skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We will see what happens when auto sales decline due to really cheap auto-taxis.

Hopefully, car companies will deal with reduced demand by going upscale with more fancy cars for a smaller market.

Of course, someone needs to build all of those auto-taxis. They are going to be do very very well for themselves.
Fascinating. Everyone here is complaining that 2M for 8 employees seems steep, but I think this seems really cheap. Admittedly, I work at Google, but we bat around the number of 400-500k per employee when discussing them here. 250k/ in SV seems really reasonably priced in comparison.
A note: You don't cost £30k to your employer, more likely 1.5-3x that. So say an employee costs a total of $250k, their pay could be anywhere between $80-180k with other compensation (retirement packages, health benefits) and overhead making up the rest. (the higher the multiple, the less efficient the company likely is, in this case I'd expect it would be closer to the 1.5x mark than the 3x mark)
Hijacking this to point out about as comprehensive a list of software compatibility with Sierra as I have found:
https://roaringapps.com/apps?platform=osx&os=sierra

I have used it on past releases (El Cap, Yosemite, etc) and it has always been a great source for tracking the software I care about as a developer.
The new file system (APFS) will be released in 2017. It's available only as a developer preview now with macOS Sierra.
Even if you think Optimizely does a bad job of calculating test results, I'm assuming (I'm a VWO loyalist) it still gives you the raw numbers and it still provides a lot of other value. Just handling the basic logistics and measurement of the test is well worth the price.

You're mostly right in what types of resources you need, however, I'd add that the "competent web designer" should also be competent in jQuery. For a lot of tests, running jQuery DOM manipulations is required/preferable over the visual designer. Those visual designers tend to fail when dealing with dynamic content and have the potential to halt your entire operation. Of course, you may also have teammates (or you yourself) who can do more than one of these things.
LE isn't paying for the staff coming from Mozilla and EFF. The 2.06m is split across 8 people, not 10.

EDIT: Per a follow up tweet, the staffing is expected to increase to 10 in 2017 (presumably plus the two from third parties), so it is /10, not /8, but not for the reason you described.
It's not just that. The questions from the audience are often questions I didn't even think to ask but are very enlightening. The questions taken in the hallway won't necessarily be heard/overheard nor will the answers like they would when the presenter is in a space designed to make sure everyone hears.

When a speaker takes questions from the audience, they are putting themselves out there. If you're selling something, sure stay on message and don't take questions. However, if you're teaching, you should take questions where everyone can hear the questions and answers so your "students" learn what you came to communicate.
I was a bit surprised to learn this as well. I might have thought at a minimum that the assumption:

>This analysis is meant to show the relative stresses in the ice and ice screw placed at different angles and not to predict pullout loads.

would have invalidated the analysis but apparently not under a lot of circumstances. I suspect the positive angle comes from experience with nails and screws where pullout tends to be the dominant failure mode.

As an aside, ice is a really interesting material on all sorts of dimensions--solid usually being less dense than liquid, typically used near its melting point, etc. As the post notes, the US Army has done a lot of research on ice. My thesis advisor ended up establishing an ice lab partially funded by the Army CRREL and has a lot of papers on the topic. (I worked on high-temperature metallic alloys however.)
Yup, in fact there are 99W and 99E more or less straddling I-5 and running in generally north-south alignment in the Portland metro area. In recent years I-5 has become increasingly congested, not just in "rush hour". Consequently 99E/W are also heavily used as commuters try to escape traffic. Hard to solve the problems created by our success.
Load following will increase the cost, however, which was my point.
That's what WebRTC promises to solve, and there are already great tools using it (Appear.in for example).

What they don't solve is the discovery/network aspect.

My own side project/startup wannabee uses WebRTC to enable random non-technical people to talk to companies that use our product :) ( https://keveo.tv/en/ ).
Thanks for doing such a great job. It's truly amazing what you have achieved with such a small team.
You don't toggle the plants between 100% and "off" with nuclear, but you can still go from 60% to 100% in a few hours.
I would hope they have high caliber programmers and ops people, considering the problem space. Those don't come cheap.

Can anyone comment on tax overhead for the company in SV? What net salary do 250k amount to? (net as in minus the tax for the company, not the employees income tax)
I'm in Silicon Valley and I would love a $250k salary.

But I also didn't graduate college and incur the immigrant tax. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What I'm saying is, not everyone gets $250k and the MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME in San Francisco is $90k. If you're not making that much, don't sweat it, you're likely way above median either way.

Edit: to clarify further. As an Engineer with a reasonably-employed girlfriend, I still get to live in SoMa, and I'm not complaining. But statistically speaking my household is an outlier. $250k/year for a household puts you in the top 1.5% in the country[1]. That's probably top 5%-ish for San Francisco. That means that for every 5 households that make this much, there are 95 that don't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States
Going to repeat this comment here since people are doing the math: That's for ten employees, not eight. Salary + benefits.

Could have been more clear in the post initially, but we have eight employees now and have budgeted for ten in 2017. I added a sentence to the blog post to make this more clear.
OwnLocal (YC W10) Is Hiring a Senior DBA in Austin, TX
No kidding. Who ever said anything about not knowing what the requirements are?

The point you were disagreeing with here was "80% of the software an engineer will write will not require optimization". ie, 80% of any given system hitting the performance requirements naively. So... why are you still arguing?
I agree that it seems to be a case of miscommunication and It's-not-my-job syndrome at AJ and its partners. But unless there's a huge burden in hosting costs -- and the fact that scrollytelling didn't break the hotlinks (nevermind that the story didn't seem widely shared in the first place) seems to suggest that they weren't huge -- it doesn't seem necessary to escalate this in the way that it was.

Maybe I'm missing something, but the first public tweet regarding this matter is this: https://twitter.com/Scrollytellio/status/769971299317911552

> @Hiddemhigh poor form to actively link to a stolen ripoff of our code. cc @martijnvtol

I've had luck communicating with media folks by prodding them on Twitter, e.g. "Hey @editor, who is the best person to talk about etc etc". Did ScrollyTelling do that? Was it necessary to jump from private prodding to hostile accusation via subtweet?
What’s New in Wayland and Weston 1.12?
Strictly retrocomputing. I loved my C64 back in the day, but it is completely outclassed by pretty much every modern computing platform no matter how humble.
You can do the "paste into address bar and re-copy" dance. I'm getting pretty fast!

CMD-C CMD-T CMD-V CMD-A CMD-C CMD-W CMD-V
Correct. LF has a small office in the Presidio, with perhaps a half dozen people living in SF proper and another dozen in the greater Bay Area. The rest of us are scattered around the US, Canada, Japan, and Australia.
"My point was that the wage distortion caused by top-tier companies hiring employees on H-1B is small to nil."

I'm really not sure that's true. Even at top tier employers with high salaries. What I'm trying to get at, with my comment above, is that no insidious intent needs to be present for the wage distortion to occur.

It's difficult to know how the market would behave at the upper end in the absence of education and work specific visas. It's also difficult to make comparisons, since all fields are somewhat different.

However, I would say that getting hired by google is tough, and is an indication that you are working at the upper percentiles of the market. What is a typical salary for a graduate degree holder at the SSE level at a place like Google? Is that reflect of the 90%ile salary at other fields?

Truth is, these salaries are still considerably lower that you'd find for JD, MD, MBA holder at a comparable percentile level. If silicon valley employers couldn't rely on a visa to essentially coerce large numbers of would-be immigrants into studying CS/Related fields and working as software developers as a condition for moving to and working in the US, what would the labor market look like?

I personally feel that CS, Math, Engineering fields are very, very rigorous with high attrition rates relative to other academic fields. People don't drop out of Poly Sci because it's too tough and decide to major in Physics because it's easier. Admission to top graduate schools is very selective, and attrition rates are high. PhD programs often have 50% attrition rates at top schools, whereas attrition rates at top JD or MD programs are generally below 0.5% (yes, that's correct, less than one half of one percent). Even MS programs (there's less data on this) appear to have attrition rates of 25% or so, still two orders of magnitude higher.

Imagine if silicon valley employers had to convince top students that they should pick a STEM graduate degree and job as a developer at google instead of an MBA or JD or MD? That all people, immigrants and citizens, had that choice?

Honestly, I do think the landscape would look very very different. I think salaries and working conditions would be far higher than they are right now.

You may have heard of the RAND research institute - they essentially reached this conclusion: "Other approaches such as making K-12 science and math courses more interesting and pushing for more qualified math and science teachers "may have merit in their own right," researchers said, "but we think they pale in importance to the earnings and attractiveness of S&E careers as major determinants of the supply of U.S.-born students to S&E."

Here's a link to the full study. http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

In short: salaries and career prospects in STEM really aren't competitive with the other options highly talented people can pursue - provided they are free to pursue them!.
True. I've tried 3 or 4 clients in Perl, Node.js. Only lego worked flawlessly. And the Caddy HTTP/2 webserver also has excellent ACME support.
They are not paying $250k per employee. You have to factor in payroll taxes, paying accountants to keep books and CPAs to do taxes, benefits, and a multitude of other regulation-imposed payroll costs.

All of this is to support salaries of around $125k - $150k.

The same goes for pretty much any employer. If a fast food restaurant hires someone at $8/hr, it actually costs them around $16/hr to hire the employee.

In a free market Let's Encrypt could probably cut its expenses to close to half what it's at now.
Have you stopped driving, eating hamburgers and creating trash? Or are you just killing the mood at parties? I'm all for taking action that will make a difference but there is no point in getting all worked up about what might happen when there's nothing you can do about it. Humans have been convinced that the world is about to end for thousands of years. Let me know when it actually happens.
I am not writing about the narrow issues of Petraeus vs Clinton but about the well known and well understood, by some 6 million current and former security clearance holders, methods and requirements of handling classified info.

Petraeus vs Clinton is a red herring, I didn't mention Petraeus. I was referring to the case of Brian Nishimura.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-05/peak-fbi-corruption...
Hopefully this means that Pascal drivers aren't far away for Hackintosh setups with Nvidia's 1000-series line.
Study Finds Loneliness Is a Heritable Trait
To put in other words, if one considers donating a fraction of what would have been charged by any other certificate authority then we can be sure that LetsEncrypt would be able to continue to create a more secure web for all of us.
I suspect salaries for software developers in San Francisco are just a bit mad. The numbers floating around suggest more than twice what you'd get paid working on hedge fund software in London, which is in turn maybe 3 times more than an ordinary software developer elsewhere in the UK.

(If it makes you feel any better, I earn less than you working as a software developer in the UK.)
that is a lot of fun and much more "artsy" than many of the filters available in paint programs.
Ya'll should get some swag for donors. I'd like a cool sticker :)
Curious where the 20K a month in hosting is spent? Perhaps Google or Amazon could throw in some credits to help out?
> but doesn't know how to get them to stop.[1]

[1] That is, without having a humanitarian crisis and state with nuclear explosives (and might have viable nuclear warheads) in civil war on their back doorstep.

I can see both sides to the dispute over how to handle DPRK. If Mexico got very politically unstable and started making nuclear explosions and likely had a missle-portable warhead, the U.S. would get touchy if China started proposing actions that could easily touch off a Mexican civil war. In hindsight, I hope they realize that they should have pushed the DPRK harder earlier and run a higher risk of a civil war in the pre-nuclear-explosive DPRK in exchange for heading off warhead development.
LLVM Cauldron 2016
I'm not so sure how i'll use siri. I think i'll be faster and more precise with the keyboard, forever. There is the inverse, the good old "say" command.

"say" is wonderful. Try peppering bash scripts or build systems with verbal status about success or failure. Seems to cut through the context switch time really well.
It's really funny people blame the source of concern if some third party finds about it but laughs at the victim when they make the claim themselves.
The 2M staffing budget in 2017 is for ten people, not eight. Was not clear enough in the blog post initially, apologies.
The EU regulation is often criticized as bad and dumb, but not as malicious.
Since they're a project of the Linux Foundation, they most definitely don't have any sort of stock plan – since you can't have equity in nonprofits.
> For those who've deployed with Let's Encrypt, did you get a quarter's worth of value from their service?

The certificate price isn't even the issue. It's the signup + auto-renew!

Before LE came out, I would have paid $100 to not have to 1) Not go through the hassle of manually ordering certs and 2) Not having to log back into servers to periodically update them.

I get both of those with LE ... the fact that it's free? That's just icing on a very delicious cake!
They may not be able to accurately answer the question, but that doesn't prevent if from being a helpful question. If your answer to this question is "no, not at all," you should be aware of that fact and use it to guide decisions you may be able to make.

I asked myself (now 27) this question when I was only one or two years older than 20, and realized I needed to make a change from what I was doing. My mind has certainly changed several times since then, and I expect it to change several more, but the initial "no" answer was crucial to getting me out of what was essentially a career in tech support.
I read "The Control Group is Out of Control" last night right before bed and it seemed like time stood still, it was so engrossing. So I thought I disagreed with your "essay length is an issue." But it turns out the essay is close to 5k words!

I haven't read much SSC, but something tells me I'd like his lame jokes.
I agree with you, but I have confidence that those security issues can be resolved -- by just removing the network connections, cellular backhauls, etc. if necessary -- while the alternative represented by the status quo has basically ceased improving.

We've spent decades with passive, and more recently active, safety improvements, and the results have been good ... but in the last few years the rate of improvement in fatalites-per-mile has tapered off. It seems that all the low-hanging fruit is basically gone from that particular tree, and we may well be pushing into a zone where cars are perceived to be safe enough that further safety improvements might lead, perversely, to less safe behavior (the "football helmet" problem). At the very least, making modern manually-controlled vehicles significantly more safe seems like a very serious challenge.

On the contrary, we know that autonomous vehicles can be much more safe than manually-controlled vehicles, just by virtue of not being run by a person who may be drunk, high, emotionally impaired, tired, distracted, medically incapable of driving, etc. Right there you remove a bunch of leading causes of crashes. Given our failure to eliminate those problems completely (we made some progress on drunk driving, sure, but not much on the others, IMO) given decades of effort, we should consider that building secure computer systems might be a more tractable problem.

It will take a lot of effort to ensure that the car manufacturers don't do obviously boneheaded things (like allow over-the-air software updates), but I have more faith in our ability to quickly fix machines than to change human behavior.
Your edit is a good pont. The prescriptive/descriptive dichotomy always seems a bit odd.

If you are a linguist: i.e a social scientist who job it is to explain how languages work in this world. Then you must describe.

If you are a language teacher then your job is to prescribe. And you make a good point that journal editors have good reasons to do the same. (Especially when looking after authors from STEM fields!)
But if you added (say) a spring into the linkages, the rest-position could be tuned mechanically to be more energy efficient (e.g: zero power).

That might help with one particular gait, but I think it wouldn't give as much benefit for a system as flexible as this, which can run, hop, trot, and more.

And the spring itself would need to be modeled, and would make the position and force measurements less sensitive. That's why I don't think it would be a net win.
More to the point, if anyone truly believes they're able to do it for cheaper... Do it, don't comment about it.
I hope I'm not in this instance coming across that way! I like L4!
It can do almost anything with the keyboard. I'd suggest just checking it out. A lot of people make changes to caps lock, shift key, left/right option/command, etc. I only do two things, setting fn to send hyper and swapping semicolon/colon. It's more about individual rules than a new keyboard layout (which is what Ukulele appeared to be in my 5 minutes with it).

Maybe other people can chime in on their uses, since I'm not the best to fully answer your question.
I'm not saying it has problems at scale. I just don't enjoy building large scale things with it. It feels like a hacked jQuery lib with Redux and Angular packed into it.
How long until this is made a filter on Instagram? Soon, I hope :)
I appreciate what you're trying to say here, but you've basically just described the prototypical way not to run an A/B test. Ending a test as soon as you reach significance ensures a high rate of false positives, and doesn't clearly tell you when to end the experiment if there is no effect.

See also: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html
Looks like Flutter dev for Windows isn't ready yet, but is planned. I believe Flutter is native, check out the system architecture:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cw7A4HbvM_Abv320rVgP...
Wow, they look quite artistic.

Jürgen Schmidhuber has done extensive study of so-called
low complexity art, see

http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html
The post says that the Linux Foundation handles administration and accounting for them.

But I assume payroll tax is by far the biggest amount.
Oh, I can. So can you. But I assure you, the people you are referring to, those would come right back, requesting letter-by-letter guidance of integrating the code/package into "their" product. Been on SO, seen that, got the t-shirt.
They're not actually making $250k each. Keep in mind that this includes employer taxes and benefits, which add up very quickly.
It's really cool how it isolates some of the really pretty colors and blends them into the rest of the picture.

I'm loving their twitter, too: https://twitter.com/PrimitivePic
No, it is absurdly high. They should be paying half that.
"If we descended from monkeys, how come there's still monkeys?"
Shoot. (Siri, wake me in 2017.)
Yeah.. that's exactly what I used in the spark version i threw together yesterday.

reduceByKeyAndWindow is what my simple non-spark proof of concept is missing. otherwise the code is basically the same.

my non spark code is essentially

while True:
data = {}
for line in input:
rec = parse(line)
data = aggregate(data, rec)
data = filter(is_bad, data)
pprint(data)

the spark version is 99% the same code:

lines.map(parse).reduceByKeyAndWindow(add, sub, 3600, 60).
filter(is_bad).pprint()

Figuring out how to do stateful processing is a little tricky, but updateStateByKey seems to do what i need.. I need to dedup the output per key for time period t. Though, some recommendations are just to use something like redis or memcached which would work.
>people who seriously know how to code mission critical X.590 root CA PKI infrastructure are not cheap

And they also aren't working at letsencrypt.
Any recommendations for a simple keyboard remapper that is compatible with Sierra? All I need is to swap the @ with "
> One of the saddest things to me is seeing some of the most brilliant and creative minds work on trivial or frivolous things.

Another point of view would be that people who create frivolous things are, by definition, not particularly creative.
Hi HN, OP here. I've tinkered with this problem a few times over the years, but only now am I happy with the results. This time I wrote it in Go and implemented things a bit differently that helped performance quite a bit.

I plan on implementing SVG output pretty soon. It won't be hard I just haven't done it yet.

For the Twitter bot, I'm planning on adding another mode where it posts a GIF showing the iterative progression of drawing an image.

Let me know if you have any questions or if you have ideas for other features!
Is it really 100% in SF? That strikes me as high -- even in a lot of European countries it's not a full 100%.

Anyway: considering what they do and where they do it, I don't find these numbers high at all. I would be shocked if they didn't have at least a couple engineers making over $200K in actual cash compensation if they're working in the Bay Area.
Yeah, it is appalling. Making Macs has truly become a tiny side business for Apple in more ways than one. It's clear that Macs don't make a dent in its profits and so aren't important. Considering how much money Apple has, it's not an issue of not having people to work on this or of lack of talent.
It's almost funny that Macbook 2009 or newer is supported but Macbook 2009 or newer is not. Sad I won't be able to get my hands on it.
React Studio by Neonto – visual design tool for React.js
Founded in London?

I thought it was registered in Luxembourg and had a marketing office in London. Development was in Estonia...
Tips for a Long Lasting Battery
Could be a PR scheme, makes him look good to be helping refugees, reality is, it is just 'business as usual.'