skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hold what could be an unpopular opinion and what some might call irrelevant, but I think a big factor here is tech. To preface what I'm about to state, I work in tech myself and I know many of you are, and I'm not blaming tech from an outsider point of view.

There is a disproportionate amount of companies starting or moving into SF over even just the past 5 years. Before, if you're starting a tech company, it could be equally common to start it in the peninsula (maybe even more so), say Palo Alto or Mountain View and the like. Nowadays, the default choice is SF and that's majority of the cases by far.

I think collectively, the whole environment is pushing towards building SF into the New York of the west, except instead of banks and the financial industry filling up the town, it's tech companies. I'm not saying it's the agenda of anyone in specific (in government or otherwise) to build out SF that way, I'm saying it's what we're all collectively doing, whether intentional for some of us or simply riding the waves for others.

SF is a city that used to support many industries. Tech is obviously the one industry that is almost the top earner overall (or might even be the absolute top earner by industry). It seems like an obvious factor (and a big one) that's driving anyone not in tech away. In some cases, at the lowest end of the income spectrum, they might not have anywhere to be driven away to other than to the streets. Another anecdotal point is that recent popular article about how <$105k is considered low income in SF.

If this is indeed a factor, one of the things we collectively as part of the tech industry can do, is to intentionally spread ourselves away from SF, into other areas of the bay area. I get it that people want to live in the bay area for its climate and all the conveniences. There's no reason why there can't be tech companies HQ'ing in East Bay, for example. (and I'm not talking about just Oakland, but everywhere from San Leandro down to Fremont, or further east like Pleaston, Livermore, Walnut Creek, etc.)
> together we consistently hit the low-end.

But that's two people, so really you just hit double the low end?
ES6 is mostly just syntax sugar and standard library stuff compared to ES 5 just like CoffeeScript. TypeScript is about about static analysis (and required metadata called type annotations in code which allow the analysis).

Big difference is that ES 6 has indeed replicated most solutions of CoffeeScript. However so far I can tell ES won't be ever(?) statically typed and therefore it won't ever(?) solve same problem space as TS.
I wondered at first because the text had some gaps in it, and thought that images were not loaded because of my strict uMatrix policy. After enabling the usual suspects (ajax.googleapis.com) didn't work, I inspected the gap and saw that it was just an ad container. And in fact, the same ad service is advertised below the article text.
Lets watch as this goes down to 0.

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Say what you will about Facebook but I can't deny that I use their products to connect with others. Facebook messenger and groups along with Facebook events has been a part of my life in better ways than AIM, Hangouts, or BBM ever was.

Congratulations to them for hitting 2 billion.
Kansas corn farmers awarded $218m in Syngenta lawsuit
"We're making progress connecting the world, and now let's bring the world closer together."

.. Making the world, a better place!
Maybe now we can put to rest the "coding while drunk" discussion that occurs on HN from time to time:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=code%20drunk&sort=byPopularity...
Create a wiki and add a few recipes. Create a shopping list from those. Then make those recipes during the week. Work up to around 4 or 5 recipes per week. After a good 6 or 8 weeks, you'll have a pretty good rotation of menus and shopping lists. When you have a good shopping list, you can knock out shopping in a hurry. If you have a good set of recipes that you like, you will get used to making them and it will go faster after a while.

After a few rotations of the 6 or 8 weeks of menus, swap in some fresh recipes to try. eventually you can add the ones you like to create a longer rotation.
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This is true, but becomes a lot less relevant when you're playing in Huh's league. It's not that easy to make a move even from theoretical high-energy physics to pure mathematics. You can read about some interesting success stories in Quanta, but I think most people who try this end up leaving academia. There's a large cultural gap they have to cross, and most will never integrate enough to survive the job market.
World Cup 2014 probably beats July 20, 1969 as far as pure viewership numbers go

Edit: 600 million watched the moon landing [1], 3.2 billion watched the World Cup [2]

[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5852237/Apollo...
[2]: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2015/m=12/news=2014-fifa...
Trending on Product Hunt: Create Visual Content in Minutes Not Hours
I've also been following EMC2 and polywell ever since Bussards google talk. Last I heard Dr Park and team had verified whiffle ball confinement (i.e. That what Bussards hand waved was really happening) and were seeking funding for a large machine. Does anyone have more info on polywell?
Who drew the logo?
In the real world, one of the only reasons people get pentests is because another company is forcing them to. That results in a document saying company B is secure.

This is a very effective approach at cutting through ass-covering. Company B has to fix the security problems uncovered in the pentest. There is no other option. And I've seen it take products from "SQL injection by typing an apostrophe" to "It'd be very difficult to exploit this app."

If that's not proof that pentsts are effective, then I'm not sure what would be.

We like to say that security is a mindset, but developers have way too much on their mind to be aware of every possible security vector. It's easier and more effective to punt and let us worry about it instead.
> The entire language is unsuitable for new development?

Arguably, yes. Look at the outcome: a component specifically intended to improve system security has been found to have multiple extremely severe vulnerabilities. If Microsoft can't write memory-safe C++ code, even with PREfix at their disposal, maybe high-privilege code shouldn't be written in C++.
What would happen if you threw a cup of soda on someone in NYC or Boston, Trenton or Baltimore? I think you'd learn very quickly not to do that. Cultivating a culture where that sort of response by the person on which soda is thrown is frowned upon certainly doesn't help.
Microcenter web site
What is happening here. Updating the site during the day? Yesterday said my IP was blocked.
That seems like an awkward semantic break to compensation for presentation, as well as error-prone in size-matching.

Better if the browser knew about the header and could position the linked anchor accordingly. In the absence of any facility to do that, just ditch the header.
Just a minor nitpick - your numbers appear to be several years out of date, as of January 2017 it's 7,499.

[1]http://sfist.com/2017/06/26/2017_san_francisco_homeless_cens...
Nothing. It's trivial to sign up and implement recaptcha, I've done it several times. You just get some code that shows a captcha.
I considered it, but for what I was doing, a K/V store that also has fast key prefix lookup was perfect. Plus, yeah, what I'm doing is currently super write-heavy.
Seems like there is a kill switch: https://twitter.com/PTsecurity_UK/status/879779707075665922
>city could just hand out 30k per person, save a lot of money, and the homeless could just rent a place.

Have you ever tried heroin?
Ben Spielberg, a Teach For America alum and former member of the Executive Board of the San Jose Teachers Association, works on issues related to inequality, economic opportunity, and full employment with Jared Bernstein at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

So he's not an economist, not a statistician and is a political activist having an agenda that this study seems to undermine. I don't have enough knowledge in statistics and econometrics to know which team did better job - Berkeley or UW - but if I had to choose, I would certainly not make the choice based on a word of a political activist without relevant background.
With no redundancy, no backup and no way to extend storage. I'm not sure how you'd archive the internet with low-range dedicated server deals.
When Microsoft was monopolizing the world, the government stepped in. Now the EU is going after Google. What is the government doing about Facebook?

Imagine if the government hadn't stepped in to limit Microsoft's monopoly; today there would be no Facebook; everyone in the tech industry would be a Microsoft employee and everyone in the world would be using Microsoft's "Human Social Monitoring System"... and we would chant praises to our dear leader Bill Gates.
Not so much an "end" but more a bifurcation. Most people aren't hindered by a locked down machine. There will still be a market for computers like people on HN use, but we will be the minority.
"A 10 story building blocking MY view? No way!"

There are quite a few skyscrapers in SF, actually. A new huge one was built for Salesforce recently. Building affordable housing isn't a priority, though, apparently.
You're talking about advertising pushing useless shit on people they wouldn't want? But they don't see the advertising until they've already searched for the item!

That's either some magical advertising that makes people search for things before they've seen it. Or you're wrong.
Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) 2.0 Dataset for Deep Grasping
Just being honest and giving them 2-3 weeks of notice is probably enough.

You could also ask about going part-time for a little while, that may turn out to be a win for everyone - you still have a bit more income, and they can take longer to transition your knowledge and workload to someone new.
I don't have the money for premium restaurants. I'm quite poor. But I am a gourmand and tend to have personal relationships with people where I eat regularly. Guilty as charged.

So, um, yeah, it sounds like your idea of quality food and mine are not at all on the same page. I think there are ways to get quality food at a reasonable price (I think this because of the aforementioned not wealthy status and years of eating well anyway), but I have serious trouble imagining that a meal-in-a-box delivery service would be it and I have difficulty imagining your idea would be it either.

But thank you for clarifying.
I think it's being presented in the hope that a future Congress will run with it. Or that his constituents will appreciate his ideas. It is beyond this Congress to fix the system they've brazenly manipulated for their own benefit.
I can't believe I made that mistake as I even know the difference.

It was confusing and I thought it was the education one because they said:

* Hire a Co-op

* I have never seen a technology co-op. Sure I have seen grocery stores, farms, insurance companies etc but never seen a tech co-op.

* The article mentioned students.
It's not about you and who you trust the most, it's about if this makes sense or not. The EU is not infallible, they are subject to political pressures and there have been enough of that in this case that they started asking the wrong questions and reached the inevitable wrong conclusions, which are easy to welcome since they serve their protectionist instincts.

Google is not a utility, it's not the water company nor the electric company, or even your ISP, it's essentially a website one which you are free to use or not and the price of admission and switching and opportunity costs are nil, same as for all competing websites, so dictating what Google's website can display and declaring it's contents illegal and worthy of billion dollar fines makes zero sense.
Study finds correlation.
Article mentions caveat that correlation is not causation.
Headline explicitly states causation.

This is certainly a very interesting correlation, and demands further study. Perhaps there is a causal link. But it's just (predictably) irresponsible journalism to head such a piece with a factually incorrect headline.
This is part of a whole debate which you find by searching for "personal data as counter-performance". For example:

> The German Minister for Interior, Thomas de Maizière, has voiced many of the concerns of Member States over the concept of “private ownership of data” and the risk this might entail for consumer privacy. Minister de Maiziere cautions, “If I can sell ‘my’ data, there is a danger of privacy being up for sale. Then at some point, only the wealthy will be able to afford to opt out, while the economically weaker are effectively forced to put ‘their’ data up for sale”. The DCD proposal also conflicts with the rights and remedies detailed in the UK’s Consumer Rights Act, which become invalidated when consumers exchange personal data in return for access to digital content. While the UK government has stated that it has “no fundamental objection” to applying these rights to situations where consumers exchange personal data for access to ‘free’ digital content, it has also said these rights could “unduly inhibit” that “very innovative business model”. Most recently, Giovanni Buttarelli (EDPS) published an Opinion on the Commission’s proposal, warning that “individuals should not be required to disclose personal data in ‘payment’ for an online service”.

https://cdt.org/blog/ec-proposal-to-pay-with-personal-data-c...
How Technology Has Changed the Face of Politics
But they define "moderate" as 2 drinks/day for a man.

That is 14 drinks a week which puts you in the second highest decile for Americans!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think...
Bitcoin gives you the freedom to allow you to choose intermediaries if you wish. It allows you to be in control of your money.

Also, did Darknet Markets exist before Bitcoin? no. Bitcoin has helped grow alternative markets that never even existed before.

Bitcoin is possibly not solving any problems that you have, but surely it is solving it for others. Why else would it be worth $2,000+ ?

You are looking at Bitcoin and blockchain technology from your view, but are failing to realize all the use cases that may not be of interest to you.
"What if they used a zero day and prevented a 9/11 size 3000 person, multi-billion-dollar terrorist attack?"

What if terrorists use a zero day to blow up a nuclear plant?
Most English websites I visit are Canadian. I'm not on social media but I can argue that most content for that is regional as well.
It seemed pretty clear-cut to me, from the well-written article :)
I had a complete brain fart and thought they were talking about education co-op which is more like an internship (sadly I skimmed the article... poorly).

I am surprised I wasn't downvoted (I deserve it) to oblivion for such a mistake.
Microsoft has plans on moving some of its Azure services to run on ARM, among other things for Windows Server on ARM.[0]

> "We feel ARM servers represent a real opportunity and some Microsoft cloud services already have future deployment plans on ARM servers," he wrote ahead of the conference.

> "We have been running evaluations side by side with our production workloads and what we see is quite compelling.

> "The high Instruction Per Cycle (IPC) counts, high core and thread counts, the connectivity options and the integration that we see across the ARM ecosystem are very exciting and continues to improve."

[0] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-server-on-arm-mi...
Does this little update to the bookmarklet solve the issue? I'm not a webdev, feel free to fix it.

(function () {
var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');

for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed') {
elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);
}
// 2017 update:
if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky') {
elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);
}
}

})();
I'm really excited about String enums. I've been avoiding enums in TypeScript until now, since every time I've wanted to use them, I realized that a literal union was easier to use when the times come to log or persist the value. But with this you keep the string representation, and get a typed constant at the same time.

Dynamic imports is pretty huge too, that should come in handy for a lot of people.
http://sfist.com/2017/06/26/2017_san_francisco_homeless_cens...

It's more than 1 in 5, in fact it's almost 1/3rd of the homeless that have 'moved' to SF.
But this ruling is specifically about companies with market dominance, so it does very much not apply to smaller firms.
EU fines Google record $2.7B in first antitrust case
I don't know the answer but I know how to get it.
A little off topic, but with the acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon should pick up one of these services to get people into cooking at home. With the complaints about the estimated v real time for prep and cleaning, they should also include a bunch of videos like ChefSteps that show how to effectively cook and clean at the same time.

They should also sell knives and other kitchen tools.

Lastly, these meal providers should have an app with a running timer that gives directions while you cook. For instance, 'while onions are sauteing, wipe cutting board and crush garlic' --- just like a GPS but for cooking.

The major hurdle for these services is that there is still a certain level of skill assumed -- but if they aren't teaching these skills, the consumer doesn't really come off any better.
I'm so glad I'm still in the majority.
Houston has a homeless problem too... I dont know what we can do. Im thinkign about starting some volunteer work program
That's MAU not DAU
> Has anyone seen a detailed writeup on how they are performing the x86->ARM64 recompilation

It was somewhat outlined in this channel 9 video: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171
If you're seeing trouble at 10G of data, you've got bigger problems than finding the right distributed database.
> Just the opposite, faster startup time and lower memory footprint for the JVM via modules would be great.

Why would modules lead to faster startup time and lower memory footprint? Java class loading has always been lazy, if you do not need a class it will not be loaded. If anything modules should increase startup time because additional runtime checks needs to be performed and increase memory footprint since additional metadata needs to be referenced. Modules do not affect memory layout of Java objects.
"The problem of sustainability for open source scientific software projects is significant."

Yeah, William Stein can tell these stories too: http://sagemath.blogspot.cz/2015/09/funding-open-source-math...
If I were an employer hiring minimum wage workers in Seattle, I'd be looking to dump my employees worth $10/hr and hire some worth $15.

Assuming my ability to raise prices is capped due to out of city competition, then my only choice is to do more with less, which means hiring more productive workers.

To me, that means hiring better people. People who don't need training, can multi-task, who can deal with having more work than time.

So, sorry kid looking for your first job, I just hired someone from outside the city who was making $15 an hour because they where worth it. I can't afford to train you anymore.
How long did that take you? Was was your low point?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643712
This point cannot be underemphasized.

Edit: that should be 'overemphasized', of course.
3d touch on the far left of the iPhone, and it'll go into the app switcher. If you swipe fast to the right you'll switch straight to the next app. Again, no idea how you're meant to discover it.
It's just a covert trade war with the US. The US fines VW, then the EU fines Google and Facebook and maybe Apple too. I don't like Google's practices or their ad network but this is just about taxes and clawing back some money after Google used their Ireland subsidiary and banks in the Caymans to avoid paying some taxes in the EU. In the UK they got a slap on the back last year - some 130M pounds in back taxes.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/22/google-ag...
A big update of spaceship-zsh-theme
gigging musicians are paid in cash really often
We have this problem in the .NET world. Accord.NET is written by a brilliant academic and programmer. It's well written, and has a good API, but it is largely the effort of this one dude, with minor contributions from a smattering of other fellows.

Again, it is great in general, but it has bugs and rough edges here or there, and a lot of people don't trust it for production. I wish there was a way for people to be properly compensated for building and maintaining such vital scientific and mathematical computing software.
Most depressing news I've read today...
Pardon if I don't give someone credit for asserting they support "social change" without specifying what they're changing. It could mean anything from "ban mosques in London" to "free condoms with every middle-school lunch".
A signed malicious update would be a Big Deal(tm), but the entity would also be able to survive it by claiming it was negligence. I don't believe negligence has not been significantly penalized in the marketplace, aside from perhaps CAs where damage can be limited (prevent new certs from being seen as valid, plenty of other options for sites). There's no such option available for penalizing Microsoft, and their lock-in is significant enough to limit nuclear options for doing so.

"We've revoked the signing key that was hacked by blah blah we have the utmost regard for security and adhered to best practices" and everyone would probably gloss over it for one instance.
I asked James Gosling about SIMD (MMX and SSE) back in the year 2000 JavaOne conference. He said the answer is method calls, and that the compiler can use whatever instructions it likes. (I submitted the question online, and he answered it on stage, and I later saw the recording; I didn't attend, nor meet him in person. He seemed a bit annoyed that the question was too simple.)
That's an important point. With mobile applications that support offline usage, you can no longer assume a single global source of truth, and the application as a whole is AP.

However, I'd argue that this tilts the balance even more in favor of a CP database on the backend. Even when the client application is not executing transactions on the database, consistency at the database level is what makes it possible to support secondary SQL indexes that work without surprises. An offline-capable mobile app buffers writes, moving the write to the server out of the critical path so server-side write-latency is not as visible to the user.
And maybe there are is such thing for text processing?..
Could someone write a whitehat worm or virus to get into all those vulnerable Windows systems and close the door behind them by patching the hole?
Adding to the reason above, Facebook has been creating filter bubbles for years now. As a feature! Leading to the influence of Fake News and people who believe it.
> There are no bums in Belarus. Why? You aren't supposed to ask, they won't tell you.

It sounds like you're advocating for killing homeless people.
No. IT management owns this.
It's working! I didn't know about this credit and I'm fairly sure we qualify. I think many companies building internet infrastructure can.
Yes, this kind of business could create opportunities for a lot of local small businesses. To me that's much preferable over all-dominating national or global brands.