skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a "senior" position now. But I'm not talking numbers on the internet.

Right now I'm head of R&D.

I can tell you starting engineers on my team make about 10% more than their Bay Area counterparts. That's a deliberate decision backed by our Board.
>Every cent of UBI will be absorbed by housing cost

I think you're wrong about that because UBI frees people to go and live anywhere. They won't be trapped in lousy housing one bus-ride from their McJob anymore. The only way housing would suck up the entire UBI is if everyone were trapped in a California situation where new housing was impossible.
I'm fascinated by this HN discussion! Personally I consider it an excellent hack, but it's good to learn why people think otherwise. (And it's great that the article even describes one of unfortunate side effects.)

I can imagine a MITM product for schools to help here, perhaps not though if everyone is using LTE instead of the school's network.
okay. As a long time DF player, If it is anything like that it will be wonderful!
Shut up, retard
No, it's like you being deathly allergic to shellfish, and me coating your glass with shrimp extract. It's a clear attempt to harm without any concern for potentially injurious or fatal outcomes.
I'm still waiting for the compelling evidence.
I've always wanted to start one, only in side-view instead of top-down, but I'm too lazy and it would take a long time to come close to DF's depth.

I'm thinking of more of a Lemmings-style game with DF mechanics and terrain deformation..
"Maybe that's a good example of how to get right-wing politicians to agree to some left-wing ideals: prove that it will save money and let them lower taxes."

You could make the same case for health care. There are plenty of countries that get good quality health care at a much lower cost for the country but somehow in the US it's impossible to learn from that. I always though the US is a pragmatic country but over the last 15 years I have seen an increase in blind ideology. Things get opposed vigorously out of principle.
Wrong again, retard. Go learn some physics.
Scientists sent a rocket to Mars for less than it cost to make “The Martian”
both!
It's true that cognates in basic vocabulary are very important. But the beauty of the comparative method is that you don't need the know earlier forms in order to infer cognacy (although they can provide further evidence).
That has nothing, and I mean nothing to do with the article, or any discussion regarding it. Why do you keep bringing up that non sequitur?
Let's remove the internet from the equation. So you have a grudge with someone, you know they have epilepsy, so you assault them to trigger one. Is this a crime? Most likely, I know if I had epilepsy I would hope so (and judging from this article I think it is) So why is it ridiculous for assaulting someone on Twitter specifically to trigger a seizure some how ridiculous that it's a crime?
That's poisoning someone.
> More than 40 ppl sent strobes once they found out they could trigger seizures.

I'd like to see you explain how that isn't an intentional attempt to physically harm the journalist in question.

There are dozens of things that fall under the same legal category, such as pranks (often harmless unless they go wrong) that end up physically harming someone, that will properly get you in serious trouble.
Just go with the basics:

1) Here is a massive opportunity

2) Here is the awesome founding team

3) Here is why we will be the ones to win this huge opportunity

4) Here are some proof-points (e.g. customers, product development, etc.) that back us up

YC goes out of its way (like to Vancouver!) to find the best startups in the world. If you can nail those 4 things, it doesn't matter where you're from.
First missile lays down a volcanic ash screen, second missile flies through it to the target.
The 'absence' of petty crime, such as it was, wasn't because due to mass surveillance.
We consider every single application. There is no point in guessing what areas we are interested in. Assume we are interested in every industry and every type of product.
> but most people

PG isn't "most people". He's a super successful guy, so I don't see why you are comparing him to everyone else.

And about him taking a sabbatical: he can do whatever the hell he wants because he can afford to. It's true that many of us can't, but that's just how life is my friend.
Hi! I'm the primary author and maintainer of the library. Thanks for the interjection. The intended application for RaftLib is to make something that will scale, just as you mention. I wrote this post a long time ago when I was just trying to get people interested in using it. It's a simple example that shows you can take many lines of standard parallel code, and write a much easier to read (smaller) version in a very short time that performs just as well or better than the manually managed parallel code.

A long time ago I was a biologist, then bioinformaticist. I wrote some code that would scale to a single node, and to a few dozen cores. In doing so, I realized how much I hated writing the same boilerplate code over and over again. TBB, c++11 threads, OpenMP, and MPI all basically have the same level of boilerplate and gotchas. I wanted to make something that was relatively easy to use and easily integrable with C/C++ code. Go was the only thing that came close, but it was brand new at the time.

It occurred to me while working on the AutoPipe system as a grad student that I could do something even better than a simple coordination language and at the same time subsume the functionality of a lot of parallel libraries. With stream/data-flow processing, I can do the exact same things I can do with OpenMP and MPI, but I can do more. The state encapsulation allows a whole host of cool optimizations, like identifying bottlenecks and duplicating actors dynamically (there's a whole host of reasons we'd be limited in OpenMP, c++11 threads). You can also compile an encapsulated function to another hardware platform entirely, or use high level synthesis tools to go to an FPGA (I'll be going there again soon too with RaftLib). The only thing that has to be constant across optimizations, is the connectivity of the DAG. By maintaining a port interface, just like you would hardware components (see Arvind's work from MIT...he's famous enough I just have to say Arvind :), we can compose really complicated applications. The port interface, it turns out, is also perfect for distributed compute.

Awhile back, I also had the realization that iostreams were perfect for this paradigm. Once you get your head around the concept, it seems quite natural. If it doesn't take off as a library, oh well. I enjoy working on it, and using it so I'll likely keep developing it in my spare time.

In the interim, I'll get back to exascale hardware stuffs :).
I've lived in Miami, Chicago, London, DC, Boston (briefly), and Houston.

I'm now somewhere else entirely, and while I don't want to say, I'll just say you'd find it surprising, because I certainly did. We like it, though, and there is a strong science-based economy with big growth in cloud and data, low crime, a highly educated population, and an amazing metro area.
Sales fell off a cliff?? Are you aware the Wii is the 5th highest selling game system of all time? http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/

I'm not sure what you mean by the hardware is mediocre - are you expecting a desktop class GPU in a tablet form factor? What is your comparison? The Nvidia SOC is quite powerful, and handles 4k output just fine on the Nvidia Shield. I've had no complaints beyond the kickstand and I am loving my Switch so far.
> I really want to understand the human(s) who wrote that. How do these people operate?

Picture a scummy 20 year old college guy who chases what he wants without considering that the other side has no interest.

"Ask first? Why? They want it. Even if they say they don't, subconsciously, they really do. I'm different, once they get it, they'll see."

The narrative in marketing circles focuses "content" and "engagement" and all kinds of gymnastic descriptors that omit the sections of reality where the answer is "no" and stays no regardless of further pleas. That version of reality doesn't make any money, and so there is no incentive to acknowledge it.

Upton Sinclair nailed it:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
If you don't mind dropping a few bucks on Coursera, Tim Roughgarden's algorithms sequence adopted from his Stanford lectures and MOOC are exceptional:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms

Can't recommend enough. The material and instruction are top-notch.
Another GDC17 talk with the other side of the coin: https://deplinenoise.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/webtoolspos...

(Not specifically anything to do with webgl, more about using web tools vs. native for a non-trivial application)
Again just from memory, driving is a lot worse per-time and per-commute, though a small factor better per-distance.
On the other hand, the Thirty Years War caused such destruction that the institutional memory in European nobility lasted 250 years. Total warfare on such scale was only seen again during the Peninsular War.
*From December 2015
> Are there any physicists here who might be able to explain whether or not laser weapons would be effective underwater, e.g., mounted on a submarine for point defense against torpedos?

Not a physicist, but as I understand the optimal wavelengths for underwater use would be substantially different than for use it atmosphere, and with similar output effective ranges will be much shorter, but there is no fundamental reason why you can't have underwater laser weapons.
On the one hand, those are awful horrible people who sent him the gifs, on the other hand I feel like sending someone a gif is protected free speech? I'm very torn.

Also I don't know what app he is using but they don't autoplay for me… So it seems… avoidable.
Nah, what's next is that you will see a friend of yours die because of their allergies to a product that wasn't indicated on the package. Will you spit on the grave, or will you realize that you aren't alone in this world and your apparent absence of triggers doesn't prevent you from being a shithead?

Cheers, and happy St. Patrick.
As long as you're tracking the same metric over time, it's still useful. I haven't studied the data to back this up, but I suspect that it and other unemployment metrics will tend to follow parallel trajectories over time. That's not to say that we can ignore the other metrics—they obviously provide useful information—but it still provides a good year-over-year comparison.

I see two scenarios that could be "shady":
1. The metric calculation is drastically changed (hasn't happened, to my knowledge)
2. The government somehow manages to "tweak" the economy in a way that artificially alters this metric (unlikely)

Regarding unemployment percent: The government doesn't have a lot of direct control over this (though federal spending does provide tons of jobs, obviously), but policy certainly can cause major implications. Health care, banking, and environmental regulations (to name a few) can cause massive shifts in employment.

Come to think of it, I can see a scenario where federal policy could keep the unemployment rate lower relative to other metrics: The Affordable Care Act made it easier for people to get coverage outside of employment. Perhaps this allowed some people to settle for less-than-full-time positions, or to remain unemployed for longer than they would have (perhaps to care for family, or to pursue an entrepreneurial dream, or education...). This could cause the traditional unemployment rate to remain artificially low, compared to before the ACA was implemented. No idea if this is actually true, and one could debate whether it's a good outcome or not, but it's an interesting possibility.
what is your definition of a superstar salesperson for an early-stage post product market fit startup? what differentiates the top 10% of salespeople from the rest?

what resources do you recommend to learn sales if you're young and inexperienced and want to begin your startup sales career?
> Pai is proposing an ambitious program whereby the FCC could expand corporate subsidies for building networks while scaling back regulations that, he said, deter private investment

All hail our corporate overlords. We give you the offer of more money (in the guise of helping consumers of course).
I know that education institutes in Sweden sometimes move students if they consider that the person is continuing disruption the education, through as with all of this, there need to be documentation that they tried multiple methods to correct the situation and still failed. Moving students is seen as a last-attempt.

In the case of Jacob, we don't see any of those actions. No police report or investigation. No claim that he is continuing acting disruptive to the university, nor that they have tried and failed to correct that behavior. Basically no events or documented actions of jacob after the point he left the tor project.
Showing an image designed to induce a seizure in someone with a neurological disorder is not unlike poisoning.

It's so refreshing to finally be on the same page.
Is there any appetite at YC for a non-profit that is pro-Trump and plans on working with the new POTUS to further his agenda?
"Conversely, in 2015 the Navy estimated that a solid-state laser can be fired for less than one dollar per shot"

Amortized over a few million shots.
I was about to recommend this exact video myself! It was a fascinating talk. I highly recommend it! (Watch at 1.25x speed)
Hi There,

Congrats!! I'm from Bangalore and the idea impresses me. Pls. add this to all the bus stops' chai dabbas. People waste a lot of their mobile data in bus stops and in buses. If you can get corporate's buses to pay for decent wifi, you will get 1000 buses in Bangalore for sure.

Good luck!
Ah, you're one of those who think government corruption is what causes collusion and regulatory capture.

Surely the purely perfectly competitive free markets would never collude and lobby the policymakers to create barriers to entry.

I'm going to chalk it up to you never taking anything beyond Economics 101, so it is forgivable and understandable. But do yourself a favor, and try not to embarrass yourself in the future.
I think the best way for a non-profit to succeed in general is to have a business model that doesn't require it to raise money from donors.
These consensus algorithms are awesome! They are the backbones of many highly available systems in modern DC's today. It's how people manage to get any sleep at all when taking care of systems that require very reliable databases.

Raft is a consensus algorithm that is touted as being easy to understand. It is well specified, compared to paxos, which leaves many implementation details up to the creator. Raft, however, is fairly explicitly specified on page 4 of this paper:
https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

Consensus algorithms allow us to build reliable castles out of constantly failing servers (sand). Systems like zookeeper, etcd, chubby, consul, and others use these algorithms to achieve high availability AND strong consistency (linearizability, the strongest possible) despite up to a majority of the cluster failing.
BOTW absolutely does not 'run poorly' or anywhere even close to it. I'm approaching 70 hours with the game and haven't come across a single performance issue.
If that were the case, following the "spirit of the law" would become basically moot and writing legal documents would become significantly more involved.

As a former freelancer, being able to write a simple business agreement and explain good faith to clients was empowering. None of my clients could have afforded to compensate me for hiring a lawyer to write in legalese, and would have been put off at such lengthy contracts despite the relatively straightforward projects.
Mechas will always remain SF. There's just so much that's impractical about them, where do you even begin. Balance is one issue: if you can make it fall over, you've killed it. Speed is another; anything that big will be extremely slow. Another issue is the ground pressure (weight divided by surface area of feet); they would destroy most surfaces (including all roads), and they would easily get stuck this way. Another issue is the huge amounts of fuel and frequent refueligs it would need. Another is the huge cost, which coupled with sluggishness and corresponding permanent proximity to the battlefront makes them a prime target for infiltration and sabotage.

Even something as comparatively small and practical as the Boston Dynamics robots have failed to gain traction; years after even being in actual service for testing with the military, LS3 has been literally shelved because it's just not useful.

One of the funniest battle mecha scenes is from Pacific Rim (which is chock-full of stupidity) where the one mecha is just a crappy missile delivery system. Once it's waded half way out to sea and spent its missiles in about two seconds, it's bloody useless. Why didn't they rather spend the cash on other, more sensible launch platforms that could deliver orders of magnitude more firepower using the same kind of missiles? Or why not just attack the alien things much further away from shore with torpedoes launched from fighter jets? Or why not just launch nuclear-tipped torpedoes down the portal hole? (Well, it would be a boring movie, that's why.)
So basically the government will be responsible for the costs of building the thing, but companies will own the monopoly ? and fiber will have a very long monopoly.

This is the reverse of what will be needed in a possible, high-unemployment future: instead of large bills, we need to aim towards extremely low-cost of living(probably by using community owned fiber in this case).

And in general, creating jobs towards that aim, seems like a decent strategy to transition into that high-unemployment world.
The point I was trying to make is that making an MVP water consulting CRM for a single customer isn't very equitable for me. The amount of money I'd earn for the time invested feels like it'd be less than what I'd likely earn as a consultant for anyone paying an hourly rate.

If I decided to build a CRM for the water consultant market, he brings little to the table for me. What I mean I can find a water consultant that isn't him. If I approached him, pitching on the idea for a CRM that would cost 50% less and be 2x more efficient, he'd likely be open to the idea of at least discussing it. If he said no, I'd simply find a different water consultant to talk to. He if said he'd talk, but only if he got to own after I built it, I'd turn him down.

For him to be a viable non-technical cofounder, he'd need to stop being a water consultant, and start being a cofounder. Those are two separate jobs. He didn't​ want to discuss that. He could bring value, maybe. But he wanted to own the majority of something he couldn't buy or build himself, and he wasn't willing to become a founder. I wasn't interested in doing business like that.

I was once tried being the non-technical cofounder. In the end I decided it was easier to learn how to code, and that path was super hard.
It is a lot of fun, though if you have never travelled before, I recommend you take a few months to soak up the experience and then focus on work.

Most places in Asia are decked out to cater for a comfortable life as a remote worker. Try to avoid advice of others and stay in places that feel good to you, because a digital nomad orgy is not really something that will change your life in any way.

Bad stomach, bad wifi, different culture, etc., after a while it starts to bite.
>You're more than welcome to begin with complementary colors, but they should not be the foundation of your final system.

...that's what this demo does
not at all!
Homelessness is a serious problem in Vancouver. Just walking along granville st., aka "entertainment district" (hard to NOT be snarky here too many awful memories) there's vagabond population along the sidewalk in front of luxury shops.

They commit crimes because they are mentally ill and take drugs. They aggressively pan handle even while leeching off our generous social programs while the middle class can't even find proper homes.

Worse, people support the population by pretending to be generous but in reality self serving their own ego to be perceived as a "nice & empathetic human". Pan handlers know this very well and exploit it. Even getting pissy and whiny when you refuse to give change. It's like they feel entitled to free money and too strung out to even put an effort in it.

I've given money to street performers and people hustling. These homeless population in Vancouver are mostly drug addicts and broken humans who are unable to help themselves. They will buy drugs with the money you give them with high certainty.

It's seriously putting inconvenience to the rest of the city and you are absolutely right that the rest of Canada's homeless population are given a one way greyhound ticket to Vancouver.

I refuse to pay taxes towards people who have no desire to change their situation and instead feel entitled and constantly leeching off the backs of hard working folks who are also struggling.

When the housing market collapses in Vancouver, the city is going to have a tough time forcefully relocating the homeless population.
Did you really? The fifth paragraph defines it:

"The chronically homeless, on the other hand, are a subset of the homeless population that is often the most vulnerable. These are people who have been living on the streets for more than a year, or four times in the past three years, and who have a "disabling condition" that might include serious mental illness, an addiction or a physical disability or illness."
This thread is in the context of a major economic downturn. Many @ 65 are not set up as defensively to survive one.

Counters to your example would be modern day Detroit, modern day Greece, and the Weimar Republic.
That's actually one of the sad things about the internet, it can instantly bring out the worst in people. I suspect if people know seizures can result in death fewer would have done it, but there would still have been people doing it. I wouldn't mind if they arrested all 40, gave them a day in jail so they could think about their actions, and also let the world know there are consequences for it.
Well... no. If you could say a magic word that induced a seizure, you would be prohibited from saying that too.
Don't tell me what to do, shithead.
Also shipping your homeless and/or mentally ill to CA.
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Well I didn't really have a point to be made, just a general informational statement.

However, claiming that I'm violating your trust if you send me an email is a bit of a strong statement, don't you think.
Python for Big Data in One Picture
I'm still waiting for Chromium to add a per-site switch for WebGL (just like for JS, cookies, Flash, etc). Enabling WebGL globally seems like a disaster waiting to happen, even with sanitisation and sandboxing.
The end result of this new system: government agents will be able to more readily query other government agencies about foreign citizens. This seems... reasonable?

> "that allows ICE agents, including those in the agency’s primary deportation force, the Enforcement and Removal Office, to query information across several large government databases simultaneously"

But Peter Thiel, the new boogeyman, is involved, so this is somehow supposed to be worrisome news.
I did, in fact I've vastly improved my salary by leaving the Bay Area.

I can tell you my team just hired a bunch of new engineers and we mad offers 10% above Bay Area offers very much on purpose.
I think there are a number of words that "trigger" certain people, and it's well within my legal rights to say them.
"PG! Why is this post still up? The sheep must be kept in the dark! You will be terminated!"

-Peter Thiel