skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I've always been non-plussed at Twitter's valuation, given the lack of a clear monetization scheme, but then so many early unicorns were the same - eyeballs were the primary goal, with vague assumptions that revenue will automatically follow.

And I agree that if you had to pay (I'd go for a dollar a month) to tweet, it would cure many of Twitter's ills. Bots, scams and fake news would pretty much disappear overnight.
I haven't used any of these, but my understanding is that Agda and Coq are not Turing-complete, nor is Idris with the totality checker on. Never seen anyone dispute these being referred to as "languages."
Agreed. And with Git and pull requests, it seems that code reviews are part of every programmers daily routine.
They still teach COBOL and RPG at my old tech school. Went through the class and the tech behind the old mainframes are actually pretty neat. multi CPU processing, dynamically choosing which resources to use, easily transferring work to other machines and how everything works together so tightly. Just a lot of concepts that are getting 'rediscovered' instead of just looking at systems older than me (properly the same feelings that the people who learn lisp go through). They also put us through the normal java/visual basic hazing as well.

Though I ended up in electrical engineering.
The city of SF is half as dense as Brooklyn and there are a lot of empty lots here. There is a lot more room for development. The problem is that the current political situation makes it easy for people to block new housing.

This is quite an oversimplification, on multiple fronts.

For one, the reason Brooklyn has higher density has far more to do with historical building patterns than the current political situation, by any calculation for example. In Brooklyn, already by the 1930s, they built multistory housing throughout a much greater portion of available lots than they ever did in SF, for example. And then came the all the massive, federally subsidized housing projects in the 40s-70s (again, at a much greater scale than in SF).

The current political situation may not be helping much (from a growth perspective) -- but that's the just the current velocity you're talking about, not the starting point (i.e. the vastly greater stock of historical housing in Brooklyn over SF).

I showed up last Thursday and one city resident said we should not build housing [at the Baylands site] because an earthquake may cause the buildings to fall over.

Sounds like you're trying to paint this person as some kind of nervous nellie (or just another kneejerk NIMBYist). And yet it's easy to verify[1] that the lot you're referring to lies in a high-susceptibility liquefaction zone. So his concerns don't sound misplaced at all.

So again (and again, and again with these debates): Yes, NIMBYists exist, and the political situation isn't very particularly fun and often feels counterproductive, etc. But these aren't the root causes of the problem. Building (at scale) in mature, established cities is just, well, "complicated". And building in cities with a wealth of historic (and never, ever to be rebuilt) historic architecture -- which also just so happen to straddle one of the most dangerous fault lines on the planet -- even more so.

This really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

[1] http://gis.abag.ca.gov/website/Hazards/?hlyr=liqSusceptibili...
Note that this is part of a series ... Vault from Hashicorp is scheduled for next week ;-)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14083529 and marked it off-topic. (It's still a fair point of course.)
"Full" is a really meaningless term. It would be pretty easy for rents to rise a further 20%.

I am just pointing out that tech workers are generally apathetic about the housing supply and the local politics, because we can outbid everyone.

At some point the high prices will become a problem for the tech industry as a whole. It's already a problem for me.

I also want to point out that we have agency in this situation; we can lobby for SF supervisors and city council members and state senators that will implement more pro-housing legislation, and we can show up to the meetings where new housing gets denied and lobby for it.
Wow nice anecdotal evidence. You sure just changed my mind! I knew those environmental scientists were full of shit with their rigid studies and methodological collection of samples. There's no way they could have studied the coral reef as thoroughly as you have. Any other rapidly accelerating environmental destruction I should pretend doesn't exist while I'm at it?
No, it's just sections defined by <> looking things and then key, complex value pairs
For the most part I completely agree. However, while it might seem reasonable to presume the brain is generating consciousness, it remains a presumption - and an ill-defined one, at that.
My kids school had a career night where parents from all sorts of different jobs came to answer kid's questions. I was the IT rep and I thought I would be inundated with kids all night. Well, I had 3 kids. 2 were definitely geeks and one was a smart kid who said he would try other jobs before he would think about IT.

I couldn't understand it. Here we have an industry that is full of billionaires and success stories and yet only 3 were interested. I thought maybe they felt is was too boring just staring at a screen all day. Maybe they didn't understand how pervasive software is and how it basically drives everything. Or maybe they have a different definition of happiness which programming seemingly won't give them.
The people at the top of that list are in executive positions... In the most expensive metro area in the country.

Middle managers in valley firms make more.
We (ReactiveOps.com) use kops: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops

It works well with Ubuntu and we are working on CoreOS (although no promises it gets merged back into core).

Kops can do upgrades although historically it was safer/easier to stand up another cluster alongside and migrate.

Happy to help if you have any questions - Matt [at] reactiveops.com.
My son didn't have a high enough ACT score to get into the college he wanted to go to. We paid $100 an hour for 13 one on one test prep tutorials with college professors and MBA grads and he got in. There are plenty of parents who couldn't afford that whose kids are just as smart.

I did well on the SAT (the very top scorer in my class), but how much of that was due to natural gifts, and how much of that was due to having a parent who was both a high school math teacher and someone who spent years tutoring and administering the SAT?
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What does "computation power of the brain mean"? The brain does not operate similar to a computer; how can you make comparisons?
> Sounds like you're trying to paint this guy as some kind of nervous nellie (or just another kneejerk NIMBYist). And yet it's easy to verify[1] that the lot you're referring to lies in a high-susceptibility liquefaction zone. So his concerns don't sound misplaced at all.

The resident in question was a woman.

I agree that liquefaction is a potential problem. But the developer is also aware of the problem and has a vested interest in ensuring that the condos they sell don't fall into the ground; I'm pretty sure that they won't sell condos that will fall into the ground.

> Building (at scale) in mature, established cities is just, well, "complicated".

Buildings on the East Coast are much older than San Francisco and yet they get referred for additional review much more rarely than San Francisco; in general it's much easier to build a new project as long as it fits the zoning guidelines. They also are not subject to CEQA lawsuits.
The problem is technical debt. Banks didn't realize they were software houses, they thought that IT was a tool.
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Those are the algebraic numbers.
I would have just dropped "tech".
Yeah, well, that's based on a fallacy. You're assuming that there's a single scale and being more "skilled" on that scale means you should get hired.

But that's not necessarily what interviewing is all about. Type-level programming is cool but wildly inappropriate for most jobs - that's part of the humor.

You are not your job, or your resume, or your ability to pass an interview. There are all sorts of ways people can be elite that are mostly orthogonal to a particular job.
That's not what I mean. Which ISOs are out there that can replace Stripe?

I've looked and the only thing I've found are guides on how to become one rather than ISOs that are offering their services.
Yeah, $100 an hour for contract COBOL expertise sounds very low, but maybe I underestimate the number of COBOL people still around.
lol I would 1000% go to SF or NYC on expenses! Awesome places to have lots of fun; it's even more fun when it's paid for
I have been there, I know what you are going through.
What works for me: physical activity (running in my case), meditation, and rational emotive behavior therapy (look into Albert Ellis).
A psychologist could help. And if all else fails, see a doctor.
But my most important advice? Don't delay, and seek help.
I can think of quite a lot of forms of debt that don't require violence unless you define violence very differently from the dictionary "behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something."

You borrow £20 from your friends, if you don't pay there is moaning but not usually more. You borrow £100k for a mortgage and don't pay and they may change the locks and put someone else in your house but don't usually hit you.

The United violence has nothing to do with debt.
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> Until you have an idea of where to put that additional 200% of our current population, yes, SF is full.

At the margin, there's a lot that could be done - density bonuses, putting teeth into the Housing Accountability Act (SB 167), approving 4400 units in the Baylands, upzoning along transit corridors, approving ADU's (granny units).

Developers have lots of ideas about where to put people but are generally blocked by NIMBY's at every turn.

You can call your supervisor about all of this.
We considered keeping all the charts together in one repo. But it's just simpler for developers.

I can't say I'm thrilled to put deployment-specific values in the repo. Maybe the solution is to keep the chart itself, with its defaults, in the repo, and then have a configmap or third-party resource in Kubernetes that contains the values. To deploy anything, you use the Kubernetes API to find the app's values and merge them into the template.

I wouldn't be surprised if one day Kubernetes might support that kind of templating. I also wonder what kind of system Google uses internally. They have been rather silent about offering good advice here.
Well, my perceived alternative is now "never fly on United again". Not that it'll make much difference, since I was already avoiding them.
Agreed Dallas is amazing especially with a NYC salary
[puts on VMware hat].

VMware's virtualization software (ESXi, Workstation, Fusion) has the concept of "CPUID masks", which can be used to mask off features to the guest from the host's CPU for this kind of work. Since it is a very advanced concept, we didn't expose it in the UI for Workstation or Fusion, but the VMX shipped with both products should support it as far as I know (I don't think we've ever disabled that feature for a product anyhow). If you dig into the menus you can set the flag values on ESXi, as sometimes for fleets we have admins that want to normalize their CPU flags across all of their virtual hardware (I believe this was very popular when the NX-bit was new).

However, you're not at a lost for the desktop products. Editing the [vm-name].vmx file and adding the lines to control the cpuid registers is a pretty simple endeavor; the lines are formatted 'cpuid.<cpuid-in>.<GPR> = "value"', and value should contain the mask for the whole 32-bit register, with a dash '-' for no special processing of this flag, "h" for using the host's setting of this flag, '0' for explicit disabling the flag, or '1' for explicit enabling the flag. For example:

cpuid.7.ebx = "--------------------0-----------"

disables the (if I counted correctly) 20th bit from the return of CPUID in the ebx register when CPUID is passed in '7' as a parameter to eax, which should correspond to disabling the SMAP CPUID flag.

(The VMX file is a bit non-obvious to get to on macOS, as we use 'packages' to make VMs nicer to handle, but simply right clicking the package and selecting "show package contents" should reveal the VMX file.)

[takes off VMware hat].
Not hard, actually. Suppose you are 25 years old, today. You run your own little software consultancy business, and average $200,000 a year in revenue (before inflation), in perpetuity.

You max your IRA every year ($5500 tax advantaged). You also have a Solo 401K, in which for Tax Year 2017 you can contribute up to $18,000 a year as an employee and a total (including employer -- your business -- contributions) of $54,000 tax-advantaged dollars. We'll ignore "catch up contributions" and the fact these limits increase over time, and make this a round $60,000/year.

Let's assume that, after expenses, averages a 4.75% return over 40 years. Conservative, but let's roll with it. Based on the calculator the SSA provides, your monthly SS benefit is ~$6500 at age 65.

After 40 years, you have ~$6.75M in your tax advantaged accounts. With a conservative withdrawal rate to keep your lifestyle the same, you can have ~$220K in retirement income a year (in today's money before taxes taken into account) w/ SS. However, the problem with that is you'd never draw it down. Even if you adjusted it for inflation, you'd die long before depleting your savings.
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Very simple points, but important ones. I agree.
More like: "Non-living things don't move. The bus moves. Therefore, the bus is alive."

This is false because there exist things that are non-living but move.

Similarly, the original "not alive" => "doesn't need resources" argument is false because there exist things that are not alive that do need resources (such as buses), and so needing resources does not imply being alive.
$300k list or $300k all in?

Either way, consider that between buying costs, potential upkeep, selling costs, property taxes and capital gains taxes, you probably would not have made out with very much.
This is true in France, but the practice of doing so is decreasing and considered "old fashioned" especially after CWD.
Well, before Brexit anyway...
Most affilite programs forbid this, but you can find that some clueless program runners allow it... usually because of site owners who are too cheap and clueless to bid on their own keywords anyway.
That is quickly changing given how Plano is blowing the fuck up
It's certainly not just banks, very much utilities too. putting off investments in core IT capabilities has become the norm and when you've dug a hole this deep, might as well keep on digging!!
And then we come full circle back to heavy wizardry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(programming)#Variants
I think it's clear that the article is satire.

It obviously draws on some commonly identifiable tech interview tropes, and that's what gives it its comedic value, but I don't it intends to say that the way the witch deals with those interviews is the model way.
In NY, "NY" means "NYC"...
Wow, nice tip! Thanks!
But not HN?
Exactly. What could we do differently with a lot of platinum? What could we use platinum for instead of say, gold or silver or titanium?
You can charge that much to hack on Wordpress in the US
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I...no, that's an issue with parenting, not the store.

The earlier your kids learn about delayed gratification, not always getting what they want, not throwing tantrums, and not paying too much attention to advertising, the better.

You're just saving up bigger problems.

Edit: My parents went through a hippy phase when I and my brother were growing up; we went vegetarian, and we were not allowed refined sugar, caffeine, etc. What treats we did get were all organic, wholewheat, honey sweetened, carob flavored, etc. Quite horrible, honestly.

And while the rules were silly and arbitrary, they were enforced consistently. As a result, neither I or my brother ever threw a tantrum about wanting candy, because we knew it wouldn't do any good. It didn't even occur to us to try; it would be like throwing a tantrum because we wanted to fly.

If your kids sometimes get candy, want more candy, and know they can throw a tantrum and get the candy, they will. They're 5, of course they will. There's a lesson to be taken from that, and it's not "pretend candy doesn't exist half the time".
a Katy Tang plan to provide bonuses for dense housing near transit

Can you explain why this is needed? In other cities, the value of physical land goes up near subway stations which naturally increases the density of developments to meet profitability.
If I'm not mistaken he created it while working at/for rambler.ru which is one of the biggest Russian websites (it was serving 500 million requests per day at that time).
OK, that's Google covered!

What about other websites?
>Real numbers are not necessary for continuity.

You know of any continuum that doesn't include the real numbers? That will contradict the continuum hypothesis.
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The point isn't that sarcasm is always bad, but that it doesn't make an otherwise bad comment good.

And there is a glut of sarcasm on the internet already, so one can afford to be a bit fussy about quality.
It's quite formally specified.

Seems to not be very bug-ridden either. But maybe somebody should code a non-backtracking operator extension for GHC. This way, next time he could claim Haskell is a dynamically typed, interpreted, lazy and not-pure language.
probably could of got the same result using honey
Sounds like the kind of thing that could get anybody, even a reasonably paranoid person.
This is just an anecdote as a consumer, but our interest in it when we were looking in to it heavily stemmed from environmental control products, broadly defined.

I'm not sure if I care about my fridge connecting to the internet, but I did care about the lights being off and not wasting energy, the thermostat being under our control when we were gone, controlling humidity and temp in different rooms, door locks, cameras, and so forth and so on. I suspect that as things like solar panels become more of a standard part of home heating & ac, people will become more concerned about regulating energy use, and so forth. And they won't want to micromanage, manually, they'll want it all networked, the components with each other, with whatever central sources are useful (e.g., the energy utility), and their phones and computers.

The concerns we ran into were really fourfold:

1. Idiosyncratic proprietary standards and lock-in. We wanted to buy lightbulb A from company X without being wedded to them forever, and without worrying about whether or not it would be compatible with thermostat C from company Y. Everyone instead seemed to be trying to lock you into something.

2. Security. Everyone here seems to get why that's important.

3. Autonomy. We ran into problems with the following scenario: what if company Z goes under? What if there's a power outage and we need to control device D without connecting to an outside server? A disturbing number of companies seemed to just suggest you're SOL in those situations, which wasn't acceptable.

4. Throughput/bandwidth/resource use. A lot of these things consumed a surprising amount of energy and/or bandwidth. Maybe not the one lightbulb itself, but all of them together with the routers, etc. to control them. It all seems reasonable until you realize what's involved in having your whole damn house reliably communicating with you 24/7 by first going through some router and possibly outside server.
How come the adblocker didn't block the ad network?
How Japan learned to love PC gaming again
And nginx overwrites origin server headers; whereas most other gateways/reverse proxies don't https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/538
If we want to put physics on the faith table, I'm cool with whatever anyone wants to believe, and more power to them. But you can't be objectively right on the faith table - that's the price of admission.

If we want to be "true" and fully rational then we need to try to accurately represent our degree of knowledge about the world. Thus we shouldn't be making strong statements about things with an absence of evidence.
Letting kids waste their allowances is an incredibly useful tactic.

My parents gave me an allowance, then carefully audited every purchase and refused to let me spend it on things they didn't think were good value. Which is 1) a waste of their time 2) frustrating for the kid and 3) utterly defeats the purpose, because I never got to learn restraint or budgeting, and it bit me on the ass when I was in my early 20s.
If you've seen tensor trains, might be interesting to reduce the rank even further by splitting an input into many sequential small matrices (instead of just two.)
It falls into the important but not urgent quadrant of Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix.
It's not just for Google.

Google Authenticator works for any site that supports app-based 2FA. Please read the article I linked to.
Yep! That is exactly what I meant by that ;)
What is honey?
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Fascism in Europe could have been stopped in the 16-1800's when Britain and France gobbled up the world as colonies. They could have left a piece for Germany and Italy to occupy as these societies unified some years later. Or they could have not colonized at all.

Alternatively maybe it could have been stopped by preventing the industrial revolution. Or by preventing Germany and Italy from uniting as countries at the end of the 1800's/early 1900's. Or by preventing banking interests from lending to industrialists. Or by preventing the Viking invasions. Or preventing the collapse of international papal authority. Or by preventing the rise of papal authority in the first place. Or giving the Chinese first dibs on East Asia. Or giving native Africans gunpowder. Or by any number of other means.

Point being, you seem to think 1)Fascism in Europe during the second world war is the worst event to happen to mankind ever and attempting to prevent it re-occurring justifies any means, even those with potentially worse outcomes. And 2)Fascism arose strictly because some guys popped in out of nowhere and started talking.

What about Pol Pot? What about Stalin? What about the church during the Middle Ages? What about the conquests of Islam? What about the massacres in Medieval China? Events very simply don't happen in a vacuum, (in spite of the popular culture/ public school view of history).

The dangers of those who want to prevent free speech because it offends someone far outweigh the dangers of letting the marketplace of ideas decide which ideas are worth considering. I don't find the rise of the alt-right (which I don't support btw) nearly as alarming as I find the number of young people who think offensive speech should be legislated against or banned. Which is truly an authoritarian and disturbing trend.
Heh HostGator is the worst. I've never seen any host go down so consistently after only a few hundred page views.
Because HostGator will mess up your hosting?