skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine that you could park your camper / RV in the company parking lot day or night. Most residential neighborhoods ban camper / RV parking so you'll have to look for where it is legal road side. In the south bay, there is a long stretch of El Camino Real in Palo Alto that borders the Stanford playground - lots of campers there, parked nose to tail. Another stretch is on Ferguson Drive in Mountain View. Walmart offers free overnight parking. On weekends, take advantage of the beautiful weather and drive your camper / RV to nearby beaches or mountains.

Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422976

Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8289577
And that's probably before taxes :/
What is the answer? I'm not going to read the whole thing.
Perhaps the take away is that 10% of all the Software Developers in US are in a very small area which is indeed high.
I have a $1M/occurrence general liability policy I bought direct from Hiscox that costs about $300/yr. Fortunately have never needed to use it.
I think dsugarman meant "at least once over any FINITE amount of time", in which case each prisoner might visit again an infinite number of times, but it can be arbitrarily many turns in the future.

So, if you wait a finite amount of time (in this case a "few" billion years") it's possible that the visiting condition might not yet be satisfied.
Congrats to your success. I think it starts with your objectives. Do you have other product ideas you want to get off the ground? Do you want to stop wearing a few hats (like marketing, finance customer service, etc). Where do you see the business in 2,4, and 8 years? I am currently in a great position leading product for a healthcare technology company and I have asked myself the same questions. A hiring plan fell out of that discussion and has so far been very successful.
That "Dead End Dread" had a more sinister form, where you weren't sure whether the lack of progress was due to an unwinnable state, or a bug, which caused me to look up walkthroughs and cheat despite having the best intentions not to (I swear!)
This was actually a much more surprising statistic to me. I've lived and worked in Silicon Valley for almost 10 years now, and I assumed that number was more like <= 1%. It's astonishing to me that 10% of the programmers in the US are here. Talk about burying the lede...
Safari dev tools kills adoption for me, specifically the styles inspector and the lack of an individual input/focus state for the property and value.
I've spent 6 of the past 7 years living in an RV (motorhome first, now an old Avion travel trailer with a big old truck to tow it). I recommend it for anyone who is unencumbered enough of other people and responsibilities to do so (i.e., it may not be the right thing for a family with kids, though I know some families with kids who do it and seem happy).

The freedom to travel is magnificent. It precludes many kinds of opportunities, but if you can work remotely, why not do it at the beach or in the mountains or in the desert or wherever you like? It's not dramatically less expensive than living in fixed housing (though that depends on where you were living in the house and where you're parking your RV; when I first started I moved out of a tiny rental house in Mountain View, CA, which cost $2145/month, so I'm not spending anywhere near that now), or at least it hasn't been for me, but there are many benefits outside of cost.
Different fundamental goal. Putting 1% in another market is an amazing way to increase the odds somebody survives. In terms of optimizing for "maximum likelihood of humanity's future existence" local improvement are marginal, versus colonization which essentially ORs the odds of survival together. The ideal is to have as many people as possible living sustainably in poverty in the asteroid belt as soon as possible.
Answer to any 'can X make you happier' is always yes.
If you have this awareness and a hefty surplus of resources, you're likely to use it to improve society in some way. Likely driven by your own desire to feel good about yourself, yet still effective.
This is all about the ratio of travel days to productive or fun days I talk about a bit in my longer comment below. And sure, do the math- if you would be happier in a hotel anyway- and a lot of people would be- then it makes sense to get hotel rooms.

But if you're parking the truck on BLM land for a week at a time, then that's happier and cheaper.

Hell, you could go with a Miata and a camping tent, and just control the ratio of BLM land time vs hotel time.

I think one viable strategy is 5off 2on. EG: Stay in a Hotel on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (lower cost than weekends) and then camp on BLM land (or other cheap places) the other 5 days.

State parks are 12-$25, while Motel 6 is $40-$60.
I agree. A potential middle ground would be a small button that lets them skip that screen with a second confirmation dialog box with a warning about it.
Using the same codebase for lite and pro versions of your mobile app
EFF and ACLU Ask Ninth Circuit to Revisit Two Dangerous CFAA Rulings
Surgeons want to transplant a human head – and a Russian is offering his
> Also notice that before any actual confirmation or official investigation, pointing fingers trying to find companies that match the description could be a criminal offense as well as you could damage the reputation of totally fine companies.

Well, I mean, that's already been done, but I don't see any criminal law that could remotely be applicable. What crime do you imagine this is?

Heck, I don't even see how posting "it appears from details in the article that it is talking about WrkRiot" could even be civil defamation, even if taking other things into account (Such as the source article) the net effect is damaging. Even if the source article would, if deanonymized, be defamatory.

Damaging reputation alone isn't generally actionable, at least in US law. Knowingly (or recklessly) making false statements that damage a company may be.
I've found there's shirts I like owning but not wearing. No rhyme or reason, they're not damaged or stained. I just don't like wearing them.
Why does each person need to enter the room twice? F is allowed to turn the light off, each other person can only turn the light on ONCE. Every time F enters and the light is ON he turns it off and increments his counter. When F's count gets to 100 they go free (99 turned it on ONCE and there was at most one false positive) and, obviously, F has entered at least 100 times.
I travelled around the world for 6 years and the number one impediment to staying in any country was the visa situation. If you are staying there longer than a tourist visa, and especially if you want any kind of employment (or are in a situation where you are visibly employed) the red tape in the vast majority of countries is very tough.

The only exceptions I know about are Chile (which gives one year visas that are relatively easy to renew) and Panama (which will give you residency if you start a business there, it can be a small one.)
It seems this article is more about research techniques over the years than it is about smiling.
An Ode to Clippy:Why Chatbots Need to Stay in the Early 2000’s Until They Mature
Probably most of the fortune 500 companies today were not fueled by venture capital, but some other form of capital.
Toxic environment for sons accused of campus sex offenses turns mothers militant
This comment branch starts with "tools that only support Py2". This ecosystem is what makes Py2 better for many.
You don't. Just wait a minute, and they'll tell you (hopefully before a hiring decision is made). :)
While only 2% of the US population lives in the Bay Area.
Wasn't this a goal of Light Table, or am I up in the night? There are a lot of useful representations I'd like to see for my foo, but very few of them I'd actually want to work in directly when I'm creating or modifying the underlying code representation. I could see this tool as a quick and useful way to load a complex regex meaning in my head like doc text, but after that, I'll just prefer to work with the regex directly instead of the verbose text.
Why go off-grid when Net-Metering exists?
How so? The differences between PCRE and Python RE are negligable, and cannot be confused for any syntax in the other. Most people use ERE with only the most commonly implemented PCREisms in any case. And BRE is different enough that it's usually detactable right off the bat.
It's included on all cars they sell right now. The old Model S 60 had it as a $2,000 option, but the new one has it built in.

Of course, it's never really free, us customers pay for it one way or another. "Included and unlimited" is probably a better way to describe it.
Without stealth (normal looking van) and a full time job you are looking at a ton of stress trying to do it without living at an RV park.

I know a couple that commuted from Half Moon Bay. Another couple also lives just south in a tight tight RV park.
The high rents are caused by "economic rents" -- politically created scarcity by using zoning laws to artificially limit housing density and also by the overuse of historic landmark status. Both of these actions make the land artificially scarce and therefore people pay more for rent than they would in an efficient market without the market failure of the "economic rent."

The result is that rents pay more than they should without the market failure and landlords like Donald Trump earn far more than they would if the zoning laws were fixed.
did you note that circle in the interception of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah ?

redneck startups ?
WW3 WILL OBAMA BE FATALLY SHOT AND BROUGHT BACK
megabus and similar can do less than $15, with wifi. success is this area isn't about price for distance
Smile awhile

And give your face a rest

Raise your hand to the one you love the best,

Then shake hands with those nearby,

And greet them with a smile!
Stop posting this damn quote. Just stop it. It's disingenuous and dishonest in the extreme, and whatever relevance it may once have had is long gone. I'm so sick of hearing it in every Hacker News discussion of corporate tax, by ostensibly intelligent people.

Here's why: for tax regulations created through a transparent democratic process and a popular mandate, this quote might be proper, but that's not what happens. The kinds of tax loopholes that allow for companies like Apple to dodge their obligations are created through corruption and regulatory capture, and would be choked off in a heartbeat if the general public actually had any say in the matter. Worse, they're simply not available to schlubs like you and me, so it's not a level playing field. To set up these loopholes in a corrupt way, and then use this quote (and the broader attitude of "It's legal, so it's OK!") to gag people from complaining about it, is despicable.
When the article says something like "at first their families were concerned" I initially thought they meant their wife and kids, but no, it's their _parents_ -- which gives you a clue as to where these guys are coming from.
Ronald Dahl also thought the movie was so bad that he walked out of the premiere.

(I agree, and it's making me sad to see all the memorials on Twitter with stills from that film... Wilder did vastly better work)
Yeah, true story: I make 250K per year and live in a minivan. Wellll, ok, I actually have a mortgage and a house but that's somewhere else :)

Pro tip: xfinity is your friend.

The reality is that everyone can do this. And why not? The big problem with this model, though, is lack of property taxes. And parking spots.

I would happily pay for X per month for a nice parking spot though and my fair share of property taxes. Ok, maybe not happily, I have to admit I do enjoy free.

What will be really interesting for this model is when we get self driving cars.
Love his acting and the great romance he had with Gilda Radner.
Re: tested in production - NW.js has also a wealthy portfolio of apps: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/List-of-apps-and-companie...
This article buries the fact tha there are still engineers looking at the algorithm's results and making sure they are "tied to a current news event in the real world". According to Facebook, the editors mainly wrote summaries of the stories.

Here's the original post: http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/08/search-fyi-an-update-to-...
> Yes, there are much better options out there than using the animation jQuery offers.

No doubt. I haven't used jQuery to speak of in the past 2 years, and the only time I've found myself missing it was when I needed to do some simple animation and wasn't using a library like d3 that could do it just as easily or easier.

And yes, I mentioned CSS animations in this same thread. It's what I've been using in production for animation for the past 2+ years, although it sometimes feels wrong to animate things in JS by adding and removing classes from an element.
Yup, I think we're all in agreement that there's a cost to storing possessions. The issue folks were debating is that the once-per-x rule isn't appropriate for certain items because:

- the item takes up a negligible amount of space (fractions of pennies), and its usefulness is huge when you need it. Also, factor in the value of immediate access (e.g. fire extinguisher).

- some things you don't use, but are required to have (birth certificates)

Again, my main point was thoughtfulness with ownership. And it doesn't always require breaking out an Excel spreadsheet and amortizing costs and calculating expected values.
He's presumably using a lot more power than was assumed. There's nothing wrong with it (and heck, he's free publicity for Tesla), but if everyone did it then it wouldn't work.

"What if everyone behaved that way Yossarian?"
By definition, a company or individual has no legal obligation to care about laws outside their jurisdiction. The EU can say anything it likes about what companies "must" do, but they have no jurisdiction over non-EU companies. (Unless their own country enters into some kind of mutual enforcement agreement, or unless they ship a physical item that has to go through EU customs.)
Ireland will become the only (native) English-speaking country in the EU after Brexit, so they'll have that to leverage, for what it's worth.
Landmass is not a useful metric since 75% of the population lives on 3 percent of the land (according to a quick google search).
What would be the best way to tell if there is a market crash about to happen? Is there a way to monitor for a decrease in Help Wanted ads or an uptick in vacant commercial properties in SV? There has to be some numbers before the crash that could tell you when the crash was about to happen. There has to be the proverbial canary in a coal mine out there.

* I knew the 2008 housing crash was coming when someone told my Dad that mortgage companies were not even checking credit history of buyers anymore. I knew that day, housing market was toast, but I did not know how to make money off of it.
Me and my friends grew up playing these games and we never saw Sierra as being "disrespectful" of us. If anything the -Quest games were always seen as more epic compared to LucasArts', but they were all equally loved and looked forward to.
A startup is a new business. It's not anything special.

It looks like you are falling for propaganda. When someone wants to purchase a car or a home, there's such a momentum behind the idea of financing that a customer who uses their own savings is viewed as odd... perhaps even a money launderer, yet it's perfectly normal.

I mention that because there's a similar momentum behind business financing. If you build software for a living, then you can build a new business with no overheads, no ties, no time limits, no favours, no budgets, no business plan and low risk. It's pure freedom to do what you want.
> A Basic Job Guarantee (if you need a job real bad, the government gives you a real bad job) does not create incentives for fraud.

Are you sure about that? For recipients, there is potential to slack off while still receiving pay. Possibly to the point of doing other work (under the table? for their own household?). While this can be construed as still comparing favorably to BI ("at least we're getting some work out of some of them") it is not at all the same as there being no opportunity for fraud.

Meanwhile, there is tremendous potential for abuse and fraud by those giving out the basic jobs. A long running program whose criteria for success is "employ a lot of people at marginally useful things" is a large pile of money just waiting to be spent on making improvements that especially benefit the connected few.
The author pits his project against POSIX regular expressions, but personally I feel that it's PCRE that rules the day. I find pcre regex significantly less verbose and easier to read.
I generally agree, but I wouldn't call the current structure artificial. That means it was somehow planned by a central artificer to have its current structure.

The current social structure is rather the result of a very long and decentralized evolutionary process whereby older ways of doing one specific thing were piecemeal replaced by newer attempts, which then either spread or died off. Of course, vestigal parts remain, and sometimes they cause problems.
Which is why it would be news if they got to keep every penny...
Hey thanks. I wasn't aware of the dylib appstore restriction. Is this still the case with iOS8 and if not, could a dynamic LGPL Qt app be put on the store. I hope they allow this going forward.
> Isn't the photoshopped wire transfer literally outright criminal fraud?

Its not clear to me that it is criminal fraud; its clearly deceptive, and its clearly intended to defuse expected responses to the already-criminal failure to pay regular payroll, but I'm not sure its an independent crime.

But, you know, there are people who taxpayers pay to investigate the kind of thing described in this article (like the local DA and the California Department of Industrial Relations) and I'd defer to them on exactly which bits of this affair are which crimes.
Maybe this as a learning tool? I think it's much better to learn regex as is, no matter how ugly or terse you may or may not find it. It's pretty universal across languages ( with some annoying variations ). There's lots of online tools and programs that can help you decode or create regex, after a while it's not so hard to read/create. But also worth knowing a more comprehensive parsing tool or parsing techniques so you don't get too ambitious with regex :)
A friend bought a narrow boat and lives around hackney and some rivers north of the city.

Was definitely cheaper than an apartment
Yes. See, for example, Ferengis, a Star Trek race that are obsessed with money.
"Sheepishly"!
The Production Engineering org at Facebook uses a lot of Python.
Check out https://code.facebook.com/posts/1040181199381023/python-in-p...
I've found the Instapaper Kindle export to not include article images. Very frustrating and devs don't seem to care (and probably care even less now with being bought up).
> When courts are called to have their say, they usually follow the political climate pretty faithfully.

> In practice, these rules have been selectively applied, depending on the political climate.

What a really bad practice. I think it's true, too, and not just in the EU (though it may be more obvious in that case.) I can't understand why people wonder how Brexit passed.
The first example:

/^(?:[0-9]|[a-z]|[\._%\+-])+(?:@)(?:[0-9]|[a-z]|[\.-])+(?:\.)[a-z]{2,}$/i

is a total strawman, needlessly obfuscated. How about writing it like this:

/^[0-9a-z._%+-]+@[0-9a-z.-]+.[a-z][a-z]+$/i

which, while "scary looking", is at least immediately readable by anyone who knows even the basics about REs. If the argument for "verbose REs" is valid, it ought to stand up at least a typical standard RE.

Also, it's not clear that "letter" and "[a-z]" mean the same thing. Does "letter" include uppercase? Does it include non-ASCII letters like "[[:alpha:]]" does? Don't forget the weird collation behavior "[a-z]" sometimes encounters.
Indeed, and following their lead, I created SBFL (Simple Brainfuck Language) since most find the original specification too esoteric.

So instead of writing this Hello World program in Brainfuck:

++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.

You can instead have this much more readable version:

increment byte increment byte increment byte increment byte increment byte
increment byte increment byte increment byte jump forward if zero
increment pointer increment byte increment byte increment byte increment byte
jump forward if zero increment pointer increment byte increment byte
increment pointer increment byte increment byte increment byte increment pointer
increment byte increment byte increment byte increment pointer increment byte
decrement pointer decrement pointer decrement pointer decrement pointer
decrement byte jump backward if zero increment pointer increment byte
increment pointer increment byte increment pointer decrement byte
increment pointer increment pointer increment byte jump forward if zero
decrement pointer jump backward if zero decrement pointer decrement byte
jump backward if zero increment pointer increment pointer output byte
increment pointer decrement byte decrement byte decrement byte output byte
increment byte increment byte increment byte increment byte increment byte
increment byte increment byte output byte output byte increment byte
increment byte increment byte output byte increment pointer increment pointer
output byte decrement pointer decrement byte output byte decrement pointer
output byte increment byte increment byte increment byte output byte
decrement byte decrement byte decrement byte decrement byte decrement byte
decrement byte output byte decrement byte decrement byte decrement byte
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output byte increment pointer increment pointer increment byte output byte
increment pointer increment byte increment byte output byte
The letter from My Wilder is so beautiful. The man had genuine class and artistic wisdom:

"I've just received the costume sketches. I'll tell you everything I think, without censoring, and you take from my opinion what you like.

I assume that the designer took his impressions from the book and didn't know, naturally, who would be playing Willy. And I think, for a character in general, they're lovely sketches.
...

What I don't like is the precise pin pointing in place and time as this costume does..."

Nearly all of Mr Wilder's suggestions made it into the movie, except the hat-band color.
If you're dissatisfied with the terseness of regular expressions, it's worth looking at SNOBOL4: http://www.snobol4.org/
which has been around for decades.
Interesting article, pretty remarkable to be that committed to the time tracking -- I can barely stick with using the pomodoro technique for longer than a few days in a row...

I hope OP continues to grow the dataset. Will be interested in a follow up later on!
The world has darkness, and seeing some of it helps a child understand the world they live in.
>The last time those peculiarities were lifted was in 2004 when then-President Bush allowed a one-year repatriation tax break.

What a disastrous moral hazard. The Bush family truly failed this country; they've left scars that will be felt for generations.
To those who down voted me ... try smiling ...
Can it be true? Can we finally write our Emacs plugins in Scheme or Common Lisp, and have them work?

Wait, then we'll have 2 GCs fighting over data. Dang it. We were almost free!

Seriously, though, I do have some concerns. If the new Plugin API becomes widely used enough, elisp may become a second-class citizen in the ecosystem, which would mean that emacs would no longer be easily programmable. That would be bad.
Tesla: The Improvisation Debt
I'm right now looking for a full-time job in California.
How is it ableist?