skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then your neighbors should put that in their HOA rules. The city is getting involved to protect hotels not "neighbors".
Cars were very successfully marketed as status symbols and expressions of personal identity. Having a nice car in the suburbs meant your family was safe from the evils of the city.

The entire government apparatus spent decades and untold fortunes making the car the fast and flexible option. We now have the benefit of hindsight that tells us it was a massively inefficient use of public funds.
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Hey there, I'm the design lead for SpiderOak. Semaphor is still in early beta, and we have lots of features planned. We're working on integrations, bots, team and user visibility settings and some early web of trust over the next few months. I'm curious as to thoughts about what works, and what doesn't, and what you want the most in a team collaboration app.

Thanks HN!
In principle I agree. However, this xkcd applies: https://xkcd.com/214/. It is impossible to talk to them about everything they might stumble on. Especially with younger children inevitably starting to use the web and apps, and the amount of clickbait floating around, it's almost a given that they'll see stuff that they probably shouldn't, without you even knowing about it.
It's nothing so silly. As a counterpoint to the Examiner's piece, please read Airbnb's post about the proposed law: https://www.airbnbaction.com/an-update-for-our-community-in-...

Basically, the city wants to hold Airbnb responsible for user-generated content. The city also wants Airbnb to hand over users' personal information. Both the EFF and the Center for Democracy & Technology think that these requirements violate federal law. (Though EPIC thinks otherwise.)
What does "easy" mean here? It is easy to say, "the third amendment really means that A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Amendments." In fact I just did. However, to actually believe that original meaning of the third amendment as believed by the people who negotiated it was to prohibit the federal government from banning boarding houses strains credulity. It similarly strains credulity to believe that those who negotiated the 15th amendment had a genuine meeting of minds over their belief that the due process clause implied that states and municipalities could not regulate boarding houses.

Dot get me wrong: If it wasn't for Airbnb I probably wouldn't be married and I too share a geeky desire to see the 3rd amendment used in anger.
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Arguably, neither were any of the others; none of them ever published an S-1.
I agree with you. It's a corporation, not an actual human. And there are a lot of people that profited and knew about it, at some point you can't salvage any of it. It's brutally difficult to implement though, Germany isn't going to do it. It also seems easy to game as you start to liquidate the company, what stops the shareholders from investing in a new holding company that just buys up the VAG assets?

Maybe put a 30% tariffs on all of their imports for 30 years or something. What of splitting it up?
That's a good point. However, I _think_ they genuinely have good intentions for renters, except they are doing it in the most knee-jerk constituency visible way, for whatever reason.
> So I seriously doubt they block companies from doing extended exercise windows.

You're right that they don't veto companies from doing extended exercise windows.

That doesn't mean they don't oppose them and argue against them. This post makes their viewpoint quite clear, and it means that any founder wanting to do right by employees will have to argue strongly for that position.

Even beyond the specific issue, the tone of this article makes it very clear that they are not employee-friendly.

Contrast that with Sam and YC, who indicate both through the policies and their tone that they recognize that employees also make sacrifices to join companies and invest in their success even if they don't stay through IPO.
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Ask HN: How to reconcile “teach everyone to code” and “only hire the top 1%”?
The Brexit crisis has got me thinking about inequality more broadly.Technologists have politicians in their thrall, and are not afraid to throw their weight around promoting curriculum changes in areas like math, and to also push the concept of "every child must code". Yet these same technologists claim that they hire a small percentage of job applicants for their companies.

It's clear that cognitive ability correlates with coding ability, and the idea of the 10X developer is widely accepted in our world. As a broader industry, we practice shameless elitism and seem to be making real-world software development more inaccessible to non-experts (apart from child-level development environments). As professionals. we deride RAD tools and "drag and drop" development, and show geek love for ever-more abstract modes of thinking like Functional Programming that a small percentage of working developers, let alone the general public, will grasp.

What's the end-game? Are we trying to create a new cognitive elite? Is it a labor lottery so that the small percentage of kids who are turn out to be good at coding will become professional programmers? Are we willfully blind to the fact that human talent is not evenly distributed? Or is the lack of accessibility ("easiness") just a blind spot that we have yet to address?
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Sounds like company towns all over again. VCs could open their own stores and sell food and only accept their own currency. And they can pay you in their own currency so you don't have any exchange rate costs. Oh, until you want to get out.
I'm in a high rise in Boston, similar situation but with Comcast. I also spoke with Webpass a few days ago, they say that my building has a revenue sharing exclusive agreement with Comcast and that Webass does not participate in revenue sharing agreements. This feels like it should be illegal but my sister, an attorney, did not see anything obviously wrong under current law.

I'd like to see that change.
yes this is called neo-feudalism and it is how factories are run with dorms in china.

dont' pay your workers, just own their land and run it like a company town. what a perk.
Absolutely not. There are significant negative externalities associated with transient populations.

For starters: Occupational safety (branches falling down and crushing you on a tire swing), fire safety, bedbugs, noise/loud parties, litter, criminal occupancy, secondary vice (drug dens/prostitution/craigslist orgies/etc). The problem of a bunch of sailors coming into port has been recognized since antiquity. Skeezy/short term motels have a reputation for a reason, and are regulated for even better ones. You yourself may be a perfectly upstanding citizen who just couchsurfs for a weekend to check out a cool area, but others are not.

It's unreasonable to expect neighbors to file daily lawsuits against their neighbors to keep a modicum of peace. It's a known problem and it's perfectly reasonable to preempt it by either requiring a formal lease with a minimum term of a month or more, or requiring more identification/scrutiny of the clients and some formal standards of the rentiers.

Analogously, it's perfectly fine for banks to scrutinize large cash transactions. Some of them are legit, some of them are tied to crime. But you need to look and be sure because it's high-risk activity. If you don't want that level of scrutiny, send a check/transfer/CC payment and your reputation will speak for itself.
How many plates of free fried rice did this puff piece take?
well played, sir.
Great in theory not so great in reality. I really doubt bash on Windows is going to be all that great and that Linux support is going to be that great either. Microsoft is going to half-ass it because that's not their core competency and it never will be. It's just a shady business tactic to try to win users that are no longer interested in their platform.
Read the article more carefully. Airbnb's first amendment argument is not related to having to send info to regulators, it's related to something else entirely.
Actually, that's a great example, glad you brought it up. That's not less secure, and very similar to this situation.

That technology is being hailed as "more secure" because it requires you to insert, and type your secret PIN, correct?

1. In many cases, you can still use it online, just as before, without insertion+PIN.

2. Most stores will still allow you to swipe it, just as before. Some retailers aren't even allowing insertion yet, even though the hardware is there.

3. Even IF everyone required you to insert and type your PIN, you are actually less secure because the little bit you "consented to" when "upgrading" to chip + pin says that card issuers are less liable for fraudulent charges and other problems. http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/understanding-EM...

And it's still not a perfect analogy, because chip+pin isn't going to force me to subscribe to a monthly or yearly fee to use my bank card in the future, like Windows 10 assuredly will. It also doesn't implement additional technology for my bank to spy on me and my activity.

So - who's really safer?

The problem is that product changes are being rolled in with/disguised as security updates. That should be wrong, and while I'm normally on the side of less mandates - this misleading behavior should be addressed by lawmakers.
Nice work on a plugin.

I still have that experimental buffer opened, so I used the features for highlighting I described to highlight words "let", "buffer" and "create" with highlight-symbol-at-point, and the lines containing word "foo" with highlight-line-matching-regexp:

http://i.imgur.com/ubXumzK.png

The last four lines were generated by calling M-x hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns. If you save them in the file, Emacs can reload and reapply those highlights in the future.

I use it mostly when browsing log files, though the feature is useful for code too. Since I'm addicted to traditional syntax highlighting, I prefer the background change when highlighting code.
Still recovering. Slowly. To those, who seeking for help, I can recommend a very good read: "The Power of Now", by Eckhart Tolle.

I can even recommend it even if you never experienced burnouts, PA's.
As far as I can tell, Jira sells well to enterprises because it focuses on features that enterprises like (lots of accountability and metrics and charts and graphs and shit, extremely configurable). But it doesn't sell well to developers on the ground because it's slow, its extreme configurability ends up screwing with developer productivity, and it's not a pleasant or easy interface to deal with.

I don't foresee the end of Jira any time soon, but I do think that they will go the way of other enterprise bloatware eventually.
Yes, a founder giving some reasons for wanting to do something is not a high barrier to overcome.
Dan Ariely and his team has done some great work on the "happiness" meme, and they generally support the popular notion that there are massively diminishing returns to accruing wealth. Yes, (as this post shows) happiness does continue to increase as you accrue wealth, but there are other things that you can do - including giving money AWAY - whose returns on happiness and satisfaction do not diminish. The point is, if you take a long view on life and what to focus on, getting to a certain level of financial stability should take a high priority, but becoming incredibly wealthy should not.
Who cares what your neighbors want? Seriously.

In the Seventeenth Century many American colonists were fleeing England due to religious persecution because their religion didn't happen to be the the dominant/majority held belief [1].

The idea that government should govern based on what the majority want is a fallacy. The specific topic of tyranny of the majority and ways to combat it were discussed in the Federalist papers and, in my belief, is ultimately the reason the Founding Fathers structured American government the way it did (federation, checks and balances, republic, etc.).

I am not trying to argue that AirBnB is good, but it's not bad because your neighbors don't like it.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
Is this a clever ruse to test whether we'll read the cited sources? ;^)
Thank you - I'll check it out!
I don't know how useful it is for preventing kids from getting on 8chan, but for productivity, I use https://freedom.to/freedom and it is great!

It works on both OSX and iOS.

It lets you maintain multiple blocklists.

It lets you schedule sessions to start in the future so you can shut yourself off from the siren song of the set of all human knowledge at 11pm and go to sleep.
The SMBC comic does not actually claim to illustrate the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Do you mean in amounts that could exceed the value of their shares? If so, then you're talking about changing a fundamental of corporations: limited liability. If you're not, then I don't see any difference in impact whether the corporation pays or the stockholders pay.
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How are they going to waterboard a telepresence robot?
I love the quote from Fight Club, "If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?"
Thank you - this is actually a feature I forgot to add to the list above.
I'm a "proud" owner of a 2014 Passat TDI (purchased May 2014). Here's the math breakdown for me personally:

- $26,000 for the car, before TTL
- First year, the car will depreciate 20%, so its September 2015 value would be $20,800.
- VW will give me $5,100 (maybe more) plus that Sept 2015 value = $25,900
- I don't have to make a decision until December 2018

Result: I get a car for 4.5 years for which I've paid $100

* Simplified math, doesn't factor time-value or the 0.9% interest rate.
Getting very close to the argument: we should fine Boeing because their planes aided in 7/11. The plane was a manifestation of the pilot.

It's not like those robots are only made for Snowden are they?
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No, but it makes the same claim that the post here says is popular and wrong.
Sure, depending on the country it works different ways. But if there is tax to pay, it is on a low valuation (very early, remember).
The weaponised loser
If by usability you mean ease of commuting then many old cities have been able to address this by building new infrastructure while preserving their character.

Amsterdam is an old, concentric, beautiful and imo quite user friendly city (as long as you don't drive a car). Commuting is very easy either by bike, tram, metro, or train.

For me the ideal city is both aesthetically pleasing and easy to get around (among many other things I'm omitting here). Make it beautiful and make it efficient. That's a challenge - but feasible.
Then they should have invested in companies that have stricter controls, or put their money somewhere safer w/ more transparency. That some investors are unsophisticated doesn't absolve them of liability.
That's one of the key observations about TempleOS.

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
Yeah, I think what you showed is exactly what my plugin was going for. To get more fine-grained than that we'd need a smarter editor that understands markup. Fun conversation! I just shot you an email.
And living out the rest of his life as a fugitive in exile. Sounds like a good deal.
Long story short: tried it twice, the second time was the charm as a freelancer. Earning less money as I was full time, but steadily going up and getting close. Sidenote: changed my life, I'm more productive in general.

Don't want to make a blogpost of a comment. The how? It depends on two things mostly: lifestyle and family. As I'm 25 and single it was easier for me to do that because I can tweak my lifestyle as I want. I think it's a bigger challenge for those who have someone to support. And by tweaking I mean push yourself little by little to spend less, you get used to it quickly.
Not quite. This is a direct relation to "rotating mass", which does include tires and rims but also includes stuff like driveshafts, which are made of shockingly thin tubes of steel or carbon fiber for this reason.

Unsprung mass is relevant to vehicles with suspensions (including mountain bikes). The inertia of the vehicle is set against the inertia of the wheel when it's being pressed back down on the backside of a bump.
For young startups, I always recommend allowing Early Exercise. Put simply, it's the right by employees to exercise their options before they vest. The company retains a right to repurchase those options should the employee depart before they vest.

This enables them to exercise them as soon as they're granted, which greatly reduces the tax burden in two ways:

- First, the strike price and the value of the option are the same when they're granted, which means that the spread (i.e. the difference between exercise price and value of the options exercised which the IRS considers profit for AMT) is zero. Therefore, no taxes need to be paid. I've been stung by a 5-figure AMT tax bill on exercised options that were completely illiquid—all of which would've been avoided had I exercised early.

- It starts the clock for long-term capital gains. You need to hold the actual stock for over 1 year to be taxed at capital gains rates instead of income tax rates. Federally, this can lower your tax rates from up to ~40% to ~20%. (would've been 15% pre-Obama!) In CA, for state taxes there is no distinction, so you'd still be paying income tax rates of ~10-13%

Keep in mind, if you early exercise, that you must file an 83b election with the IRS within 30 days, or the tax consequences can be severe. (If you don't, you'd be taxed on the spread at the current option value every time some of your options vest.)

Now, I think extended exercise windows are great too, and ideally option agreements would have both. I think generally, early exercise makes more sense for employees who join pre-Series-B, while extended exercise windows make more sense for later stage employees.
Noted, we'll work on fixing that. Thanks for the flag!
I only remember accidentally t turning them on and they getting mad!
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I'm one of the self-appointed resident whiners but I think I'll cut them some slack because they've used the magic word "preview".

This case is different from silently adding telemetry on a minor upgrade to a tool in production
Urban planners learn this stuff during the first semester. It's political and short-term economic forces that prevent implementation.
Firefox's Awesome Bar (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...) does its best to blur the distinction. I'm not sure whether theirs or Chrome's came first, but, of course, Chrome does its best to make sure that you see no difference between navigating to a specific address and Googling for it. Certainly I know people who prefer to enter [company name] rather than www.[company name].com in their address bar, and for whom the stop through Google (or whatever search engine of choice) along the way is practically invisible.
There is a great deal wrong with the US. But let us not forget that things are much, much worse in Putin's Russia.
That's... an unrealistic step. You can't wish a functioning transit system into existence overnight. Even if a metro region was comfortable throwing its entire weight behind transit, it would still take many years to develop.

A good first step is introducing a congestion charge or a peak hour toll. That shifts the fungible traffic patterns and would ease up rush hour jams. The revenue is then applied towards transit development, which eventually produces a desirable rush hour balance between people interested in paying more for car service and people who use the more economical transit system.
Noted. We are working on the code snippet experience as we speak.
This is one of the reasons why I'm really liking snapchat. Every message goes poof after reading and the network is very private.

Unless of course snapchat is storing every message. In which case they'd have gigs of my silly selfies.
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Or those trendy fat tire bikes. Yes, they are great on sand and snow, but pointless and even counterproductive on the asphalt where I am seeing them more lately.
Would you buy another VW, Audi or Porsche?
Hong Kong has a population density of 6,544 people/km^2.

The United States has a population density of 35 people/km2.
Re a) and b), I replied below your comment about your Vim plugin.

> That is very close to my heart, though my theory is that reading code only becomes easier when the very representation of software projects undergoes a sea change: http://akkartik.name/about. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

I read the page you linked (though I didn't browse the other parts it links to - I'll have to leave that for later). Quite a lot of interesting ideas you have there. I've added the Mu project to check out later.

It seems we have similar general goals in mind, but different ideas of making it happen. You seem to be focusing on how to change the programming practice to facilitate understanding of large codebases. I am thinking more along the lines of tools that would help one explore and get the picture of existing codebases in current languages.

So far, I've briefly explored areas like:

- software for generating diagrams of the code

- software for generating runtime diagrams

- time travelling debuggers

- printing out code on paper (per edw519's advice) and annotating it

- annotating code in PDF readers and word processors

I think what resonates with me most in the text you linked is "Deemphasize abstractions in favor of traces". I actually went into the first three bullet points of mine because I had to refactor some code that I couldn't figure out the exact flow of. What I wanted was exactly the "trace" of execution I could inspect. Unfortunately, the time travelling debuggers I tested are too heavy for the task, and don't present the trace itself in any way, they just allow you to navigate it.

A dream tool I'd love to have would be a "read-only" IDE for code, that would let me quickly move around the project with semantic commands ("jump to definition", etc.) and annotate stuff. I want to take notes, highlight stuff in colors, even draw on the code. Kind of a combination of a good IDE and annotation facilities of a PDF reader.

I have a lot of thoughts on the subject; I guess I should publish them somewhere at some point :).
This was not under a hypervisor, but it did happen as the same time as I was installing some large pieces of software; I'd just recently reinstalled, and was looking forward to playing X-COM 2.

The 3GB number is how much space was free after I excised the broken shards of the Windows 10 installer. So, sure, the space probably got taken up after the installer checked if there was enough, but it's not like I ever told it to start running.
Hey, I've definitely felt that way before, and know a few friends that spent a good deal of time there. Sometimes you can spend so much time in a paper bag you forget that it's a paper bag you could punch your way out of any time you want. If it's not too personal, how is it that you feel that the system is stacked against you?
Porsche for sure