skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you need to be able to have coffee with a VC

If you are building a company that needs VC funding. Most companies don't.

"Venture Capital is the wrong source of capital for the vast majority of entrepreneurial ventures" http://avc.com/2005/03/dont_take_the_m/

If you aren't looking to raise VC but instead want to be part of a vibrant tech ecosystem, well, that opens up more mid tier cities. For starters: San Diego, LA, Boulder, Austin, Portland, Pittsburgh(?) in the USA.
Rubyists: you can write video games
100% this and yes.
>Food is expensive for no apparent reason other than to gouge customers.

You're not the only one paying extra rent to rentiers. So are retailers and restaurants.
>go to Bay Area to a big firm to build your reputation

Doesn't make sense. The big 4 have campuses across the country.

Instead of telling people to move to SV I would recommend making sure to get into the right (big 4 or not) team and role for your career. Just fixing bugs at big SV company will not help much. You want to make sure you have a chance to contribute something to show your skills on an innovative or leading team.
Personally, we wanted the neighborhood, and also both my wife and I grew up very poor (i.e., we'd never lived in a really nice house). So we bought a mid-size house in a really nice neighborhood (over bought a little). That's why I am personally very happy with downsizing. But not at the cost of paying 4x what I am paying now.

But as already said by others, you fill the space and get used to it. There are times it's really nice to have so much space (holidays with family, birthday parties), and other times it's not (cleaning, a/c). Having a dedicated movie theater room is nice too.
Going straight from work to home and staying there is indicative of a "work work work" culture? That's some doublespeak. I have lots of hobbies (and kids) at home, and wish I could do more of that.

The South Bay is a residential suburb. It doesn't have much of a nightlife. The same can be said about most of the places people live in this country outside of the densest urban centers.

If that's not what you want, then by all means move. But recognize that this is exactly the sort of stability many people strive hard for.
I'm not in the power industry, but you can read more about the economics of retrofits here[1], and technologies here[2]. I'd imagine the cost of retrofitting depends on how much pollution needs to be mitigated to make the (pollution*dollars)/power figure acceptable.

This industry source[3] seems to have about as many stories about stations being decommissioned as it does about large retrofit projects, which says that in the US the cost assigned to the pollution often is more expensive than moving to another source.

Like a lot of environmental issues, I think concerns about emissions tend to be treated as though they are decadent compared to immediate economic impact, until a crisis is underway. That is, people notice their power bill, brownouts or their factory shutting down from a shortage of electricity, but they may not directly attribute their children's asthma or getting cancer a decade later to the power plant. Furthermore people can bemoan the waste of shuttering a functional power plant if the harm the decommissioning averted is not tangible to them. Crisis-level smog days can help justify policies that take action, as well as create an appreciation for the importance of air quality in general.

These jet engines sound like the equivalent of building a taller smokestack. They're probably a cheap way to lessen some of the health effects during a smog crisis, but not any sort of long term solution.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-coal-fired-pow...

[2] http://nma.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Fact-Sheet-Clean-C...

[3] http://www.power-eng.com/coal/coal-retrofits-upgrades.html
It all depends on your use case. In my experience, most of the times when dealing with RB:s, it's more important to guarantee that the read index and the write index can be updated lock-free by different threads (e.g. one producer and one consumer) than to have a very specific non-power-of-2 capacity.
With Second Ave Subway, Cuomo Has Hands-On Role with NYC's Infrastructure Future
It doesn't take years to learn how to use expensive machinery. There's a bunch of stuff you can touch at TechShop - and potentially break - with a few-hour class and a review that you actually know how to use the thing.
Getting Started with Fli: Using AWS CloudFormation
Bay Area is unqiue.
It's also worth the time spent to become accomplished in both (bi-keyboardal, I call it) for touch typing, in my opinion. I use dvorak at home on the desktop and qwerty everywhere else. Monday morning at work I'll start typing gibberish for a few seconds sometimes until I switch gears, then I'm back in the groove.
What will this mean for speed/timing? Some IO is very timing sensitive, so much that python is too slow to handle it; I wonder if these abstractions will cause any problems.
Yes, and (not at all respectfully), speculating about why that is would probably get me banned for 'incivilty'. So i'll just say that notions of "voluntary" that don't account for the fact that people have to fucking eat aren't very useful.
Monitoring Kubernetes
As a matter of fact, I do miss physical keyboards on phones but frankly they don't make sense because they're nowhere near the level of comfort of my mechanical keyboard. My answer to this has been to stop spending on smartphones. I'll be buying the next iPad Pro and will settle for a midrange Android and an iPhone 7 / 7s / 8 and will just call it quits for 3-4 years.

I am not "vowing" anything. There are changes that do make sense and others who don't -- and that's subjective, of course. For me the real physical feedback when typing is irreplaceable.

And don't give me that talk that I am a grumpy old fart. Until we have computers able to react on voice like the Star Trek computers do, full physical keyboards are not going anywhere. It's about convenience and speed of the interaction, not about trends.
(disclaimer - Plethora cofounder/CTO here)

Our goal at Plethora is to make hardware as easy as software. One question we ask ourselves is why can a small team of software devs push out an app in a few days / weeks when a hardware product takes a sizable kickstarter/VC round and months / years? It comes down to:

- great tools

- fast iteration

- easy deployment

- straightforward scalability

To achieve this kind of agility with hardware, this means removing the friction at every step of the product lifecycle.

One half is in the design & ordering of custom parts. CAD packages today are powerful and it’s very easy to design beautiful parts that are completely unmanufacturable. The Plethora add-in analyzes parts in a few seconds, provides helpful hints on manufacturability, instant pricing and ordering. We went with a plugin for existing CAD programs because getting people to switch CAD programs is like asking a programmer to switch code editors - extremely difficult unless the value of the new tool is orders of magnitude greater than that of the incumbent.

The other half of the friction in manufacturing is when the part enters production. Plethora isn’t just a pretty face on a traditional machine shop - we’ve been working for years to automate the extremely manual process of converting a 3D model into instructions for a machine to produce. This automation enables quick turnaround and no minimum order quantities - which allows teams to have more iterations and faster deployment of their products.
DIY SELF-Balancing Skateboard
Michigan Passes First Regulations on Driverless Cars
Aha! Well that certainly explains the quality. I missed the byline on first read.
The Product Plan vs. The Project Plan
No, the Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot is different. If you look at the very final photographs of both, you'll see that on the regular knot (tied either the standard way or the fast way) there's only a single vertical piece of lace right at the very front, but in the secure knot there are two.

1. Regular (tied in the fast way): http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

2. Secure: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

Try the secure knot. It's basically like the bunny-ears way of tying a regular knot (where you hold both bunny-ears and slip one under the other), but you leave the hole open and slip the second back under the first as well.

It's much more secure than a double-knot, in my experience, and looks a lot nicer. But I still can't instinctually do it -- it takes me an extra couple of seconds each time.
Nah, self driving electric vehicles with 6 seats operating on an UberPOOL model will dominate, and it wouldn't be surprising to see the UberPOOL model be extended to a subscription service as well where you simply pay a commit for the service level each month, get an included number of trips, and a further discounted on trips over that number.

Having the commit will make it maore feasible to fund vehicles that are intended for a specific area, and the pool model allows Uber to recover margin during pricing surges and users who don't want to pay the commit (after all, the discount on the fare would only apply to the portion of the pool fare ascribed to the subscribed to the passenger).
I assumed we were talking about money for a home down payment, which would not normally go into a 401k. Getting it out would require a 401k loan, and a 401k loan for a six-figure amount is almost always a terrible idea. The only other way to get it out would be to take an unqualified distribution and get hit with a significant fine.

Most 401k loans become due in full if you leave your job. That traps you in your job until you pay it back, because if you had enough cash to pay the loan outright, you would not have needed the loan in the first place. Unless you have an unusually good severance agreement with your employer that would enable you to pay back the loan if you leave your job or get fired, taking out a 401k loan is a bad idea.
Owning an ordinary sentence should not be a right, frontmost.
Experts spotted a Skype backdoor for Mac, it could be a coding bug
The no-politics rule puts me in mind of a modified form of the apocryphal quote from Leon Trotsky:

You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
And, it makes it yet another web site where page-down fails to go one page down.
> Terminal copy and paste key bindings on Windows have changed to Ctrl+C (when text is selected) and Ctrl+V respectively.

So happy.
The pod sandbox is the abstraction that replaces the "pause" container that is used to keep namespaces open in every Kubernetes pod today.

Some techinical explanation here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-users/jVj...

So,a normal Kubernetes user will never know about rkt pod sandboxes and Kubernetes pods will just work as expected. Only you won't have all of these weird "pause" containers everywhere.
Yep, unfortunately for passphrases the maximum acceptable password length on web sites tends to be the #1 factor limiting their use. I created sample passphrases and tried them on a handful of different sites to measure the problem. See starting slide 31 in this presentation (PDF): http://www.passwordresearch.com/files/How%20Secure%20Are%20M...
> "3. The content, clearly GoT inspired,..."

Really ? You see a GoT theme in that picture ? I don't.
If you are young, single and in tech, then it makes sense. You don't care if you share an apartment or even a room, you'll make good money and you'll acclimatize to how ridiculous the prices are over a few years.

If you are older, and you have a spouse and/or kids, then it makes less sense. It actually makes no sense if you're coming from a low cost area, and more sense if you're moving from NYC to Bay Area. If you're coming from a low cost area, you will suffer, because even if you owned your house outright, if you sell it it may be a decent downpayment, and then you'll have to spend a lot of money on mortgage. Plus school, commute, etc. I wouldn't recommend it in that situation.
Hypotheses are interesting by themselves. They allow us to collect more evidence to justify expensive randomized control studies in the first place.
Yes, well, sometimes there are both de-facto standards and de-jure standards in circulation.

XHTML 2.0 comes to mind.

Tactically, creating a backward-compatible successor to CUDA (a superset, essentially) would have the advantage (for AMD, that is) that NVIDIA can't decide to un-implement the existing CUDA support in their products in order to to spike AMD's efforts.

Then again, there is a lot of IP sloshing around in this space, so the specific tactic used by AMD may have to be something sneakier and subtler.

Anyway, this is all just one of the hypothetical ways AMD could try to unseat NVIDIA, there are others.
How is it better than the chrome one?
Reaching orbit is the really hard problem he's talking about; once you're up there you have your choice of high SI things like ion thrusters or solar sails - stuff that's useless for reaching orbital velocity but works great in free fall in a vacuum.
Apple releases Apple Support app for iOS
Adding one: if you're doing anything security related, DC's your friend.
The amount of institutional knowledge and experience that a truly veteran millwright or machinist has amassed over the years can be breath-taking, though.

The real shame is when businesses let those people retire without bothering to adequately train a replacement.
Congrats again for your work! I enjoyed it a lot! I commented on the course and also sent an email to say so! :)

What do you plan next?

You can see that the app resists the basics injection attacks (i remembered that lesson when the comments started! lol).
Still waiting on docblock support or plugin for PHP, then I'm going to give it a shot. Till then I'll stick w/ sublime.

Though I've been trying vim again, maybe I'll finally jump into it.. I mean I jumped into Arch linux + i3wm(tiled window manager), moving into the console for everything seems next logical transition toward becoming part computer.
How I Find Clients as a Freelancer
Decision making across the life span shows profound age-related changes [pdf]
Plausible. Apparently, the driver needs to intervene 15+ times in a 30min period. Their technology seems to be way behind other companies.
Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores (2011) [pdf]
Public key encryption does feel like it could be a useful approach. Rather than putting the burden on camera manufacturers, it could be implemented on a portable hard drive with SD card reader. (Turns out these already exist, just not with encryption: https://www.wdc.com/products/portable-storage/my-passport-wi...)

This would allow the photographer to review photos on the camera until satisfied, then simply plug the SD card into the portable hard drive. All files would be automatically encrypted and saved to the hard drive, and the SD card would be wiped. The files on the hard drive can't be decrypted without the private key, stored at home.
Strangely how this is not top news on HN - however you put it , I guess everyone understands that this is a turning point in our industry.
Do you mind sharing what space your product is in?
You know what will help them scale? Using existing CAD software available for free to a majority of students in universities around the world instead of a half baked package specific to a single manufacturer. You'd have to pay the average mechanical engineer in the US at least as much to learn eMachineShop's CAD software as you'd pay for the AutoCAD or Solidworks license, which they're likely to already know how to use from on the job training or formal education.

Few non-trivial products use a single manufacturer over their lifetime, let alone for a single production run, so having your own CAD system is a liability not a competitive advantage. I don't see how neckbeards, location, and VC funding are relevant in the face of such a glaring oversight.
People have lived in an RV in Google's parking lot. Being on the campus all the time, they could save almost all of their salary.
Living in the bay area is not necessarily expensive. I pay like very little in rent. It all depends on how you want to live.
> The insane commutes, the work culture, the high rent / COL, the culture of trying to look as rich/smart/successful as possible, the sue happy people, the fact that there's absolutely nothing else to do other than work, etc really wore down on me.

Oh god, you really quantified the cruft that made me hate the place. The bay is sublime in its beauty but could only be perfect for me if the population was subbed out for Austin's or DC's (which are in many ways opposite, but they're also far more distant from SFBay than they are from each other).
It was console.log() all the way
I approve of this video.

(Seriously. There's so much flawed hand-waving going around. But this video is solid)
> After the first month or so in a space this size, it doesn't feel that big. You just get kind of used to it, although you kind of appreciate the space.

Who does the cleaning, you or your partner? I never got used to cleaning a larger space. It is definitely a huge waste of time, vacuum bots only help marginally. Also annoying is walking or especially moving something from one end of the dwelling to the other.
Providence has been perpetually on the cusp of having a tech scene for about 20 years now; it's starting to take off a bit, and still reasonably cheap even in the beautiful areas around Brown/RISD.

There's a lot going on just under the radar in the smaller college towns. Amherst/Northampton MA, Burlington in VT, Hanover/Lebanon in NH. A lot of what's going on is in fairly small shops that don't have job postings, but would create a position for the right candidate, which makes it hard to find them if you're not in the area, unfortunately, but there are definitely some medium-size firms, too. These have a very different feel from Boston, though, so maybe not what you're looking for.

I also know a few folks who live near me (Hanover/Lebanon) and commute to Boston or NYC (2-3 days a week, WFH the other days). This is a pretty sweet deal if you can make it happen.
When you violate someone's trust you should not want them to immediately trust you again. You can hope for it, but you should not try to make them trust you.

Here's what you should want:

1) Their actual safety. Not that they trust you, but that you actually don't hurt them again. This should be your top priority.

2) They feel comfortable with the amount of distance between you and them. This doesn't require them trusting you, this requires them to have agency to put up a wall between you so that they feel safe.

3) They don't trust you too much too soon. You have shown that you are dangerous to them, and so you should desire them to only trust you as far as it is safe to. If they trust you too much, that puts you in a dangerous place where both of you could get hurt again.

From there, trust can come again, at its own pace. But that's entirely up to your reliability and their comfort. You shouldn't rush it. You shouldn't agitate for it. You should just make sure #1-3 happen and then it's just a waiting game.

Having people distrust you is not something to be ashamed of. Distrust is a critical tool for safety. No matter who you are, there are lots of situations where you shouldn't be trusted. That's good. If someone is wary of you, you should be grateful. They are helping you both stay safe. You should not hope to be universally trusted. You should hope to be trusted with the responsibilities you are ready for.
Not trying to nitpick, but it wouldn't necessarily be the case that you would have to enter a password. You could encrypt against an HOTP on the device and perform secure key erasure for the N-1th photo and previous. You'd then have a server which would be able to decrypt based on a one time shared secret (the HOTP root).
That original post on cytora seems quite a bit better to me than the github link since it gives more context. Thanks!
+1 Death to `pause` (and it's largely my fault in the first place)
Anthropologist Joseph Henrich interview:  social learning and cultural evolution
The Pros and Cons of Robot Managers
> DC

I'm assuming you've never paid us a visit :( DC literally has the second largest mass transit system in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_rapid_tr...
It's mentioned in the article and elsewhere in this thread. It looks to be just for stills, as well as being "old, experimental, somewhat faffy, and a bit buggy" according to another poster here.
Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
I've lived in San Jose from birth to 19 years old (worked one year at a startup) and I can see where you're coming from, but you must be blind if you have no idea what I'm talking about. The friendships I cultivated while growing up there are sacred, but those friendships would have been impossible if I didn't meet them while growing up. If I moved to SJ from somewhere else at 19+ I know I would be miserable, because like it or not most people are exactly like I described in my original comment. The type of people we grew up with and the type of people who migrate here are VASTLY DIFFERENT. Thankfully you and me could avoid them, since we were "fortunate" enough to grow up in the south bay. I'm thankful for my unique experience, but it's just that: a unique experience.

As far as SF goes, I was talking about 5-6 years ago. I've heard its way worse these days. And it's going to keep getting worse, because the south bay is a cancer. It wasn't until I moved away when I realized that.
A 80% reduction in carbon emissions does not mean an 80% reduction in energy use.

If we took the very dramatic changes of switching all energy to nuclear, changed to a mostly vegetarian diet, and replaced as much of transportation usage as possible with electric we would end up with an 80% or greater reduction in emissions and still enjoy plenty of the benefits of a post-industrial society.
You can debug in Chrome (or any other browser). For node, you can run node-inspector which uses a browser for debugging.
OK, that explains it. The engineers are a tiny percentage of the population of the city. But compared to eight years ago the increase is sizeable.

The area within a mile of the Madison building has gone from all abandoned buildings to a virtual tech city within the city.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/M@dison+Building,+1555+Bro...

The only negative is that apartment rents have gone sky high, not high by SF standards but high by Michigan standards.
When you say a typical engineer's salary, I feel like you mean a high performer at Google with a rich family.

I make about that much, at a company without free food perks that doesn't give me amazing stock bonuses (my social skills are too bad to negotiate them…) and I live frugally but could never save that much after $2k/mo rent! And there's no huge parental loans for me.
I agree with much of this, but after my own experience of GTD and watching some friends try it, I think it's poorly suited for intellectual work. Even though it talks about the 10,000 ft/20,000 ft/etc view, I think it just pays lip service to higher-level planning. What I noticed were lots of people chasing microscopic tasks and checking off to-do lists instead of taking care of the big things that make a difference. But maybe it's just me.

Another poster mentioned Cal Newport's "deep work", which seems a more natural fit for coding to me.

I'm not saying GTD can't work for you, YMMV, but I think it's a better fit for more traditional office work.
More than a coincidence, I think.

John Gruber wrote a post titled "Dive into Markdown", https://daringfireball.net/2004/03/dive_into_markdown, and mentioned Mark Pilgrim in that post as well. It seems that John made a pun, applying the well-known titles of Mark's books to Markdown.

I guess the RFC copies the post title (and the opening quote by Stanley Kubrick) to pay an homage to John's start with Markdown?
Arista beats Cisco’s $335M copyright claim with an unusual defense