skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the spirit of teaching a person to fish, instead of handing a fish:

http://budget.data.cityofboston.gov/#/
http://sfmayor.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/mayor/budget/SF_Budget_... (see page 11)

One example, public safety is almost 3 times more expensive. It looks like social services is also about 3 times higher. On a per capita basis, it looks like SF actually pays less for transportation. But since the budgets are broken down by different categories, it's kind of hard to tell. I'd need to do more research.
* > Is there any source for this that's less dodgy?*

The press-release link doesn't even go to any press release.
"Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all." - Muhammad Ali
Wow, that's a new one. I've been to Panama City many times and never had that happen to me, on the other hand, a friend of mine was in a car with a friend of his and said friend got shot through the head at a traffic light. It's not the safest place on the planet, to put it very mildly.
There's plenty of tests that are less contrived. X-rays are done as a matter of course after treating a sprain. What would really be the costs of deferring them and only doing them when pain persists days later?

Well, there's this (from http://www.foothealthfacts.org/Content.aspx?id=2827):

"Patients with unrecognized ankle fractures have a high risk of developing infection, arthritis and foot deformities that may make it impossible to walk normally again."

So what's your appetite for that risk?
Good comedy can be a mirror. It reflects reality, makes you laugh, and then makes you think. I think all of those shows you mentioned would lose something if they weren't uncomfortably close to what they're making fun of.
I sort of wonder, with so many guys acting like assholes to women, is it because they are just mean? Or is it because they have to be mean to get a boner? Is it a rape mentality or is it something about testosterone in general?
Single reason for not using cloud for personal project neither amazon nor microsoft support cost bassed monitoring and killing service. Dont why they do this though.
>Totally, bro!!!

So edgy.

I don't understand your point. If you're incapable of cancelling a subscription...maybe you shouldn't be subscribing to things? But that's up to you, bro; don't count on others to do it for you.
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Surely you've heard, "it's funny because it's true"
Parent comment was making a joke: venture capitalism as practiced today is bad.
Right but often they come for the chess. It's about the chess for them, so they don't want to have the club shut down on the whim of a single dude.
except that it's not set in silicon valley at all, it's set in the early 1980s Texas PC/semiconductor industry
The oil and gas industry benefits from 5.3 trillion dollars[0] in subsidies currently. End those and raise taxes on the industry and the taxes won't need to be that high on the consumer end.

[0]http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=42940.0
Spoiler alert! From the base64 encoded array in the source:

['how to appear funny', 'why are my thumbs uneven', 'am i lack toast and tolerant', 'your youre difference', 'why doesnt my poo float', 'midget google images', 'tall midgets??', 'homemade lube?', 'i hate my boss', 'what counts as fat', 'how to tell partner they fat', 'is it normal to still love my ex', 'how to get back with ex', 'penis remove dog how to', 'romantic ways to propose', 'engagement rings', 'sex shop in my city', 'how to tell if partner cheating', 'ways to kill someone hypothetically', 'undetectable poisons', 'how to delete search history in browser', 'ashley madison hack', 'view ashley madison list', 'ashley madison list my city', 'paternity test', 'mail order paternity test', 'attracted to mother why', 'is incest illegal in this country', 'latest laws incest', 'seduction guide', 'rohypnol safe dosage', 'smelly penis cure urgent', 'common STIs', 'STI test in my city', 'average penis size this country', 'do penis pumps work', 'best budget penis pumps', 'does liking men mean im gay', 'signs of being gay', 'how to come out as gay to dad', 'age of consent here', 'why is age of consent so old here', 'country low age of consent', 'flights philippines', 'isis application form', 'how to join isis', 'cheap syria flights from here', 'syria hotels with pool', 'bing', 'donald trump', 'OH COME ON DONT JUST COPY AND PASTE THE LIST FROM THE ARRAY YOU CHEEKY SCAMP']"
He used launchd as his example since opinions backed by code have always had more weight in BSD communities. This led to all the systemd comparisons. But in reality, you can ignore all of that.

What his talk was about was a keynote about the ongoing paradigm shift from 'big unix iron' to ever more ephemereal OS instances that move, live, change and die faster and more rapidly. This conflicts with a number of UNIX designs where boottime matters and sets things in stone for the remainder of the current run.

These are problems that need addressing; people need to think about them and come up with ideas and solutions. The project and the community needs to decide to tackle these issues or declare them out of scope. In that context systemd is an interesting case study, since some of it tries to solve similar problems to provide a more dynamic and more MP-friendly runtime. The actually used software to accomplish this is secondary (while acknowledging that everybody has of course personal favourites and preferences).
My first roguelike was Mission: Thunderbolt, on Mac Classic.

Even back in 1992 it was hugely easier to play than Dwarf Fortress is now. And, IMO, way more fun.
> I guess you haven't taken many taxis in foreign/non-first-world countries?

That would be a wrong guess.

And you'd have a hard time holding my luggage hostage, I have a single small bag that goes with me in the passenger compartment. Large suitcases are a vulnerability.
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So you do have a talent for self-deprecation.
my guess would be that EVERY company only hires the best
Neural chip could aid voice recognition, man-machine learning
iOS doesn't have an API for custom voice commands, even for native apps. Though there are rumors that they might do something like this, maybe they'll show something at WWDC.
PRIVACY CONCERN: I had to disable Privacy Badger simply to create my account. When I clicked the link in my email for verification, it asks me to prove that I'm not a robot, but didn't have anything for me to click or do to prove that. Only after disabling privacy badger would it produce a simple checkbox which I clicked, thus proving I'm not a robot.

Designers: Could you please provide an alternate method of human-verification if the user has enabled something like privacy badger?
Oy. This is how not to launch new tech - they're announcing hardware without any use cases to explain to consumers why it's valuable. This is a symptom of the lack of coordination between electronics manufacturers and the Android team, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be righting itself after all this time.

I love 3d mapping tech, and am eagerly awaiting it in devices. This tech could have been integrated into Google Maps, one of the most popular apps on mobile devices, but instead is launched with this weird message of hope that maybe one day it could be used for useful things potentially, you know, if developers come up with some ideas for that or something. This is Microsoft all over again.

Techies of course can speculate and hope and fill in some possible use cases, and it'll maybe move a few units for a short while as a lot of gimmick tech does, but to the general market this is one big 'huh?'

Use cases, folks. Use cases.
Hacker Leaks Personal Details of 5400 Spanish Police Officers
You're right.

Of course, it won't matter when the Humorless One comes in, spits out some of Paul Graham's pillow feathers, and bans this account.
Similarly, if you're not experience to know when it's okay to break the rule, you shouldn't be repeated the rule, because you haven't absorbed why it exists and intelligently talk about its limitations.

A smart person knows the correct answers, but a really smart person knows when they wouldn't be correct.
The amount of coca needed would be far more than can fit in a basement.
I live in Australia where Filipinos and Chinese work in 'Cheap jobs' paying $19 an hour, the standard minimum wage. The government busted a chain of convenience stores for under paying people on student visas who worked more than their limit of 20 hours. The students were given immunity against deportation for admitting they worked more than their limit, so they can come out and complain, so that the government can force the convenience store chain to pay reparations to those student workers. If this was Israel, they'd blame they exceeded their limit, deported them and blamed them for working too much and accepting less than minimum wage, resulting in no compensation paid out.

So no, you don't get to say the rest of the world do the same as Israel. To do so is FUD. Israel is one of a kind. I understand why Israel had always had a defensive posture and thinking. Lots of shit happened in the past. But today? Israel is strong, and it is doing too much to keep the Gazans down. What other country blows up 20000 houses and slaughtered hundreds of civilians in response to 2 terrorist deaths?
Honest question: given the nature of this device (communication), is anyone else nervous about Lenovo, given their recent shenanigans? (One only needs to google "lenovo privacy concerns" to see what I mean.)
From the article:

> […] the press release has been removed and they are not responding when asked if they still plan to release the source code and take the abstract of their final paper to the conference in Kassel, Germany.

Edit: That does not mean that this story is not complete horseshit.
Halt and Catch Fire is great, definitely recommend.
I'm working on a project involving EDI data right now. You speak as though you have some experience in manufacturing and data. Would you be willing to chat with me for a few minutes about the space?
Wait, That book was satire??
You sir, have some interesting stories to tell.
Ah right. Fixed.
While your comment is right from my position (I often help startups to solve them problems) thanks for using "salient" - new really nice word goes right in to my dictionary.
And YourNewsWire doesn't look like a reliable news source. (It has an entire category on the menu for "conspiracies".)
I'd call that enlightened self-interest. I think one could argue the motivation for cooperation is also enlightened self-interest. As you say, the big difference between selfishness and self-interest seems to be a matter of foresight.
It provides 2 names, both of which I hadn't heard of, but they were B2B data providers, which is a space that I regularly find companies I have never heard of before.
I agree. I originally wrote this article "Are dev bootcamps a scam? A hacker's perspective."[0] which actually caused quite a bit of drama when I then had dev schools up in arms about opening up the books and proving their success/placement rates, etc.

Then I decided there should be a better way to find reliable, quality bootcamps so I built a review site for Dev Bootcamps.[1] The response has been great and what was once reviled by dev schools is now seen as a source of distribution and qualification for validation because we help so many people decide where to go.

[0] https://www.techendo.com/posts/are-dev-bootcamps-a-scam-a-ha...
[1] http://schools.techendo.com/
First there was HAL, superior to IBM.
Haha. No, believe it or not both my hands are on the wheel and I use my finger to tap on the screen. Kind of a 11:30 and 1:00 position - no tongue involved.
Sure, but that isn't mutually exclusive with the city doing its best to put together a financial emergency fund.
Here are all UofT press releases:
http://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/

Note that this is nowhere to be seen.
Yes, but in the presented hypothetical and over such a long time, the fact that it was able to maintain this in its current underdog role does not mean it would have been able to so as the main adopted 'nix.
I warmly recommend the book on Tom Perkins' yachting life: https://www.amazon.com/Mines-Bigger-Extraordinary-Greatest-S...

It was a fantastic read. Taught me much about the man, early SV life and, of course, yachts.
> That is your takeaway from the recent changes?

My takeaway from that change was that (1) the systemd team was perfectly willing to break userspace (existing programs, scripts, and even habits), and (2) that they wanted to put the onus of dealing with their decisions on third parties (e.g., the Github issue for tmux).
The final couple of episodes of the second season they make it an explicit point of friction between the two. It sounds pretty stupid and I'm glad they stopped it.
I haven't. I would like to try it out, maybe I will check the browser emulation they released a couple of weeks ago. I would like to try it both in English and Spanish and compare the experiences.
Keeping the app simple is one thing; but if you want it to also be a design standout, you want to tweak things to be just right and this is a time suck -- the thing he talks about where doing something on one browser to prettify things breaks things on another browser. Making a internal corporate CRUD app is one thing; but making a end-consumer app that appeals to users is an entirely different beast.
Something else to consider - how sure are you that you enjoy coding and it's something you can be good at? I highly recommend taking the time to evaluate this before you commit to a bootcamp as well. Feel free to email me (address in my profile) if you'd like me to elaborate.
"Bing" - the most embarrassing of them all. Watching it run is like holding a burning match and not letting go.

I live in the UK so I expect the police to knock tomorrow.
Your complaint is with the semantics of the particular file. There's no reason why files in /dev need be deletable using unlink. That's an historical artifact, and one that's being rectified.

"Everything is a file" is about reducing most operations to 4 very abstract operations--open, read, write, and close. The latter three take handles, and it's only the former that takes a path. But you're conflating the details of the underlying filesystem implementation with the relevant abstraction--being a file implies that it's part of an easily addressable, hierarchical namespace. Being a file doesn't imply it needs to be deletable. unlink/remove is not part of the core abstraction. But they are hints that the abstraction is a little more leaky than people let on. Instantiating and destroying the addressable character of a file poses difficult questions regarding what the proper semantics should be, though historically they're deletable simply because using major/minor device nodes sitting atop the regular persistent storage filesystem was the simplest and most obvious implementation at the time.
Every bit as huge, I'm sure, as some of the other perfectly believable news this site has broken, such as:

http://yournewswire.com/stanley-kubrick-confesses-to-faking-...

http://yournewswire.com/us-senate-admit-that-chemtrails-are-...

http://yournewswire.com/queen-elizabeth-ordered-bin-laden-pl...

http://yournewswire.com/are-you-being-attacked-by-psychic-va...
Is this the same "Intelligence Reform" that brought the Shah into the USA, triggering the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis?
US agency endorses plan to cede Internet oversight
Uh, sure. I'll go fix public transit in L.A. Not going to happen in the near term. Plenty of people are trying to improve this, but it's a very slow process. L.A. will, for the foreseeable future, stay a car culture.

But continue rooting. Not that boundless enthusiasm without any plan does anything to change reality, but it's such an L.A. mindset, it's endearing.
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Ask HN: Employee offered cash and stock but founders taking only cash?
I have been offered a job in an early stage company in the valley. The founders have offered a generous stock and cash package however they are only taking a cash salary and not stock. I assume hold control with the board seats.

I've not heard of this before. Has anyone else?

Thanks
I figured - even a Slack integration as is would be pretty cool though.
>Does this means that you are ok with breaking the law if some ones offers you something convenient?

I doubt he's breaking the law by using Uber.
There were cuts in defense spending after the end of the Cold War.
The link is to a conference in Germany, which apparently does not have all sessions on its website yet. A conference in Germany is mentioned in the alleged press release. On the other hand, University of Toronto does not mention this on its press page (yet?): https://www.utoronto.ca/news

Might be fake, but I guess the question is when, not if, this will happen.
Please explain where I must contradict the parent post.
@jillbaeh confirming authorship: https://twitter.com/jillbaeh/status/741023991041646592
At one point you cease wondering what is fiction and what isn't: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pied-piper https://www.pierpiper.com

Oh and Google went ahead and registered... http://www.hooli.xyz

> at some of the big companies, the P.R. departments have ordered their employees to stop saying ‘We’re making the world a better place,’

That does remind me of Atlassian: "... help teams advance humanity through the power of software" https://www.atlassian.com/company
Good work on the lib. I think EchoSim is provided by iQuarius media and not Amazon.
Uber to work is ~$15 one way. That's $30 a day, or $600 a month. And I haven't visited a single friend with that budget.

So probably not a viable solution :)
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Regulated taxis are already a state enforced monopoly.
most of these searches look like my regular browse history
'State of Surveillance' with Edward Snowden and Shane Smith [video]
This is a great point. Can you imagine if every college major published its job placement stats and average salary?
Game Theory: If enough people click this, does Google stop showing stupid ads to everyone eventually?
Sure - sorry about this; I guess there's something in the google reCAPTCHA stuff which triggers privacy badger. We'll investigate.
Way too vague. It talks about the output of the AES block algorithm being definitively non-random for certain inputs but then talks about factoring integers which has nothing to do with symmetric transforms.

I'd (obviously) question their code, the implementations of their algorithms, etc. instead. Also, no university I know publishes results like this instead of in a respectable journal. If you really wanted to be fancy, you'd call a press conference, not some dodgy PR news service.
Maybe it's just that I've only ever worked for YC companies since my first job (which was owned entirely by one person), but it seems to me that they've given them the world's dumbest board - trying to force them to do things, installing a veteran CEO, and hiring a shitload of salespeople without building the product. Those are all things that I know happen in startups, but a company founded entirely by engineers doesn't seem like it would ever entirely give up on the product.

That said, 90% of what I see on Silicon Valley is remarkably accurate.
Please stop this practice of telling people what they are allowed to say. Thanks.
Well, I'm probably on a list now. Thanks for that.
I can remember those "Built a print server with Linux" times. But I did have the impression that MS really didn't take Linux as a serious contender, not even as a server OS. Was I wrong believing that?
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My point applies to any white-collar profession (although perhaps with a smaller multiplier).

In exchange for long hours and a crappy safety net, US professional workers get paid a lot more than their peers anywhere else in the world, keep more of it at tax time, and have low-cost goods and services to spend it on.
What I've seen and heard of SV reminds me of when I posted an article by "Fake Lennart Poettering" (me), about getting around lkml hostility to systemd kernel suggestions by building systemd as a unikernel that chain-loads Linux and intercepts some of its system calls and replaces them with more systemd-friendly versions.

Someone replied: "This is like the movie Idiocracy: so close to reality that it isn't funny."

A dubious vindication of Mike Judge's satirical skills: reality catches up so quickly with his satire that it fails at comedy.
Some feedback:

It seems there is no styling done to the select element drop-down, which makes for a markedly different look between FF/Safari/Chrome - was this intentional?

Might not be your framework, but I'm experiencing some scroll-jank on the full-height hero image in Chrome (Version 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit)). Doesn't happen in Firefox.

You advertise the size of the framework, (~4kb) but then you include two web fonts which together are more than 10x the size of your framework. It feels a bit misleading only because you lead with the framework size.

Nice job getting it out there.
I'll just add that in biological sciences both "vector" and "matrix" are also overloaded with yet more meanings in addition to the mathematical ones. (e.g. "plasmid vector", "extracellular matrix")
Seems very dubious:

* As one poster mentioned, as far as I know factoring has nothing at all to do with AES.

* Mentions of it have previously been cropping up on conspiracy theory sites: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1120355/pg1

* Nothing on the University of Toronto's press office page: http://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/

* Terms like "Quadratic Curves embodied within numeric sentences such as Fibonacci Sequences, Non-Evenly Divisible Values including PI, Catalan Numbers, Mersenne Primes" set off my crank mathematics alarms pretty badly.

* ACA doesn't seem to have a section for presenting abstracts. Possibly they meant a poster? It can't be a full paper, because acceptance notification for that isn't until July 13th, 2016 (http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/ACA2016/images/poster.pd...)
As someone who has self hosted my own XMPP server before and still cries over the move taken by Google and Facebook with their messengers, can someone from the Matrix people explain what is so fundamentally different from the protocol, that it couldn't be done in XMPP?

Please don't say "it is XML based". I know the situation with the clients is XMPP-land is appalling, but it seems to me that if Matrix does get any kind of traction, it will face the exact same kind of problems.
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I'm seeing this. I don't get much exposure to the hardware guys tho, so I'm just presuming that it's happening on their end.

It's just rare that you have a company making new hardware AND new software at the same time.
In addition to the TV Show a lot of the companies in SV have their own website, which absolutely nails the essence of what they're mocking (Warning: spoilers if you aren't caught up):

http://www.piedpiper.com/ (complete with a blog) http://www.hooli.com/ http://www.bachmanity.com/ http://www.coderag.com/ http://raviga.com/ http://www.endframesystems.com/ http://drinkhomicide.com/ https://github.com/Stitchpunk
Yeah this is one big advantage GCP has over AWS, no need to prewarm load balancers. Not sure how Azure works (I work for Google).