skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you can

Just to be clear, I'm not the original author, and thus have no ability to enforce copyrights for this library. Just someone who doesn't like the easy stuff of license/attribution being thrown away.
What you're describing is close to disposable income. For most people a ratio of compensation to disposable income would be of little use. Personal P/E?
I have to assume it was an algorithm and not a person.

I think everyone on HN could learn from this situation. I'm not sure how to contact mods but maybe reach out to them...maybe the algorithm took it out due to profanity?

Best of luck!
Yes! I've been saying this forever -- debugging is a science.

The best way to find and fix the toughest heisenbugs is to a) form a hypothesis as to what might be happening, b) figure out what would falsify your hypothesis, c) run an experiment that must make the bug happen reliably iff your hypothesis is correct, and finally d) figure out the solution.

Steps a-c are precisely the scientific method.
Curious as to what was causing the stress specific to the Bay Area for you?
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Pardon my curiosity, but what would be a case of blockchain making something worse?
DPV was a really good 'free' undergrad algorithms text until the publisher demanded the author's stop giving it away
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/

"Algorithms with Sanjoy Dasgupta (Christos Papadimitriou) and Umesh Vazirani, McGraw-Hill 2006. Note: until recently, we had here the pdf of an early version of this book, for the convenience of the students. Unfortunately, our publisher demanded that we delete it. Advice to authors: (a) make sure you keep the copyright, and (b) do not publish with McGraw Hill."
Thank you for sorting the operands, my OCD is satisfied
Contrary to some previous entries [1][2] by The Author this one is accurate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896675
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13935256
Actually at a previous job (at the front page of HN today for CEO severance) I started developing sympathy for politicians who say things like that. I saw how out of touch upper management was with what was actually going on, and in something like government it's at a much higher order of magnitude.

Doesn't excuse them, but I can understand how they say such things.
See aianus response for some examples, I would also add:

- Windows Mobile (pre WP8): Customers may have asked for a mobile computer, but most did not actually want a weak version of their computer crammed onto a tiny screen. Apple and Google helpfully showed them what customers actually wanted with iOS and Android.

- Blockbuster: Customers may have asked for a large selection of movies for rent, but they didn't want a physical location they could drive to and browse through. Netflix gave people a new option (multiple new options)

- MySpace: "Customers" may have asked for customized/personalized profiles, but they didn't mean a dumping ground of random html and css that eliminates any sense of uniformity, brand, identity, etc. Facebook gave people the personal touch they actually wanted without compromising the experience.

Now, these are colossal failures, and we can endlessly debate whether you believe these failures were the deciding factor in their respective products. But I think we can probably agree that, at the very least, failure to cater to the actual customer need (instead of what they simply ask for) was a major flaw in all of these cases. And these are just a few examples.

Also, I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but you cut my quote at an interesting spot. I'm not trying to suggest that a business should not cater to its customers' requests. Rather, that it should not do so at the expense of trying to understand the need behind the request.
You're right, in the scheme of things it doesn't bring down a college education cost that much. But it's one of the relatively simpler ways of reducing the overall cost.
Interesting use of doxxing the Startup School moderator by linking to their LinkedIn.
Have you never felt frustrated looking for a pen and not finding one when you need one. The frustration increases when you do find a few pens and none work. the price of the pen is determined by the demand and supply but it's value at the moment can't be calculated.
It is actually somewhat fascinating that this isn't on the Hacker News front page. It's almost as if no one cares, there's extremely little coverage anywhere. If Github have just a minor hiccup the Internet explores in "Githubs down" coverage.

Atlassian is huge, and they have an enormous user base, but apparently they and completely different segment of user that those who visit Hacker News. The amount of people who is currently unable to get their work done must be absolutely massive.
Boulder didn't copy that, Boulder has been that way since the late 70's, tech just happened to move here and the culture was already in place.
There are a number of people here in Bend who want more space and a smaller town. It's getting expensive here too, but hopefully there's the political will to not repeat all of the mistakes of San Fran, Boulder and other places. I certainly do my share of talking to people like city councilors when I can.

If anyone's up here visiting, I'll happily buy you a beer - or whatever you prefer, but... there's lots of beer here.
Yes, of course it is illegal to shoot an aircraft! (Though I'm less clear on whether that particular rule applies to consumer drones.) But, again, there is no 'conflict' between the FAA regs and Causby. Causby does not allow you to shoot things, it just establishes the boundaries of property owner's property rights.
I'm okay hating both the players and the game.
I guess it depends on the level of social atomization. Imagine having a sibling that's not into software development but can still buy a house and raise some kids and have medical care. I got mine, F you, isn't very scalable and most people don't live like that.

I'm an older gen-x when you were born I was a young teen biologically possible for you to be a generation younger than me but its stretching the definition.

The income level is about right, I'm precisely at the 95th percentile where I live. For me, times are good and will stay that way until the inevitable wave of income inequality reaches me, I'll go down later than a lot of people but it hits everyone eventually. Being poor is going to be interesting. I was as a student. It'll be like a second childhood kinda, I suppose.
Yeah, it is working out great for farmers that use John Deere tractors.
800 square meters????
We decided to move to Utah. We have some family here and the tech scene is actually quite strong. Overall it has been a great move, and besides the nice people that we met in California, we haven't really missed the craziness of the rat race down there.
An argument could be made to take this a step further and not even go into buzzword details at all, and leave it with boilerplate words.

Security is hard. Describing security is even harder.

I'm for transparency in security for review, but you can achieve the same via a 3rd party audit.

Just my 2c.
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Are you a minority race and if so would you say that Utah is friendly to non-whites ?
You just need to exercise every day for a couple of months. Bike everywhere, lift weights / do calisthenics / climb three times a week. After two months of this it starts feeling more fun because it's easier and you'll start seeing progress.

Five years seems like such a very long time when you start. Five years ago I was smoking, consuming way too much sugar, and eating tons of processed foods. Small changes over time and I'm at around 10% body fat, unbelievable lung capacity, and a much stronger psyche and work ethic. I feel like I've gotten younger from 26 to 31, and I'm 32 in June.
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Agreed that won't make you rich in London but you can very easily buy a house outside of London or a 1-bed in London. I have friends who are on less than that and are buying in decent zone 2/3 areas. Mortgages are actually pretty cheap if you can save up the 10% deposit and live with a 10/15 min walk to a station.
Once upon a time a family of four would live in a 1200 square foot house and own one car and one television, would rarely travel, rarely go out to eat. That kind of life style can still be sustained even in the Bay area on $100k/yr.
Those do seem to be the gigs where boards are most willing to take a chance on a woman CEO.
Interesting! I'd try it if:

A. I knew there was an Android app or not (i didn't clearly see what OSs were available)
B. It had Japanese. I know it's difficult of a language, but the only one i'm interested in atm.

As an aside, i'm curious at how well this works for people like me. Eg, i have a very difficult time understanding artists who speak my native language (english). I often confuse words, etc. So doing so in another language, oof. Appears difficult. I'd be willing to try though
Dichotomous keys are mostly useless when you deal with photos. For some reason people always find the most useless chamera position when taking photos to unknown plants.
I wonder how many hundreds of kilobytes that adds up to in a 20gb windows install
The Nazis concealed and eliminated any traces of Babiy Yar before retreating, there was nothing there at all already.

What do you mean "cover up"? The Soviet Union as a nation suffered some of the greatest numbers of causulties in WWII at the hands of the Nazis by far. What are you talking about with regards to "medallions"? Are you even aware of who fought against and defeated Nazi Germany?
Feel like we really approach the whole dieting process incorrectly. People eat to fulfill a need. They are either hungry and eat to no longer feel hungry or they eat because it produces positive feelings (whether this is to negate negative feelings or just to enhance your already good mood).

Hunger is your body signalling your brain that you need nutrients. If you eat foods that cover all your nutrient requirements for a low number of calories and your body is taking up these nutrients properly, then you should have no problems. Thus it makes sense to inform people which foods they need to be eating as well as educate people on which disorders can cause poor nutrient uptake.

If you suffer from stress and you eat high calorie foods to feel better, changing your diet is likely going to exacerbate your stress, not make you feel better. I feel this is the case for many who are overweight.. stress management strategies should be the first priority as you won't be able to handle changing your diet for the long term until you get your stress under control.
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Keep in mind that 1. California has high taxes, and 2. those taxes go down as your number of dependents goes up. Your employer has the same number in your salary column either way, but your take-home pay tends to rise to match your needs, up to a point. (It doesn't work out for e.g. n=8, but it tends to take care of n<4.)
In Yahoo's case, it seems like the die was already ̶s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶k̶ cast. Employees had strong signals that it was time to start looking.

Firing people isn't fun, but it seemed clear that was coming.
There seems to be a new scandal every day currently, and has been for a few weeks now since the Susan Fowler story broke: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
Yes, but any spare income earned by multiple working adults in a family will eventually be siphoned up by either landlords, or banks.
I would argue Waymo is way behind everyone else, but the fundamental point is that companies like Tesla and Comma.ai and most of the car companies have a totally different approach than Google.

Namely, that Google relies heavily on their mapping services to make their cars work. This makes a lot of sense for Google, because of self-driving cars require their mapping data, there's a big new market for them. The maps they run on are significantly more detailed than the public-facing Google Maps/Street View. They work in Phoenix, AZ, Mountain View, CA and Austin, TX and like... nowhere else. (Was there one other city in Oregon maybe?)

As an aside, note the "As an early rider, you’ll be able to use our self-driving cars to go places you frequent every day, from work, to school, to the movies and more." I am curious if this suggests you have to tell Waymo in advance a set list of destinations they can ensure work correctly or something similar, or if I'm reading too much into it.

Tesla, Comma.ai, etc. are not relying on special map data as much as they are relying more heavily on road signals and lane lines and such, and then having machine learning decide how to navigate them locally.

While they may not have the same driving record, everyone else's approach works nationwide (and wouldn't be exceptionally hard to extend to a global scope, presuming you taught them different countries' markers and signage), whereas Google's approach currently does not scale.
That did not last for long though, maybe forty years from after the second world war till the early 80s. The model that did last for centuries had families of 8-12 people, with men working in the fields and women looking after children and grandchildren.
Regardless of ground effect lift, 100ft altitude is well into the "dead zone" for vehicles like this. Too high to survive a crash and too low to use a parachute.
Make one wonder if some things we use are the 'radium' of the future, and we don't think of it as harmful now.
Recalled products and bans are just the tip of the icebergs: what if something harms us in non-"cancer in 4 years if you drink radium" way, but alters the genes or reduce our health in other ways(think xenoestrogens)? What if the harm isn't realized in everyone(e.g. only 4% of people)?

Its not profitable for radiumCo to be preemptively pro-consumer, their only consumer-centric concern is PR/reputation after the fact, so until they get publicly shamed they won't stop selling their radium. If they have no competition eager to take them down, they have even less concern of what consumers think since radiumCo has stable market.
Just remember that you'll want to select a city that has a decent economy and tech scene in the event that you lose your job and need to take a location dictated position.

So long as you and your partner are both making 6 figures you should be able to afford any of the following cities:

- Seattle

- Portland

- Austin

- Denver
You "need" to make $1.5M/year for "similar" lifestyle. Maybe you should either reconsider your lifestyle or your math skills.

note: I made the assumption you didn't move to a village in a 3rd world country.
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Yeah what's probably best is some number closer to "monthly net after taxes, rent, insurance".
Wut? More like Kubernetes is like Borg.
Hey, quick fix: Just make Yearly the default option when the page loads, since the yearly options are the best price. Users to your site may just scroll through without clicking anything and only see the monthly prices (like I did).
Regardless of the missed huge opportunity here, I actually love Flickr the product. It's an enthusiast community for people who love photography. That's not nearly as big of a market as consumer and beyond, but I'm glad Flickr exists as-is.
Feynman was a particularly interesting, intelligent, but also a very moral person. He said in an interview in his older years, while tearing up: 'I know the difference between right and wrong.'

Of science, my favorite bit from him is that 'in science, it does not matter what your last name is, how brilliant you are, how beautiful your theory is, all that matters is if it experimentally agrees with nature. That's all that science is'[1]

After devoting his time to science, he indulged in sex, drugs and art, and in the meantime had a great deal good to say about not just nature, but about morality as well. My type of person.

1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL6-x0modwY
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If hashing is the main concern, wouldn't a "strict" spec for JSON do the job? eg. "all keys must be sorted", "all dates must be ISO-xxx", etc.?
Ask HN: How to teach my sister to code?
Well she asked me to teach her python and im not good at explaining at all... Any tips?
Well to really answer the question we have to define what we mean by "middle-class," which is often deliberately left so nebulous that it covers practically everyone besides the homeless and the stratospherically wealthy.
> In fact, without open data ... it would be impossible for peer reviewers to validate any numbers

Even this is not sufficient -- the fact is that this is a methodological statistical error, not a mathematical statistical error.

The mistake is thinking that a dataset alone can yield data supporting a hypothesis derived from that dataset, rather than deriving a testable hypothesis from an existing dataset, and then gathering new data to validate.

I would say the only way that you could publish results derived from an existing data source is if you also published all the null results you got along the way when examining the data set; but this is not really a feasible thing to print in a publication; either the list would be very long and thus it would be clear that some sort of p-hacking was involved, or the list would be short and accidental or intentional omission would be suspected.

This dramatically reduces the amount of useful results that can be squeezed from a dataset, which is unfortunate, as many of them are hard to gather in the first place. It might be necessary to protect these datasets better -- to restrict access conditional on specifying the hypothesis being tested with the requirement that all results, including null results, be recorded, even if only in summary form if the results are not interesting enough to be accepted for publication or to be worth the effort of composing into a quality research paper.
People have literally murdered for less, or risk their lives for less. US military enlisted gets around 30k per year +30k to 100k sign on bonus. Officer level around 60k/yr. mercenaries around 30k/month. Firefighters and police officers 50-100k year in most places in US. And many of them probably don't sleep well at night. Firing a person from a job is relative, the ones above would probably prefer it over the extremes of what their jobs asks of them.
Did HN steal your work?
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You're correct, I was a bit too quick on the 'reply' button there.
> literally the only use case I see here is dates.

{ "date": "1937-01-01T12:00:27.87+00:20" }

As you can see, JSON doesn't stop anyone from using RFC3339 to encode dates.
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Actually I think Waymo is too cautious. Tesla has thousands of customers effectively acting as test drivers for their autonomous software, which allows them to collect data at a much faster rate and discover more 'edge cases' than with a more cautious test environment.

33,000 people die each year on US roads and self driving cars offer the chance to dramatically reduce that figure over time. The more aggressively we can test self-driving software now, the faster the software can be improved.

So as long as the accident rate for autonomous Teslas is initially no more than for human drivers, the Tesla approach will lead to fewer deaths in the long run.
Fair enough. It just struck me how they've managed to get a lot of the good stuff right when so many places are trying - and not doing a great job - to copy Silicon Valley, but also have that exact same NIMBY problem.

William Fischel draws some links with environmentalism in Zoning Rules! ( http://amzn.to/2oIKbyM ) which make sense. Not that he's against it, but just that it sometimes gets a bit perverted to further the ends of NIMBYs rather than actually protecting much of anything. Making people drive 15 miles back and forth to Longmont isn't terribly great for the planet in some ways. In any event, both SF and Boulder are both places that do have a strong sense of environmentalism (in a lot of good ways too, I think), so that could well be the connection.

Edit:

Exhibit A: SF's Sierra Club fighting to save... a parking garage.

http://thebaycitybeacon.com/32740/282282/a/the-sierra-club-f...
2. This constitutes vehicular assault due to reckless operation of the vehicle.

If you're flying a drone over crowds, you should take full responsibility for its ability to safely operate in a regular manner compliant with regulations.

Unless you could prove that your drone was sabotaged or jammed or something to that extent, you'd be liable for at least the damages and a misdemeanor charge.

I'm not a legal professional though, so take this with a grain of salt and consult one before flying over crowds (as well as FAA obviously).
My reaction exactly. Americans use way too much, to be honest. 8k sq ft is more than enough for like 7+ families.
Giving female tech CEOs a good name. /s
Did the exact same thing this year. Moved to Oviedo, FL from SF:

1) no state income tax,

2) public schools in my neighborhood are equivalent to a private school in sf [i]

4) weather is great 8 months out of year,

5) beaches you can swim in,

6) rent is ~1/4 of what it was in SF,

7) cuban food,

8) as a resident, kids have year round disney passes

[i] http://school-ratings.com/Florida/schools/Carillon_Elementar...

WARNING: The tech job market is pretty much non-existent. "more challenging" is an understatement. I would be prepared to answer 'can you lift 50 lbs' in your 'tech' interview. I am a remote dev.
I hate some players make the rules
Of course people should be responsible for their choices. However that doesn't mean we can't be more accommodating to people making 100k or less. You think Starbucks will stick around if they have to pay their employees 100k or make them commute a couple hours?

The bay needs more housing to meet the needs of all the companies that need employees here.
The Independent doesn't exist as a newspaper. It closed last year. The website was handed over to a team of marketers, to try and make money from the brand. They have been successful.
Ask HN: Do investors “blacklist” companies that raise with equity crowdfunding?
I've heard multiple times that VCs and even some angels tend to pass on if not outright blacklist companies that have raised via equity crowdfunding.

The idea is that they see this as a sign that a company could not raise conventionally, has been "over-shopped," etc.

Is this actually true or is it FUD? Not considering equity crowdfunding at the moment, but I've been watching the phenomenon and I'm curious.

Also generally curious if anyone here has done it and how it turned out.
The Bay Area is the most expensive place in the US for no real reason except for regulation.

It's kinda like everyone cheering for Uber and Lyft because medallion rules in SF prevented ever having enough cabs.

There's no real reason and that's the problem.

Also maybe they had those kids in the 1990s when things were a bit more affordable ? The Bay Area wasn't always the most expensive place in the US
Said another way:

The wealthy individuals are choosing to spend their money as they please. That happens to be by making wealthy some non-wealthy individuals.

In the case of this argument it's parents/children, but it doesn't have to be. The parents choose of their own free will. And they can choose to spend the money instead. Many do. Most, probably.
It does now, but in previous versions it did not.
And another condemnation of Uber.