skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Garry - awesome news! Couple of questions: you mentioned about funding outside of SF, do you invest outside of the States too (i.e. the UK)?

Also, great to hear about support for smaller team sizes and investing pre-team as it were, but what's the plan for growth sizes? Pushing for unicorns or some of the portfolio aimed at smaller niches?

Edit: also, used to be a Posterous user, and actually had a product in a similar space which Arrington read out on your TWIST episode :)
I couldn't upvote this enough. Also, come on, it's not like everyone doesn't have bullshit in their workplace. I've never heard anyone except software engineers be so self-righteous and pretentious about our supposed special value in the business. Disdain and lack of empathy for working with other human beings comes a close second.

Edit, to add: This is by no means universal. I know and have enjoyed working with some very talented, humble, and empathetic engineers, too. I don't think most programmers have the attitude of the author of the article.
Being from Quebec and working in Manhattan, I figure I can have some input on this.

In Quebec, at income X, my effective tax rate was around 34%, which includes federal and provincial rates. I did have a private plan at work although I don't fully recall how much it would cost me per paycheck, it was really low.

In NY, at income 3X (including exchange rate), the rate is similar, I think around 33-34% including federal, state and municipal income tax (which is ballpark 3%). I do have private insurance here which amounts to a couple hundred a month.

Personally in the end, I get better service in the States but I'm probably biased.

edit : Sales tax ~8.5%
Spicy is pleasurable to me, but nothing beyond the 350K Scoville range. I can't even fathom 1M Scoville, not to speak of 5M+ Scoville. How do you recover from that?

The article prompted me to ask why our pain neurons interpret the capsaicin burn the approximately the same as a temperature burning sensation. It turns out we don't fully know yet [1]. Some spice hound is going to score big time doing graduate thesis work on answering this question, literally eating spicy food for science.

[1] http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/chili-peppers...
Show HN: A remote alexa raspberry with a phone and a speaker
Using plain svgs nowadays, never looked back.
Hey everybody! Just wanted to throw out a quick reminder that we're launching on Kickstarter tomorrow, the 25th, at 9 AM PST. Hope to see some of you over there!
> immutablejs might be overkill, but not having, and using, a recursive freeze is going to bite a lot of people if the advice is just 'const + Object.freeze'.

No one should be trying to use a recursive freeze (if they are I would argue their data structure is poorly suited to be immutable).

I'm not saying `const` + `Object.freeze()` gets you Immutablejs I'm saying it gets you, likely, what you want / need.
I don't see that this is a real problem for ownership. You can sell the house and buy another.

Sure its more complex than simply giving notice and leaving but it isn't hard.
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Hey! OP here. I'll be around for answering questions and feedback!
The right path have to add more value then the path of least residence.
We violently agree on that. :)

I'm a big fan of using machine learning to identify photos, etc. Google did it first on their cloud platform, and Apple is doing a pretty good job at it locally on iOS devices.

I'm not a big fan of folks like the Watson marketing team telling me that my IoT fridge is going to replace my doctor and order a gallon of milk for me when I need it. As the Amazon experience with the dash has aptly demonstrated with paper towels that cost 30% more than Costco, that's a way to spend more money on junk!
Anyone does not agree? If you are a person of interest, Do you think government would not use an opportunity to fabricate evidence against a citizen using collected data?
I don't think that Snowden releasing documents directly made anyone's data safer, but indirectly it did. Now that people are aware that we are being spied on at a massive scale, many are more cautious about which services they choose to use, what information to put on the internet, and are more considerate of encryption. There's a few anecdotal comments in this thread saying so, and I certainly have made different choices now because of the revelations of Snowden. So maybe Snowden didn't make our data safer, but we are because of what he showed us.
That was where I saw it. It seems the market is balancing, rather than AWS pulling away, with YoY growth better for Google than for Microsoft and both better than Amazon:

https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/amazon-leads-microsoft-...
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Well, the real problem is that every resource is available for folks to use, even those that aren't intended (typefaces have the same problem).

Ping me offline. We'll get you something for the open source project you're happy with where you can use Pro.
do not venture into the contemporary board game landscape without several rooms to dedicated to humidity controlled shelf-space.
If SEP IRAs as mentioned above aren't an option, HSAs might be worth considering - after 65 they aren't restricted to medical expenses. I-bonds might be an interesting component for future retirement as well.
That's the bind Apple's in. The market for the Mac Pro is very small, and it's also extremely demanding, they're never happy.

The iMac has a much broader appeal, the market is demanding but not to the same extreme. Many designers use these machines because they've got great screens and acceptable levels of performance.

I'm not sure Apple can win in the Mac Pro space without losing a ton of money. HP and Dell make high-end workstations, but it's a very tiny market compared to their general desktop and server sales.

Apple likes to focus on products it can sell millions of, not tens of thousands.
> Has there been anything from Peter Thiel on the response to his donation?

Right, to be clear I wasn't likening Thiel in particular to the kid in my analogy, since, like you, I'm not aware of how or even whether he's weighed in on this.
As I understand it, it doesn't help you as an employee of a small business though unless the business makes the contribution. SEP IRAs are primarily intended for freelancers and small business owners.
It's just me, Alexis and Alina. :-)
As a reference for those that aren't familiar with the Antarctic ice sheet - the average thickness is ~ 2,100m and it contains ~ 60% of all the freshwater on earth.

It's orders of magnitude thicker than most glaciers.
Weak vs strong typing is hardly "trivial"... it's the very foundation of a language.

Not trying to derail the convo or take sides, but one of these is not like the others ;)
It's a little late now, but I'm truly curious why people downvoted this, because it is literally how he gathered large swaths of the data he stole.
This can be difficult because everybody has been overexposed to 440, which is nearly impossible to control for. Even if you log an effect it can be argued that the effect is not of 432 but of a certain deviation from a norm.
Factor 3 according to this with more YoY growth:

https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/amazon-leads-microsoft-...
Unless I'm mistaken it looks like SEP-IRAs have to be offered by an employer as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEP-IRA
That would be meaningful if we were talking about some optional UX feature, but this is security. Does having a non-representative browser config mean we don't deserve security? I think not. Security has to work without JS.
[edit: the downvotes aren't warranted...]

Aren't email and phone calls monitored anyhow since they're not encrypted (by default)? Why wouldn't the three-letter agency capture all email traffic if it can?
So you dirty the system where its supposed to be
installed, a server, with gcc, make and friends?

That's the way nginx is traditionally installed, and we're shipping an nginx plugin.

State so on your documentation/page before telling the
user curl | bash

The first thing the install script does is check if you're on a supported system, and if not it exits. Since the vast majority of people running the script are on supported systems, this seems better than putting a lot of warnings up front.

Your script does not support transactional
installations, as it is it can break at any point
in the script leave the target system broken/dirty

By default the script only builds ngx_pagespeed, and doesn't install it. If you ask it to handle the install, it call's nginx's "make install", which again is the standard way you install nginx.
It says T-shirt OR Mug (x5) so I'm assuming you can choose any combination such as 3 shirts and 2 mugs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha

The most remote inhabited island with a strange history with a few founding families, an exodus because of a volcano, an isolated economy/society and research into asthma as a genetic condition
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It really varies based on the company, stage, market. Check size typically $500K to $1M. We typically try to be the biggest investor in someone's seed round, and when we invest, the founder knows their round will be closed soon and they can get back to work!
I use icomoon and it is definitely helpful but I must say the UX for creating icon sets is quite scary to use. Clicking on an icon by default removes or adds it to the icon set, so its incredibly easy to exclude an icon you are using already (meaning next time you publish your font, that icon will no longer render on your page)
pre-suasion sounds better than "priming" whatever the hell that is.

also whoever/whatever "once" considered it solid is a dumbass, how do you figure something out and then forget it making it something you "once" considered solid. that's negative level IQ shit right there
http://deoxy.org
A friend of mine is a professional mix engineer in NYC. He's worked with several large artists, you've probably heard of. He strongly believes in setting numerically interesting values for things like eq, gain reduction, song length, delay time in ms, etc.
We are all born not knowing how to program.

We were all lousy programmers at one time.

We can all learn to do better. Teach your coworkers.
Thanks for this. Working on a fix.
What I'm about to say is pretty hand-wavy (pre-suasion), but this concept of pre-suasion is important for when you are interviewing, or being interviewed for a job. Let's say you are interviewing someone for a position in your company, and you don't have an exact job description and set of requirements for that role; you are just looking to hire someone "good". That person can actually pre-suade you into overvaluing some skill, or aspect of their skill set that they want you to focus on. They can frame the argument in your mind as to whether you want to hire them on not based on an argument of their choosing. For example, they can make the argument in your mind that they are a fast developer, then the internal argument in your mind becomes whether they are truly fast or not, and if you are convinced that they are fast, then they become much more likely to be hired by you. This is not the best example, but it's a common sales tactic called "framing" the argument.
It continues the conversation started by Ellen Pao cutting off Project Include's connection with YC because of Peter Thiel donating money to Donald Trump. As Sam Altman said in his tweet: "YC is not going to fire someone for supporting a major party nominee".

I apologize for getting really political and I say that you are free to act however you see fit but voting for Hillary isn't exactly taking the high road and to act as if voting for Trump is some morally reprehensible evil while condoning her candidacy seems disingenuous.
If you like these you might also enjoy ICD-10 illustrated. [0]

http://www.icd10illustrated.com/

They found a lot of great codes. One of my favorites from the book:
V91.07xD Burn due to water-skis on fire, subsequent encounter.
> He has moved the focus away from computers...

The market moved away from computers, not Tim. PC sales are imploding, that whole market is a shell of what it used to be.

A desktop computer is not an essential piece of kit any more, and even a laptop is a luxury. Many people survive almost exclusively on their phone or tablet, they have little to no need for an actual computer.

IBM divested itself of desktop computers, HP's flirted with the idea for over a decade, and Dell had to undergo a huge restructuring just to survive. Every single PC manufacturer is getting pounded by dwindling sales.

So yeah, he's a bozo.
It's worth nothing the new user-image-before-password-input for Google is an anti-phishing feature. Of course, most people won't think that deeply when prompted with a password request and a similar UI.
Nothing, really.

Its just that he has the audacity to have a different opinion than others. And/or that he doesn't recognize how historic a clinton presidency would be and/or agree that trump is zomg dangerous.

He's also definitely very accomplished at trolling people who hate the fact that his opinion differs. See: clinton endorsement, see gary johnson endorsement, see this entire post [http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152117093416/how-to-insult-me-o...].

But, really, you shouldn't take my word for it. Read his original post about the shadowban and see if you think its conspiratorial in nature: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151981022076/is-twitter-shadowb...

> I won’t jump the gun and assume something nefarious is happening. But I will say that IF it is happening, I would regard it as treason. If one political party can use the machinery of social networks to reduce free speech, that is an attack on American values at the deepest level.
You're tempting me now.
This was just about the only site I trusted to be as critical of goods and services as I am. Not really sure where all those BS 5-star reviews come from on Amazon but these guys were sufficiently critical and it made for good content.

Hope being bought doesn't screw the quality, but if it does seems like a good business model for someone else to fire up. "We only give As to people who deserve As..."
I noticed that the images appear to be cropped to a specific aspect ratio from the originals. Is there a way to embed the originals, or is it done the way it is for simplicity?
Wild Theories Beat Credibility on Social Media
Me too! I was all about FontAwesome for a while, then I discovered http://iconmonstr.com (which has far more icons), and now I just use the SVGs from there for everything.
The Mac Pro is an overpriced fancy computer case, nothing more.
Which introduces the problem of "Whatever, it isn't my mine I will just move away when the area gets shit" leading to lower quality stock.

On my current street, opposite the flats further up, there is regular fly tipping and various illegal activities. The fly tipping can take weeks to be dealt with as nobody rings the council (I've started emailing the council when I notice it, but I don't walk that way often).

Renters just don't have enough skin in the game to maintain the communities.
Liberals can and have been violent in the past. No group large enough is free of extremists.
Is there a link to a small cut of the footage somewhere? Obviously it may not be represented 100% on our MacBook Pros, but I'm interested in seeing the high frame rate at work in this instance more than the extreme resolution.
Yeah, it's the curse of Java that it takes longer to get something working, but it more than makes up the time in maintenance. No one can think far enough ahead to care about maintenance.
So much bigger than a whale. Refer to the Manhattan size comparison later in the video.
You can't simply purchase Insurance and be covered next day. Insurance companies can have a waiting period of up to 3 months before providing you with benefits. It's not really a good idea to wait around with cancer for 3 months until you get your treatment covered
Not to mention that, at least in the US, most owned homes are single-family homes in the suburbs and the rental market for those is significantly different than a flat in the city.
Some of it is by choice. From what I've seen, even people who can afford living on their own eventually get roommates once they realize that it's hard to meet people and make new friends post-college.
I've gone through a few brands of those, Oxo included. They all work great and don't require more strength than a "normal" sharp cut one.

Except they only last about 6-10mo before they stop producing a reliable cut and you have to throw them out.
Another to-do list, keyboard-driven, more flexible and complete in some ways, lacking in others (desktop-only right now), also hackable: http://onemodel.org .
Residential properties usually have short term leases. You have minimal incentive as a tenant to plant flowers, buy shrubs, etc. You have minimal inventive as a landlord to make the house look any more attractive than it needs to be.

Landlords don't maintain property to the same standard as an individual homeowner, when they do, they use more efficient service models (ie. a single crew with a single set of tools) to do so.

Tenants participate less and have much lower engagement. They have 1 year leases, and have less at stake. In my community, renters participate 60% less in terms of voting. There are 150 members of my local neighborhood association, and per a recent survey, 90% of participants are homeowners. They mostly solicit membership by dropping flyers and advertising in church bulletins. Per census figures, the population of renters is somewhere between 60-70% vs. homeowners.

The last point is that without homeownership, incentives shift to multi-family dwellings because they are cheaper and more efficient. Single family homes for rent are usually an aberration in my experience. As a homeowner in a city that is mostly rentals the per-unit taxable value of a multi-family house is significantly less than a single family.
The highest US federal bracket is 39.6% and I believe the highest state bracket is around 12.3% (California). The highest state sales tax is around 9.5% (Tennessee and other states without income tax). Local taxes are typically much lower in magnitude. (NYC income tax is another 3.9% for the highest earners.)

So at the very high end, someone in NYC might pay 52.3% income tax (edit: marginal rate) and 8% in sales tax.

And at the high end in California (San Francisco), someone might pay 51.9% income tax (edit: marginal rate) and 8.75% in sales tax.

(This is a little simplistic; I think you can deduct state income tax from federal tax, lowering the overall high marginal rate somewhat.)
439 from 18M requires a divisor of 41, which does sound trivial. Meanwhile 440 from 1M requires only dividing by 5 and 2 when first multiplied by 11, which might have been significantly simpler than dividing by 41.

I wonder if there is some easy way of figuring out the simplest base number-multiplier-divisor chains for getting certain numbers?
http://www.themastertheorem.com/

It's a puzzle solving website. It isn't updated very regularly nowadays, but all the old "Theorems" are still there.
The other factor in pricing is monetary expansion. Every 10 years the US money supply doubles.

Factor that in, and essentially what we´re looking at is a world where production is increasing, reducing prices, money and credit supply are increasing, increasing them - at the same time. At the moment the two are more or less (more in the case of TV´s, less in the case of housing) balancing each other out.
I believe that the article is spot on. The problem facing the developed world today is that there are only so many productive skill sets. I have a BSc in Math. There's very little value [1] in someone who has a math degree with poor grades- there is a lot of value in someone with a STEM degree who understands the material, but there is very little, even negative, value in someone who does not.

Consider a poor mathematician- an inaccurate mathematical model is often worse than not having any model. Or consider a typical software engineer- if one team member is particularly bad at writing code, they can drag down the entire product they work on.

As a result, I find it difficult to believe that there will be jobs for everyone. Certainly it's possible, but for whatever reason, my experience has been that there are very few people who try to learn the subject that they're interested in well, and instead, a majority of people who do so poorly.

[1] Where value is defined in the economic sense- the amount of additional output that that person creates. This is arguably a terrible definition of value.
Highlights from ARIN38
Or the forked version at https://allthetropes.org if you are sensitive about censorship.
You guys are crazy. A probably small creative team simply made an error while building a camera in good faith that was abused by criminals. Who is the victim here?

What's all this crap about simple fun web cameras as "Bad Actors"... In fact the use of the term "Actor" as applied to a pretty dumb piece of electronics is pretty creepy in itself. What are we trying to do here?

The term "State Actor" is fairly new in terms of popular usage. Thanks to CNN and media, we are being trained to know this word in a particular context.

Now, we are being trained to place dumb pieces of electronics in the same bucket as Russia and China. LOL

I'm sure there wasn't a meeting where the camera manufacturer execs set around a table and said let's make these things blow up the world.

And you know, even if there was, the shame lies on the fact that we don't have better edge level security that can detect and shut down abnormal traffic patterns close to source.

There is some fairly low hanging fruit here. Routers and gateways with pretty damn simple algorithms could detect and prevent these types of attacks if they were available.

The network should protect itself against "Bad Actors", because... trillions of devices are a coming, and we can't expect them all to be certified to protect the network. The concept itself is completely absurd.

Fat better to improve the infrastructure than to impose per device level policies. It's the IETF that needs to step up. Not the guys in a garage who couldn't code.

Sure maybe they could have done a better job, but from the level of programming we are currently at it is an absolute certainty that this will happen again whether we like it or not.