skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine a lot of it. At some point you make the conscious decision to quit your current job and work on your startup. If you've prepared financially for that joining YC shouldn't really change that. You're spending your own money on your own rent.

Granted, if you can't afford rent in SV you might want to reconsider joining a YC class. It's a tough decision for sure.
I think a 24 hour economy should be a design goal of this city.
The median rent on a 1-bedroom in SF has increased from $2500 in 2010 to $3600 in 2016.

I don't accumulate as much stuff as some do, but I'd say $12k/year in extra discretionary cash (not just throughput to a landlord) is more than adequate compensation for the risk of a cross-town move.
A Tricky Task: Government Tries to Define the Gig Economy
This is a settlement with the owners of the cars, the Clean Air Act penalties haven't been announced yet. They will be significant.
You may wish to search for "Dieselgate" on the web, to better familiarize yourself with this case.

The German government is actually investigating the ex-VW Germany CEO, although I don't know if that means potential jail time.

Further, there have been serious consequences at VW. Top management has effectively changed in both Germany and the US. The future product roadmap has changed radically in both the US and Europe. Also, this direct monetary outlay is not exactly a slap on the wrist, even for one of the world's largest automakers.
Gotta love when the front page of hacker news takes down a blog
I wrote a script that finds pictures of celebrities mentioned on Google Trends, and swaps their faces. Here are Jimmy Fallon and Jada Pinkett Smith: https://twitter.com/faceswapbot/status/731075094739476481

Not entirely sure where this falls on the appropriateness spectrum.
The guy isn't selling anything. No links to a book or newsletter. It's just a personal blog. A scam, really?
Yeah, but I'd prefer the penalties did something useful

I think that sticking VW's head on a pike as a warning to others that may follow would qualify as "useful". The fact that owners are compensated for not getting what they thought they were buying can be viewed as a bonus.
This wouldn't be remote, though - there'd be a few dozen such company towns on overlapping geography. True, you'd need to move to change employers, but it could just be across the street.
"Only" $15B for this part, but they still face Clean Air Act penalties and another 80,000 vehicles with larger engines that aren't a part of this deal.
Thanks. This is where our “education first” emphasis comes in. I'd like that too, but it's just not our most critical need. Since it can be run on top of Node from a shell, what it mainly lacks is a REPL. One of our students took a shot at that and had half an implementation, but didn't finish it. So for someone interested in hacking on that, there is a starting point, and a REPL atop Node would a big win. I'd use it every day (-:.
Plenty of people are noping out of the rat race in their early 30s.

It's one of the few joys of working in this lovely industry of ours.
I gave a talk on burnout and "digital overwhelm" in 2015. It's a bit of my story and some tips on coping under the weight of the world. If you're interested: https://vimeo.com/147213533 — Slides are linked in the comments.
I'm sorry, that was a qualitative term that I made up on the spot.

The situation more accurately falls somewhere between game theory and public choice theory, but there's no official term for it afaik.
The Left has been calling it out non-stop. In the US, it's establishment liberals (in Europe, they'd mostly qualify as right-of-center) that have been defenders of the status quo.

Take a look at:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/
http://fredrikdeboer.com/published-writing/
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/
http://coreyrobin.com/

Just to start with. There's a huge rift between what's called the Left, and what actually is the Left right now.
Cool, why didn't I think of just not working, it's so simple.
I don't see the evidence behind this piece. In the article linked it says:

<< For instance, in the month before the Brexit vote, 8,100 Britons googled “what is the eu.” That’s around 261 a day. Google Trends showed a huge spike in searches for that term the day after the referendum; assuming searches for the term tripled, that’s still fewer than 1,000 individuals googling “what is the eu” in response to the “Leave” victory. >>

The key is "assuming searches tripled". Did they triple or did they increase by a 100? All the evidence we get is a line going from zero to a little peak. But without any scale:

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1000/1*mA4iVZVb41M...

It seems to be 1/3 of the number of searches for "Game of Thrones". Did only 3,000 people search for Game of Thrones?

I went back to google trends and found this:

http://imgur.com/zwrWEqB

On June 24th, people in the UK searched "Game of Thrones" 1.3x as frequently as "what is the eu". According to Keyword Planner, "Game of Thrones" was searched in May 2.2M times. Approx: 73,000/day. This _could_ mean that "what is the eu" was searched 56,000 times.

I like how people get up in arms about the lack of rigour of the other side but forget to check if this piece is likely to be true.

Now, whether it was searched by the "Leave" voters, the "Remain", the foreign residents or the people who didn't show up at the poll, that's anybody's guess).

edit: June 24th was a day with few "Game of Thrones" searches. So not likely one with an average number of searches, i.e. 73,000. Maybe 35,000? The main point is that everybody accepted the 1,000 searches.
I don't see how this follows. If I am selling cars that are incredibly cheap, safe, reliable and comfortable but invariably smell like wet dog, should I focus all my efforts into the parts I'm already doing well just because the cat is selling well, or should I try to get rid of the wet dog smell to try to capture even more of the market?
Because the upgrades add technical debt without removing many of the problems of the previous systems.

My non-tech relatives all agree that windows 2000, vista, and 7 are all the same. Why make them move to something else the same? Security - what is that, when this was working fine before? ME was a disaster we would all like to forget - where do you expect their confidence to come from, in win10, when the past hasn't inspired any?

Edit:

>Why would you not want to upgrade?

Because they have been burned before.
> I'm not sure what you mean by more value from an investment?

I mean that people get more benefit from it. What specifically counts as a benefit depends on the person.

> the appartements are exactly the same as they were twenty years ago.

This is going to depend a lot on what area you are in. In my area, much of the housing is fairly new, because either old housing was torn down and replaced, or housing was expanded into land that used to be something else (mostly farms or woods).

> I don't see how I can get more 'value' out of an appartement that is older, not renovated, and costs twice as much.

Any capital investment depreciates, and eventually you will need to reinvest in it in order to continue getting value from it. But suppose the average dwelling lasted 50 years before needing to be renovated or replaced, instead of 20. That would be an obvious benefit, even if the original purchase price of the dwelling was higher; in fact many people might be willing to pay the higher price in order to get a dwelling that would last so much longer.

Of course I understand that this is not what we currently see in most housing markets. But I think it is highly relevant to the question of whether "make housing cheaper" is always the right goal if you're trying to reinvent housing.
Tivo does sell one, unsure of pricing or if it requires their subscription or not though. I believe it's called TiVo Bolt.
Could someone purchase one of these vehicles today and still be considered for the buyback program?
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Oh no, mind you, the tarmac didn't suffer, it's just another mil added to the cancer risk for every person in the cities these things are roaming wild.

(That must be reason #192845 why "capitalist healthcare" doesn't work: often, you only need it because other peoples actions require you to, and they're not paying for it.)
Yes.

http://www.dart.ed.ac.uk/simulate-autism/
"If you handed them a brick they would still grab it and try to hit themselves on the head to put out the fire. You need to find problems so dire that users are willing try half-baked, v1, imperfect solutions."

this kind of falls into line with Reid Hoffman's famous quote:

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

I think these statements paint a wide brush and fail particularly for products whose main value prop is ease of use.

If your product's core value prop is UI/UX/ease of use, you cannot deliver that with a buggy half finished product. And if you cannot deliver the value you intend to provide, then you are shooting yourself in the foot, spooking users losing their trust in your ability to deliver.

Obviously each product is different, but I think specifically for this type, these methodologies should be omitted. Because the most likely case is that your customer is already solving the problem with a "brick", whether that is your competition or a home made solution that they have created. Handing them another brick will not suffice.
So if it is running linux then it should be able to mount ext4 drives ... so long as there is some sort of interface to accept keyboard input. And, of course, no ridiculous retransmission or caching of said keyboard inputs.

This comes up sometimes in my day job where on occasion I want to play something on a USB drive (to a projector/scree) but hesitate to save it unencrypted. ATM I often carry two laptops to accomplish this, but would much rather travel with one laptop and one tiny media player.
Umm, this question isn't intended to be negative?

I'm exploring a bunch of libraries right now and would like to know what advantages / disadvantages each lib has over one another.

It would make all our lives a lot simpler if every new lib comes out with an explanation of its differentiators.
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Atlassian's cloud-hosted JIRA performed so poorly with even an empty account and empty projects that I thought something had to be wrong the two times we tried using it.

I imagine it's a problem you can throw resources at when hosting it yourself, but I could not get over how poor the experience was.
Yes, there will be many more billions of fines levied at a later date (this is an admitted violation of the Clean Air Act which could be a fine up to $37,500 per vehicle or an additional $17.8B in fines). The EPA doesn't really care about getting their cash first, they would rather the vehicles fixed or off the road.
> when necessary

When would I ever want a website to know the difference between me pasting and me typing some text?
I think you need an additional component: no other desires except work. Many of us don't have jobs that fully satisfy (or let's be honest, even barely satisfy, since even 50% satisfaction would be nice and tolerable at some places) our minds, and once the thought patterns of "I can't wait for the day to be over so that I can X" start, they're hard to stop. Then you kind of need monk-like discipline to continually deny yourself your greater desires over the timespan of years if you don't want to go crazy / suffer burnout.
What happens if you bake dependency injection into a programming language?
What browser? I found that using Safari over Chrome drastically increases battery life.
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Macbook Air had the best battery life I have seen in a laptop but no retina. You can always buy one of these:

https://www.hypershop.com/products/hyperjuice-external-batte...
Statistically, most of the people who say "I quit my job and so can you" are trying to effectively run MLM on selling the concept of quitting your job to others. It's hard not to be cynical.
Another way to look at it is this way:

P(H|D) = P(D|H) P(H) / P(D)

Bayesians are interested in the probablity of various hypotheses h in H given some data D.

Frequentists calculate the probability of some data given a hypothesis (p-value is not strictly a probability but it can be one - it is ALWAYS a measure of extremity of data coming from the assumed hypothesis, which can be considered a relative probability).

Most interesting to me is that the Bayesian formula includes P(D|H) which is basically what the frequentists are calculating. In this sense, the question Bayesians answer is far closer to what we want to ask and far more powerful. In practice, the frequentist approach is often more than enough, though. The tradeoff is computability and simplicity.
> ...loosing a piece of inspiration because it's flowing too fast for writing it down

I've been using the voice recorder on my phone to capture inspiration for years now (plus journals, ambient recordings, etc). I've got 1,700 recordings now, and whenever I dive deep into a new project I listen through the relevant ones for help.
Assuming you have enough money to survive the rest of your life, then retire. If not, you'll be back. And understand it gets harder with age. Want a family? those 16 hr days to run that business get nearly impossible. Want to return to work 18 years later at 50 because you realize you have at least 30 more years, and not enough money? Good luck finding that dream job.

Of course this is all possible, but it's very easy to be shortsighted.
Good question re. Web Assembly. The problem is we need much more than tail calls. Just as important is deep stacks, to enable a _functional_ style of “functional programming”. And that has definitely been a headache. Our current (clever) implementation strategy actually gives us tail calls as a consequence of the deep stacks, using a variant of Henry Baker's "Cheney on the MTA" (for those old enough to remember that) combined with the "stack reconstitution" technique we published in ICFP a decade ago [http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pcmkf-...] and a few other things. But tail calls by themselves wouldn't be enough.

What _could_ we use help with? Obviously, we could use infrastructure help or porting to “platforms” (e.g., a REPL on top of Node), but those are huge commitments and require a lot of special knowledge. But I think a person with only a little time can still help.

Right now, I feel the language is still a bit impoverished. We want to make it really easy to get working with data, and that's still too hard. But pretty soon we're going to be putting out better support for tabular data manipulation. Actually use it to do some fun things with data; share your successes (when things work) and your experiences (when they don't)!
ehhhh, retina is so nice though.
For anyone considering early retirement, I highly recommend following this subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence

Also recommend this calculator focused around early retirement, accounts for inflation, decreased spending as you age, social security, etc..

http://www.firecalc.com/
Yes. I'd say easily 3-5%.
On September 22, 2015, VW stock had the trading highest volume / price decline. The stock closed $106 per share that day.

There is a trading strategy that assumes markets over estimate liability of lawsuits. While I am probably cherry picking data, it is notable that the stock closed at exactly $106 per share today. So much for that trading strategy in this case. The market pretty much nailed it.
Yet another lifestyle article with pearls of wisdom like drastically reducing expenses by cutting maid service and weekly massages. Do these guys even know what real life struggle is for most people? Not sure why this is up on the front page.
He is able to retire at 32. Good for him. Let's move on and talk about something meaningful or at least fun.
I'm really surprised to read the article she linked... Labor laws in Quebec do not exempt game employees, they should be getting overtime anytime they're over 50 hours a week...
Mostly safari, and Chrome canary on the side.
It's going to cost them a lot more, I hope. Personally, I've wanted an Audi since I was 16. Last year before the scandal hit, I was test driving a Q5, ready to finally get one. Now, I will never touch VW, Audi, or Porsche.

Not only will I not buy from them, I won't work for them either. Since the scandal, I've been approached by 2 separate recruiters asking me to interview at some Audi autonomous research division in the Bay Area. That's going to be tough for them, since I'm also being recruited by Apple, Google, Tesla, Uber, and Toyota. Guess where my talent isn't going...
Your spot looks really good, but according to Google it's a "Wildlife area", so politically it's not likely to be easy to get approval to turn into a city.

For me, proximity to Silicon Valley is not a priority. My suggestion is to use land in NW Oregon in the coast range. Most of it is very rugged, but there's some sort-of-flat land in the general vicinity of Saddle Mountain that's currently used to grow lumber. It's close to the beach but far enough not to be in the tsunami zone, and close to highway 26. Water is unlikely to be an issue, and it's close enough to Portland that it's not totally isolated, yet far enough away not be be a suburb.

I think one of the downsides of trying to establish a tech-hub city in the middle of nowhere is that tech hubs tend to have a symbiotic relationship with universities, and the latter are hard to create artificially.
Exactly this. People feel left behind, blame immigration and made the referendum about this (roughly 50% of UK immigration is from outside the EU [0]). Seems like most politicians were not aware and need to address this now.

Americans: a similar logic could lead to a president Trump. Be on your guard.

[0] http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/statistics-net-migration-sta...
Now's better than ever to buy a new Volkswagen. Because of the scandal, I've found crazy deals (~30-40% off MSRP) for new VWs.
The Basics of a 3 Statement Financial Model
I'm a Startup CFO and I help a lot of Founders build financial models. I thought folks on the thread would like to read a basic overview of a 3 Statement Model - Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement.
For us, building these kinds of models are always a collaborative process. We have built a ton of models but the Founders have an innate understanding of their business. The Founders know best. :)
You want to begin by isolating 4 or 5 Key Performance indicators (KPI). Use these metrics to drive your model because they drive your business! They might be variations on # of users/customers, revenue per user/customer, churn rate, customer acquisition cost, etc.
Once you have these metrics, use them to drive your Income Statement. Be realistic about your growth rates and costs. Otherwise your model will look to rosy and you'll underestimate your burn rate. This could result in your company running out of money way faster than you expect.
The Net Income from the P&L will connect to the Cash Flow Statement and Balance Sheet. Make sure to think through your Cap Ex and Changes to Working Capital. Most founders underestimate how much hard equipment they must buy and how much Accounts Receivables and Payables fluctuate. Most businesses that start growing quickly need a lot of Working Capital. You will make these assumptions on the Balance Sheet and the differences will materialize on the Cash Flow Statement.
It's difficult to build these models but it's totally worth it. You need the 3 Statement Model to accurately predict your Cash Burn and Runway. It's a great exercise and I find Founders really understand their business after connecting everything in the model. :)
It's interesting to note that Burning Man started out as a much more freewheeling, libertarian kind of place (shooting guns, driving around wherever you wanted, etc), and that as it grew, it encountered the natural outcomes that require restriction of individual rights for the common good. For example, after a couple in a tent were run over by a car driving around at night, they had to remove the general right to drive around freely. Now you have to go through an extensive process to be licensed, strictly follow the 5 MPH rules, etc.
Moving the cost-benefit analysis for breaking the law towards the obey-the-law column isn't useful?

I guess you could make that same argument about all law enforcement.
there is money set aside for environmental. so I don't see the problem as at least the people who still have the cars can get out from under them if they want. I actually traded mine off in May and after the scandal broke I don't even want to know what happened to the price if you could even trade them.

2.7 billion so far doesn't look all that bad to me, followed up with another 500 million or so to the states.

The real question you should be asking, will the states prove they put it towards the environment or merely general fund it or worse pass it off to cronies who suddenly have environmental solutions companies and investments.
Bank of America paid $16.65 billion.[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-america-pay-1665-billion...]

The tobacco industry is paying over $200 billion (although that's split between a number of companies). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...]
Crushing the company hits mostly the lower ranks who legitimately had no part in any of it (presumably; if you're a soldier in the Wehrmacht or the guy dumping toxic buckets, this doesn't apply).

We just need strict liability for corporate officers.
RE: the fs fuzzing, David Sterba a Btrfs developer @ Suse replied to this:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg54454.html

As for unstable and corrupts data, this is just not true. Many more users using it on stable hardware don't have problems. I've used Btrfs single, raid0, raid10 and raid1 for years, and haven't had corruptions at all ever that I didn't myself induce.

I have stumbled upon, just days ago, parity corruptions in raid5 however. The raid56 stuff is much much newer and hasn't been as well tested, and has been regarded as definitely not ready for prime time. So that's a bug, and it'll get fixed.

Bunches of problems happen on mdadm and LVM raid also due to drive SCT ERC being unset or unsupported, resulting in bad sector recovery times that are longer than the kernel will tolerate. That results in SATA link resets, rather than the fs being informed what sector is bad so it can recover from a copy and fix up the bad sector.

So there are bugs all over the place, it's just the way it goes and things are getting quite a bit better.

It is totally true that Apple can produce their own hardware that doesn't do things like lie to the fs about FUA or its equivalent of req_flush being complete when it's not, or otherwise violating the order of writes the fs is expecting in order to be crash tolerant. But we're kinda seeing Apple go back to the old Mac days where you bought only Apple memory and drives, 3rd party stuff just didn't happen then. The memory is now soldered on the board and it looks like the next generation of NVMe and storage technologies may be the same.

Windows and Linux will by necessity have file systems that are more general purpose than Apple's.
Microsoft is a bit more influential than those guys, no?