skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, here's my free gift to someone, since I don't live in SF or a big city. Why isn't there an Uber for buses? You use your smart phone to enter where you want to go, and a nearby bus comes around and picks you up. Seems like there are plenty of opportunities to make bus transport nicer. Like having the bus conform you the needs of the people actively using it at one time (i.e. no stops where no one is getting on or getting off, and more direct routes, etc.). Maybe the would be wifi and charging stations on board as well. It seems like the price should be relatively low, since the cost could be potentially shared between 10+ people. I'd imagine that the first couple of buses would be privately owned, but you could expand out to lease the technology to existing municipalities to extend to their bus lines. And there would be a natural fit for self-driving buses in the future.
This is very nice ! Have you somehow automated your update process to keep your list up to date ?
Any evidence to support this?
How did you find that opportunity?
Have you consider clojure? It is growing a lot and it is possible to find job in clojure, the clojure team is doing a lot of interesting works on the language...
I had something similar to me when living up in the area. Everything got better after moving to Santa Monica along the beach.
FWIW, this works fine in Firefox as well -- I used https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-... for the first time today, and it works great on the extension published on the Chrome store.
Einstein points out that the humanity of slaves has always been belittled. Maybe it's a psychological switch in the masters brain - enslaving equal creatures would be just evil and no one wants to be evil.

I think pointing out the root cause of the stigmatization of a segment of a society is a very good way to start a social discussion in the modern age.

Unless we as a species are to face our limitations and prejudices with open minds I fear there will be much anguish in the future history of mankind as well.
Based on which reference frame?
Amazon keeps track of which seller's inventory it originally came from, so the right person will get in trouble if a fake is sent.
To answer a number of your points:

1. Einstein was speaking about American slave owners, who were primarily white. I believe the term 'whites' is inclusive of Jews.

2. Einstein wrote this article in 1946... so there were likely a lot less black millionaires.

3. I think he was only making an observation that the whites around him (not necessarily all the whites around the world) still discriminated and thought less African Americans.
He goes on to explain that some of their feelings are reasonable and have been experienced in the past... but are nonetheless flawed.

I'm not sure what your arguments above are supposed to point out... but Einstein was pointing out a problem in 1946... problems which may or may not be the same today.
>Why did you leave off "over-represented race in violent crimes"?

Because those crimes are (for anything above the baseline for people in general at the same poverty levels) are results of centuries of being abused, held down and denied opportunities.

Even if all white people (and people in power) in some city X stopped being racist, it wouldn't automatically mean that the blacks there living in the wrong side of the tracks, in an underfunded school district, and working shit jobs, will suddenly have the same opportunities as the average white person. For one, as parents they will still be the same poor folks that didn't have a good education and can't afford (or know) to raise their kids properly and send them off to some good school. This things take generations to overcome, slowly trickling upwards (and in an era when the middle class is squeezed down and the working class is fucked, that's even less likely to happen).

If you believe in blacks being inherently more violent etc as a race outside of systemic causes (poverty, bad school districts, lack of opportunities, etc, caused by centuries of slavery, double standards and racism) then you might as well believe that they have inferior DNA.

>So that makes him not black?

No, that makes him an example of the kind of forces of American society towards blacks, where even idols can't be satisfied in their black skin.

>Conveniently? I'd say tragically. Abraham Lincoln was also assassinated. I don't know how this changes that both are among the most admired people in America today.

It's easy to admire a non-threatening murdered person, especially if you make him into a convenient sugary version of what he stood for. Unlike Lincoln he wasn't much admired by white American society in his day, and a black rights advocate in his vein wouldn't be that admired today.

>Also, being the current president doesn't mean people don't call you mean things, if anything it means you're called more mean things. People said plenty of mean things about Bush or Clinton while they were president.

About their race? Were they drawn as monkeys? Asked about being muslim?
If you're looking to lower your S3 costs, there are some S3 compatible services now that are far cheaper.

Found this list: http://www.s3-client.com/s3-storage-providers.html
You can choose whether to turn on comingling when using FBA.
>There are quite a few optical illusions photos based on that, for example the face that seems to smile - until you flip it.

Ah, the Thatcher effect! [0][1] Although IMO this is a bad example because (er, AFAIK) we don't have the same sort of hardcoded facial-feature-recognizer systems in computer-vision neural nets as we do in boring old hew-mons. The Thatcher effect works on people with prosopagnosia [2] ('face blindness', people who have to work out who you are by your clothing, gait, voice and body language). These, taken together, proved that the known full-face-detector in humans, the fusiform gyrus, is aided by other systems that recognize features of a face (eyes, mouth) independently of that face's vertical orientation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect

[1] http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_med...
< here's the trope-namer, straight outta the 80s. The effect is much more pronounced in this image than in the wiki one; it's way more obvious that the mouth/eyes are 'properly oriented' despite being upside down

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
By that definition, a bond is a Ponzi scheme because the lender's only goal, in respect of your bond, is to pay back your interest and principal.
My experience as a full time remote worker since 2011 is that it can be tough in those ways, but at least for me, office work has its own challenges that nobody seems to give much credence. If you compare them without defaulting to office work, it's pretty balanced.

I find it more difficult to get work done in an office environment, so whatever downsides there are re: meetings, (and I'm not certain that most meetings deliver a lot of value) there are upsides in terms of personal productivity that outweigh them.
As a married man with a baby, living in Oakland has been great, FWIW.
Of course it's a different place.

But it's still a place with an obvious problem with institutionalised racism, and every argument in the original holds true, so what does it matter?

It's being downvoted because it's irrelevant, as an interjection it reeks of apologism.
I think a lot of mid-level to senior-level developers are starting to realize you can net a lot more and have a better quality of life outside of the bay area.

The low interest in working for startups is also telling imo. Could that be because there isn't a lot of exciting startups currently or is it that developers are looking for more stability?
The only person involved in this discussion suggesting universal white culpability for racism is you.
Take a look at the links. They're not really comparable. They don't go as fast and are designed to be pedal-assisted—that is, without pedaling, nothing happens. The basic frame is a bike frame, not a motorcycle frame. And so on.

Ebikes provide assistance but are not designed for high-speed riding or conventional freeways or that sort of thing.
Individual pieces have torrent links. (And there probably are scripts to fetch an entire category somewhere...)
I agree on the common misunderstanding about what less lethal options exist, but the justification is often misunderstood.

Rather, any potentially lethal force can only be used if there is a grave, immediate threat, and in this case the shooter ought to be compelled to take the most reliable action: shooting for the center of mass and attempting to fully disable the target. Shooting limbs is often not immediately disabling, and therefore wouldn't be an effective way of dealing with a life-or-death threat. Likewise, shooting for the head is rarely done by nonspecialists simply because it decreases the chance for success (not because the shooter wants to "give the target a chance to survive").

So you're right that if someone thought shooting limbs never resulted in death, they might mistakenly think it was an appropriate non-lethal option. But I think, in fact, most people are aware death is possible. It's just that they mistakenly reason that if limbs shots are less likely to kill then they ought to be a preferable method for disabling a target.
I went to all those tech meetups and events when I was in the Bay area. It wasn't that great for me. The topics covered tend to be basic (this is true for most presentations, they need to be able to appeal to a wider audience). Not only that, but the larger meetups live streamed them or they were uploaded to Youtube later.

The networking benefits are real, but is that worth the cost of living, commute, lack of options for housing?
Your grandparent is talking about buy-side agents though -- as a buyer-only brokerage, our experience is that high priced transactions are usually easier to deal with because finances are more buttoned up and the deal is less emotional. The thing that is genuinely harder and more expensive with the higher priced sales is customer acquisition. At Open Listings we started with a flat-fee model but quickly realized that we were excluding lower priced transactions and not able to make the margins work for acquiring buyers at the higher end. Instead, we now refund 50% of the commission, so while it's not as good a deal for the uber rich, we think we're able to grow faster with more marketing dollars in the system. A deal is only good if people know about it and we've been able to refund a ton of money back to buyers this way. When we've reached a critical mass my hunch is that CAC will drop and we'll be able to drastically lower our commission or go back to working for a flat fee that's more reflective of the costs to do the transaction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12062304
I've spent the last 10 months living in SV under similar circumstances. (one kid, preschool age). Working at Google has been absolutely fantastic. Amazing company and colleagues. Living in SV... Kinda ugh. I'm looking forward to getting back to Pittsburgh. But Salt Lake would do too. :)
>> if you count a satoshi as a penny

But... looks like today it is more like 2,000 satoshis per penny, pretty big difference?
I taught myself CL with Touretzky, can recommend it.
I found a remote job back in the US. Then I moved abroad.
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Russia: "So nice of you Canada, let me thank you with this radioactive satellite". https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kosmos_954
I'm guessing that's due a combination of tradition (Security Essentials hasn't been around as long as the rest) and possibly having business connections with those antivirus companies.

Disappointing either way.
That is a more serious issue but there's the option of Dublin/Ireland and other places where the population is English-fluent and everything is available in English.
The solar system's rotation is about the center of the galaxy so that would be the natural pick for an inertial reference frame, or the supermassive black hole believed to be in the center.
test <i></i>hi<i></i>asdf<p>asdfa</p>
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In addition, electric-assist bikes potentially (e.g. in EU they have a power limit, and can only supply power if you move the pedals) count as bicycles, so you can use cycle lanes or restricted paths, don't need a license or insurance...
What change do you see coming that might be better?
This could work, but there's two separate problems to solve: knowing when a verified account tweets, and capturing the tweet in a way that doesn't provably infringe on the TOS. A crowdsourced capture solves the second stage, but only if someone in the crowd happens to be browsing the right page at the time an update is made.

To make this work, someone can set up a 'shell company' that signs up for the Twitter API for a seemingly legitimate reason, and captures the actual events of verified accounts tweeting. Then, this service sends out events to all the crowdsourced clients to browse to the Twitter page and capture the content, and submit it to the project.

The behavior of the crowdsourced clients would be undetectable from a normal web user, and there would be a layer of indirection between the client signed up for the Twitter API and the curators of the submitted tweets.
God's Universal Message to All of Us That Has NOTHING to Do with Religion
> everything that matters

I pay $1150 to lease a 1600 sqft house in Houston, and make more money than I'd make in the Bay, and control my stack instead of being a worker bee.
It's kind of like communism. Seems great on paper, but it just never really plays out effectively.
Young people are often early indicators for where the trends are going next. This is because of two main reasons:

1.) Young people now become old people later. The whole population ages, so (as long as young people keep adopting a technology/belief/product/location) the demographics of the population later will naturally reflect the demographics of the youth population now.

2.) Young people tend to be less set in their ways than older people. People build a mental model of reality as they become adults, which usually reflects reality as it existed in their late teens and 20s. When the world changes, young people have no investment in the old world, and so they make choices based on how it exists now rather than how a few new facts fit into their existing mental model.

Note that I'm arguing for the general principle of "young people today become most people tomorrow." On the specific question of "Are tech workers leaving Silicon Valley?" - I can see the other side's point. I'm 35, many of my friends are thinking of leaving, and I have that discussion regularly with my wife.

But I think that's actually not the trend, but it's a reflection of another dynamic: Silicon Valley is a pyramid scheme. It's an example of tournament economics: a small number of people get fabulously wealthy, and the majority work their butt off for relatively average returns. I knew this when I came here (there were 40-something Silicon Valley residents on HN even in 2008 :-)), and I've done reasonably well in the tournament, but the consequence is that everyone who doesn't win eventually leaves, to be replaced by fresh blood willing to try their hand.

(On a meta-point, I think this is actually a good example of the youth trends today becoming the new normal tomorrow. I think the whole rest of the world is also turning into tournament economics, and it's just less obvious outside of Silicon Valley and the developing world. Millenials know this - they have no expectation of employer loyalty or that anyone besides themselves will advocate for their career - but it's a very foreign and repugnant mental model for many baby boomers.)
An area to pull people outside for a chat ?
The narrative is the same today as it was yesterday...

Every fault of the black community is the result of white privilege and/or supremacy. And whites must constantly absorb those faults until everything is equalized.

You have not answered a single point, you have simply pretended that those points don't exist.
And that was the joke: that the original code "out-minified" minify - that running the original gibberish through minify would NOT make it any smaller :-)
That chart needs to be adjusted for landmass, e.g. population density rather than population. For example, why is there so little population in the southern hemisphere? A major contributor is the fact that only 32% of land is in the southern half.
Message passing, mainly. I.e. if your program is an event-based loop, then an interrupt is just another kind of message that you can receive on your main thread.
This seems to work pretty well on Google search results. If you haven't noticed, Google search has this anti-feature bordering on the dark pattern where hovering a link shows the correct destination URL but right-clicking it (eg. to copy the destination URL) instantly replaces it with an nested Google redirect (I assume they're doing this for the tracking, statistics, etc.)
Wait, since when have technology workers thought that Silicon Valley was lustrous? The media certainly paints things that way but anyone on the ground floor knows it is anything but. Legacy technology stacks, a revolving door of programmers and managers, incoherent product roadmaps, long hours, shady backroom no-poaching deals, etc.

I mean what sane person thinks any of that is good?
There's a saying that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

It might be a different place than in the era of KKK-cross-burnings, but it still ways from what a modern, racially just, society should be. Token black president or not.

I wrote above that blacks are for example over-represented in incarcerations, and somebody said that that's because they are over-represented in crime stats too.

Not understanding that that argument, far from being an answer ("see the law it's just doing its jobs, its just that blacks are more criminal") is a great example of racism itself.

It's a given to me, that blacks are not more criminal as a race (that is, in biological terms -- except if you agree with KKK and them having "faulty" criminal DNA etc.).

So if they are "more criminal" in actual life, this can mean mainly two things: (a) the white-dominated legal system has a prejudice against them (putting more of them in jail, giving them harsher punishment for the same crimes compared to whites etc) and (b) their life circumstances push them to commit more crimes.

And I say it's a combination of both (a) and (b).

So, let's put it this way: US would be non racist, not just when black people are less frequently shoot by the police, but when black people are less frequently participating in violent crime too.

Because that would mean that the systemic causes keeping them down and pushing them towards those means have finally been eradicated.
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I agree with your criticism in general, but the lack of outsider-friendly explanation here seems justified because something like a parse tree matcher is more of a tool that's useful inside the NLP research community than for end users. When does an end user ever need to find trees with a particular syntactic structure? On the other hand, it is very useful for debugging parsers, verifying annotation standards in corpora, etc.: things that NLP researchers have to do.

There is some NLP software that does a great job of explaining what it does, how it does it, and why this is useful. http://spacy.io/ comes to mind. Maybe that's the happy exception.
> I can't even believe Dallas had a bomb placing robot lying around.

That isn't uncommon actually. One common approach to handling potential unexploded ordinance is to evacuate the area and have a controlled detonation nearby. If you hear one boom, it was nothing. If you hear two booms, it was a bomb. Robots are often used for this.

Source: This is coming from my memory as part of MIT's Community Emergency Response Team back in 2012 & 2013. We didn't receive EOD training of course. We just did first aid training and crowd control at a few events, but we also go to sit in on discussions of EOD procedures and a tabletop excercise of an active shooter scenario.
The google redirect does tracking and referer hiding. You'll want to be sure that your browser does referer hiding if you go direct to the link.
Civil Liberties, the Internet, and Computer Security
Ben Heck's Raspberry Pi Point and Shoot Camera [video]
Things to Look for in Next:Economy Companies
Also to anyone interested in the history of the transition between 2D and 3D gaming.

It's totally a fetish of mine, this strange period we got from 93-97 in 3D gaming, from flat-shaded polygons to the strange pixelated quad-polygons of the Sega Saturn right up until we finally got something like Majora's Mask on the N64 that truly started to demonstrate its full power.

The developments and the history are fascinating.
> Silicon Valley hasn't released a blockbuster app, website or company in a while.

Uber? Was only founded 7 years ago, and took a few years before it really started to blow up.
Self reported. I think he's referring to this article he wrote in 2009:
https://steveblank.com/2009/05/18/founders-and-dysfunctional...

Though I don't think you have have to come from a dysfunctional family to handle choas well. Working in theater will teach you that just as well. :)
> Asimov is the last person we should refer to as a credible source of inspiration.

Wait, why wouldn't we want to look at the failure modes he pointed out?
Most of the time it's usually worth living in a higher cost-of-living area for better pay. If you make $100k and spend $20k on rent and expenses, you have $80k left over. If you make $150k (50% more) but double your expenses, you have $110k left over. Your savings/retirement grow more rapidly.

Personally, I love the geography in the Bay, but the money argument works out too. Especially when it comes to things that are practically fixed cost relative to where you live, like flying (often cheaper from big cities) or travelling, or many consumer goods.
I grew up in Pittsburgh. I'm looking forward to getting back there as well. Maybe you can transfer to their Pittsburgh office? The city has gotten a lot nicer over the past four or so years, it's incredible.
If you pay for a product on a recurring basis you expect improvements and not only support of the status quo.
Scots is a North Germanic language with a smattering of West Germanic vocabulary; as opposed to English which is a North Germanic language with a large amount of West Germanic and French vocabulary). A fair number of scholars regard both English and Scots to belong to the West Germanic branch, but in my estimation the grammar of English and Scots is closer to languages like Nynorsk or older forms of Danish (which is where the Angles and Saxons came from). Vocabulary tends to be more flexible and adaptable, via loan words and the like, than grammar.

You're right; the -er suffix is a reference to a person or thing in Germanic languages, my mistake. It should be Pittsburghisch or probably more likely Pittsburghish.

Of course this is nothing more than my humble opinion; opinions like farts etc...
I agree with your general point, but it sounds like you have a very one dimensional understanding of what the bay area is.

> I can drive to 8 national parks and monuments in half a day. I have a great place to raise my kids, and I am NOT surrounded by tech events and meetups... I am surrounded by people who like to spend our free time outside.

Literally all of this is true of the bay area, pretty much as soon as you stop living in the densest urban part of it (and even then, for some people: my cousins are raising a kid in the city and they love it, including the ability to drive to tons and tons of different state and national parks).