skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monica is the person who left Silicon Valley to go live somewhere decent and to do something more personally meaningful with her life. We just haven't seen her do that in the show, yet. Kind hearted people like her are non-existent in an industry like that.
Google "progressive kristallnacht perkins".

The WSJ article can't be linked (access will be restricted), but clicking from Google's search results will allow you to read it.
"I get to keep all my stuff, and don't have to share. So what if my bounty is built on the backs of others, my stuff is my stuff".

OTOH, I'd say it's closer to "I'm happy to share with others, as long as I do it on my own terms, without somebody threatening me into it, and furthermore, even if I don't 'share', I contribute to the overall good simply by participating as a productive member of the economy". Consider what Adam Smith had to say:

"But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people, indeed, supplies him with the whole fund of his subsistence. But though this principle ultimately provides him with all the necessaries of life which he has occasion for, it neither does nor can provide him with them as he has occasion for them. The greater part of his occasional wants are supplied in the same manner as those of other people, by treaty, by barter, and by purchase. With the money which one man gives him he purchases food. The old clothes which another bestows upon him he exchanges for other old clothes which suit him better, or for lodging, or for food, or for money, with which he can buy either food, clothes, or lodging, as he has occasion."

Now that's not to say that there aren't Libertarians out there with a "fuck you, got mine" attitude. Then again, there are people with that attitude who aren't Libertarians as well.
Setup was always such a time consuming pain. Just tonight I tried to co-op a retro game which still went bad despite two (modern) source ports and hours of tweaking.

Steam can help--for a price.

Back in the day the first LANs I attended also took hours of preparation in the school AV lab. Still, being in person was interesting.

Consoles with split screen make it so much easier.
> the issue is that it is both very difficult to measure, track and maintain data and it varies wildly.

Also went to a bootcamp and I agree with this. I think the variance in ability between students is greater than the variance between bootcamps. People come in with different levels of experience and backgrounds. People are looking for work in different places.

I think reviews from former students are a better solution than just numbers.
That's not what was reported at the time[1]. The NHTSA found no defect trend[2]. Tesla decided to make changes to prevent the problem anyway, including reinforcing that battery compartment and raising ride height when at speed, which should reduce the chance of anything like that happening again, but there's no evidence that their engineering was at fault (they indicated their cars had driven 90 million miles at the time, and only two fires were reported).

1: http://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/28/nhtsa-closes-investigation-in...

2: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?searchType...
That's a false conflict.

Building new profitable companies and industries is actually how the world has been made into a vastly better place the last 250 years.
My first LAN gaming experience was during the last 30 minutes of a double-period computer class on Fridays in São Paulo when our teacher let us play Doom in the school's computer lab. This was in 1994 or 1995. I also used those machines to send my first email to a girl I had a crush on who lived on another continent.

I also remember many evenings playing [Space War][1] on an IBM machine with a friend and waking up at 6am to play [Sopwith][2] before heading to school when sleeping over another friend's place.

[1]: http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2006/06/spacewar/
[2]: http://www.sopwith.org/
This screwed me up. I gave the 5 second attention and I thought it was doing the opposite (i.e flood with SFW links and sanitize my search).
Wow. That ball joint is completely dry. It looks like it's never been greased, or any grease left the joint a long time ago.
There's a more compelling argument: if any of the large state actors were involved, they'd probably have done a more competent job of it. This all sounds pretty amateurish to me.
Jennifer Lawrence Teaming with Adam McKay on Theranos Medical Drama
Ask HN: How much would you pay for useful news?
After this Presidential Campaign, thinking about the media lately. I don't like them. Too much noise, nothing useful for me. I then thought about how much I paid for this experience. $0.

Sure, maybe a $1 or two from my cable bill but for the most part, I paid nothing and the quality was what worth exactly what I paid.

Thought about all the work needed to create useful news. We're talking about staff of thousands of people. And if you want good people, you need to pay them good salaries. None of these free labor stuff but real money to hire real people where this is their full time profession.

How much would you guys pay for useful news per day? What is the worth of useful information to you? To me, if I paid $10 a day and the news helped gain $20 a day of value, it would definitely be worth it. That's about $300/mo for news. But that's just me.

Is there a viable business here? Are there others who think this way other then people who trade stocks?
Plano is not what I would describe as upper class. There are definitely areas surrounding Plano that are, but they are very small pockets.
SV never stops cracking me up!
Thanks - this is a great explanation :)
This type of question is probably better addressed to info@ycombinator.com.
I only just looked this up about 20 mins ago, after the article on Silicon Valley...
A major feature of untraceability is that exchanges can know your identity in this way, yet your transactions still remain confidential.
Serial was a bit tricky to get synced as I recall.
Mobile data and bandwidth demand to skyrocket by 2021, requiring 5G network
What matters much more than whether Google deletes is whether some other group has access to and stores that data before Google deletes it. Almost assuredly the answer is yes. Search history is a tremendously powerful tool and insightful data point for anyone. There's no way government groups aren't using it. It takes up almost no room for storage, either.
The possibilities for how language will work in the future are really exciting and interesting! We made the Minuum keyboard, too, which also explores how machine learning assistance can open up new ways of communicating.

One reason we're interested in visual communication with Dango, though, is that regular text input is pretty good already. Chorded keyboards exist and are way faster, but people mostly can't be bothered to use them. QWERTY is just good enough. But the field is wide open for rich communication with images, nothing out there is particularly good yet.
Apparently, fewer and fewer people actually care about what Apple's going to do
I feel like it's very easy to fudge the numbers just due to all the different factors involved. Would student reviews be a better way to evaluate bootcamps? I know I've seen some bootcamps on yelp with reviews. This seems like it would be better than a self-reported statistic.
In a similar vein, I believe that "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is the most realistic portrayal of the dark ages that I know of.
This guy has got it all wrong.

If Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg where in his position with access to data they didn't create, by now they would have devised a way to appoint themselves custodians of said data, extracted a fee from the world for restricted access, enough to go off and build flying cars.

And here this clown is risking his life. What a waste.
What do you think of these newfangled gentleman planters, like George Washington?

http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/biography/
It increasingly feels like we're living in the end of the "golden age" of podcasting to me. I've got my little homegrown podcatcher downloading files and sticking them on my server so I can stream them over my LAN or load them onto my devices for offline play. Presumably publishers will muscle into this market to "monetize" the entire thing and completely fuck it up. No more MP3s to load on my devices, etc.

Oh, well. It was nice while it lasted. Maybe I'll end up breaking out the old rig I built back in the early 2000's to timeshift public radio shows to MP3s.
Let's blame the machine
I think my laptop's heaviness helps :P If I want to write something outdoors I remember to pick up my notebook if I remember how clumsy my laptop is. At home, it is always by my hand.

I use an A5 size notebook by a Japanese vendor, the brand is Stalogy. It has ~185 thin sheets and weighs only ~100g. The paper is quite good, light and sturdy. If you use a fountain pen or ball pen, the marks won't smear the other side of the page. Highlighters can be seen from the back but you won't mistaken the marks for those on this side. Haven't tried watercolor though.

The covers may become a bit wrinkled if they are wet, but inner pages are not much affected by water if you press them flat when drying. I find this out after I spilled some water in my bag. Luckily no electronic gadgets were in it then.
What about Gilfoyle ? He is my favorite, I guess because I am an engineer and also I guess a NBA (Natural Born Asshole) so I can relate. Maybe he is just your typical NBA Engineer ?
Not any particular well known person.
Google Moves Closer to a Universal Quantum Computer
Isn't a common occurrence meaningful evidence (regardless if someone says it on reddit or in a conversation at a bar)? I am kind of surprised that there are people who have seemingly not encountered this attitude.

I don't have an academic study on it or anything, but maybe someone has done that. A quick google reveals stuff like:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-hate-rich-people
Interesting...I've always found iMessage to be the single most compelling argument for iOS.
Flatiron School was nothing like this. We had long lectures every day by a great senior-level dev, and then review sessions with recent grads later in the day. It was a really polished curriculum, and a great environment to work hard in. $20k is indeed expensive, but it's only money. I used to do something I didn't love for a living and now I get to write code. Life is short. I'm thankful bootcamps exist and there was a path for me to transition into a challenging, engaging career.

I've been out for almost a year now. I hope they're still keeping the standards high.
Apple creates a new company to sell solar energy
I've just started playing it and like some of what you've done. One thing I've been looking for is easier to assign tags. Like drag and drop tags onto new bookmarks. Have the system suggest tags based on how other tagged the same website or page. Or even do statistical analysis of the webpage to suggest tags.

Also are you doing this as a toy project or is this a business?
Just scrape keywords off 4chan and some deep web sites. Cops knocking on your door in no time.
Agreed. Have worked with dozens of human rights defenders and journalists in repressive countries who thought that just because they had Blackberrys they were safe. :(
> Patten 3: NullObject/Optional over null passing

The solution here disperses the responsibility of keeping sumOf safe to its callers, all over the place, instead of a single location in sumOf.
The actual name is Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/490
Ah, sounds like we are much in agreement then.
This thread makes me really happy for my recent installation of NoScript.
Forever! Actually I recently found out that there's still an active (semi-)professional scene which blew my mind. Amazing game, I've started playing a lot again and thinking about hosting some LAN parties for it.

Come join us at reddit.com/r/aoe2 , it's fun!
Yep, wouldn't touch them with a bargepole
Juice it or lose it [video] (2012)
Sometimes it baffles me how car companies act.

Over at Reddit a mechanic who complained of how a cracked transmission was repaired was fired.

It was a warranty repair and it seems Land Rover was aware of the damage by a co-worker of the mechanic who complained but Land Rover said the repair was acceptable. It was a huge crack in an aluminum transmission case welded back together.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/4iuw...
I also seem to recall having a LAN party New Years Eve...

Those were the days. We would spend all night doing the LAN party and all day either hunting or paying paintball.

Andy, I'll never forget your first LAN party: showed up with 7GB porn on your 8GB hard drive and refused to delete any to make space for the games because you only had 33.6k dialup.
> How many of our web evangelist are using an Apple laptop, the most closed ecosystem around?

He's got a point here. I gave up my MBPs for a Win 10/Linux notebook, and I've come across some opensource and commercial projects I hadn't noticed only worked on OS X and Windows (MAX/MSP). Sometimes Linux is supported, but as a third, less-supported option (Mathematica 10.4).

Maybe it's because I made the change that I am focused on this now, but every talk I watch has the Apple logo.

I've noticed some older coders with cred are rocking Lenovos and 3 to 5 year old laptops. I used keep a laptop for 4 or more years, but now I am guilty of 'upgrading' every 2 to 3 years.
Oh man this takes me back. I remember lugging steel case builds and CRTs around to many 2-3 day cs 1.6 LAN parties in high school. So many cases of bawls were consumed; so much time was spent sitting in #findscrim
Obligatory SV link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0souv2SyvQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871670
It's admittedly sort of a weird hill to die on, but we all have one. Please don't make it personal.
$20,000 is about half of what my 4 year college education cost (although it's more expensive now, certainly). That seems incredibly expensive for a bootcamp. I'm obliged to ask what on earth that money is going towards, besides directly into somebody's pockets.

> Another observation, most people who get in, are already qualified people, with top university degrees.

I'm afraid to ask how large their student loans could be, this bootcamp included.
It is worth noting that there actually are plenty of remote workers. Most people are presumably unaware of them for two reasons:

1) People who work remotely are clustered in companies that allow remote working. If you don't work for a company that will let you work remotely then you probably don't work with any remote workers.

2) Remote workers can often choose their location so they cluster in more desirable locations which, statistically speaking, you probably do not live in.

I worked remotely for 2011-2015 within a company that had approximately 1/3 of its workforce working remotely. As I could go where I wanted I spent most of my time overseas. Spent a lot of time in SE Asia. Places like Chiang Mai in Thailand and Bali in Indonesia have no shortage of people working remotely either as an employee, freelancing or starting a business.
What most people don't see yet is that when enough of these counter-examples to allegations of abuse surface, people won't believe the allegations any more.

Reputation and reputation destruction is a dynamic system that will find equilibrium in a place different from where we are right now.
(I'm a cofounder at Hack Reactor.)

It's always a bummer when an alum would not recommend the program. I hate reading posts like this and I'd love to buy the poster a beer and learn more so we can do it different next time. (Email is in profile!)

Here's a bit of inside baseball:

This post is representative of a troubled period at our school. We had a couple of overlapping key problems and recent alums have been less supportive of the school. We care and we've made big moves to fix it. 1) Candidates were gaming the admissions process -> we rewrote it. 2) Students only had access to 2014 data and didn't know how it was calculated -> we published our 2015 data (and some stuff on 2016) and we published the world's first guide to "how to publish employment statistics that aren't bullshit", and we ramped up messaging to students "expect that your job search might be harder".[A] 3) Students stopped knowing who we were and stopped feeling like they could trust us -> we bought back two leaders to focus full-time on the campus (vs working at the umbrella organization). Lots of smaller changes as well.

Even during this difficult period, students are generally having a great experience and getting an ROI that we are proud of. Our most recent NPS measurements have all been above 80, which is bonkers. (This means that nearly everyone is a 9 or a 10 on a 1-10 scale of "how likely are you to recommend HR to a friend?")

There are a lot of details in this post that I don't disagree with. Eg "Ironically the number of lectures drops dramatically after the first week." This is true and we tell students about it during w1. It's the correct design decision. Etc. For other students, those same details have added up to a different gestalt. We care and we try to fix things when things aren't adding up. The diagnosis is not linear (you can't just fix the problems that alums cite) but we listen and try to sort out the right decisions.

I empathize with a lot of things going on and I want recent alums to know we care. I also think it's bonkers that our 98% placement rate in 2015 (94% in 3 months, ~85%ish in 3 months for one recent cohort) is being cited like it's weak sauce. That's a towering accomplishment of staggering magnitude in my books, and we charge $20k because the median student gets a ~$50k raise and we employ lots of staff to make that happen.

<3,
Shawn

[A]
http://www.hackreactor.com/student-outcomes, http://reactorcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/StandardSt...
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I don't know the show very well, but this is a much better article than I expected. The vignette about online forums is so perfect I can't resist quoting it in full.

“Silicon Valley,” a show about computer nerds, has a fan base that is particularly attuned to minutiae, and particularly apt to argue about them on the Internet. If a Post-it, URL, or line of code is legible on the show, it will be screengrabbed and scrutinized. Last year, a few hours after an episode aired, a Reddit user with the handle HeIsMyPossum started a thread called “Why did the writers just obliterate all the good karma they had built up with their core audience?” He made an impassioned argument that a plot point—the accidental deletion of data from Pied Piper’s servers—was implausible. “So the files were being converted live while coming through an FTP? And that affects disk deletion speed?… Come the fuck on guys.” Rob Fuller, a software engineer and a consultant on the show, logged on to Reddit to defend his work, mostly by displaying his own nerd plumage. “Stuff like this happens,” he wrote. “I think even Amazon had an outage because one of the admins fat fingered a DNS or ACL change at one point.” Another user responded to Fuller: “Thanks for engaging us here, we really appreciate it.” The thread amassed nearly three hundred comments. “Sorry for being a dick,” HeIsMyPossum wrote.

Edit: well, it's weirdly anticlimactic sitting here. But it was hilarious in the New Yorker.
Game Developers
>Kara Swisher, asked show creator Mike Judge if Laurie Bream was a little slice of Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, and got an assent that Mayer was "one of" the inspirations.

http://www.recode.net/2015/4/13/11561406/hbos-silicon-valley...
Seeing as how Open Street Map's complete dataset is 40 GB compressed (and that probably doesn't have all the businesses, addresses, keywords, etc. of Google Maps), there's a pretty good reason why you can't search it offline. Not to mention, why would Google give away all their data on every install.

But, you are partially in luck. Google Maps now allows you to download up to 120,000 sq. km. https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838?hl=en
The people who are still buying Blackberries won't hear about this.
Jack Barker = Steve Ballmer
Mission accomplished?
Russ was right
Here’s what India’s e-commerce war will boil down to
I'm so glad to have been a part of this (short) era. Video games and junk food from sunset to sunrise with a bunch of people connected by CAT5 cables! While technology makes things easier and more convenient, sometimes the effort and lack of accessibility leaves better memories.
I hadn't tried it, no. Was just going on what others had said here. That's great to hear it has at least some sort of fallback! Polling however is typically too battery draining to be practical. Battery drain was one of the biggest reasons XMPP lost traction.

If Matrix adds something like XEP-0357 Push Notifications, enables verifiable builds & FDroid distribution, plus gets full featured XMPP bridge implementations done, then I think you're onto a winner. It gets extremely hard to convince people to install N+1 different IM clients once N>5, let alone the >10 that're becoming common. The XMPP Push XEP is working fantastically in Conversations IM and extremely fast too BTW (much snappier than Signal at least).

Congratulations on your work on the Olm implementation too!!! Now that Signal Protocol has been locked up in legalese (turns out Open Whisper WEREN'T really open), you guys are THE leading E2E implementation. It's really a fantastic contribution to the community and we owe Matrix devs a huge thank you!
Wait, what? There were over 160,000 vehicle fires on highways in 2013 [1]. ICE vehicles catch on fire all the time, often even without a punctured gas tank, and definitely can catch on fire with a punctured gas tank. If you damage a vehicle's fuel source, whether it's lithium-ion or gasoline, you're going to have a bad time.

[1] http://www.nfpa.org/news-and-research/fire-statistics-and-re...
Probably Martin Starr's personality + libertarian engineer. The core cast are less parodies than fleshed out characters you're supposed to root for.
"ways to kill someone hypothetically" oh oh cops knocking anytime now...
The numbers for pyparallel are quite impressive.
Not really. "Nerd/geek" have expanded to include basically anyone who enjoys pop culture or has a technical skill--obviously those guys are cool, right? But the original subjects--socially awkward kids who enjoy the wrong things too much--are still left out in the cold.
Huh? The entire car is aluminum. It can't rust.
I feel for the victims not going to the police, but then my question is what is the alternative?
Have you considered a career in politics?
When did you graduate? Between 2009 and 2013 my college cost was roughly $40k per year. This was about the average for similar schools (RIT). My wife went to a small liberal arts school during the same time and spent roughly $50k per year.

$20k seems like an incredible bargain, but my view is probably warped.