skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I laugh at 120k offers in SF, that's like making 65k in a reasonable city.

Even if you think you can easily do better, you shouldn't "laugh" at salary offers in that range. The vast majority of people in the U.S. won't ever -- at their current (and for many, basically immutable) education level -- stand a chance of making anywhere near that much.

And being as it's just a matter of blind luck that we've been born at a certain time and place that enables us to make that kind of a salary.

For basically playing with shiny toys all day, and all.
Same for Seattle, $10518 of housing implies a rent of $876.5 per month

But the average rent[1] in Seattle is $2210 per month for a 1Br, $2803 for a 2BR , so even sharing a 2BR it's still way above the $876.5/mo

[1] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-seattle-rent-tren...
He's projecting his own skepticism onto others; assuming since he reached his conclusion "many others" must have as well.
Like 30% or more of my comp is equity (autosold the instant I get it). I make more in equity alone than I would in total if I was back at my hometown.
not sure where you're getting that from, x86 chips are swappable with little design considerations apart from socket, TDP and in very edge cases - IO.

As for hololens, the current version is approaching EOL anyway.
The cost of living is about to skyrocket in Seattle, if I had to guess.
> There's way too much money at stake here for this to be driven by grudges, emotions, or even reputations.

But that's precisely what happens. It is human nature. Money makes people emotional, greedy, envious, and short-sided. It takes exceptional and very rare discipline (see Warren Buffett) to not be emotional in investing/business.
Nice. We looked at vue-notification for Timestrap[0] and will probably use it whenever we get development rebooted.

[0] https://github.com/overshard/timestrap
Tab groups is possible with the WebEx system, Vertical Tabs might work, but yeah Tile Tabs is probably out.

I'm kind of in the same boat as you. Vimperator is how is how I use my browser. Vimperator is pretty amazing in terms of functionality, but is also a good illustration why the WebEx migration is needed.

Vimperator can reload every tab every 10 seconds, create a temp buffer and open it in vim for textareas, control other extensions, modify headers or content of the HTML, control the chrome, and so on. From a developer or security standpoint having a plugin that can do this is insane.

That being said, I don't know what I'm going to do when the legacy stuff is fully deprecated. The plugins I use have become so involved in my workflow that I can't really picture Foxfire without them.
Those seem like excellent reasons, but I really don't like that they keep repeating after a while.
Personal notes from the earnings reports:

- ARPU $1.05 vs 50c y/y

- rev. $181.7m, est. $185.8m (range $154.0m-$206.0m)

- adj. loss/share 16c, est. loss 15c (loss range 8c-19c)

- Short interest is down to 28% of float, financing rate 3.5%, 2 days to cover

- daily active users (DAUs) rose to 173 million in the quarter ended June 30 from 143 million in the year-earlier quarter and 166 million in the previous quarter. Unfortunately this will be compared with Instagram Stories, now one year old, had more than 250 million users as of Aug. 2, up from about 250 million in June and 200 million in April.

- $5.4M IN `OTHER' REVENUE MOSTLY FROM SPECTACLES

They seem to continue to follow twitter in amazing product awful company meme.

They tell people to look at their non GAAP numbers and then continue to roll out poor non GAAP numbers.

On the holy shit scale of things:

- Stock-based compensation expense ($)2,237,149,000 for the year, that's not a typo!!!!!

- Snap’s revenue was up 153 percent from the same period last year, rising to $181 million. But the amount of money it lost also ballooned, growing about four fold to $443 million.

So they increased revenue by selling dollars for 90 cents. That's not too encouraging.

Their stock just touched $12 in the after markets. You've got to feel a bit for the employee's who were locked up due to earnings.

The Positive:

One positive note, could be that now that they have release their disappointing earnings, the shorts may cover, providing the stock abit of a bump over the next week to allow employee's a tail wind that they can sell their shares into.

- Every Snapchat daily user creates more than 20 messages

- Evan and Bobby have agreed not to sell anymore shares this year

- 250 million snaps are saved to Memories every day
According to the "Methodology" section, the data is based on:

> May 2016 Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Department of Labor. Unless otherwise specified, the salary is the “Mean Annual Wage” column of the data set.

This data also has a 75th percentile and 90th percentile column. It would be cool if the visualization worked with those parts of the data too, because the salary gap between the 50th percentile and the 90th percentile can sometimes be huge.
The problem with thinking about it on geologic timescales is that humans (and civilizations!) don't exist on geologic timescales.

It's going to be a tough sell to tell people "You need to pay an extra tax for your entire life so we can fund construction of an interstellar ship that your great grandchildren might witness the launch of, but won't arrive at its destination for a thousand years after that."

It's hard to imagine anything that could motivate the human race to do that short of the Vogon constructor fleet announcing that it will arrive within a couple of centuries, ready or not.
This is a rather broad debunking of the p-value approach to establishing scientific knowledge, and not specific to social programs/programmes.
Have you tried the Hololens? It's exactly what you describe in the last sentence.
I occasionally create digital art:

https://www.artstation.com/artist/rayalez

and make video tutorials about it:

https://www.youtube.com/digitalverse

Computer graphics is still by far the most fun hobby I've ever had, I absolutely love it, it's like the most engaging computer game you can imagine times 100.

There's not much profit in making art(unless you want to do it professionally), but it's an awesome way to spend my free time, and sometimes it generates some ideas I like to share on youtube.

If you want to get into it, I highly recommend checking out SideFX Houdini. It's a bit technical, but extremely powerful and well designed 3D software, kinda like emacs of CG applications.
Prob because the lifetime of the fund that invested is coming to an end? It's usually 10 years
Yep, I have a very good deal at this co-working place: http://flywheelcoworking.com/

They're also very involved in the community and encourage a lot of small companies.

[Edit] I'll also say a good perk is this awesome beer on tap for free to members: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/11036/65993/ ... going to go get one right now! Wish you were here to join!
I have been wanting something like Youtube Red for Soundcloud, where my listens directly correspond to payments for the creators. I had hoped that Soundcloud Go would be like this but I believe most of my money goes to record labels.
Hyper-V sockets internals
You mean this, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_interferometer
Threadripper is an enthusiast/workstation SKU. If you really want to go nuclear, Epyc gets you 128 lanes. Boom.

(Also note that Threadripper is only 60 lanes, the other 4 go to the PCH, so the most you could do is x16x16x16x12. I'm unsure if Epyc gives you a real 128 or whether it's actually 120 or something.)
Git v2.14.1, v2.13.5, and others – security fix for CVE-2017-1000117
"Oh By"

https://0x.co

I continue to believe this is a useful tool even though we've sold fewer than 100 of them ...
Saying NPM is badly designed is a bit simplistic. As much as I prefer yarn over NPM for all kinds of reasons, NPM's problems have more to do with being born out of a solo project that pre-dates most things we take for granted in Node today.

There was no CLI argument parser, so Isaac wrote his own. There was no cross-platform tar bundler, so Isaac wrote his own. Not to mention that there just weren't any best practices in Node or JS for any of what NPM was trying to do yet.

Yarn has the classic second mover advantage. The yarn devs learned from NPM's mistakes (there were more people involved than you see in the commit logs -- they even talked to some NPM people during development) and built on the vast ecosystem that exists now.

I don't like npm Inc and I think there's a serious conflict of interest in having NPM bundled in the Node Foundation's official releases (people using the NPM client is in npm Inc's best interests, whereas Yarn isn't controlled by a single commercial entity). But blaming NPM's problems entirely on developer incompetence is unfair.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14973506 from yesterday
As an aside, Jessamyn is also the daughter of Tom West (of Data General and "Soul of a New Machine" fame).
As a former social worker I think most social programs don't work because they try to deal with multifaceted problems from a single point of action. It's like trying to fix a suspension bridge by replacing one cable while all the other cables are broken.
Ah TechCrunch, deciding to fill the gaping hole of bullshit that ValleyWag vacated.
I did something similar on a much smaller scale for census, bea etc (only the DB part).

Here in the US, federal gov data (census, bea, bls etc) can be used in commercial products as far as I know. Might be the same in Canada, worth looking into?

Great idea
You will be ok. I have no intention of moving there
I mean...a really, really good lottery ticket which has a much higher chance of paying out than your standard powerball ticket. It's true that there is variance in your pay if it's partially made up of equity but it's clearly not worth nothing, which is how I would evaluate a lottery ticket in practicality.
You don't need to move the coins to an exchange to effectively lock in an exchange rate for them.
Yes, I first came to this conclusion with regards to healthcare (which is where I have seen the sausage made).
No, but it would be technically correct to say there's no visa requirement because even with a visa, they wouldn't let you in.

Wikipedia color codes it as "admission refused": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Israeli_...
It is impractical to cover every line of code with tests (it would get too expensive). Futhermore, in this case the author would have to test production config interacting with Amazon servers rather than a piece of code.

And even 100% code coverage doesn't find all possible errors.
Our New Tool Finds Over £100m in New Cost Savings for the NHS
built a slack slash command to spew out excuses (inspired bigtime by giphy) - mainly because I was unemployed and wanted to learn how the slack APIs work - https://xqz.es - I put a blog post together covering how it came to be [1] - also forced me to learn how to get Let's Encrypt certificates.

Also built a twitter stream reading android app [2] - it's butt ugly but was super useful while I lived in Beirut and there was the occasional bomb going off (at the time, that's kind of settled for now, and I no longer live there) - there was a lot i intended to do with it but just sort of... stopped.

[1] - https://arahayrabedian.github.io/writing-a-slack-application...

[2] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rollingbla...
>The big ones are exercise, diet, and sleep. These do more than most nootropics.

Thanks. Yeah, I've recently entered a phase where this trifecta has been sub-optimal for me, owed to work. There's been a clear impact from it, so I do need to make some changes there.

But, even when I was on top of those, I felt I needed a boost, especially with focus and clarity. Memory too, really. I'll look into the L-Theanine. Also been looking at DMAE, Ginko, CoQ10, Huperzine A, Gotu Kola, and choline.
Aren't posts supposed to have the same title as the article? Should be: "What fraction of social programmes don’t work?"
> Apparently unhappy with merely removing Travis from the CEO's chair

Travis wasn't removed from CEO chair. He resigned temporarily due to passing of his late mother. He himself said multiple times once he is done greaving, he plans to come back.
I wonder if someone could come along and make an app to connect people possessing home chargers with people traveling long distances in EVs, like a mixture between GasBuddy and AirBnB.
A networking IO abstraction library in C - https://github.com/apankrat/tcp-striper

Based around an idea of IO pipes with minimal semantics (duplex, reliable, ordered) that they can then extend to implement other traits like IO buffering, atomic send, packetization, compression, encryption, etc. [1]

This then allows merging together pipes of different types (by attaching the output of one to the input of another), which combines their traits and yields, for example, a reliable datagram carrier with in-flight compression.

With this it also becomes possible to write a simple IO bridge [2] that relays both data _and_ operational state between two pipes. The bridge in turn can be used to implement all sorts of interesting things, e.g. proper TCP relay, SSL tunneling proxy, TCP trunking proxy, etc.

[1] https://github.com/apankrat/tcp-striper/blob/master/src/io/i...

[2] https://github.com/apankrat/tcp-striper/blob/master/src/io/i...
I'm in a similar situation in Columbus, OH. The jobs are here are generally more boring, but ultimately more profitable, at least for me. Especially given that we have Ohio State here, I wouldn't be surprised if the job market continued to improve here. I don't think I'd start a business anywhere else.
>There will be no single event, over time people will simply
not use their local currency any more in favor of BTC.
Slowly, over time, the population will lose trust in fiat
and gain trust in BTC. This may occur over decades or more.

The BTC network processes about 3 transactions per second. Bitcoin advocates will tell you this doesn't matter, or it can be improved with a future fork - which by then why not just make a newly designed protocol/altcoin network entirely ?

(Consider: is what they're telling you based on their current investments that they'll sell off after you've bought in? Now think of what happens when a hedge fund, or other early adopter who has acquired several thousand coins or if there's whales who've traded their way to now own %10 of the coin supply in the network. What happens if they divest and crash the 'value' of this coin 'investment'?)

The great thing about cryptocoins is you can create an improved protocol and if it's better then previous protocols, the users will migrate.

There's a lot of misinformation flying around because people are trying to spam their investments into their cryptocoin service networks which they've bought into (or engineered a marketing pump and dump scam, i.e. premined ICOs like antshares) in hopes that they can later sell at excessively inflated prices because of some arbitrarily limited "supply" which a programmer just typed into the software running their network.
this is a fool's errand. today's statistical inference based "AI" is a probability distribution that squishes itself through cracks in data to "learn" a path of least resistance. subject-object reasoning systems, such as English, are cut from a different cloth. semantic language is a discontinuous function.

Asking asking an entity that can only discern its environment through continuous functions to explain itself is like asking an amoeba to play piano.

Machine Learning is a statistics renaissance, it is changing the world, but "Explainable AI" is a notion that is totally divorced from where the field is at atm.
I read the thread you linked and I'm not sure what you want us to see. It looks like Sacho is being completely reasonable and you two are having a rational, honest discussion.

I don't see anyone "rationalizing marginalizing women"

It looked like the other poster was trying to evaluate the arguments rationally, that's not the same as rationalizing.
It would be nice to have a little plain English description for each example as well. E.g. the suppress example[0] kind of does this with a comment, but the Enum example[1] isn't really clear about what advantage it creates over Python 2.

[0] http://whypy3.com/#2

[1] http://whypy3.com/#8
Nope. You still have people in this thread posting about how "oh the left is just too mean so I became a client skeptic" "oh well the scientists get paid and they don't have 100% of the answers so I'm a client skeptic now"
I could probably be convinced that a bit of decline has occurred (though, its a different world with some different priorities/urgencies, too), but "shadow of its former self" massively overstates it IMO.
Scientists create the first mutant ants
Why could it plausibly explain the differences? Seems like a huge leap to me. Basically there is some evidence that men and women are different, on average, to some extent, at the neuropsychological level. There is no evidence linking sex-related neurological traits to being good at or enjoying writing software.

On the other hand, there is evidence that cultural biases specifically discourage women from entering, and push women out of, STEM careers.
It is also important to mention that this project happened because of the falling oil price, and Statoil needing to find alternative stuff to do. Not diversify their sources of income, but literally give their enployees something to do. A lot of highly educated people lost their jobs in Norway during the last few years, and a windpower project would be one way to get public funding and avoid firing too many employees (this is of political interest, Statoil don't need half of their eployees). I am not saying the project would never have happened, but it probably happened now and not in ten years because of this. Bottom line: this is busywork imposed on a huge, slow, old fashioned oil company which will never be able to compete comercially.
Mixed results.

Some change. Little or no acknowledgement.

Thouggh I think most of us have no idea of commss and support at Google scale: 3 billion plus profile registrations -- this is Android, Gmail, Youtube, etc.
Interesting! Thanks for the concrete example. It's bad enough trying to convince managers as to the specifics of why some product doesn't work for your project.. even worse when said product has great marketing.
Could the Square Kilometre Array, by measuring in the radio frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum, actually be capable of directly imaging the nearby spectroscopic signatures of exoplanets?

I thought you needed to be capable of directly imaging the light of an exoplanet in other wavelengths in order to do that.
Large turbines like the Vestas V164 8.0MW have nominal rotor speeds of ~10RPM. This sounds pretty slow, but with a blade length of 80M, this corresponds to a tip speed of nearly 200mph. Low RPM doesn't mean low tip speeds.
What is the lifetime of the fund? Just the amount of time that the VC firm has said they would have all the money (and more!) back to the limiteds? Clearly that's not a hard deadline, right?
I created the bitbox console, a DIY console for which I and a few others develop random games, which is starting to get some traction. The console is based on baremetal ARM cortex m micro. And then I ported a few 8bit emulators. Edit: added url http://github.com/makapuf/bitbox
Part of a larger series covering 10 ML use cases
>Why are we here?

What do you mean by this?
I insinuated no such thing. Bluster is an appropriate username for you.
the original text is in Russian, but translate.google.com could help you to get the idea in another language...
You're the second person I've heard make that claim but I don't think it's anywhere near as accepted as you're presenting it.

I personally don't see a quality hit so much as the general decline in all sites which aren't Facebook and when Google chose to cut their ad revenue by ~40% which forced them to lay off moderators:

https://matt.haughey.com/on-the-future-of-metafilter-941d15e...
Benchmark has a very strong interest in not publishing more negative stuff about Uber than they absolutely have to to gain control. They're the largest shareholder and need to liquidate their position in the near future; any wrongdoing beyond what they absolutely must claim to get a judge to hear their evidence behind closed doors is not in their self-interest.
It would be good to get your read on whether this is absence of evidence, or evidence of absence. To me (I work in stats) it sounds like the former, but the general reader could get the impression of the latter, especially given the title. What's your take?
I hadn't even considered that point of view ... quite interesting.

EDIT: I have to say, I bet this happens quite often in fact, especially with software.
1. imse.co - internet movie search engine. Its google for movies. Allows for search queries like:

- johnny depp fantasy movies on netflix

- english scifi movies on netflix

- english movies about lawyers on netflix or hulu

- movies similar to the pursuit of happyness

2. activify.org - search engine for movies, shows & music.
It might not be perfect, but it is the best way we have come across.
VC fund lifetimes put a hard time frame of <= 10 years on required liquidity, forcing founders (who have given up board seats to get those investments) to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do. It's a pretty perverse incentive, and I see the attraction of not taking outside money.
The sun isn't so good around Norway.
The japanese committed millions of atrocities in World War II. Their government denies virtually every single one. Even if the Chinese exaggerated the rape of Nanking, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (judges/prosecutors from all of the Allies, including Russia) put Chinese deaths at over 200,000 in that one brief event.

They tortured, starved and murdered POWs, the Bataan Death march being just one example. Unit 731 tortured and murdered prisoners with biological and chemical warfare experiments.

And you keep saying they were ready to surrender. I agree they wanted a peace deal. But only if they could save face, and retain the territories they had conquered. The Military Facists who ran the government and the Emperor refused to consider unconditional surrender until the bombs were dropped. And even when the Emperor changed his mind, part of the military facists attempted to revolt and stop it.
It includes $19k of "Misc." in the "Basic Expenses" category, which is nearly $10k more than most other cities. It's unclear what that is exactly, but they say the data comes from expenditures from "professional and executive households". I wonder if it says more about the behavior of professionals and executives living in Manhattan than the true cost of just living there.

Also the transportation category for Manhattan is 50% more than the NY Metro overall, which is weird given that one of the benefits of living in Manhattan is not needing to own a car.
This blog post is by the Ben Goldacre of Bad Science and Bad Medicine books.

Prescription data for the English NHS is now open. You can find that here: https://openprescribing.net/

There's lots on patient safety, and also cost saving there. But it's been a bit trickier to get information to GPs about what they should actually do to save money. This tool helps them.
Do you really use those 2700 lines of CSS code? Just asking, as I usually trim all the extra code, and use the one I actually need, in all my single page apps.
Not 'crazy low'. But it also depends on how you 'share' how much you're making. Do you include the bonus you got (even though it might not be there next year?) do you include what your RSUs count for even though when you go to sell them they might be worth less than when they vested? Etc.
Too bad you depend on the bridge and the commute is hell. Taking BART in is also hell, unfortunately.