skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Even if I were a gambler, I would prefer by far Blackjack or Roulette to Poker. I'd rather play against the randomization of the equipment than directly pit my skill against a bunch of people that I know are all far better at playing that game than I am.

I'll just continue to invest in robot-managed index funds, thanks.

If you can't use the cryptocurrency effectively without buying in early, there is a fundamental problem with it, and the people who bought in early probably should not have done so. So the obvious conclusion is to not buy in early. Those stories I keep hearing about people who made fortunes off of Bitcoin are fun and inspiring, but there is no way I would have been any of those people, because I didn't have the extra disposable cash to invest in Bitcoin at the times when it would have been most advantageous to do so, and it has never matched my risk profile since 2009. If it had been invented in 2000, yeah, I could have been a Bitcoin millionaire. But that's not how it worked out. Those grapes aren't sour; I just couldn't reach them.

And right now, this very instant, the next big thing could be staring me right in the face, and I would still choose not to invest in it, because I don't have enough investment money left after the sure things, boring but prudent choices, and dubious but exciting possibilities to put a single penny into moon-jumping unicorns that fart nuclear-powered rainbows. I'd rather have 98% confidence of retiring at 65 than make a gamble between between retiring two years from now and never retiring at all.

So cryptocoins can be the playground of the young and foolish, the old and treacherous, and the financial geniuses.
Living in San Francisco is a luxury people trade discretionary income for.
That's not accurate. My gross before moving out here was less than your net. I doubled that with the move. A larger fraction of my take home is consumed by rent. That take home is less than twice my previous take home because of state taxes. Food, utilities and commute costs are all about the same. (Edit) My wife (who's salary didn't change when we moved) and I support a family of four, including private school tuition and service a mountain of school and medical debt and live just fine. And I'm saving twice as much. Our gross household income is in the neighborhood of $200k, give or take.

Although I do agree that the common low $100k range for engineers is a joke. We're underpaid by a significant factor. Just like most other low status workers.
It's funny because this is the EXACT line the left has been parading around after every single islmaic terrorist attack. They say "not all muslims! don't blame islam, it will only radicalize them further!". Whether this line of thinking is right or wrong it means people on the left will have some thinking to do (or mental gymnastics).
Unless they can explain to their shareholders what the benefit of that overwhelmingly long-term investment will be I don't see it happening. Maybe after SpaceX becomes a massively profitable company in the same vein as the tech giants, but not before.

Bill Gates also made it painfully clear that he wants his money to go to issues we can resolve right now here on Earth like renewable energy, clean water, fighting disease, etc, which is why philanthropists like him avoid funding anything space-related. They want to witness the fruits of their investments within their lifetimes.
Didn't that already happen?
And?

> Amazon Europe, which is based in Luxembourg and aggregates the billions of pounds of sales the retailer makes from individual countries across the continent, reported a pre-tax profit of €59.6m last year. As a result the company, which clocked up €21.6bn in sales across Europe last year, had a tax bill of just €16.5m.

> Amazon is a hugely successful business but makes slim margins on the products its sells – the company recently warned it may report a loss in the third quarter – and with low profits comes a low tax bill.

These are about the only lines in the article that really matter.
I find their methodology to be seriously flawed.

It doesn't matter what dataset you are using to base it off of, if you think that the average person pays $1,263 per year in total healthcare costs you're crazy. I'm paying something like 3 times that as a very healthy 20-something.
Hard to compare apples to apples with equity. Some equity is worth close to nothing, others (RSU) are pretty much just like cash. Many places give a little equity every year, others only your first few years, then you don't get any anymore (so does that equity count in your "total" or not?), for others it's totally random and variable.
>Likewise for SF, their estimate is $1250/month, which will rent you a garage or a converted living room with a curtain separating it from the kitchen in the far reaches of the city.

You found a garage for $1250? Link? Is there an open house soon?
I thought this was already happening. Right after AlphaGo beat Lee, I remember hearing about it. Did they give up on having their AI playing SC2? I wondered if that would work, since it seemed to take turns in Go at the same speed as a normal player, I wondered if it was trying to compute the most likely winning move each turn and the late game implications of those moves. If it tried that in a fast paced game how it would deal with the speed. It obviously would need to develop a pattern of pre-baked strategies that would win it the game. Would it play the same build every round or would it realize that changing things up each match wins it more games?
The funny thing is, you might be wrong about black guys and NBA suitability. The reason is, black people hit puberty earlier, and that might cause them to be selected for and receive extra attention and training because of a temporary athletic advantage, in much the same way that hockey players born in a certain part of the year (the oldest among their cohort) tend to be.
It's transparent, but doesn't seem to map 100%. Last time I used it a lot of stuff in my tmux config didn't work, like keyboard shortcuts.
> But do they become investigative journalists because they want to work with documents? Or do they become investigative journalists because they want to uncover the truth behind stories, and documents are simply tools used as part of that?

Does it matter? A major component of investigative journalism is following document trails and understanding records/laws. If you don't have the stomach for it, your chances for success are greatly diminished.

It's not different from tech. Programming could be reduced to a "tool" for success, too.
How do you figure out an equivalent standard of living?

For example, in housing, if you were living in a standalone house in the second most desirable neighborhood of Raleigh of 2000 square feet on a quarter acre lot, is the equivalent a standalone in the second most desirable neighborhood of San Francisco of 2000 square feet on a quarter acre lot?

If not, how do you define equivalent?
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.6135118,116.875538,1429m/dat...
Use Firefox ESR.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
Do you fly between NC and SF every day?
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> The problem is exclusive to serverless.

That's simply not true. You can accidentally run up huge bills with EC2 instances too. One typo in your CloudFormation templates could spin up a ton of reserved p2.16xlarge's.

Of course, if you consider EC2, and other AWS services, to be "serverless" too - you're not physically managing your own racks after all - then, yeah, fair enough, it is a problem exclusive to these "serverless" IaaS/PaaS providers.
Including libobjc2, which is a substantial improvement over the old GNU implementation. And it's MIT licensed!

https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2
Best comment here.

Sueing their CEO for no real reason but just as powerplay to get back control feels like an act of pure desperation from a mediocre VC but not Benchmark.

Would love to know which partner at Benchmark triggered this. Then we have a name to this insanity (Gurley?).
Yea the info for Seattle is also really off. 10k for a years rent. I'm paying 2400 a month for a two bed flat. You could definitely get it down quite a bit but I doubt you can get anything decent for around $900 a month.
As a Philadelphian, this is pretty awesome!
I'm just indicating how strongly people feel about their views these days. I wouldn't even unfriend someone for saying offensive things about conservatives, even though my whole family is that. People have gotten very tribal and very righteous about very trivial things (like chicken nuggets).

K-12 teachers still deserve first amendment rights. They have a right to say controversial things (outside of work hours)...that's precisely what the Constitution protects. This isn't ethics...this is speech. If folks haven't learned to accept that some people will sometimes offend you with their opinions and that it's okay...then I question their ability to function as adults. The teacher did end up getting reinstated but not before some lengthy dragged out debacle.

We can't say the first amendment applies to everyone except teachers or CEOs or (insert arbitrary profession here). We can't say progressive views are inherently less offensive than conservative views and proceed to shut down conservative speech through intimidation or termination. That's ridiculous. It doesn't matter which class of people were offended.

If all that matters is who is offended the strongest, then all you're doing is setting up an arms race for which side can get the most riled up. You're not encouraging constructive dialog and nobody is growing. Offensive speech happens.
You can't safely redirect your car after a minor accident if you were decapitated by the windshield.
I don't think the fact that your coin-flip martingale strategy didn't work is evidence that "there aren't any betting strategies that can last over the long run".
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I'm just more of the opinion if Norway tried it and failed with the full weight of their government behind it from the educational level down, one of the most gender equal places on the planet, why does Google think it'll work?

http://vimeo.com/19707588

Their conclusion was ultimately that the more equality and freedom of choice you have for genders, the more uneven the split between genders in careers as preferences tend to skew by gender. You can't force 50% of women to like or want to be engineers. So the more they tried to give women a choice, have equal pay, etc, the greater the imbalance became. It certainly means many women can enter STEM positions when they want to and are just as good as their male counterparts, but the opposite was true as well, as they weren't just complaining about lack of women in STEM, but lack of men in fields like healthcare and teaching. The cognitive dissonance is that "equality" means everything has to be 50/50, and attempts to do so is naive and wasted effort.

That said treat people individually. If a coworker sucks at their job, stop thinking about it in relation to their gender, their are plenty of men in tech who just cruise or who are barely adequate or worse. Don't make it about their biology. But at the same time realize you can't force diversity either, it has to happen organically, all you can do is maybe let there be a little bit of fertilizer to help the process, and setting quotas or special programs just for certain people is not a formula for equality or natural increase in diversity or interest from typically under represented groups.

That said, its obvious Google is just as much trying to protect a legal position, these programs are in response to law suits or protection from law suits to say "we're doing something about this", even if they don't produce results. Just like the terrible sexual harassment videos and anti fraud videos you have to watch at work, that are more to check a box when legal issues arise then actually fix the problem (because in the end a company can only control a person's behavior or choices so much).
Thanks from yet another MeFite.
You can just report this stuff and I'll fix it. The top users seems to have misconfigured something, or else is posting from the far future.

I like spammers a lot because I can take their $11 and then shut down their account. Unfortunately, I don't get many.
But isn't it merely about fuel? I mean, in space you can just accelerate to most any speed significantly under light-speed just by running the engines. Right?
So, fun observation. The site estimates the housing cost for year to be ~$18k. LOL. It's kinda difficult to get a room (in a shared apartment) in an accessible part of SF at that rate today. I guess it's worse than mediocre.
I think it's a side effect of the baby boomers. In the 50s and 60s they were young and learning the ropes, so style tended to be fairly similar to the old. By the time the 70s roll around the old guard is retiring and these designers are now free to experiment wildly. Stuffy and boring is out, flashy and exciting are in. There is a whole generation of young adults driving the market.

Then the 90s roll around and those designers are getting older and realizing that most of the experiments didn't pan out and that there is some value in the old and boring.
Please do tell me when Poland captured USSR territories.
Novice here: I really want to try this Starcraft API but I don't know how to start. I believe this uses more reinforcement learning and agent-based models (which honestly I am not familiar with yet) What are good papers to get started on this?
"4 Reasons Why The Answer To This Complicated Social Science Question is More Subtle Than You Think - The Conceptual Clarification in 3 Will Shock You"
Looks like Seattle it the best for software engineers? Don't care how much I'd make in Seattle.. I'll pass on flannels and death cab for cutie.
I believe what he means is he work remotely for a SF company and gets SF pay.
Per the lawsuit, Kalanick, stated explicitly, in writing, that the seats would have to be approved by the board, and he reneged on that. Whether his written word can still hold him accountable remains to be seen, as it seems like this agreement wasn't made as a part of the vote to create the new seats but as a part of the deal where he vacated the CEO position.

All in all when your biggest, earliest investor sues you, despite you having built them a fortune, you have probably been grossly negligent in some respect.
Yes. You can't take a bunch of money from investors and then lie to them and tell them their money's doing great when most of it's actually gone, even if you do later manage to hit it big and pay them back. Imagine the kind of precedent that would set if this weren't considered fraud. "Temporary Ponzi schemes" would spring up everywhere.

Maybe it changes the charges and the sentencing, if there is no indication that the person sought to personally profit or steal from the investors, but lying is lying.
I'm sure it's a little of both of what we said, and other reasons as well.

One has to ask: did the conservative Googlers who felt intimidated or harassed by the hug session report that to HR or management?

If the the CoC is selectively applied then people have to prove it, not just have a hunch about it and moan about it. They need do what every minority group in the past has done: collect stats, show the evidence, and take action.

If this is in fact happening, then I wish them luck, even if I disagree with some of their politics.
Nah, you're missing the obvious here. Now that AMD has THREADRIPPA and EPYC, the way has been cleared for other 90s-gamer-chic names.

The merger of Intel and NVIDIA would obviously result in a company literally named "Chipzilla".

They partner with rapper DMX for a new promotion for their next series of Extreme Edition chips, Jen-Hsun walks onstage to the tune of "-X gonna give it to ya". As a snub to the Vega t-shirts, everyone in the audience receives a free Coffee Lake-X leather jacket.
You can only sell once a quarter though!
I know deterioration of the solar panels is a concern for land-based installations. I imagine that could be accelerated by sea salt, waves, and storms.

I'm also curious how cloudy/foggy ocean sites are compared to ideal desert-based land sites like Nevada. That also might be a factor.
There's probably some bimodality here. Nobody pays 104/mo in insurance but I bet 50% pay more and 50% pay $0/mo (due to their employer paying it).
Agreed. 30-40% of my total comp is equity and bonus and I've got friends with higher at big papa G and the likes.
It's grossly underestimating the rent. $1,284 a month would be a hell of a deal in the bay area
Depends on where the rent is. I rent on the Peninsula. Show me a place in SF where I can rent a 1500 sq ft home for $4k/month and I'll show you a seedy drug alley in the Tenderloin.
What if (purely hypothically) all consequentialists could agree on the same set of standards for what constitutes positive and negative utility?
150-160k is pretty reasonable for salary in the city. Most engineers I know are making around that or higher.
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It depends. Bear in mind those taxes include a public health system and public education among other things.
Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick for Fraud
I think that's a brilliant idea.
*Before carry
Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.
This guy promises 10 use cases but he only mentions three.
Just because they both use the word "open", does not make them structurally the same. Show me a ranking algorithm I can't game...
I find less issues when I `rm -rf node_modules`, `rm package-lock.json` and `npm i` again... usually when I manually edit my package.json packages.
Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

I hammer mine though and it handles it with complete aplomb.
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Undoubtedly there are safety concerns in the form of "what happens when the power steering breaks?" With a conventional car the steering gets super heavy, but it's still manageable by most people, especially if the car is moving. In a fly by wire vehicle it's literally a "Jesus take the wheel" moment.
The Manhattan one is quite amusing: https://www.mytrove.com/ny/manhattan/cheddar/software-applic...
This is indeed the case, playing around with new tech. I've been a happy customer with DO for years but my own website was the ideal case to try out the whole serverless thing. As my website doesn't get much traffic so it'd cost me next to nothing. I do agree with most of the comments here though and the $5 DO box is the safest choice. I might have been a bit too excited with the new things and failed to think logically :)
Benchmark sues Travis Kalanick
But that's not the point. In this case it is quite obvious that the lawsuit is being employed to gain power and control. I don't see a clear fraud.
So, I couldn't get a good feel on how much of the issue is small sample size?
When you put it like that. But a big chunk of that is (I presume) mandatory pensions payments? So just a little insane?
According to Glassdoor[1] and Payscale[2], the median/average for a software engineer in SF (not counting equity) is around $110K. So the SF number seems in the ballpark, a little high.

1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...

2: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...
With this trading frenzy on gdax and on coinbase itself, why do they need round D? They are charging hefty fees on coinbase, and some fees on gdax too. It's "pure play" , there's no fixed real world expenses
As someone who pays $1800/month in rent, I believe you.
I assume those numbers are per employee by gender, right? If my company managed gender equality we'd be right at the limit if all the desks were full. Maybe that's why the facilities guy gets cranky if people take over meeting rooms for contractors or interns?

A certain online retailer of books and counterfeit electronics has slightly larger bathrooms and a similar layout in its new buildings, but worse gender equality. They may actually be in violation.
"4 Reasons Why The Answer To This Complicated Social Science Question is More Subtle Than You Think You Never Thought Existed"
Big FYI for all you devs - this is how content marketing is done correctly. This page is quality content (similar strategies provide useful tools) that is tangentially related to a companies product/service. BUT there is no call to action, no pitch, and no mention of the actual company being a company - it comes off as a publisher.

The benefits to this are: links for SEO, links/blogs/news articles about it, discussion around the topic, and some percent of users who are interested in the subject will poke around the site for more info... and they'll find out this company will store and move your belongings for you.

The best example I can think of is (was) crew.co

https://crew.co/blog/how-side-projects-saved-our-startup/
While MeFi has its own blind spots, it is definitely one of the nicest communities online because of:

(1) $5 fee to sign up.
(2) It doesn't believe in absolute "free speech" like Reddit or HN. The moderators will tell you to cut it out.
This was elevated to meme status by a mention in Jaws, but neither the FDA or the National Fisheries Institute are buying it.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-09-29/entertainment/...

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39179/are-cheap...
Maybe referring to the Benchmark <> Epinions stuff.

Though from what I know Benchmark's rep is pretty solid. Particularly as a king-maker, with Uber and Snap.
I made an API that allows you to programmatically monitoring the status pages of hundreds of web-based applications: https://statusbot.io/

Hoping to add a bunch more services and webhooks soon.
https://www.lyft.com/shuttle
So you're saying Uber would have been in worse shape if the founders had been replaced by adults?
Anyone know how Firefox upgrades can be disabled on an Ubuntu system?
Saying that Walmart has "notoriously bad margins" makes it sound like they're working at a disadvantage. Walmart's margins aren't low out of necessity. Their entire business is purposely built around low margins, and refusing to hire full time employees with benefits, etc. It's intentional on their part - there is no sob story about margins there.

Same goes for Amazon et al. The business strategy is to crush every small retailer by operating at slim to no margins, purely to make it impossible for anyone else to compete.
Can't say it's high on my list of places to live, frankly. My mother already escaped, and never looked back.
are the four reasons on eight different pages?
I rented before, so I considered equivalent to be the same sqft (900f sqft), same quality neighborhood. I'm sure you could save some by getting a roommate or smaller living arrangements, but that wasn't what I wanted to compare.
I built https://www.liquidityapp.com/ over the summer of 2015: "Liquidity is a smartphone based currency built for Monopoly and all board and tabletop games.", and I actively maintain it. I have enhancement ideas too, but I barely have any time to put into it these days so it is primarily just maintenance.

It's one part Android client and one part Scala backend (though there's some Scala in the client too). While I'm fairly pleased with the UX and UI I was able to create (given that I really don't consider them my speciality), the backend is the bit that keeps my interest now. That uses Akka, Akka Persistence (i.e. it's event sourced), and Akka HTTP among other things. The clients communicate with it via websockets.

The details aren't exposed to users but it uses public key authentication so as to not burden users with passwords/PINs. Each app generates a keypair when first used, and QR codes are used to make changing account ownership simple.
Just like most Audis? One has the feeling that Audi would mount the engine in front of the headlights if they could get away with it.