'm all for everyone getting to do whatever they wish to do, and if that wish is learning to code, so be it. But I suspect, if everyone did suddenly learn to code, we'd find that coding would, with corresponding suddenness, cease to be a ticket out of poverty...)
Or greenhouse effect ;)
Can reddit clone the pics previously uploaded on imgur or does it have its eggs in someone else's carriage?
Not a very long journey.

After all, it was not so long ago in this country when people of a certain ethnic descent were locked up en masse.

Maybe a kill switch is too far: how about an electrical charge to block the activity of your optic nerve and brain stem?
The IR is only a loss if it escapes. Their design tries to reflect it back at the filament to reuse it. A hot filament encased in a perfect window that reflects everything but visible light is highly efficient, simply because there's nowhere for waste heat to go.

Check out the wikipedia article on "luminous efficacy". Hypothetical black-body sources truncated to ≥2% photopic sensitivity range are excellent, and that's what this group is trying to approximate.
At what point can you say that has been achieved? A concrete goal to me would require a way of knowing it's been completed.

I'd say that's a good problem to discuss when someone (anyone!) claims they are close to achieving it.
I'm always amazed at how much open, undeveloped space one can see looking eastish when up in Tilden Park out here in the East Bay. It's fantastic.
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Uh, no. You are the one reading too much revisionist history.

On the morning of June 22, 1633, Galileo, dressed in the white shirt of penitence, entered the large hall of the Inquisition building. He knelt and listened to his sentence: "Whereas you, Galileo, the son of the late Vincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine....." The reading continued for seventeen paragraphs...

"And, so that you will be more cautious in future, and an example for others to abstain from delinquencies of this sort, we order that the book Dialogue of Galileo Galilei be prohibited by public edict. We condemn you to formal imprisonment in this Holy Office at our pleasure."

"As a salutary penance we impose on you to recite the seven penitential psalms once a week for the next three years. And we reserve to ourselves the power of moderating, commuting, or taking off, the whole or part of the said penalties and penances."

"This we say, pronounce, sentence, declare, order and reserve by this or any other better manner or form that we reasonably can or shall think of. So we the undersigned Cardinals pronounce."

Seven of the ten cardinals signed the sentence.

Following the reading of the sentence, Galileo knelt to recite his abjuration:

"Desiring to remove from the minds of your Eminences, and of all faithful Christians, this strong suspicion, reasonably conceived against me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I abjure, curse, and detest the aforesaid errors and heresies, and generally every other error and sect whatsoever contrary to the said Holy Church; and I swear that in the future I will never again say or assert, verbally or in writing, anything that might furnish occasion for a similar suspicion regarding me...."

"I, the said Galileo Galilei, have abjured, sworn, promised, and bound myself as above; and in witness of the truth thereof I have with my own hand subscribed the present document of my abjuration, and recited it word for word at Rome, in the Convent of Minerva, this twenty-second day of June, 1633."

"I, Galileo Galilei, have abjured as above with my own hand."
Just curious, is that 3500 per server per year? Or 3500 for the lifetime of the server?
Depending on OS flavor UNIX has had ACLs piled on top of the classic owner-group-other security model for decades.

SELinux in particular has decent ACL capabilities. By default Apache's policy allows listening on port 80 and a few other well known ports - you can configure the app to listen on $RANDOM_PORT but all that'll get you is an error in a logfile until you use semanage to fix it.

Or did I misunderstand your statement about no ACLs on anything?
A one bedroom condo in downtown Vancouver is very affordable compared to San Francisco.
Given a directory listing URL with a list of books and a local directory path, automatically downloads all the books to the given local directory path.
"direct" links to an image uploaded sometimes/usually redirect to imgur page, with lots of ads and shitty content, obnoxious, animated overlays that block out part of the image on mobile, etc
Other comments on this thread say image posts not working on mobile and virus warning ads .
Oh nice, I agree... normally I don't have the problem since I pretty much constantly use VPN-Servers in english-speaking locations, but whenever I don't or are on another machine it's somewhat "weird" and frustrating. Valid criticism.

So I guess from their part it's a feature, user-friendliness, they have to serve the layman and the professional. If one uses a Google Account, you probably can tweak this with some settings?
Sure, there is a massive difference. I think society should support the former, but not the latter.

But those arguing for socialised medicine aren't arguing that society should help the gunshot victim, they're arguing that the money to do so should be coerced from members of society. That coercion is morally wrong, regardless of how worthy the recipient is.

Also, if societal support were voluntary, people could choose between supporting the gunshot victim or the bank.
I can't help but feel it might have been set on by a long standing UTI

Then again, her sister also has it, so it could also just be genetic.

These factors aren't mutually exclusive, and are likely complementary.

Many (or pretty much all) women experience UTI's at some time in their lives, but few of them are so severe as to trigger dementia.

The difference between those whose UTI's lead to dementia vs not is likely genetic (or epigenetic, which is a whole other topic/controversy).
Not sure you can equate the Chinese race with computer geeks.
Certainly good points, but one of the unique things about the Bay Area,especially compared to the east coast megalopolis, is that you can also be in the wilderness in 15-30 minutes.
I can't agree more with Brador, you're really risking your freedom and if they don't have a bug bounty, you might end up in court / being sued.

Here is a google translate from a French article that you might find interesting : https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev...
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You solve it by signing the image. Sometimes you just won't be able to get a completely reproducible build processes that's fully deterministic, so Nix cannot fix this problem entirely. Additionally, sometimes you just don't have time, or experience to take another program/tool you didn't write and package it up such that it never downloads things from the internet.

It's a hard problem to solve, and Nix helps a lot, but it's not going to fix all the problems, which is why we should care more about trusting the packager to package something relatively reproducible and sign it so that we it can be vouched for.
Folks interested in this might be interested in ManyEars and the associated hardware projects:

http://manyears.sourceforge.net/
Why not work remotely?
You can install packages by installing nix into your homedir. But you will never get binary packages this way.

The reason is because when the software is compiled, it's stashed in the /nix directory, and might refer to other artifacts in /nix. For example, zlib.so exists in /nix/store/zlib-.../lib/zlib.so, and links to glibc.so, which exists in /nix/store/glibc-.../lib/libc.so.6. So if you want to install zlib and get binary packages, you need to first install glibc. And you need to put glibc in the place that zlib will expect it.
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ManyEars: Microphone Array-Based Audition for Mobile Robots
I can see that. I'm just optimistic that more and more regions will grow to have local VC capital, startup experience, and engineer-dense environments.

I've situated myself in southern Taiwan. I may be the only foreign coder in the city, haha, and the startup scene is almost entirely up north around Taipei, but I hope that changes =)
> What stopped Patey and Yokoyama from proving Ramsey's Theorem For Pairs/Triples by saying "for any pair which satisfies some relation X, there exists another pair which also satisfies relation X"?

Because it's not an axiom? I feel like I'm not understanding your question completely
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Interesting data.

Seems to me like there's a top tier of 3 highly technical majors (EE, CS, ME), and then a big cluster of 9 pretty decent majors (10 of the 12 at this stage might reasonably be called "STEM"). Communications is in the decent tier for women but not men. And then there are a bunch of weaker majors.

The only thing that's even remotely surprising to me is that Chemistry isn't a little higher.
Clearly we have work to do ...
>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.

I suspect that's the point. That the reasoning "people with degrees aren't poor, so let's just give everyone a degree" wouldn't result in eliminating poverty, it would result in a bunch of poor people with degrees.
then he is my new hero, whoever he is.
But bear in mind this just brings California in line with a bunch of places that managed to build their way out of a housing crisis. $1T in war spending dumped on DC in the last decade, led to cranes everywhere, not massive rent increase.
Sounds like life here in Bend, Oregon (where we have some nice mountains, to boot). The same housing situation as SF is playing out though: it's becoming prohibitively expensive for middle class people like teachers and firefighters because not enough housing is being built.
It's about time. Tech companies, both startup incubators and the big software megacorps, should have been lobbying Bay Area gov'ts for more housing and transport infrastructure for the last five years. What's the point of all that wealth and power if they're not going to use it to enrich their local communities?
How does this benefit/harm the folks who already recently bought a house at exorbitant price, burning all their savings, calculating their returns based on how bay area prices have behaved over the last couple decades? Will they be screwed?
Looks like it's backed by S3

x-amz-storage-class: REDUCED_REDUNDANCY
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Server: AmazonS3

Can't imagine that AWS bill...
I think NYC is already there. It's so easy to find a tech job in NYC. Maybe it's even easier in SV, but I've never missed not being in SV. There's such a variety here. Plenty of startups, all the tech giants, and plenty of tech/IT jobs at "regular" companies, consulting opportunities, etc... And it's not _just_ tech -- plenty of other industries are headquartered in NYC. By contrast I can't think of any other industries that SV is the flagship metro-area of besides tech... If software is going to eat the world, it helps to have some of those industries you're going to disrupt nearby already.

I'd love to see NYC co-opt SV as the world capital of the tech industry, and I think it could totally happen. The only thing SV has going is historical inertia, and it's eroding. This housing problem in SV is going to make it erode faster.

Honestly I don't understand SV at all. They say NYC has a housing cost problem, and it sure does, but it's nothing compared to SV -- in SV you have people paying Manhattan prices so they can live in SF... yet somehow still commuting an hour to the suburbs where the offices are! At least here you can either pay Manhattan prices and get a 10 minute commute for it -- or take an hour-long commute and at least get a much cheaper and/or larger place in exchange. And your commute won't require you to drive, unless you want that.

NB: I've never lived in the SV area so maybe I have some misconceptions that need correcting? :-)
For me people trumps nature. I like living in a big international city with a lot of culture, getting to meet a lot of new people all the time. At least not being closed off to those possibilities.

It doesn't have to be SF. It's not just that rent is expensive, it's that for the price you pay you most likely aren't even living in a nice neighborhood (most parts of Mission, parts of Soma, Market, parts of Haight, Divis, most of Western Addition, Lower Nob Hill, etc. - these aren't nice places at all for $3500/ month, which would put you in the very best areas of pretty much any other city in the world).
If you don't have a window, it's technically not a room. Fire codes usually require 2 directions of egress.
I haven't read the court transcripts, but I suspect the court didn't address the question of insurance coverage and premiums ;)
Reed is a wonderful example of a school with almost no grade inflation. In the last 30 years only 11 students have had perfect GPAs.

See: https://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/grades.pdf
The imgur hate in here is odd. It seems like people are just assuming the worst based on one critical comment thread that got turned into a techcrunch article. Which is understandable, I don't understand how they can offer a free unlimited image hosting site (and they've offered it for so long that, well, you can see the backlash they got when direct linking is taken away). Still, their management seems savvy enough to know that they would have to carefully manage that change.

There's at least two distinct types of imgur users, those who only use imgur as an image host and "imgurians." The huge usage numbers come from the former while the actual value (IMHO) is in the unpaid labor of the latter group (like most social media). That means imgur can piss off their freeloaders as long as they don't upset their community, but this is really no help at all because the community is far more critical than the freeloaders. Freeloaders don't care about imgur's community drama.
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why do we keep clinging to this idea that creative work is somehow "market captureable". Theres almost 0 friction to work for a company in new york or san francisco but somehow being on-prem is this career enhancing move. Why. What does it get you?

Some of the best engineers I know work remote and visit occasionally. Maybe theyre outliers, but we really need to kill this narrative where to be the best you need to live in the valley.
It's basically their way to control the content that gets posted to the platform; I'd be surprised if a lot of subreddits don't get shut down if they switch to using it rather than imgur or reddpics.
Hmm, so higher education levels do not fix poverty. But what if the problem is that we just aren't teaching the right things? Could higher quality education -- better teachers, more relevant curriculum, less focus on paper degrees, more focus on creativity -- fix poverty?
High school is a resource if you already know how to learn.

Otherwise, it's a day care.
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This is pretty cool!

A couple if years ago, I saw a short documentary about some commercial software that was able to take the recording of an orchestra, separate the instruments and allow the user to edit the pitch and volume of an individual note an instrument was playing, but I can't seem to find it anymore.

Might anyone here know about this software ?
> Also, I hear Portland is nice.

It's precisely because of the bullshit NIMBY attitudes in SF that Portland is getting a huge influx of tech people, who, in turn end up, through no fault of their own, forcing out other people, because Portland isn't building quite fast enough either.
I'd like to know what the author considers "systems work"; I don't consider garbage-collected languages (Go, Python) "systems" languages.
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I don't watch anything specific in response to being "stuck", but a lot of times when I'm coding and want something in the background for stimulation and to occupy idle moments, I'll put a movie on with the sound turned down real low. I like to use something I know so well that I can practically recite the dialogue, so I am not going to actually get interested in what's going on, since I already know it so well. So usually, that turns out to be The Matrix. Occasionally it's The Social Network, Tron:Legacy, Hackers, or Inception. Something about having those going seems to help inspire me on some level.
This is just a random unqualified observation so take it with a pinch of salt.

When I compare educated Indian and Chinese people to Americans I just see more willingness to put in hard work on the mundane stuff.

Americans with the same educational qualifications who see a year or two of grunt/drudge work ahead of them to move up the food chain, will more likely quit and do whatever is currently hip. Now some small fraction of these people actually do well and the majority whose startups/youtube channels/gadget blogs/music bands fail find themselves in those overeducated poverty bins.

From what I have seen in Indian and China, I highly doubt poverty is increasing in those educated bins.
> Most normal people don't know what a search engine and just go with the default.

Exactly. Microsoft's users are there because they don't know about the alternatives or are locked in.

> You are the one fetishizing Google. I know MS and Google are both slimy. Google just has a better PR machine.

I see, it is a personal thing for you.

I was just saying that Microsoft's services are essentially unusable. That's not because of Bill or Ballmer, but because Bing is just bad.

The only reason I'm mentioning dark patterns is to say that it's 20% with all the cheating they can do. Not because one in five people thinks their offering has value.
I hate the idea that some people seem to hold that teaching everyone to code will fix the world's problems. It won't.

People who want to code, should learn to code. Some people should learn to weld. Some people should learn to drive a commercial truck. Some people should learn to cook. Some people should learn to landscape. Some people should learn to fix automobiles and son on and so forth.

We have a society that needs people with many diverse skills. We should be investing more in tech or trade schools than we are in colleges and universities.

People need a way to gain the skills they will need to earn a living but sending everyone to college is a universally bad idea. It'll turn the Bachelor's degree into the new High School Diploma.
I have intelligence and programming ability, and a desire to further my career. I want a good high paying job in the epicenter of my chosen industry.

I do not want to move to a city where I can't afford to buy a good home within walking distance of my workplace.

The world should provide this for me.
I think a lot of students' mindset is to pass with minimal effort as opposed to throughly understand the subject matter. When studying they focus on what's require to pass exams instead of what will contribute most to society. Exams aren't constructed to model what's best for society - they're there to help the universities or educational institutions convince students it's worth it to give them money.
Also don't forget that the incident involved publishing his racist rants which destroyed his career.
Living in Beijing now, I would die for more rain. Ok, just having more clean air would be a nice start.

I was born in Portland when it was bigger than Seattle (after the early 70s Boeing bust, and when Intel/Tektronix was picking up). How times have changed...
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I think what you mean to say is cheaper, not affordable.

a software engineer makes over 80K if he is lucky, you would be considered an exception if you make anything over 100K. also pretty much everything else costs more in Canada than it does in US which leaves even less money for housing,

so cheaper yes, but definitely less affordable.
Weird. I've never experienced this or heard of it.
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Too late, I'm afraid.
I LOVE Seattle! Though research and folks I talk to say it's expensive to live there. Maybe I'm getting the wrong info!
I'm hesitant because I have never worked remotely nor studied how to effectively do so. The biggest names in tech (which are interested in my specialty) also seem uninterested in remote workers, even after positive interviews.
In some fields the winner takes it all. Either you win or you die.

Also money is like a drug. What's wrong with taking a little cocaine in the morning and a little heroin in the evening? Nothing, except there are very few people who can sustain that over an extended period of time. You also wouldn't know about them because they neither become very rich nor very famous. ("Hey look there is the most average guy in the whole country who has no exceptional qualities.") The world belongs to the candles who burn from both ends.
Funny, I'm still on Windows 7 - I know which "updates" are related to the Win10 upgrade thanks to the well-written Microsoft kdb articles (not sarcasm), and I disable them. No problem here.
SourceForge got bought by new folks who reversed all the misleading ads and bundling stuff:

https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
LOL.

"In the short term, we're building on recent advances in AI research and working towards the next set of breakthroughs."

"For the foreseeable future, the group is focused on deep learning research."

DOA
What are some better alternatives to s3?
You are probably referring to the sentence "Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work (which is most of what I do anyway), and has largely replaced both Go, Python, and C/C++ in my day-to-day."

One could also interpret is as "Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work [...], and has __also__ largely replaced both Go, Python, and C/C++ in my day-to-day."
There is a big difference, in most people's perception, between "report on him fucking his best friends wife" and "publish video of him fucking his best friend's wife". The former happens all the time for public figures and no one bats an eye.
Nope. I'm greatly discomfited that my computer browses a UNIX/Linux backed internet - I'd rather stick to those sites backed by Windows.
$3500/mo will buy you a penthouse in some cities.
iPhone manufacturer Foxconn is replacing 60,000 workers with robots
The biggest problem with imgur is that their mobile site is slow and sluggish as hell.

On my Moto G2 loading and rendering even a single image takes way longer than it should be so I guess there is a lot of "beautiful" Javascript hackery going on in the background doing who-knows-what.
Kind of like you can find one "scientist" who thinks evolution is not a real thing.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/86486/does-new-housing-create...