skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem is that the Santa Monica Mountains block the high speed rail from connecting to LA. The closest they can get is Burbank. Having lived in LA for college, I can tell you that the time it takes to get from say Santa Monica to Burbank is often more than it takes to fly to San Francisco from LAX. I'm not kidding.

Flight Time: https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=LAX;t=SFO;d=2016-12...

Traffic Time from Santa Monica to Burbank alone:
https://www.google.com/search?q=santa+monica+to+burbank&btnG...

The plan fully acknowledges this short coming and responds with nothing more than a shoulder shrug to the glaring problem. Now consider the costs of the train compared to that of a flight, when you have factored in LA's terrible public transportation and suddenly flights are clearly more economical.

Even worse is that California only has less than 50% of the funding for the project secured and that is without cost overruns. Jerry Brown is hoping to put enough sunk cost into the rail line that we are forced to build the entire thing much to the benefit of the select few land owners in the central california.

I'm all for improved public transportation but the whole thing is a giant scam taking advantage of Californians affinity for the environment and ignorance of bond measures.I have yet to hear a convincing argument on why people would take the train when they could be in SF by the time the get to the train station.
I agree. I suppose it's just a matter of context, and at least in the web API context it's almost invariably taken to mean "open, accessible, and documented".

OP is about making it even easier to access that documentation.

> Search for "[product name] API doc/faq/whatever" or search for code examples of people interfacing with it?

That's fine if you know the `[product name]`. The "email APIs" example in OP was about discovery of those product names - who offers open web APIs for email; let me compare them.
Where are you getting your data from?

This map / story from 2014 says otherwise.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...
Kadena seems like a solid team, kudos for their work.

Smart contracts require you to work in a completely new language and toolset.

You don't need smart contracts to create a blockchain application, if you use the right libraries (e.g. go-merkle) and write your application to be deterministic. See Basecoin in the page below:

http://tendermint.com/ecosystem

If you want the benefits of Tendermint BFT consensus but w/ Ethereum's virtual machine, take a look at Ethermint.

http://github.com/tendermint/ethermint

Disclaimer: I'm a founder at Tendermint, the OG BFT blockchain engine. ;)
You're misreading the meaning of "fully aligned." If you read the 3 paragraphs preceding that sentence, the authors are referring to organization incentives being "aligned."
That's the point. This is only getting attention because it's OpenAI.
Sorry, which states in the US have successfully seceded from the union?
This is pretty typical German customer service.
Tesla Shock: Global Gasoline Consumption Has All but Peaked
As others have said, ISP wireless routers are terrible and many charge you monthly. A big, still unsolved issues with wifi is coverage. Most people only have one router and dead spots. Wifi repeaters exist, but have issues of their own and aren't user friendly. My ISP charges me monthly and my neighbor wanted my WiFi password because his won't reach the other side of his house.

Acquiring something like Eero would help improve that story. Integrate it into a bunch of Apple devices would help the ecosystem.

I feel like Apple has given up a bit on Wifi and moved to out of band wifi and Bluetooth. I wish they had stuck to Wifi. I can't really use AirDrop because my laptop is too old and doens't support out of band wifi. I was very confused why two AppleTVs showed up when trying to use AirPlay until after googling I found out one was Bluetooth and the other was WiFi.
Isn't that a category mistake? one's subjective experience ~is~ the action of one's neurons. The alternative is, with sam, to grant the existence of an immaterial soul.
“Hail Trump Hail our people Hail victory”
The real answer is that it doesn't matter. Just like for most code, the output assembly or machine code doesn't matter.
Imagine a tiny Canada with much better weather and an obsession with rugby instead of ice hockey.
This is getting scary too fast.
Regardless of where money is going now, how much of californian industry would not exist had it not been for the US military industrial complex bootstrapping the computer industry?
I think your point is valid in general, but Eve's semantics are deeply rooted in Logic Programming. IMO that's a more fundamental change than what we can hope to get from layering a pattern/library/architecture on top of an existing database or programming language.
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They are referring to the fact that Canada (and Australia and a bunch of other nations) peacefully separated from Great Britain. The fact that it hasn't happened in the U.S. does not mean it cannot be done.
Can a lot of this be distilled into differing risk aversions between the investors and the founders?

Two major reasons here seem to be 1) VCs not wanting to sink time into a failing startup (force downside) and 2) markups in valuation are preferred by VCs (force upside).

But directionally these incentives are the same for founders. Founders probably want to work less if their startup is failing (per person*years they put in). Founders also prefer the case where they're valued a lot and worth a lot.

Magnitude-wise these motivations are very different between founders and investors. For founders, a failure means lost years of their lives -- forcing a downside is a lot more painful. Founders also celebrate the home-run as much as the VCs (in fact probably for the biggest home runs, the founders get out more than an individual VC right?).

This could create an asymmetry whereby founders are in no hurry if hurry could mean failure, and the model above is classical risk aversion. Conversely, VCs don't mind that much if your chance of failure goes up by a few percentage points.

Aaron also tacks on some new ingredients: VCs like to see markups for it's own sake (to solve the monitoring problem between LPs and VCs).

I have no doubt with his experience the mechanisms are absolutely correct, just wondering if the majority of the underlying generator of these symptoms is underlying risk aversion.
This is a good opportunity so I'm gonna post what I, a native-born Japanese, have been always thinking: This country is literally shaped by earthquakes. This is true not only in a geological sense but it also applies to the culture. Earthquakes affect how all the buildings here are made, the way of transportation, and virtually every aspect of our daily life. We always fear them and talk about them, but we're kinda resigned to accept the fate. This concept of resignation is seen in many ways in the Japanese culture. But it's also earthquakes that make us truly united. I realized this when the big quake hit the country five years ago. As much as we hate them, we are defined by earthquakes.
Japanese electronics (especially in the boom years of the 80's and early 90's) have a certain 'Technology for Technology's Sake' design sensibility among them.
Network. If you want to build up a portfolio a good way is to volunteer to build or fix things for local non-profits, in exchange for them to give you a testimonial and let you use their name for promotion (if you do a good job, of course).

Don't compete on price. Pick your price and stick to it.

If you specialize in a particular piece of technology, spend time online helping people fixing things, writing bug reports and patches for it, creating a site with useful tools or tutorials and things like that. Then just include a small mention on your site or your signature about your freelance work.

Don't go overboard with self-promoting, but don't neglect it either.

Keep a resume (or several targeted ones if you have different skillsets) up to date and ready to send people.
A commercial Linux distro aimed at consumers would be cool, but things aren't so bad as it is. Making the switch will surely require some adaptation and getting used to, but when you get settled, things are pretty smooth, and only getting better. I've been happily running Debian as my primary OS for 8 years now, and I spent a few of those years running Linux exclusively.

The way I see it, Apple excels on the whole overarching synergy thing, while Linux excels on individual component quality. Considering that each component is an independent project, the Linux ecosystem will never be as homogenous as Windows or Mac. That said, it's a trade many of us happily make for the power of choice.
...and yet candidates don't usually waste any time or effort campaigning in California or North Dakota because they aren't one of about a dozen persuadable swing states. In one sense the electoral votes per person ratio is a sensible way to measure political clout, but if a state is outright ignored and isn't taking part in the political conversation then that clout isn't translating into meaningful influence.
I agree 100%. Various attempts have been made to design "human readable" programming languages, where someone who wasn't familiar with the syntax (or with programming in general) might be able to read some code and get a sense of what it was doing.

I've heard that COBOL was designed with this goal in mind- make the syntax a little more verbose and English-like, and in theory nontechnical business people could understand what it was doing. AppleScript took this concept and ran with it.

The problem is that while this might (or might not) enhance readability, it definitely hurts writability. You end up with a verbose language with lots of extraneous and ambiguous syntax that isn't really well-defined. I've found AppleScript to be much more confusing than other languages, and if I wasn't a developer I would expect that to be 10x worse.

I have met a few people who said they got started with programming by playing with AppleScript, but I can't escape the feeling that they got into programming despite AppleScript, not because of it.

Maybe they picked it up first because it's always been pitched as a language for non-programmers, but it just doesn't seem to scale beyond something good for copying and pasting tiny chunks of code to tell an app to do something that otherwise can't be automated. It's useful as a tool to create and send Apple Events (which is really all it is- a wrapper around Apple Events), but its usefulness speaks more to the occasional usefulness of Apple Events as a part of the OS, than AppleScript itself as a language.
Why does it need to be without overhead in order to be accurate that it unifies the entire stack?
Tangeant: it's so obnoxious that every code snippet from Github has to have such a signature. All I could read was "hosted with <3 by GitHub"
I'm interested in that domain part. How can I buy a domain through this thing? Will it own my domain or will I be able to move the domain and use it for different things in the future? How?
I thought that was a typo! Why 6.5"?
Poor people can't afford this service.
Yep. Another reason a simple 'sum' is nicer than what C gives us.

Or a reason to go back to checking all code I try to type in.
So you'd say the four majority-Serbian counties shouldn't be allowed to secede from Kosovo?
What problems can that cause though?

(Alternatively - does anything stop me acquiring an SSL cert in your name, despite me not being Cloudflare and you not having an account with me?)
Classless themes
https://github.com/pazguille/offline-first is a good starting point.
Your advice about robbery seems pretty solid.

Out of curiosity, what would you recommend differently? Carrying a weapon and engaging in combat?
I never said any have. Just because none have does not make it impossible, especially in modern times. If California voted for independence on the US stopped it then the would be seen as a belligerent invading nation and suffer tough sanctions.
I think your phrasing makes this sound worse than it is. The candidate is a 5th of the way toward winning, but has a 10th of the electoral votes. And California has more than a 10th of the US population, so I'm not sure what point you're even trying to make.
The only thing hotter than a brazilian woman sucking a thick cock is
The Tenth Amendment has been ignored for a very long time. It's not just Trump. The courts have decided that the commerce clause gives the Federal government almost unlimited power. (See Wickard v. Filburn for one of the most outrageous examples.)
Yeah, I think the reason this article is interesting is that most people don't associate european jews with the rest of european mushrooming culture. E.g. even though I'm half ashkenazi, I learned mushrooming from the American amateur mycological tradition rather than from my grandparents or whatever. (Even though my grandparents did go foraging their with parents when they were children.)

So I would never eat Leccinum and haven't yet gotten around to trying Russulas or Suillus luteus/americanus, even though those are mostly what these folks are collecting.
Why do you need a US example? Just because it hasn't been done in the US does not make it impossible, but in any case, it has been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Declaration_of_Inde...
K12 teachers don't want students distracted by phones in class. It's much easier to police which physical device a student is handling than which capability they're exercising.

Even in BYOD netbook world, you can bet all social networking and messaging is blocked at the web filter. (Sometimes time-based restrictions open it for lunch and after school, sometimes not).
> But... Strong AI can be achieved, if nothing else by emulating a brain synapse by synapse. Therefore god doesn't exist?

Isn't this type of thinking a form of cargo cult science, though? According to Facebook's AI director [1]:

> The equivalent [of cargo cult science] in AI is to try to copy every detail that we know of about how neurons and synapses work, and then turn on a gigantic simulation of a large neural network inside a supercomputer, and hope that AI will emerge. That’s cargo cult AI. There are very serious people who get a huge amount of money who basically—and of course I’m sort of simplifying here—are pretty close to believing this.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...

At any rate, that's a theory you have there (that simulating neurons results in emergent AI), now you have to prove your theory before I will admit God doesn't exist. I contend that without a spirit, no such AI will emerge.
This is crazy stuff. I'm not young enough to try it, but I hope other people do and that it is actually useful.
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Don't forget things like short-term disability insurance, which is mandatory in California and can be up to $800/year.
I'd call the lifestyle by most new grads in San Francisco to be on par with the middle-class lifestyle. I think your percentages are way off but the gross dollar values are acceptable when compared to other U.S. locales.

Most new grads in San Francisco are likely eating up most of their income on taxes, rent, and repayment of student loans. After contributing the maximum of $18k to their retirement plan and some modest savings, they likely have enough for one night out per week.

100000 - 18000 # starting salary minus retirement contribution
=82000
82000 * 0.39 # tax before tax refund
=31980
82000 - 31980 # salary after taxes and retirement
=50020
1200 * 12 # annual rent for a bedroom in a shared house in untrendy area
# this $1200 figure is from other posters in this thread
# and an cursory look through craigslist
=14400
50020 - 14400 # disposable income minus rent
=35620
500 * 12 # annual student loan payment for $50k, 120 month loan
= 6000
35620 - 6000
=29620
29620 / 12 # remaining income per month
= 2468

$2468 per month to save, spend on food, transportation, et cetera is pretty damn good. I think it leaves about $1000 per month for savings, considering groceries, utilities, recreation, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses.

10% savings sounds bad but the dollar amount is not too terrible. I'm assuming the retirement savings weren't part of the equation, since they can't be readily used for support during unemployment. Overall, the San Francisco Bay Area is not a good place to save money. I think the financially prudent step is to not move to it.

If anyone disagrees with my numbers, please speak up! I would love to be able to optimize my own spending or make suggestions to my new grad friends.
So I'm supposed to say this to my wife when I lose my job? The world will move on and I will struggle to pay the mortgage and pay for the kids school supplies all because of some rant on HN News. Jesus christ...
Well the irony is that it is California's own senator, Boxer, pushing to eliminate the Electoral College which was designed for the sole purpose of stopping states like California from dominating the legislative agenda. The fact is that California gets its voice heard so much more than say Nebraska that its hypocritical for California to start complaining in a rare instance where they didn't get their way.
I run my personal vps' and a site for a family member[1] on two "droplets" on digital ocean for $5 a pop and couldn't be happier with their service. Also their collection of articles is fantastic for finding out how to get different things set up or whatnot[2]. Love 'em! <3

[1] http://amagiccarwashforsale.com/ (if it's hugged to death let me know

[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials
100% this! The tech world is due an implosion if this continues, you cant have people with ZERO programming experience beyond a guided 12 week bootcamp being offered anything more than a Junior role??

This single sentence terrifies me:

"At Hack Reactor, we’re trained to mask our inexperience. In our personal narratives, we purposely omit our bootcamp education."

$120k+ offer for 12 weeks experience - ridiculous, I hope he lasts 2 weeks
I'll take the 5%. Makes it easier to raise money. I've done this twice, so you can take my answer as actual and not theoretical.
I'm not saying it's a good idea, but since when is seceding from a government that you don't think represents your interests un-American?
Or just can't do a calculation right because single precision floats lack the granularity for it.
What we need is a Twitter that doesn't ban accounts and suppress opinions solely based on opposing political viewpoints.
Overcoming the Resistance to Write
Because to qualify as "the entire stack", you need to be able to talk to the kernel efficiently, which in practice means: call into C without overhead.

I have no problem with what Eve is doing, but it's not "the entire stack" and with Eve's paradigm, never will be. And that's okay—just stop calling it "the entire stack".
Lines of credit can be revoked immediately. I have family members who relied on a line of credit only to have the limit dropped and the interest rate hiked by 10%.

The low yield on the emergency cash laying in a checking account is to compensate for its liquidity.
In my experience, Florida is pretty evenly divided.

Sure, there's the rural Republican areas, the urban Democratic areas, conservative retired communities, and the liberal immigrant neighborhoods, but I still doubt there's much of what you describe.
> I think the more useful ability for the food truck operator is the ability to modify the software their business runs on, not the ability to build it from scratch.

Yes, I agree with this 100%, and this is one of the main goals for Eve, much further down the line (see some of our experiments with graphical interfaces to Eve: https://github.com/witheve/eve-experiments)

But even today we're focused on making programs easier to read and modify. Let's say a food truck owner (with a little technical experience) does download our app written in Eve, and wants to modify a button.

When he opens the program, he can see a table of contents, and code written in a literate programming style. So immediately there's a place to start.

The user could read through the document and try to find the place where the button is drawn, but the program is running right there. The user can inspect the button in question, and the editor will point right to the code that draws it.

The user can modify the code right there, and see changes to the app immediately. This workflow is similar to what we demoed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWAMr72VaaU

Obviously given the current form of Eve, this scenario requires a food truck owner who is also a developer. But supporting simple workflows that make using a computer easier is central to what we're trying to do with this language.
Creator here, Happy to take any questions and/or feedback

Thanks,
"Initially only Windows users are being attacked, but infected macOS and Linux computers can be attacked and abused in the future:"

illogical Captain :)

"In the past web browsers in have been very secure by default .. the likelyhood of exploits targeting JavaScript and browsers is bound to grow."

Google on ActiveX exploits ..
Seconded. I still keep a DNSMadeEasy account around for some things, but Route53 just is great.
Gitbook build system with pandoc converter to build LaTeX, word, etc.
A simple join test that many fail
California Secessionists
Very well-written article. The examples he gives of studies which supposedly show right-wing prejudice are amazing in how biased the studies themselves are!

> For instance, one study explored ethical decision making by asking people whether they would formally support a female colleague’s complaint of sexual harassment. There was no way to know if the complaint was justified, but anyone who didn’t automatically side with the woman was put in the unethical category. Another study asked people whether they believed that “in the long run, hard work usually brings a better life”—and then classified a yes answer as a “rationalization of inequality.” Another study asked people if they agreed that “the Earth has plenty of natural resources if we just learn how to develop them”—a view held by many experts in resource economics, but the psychologists pathologized it as a “denial of environmental realities.”

And, of course, this story gets downvoted on HN. Not big surprise. :/
One thing I hear a lot when people talk about Kubernetes vs Mesos is the developer experience. Such that a developer can run a kubernetes cluster on their laptop to work with "easily" vs it being essentially impossible with Mesos.
> If they were consistently responsible and accountable

And thus we invoke the principle of explosion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion

https://xkcd.com/704/
Oh, good point about the power grid. For years, California has been moving their power plants to other states so that the other states get the pollution. That would come back to bite them if they seceded.
I've been looking for the holy-grail for years (TodoMVC being my benchmark), and Eve takes the cake.

I'm looking forward to compatibility with semantic Web technologies.
It's a cool idea, but wouldn't the CPU be awfully far from the cache and RAM if you did that? You could put some RAM in the docking station with the x86 chip, but at that point you're two-thirds of the way toward just having another computer in there, which kind of defeats the purpose.