skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a senior engineer. I don't want to move to the Bay (not even in the US, and I love where I live), but I really wish I could make the money I can make there.

I'm somewhat pondering an Evil Scheme where I start a one-to-one "subcontracting" firm, where a plain-bad programmer who would never otherwise make it in a startup environment can hire someone [me] to do all their work for them—and maybe even guide them through their interviews with a concealed earpiece. Basically, the company would have "actually" hired me, and the person in the startup's office would just be serving as a human proxy for my skills.

Of course, that's effectively just a hack to get around the idiotic policies companies have against hiring remote workers for local salaries; and one that would cost quite a bit of salary (the proxy would still have to get paid, after all.) But I bet it would still turn out better than a non-Bay-Area wage.
Facebook exploring creation of its own original video content
The article referenced is an example of propaganda by selecting the facts that fit the narrative. The authors conveniently fail to mention that there some areas on Earth that are actually cooling (Antarctica being the prime example [1], but there are others).

Articles like the above are the reason why I don't trust research/finding being published anymore - at least not without full disclosure who paid for that research. The ugly truth is that scientists need money, and some have no problem manipulating data, per their sponsors' interests.

This applies to both sides of the climate debate equally.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-20/antarctic...
I assume someone uncomfortable with giving out payment information would be at least as suspicious with bitcoins persistent and public ledger.

Bitcoin is far from anonymous. In fact, all is out in the open but you can "invent" new names for yourself all the time. It's therefore pseudonymous by nature but the openly accessible and analyzable flow of bitcoins makes even only reasonable anonymity very hard to achieve.
> # Unstage pending changes, and reset files to pre-commit state. If

If what?
Also I work at a bank now and I can't talk about where we're going.
The scientists on the list are any scientist, not specifically climate scientists or even related fields. Would you trust a chemist's diagnosis of your mother's cancer? Of course not.

What's more, the vast majority of their statements doubting an aspect of climate change are not even part the peer reviewed scientific literature. They are simply opinion statements. And they only found a couple dozen people to put on the list? Not a very strong showing..

All of this is found in the linked Wikipedia article itself.
Cities seem like the easiest challenge to tackle. Amazon could work with commercial and residential high rises and put a dock on their rooftops. So, the drone approaches the building rooftop, puts the package in the docking area (that keeps out poor weather), and then flies away. One of the receptionists could then get a notification of a new package, pick it up, and either put it in the appropriate mailbox, or hold it at the desk.

Want to get more advanced and efficient? When your package is delivered, Amazon sends you an access key to the dock. You can now go to the rooftop, type in your access key, and get access to the room to get your package. After it's claimed, your access key expires. This means only people with packages inside the dock have access. Yes, technically if you get a package delivered, you could access the room, and steal a package from someone else. However, there would likely be a camera in the room, and there's a record of you having access, so I can't see it being an issue. You could offset the risk even more by having 10 compartments in the docking area, so there's a 10x less chance of someone else having access to the same compartment. Right now I walk through my modern condo and see packages sitting in front of doors, in hallways without cameras, and there isn't a problem.

There might be 1,000 people living in a high rise, or thousands working in one. It would be easy to get tens of thousands of people access to air deliveries at home and work with a dozen docks. It's also a great selling point for offices and condos. "Our building allows you to receive air deliveries."
Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick Joining Trump's Advisory Council
Mobile Is Eating the World
> I've never understood why people think traffic will move faster with self driving cars.

Because there's a huge difference between individual agents trying to maximize their own benefit to the detriment of everyone else (while also operating based on limited, local sensor data, and with limited processing power and slow reaction times), and a fully integrated traffic flow where fast, powerful agents communicate with each other, share sensor data and telemetry, and are able to make global optimizations.

Scenario #1 often produces pathologic outcomes that are way below global optimum. Scenario #2 can optimize traffic to the extent that human drivers would be unable to keep up with it (think rush hour traffic moving at legal speed limit nearly bumper to bumper with no accidents).
People actually use Coq to do useful things (this is kind of harsh to Agda but whatever). Haskell isn't really the same kind of thing (I mean, ostensibly you could write programs in Coq, and there are some extractors to other languages, but you generally use it as a proof assistant; by contrast, writing proofs in Haskell doesn't really work unless you happen to want to prove free theorems).
maybe i've got a weird accent, but "caught" with a "k" replacing the "t" is how i pronounce cock.
This whole dialogue shows a very laborer-centric view of the world. What is missing from this entire conversation is the concept of being an employer/founder or independent consultant. If you want to bootstrap a startup, the Bay Area cost basis is going to destroy your nest egg until you can raise capital. Also, this conversation implies that you are employed 100% of the time, ignoring any cases where you quit, are fired, or the "rocketship" startup you joined doesn't work out.
A quick read of the high scoring answers from past years shows that there were many crackpots. So I would say it can't hurt to apply (source: I have a PhD in quantum physics, and many top essays made no sense)
Another one by ryg: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/the-magic-ring-buff...
4M Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know
Valley of the dolts
Yes, true. And I have looked into it and actually follow certain websites that show data graphs to see how things are actually progressing on a regular basis. I've gone so far as to write programs to parse data sets and graph data.

I was just trying to figure out why climate skepticism seems to be a predominantly American thing, though. American media and the great political divide seem to be good candidates. I'm not sure whether "over-alarmism" is an American media-only trait or not, though. It might also have something to do with a historical importance placed in American culture on rugged individualism and an acceptance of alternative viewpoints, but that seems to be fading as the years progress, from what I've seen.
Oh, I default to using the hacker label as a compliment to programmers here on news.yc. I tend to assume (based on reading bits of code from various news.yc contributors) that many devs (carefully not bucketing myself in this group) here exhibit a level of mastery above a run of the mill corporate programmer.
Claiming Messi is 20 times better than Maradona at his peak is silly. Just as silly as claiming to be 20 times better that Taylor at his peak. Maybe take the reciprocal, 5% better. Maybe. Incidentally, darts as a spectator sport is borderline at best. Van Gerwen is right, it's boring! I think the enthusiastic fans are really just enthusiastic about the vast quantity of alcohol they're imbibing. It's a fad and it will decline just as fast as it's risen. I think.
End-to-end encryption is tricky for companies like these, and until the main stream starts demanding encryption, private companies will continue to ignore it.

I'm working on open standard for encryption and ownership of notes. See https://standardnotes.org.

If you'd like to contribute, send me a message.
git diff --staged should be in there. I always accidentally add stuff I've had the chance to look at the diff. Then this command comes in handy.
No comment on the corporate aspect. On a personal level, I avoid using MongoDB on new projects.
The solution already exists: there are Android-based cameras like Samsung Galaxy NX which can use encrypted camera apps for Android with nice sensor and lenses.
>> even though it is no longer "suggested" for using the web

Fix'd. It's not even just that you don't need it for 95% of content, it's that OS vendors actively prohibit it's use due to it's unstoppable myriad of security concerns.
When talking about saving, if you're working somewhere established, you also need to take into account bonuses and RSUs or whatever longer-term retention plans are in place. The size of these boggled my mind coming from the middle of the country as much as the base salary numbers. You should never plan on living off of them, but if you can toss 15k or more (and I've seen much more than that) into your savings just from non-base-salary comp, you're pretty nicely ahead of the game.

Whether or not the established places will toss so much money around if the hiring competition from startups dries up if there's a crunch there, well, that's probably a legitimate question, but I'm not sure that job losses of that size would only hit the Bay Area.

Yes it's expensive, but also yes there really are quite a lot of jobs that pay more than well enough to make up for it.
Show HN: Basics of Bash video course with exercises
> What I would really like is to end up in a situation where email clients all support text/markdown. It really hits the sweet spot between plain text and HTML. It has enough structure to show a nice outline, and the triple back-tick syntax is great for marking bits of text as code.

Then we would have come full circle. A markup language that has been at least inspired if not derived from decade old usenet/mail conventions would be back where it started from.

> [...] and free from the abuse of HTML email.

Are you sure? The advantage of text/plain in mail is that I see every link as it is and no resources are loaded from external sources.

With markdown support in mail clients, we might be back at early HTML support. Link destinations would be unknowable again.

> Alas. More and more companies are giving up on plain text email (even though this is required by the standard),

If it's not plain text, it has to declare a mime type (how would the mail client know how to render it?) but I don't think plain text section is mandatory.

> and simply send you a hyperlink to click if you have plain text as your viewing preference for email.

Go tell them, and you can quote me on that, that they are stupid. If my mail client doesn't render text/html and prefers the text/plain sections that is because it is configured that way.

I know of no mail client that isn't able to handle HTML.
People also fail to appreciate how much would need to be sacrificed to reach the emission reductions that are being demanded. (For example, the 80% reduction target the EU is pushing for).

Slashing energy usage means slashing many of the benefits of living in a post-industrial society. Think living in one-room houses (no cheap heating), eating bread and potatoes in winter (no imported food), working locally with little career progression (no easy commuting) and many people returning to manual labour (no cheap machinery). All this to prevent 60cm-1m of sea level rise by 2100 - something we can manage, if we maintain the civilisation we have worked so hard to build.
Yes absolutely. For career opportunities alone, yes.
My team and I are building a platform for practice-first programming courses. We recently launched the English version, and I made a free course — Basics of Bash.

Topics include:

- Navigation

- FS manipulation

- Redirections and piping

- Files and pagers

- History tips and tricks

- Environment variables

- Aliases

Short videos (~5 min each) + some exercises. Exercise system is the core of our project. We give each user their own container with a browser-based IDE. It's very flexible, and in this particular course we use Ansible to verify students' solutions.

There're also quizzes and lecture notes + additional notes in each lesson.
Yeah, really not sure about that one.

Who knows really? Don't mind me, just going to take my AA gun back home.

(Plus, let's also factor in the fact firing weapons inside a city is illegal. But don't mind me)
Video games for exercise machines on mobile phones
A potentially smarter thing would have been to take all you could, invest and hope for the fast short term gains, then come clean to the bank and pay it back - keeping the proceeds.
The costs discussed are counted in development time, not the monetary value of rockets. That point is clearly evident with a cursory glance at the math. Just look at the numbers. The values all fall on the same curve. The cost increase from design phase to implementation phase is the same relative increase from implementation phase to testing phase, which is the same relative increase from the testing phase to the production phase.

If it were counting the cost of rockets in the production phase, it would clearly jump that value off that cost curve in a dramatic and clearly notable way.

The mathematical evidence of these facts is clearly visible in this chart: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*jOS7CZX-gWfOoKGPU...

Which is a reproduction of the graph that appears in the original paper using identical data.

Of course, the data I cited was not the only data available on the economic impact of software quality. There is a whole chapter on the topic of the economic benefits of reducing bugs in the book "The Economics of Software Quality" by Capers Jones, Olivier Bonsignour
Addison-Wesley, Jun 3, 2011.

The book is packed with valuable references if you're looking for more data on why it's worthwhile to reduce production bug density using techniques like TDD and code review. I strongly suggest you have a look at it if you have any doubts about the value of reducing production bug density.
Alaska delivers a consistent passable product. Think Starbucks, not your local independent hipster coffee shop. It's going to taste the same at every store in the world. Not amazing, not terrible.

* No shiny screens or anything. Chair, outlet, coke. That's good enough for me.

* Free gate-checking if you volunteer before attempting to board.

* Their carry-on size limit hasn't been reduced to absurdity, unlike American. I was flying out of JFK terminal 8, and apparently their size is small enough that even the TSA agent, at a glance, tried to stop me, only relenting after we walked over to the Alaska counter and had one of their counter people confirm it.
Gamers Are Jumping on the Nvidia GTX 1000 Series GPUs Faster Than the 900 Series
As soon as a command requires stuff as "HEAD" and "~" I believe there should be an easier way.
So much more user friendly this way. /s
How exactly do you figure increasing your take-home pay by contributing to a 401k? Did you forget to subtract the money that's actually going to the 401k instead of your pocket? Even at 90% tax rate, all you are doing is sparing that 90% on the money you are contributing. In other words, you are only actually paying $10 for every $100 you put in, because that other $90 would have gone to the tax man anyway. But you are still losing $10 of your take-home pay.
2016 in Design
I was not making any claims of the Italian medical system. I have no idea how they stack up. I was taking objection to the parent post claiming that the grandparent post was making a racist statement. If you guys are doing great in Italy, then awesome! :) Maybe you guys could share some notes with the United States, particularly when it comes to cost... we need serious help.
One nitpick: the 13.3% bracket only applies to taxable income of >$1M/year. The marginal rate that actually applies to most of the numbers being thrown around is 9.3%, which corresponds to the 51-263K bracket if filing a single return (103-526K if married filing jointly or HOH) - plus you can deduct these taxes on your federal return, to boot.

https://www.tax-brackets.org/californiataxtable
Oh man, let's just hope pistols and ski masks don't get popular or delivery drivers are going to need to watch out.
not a joke, but a wellspring of bad jokes.
Per the map,

VA drain: Lynchburg; gain: nearby Charlottesville, Roanoke, Richmond

MD drain: Cumberland; gain: nearby Morgantown (WV), greater DC

PA drain: York; gain: nearby metro Baltimore (MD), greater Philadelphia, State College

OH drain: Toledo, Lima, Mansfield; everywhere else neutral

GA drain: Valdosta, Macon; everywhere else neutral
Slingshot. :)
Are you really trying to exploit the distinction between government action vs. inaction here? It's trivial to modify my example: just replace "executing 1,000 people per day" with "purposefully not pursue safety standards that would save 1,000 lives per day". The position is insane.
I don't know if the article was really talking about "winning" startups. Growth+revenue aren't really representative of whether a company is "winning"—they're just representative of a company that's properly doing the thing investors want it to do, growing at the expense of all else.

If you're an investor, you need a company to succeed in a long-term sense: to pay out at the other end of the bet that started it. That's hard to predict: it's like looking at the fitness of animals in an ecosystem and trying to predict which one will end up with the most great-great-grandchildren.

But if you're an employee, you just need a company to be growing, and to be throwing money around in the process of doing that. You aren't looking for a fit animal, you're looking for a fat animal. Animals might get fat before they get fit, as before puberty in mammals—and investors try to encourage startups to "bulk up" to kickstart their metaphorical puberty. But unhealthy animals also get fat, and to a predator, they're just as edible.

If your goal is to "eat a lot of salary", you just need a company who's known to be throwing their fat around, not a company who will dominate their niche and sire a thousand children.
So a recruiting agency who makes money from placing applicants in the Bay area, a place with a shortage of developers, writes an article to convince more developers to move to the Bay area ? Yeah, totally trust their data and the data they selected for this article!
Lyman Stone has a good blog post[1] suggesting that it's rational for Millenials loaded down with student loan debt to live in high cost-of-living regions, for exactly this reason. The high nominal incomes give them more power to repay their student debt, which is not cost-of-living adjusted.

[1] https://medium.com/migration-issues/millennials-have-less-de...
Most apartment buildings without a doorman already have this going on, and have for years. My building has a pile of amazon boxes everyday by the front door
Coinbase User Asks Federal Court to Stop IRS Bitcoin Subpoena
A lot of people on Twitter are threatening to switch to something else. But the sad reality is, we have nowhere else to go.

I'm working on an open standard for encryption and ownership of notes. Would love any feedback/help.

See https://standardnotes.org for the full spec.

If you'd like to contribute please ping me.
I think you are missing the most important part here. These cars are always online and share data between them. They have a detailed map of every street and every road bump and every road pole/sign that can be used for navigation. Even if everything is in snow and the camera/lidar is frozen and can't see anything, these cars know exactly where they are and where the road is from predictive navigation based on speed, direction, road shape/bumps from previous data that was collected from 1000s of passes before that on that very same road. At first AI cars will probably avoid certain areas that have not been mapped. Each car will signal any unexpected road blocks, data will be sent realtime to a human operator who will script a walkthrough in seconds. Such as "ok, you are legitimately stuck in traffic right now, just wait" or "ok, there is a crashed car ahead of you so the right-turning lane is closed, move into the left lane and you can turn right from here as an exception". There will be humans like ATC in all cases.

Police and emergency services will just coordinate with the "ATC" to pre-script routes differently depending on the situation.
Yeap - a bit of my shoe lace broke just after tying them once on a work morning. I had to run to catch a bus, but instead I stood on my shoe lace mid stride, fell and slid across a petrol station driveway. Spent the bus ride trying not to bleed on the seats and had to apply disinfectant and remove stones from the flesh wound at work.

Anyway it was embarrassing but it taught me a valuable lesson - shoe laces can wear out and break.
The jet engine idea is absurd. Why not build a taller stack that pokes through the inversion layer? Non-trivial to engineer, but guaranteed to work if constructed.

In the end using coal is probably a super bad idea. Hopefully other methods come online soon.
Wait -- is the assertion here that California state tax rates aren't marginal? Because I don't think that's true.
What you mean by a "large issue"?

The holes on the Ozone layer could potentially have a larger impact than any reasonably prediction for Global Warming. But stopping it was relatively much simpler.
5 and 6 seems to be the core ones.

5 because it means that people can upgrade from kernel to kernel with an expectation that things will continue working (higher layers of the Linux "distro" stack would be wise to learn from that).

6 in large part because Torvalds specifically opted to not work for any of those major corporations back in the day, and thus can tell them to get lost when they try to get dumb things into the kernel (like Red Hat trying to get a Microsoft EFI key in there).
New DEA rule says CBD is illegal
This sounds interesting but there are at least some problems to overcome to make it practical.

How does the drone identify apartment 5b from 4c?

Most balconies like that in my area (Omaha) have another balcony on the next floor up in roughly the same size and shape. How reliable are the flight algorithms when dealing with cielings? How does that affect airflow?

What happens when a drone gets the wrong balcony?

What happens when a drone delivery is canceled because of patio furniture, potted plants, incorrect patio dimension from the local record keepers or whatever other problem with a private landing platform?

None of these are insurmountable, they just haven't been surmounted yet.
Alfred does use that structure, and as far as I remember, it always has. I can indeed do <file>, <email to>, <person> in Alfred (though my most common object, verb, indirect object sequence is <file>, <open in>, <app>).
Probably, but I am unsure what part of the regulations they are required to follow. I'm more familiar with human operator/FPV drones, mainly racing quads. Even if they're only flying at 300ft to be safe I still very much doubt you will hear anything. My race quads are pretty loud but in my experiences with larger slower moving ones they can be pretty quiet once a short distance away from you is reached. Mostly attributed to the props being larger, slower spinning, and less aggressive.
APIs as the Engine of Innovation in the Enterprise for CTOs, CIOs, and LOB