skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must say that as someone who does NOT live in a crazy high-rent state or town, I am not well pleased by the idea of my federal tax dollars going to people who choose to live there but can't make ends meet, and this even though I'm generally pro-spending on social welfare.

You may say, "but the poor can't afford to move!". Well, if that's the case, the government should subsidize their move instead. It would be way cheaper and would incidentally drive real estate prices closer to the national median.

I'm not trying to cast any blame on people in this situation, as they are likely there through no fault of their own, but this can hardly be the most efficient way to solve the problem.

I feel like economics is screaming a message to people in the Bay Area: "There are too many people here! There's tons of land in the U.S.!", but no one is listening, just casting blame on the techies, gentrification, land policy, or whatever.
That seems like a bad idea because people will then use inconsistent max path lengths.
> Adwords is almost useless at this point, though neither of us has had any prior experience so it could just be us not using the tools to their full potential.

For our B2C company, AdWords turned out to be a stable revenue driver for us. I had little experience in it (I'm a software engineer) and it took about $3k burned over 60 days to really understand how to build a profitable acquisition model using AdWords. I bought a couple books and worked on a bunch of multi-variant testing. I eventually obtained a sustainable and predictable process of obtaining revenue.

Never use AdWords Express, spend about 160 hours minimum of learning how marketing and PPC works, and use only data to drive decisions. ROI comes 4 months later when first starting out. If you're an engineer, AdWords API is a really useful to combine CRM and user data to discover new keywords and personas.
That 100% doesn't give a lot of wiggle room. Avoiding estate tax as it stands is incredibly difficult and generally takes decades of planning and foresight. There is already a fairly substantial incentive to avoid it and there is a reason that very smart, resourceful people that number in the millions don't. It turns out that wealthy people cannot just snap their fingers and wish away the law despite the popular myth that they can.
Man, I don't get why everyone's saying that we're insignificant because of this photo.

As far as we know, we're the most exciting thing going on in this corner of the universe. There is probably no other place that has conscious beings in that photo. We are massively important, primarily because we can recognize our own importance.

This isn't to say it isn't good to be humble. It certainly can be. But we're pretty damn incredible.
I haven't had any problems myself, yet. If you buy something USB-IF certified at least, you're fine.

From https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/LQ5df94bERb:

> One trend I will highlight is that more cables are getting USB-IF certified compliant. In fact, I see a number of cables on Amazon that not only claim to be USB-IF certified, they list the TID (Test Identifier) assigned by USB-IF for the cable in the product description.

Also, as for

> There's already competing standards for fast charging over USB-C.

Not really. There are proprietary options, yes, but USB Power Delivery is THE standard. Google even strongly recommends OEMs not implement anything besides Power Delivery (https://source.android.com/compatibility/android-cdd#7_7_usb):

> * Type-C devices MUST detect 1.5A and 3.0A chargers per the Type-C resistor standard and it must detect changes in the advertisement.

> * Type-C devices also supporting USB host mode are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to support Power Delivery for data and power role swapping.

> * Type-C devices SHOULD support Power Delivery for high-voltage charging and support for Alternate Modes such as display out.

> * Type-C devices are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to not support proprietary charging methods that modify Vbus voltage beyond default levels, or alter sink/source roles as such may result in interoperability issues with the chargers or devices that support the standard USB Power Delivery methods. While this is called out as "STRONGLY RECOMMENDED", in future Android versions we might REQUIRE all type-C devices to support full interoperability with standard type-C chargers.

Were there issues early on? Yes. Will there be many issues going forward? I don't think so.
Orlando... really...?
It will likely require internet access which is less likely to be available in remote areas.
I assume 8k is the lot size (~0.2 acre)? I had a similar experience moving to Colorado from CA.
Tesla no longer sells cars with automatic driving capability. The hardware is there on newly shipping cars (although the sensor suite is weak) but it's not active. There's a lawsuit.[1]

It's unlikely that Tesla gets much useful data from vehicles. To debug a vision system, they'd need the camera data from all the cameras, and that's too big to upload over the cell phone data link.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2017/04/23/tesla...
Wait a second. You and your wife pulled in ~$30K per month pre-tax, so I'll be generous and say $15K per month after tax. Any you have never been more broke? Even with kids I'd be hard pressed to call that broke unless you had ridiculous student loans. And in that case, you're screwed where ever you live.
I want to use Flickr again but I don't have access to my Hotmail(!) account anymore. I don't even recognize the area code for the number they have on file for me.

After exhausting those two options it sends you to the yahoo help website. The first page asks for your yahoo email address. I don't have a yahoo email address and one was never associated with my flickr that I am aware of.

I've tried but have no clue how I can access my own photos again. I'm a customer just sitting here begging to use their service again and they don't want me to.
You can make multiple comparisons (or post-hoc "exploratory" comparisons); you just need to make your p-value threshold sufficiently strict [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
> We are not "unable" to protect smart TVs. If anyone gave a shit those things would be locked down tighter than a bank vault, but we don't, so they aren't.

Every year, every major browser and major OS gets cracked in Pwn2Own. The cost of these zero-days is going up thanks to good security practices like sandboxing in Chrome et al., but they still happen. Every. Single. Year. Think about that for a second.

The fact is, we can't write secure software, especially secure networked software. I can't imagine writing secure software for cars using current best practices---let alone imagine car manufacturers doing that. To solve this, we'll need (in addition to everything we're doing now) something along the lines of Rust to prevent these sorts of bugs. And even then, it's likely that the net effect will be similar to sandboxing: the cost of an attack will go up, but not enough to prevent random individuals (let alone larger organizations) from finding zero-day security vulnerabilities on a regular basis.

It's extremely important not to be cavalier about this security risk. The combination of zero-days and self-driving cars is a scary one.
true this. Average sale price in seattle metro for march was just shy of 700k. The city is trying to be pretty aggressive about building but if you want to live in the city you are going to pay a lot. That being said, if you dont mind commuting you can get a nice place that is affordable(30 minutes commute to the city).
>take out alcohol

that one worked out beautifully last time around
Logical analysis of a problem and its implementation into a computer system is a "high skill". There are programmers who can do the job and then there are people who actually innately think logically.

I'm betting the older devs (like myself) are the ones who have had that innate logic skill since they were born.

Everyone else moved on to management.

Just a theory.
Downvote any article that mentions Diane Greene. Her job is literally "Google Cloud Hype-woman". There is nothing of substance here or in any interview with her.

Nothing more than hot air and marketing bullshit.
She was not present when Yahoo invested in Alibaba.

Her job, presumably, as the CEO was to convince all of the enterprise's employees and customers that Yahoo would be sticking around for the long run. At the same time, she had to prepare to wind down the business while returning capital to the shareholders. I would call that a difficult job.

My lesson from this is most companies with excess capital should make investments, not acquisitions. Most certainly a company with a long string of failed acquisitions should. Yahoo has been repeatedly given as an example, but others like Google don't have a particularly great record either. Berkshire Hathaway is a great example of a massive business centrally owned by a very barebones team (in Omaha.)
We could significantly improve it now with more Zipcar type apps (at least in cities where people live close together) but the most people want guaranteed access to a vehicle at 8am and 5:30pm weekday situation isn't easily solved just by making them mobile when not in operation. Nor - at least in the short term - is people's tendency to use cars, and especially cars with no previous owners, as a status symbol (many people could save more of their income not buying new models and premium marques than allowing it to be used by someone else at weekends and some evenings, but they choose the car that takes up more of their disposable income all the same)
I would certainly recommend Blood Meridian in spite of the nastiness (and I like the Border Trilogy well enough for their extremely sparse prose), but I found The Road a little underwhelming. His post-apocalypse vision seemed surprisingly less terrible than I was expecting, frankly. People all over the world are doing worse to each other right now... so unless you avoid the news, I doubt you'll be haunted.
The point is when people start talking about average salary.
hmm, is that better or worse than shalloting or onioning personal info?
You're discussing the government force relocating poor people. Think about that...
I think Marissa Mayer's gender was a double-edged sword. She got a lot more media coverage than most males would've gotten in her situation and I think that gave her turnaround effort a bit of a positive perception boost. She also received a lot of scrutiny and a magnifying glass on mistakes whereas a male in that situation might not have.

I agree that Yahoo was a sinking ship from the start, and ultimately I think she may get another shot at CEO because of that.
>Georgia drivers ... can't. I jest. But seriously...

We have no patience for slow or dumb drivers in Atlanta.

Go Dawgs.

The panhandle has nice beaches as well.
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Let's be fair: Mayer didn't have a real chance at fixing this company and to pin the blame on entirely on her for "destroying a core brand" is disingenuous at best and irrational at worst.

I much prefer to go in with the mindset that she tried her best but the situation was unwinnable.
Well, every time this discussion comes up, HN spends >100 posts splitting hairs as to what calling their system 'autopilot' implies.

Given that the technology is useless if you use it as 'intended' (Be aware, and in control of your vehicle 100% of the time[1]) I don't think this debate will be settled anytime soon.

[1] My 97 Avalon drives just fine when operated under those conditions.
The answer is very intuitively an emphatic "no" -- you can't go around destroying property willy-nilly.
Huh, I didn't know that! Thanks.
>They aren't removing anything, just being more picky when it comes to top news, which happens to be what things like the Assistant/Google Home use to reply to questions.

It's also what they use for rich snippets, and that's really prone to bad choices. I'm unclear on what, if any, breakthrough they've had to fix this.

A US quarter is worth 50 cents: http://i.imgur.com/1nNreR2.png

Using thin affiliate sites (that just want referral click payments) as sources for good information on reverse mortgages: http://imgur.com/a/mpayp http://imgur.com/a/IZmmJ

Some others: http://imgur.com/a/6EDEP

I found these for another thread here, in the span of 10 minutes or so. They aren't rare outliers.
That rebuttal is resoundingly false, though there is unspeakably great vested interest in perpetuating that myth, it seems.
In the article, the drone pilot claims the drone never even flew above the shooter's property.
Saying that a £70,000 salary makes you rich sounds like sensible politics to me.

In the UK the median pre-tax income is £22,400 with £72,000
putting you in the 95th percentile [1]; £70,000 is in the middle of the pay scale for a salaried GP/family doctor [2]; and MPs receive a base salary of £74,000 [3] (plus a bunch of extra income through a variety of opaque means)

I think you would look pretty out of touch, from the perspective of someone earning £22,400 if you claimed earning £70,000 didn't make you rich.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f...
[2] https://www.bma.org.uk/advice/employment/pay/general-practit...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_of_Members_of_the_Uni...
Swarms of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Test New Dogfighting Skills
I'm not sure if that is true that he is using 'valueless' for dramatic effect.

One of the major themes of the book is defining "quality" and "value".
I "recently" (several years ago) read the original Conan stories and the Wizard of Oz books (there are many).

One thing that leapt out at me was how they both talked about radium. The cultural view of it at the time was radically different. Radium was a source of health and magic, capable of solving any problem. There was a passage in which the protagonists encountered a mysterious phenomenon, and "logically" concluded "this must be done with radium".

These are fantasy stories, but their similar ideas about what radium was ("magic") and what it was good for ("everything") had to come from somewhere, and had to be acceptable to their anticipated audience.

To me in the 21st century, it was obviously insane, since radioactivity is best known for ruthlessly murdering anyone in proximity. There's culture shock for you. :/
IQ is a proxy for lots of other things. There have been twin studies where reading skills, including early childhood reading skills accounted for a lot of perceived IQ differences.

Early childhood engagement is incredibly important. We attribute many things to genetics that are outgrowths of a child's home environment. Parents stuck in cycles of inattentive or abusive family situations, over-reliance on shitty daycare vs. early childhood education, etc make a huge impact.
You'd be surprised. My grandmother knows who Zuck is. She doesn't even have a FB account.

Even if people don't know him by name, they've definitely heard of FaceBook, so messaging for the rubes: Zuckerburg, he's the guy behind FaceBook!
> Will car ownership be killed with self-driving cars?

Probably. It seems way more convenient and efficient to be able to summon a car to any location on demand than to have just one car that you use for everything.

No more parking, no more refueling, no more vehicle maintenance; just push a button and a car shows up within minutes (or in some cases, seconds) to pick you up, and step out of the vehicle when you reach your destination. Want a specific model or paint color? It's just a couple taps on your phone away. Car breaks down and needs a tow? Replacement gets summoned automatically, and the car company credits a couple bucks to your account for the inconvenience.

If that kind of service becomes available at a reasonable price point, I suspect it won't be long before car ownership becomes much less common.
Trains? Trams? Good rail networks in cities would greatly reduce the amount of drunk driving. It's simple tech. It's been around for decades. It works, and Americans block it at every chance because ... I still don't understand why.
As long as you are not on an H1B you might be better off. That said, fintech in Toronto is burgeoning.
Not to mention that "research" can be further split into myriad activities that take up substantial amounts of time. Personally, I'd contend that writing grants and writing scientific code could also constitute full-time jobs (this might explain why a lot of scientific code is spaghetti; most researchers have to balance coding with publishing- and coding loses in this battle). Regardless of how many full-time jobs the modern researcher is expected to perform, the end result is the same: lower quality science furnished by 80 hour weeks and emotionally wrecked postdocs.
You'd be surprised. I remember talking to a co-founder of a secure, encrypted chat startup that was getting acquired by bigger startup. Their response when I asked about their encryption was that they use HTTPS instead of HTTP...
If you believe that self driving cars will make roads much safer you should be for lots of testing and a measured approach. It only takes a few more high profile accidents before society turns against them.
It's ambiguous, and varies from state to state (the variations usually relate to side issues like whether you have a duty to retreat instead of shooting, etc.) but the general rule is that the response has to be 'reasonable' and proportionate to the reasonably perceived harm.

The Castle Doctrine doesn't, as far as I know, have a single clear meaning, but generally refers to rules that expand the circumstances in which a homeowner can use force (including deadly force) on an intruder to their home.
Ryan Hoover: Building a startup? Build an audience, first
Tumblr isn't innovating since they bought it. That's why it can't compete, because nothing Yahoo owns can compete.
I also moved from the the Bay Area to Oviedo, FL not long ago (fun fact about our little town: Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, grew up here). I agree with everything on your list, and I'll add one more item:

9) Greater thought diversity and tolerance for opposing viewpoints.

When I lived in the Bay Area it seemed that too many people I interacted with were of similar backgrounds: very educated, high income and similar political and social values. While I loved my years there, at times I felt like I was in a cultural bubble insulated from the real world. Worse, I saw people professionally shunned for expressing opinions that fell outside the mainstream. People here in the Orlando area are all types and they seem to love to discuss their differences and even try to learn from them. I can't begin to imagine someone suffering professionally only for their opinions here. It's very refreshing.

I have not lived in enough places to guess if this is a Florida vs California thing, or an Orlando area vs Bay Area thing, or a Bay Area vs everywhere else thing, but I think it's certainly a positive difference.
What's the equivalent of animal trials for autonomous vehicles? Closed-circuit tests?

Is there any evidence that these companies haven't gone through closed circuit tests and passed before testing in public roads?

The next step in drug trials is, in fact, testing on humans and some do suffer serious injury or death. I don't think there's any way around it and the greater good of having a pharmaceutical industry at all outweighs those unfortunate incidents.
But if the algorithm screws up and gets someone killed you could be sued.
That may be true, but I don't it really matters.

Is he more of a "villain" than Trump? I think most Americans understand that you have to step on a few toes (or many toes) to build a global empire the size of FB.

Also remember that in American society, might (money) = right. Everyone knows that Jobs was an asshole, people still worship him anyways. It's sad, I know, but it's a fact.
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What is it with their login process? I tried to login to my Flickr account on Sunday, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. It's been weird for years but now they've broken it completely.
Though it won't be shelf stable or non-perishable, it's easy to make a smoothie with far more nutritional value than Soylent. My go-to is a water-based combination of low-carb chocolate flavor protein powder, coconut oil, steamed lentils, and berries. It's the only combination I've found that gives me steady energy for hours on end. No idea why my girlfriend refuses to try it ;-)
A natural progression of the great http://todomvc.com but for the full stack! With pluggable front and backends written against a hardened API. Nice work!

Look at upcoming implementations or request your favorite stack here: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/issues
.NET remote developer here. I make Bay Area salary ($185K/yr) with full insurance benefits, transit allowance and stock options while living in rural NH. The best of both worlds. I also hope everyone thinks remote is difficult so it'll stay this way lol.
If they aren't exactly right, how can you claim to be a physics master though?
I am glad she got a golden parachute only because if she was male she would have gotten one.

The larger issue is the one of CEO compensation in the first place.
No, I'm not. I'm suggesting that they be given the choice of moving somewhere else, of their choice, with subsidies for the move, or trying to go it alone in place.

And this only for those people who fall in that gap between (approximately) the national low-income line and the local "low-income" line. People who fall below the national low-income line should be given subsidies, regardless of where they live.

I believe in helping people, but not subsidizing irrational behavior that exacerbates an existing problem.

Just think about how this looks to someone like me: the low-income threshold in CA is over twice my household income. And I am not classified as low-income. So to some degree my tax dollars will be transferred to subsidize some terrible decision-making. If this looks bad to me, a liberal, think how it looks to moderates and conservatives!

Let's take this to the logical extreme: suppose I decide to live literally in Hollywood hills, where one of my relatives lives. I make nowhere near enough to survive there. Should I be subsidized anyway? Does it make a difference if I was born in Hollywood and this situation arose subsequently? I think not, when it comes to the question of what should be done about it now, although reasonable minds may differ.
I think that's what GP is suggesting we change.