skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the study that they linked (https://hiringsolved.com/blog/hiringsolved-identifies-top-sk...):

> HiringSolved also compiled the leading alma maters based on volume (of all levels of hires) made by the top 25 Silicon Valley companies in the past year.

Most of the schools listed are big public schools, so it makes sense that more students from those schools are hired than students from Ivy League schools. Harvard has 22k students- for reference, UT Austin has 50k, more than twice that.

Stanford and CMU are no surprise- they're CS powerhouses. The one that takes me by most surprise is USC, a school I commonly associated with the entertainment business rather than tech.
You can read more on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/68obk4/open_sourci...
The Cleveland metro area is ~2 million people.

Granted it is going to have less tech jobs, but it isn't really the middle of nowhere.
Or me
Someone in a different part of the thread puts it at 82% makes 5 per day.

So my estimates are off by at least an order of magnitude (since outliers are likely to be targeted for a number of reasons).

I'm just too lazy to fix them.
https://exchangewar.info/coinprice?eth_usd
>Is it that absurd? Where is Scheme's CLOS, condition system, built-in debugging framework, and batteries-included standard library? Type declarations? Dynamic scoping? Multi-methods?

Does Lisp from 1960 have these things? Then I guess it isn't really Lisp?
This thread is basically over already, but here's a few links to what I think are relevant messages from the discussion (And from these links you can largely see the whole thing, though there's a few other threads spread out elsewhere):

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/-4pqDJfHCsM/rTnUuZTg...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/-4pqDJfHCsM/skO2ee5k...

Personally the last post is the most important. He's basically saying that he knows there's clearly problems with his patch, but that he doesn't want to work on it until Bram takes the time to look at it and tell them what's wrong. He wants to push it in even though it's not 100% functional, to the point that he suggests merging it and calling it "experimental-timers".

The above isn't 100% related to Neovim, but below is the thread where Thiago Arruda essentially decides to create Neovim, and the other thread is brought up in this one which is why it is relevant:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/vim_dev/Tarruda%7...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/65jjGqS1_VQ/VBLymmdW...

I recommend looking at the dates, Thiago posted the concept patch 12/4/13, and Christian ZyX responded 5 days later, and then Thiago responds that he's done working on the patch because of a list of reasons: One being he has heard stories of long response times from the Vim developers, Two being that 5 days was too long of a response time and that Bram hasn't responded to his patch, Three being that it was too complicated and he wouldn't be able to make it work, and Four being that he didn't want to work on it if it wasn't guarantee to ever get into Vim.

Let me know if there's a problem with the links.
Re the keyboard, if it's anything like the SP3 and SP4 material it will look pretty bad after about 6 months of use. We've got a fleet of about 100 and the keyboards on them all look pretty rough - they also have a tendency to soak up moisturiser and hand creams like you wouldn't believe.
What is the other dialect?
The TC article is light on details compared to the actual call and 10-K.

Uber was 12% of total rev at the start of 2016, and 17% later on. WhatsApp was the next largest at 9% for the year. Concentration falls off from there, with the 3rd largest customer at 2%.

Twilio's initial (unamended) S-1 filing uses Uber as a customer case study [1]. They called out WhatsApp as a business risk given that they were and are a variable account (15% of their business at the time). Uber was not, potentially because they're a Base Customer Account, but as noted in in the 10-K [2]: "its usage historically has significantly exceeded the minimum revenue commitment in its contract, and it could significantly reduce its usage of our products without notice or penalty."

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000104746916...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000104746917...
Why public lands must remain in public hands
USC has several well regarded engineering schools, actually.
ANVISA (Brazilian equivalent of the FDA) has more regulations than FDA for most subjects.
It's got the Oxford comma. What more do you want?
How many SV companies have made the world a better place? Most seem intent on making it worse by hoarding private data and creating bloated web/electron apps.
Why not allow the user or client define the pagination experience?

You can get and read War and Peace (or other similarly large books -- I frequently reference Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations) at Project Gutenberg. As a single HTML file.

The ability to search for any particular text instance within that document through browser capabilities is useful.

As is, I agree at times, the ability to present the information as some sort of consistently paginated context.

I'm thinking that somewhere between the 21st and 42nd centuries, computers might advance to a state where this is in fact possible.
Not always but I do think there are organizational contributing factors: some people will see inefficiency and try to do something about it but others might just roll up their sleeves and do what they're told (maybe after unsuccessfully trying to change things a few times). That's the group I think could be helped given changes in support & incentives.
It's not very far from Seattle (which had aerospace and such when Microsoft was starting).
HOPEEEE
I have the same experience as @TomSawyer, when a retailer supports NFC payments, but doesn't specifically support Apple Pay, it's hit or miss if it will require a PIN # or not for debit card transactions. For Credit Card transactions it doesn't always require a signature, but it does sometimes.

The retailer doesn't know what account, but the bank DEFINITELY does know.
LookSee is illegal
As an American who's friends have visited India I'd have to say reduced selection is a fair trade-off for ubiquitous refrigeration.
Maybe what you want to say is that obsolete tech and plant has the "advantage" that it can now operate on marginal costs and ignore replacement costs since that won't be happening, making many previous "fixed costs" suddenly free and therefore not costs at all - something I well remember being taught in economics classes at university. This is true as far as it goes, but that path assumes relatively low marginal costs - not the case for energy. Coal isn't that economical - as for fracking, that's new tech not old; it may be a big part of the picture for a long while, and save some but not most of the old plant (large numbers of gas generators are a fairly recent phenomenon themselves.) From your selective choice of terminology, I don't think you've looked at economic theory in depth, here. In any case, all of this is perfectly consistent with what I said earlier.

When the transistor arrives, vacuum tubes are just swept aside despite the fixed costs. Ten years did that, less in fact, I was there. There's a rather extreme threshold effect, once the right price point is passed, the old tech just falls off a cliff. There's a great chart of that happening to Kodak due to digital photography, extremely suddenly, despite all the fixed costs. They were making their best profits one year, staring at death the next. This link is close to the chart I remember seeing. Note the extraordinary difference one year makes! Every mall had a very expensive photo developing plant, then not. Scrap value only.
https://macromon.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/creative-destructi...
Because solar power effectiveness varies geographically the cliff will be a bit smoother, of course.

Only in a real banana republic could you hold new tech off for a half-century, and you'd need to halt trade to do it.

I'm old, I've seen a lot of change, and tons of valuable things - including large amounts of infrastructure, become valueless very suddenly, not to mention my collection of VCR tapes.

There is such a thing as first-mover advantage, but that applies to new tech not old, so I'm assuming you don't mean to refer to that.

I regret your stooping to vituperation. It wasn't necessary, or accurate.
> one-click install to any hosting plan (yes using PHP if necessary).

I think you had to be fair on this - that requirement accounts for a large amount of the design compromises that make other products so poor.

Breaches on popular PHP forum software account for a disproportionate amount of the breaches we regularly hear about. It's caused issues for Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and the "Cosbycoin" compromise is hard to forget. I can't complain about any particular vendor because they have all had their share of issues in this space.

Yes, you can write good PHP - but start saying "one click on any hosting plan" and suddenly composer is out the door, every file is owned by the user the web servers runs as and you start pollyfilling for ancient versions. It means you can't assume SSL will exist, it means you can't get updates using git or any sane automation strategy, and look at how Wordpress deals with cron.

Wordpress is regularly lambasted for their support of ancient versions of PHP, which is something they do primarily to meet this goal.

In interested in what other options are out there. I rarely see Discourse on the open Internet and I cringe every time I get tempted to sign up to an old SMF or vBulletin installation.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Why We’re Withholding Royalties Owed to Qualcomm
This seems really cool, is anyone here using it?
Tesla Might Have a Solution for Electric Vehicles' Enormous Dirty Secret
Not really. If you're a business that needs to text your customers, you'd much rather use one API to send SMS messages than have to dick around with FB messenger, WhatsApp, etc.
Since when is a clone a port?
Do you think the price would hold if mass numbers were converted to fiat?
If only more of us had managers that needed convincing to switch to Docker.

As this thread insinuates, Docker is a VC-driven fad that has been seized upon by posers as the next buzzword to plaster across their resume. I wish more engineering managers were willing to stand up to this nonsense.
Hmm I remember living in a middle-sized city in The Netherlands that probably most things were available in good quality as long as you knew where to look. Mexican food I can't judge, but Indian or Thai or REAL Chinese food wasn't a problem, with a few options to pick often. Italian and French of course. Good burgers yes.

There's of course a difference in culture. You can't find sesos even at the best butcher shops while in Argentina they're in any medium sized supermarket. That's just stuff that nobody but the very adventurous will eat outside that cultural zone.
"plus you're in a city with an international airport hub."

>pays an extra $30,000 a year to live near SFO

>saves $50 on a flight to Asia once a year

rationale checks out
The idea was telling only those voters in certain counties (who predictably would vote a certain way) to vote; i.e., a less-blatant version of telling exactly the subset of people who are registered to vote for a given party, to go out and vote. That is a partisan action.
Microsoft Surface Laptop ($999) and Windows 10 S unveiled
And summer associate positions are a slightly more professional version of summer camp. But I guess the firms make it back when you come back as a regular associate...
2-D materials can conduct electricity at almost the speed of light
It seems like tons of things on AliExpress are just resold on Etsy. I was looking at plant seeds on there and just found and bought the exact same ones with same pics and everything without markup on AliExpress, so it isn't just jewelry and handmade items. That left a bad impression on me about Etsy.
This [0] looks good but I wouldn't call it portable. If there was a case and it had some kind of conformal coating so it doesn't expload from slight moisture then I would say it would be a very good choice.

[0] - http://dangerousprototypes.com/blog/2011/04/22/avnet-spartan...
The Accidental Get Away Driver
m80, if there's only one ice cream truck that drives through my neighborhood and he won't stock mint chocolate chip, the correct solution to this problem is not to petition the government to make a law requiring all ice cream flavors to be stocked equally.
Facebook and Diversity
Are you suddenly turning away from the cash-before-people, 'fuck-you, got mine' culture that, moments ago, you were so much in favour of? Remember when you had the two houses and everyone else could go fish, but now the government has the two houses and it's "theft" and "don't you care"? Weird.

Many countries would give you much more value in medical treatment than you paid in income tax, without any problem, based on such awful, repellent ideas as 'people suffering is bad', or even the pragmatic 'healthy people are a worthwhile investment because they'll contribute more to the economy in future than disabled or bankrupt people will'.
I use this on my gaming machine and it works really well.
That looks exactly like what I'm looking for. Running Coreboot would probably work with something like this so that's what I'd do if someone ever actually sold these. I assume I don't need to take it out of my laptop to use it. Hopefully I can program/flash the SD card from the system.
One thing to really point out for those who don't hunt is the style of hunting you indicated is only available in a few states. In Texas you can hunt over a feeder, I am not sure of any other states where it is legal. In many other eastern states there is limited public land so a lot of large game, aka deer, hunting is done via stands with bows. This allows people to hunt in smaller areas near more urban centers.

Out west (CO,UT,NM,NV,WY,MT,ID) things are different. There is a lot of public land so there is definitely a lot more long range hunting. Also the private land out west tends to be much larger than the private land tracks out east. So you will see a lot of pay to play hunting ranches.
Elm. No, really, elm. It goes away with all the js fatigue, your code is clean, readable and reliable, and does not produce runtime errors. You don't need npm (though it's probably a good idea for development, since you get hot-reload for free). Linter, testing and ci is a must, regardless of which kind of development we are talking about. Of course, linting with elm is a no-brainer with elm-format, and testing is much easier when you don't have side-effects. Plus you get fuzz testing "by default".

I was just as pessimistic as you wrt frontend development, I had dropped it off altogether. Elm made frontend dev enjoyable again. Can't recommend it enough.

If someone wants to talk about elm and how it is to develop with it, feel free to drop me a line. Email is on profile.
Ok taking bets now, missing muons are..

[ ] issue with calculations
[ ] go away with more data
[x] new physics!
[ ] other
I don't want the NSA accessing data like this without a warrant, but their job needs to get done somehow and by someone. Ideally with a lot more oversight, but calls to outright disband the organization are shortsighted.

I'm also thinking long-long term. Terrorism isn't a seriously considerable risk to an individual American, but what about in 50 or 100 years? What if in the distant future, terrorist groups or weird death cults like Aum Shinrikyo are able to more easily develop or obtain biological or chemical weapons that can dissipate into a large urban area quickly? What if multiple attacks like that start to occur? We need to have some kind of counter to that.

In terms of pure risk vs. reward trade-off, the current state of affairs isn't really worth it, but it's not hard to envision a future world where terrorism is truly a constant and valid fear in a first world country. That future hypothetical doesn't justify anything NSA does right now, no, but I think it (along with various threats from competing superpowers) does justify the need for some implementation of a security agency and intelligence community in every modern country.

Also, you're kind of mixing up different quotes that aren't really related to the specific issue.
The prosperity bit is key. Prosperity being jobs in this case.

When the risk of unemployment or underemployment is higher, why live somewhere that limits your opportunities? An expensive house or a cheap house is irrelevant if you are unemployed for a significant stretch of time and can't afford a mortgage period.

When I moved to the Bay Area, I justified the increased cost of living as the sunshine tax as well as the cost of reducing the risk of unemployment in a down economy. Even in the event of another crash specific to the tech industry, I guarantee I'd have an easier time getting another job out here compared to flyover country.
> Fundraising, after all, has slowed

This was definitely true Q2-4 last year, but it's made a come back. It feels to me like 2016 was the year where fundraising "corrected" (more accurate than slowed) from "prioritize growth above anything" to "show a path to profitability or you're screwed".

I'm even starting to hear from founder peers that I should raise because the seed market's hot again. I think it could easily heat up even more.

Theranos is a scandalous outlier. Yik Yak had no path to profitability. Have you been watching the stock market recently? AMZN, TSLA, FB, GOOGL, AAPL have all set huge all time highs.
I agree they are pretty different languages, and you give some solid points as to why: CLOS, dynamic scoping, multi-methods, etc. My point was your link mentioned exactly none of those examples, in fact gave no examples at all, and so wasn't very convincing.

The second point that the argument that Common Lisp is the "true Lisp" because that's why it was made is a faulty syllogism. Just because that was their goal of creating Common Lisp doesn't necessarily mean that is the case.

And Common Lisp isn't the only language with a standard: Scheme had an IEEE standard less than a year after ANSI Common Lisp, and has several RnRS updates since then.

Long story short, I don't think any language should be considered the "true Lisp". Maybe the original Lisp, but even then only as a technicality. And trying to declare a language as the "true Lisp" comes off as a little insulting to related languages and a little bit arrogant. It implies, to a certain degree, that you look down on other languages as lesser, inferior, failed attempts to reach the true zen of Lisp. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but as a fan of Scheme (and Common Lisp too!) it reads that way.
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosopher of the Limits of Computers, Dies at 87
Who are your developer heroes?
Do you have idols you follow? Who and why?
The CTO left in 2015. He was a big open source guy so I wouldn't be surprised if that had an impact.
That's what you use when you don't have the richer information offered by HTTP sniffing.

TLS versions tell you someone is one of a billion users of iOS version X; with HTTP they can piece together session cookies across every site and service you use, or with active attacks use things like the Verizon injected tracking code uniquely identifying you across devices.
Dr. Heinz Wolff on Optical Computing
This narrative might feel true, but isn't supported by actual data.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/think-millennials-prefer...
In a world where hostile countries, some of them superpowers, also don't need permission to spy on non-citizens, what other option is there?
US Dept of Justice literally prosecuting a woman for laughing at Jeff Sessions
Economies of Density: A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network
They just re-focused all their effort from being a militaristic power to being a trade power.
You'll see increased await (from iostat) with noisy I/O neighbors.
I'm glad your friend is able to do that. It makes sense to directly fund the research when you directly benefit from their findings.
I'm curious about the direct funding process. Does the lab approach him saying "we need money for this equipment"? Or is it like an ongoing regular donations sort of thing?
He was just giving those as examples of ways in which Scheme and Common Lisp differ. Which is a fair point. Of course it does raise the question: are those features essential attributes of the Platonic ideal that is True Lisp, or simply nice addons Common Lisp provides?
True.

But for some American born engineer who has family outside of SF/NY/LA, being able to work remote while staying near family/hometown would be awesome for himself, the hometown and ultimately residents of those mega cities too as they would see some relief in ever increasing cost of living.

Google/Facebook/etc have to pay a lot higher salary to keep talented engineers in/near SF because of much higher cost of living.

Those employers probably COULD save $ if they paid lower salary and allowed full remote working. Even if they flew in the engineers on chartered jet every other week and housed them in hotel for regular face-2-face time in HQ, they still probably would end up saving $ in the end. Like instead of paying salary of half a million a year, they could pay $300,000 and use the $200,000 for chartered jets and housing when they are visiting SF.
Posting this here is an exercise in futility. It will go right over the heads of the people who need to be exposed to these sorts of opinions.
Technically, you can raise $3 million using YC SAFEs, sure. And you can raise from 3 different investors.

Not to be pedantic, but a SAFE is not a "note." It's not debt. That's part of why startups like them (and many investors do not).

Even though I'm a lawyer, I'm the first to point out what startups can do on their own. A simple SAFE round can sometimes be done without lawyer involvement, if you know what you are doing. But $3 million is a serious amount of money and it's worth getting a lawyer on board for something like that.
It IS the middle of nowhere when you're talking about tech jobs. How many people live in the city is irrelevant if they don't have jobs for you there.
"More practically, HIV has such a high mutation rate, that it's likely very difficult to target every HIV sequence with a sequence-specific Cas9 therapy. If the Cas9 guide sequence is too generic it'll take out stuff besides HIV (stuff you need). "

Unless I'm grossly misunderstanding how CRISPR works, there's no conceptual reason why you couldn't target multiple sequences at the same time, with a cocktail method. That is, rather than trying a single overly broad match, you could go for (say) ten highly-specific targets at the same time. A particular HIV virion would then have to differ in all ten regions to avoid getting chopped up.

Just spitballing here:

Google tells me that HIV has a mutation rate of about 4E-3 per base.

Let's say you choose target sequences ten bases long (I don't know what the maximum practical length for the technology is, nor the minimum length you'd need to reliably tell HIV from human, and Google isn't any immediate help there).

The probability that there will be a mutation in that sequence is then about 0.04. However, if you target ten sequences simultaneously, the probability that all ten would be mutated is (0.04)^10 ~= 1e-14.

That's likely more than good enough to assure that there weren't any resistant mutants around (if by some chance there are...lather, rinse, repeat).

This is hand-waving, to be sure. If you have better numbers, plug them in.

Edit: fixed fat-fingering the calculator.
Is Picolisp a Lisp? Is Newlisp a Lisp? Is Emacs Lisp a Lisp?
Maybe it's because I first learned programming in the 1980s in BASIC, but I'm pretty used to the idea of programming languages having dialects. Apple ][s, Commodore 64s, and Atari 800s all supposedly were programmable in BASIC, but it didn't mean you could take a program written on one and expect to run it without changes on another.