skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the very article you've linked to:

“Rapidly rising migrant wages in cities and shortages of low-skilled labor suggest that fewer people than before — and fewer than warranted on economic grounds — choose to leave the countryside to move to the city.”

And, from the same article:

"Becoming a migrant was a matter of necessity for her and her husband as they attempted to save their family from a crushing debt. She is now materially wealthier than she could ever be from working her family’s tiny plot of land. But the things she has lost, including her marriage and the chance to watch her two daughters (now aged 14 and 21) grow into young women, make it hard to convince herself she made the right choice. For her and her family, the things they held most precious have been destroyed in the process of trying to save them".

It's easy to be lured by BS promises of wealth and consumerism and life in the "big city" and many did. But even the article you've posted argues that the trend is reversing...
taking action is different from just blaming and talking
Took a trip to the Provence region last summer and a bookstore in a small town called Banon caught my attention. Anyone visiting the region should stop by Banon and visit this bookstore. I don't think all of San Francisco has a bookstore of this quality.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g2359785-d3930...
What proofs?

Axiom of Choice cannot matter to humanity in concrete ways (except as an artistic activity), because the Axiom of Choice only applies to uncountably-large sets, which have no realizable physical meaning in the Universe.
Sports!!! All I need and care about for my $160 a month Xfinity cable bill is Sports. Unfortunately sports takes places on various channels (ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, CBS, CBS Sports, TNT, TBS, TruTV).
Yup! I've tried this solution myself but just found it incredibly hacky and un-intuitive. I hope the nicer UX (hotkeys!) allows for a better experience. In the future I hope to plan to have better syncing (cloud, sync into a traditional bookmark for mobile use), x-platform, share w/ others, tighter omnibar integration, etc. But you're right that there are reasonable solutions out there currently, but I hope Shortlink provides a lower barrier to entry and less configurations to fuss over.

As for Firefox, I'm not really a user myself, I've just tried it real quick and it seems like you have to type quite a bit to get the omnibar(?) to prioritize the bookmark result over the other autocompletes, as for shortlink you can type m/[shortlink] and be guaranteed to hop over to the site you saved. Good food for thought though!
1. Move the office to a city other than San Francisco where the costs of living aren't exorbitantly high. Plenty of other cities that have lower costs of living and would offer tax breaks for a company like Twitter. Allow employees to remotely work if they want.

2. Reduce salaries and lay some people off. Having seen how many people work for Twitter and how big their office is on Market street, some people need to go. Realise this wouldn't be popular, but Twitter is spending way too much cash.

3. Reduce the size of the ridiculous buffet they have for lunches, make it a fixed menu with 3 or 4 meals to prevent food waste. Get rid of the free alcohol and soft drink they seem to offer.

4. Actually, embrace developers, make the API limits more generous and allow developers to build cool things like the early days of Twitter.

5. Raise the character limit (even make this a premium feature, double it to 280 characters).

6. Get rid of Jack as CEO, it's not working. Twitter is losing money, they're not innovating and they keep focusing on things like video which most don't care for.

7. Focus on the core product and get rid of the Google-like dream products.

The way I see it, Twitter isn't a complicated idea. It's somewhat predictable size text strings being shown in a feed. Twitter is the kind of app you clone when you're learning a framework like Ruby on Rails, it's not a complicated idea from a technical standpoint. There is no reason to be spending two-billion per year.
Ask HN: What stock are you investing in right now and why?
Yes and no. In practice JavaScript was sometimes the thing that detected if Java was present and kicked off a Java applet. It also handled roll-overs before CSS was a thing, doing mundane stuff by comparison to what a full Java app could do. It was intended to be complementary.
And then along comes a 10x programmer who realizes that you can avoid the lookup entirely if you partition your data along this other axis. Latency goes negative and your company makes a few more brazillions off time travel. But the 10x programmer is a misogynistic asshole who can't balance a binary tree on a whiteboard. Now I have no idea which completely fictional character to hire.
Debates don't have to happen on the original website. We have debates about all sorts of web pages on Hacker News (and Reddit, and Twitter, and so on), and it works out fine. Everyone knows how this works.

Authors can moderate what appears on the same web page (their own site's comments, if any) but not what appears in other places (Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, and so on).

Putting comments from a different community on the same page as the original article is a mashup of sorts; you're mixing content from different places. This can create confusion.

It seems like if such mashups exist, they should have their own URL? Suppose that when following a link from Hacker News, you get a web page with Hacker News annotations.

What URL should that be? Maybe it should go on ycombinator.com, sort of like when you embed a YouTube video.
Please use the original title.
Here is one success story:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/guest-post-mult...
"City leaders had poured money into a high-concept modernistic new culture center at the town’s edge. And the shopping mall had been built. Large grocery chains, called hypermarkets, had also been constructed outside the city, with free parking. It is not that Albi no longer had commerce, or activity. But the essence of the ancient city was being lost."

Then maybe, they should not have done that. Manhattan Kansas gutted itself the same way.
I just googled Paxos and I still can't implement it. =(
Yes, yes, subjective experience.

Did you notice the constraint:

> we generally don't particularly care about what they have to say anymore.

It's a human perspective way of saying it's not relevant to much the active work, but it still is being worked.
Think about it this way. Netflix wanted to separate their DVD and streaming into separate companies, so there would be different websites for each. Consumers complained about that so much that they changed their mind and stayed with one. If Google/YouTube started with a single product and broken it out like it is now, people I think would rightly complain.

I think the most egregious thing is music, rather than YouTube Red or this service itself. There's Google Play where you can buy music, Google Play Music where you can subscribe like Spotify, and YouTube Red also includes unlimited music on top of the shows on Red but is somehow different than Google Play Music. I guess what I would suggest if I had any say in things is just killing the Google Play Music and Google Play Movie/TV brands, and moving the content to YouTube and maybe integrating YouTube into the Google Play app on phones. YouTube already has movies, so it would just be a matter of making the music and live streaming part of it more visible on the home page. I don't see any links to them on my front page.
Until JavaScript offers a robust concurrency abstraction, I don't see it completely replacing anything that is used for that purpose.
>in the dense walkable cities no one wants for themselves

Well, that's like, your opinion, man.

Millions living in NY and other "dense" cities would like to disagree.
I work in the healthcare industry and there's a big push from AWS into offering HIPAA compliant services for things like patient records. It's becoming much more common to tie in third party services into electronic healthcare software. Obviously no mission critical system should have a single point of failure and doctor's offices should have fallback plans for handling service outages, but most care providers don't have staff onsite with the technical expertise to understand the extent of the coupling. I'm just closely watching this space and found that tweet interesting in relation to the parent comment's remark about realizing the scope of this S3 outage. There's no blame unique to AWS here, but it is becoming an increasingly important piece of plumbing in the industry.
Developer’s Guide "This page provides step-by-step instructions to compile a simple program directly to WebAssembly."

http://webassembly.org/getting-started/developers-guide/
This is one aspect of why the DOS/Windows ecosystem swamped away the old software industry. People who worked before windows don't seem to grasp this simple fact.

Tons of variations : Why wasn't UNIX used ? Why did dBase beat all the minicomputer and mainframe solutions ? Why weren't the free C compilers used by hobbyist programmers ? Why did nobody run X11 ?

The answer is this : because doing that cost unreasonable amounts of money.

Either they did so directly, or because necessary hardware cost boatloads. And that happened because of 2 effects : either because it only ran on one kind of architecture that was really, really expensive, or because it required ridiculous amounts of resources.
That's why i'm a strong advocate of universal income. It would be a first step to completely rethink the urbanization of the country. If you don't need to live in Paris to have a job, then you can go repopulate a beautiful town like Albi !
> Let's talk about that.

Sorry, doesn't fit in a two week sprint.
Ask HN: Preferred font-size on mobile devices for long reads?
Do you have a preference? Sans- or serif?
> To what extent are companies using whiteboards to test who is serious about getting the job? And who is willing to put in extra time and occasionally do unpleasant extra work?

But it doesn't say anything about who's serious about getting that specific job, if every tech company does the same kind of whiteboard interviews.
I seriously can't wait for a Flash in JavaScript so that all those old Flash games don't get shuttled off to the dustbin of history, never to be enjoyed again.

I do not want to ever have to update Flash again. Ever.
Index funds. VTSAX.
Opinion: Herbalife vs. Ackman, four years later
Meanwhile, I am very happy with youtube.com/tv on my TV. No worldwide availability is ridiculous these days.
Cheap for employers is what i'm hearing, but isn't really an incentive for an employee..
In a different world, Twitter would be headquartered in Brisbane:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2011/01/twitter...

https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/13/twitter-considers-moving-i...
I'm sure that won't be a PR disaster when news/blogs/twitter find situations where Google Maps suggests to avoid certain neighborhoods, statistics be damned.
He's only saying "bullshit" to the guys claim they were originally making $20/mile... Sounds like from info you posted that both the $20 and the $2.75 per mile claim are completely wrong.

Kamel: “We started with $20.”

Kalanick: “Bullshit.”

Kamel: “We started with $20. How much is the mile now, $2.75?”
Not even sure what you're going for here.

Untold millions have lived in big cities since the time of Babylon and earlier.
This reminds me of my mathematics university professor friend who thought he was a year younger because he couldn't correctly subtract his birth year from the current year.

Why would he? He's a mathematician, not an accountant.
Maybe, maybe not. Nobody knows. All speculation.
"Currently has a 16 link limit, want more? Premium will be coming soon!"

Mmmh - but why? Surely make the limit appear when you actually have PREMIUM not before?
I've never been a twitter user myself, but every now and then I end up following a link to a Twitter discussion, only to bounce right off again because I can't figure out what's supposed to be happening. Who is saying what to whom, in what order, in response to what? I can't tell. I imagine that there must be some context-literacy I don't have, which regular Twitter users somehow pick up on; or, possibly, Twitter only makes sense if you're following the stream of posts in real time.
Yay! Nothing improved for me as a consumer, but total control of the app by Microsoft (it runs on their website and I don't even own my own copy) and slower speed (because of the extra VM and sandbox).

Can't wait!
I guess I'd characterize it like Henry Ford inventing the Model T. He was not the first man to make an automobile by any means, but he invented the auto industry. I've used pre iPhone smartphones, and there is a reason they're all dead now and Apple is rich beyond imagination.

You don't have to do it first if everybody before you couldn't close the deal.
> a human designed the bot that pulled the trigger.

And a human designed the insecure code on IE. That programmer isn't "absolved of the ramifications" of exposing their user base to god-knows-what kind of malware/ransomware.
As you may know, many mathematicians turned philosophers while trying to do work on the foundations of mathematics. It seems like logic was the gateway discipline. What we now know as the analytic turn in philosophy of early 20th century came from such as lineage before it devolved into philosophy of language. Frege, Russel, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein are well known in this line of thought. However, the history of philosophy and mathematics goes way back to pre-socratic philosophers like Pythagoras and centuries later Aquinas and then Descartes. The question posed is rather strange given that mathematical development has often been formed by philosophical thought. I guess by clarifying the author means providing solutions (since he/she mentions that "mathematical insight" is nowhere to be found in the literature)? Since philosophy is not the same as doing mathematics the only kinds of clarification that philosophy will provide is in terms of distinctions, definitions and criteria: what is a proof, etc. This is because 'philosophy of x' is always meta discipline.
Except the CEO works for the board whose goal is to keep the company profitable so it can continue to exist.

If you are upset about pay, you go to your manager or in the case of Kamel, you go work for a competitor Lyft. You have every right to voice your complaints but don't be surprised when they fall on deaf ears.
I have a component in my business that writes about 9 million objects a month to Amazon S3. But, to leverage efficiencies in dropping storage costs for those objects I created an identical archiving architecture on Google Cloud.

It took me about 15 minutes to spin up the instances on Google Cloud that archive these objects and upload them to Google Storage. While we didn't have access to any of our existing uploaded objects on S3 during the outage, I was able to mitigate not having the ability to store any future ongoing objects. (our workload is much more geared towards being very very write heavy for these objects)

It it turns out this cost leveraging architecture works quite well as a disaster recovery architecture.
Financiers Fight Over the American Dream
If I listen closely, I think I can hear the pagers going off in South Lake Union from Downtown Seattle.
TDD the RITE Way
I think his point was being able to watch them without using a TV and antenna.

I don't see why you would pay $35 a month though when you could get something like an HDHomerun and plug an antenna up to it. Or use an antenna, digital tuner and capture card and wire up your own solution.

The only advantage I see of YTTV is ESPN, so for some people that is probably enough to justify it.
My guess is they're asking for a zip code to see in which areas there's enough demand to negotiate with local news stations. I know a few people that only keep cable because of the local news stations.
https://whattomine.com/

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=calc

Interestingly, these don't agree.
I don't see how the analogy fits. Are people being forced to buy Ferraris?

Most people would want the Ferrari, or a similarly expensive car in a different style (Rolls Royce, Tesla, whatever). In fact, both. But they can afford neither.

Most people would also like a home in the city centre, or one in a village in the countryside, mountains or on the coast. Or both. Who would choose suburbia? It's a compromise, and in every respect the city centre or the village is better.
It's an interesting question

However while there are no physical realizations of infinite sets, they're used all the time in math

So I guess mathematical entities do not need to be connected to physical elements
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.6574.pdf
Did you read the article? It's not about being a PE, it's about being an actual software engineer and getting told to "check if a binary search tree is balanced" to prove it.
>The old ones still exist, but we generally don't particularly care about what they have to say anymore.

Who is "we"? Americans? Because continental europeans very much care.
It's not the number of customers that really matters but the value per customer. It just happens that if you fix the total revenue for comparison, they're inversely proportional.
Use Python to Describe Electrical Connections, Export Netlist for PCB Design
I prefer a largish font (6-9 words per line or so), and sans-serif (mostly because I find it harder to read serif fonts on screens than Sans-serif), when I read during my commutes
Whether or not they have it saved, they still have to spend it.
How do you know it's not just on your end?
There are several SDL2 Emscripten examples for compiling to ASM.js. You would follow the same process, except just direct Emscripten to generate WebAssembly using a "vanilla" LLVM's WebAssembly backend [1]. You will probably first need to compile LLVM yourself with WebAssembly experimental target enabled, as explained in the link.

[1] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/New-WebAssembly-B...
http://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994egalitari...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnPGJnOhDY
Got excited and thought it might be Brisbane, AU.
Vastly. People who develop sharepoint tend business focused people or ex IT people.

People who develop in MVC tend to be developers.
Is cocoapods down?
Hah, there's a good point there. Though I'd think there's a balance to be had: places like Albi, France, which has ~50000 people, may not require the skyrocketing living costs that our modern global megacities demand.
>Why does it never need to re-optimise the JITed code? I know WebAssembly and asm.js are more static than JS, but even very static languages like C benefit from speculative optimisations which may need to be reversed.

Because its marginal returns?
Here are our main issues with Lambda, from highest-to-lowest priority:

- It supports Python 2.7 only. We need Python 3.4+ support.

- We can't increase CPU allocation without increasing RAM allocation, making them far more expensive than we need.

- Using psycopg2 on it is a PITA due to their handling of system dependencies.

- The system is entirely proprietary, making it impossible to run it locally for testing.

- Cloudwatch sucks for finding errors in the functions and is atrociously expensive.

- API gateway is an extremely crufty system, and used not to let you pass around binary data (this has changed)

- We can't disable/change the retry-on-error policy.

We have a pretty hard tie-in to S3 and Redshift, but when GCF can do better on a majority of these points, we'll begin moving to it. But yes, Python 3 at a minimum would be a requirement.
Do they really spend $2B per year? That's just mind boggling.
Why not? They're tools, not fashion items. If you dig a bit deeper you'll find an entire category of people writing software using powerful, mature tools. The reason it's not as commercially feasible is that most problems are not really that difficult any more. And since the software won't break every three months because of moving targets, no one will call for your help once it's in place.
Nope. I think when people want to design stuff with a $5 computer, a $40 ($30 in bulk) module probably won't cut it. The difference is too great.
But even so, what's the point in pretending that fares aren't going down?
I think a lot of the confusion about how hiring is done or should be done stems from not clearly identifying a goal. For a company on the sale of Google a generalized process makes sense and they have, implicitly, data to back this up. But for everyone else there's just too much subjectivity to have in place a canonical job process. Not to mention the impracticality of using, say, the secretary problem. Having said that, using CTCI or some other book for example to source questions from can be the proxy for problem solving if an interviewer can frame the problem in the form of steps that one needs to flesh out a solution. In that context not having someone google for information makes complete sense and its really easy to use as a filter.
Except that my experience is interviewers (in general) prefer to discuss abstract math puzzles they clearly looked up in a book themselves to exploring a relevant question I propose from their actual business domain.

I don't mind "how would you implement this basic server idea" or even "talk me through how you'd explore this algorithm puzzle", but I've definitely been docked for not having $OBSCURE_INSIGHT to $RANDOM_PUZZLE in 15 minutes, nevermind that I can usually get them sometime that evening when not standing at a whiteboard being interrupted when I pause narrating for 15 seconds to think, which is an appropriate timeline for any actual algorithms work. (I mean, I can count how many times in my career solving a math puzzle couldn't wait a single day: 0.)

Of course, I suspect some of those interviews are designed to fail you as part of H1B scams.
I think it's a fair disclosure of potential bias.
Phil. of mind and neuroscience has different subject of study, in most cases, beyond the basics, they can just ignore each other. I think you might have a very bad misunderstanding of what philosophy is.
Seems like a pretty steep price to watch network television. As a cord-cutter, I think its a great idea because you can't get the networks with SlingTV, and TV antennas suck. But yeah, I'm not going to pay $35 for network television. I'll just keep using my shitty antenna.
How can you get exposure to cool people solving cool problems?
Right now I am at a stage in my career/life where anything goes. I like everything - sales, engineering, testing. I am interested in many industries - robotics, solar/energy, AI, Drones, new ISP solutions, bitcoin/cryptocurrencies. Im not terrific at anything, but Im good at a lot of stuff.

In my search for something to do with my life, I am prioritizing only this: I want to meet as many interesting smart people as possible and get exposure to as many interesting new startup ideas or solutions as possible. Currently my startup ideas are all terrible! A lot of them just don't feel that important, probably because I don't have the life experience to have seen the world and what it could be, where its failing and where I can help. How can I get this experience? I really have no idea where to start. ANY answer will be really appreciated. If any of you need help with anything from me, I am very willing to offer my services!
Google Cloud is the Betamax of cloud... while it might be technically superior it's not the only factor to consider. :)
AT&T's version of this, which coincidentally also costs $35/mo includes all the ads.