skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get coworking spaces for ~$300-500+/month per desk, sometimes more for dedicated space. For a funded startup, I've heard that you should budget ~100+ square feet per employee, and rents in SF are in the $50 (very low) to $100 / square foot/year range.

How much are you paying your engineers? 3% of burn sounds pretty low, but it's not completely out of the range of what I just penciled in here. (I was prepared to disagree... but the numbers aren't crazy on either side.)
This seems to be standard in many Asian countries.
> tl;dr: There are next to no "backwards compatible API changes" in go. You should explicitely name your compatibility-guarantees.

It's not a problem in languages that come with a package manager, or at least promote a specific one to handle dependencies.

It's only a problem in languages where developers thinks "you don't need that". There is this weird belief in the Go community that Go is a miraculous language where good programming practices don't apply because Go magically make them irrelevant. It also stems from the Go team itself, which used to claim that "at Google, we don't need this or that" and then the Go community spreading the "gospel" : "Go doesn't suit you because it wasn't created for you"(?!?).

Hopefully Russ Cox sees that light, he even wrote a paper about "Go zealots" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13356531 ) and how they refuse any change in the language, even when "teams at Google needs it". The irony
Are the two devices running the same model? The article claims the DSP has higher confidence, but I don't see why that would be the case. I suppose one could work at a higher precision but that wouldn't make sense if they're comparing performance.
Exploring Tor with carml
The Tor Project Is Looking for a Communications Director
"but newer ones will brick your blueray reader"

Source? I don't even see how this could be possible.
Opinions can be wrong. These are statements that cannot be wrong, but that's because they are expressions of preference.

Odd preferences, though, to be sure. The preference for some corruption over none, especially, strikes me as one that most do not share.
It doesn't even need to be an all-or-nothing thing. You could have a state law saying something like "All employees are allowed to attend one public policy meeting during working hours each month." Its not a huge expense for business owners, as I assume these meetings don't run more than an hour or two, and while it doesn't allow people to attend every single planning meeting, they can get to the ones which are most likely to affect them.

Or alternatively, just run all the meetings on Saturdays and Sundays. Government is a public service, after all, and could do a bit better at operating to meet the needs of the people.
‘Envelop VR Has Closed’: Virtual Reality Productivity App Shuts Down
I looked at Clojure but the lack of static types and thus losing the benefit of refactoring always put me away. Out of curiosity - how do you safely refactor Clojure code ? Safe Refactoring offered by type safe languages is such a major aid to redesigning code that it has become difficult for me to work in dynamic languages for any large code bases.
Hmm, was thinking something command-line would be easier.
All I want is for everyone who complains on Hacker News about living in San Francisco or in the Bay Area to be able to live wherever their heart desires and keep their jobs. I think that would fix everything. Can we all resolve to make that happen? Please?
How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump
Have you considered replacing the example entirely? A toy program that looks good but is terribly nonperformant is exactly what I'd put up if I wanted to make a Haskell-style language look bad.
It could be the weight distribution inside your bag or the strap might be a little loose? I use a Timbuk2 and don't have the same problem as you. The last one I bought I learned they're only "water resistant" even though I've taken mine in downpouring rain and everything stayed dry.
The second point translates as

- if trump believes X, and you believe X is wrong, how would you change that.

One of the ways is by being in the inner circle.

The issue this misses is that influence is held
By many people, and it's not mutually exclusive. To exert influence on trump, you too will end up being influence and modifying your own stances so that it's possible you can apply force.

But if your position is to extreme (too far out on an axis) in the end the influence you can exert reduces to naught.

For a live example :
There's some Chap who has invested large amount of money to explain to republicans what climate change/pollution mean. His position has now
Morphed to supporting clean coal, in order to adapt to the environment he is in.
This is a stretch. The more likely explanation is that either he misspoke or has very strange priorities. Peter Thiel is someone who has done some pretty impressive stuff. But all his recent moves in politics have been pretty zany. After enough zany behaviors, it might be time to start wondering whether the impressive stuff was the fluke, or whether his skill in that pursuit doesn't translate to other domains.
What kinds of "AI" is likely to be viable to run on a snapdragon 835+682?

Recognizing faces? Voice? Handwriting? Captions for photos? Natural Language queries (like google's AI assistant)? Positioning by recognizing landmarks? Simple autonmous driving (say RC cars)? Flying (quad rotors or rc planes)? Cars?

Or I guess a better question... will this change anything except decrease your need for a good network?
I Tried This CEO's Simple Trick to Managing Hundreds of Emails
Once again, I'm left wondering where (beyond his Facebook investment) Thiel's reputation comes from. This interview is Kabuki intellectualism, at best: grossly exaggerated positions meant to make some larger point ("Peter Thiel is smart?"), but not remotely realistic, or even relevant.

The world is a complex place, and listening uncritically to people who sound smart is a very dangerous impulse. When in doubt, check your priors, and anchor on something objective.
Say hello to DRM. Best i recall they introduced a updated DRM system for BR some years after launch, and to play those discs one need to either firmware update or replace the player.

Never mind that the BR spec has all kinds of weirdness, including things like bundled Java applets(?!).

All in all, its problems like these that keeps us torrenting.
There's a thousand different answers to this.

A simple answer is to keep doing what you did to get your initial users, until that thing doesn't work anymore.
If knowing every detail of something was required for criticising it, writing a massive, incomprehensible document would be an effective way to dismiss any criticism out of hand.
Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD
> able to live wherever their heart desires

This may be SF/Bay for those complaining. They feel they "deserve" for it to be cheaper.
Imagine if news media gets so bad (DNS spoofing etc.) that you need a need private key to verify what is "certifiable news!"
There's been a tremendous amount of work over the last ten years to make the Linux desktop environment habitable.

I thing that this is a misrepresentation of the history of desktop Linux. There was a period at the beginning of the century where Linux was arguably far better positioned to take significant market share. At the time, consumer Windows (98/ME) was dramatically bad. Both in terms of stability and security. OS X just came into existence, but was slow and required expensive hardware.

At the time, Linux was far less fragmented. There were only a few distributions and KDE and GNOME ruled the desktop. There was a very serious push some companies to make Linux easy to install (graphical installers popped up in Red Hat, Corel Linux, Caldera, etc.). You could run Microsoft Office using CrossOver Office with virtually no glitches (I used Office like that for years). Corel released Wordperfect for Linux (which still had significance at the time). Loki was pumping out Linux ports of games like crazy. There was a genuine feeling that Linux was taking off on the desktop and many non-tech family/friends installed Linux.

The problem at the time was that web apps basically didn't exist. So a lot of interested people eventually abandoned the idea to switch to Linux, because they had some win32 application that they needed to run.

In 2017, the Linux distribution landscape is more fragmented than ever and the Linux desktop landscape is more fragmented than ever (heck, even GNOME has three popular forks). Moreover, problems are far harder to debug than they were around 2000, because there are multiple layers of stuff piled on each other (D-Bus, systemd, Debian alternatives, *.d, et al. have blessings and curses).

I think there is some movement from OS X to Linux (though it is hard too tell whether it's not just some vocal minority) for four reasons: 1. people rely less than ever on native applications, so it's much easier to move now; 2. OS X is also Unix, so for OS X users it is quite simple to move OS X to Linux and vice versa; and 3. there are serious worries among OS X users about the future of OS X and Apple's lack of focus; 4. Macs are becoming so expensive that it is hard to justify getting relatively bad specs for 1.5 times the price.
> Office space is usually the 2nd biggest expense for any business, startup or not

Our #2 is definitely AWS, not rent. (We're in Houston)
What a silly comment, complete with the mandatory "it's worse in the US" passage that mysteriously appears in half of the comments to China-related articles on HN.

Yes, the governments owns telcos etc. Yes, they probably have files on people they consider a threat, such as human rights activists. But to think that all that data is accessible in some kind of coherent manner is ridiculous. This is China, where banks cannot even access information between physical branches of the same bank because of its bizarrely inefficient IT infrastructure. The telcos have been trying to enforce the "real-name" policy for SIM cards for months, yet you can still easily buy and use a SIM card on the street.

They definitely need help from an app, because private Chinese tech companies are somewhat competent compared to the government IT sector.

Do you really feel safer in a country where you can get jailed without trial, where you can jailed, deported and banned from re-entry based on a urine test at the whim of some provincial government official that you crossed paths with? In China, the biggest threat is the government.
Which makes sense. First of all, cargo can't know that nothing will use your package. And second of all, it is possible that this will change once someone sees how great package you've built. OTOH it costs you nothing to put a number there and never change it if there is no need.
This Is How Russian Spies Could 'Crack' Telegram
I understand that view but I think that the reality is that for many customers, downtime is worse than a potential security breach. Customers would rather downtime than a definite breach, but the chance of a breach is not always as bad as definite downtime.

I'm not saying that view is necessarily good, but I think it's common. I also think it's quite common that people assume this is the client view and act accordingly.

I definitely think skipping testing with the goal of getting security patches out sooner is a terrible plan except maybe in the case of an active exploit. You can get both frequent patches and high availability.
Peter Thiel is a visionary. His scholarship fund accelerates kids lives into what they're passionate about instead of seeing them waste years in college.

He funds longevity, seasteading, and promotes people being definitive in their goals and working on things no one else is. He also personally funded the hunt for justice against an evil rag hiding behind genuine journalistic protections.

If you're on the wrong side of an issue from Peter Thiel, it's not because he's being reflexively contrarian, it's because he could write a 100 page thoughtful essay on why his position is better than any alternative.

The reason that Peter Thiel seems so contrarian is because so many other people are so cowardly. Shouldn't more billionaires be crushing bastards? Shouldn't more billionaires be funding medical research? Shouldn't more billionaires be publishing books to motivate the masses to create themselves the future that has been only dreamed of for the last few decades?

On the short list of people in this world who are doing a really really great job with what they have, Peter Thiel is at the top of my list.

Now the caveats. Violations of the 4th amendment suck, and if Palantir is part of them, it's not great. Trump is clearly not the best the business world had to offer. Christianity, not so fabulous.

I consider the man a legend and hope to see great things from him.
Seattle, Portland, and Boulder maybe, but I absolutely guarantee New York will never do this.
Emacs is already struggling with a lack of core developers; porting it to a relatively obscure language won't alleviate that. I'd rather people help out with Emacs proper than doing silly stuff like this.

I know Rust fans are passionate, but we don't really need "X, but in Rust" for every value of X.
No. And kindly don't put words in my mouth.

The rule of law and equality before it is a principal I believe in. Some politician being able to arbitrarily decide that the rule of law does not apply to a particular person is a violation of that principal.

Maybe one day you'll see why it matters.
Thiel stands tall for (his own personal) profit. That’s one kind of “something”.
These are property tax returns. Property tax returns come from property prices. Making a neighborhood nicer raises property values, and thus prices.

The article is making the observation that it's much easier and cheaper to improve bad neighborhoods than rich ones. Painting crosswalks and planting trees is cheap, but rich neighborhoods already have those things.
I have a hard time seeing how you could possibly be being honest about this.

Isn't distributing libdvdcss illegal in the US and therefore most distributions don't include it? So, most distributions don't come with full DVD playing capabilities out of the box.
I often wonder what's missing to create and simulate a detailed economic model down to the individual level for and entire country or even the world.

There are only 7 billion people to simulate, that doesn't actually sound like that much anymore.

Obviously one would not simulate every individual with realistic human-like AI, but with a statistical economic model.

How much and what kind of data would one need for this to be useful, for example to predict if a certain new political initiative will actually work?

Or is this already being done? Or is it not needed? Or just still too expensive?
For Mail/Calendar/Contacts/Tasks you should really consider Evolution. I've switched ~2 years ago, and it's amazing. Stable, sleek, and with tons of options.

It has a bad reputation because, back in the day, it was buggy and bloated. But I haven't hit a single bug over these years, and while it eats a significant amount of memory, it's on par with other options (and these days everyone has plenty of RAM).

I'd love to see more people giving it a second chance.
If you're also hosting your data with them though, it's not a complete backup solution. You're still subject to essentially a single point of failure: if they are hacked, or suspend your account, get a DMCA notice against you, or are shut down by the SEC[1], both your live database and backups are subject to loss.

You still need to do external backups. You may have a lot of trust in the provider and these less frequently, but you should still do them.

[1] Had this happen to me once in the early 2000's: company I worked for had a dedicated server at a colo facility. After several days of them not responding to phone/email/etc, their answering machine was changed to a message saying the SEC had seized all assets and had all the owners 'under investigation' or something like that. We had external backups, but immediately took the latest stuff and got everything migrated to a new system in a new facility. Server stayed up for a few weeks after that, but then suddenly their whole IP space went offline. We never did get our server back.
Not even remotely close. I have lived in both Seattle and NYC and the difference in rent cost between the two places makes you feel like you are in totally different countries at dramatically different levels of development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
Qt uses it extensively. For big, complex objects like QTextEdit it's probably the least of your concerns, but they do avoid it for simple value types like QPoint.
The problem with semver is the actual lack of tooling built around semver. Humans aren't robots, a bug fix might actually be a breaking change, without the author noticing it. What to do in that case. Yet semver is better than nothing, all other versioning schemes are not that useful.
That just remaps Control and Super/Meta/Command. I can do that with a bunch of things.

What that doesn't do is decouple terminal shortcuts from GUI shortcuts. It just puts the Control key under my thumb.
I have a TP-Link Archer USB 802.11ac Wifi USB stick. It definitely does not work out of the box. You have to get and compile some driver from GitHub using dkms. After some stable Ubuntu updates Wifi just stopped working.

Never had a problem with macOS Wifi since 10.5.x.
I disagree with almost every assertion you are making, and I'm not sure I have the time or energy to respond anymore. But let me just say this, the individual market pre-ACA had choice, offered real value, was cheaper, had lower deductibles, and had more doctor choice. So if 3x price increase and huge deductibles was somehow still a net in for you, congrats, but it came at a huge price for a lot of other people, and I'll celebrate the upcoming repeal of the ACA.
Not so unpopular...
Squeak kinda does, as it doesn't allow for locals within blocks.

Basically a variable is either shared or local. Locals were usually unimplemented or poorly implemented in the past.

As to sharing variables with functions in a namespace, that's implementation defined. A Smalltalk without a longer history probably doesn't do this,because the author/s are usually familiar with languages that don't.
Peter Thiel finds its easier to be a contrarian because the masses are so wildly wrong about so many things.

Like the value of a college education:
His scholarship fund accelerates kids lives into what they're passionate about instead of seeing them waste years in college.

Medical research: He funds longevity

Governments themselves: Seasteading

Competition: Promoting that people being definitive in
their goals and working on things no one else is.

Crushing bastards: like the evil rag gawker hiding behind genuine journalistic protections.

If you're on the wrong side of an issue from Peter Thiel, it's not because he's being reflexively contrarian, it's because he could write a 100 page thoughtful essay on why his position is better than any alternative.

The reason that Peter Thiel seems so contrarian is because so many other people are so cowardly. Shouldn't more billionaires be crushing bastards? Shouldn't more billionaires be funding medical research? Shouldn't more billionaires be publishing books to motivate the masses to create themselves the future that has been only dreamed of for the last few decades?

On the short list of people in this world who are doing a really really great job with what they have, Peter Thiel is at the top of my list.

Now the caveats. Violations of the 4th amendment suck, and if Palantir is part of them, it's not great. Trump is clearly not the best the business world had to offer. Christianity, not so fabulous.

Peter Thiel is a gay christian republican billionaire philanthropist genius.
I wonder if you could use nmap or something like masscan(https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan) to figure the IP addresses of people using a certain software(say mongodb on port 27017). And then reverse looking up those IPs to figure out which companies they belong to and then you contact the said companies to sell something.
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The sleepy for loop in Go (2015)
How Howard Schultz’s Angel Poised Starbucks for Success
Ask HN: Share your memories of Aaron Swartz
Honestly i feel more restricted now than i did back when i first started...
Looks like most of the use cases you mentioned could benefit from this? About "good network", today's wireless network's peak performance might be enough, but being mobile, you can't guarantee you always have that peak performance. Having a dedicated high performance SoC definitely helps those use cases especially under mobile.
Soon the majority of users/persons on hacker news will be deep learning bots! Are you guys excited?
Emacs has some design decisions that are the result of 20 years of concessions on a ton of different platforms, and some of those are questionable anno 2017.
Emacs' actual codebase definitely isn't bad.
on the other hand, http://www.openscad.org/ is kinda nice...for simple things :)
Command execution on Ansible controller from host
Being able to do all these works on a cell phone, with no network, should be a big gain.
Latency/talking over each other always seems a problem for group voice conversations when you have any real latency. So if 50ms is your speed-of-light network limit, it's tricky.

Perhaps some very very clever voice reordering software could help, not sure. For now text chat works better.
I mentioned single party system, because obviously many people are upset he supported a 'wrong' candidate.

In normal democracy political preferences and votes are private by default. It is different from actual politics, which I agree should be conducted in public.

US is not liberal democracy (at least compared to most countries). I do not see you accepting and supporting a few million refugees/migrants anytime soon, you just want mexicans for a cheap labor. Incarnation rate is abysmal. You do not even have universal voting rights (selective service). And try to masturbate with frozen chicken in supermarket, in many countries you would only get a warning from police ;-)
It's fair to say you and I disagree on a lot. Have you spoken with anyone who's affiliated with the scholarship fund / alternative to college? I have, at length, and walked away unimpressed with the "program". College needs reform, but I don't think he's courageously figured out the problem.

Not sure why you valorize his investment thesis (wouldn't curing third-world diseases be more heroic than solving aging in the first world?). But the Gawker affair does not make me respect him.

If it was so heroic, why wasn't it public from the beginning? I have no love for Gawker, but I do get hives when people use wealth to curtail speech. Especially when those same people stump for a candidate who has spoken out against the press, and suggested that we strengthen our nonexistent federal libel laws to restrict speech further.

So no, there's not much to like about Thiel, not for me, anyway. But we're all entitled to our opinions.
Chelsea Manning Reportedly on President Obama’s “short List” for Commutation
True, but it is archive.org protecting their own work from being shutdown for breaching copyright.

One group has respect for authorship, and one does not.

It may not be the most palatable solution, but hardly a need for a tantrum, and intent to ignore well established rights.
You just typed an awfully large reply to someone being sardonic.
Windows is flat out unusable as a Linux-based developer platform for us.

Actually, I was surprised how well the Windows Subsystem for Linux actually works. Yesterday I even compiled some Ubuntu packages (using C++, Qt, Boost, etc.) and submitted them to my PPA on Launchpad. From Windows!