skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it helps to "step out" with correlation/regression to understand why something may be spurious or why you get the high correlation values that you do. In some cases, there is no logical connection between variables which leads to spurious regression. However, in this case, if you "step out", the reason for the correlation is pretty obvious.

There has been a lot of money pouring into crypto recently because most people are speculating on the space as a whole. Bitcoin's price is too high for smaller investors to make a significant amount of money on, but when a big Bitcoin move makes the news, those investors want a piece. They then pour money into the smaller coins, hoping to get a larger return on their investment.

All of this is to say that I think this is the opposite of spurious correlation. However, that doesn't make the correlation meaningful in any way. When ETH or BTC jumps and makes the news, the other coins tend to follow because the whole space is speculative right now.
Yes, it also attracts talent to your startup, especially at a time you can't afford to pay more. Assuming you write intelligently.
> Pao's story is important to tell, but she lacks the personal credibility for people to care.

This.

[EDIT]

All you downvoters... please do explain why Pao is such a relatable character whom we can all empathise with so easily.
There is nothing that says education will necessarily lead to better job prospects. It's simply supply and demand.

Vietnam had a population explosion in the past few decades and there are tons of young grads flooding the market. If the economy can't produce enough jobs for the supply of educated people, then they will face lower wages and worse prospects.

For example, if there is 1 job opening for a cashier and you have a choice of hiring a high school grad or a college grad, you choose the high school grad because you know they will stick around longer while the college grad will leave the first chance he gets.

In this scenario, the college grad has worse prospects than the less educated high school grad.

So then the question is why isn't the nation/economy producing more jobs/opportunities/etc for its educated young adults? Is it a structural issue? Is it monetary/financial/investment issue? Is it legal/tax related?
> just for the sake of jobs

It's not fun trying to sell stuff to people without good stable jobs (or even worse, without any jobs), trust me.

And if you can't sell it you're not gonna do it at all, unless you can start with the high-end version, Tesla-style. Which doesn't work for all things, or tends to not work so well if you're not Elon Musk...
Yeah, this. What exactly do people think should happen to an abandoned email address? That it gets put on some permanent blacklist because of 'future security issues'?

At the end of the day, it's like everything from addresses to phone numbers and domain names. Once you stop using them, they return back to the pool of available options for someone else to use instead.
I just wish they'd be honest about it. Shopify Payments has a long list of products they won't allow. But when it's Nazis, suddenly they're taking a principled stand that they don't pick and choose.
Can confirm (Poland), albeit it's not completely down for me, some requests are served.
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Here's another theoretically possible outcome of wide adoption of something without any patent licence:

Google is able to use other people's technology at will because nobody can afford to not use their stuff, and no startup that they decide to take technology from, and say "no more Google/Angular/Closure Library/etc for you" could realistically launch an effective lawsuit before they died.
Great to see major news outlets discovering the gaming industry finally
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Sure, I totally agree. What I tried to express is that there is probably a hiring and brand push as well for keeping React Open Source, not that it is the only one.
I agree. The only rational explanation I personally see for maximizing earnings at the expense of current life flexibility is to save/invest enough to retire earlier. But even then there are certain aspects of life that you can't catch up on later; being a part of your children growing up, establishing a strong bond with your spouse, remaining healthy by minimizing stress, etc
That is a big question, sure. I did not mean to handwave that problem away. I do not wish unemployement on anyone.

Still, the industry itself does not need to be saved just for the sake of saving the industry. In that particular interview one of the key points was the automotive industry, with the diesel scandal. If millenials don't want to buy these cars, maybe sell electric cars and invest into infrastructure projects, or invest more into car sharing (which they already do with DriveNow etc). All better than just using public funds to keep producing the same old cars, in this example.
I remember them being used for "extreme" overclocking.

Nowadays people in that department seem to have moved to the elegant solution of manually pouring LN2 on to a cup that sits on top of the CPU (or GPU).

How about water cooling?
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Packet.net can go one further - take those 8 cores and upgrade to 96 cores and 120GB RAM.. it's ARMv8 which will be next for OpenFaaS when the Docker support catches up :-)
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> Avoid the Helliconia books, they're a grim, hard slog.

Another data point: I enjoyed them.
Okay, so maybe the recommendation should be "build your app around the assumption you may have to swap individual dependencies out in the future".

Amazingly enough, this recommendation is also beneficial if it turns out there are patents covering Angular, Vue or Ember.
I have some, and I don't listen to music 90% of the time. Just the noise cancelling on is extremely effective.
> Pao's story is important to tell, but she lacks the personal credibility for people to care.

Was a clear way to say the story is relevant but unfortunate choice of storyteller
Because it's not about optimizing every little thing. It's about getting it good enough. And even when something sounds better in theory, it might not be that way in practice.
I'm surprised they didn't mentioned Machine Learning to further analyze the cryptocurrencies. Especially, that a few years ago an experiment shown, that if we would trade algorithmically on S&P500 via Machine Learning, traders could earn 8.5% returns comparing to the 5.6% by a random tactic. Here is a nice explanation: https://sigmoidal.io/machine-learning-for-trading/
Going over sme of the brands on that list, this was a bit shocking:
Applebee's founded 1980.
Buffalo Wild Wings founded 1982.
Hooters founded 1983.

The way they write these articles I thought these companies were as old as Macys (1858) or Sears (1893).
There are two kind of people: CTOs that feel like you, developers.
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And some fathers would LOVE a paternity leave (you would't have to force them). I just had a baby 6 weeks ago and took 4 week off (3 paid, 1 unpaid) of my own vacation time.

I understand that the baby is more dependent on the mother and childbirth is obviously more physically taxing on women, but I'd like to see more equality for men too. Women at my company can get 6 months PTO.
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I suspect it makes economic sense only when your workload is relatively elastic, having a relatively low duty cycle. The ability to pay less when you aren't actually using any resources is likely of more economic benefit as it becomes more fine-grained. If you aren't in that position, other models of lease or ownership of computing resources probably merit consideration.
> But you want humans to have children, right?

While I do, I don't think most of Western public policy does. It seems like we've fundamentally outsourced children to third world countries. Raising a child in any state is going to be much costlier than raising him/her in the Philippines for example.

When the children become economically valuable adults - or prove to have enough economic potential (say by being admitted into a university), they are imported into the West. In a very cynical way, this is sort of what immigration has become. Instead of tackling the issue of why people are not reproducing, public policy seems happier to drain the most economically useful citizens from other countries.
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I wear jeans to work on days when I have an important presentation to give and want to "dress up a bit".
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Not really. If you check google trends now you can see that it _surpassed_ Scala after the Google announcement and while it was a bump in trends if you extrapolate the trend it you can see that it will surpass Scala within a year. Higher kinded types in themselves don't have any business value so I don't see why it can't be displaced by Kotlin or Clojure. I don't see any "anti-intellectual hostility" either. Actually I'm working on a library which wraps Clojure's STM and persistent data structures. I like how Clojure works much more (you can opt-in to any extra features Clojure has to offer and they are not forced on you) compared to Scala. Clojure is a clean language with a very powerful and useful philosophy behind it, Scala on the other hand has a lot of tacked-on features and the whole language lacks consistency and philosophy (thus it lacks direction as well).
As CTO had limited impact on floorplan, bought $350 Bose for everyone in tech, got in trouble with CFO but wasn't fired ;-)
the false positives is "Brazil"-esque
Second that... Non-Stop is one of my all time favourite SF novels. I'm not so sure that learning some of the details would spoil much - in fact the novel was in some edition published with a name that gave a lot away. But I'll avoid it anyway.
He wrote "The Malacia Tapestry", a book I really liked. The Helliconia trilogy was not so compelling, though.
I agree that that would probably fall into the same category as saying that you've read the terms and conditions.

That said, the amount of dependencies you have locally installed is likely to be a multitude of the number you'd get if you'd exclude devDependencies, which I'm guessing don't count.
So that they can cash in on generation n-1's dislike of generation n. Stating it as the obvious fact that it is doesn't sell newspapers or generate clicks.
"Millenials are killing traditional news outlets."
It's true about the US, and if you go on unemployment the company that let you go can be on the hook to pay for about half of it. So you definitely want your ex employees to get another job fast.
You must be from somewhere where they have a functioning government. Here in the US they don't trust the government to be accountable, consequently they farm out its responsibilities to a host of unaccountable private companies.
And if a man comes to a woman's door in a bathrobe it's sexual harrassment but if it's the wother way around then the man should feel blessed for the honor right?
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I had an assigned room and desk in our family home when I was growing up.
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> But once censorship gets going, it is very hard to get back from there.

There is no coming back from there. It's a global authoritarian wet dream. They've been chasing this goal for two decades now, it's why they invented the fake concept of hate speech in the first place. Specifically the US is the only hold-out on what could be called near-absolute free speech. Once that kind of power of censorship is handed to US authorities, the entire planet will instantly get darker, due to the vast scope of the US influence on speech online.
>If I do X for someone I get paid Y. If I do X for myself, I get paid X*Z.

Note that Z can be less than 1.
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I'm not sure it has truly been any different except during times of national emergency, e.g. WWII. The states were always like separate little nations and people traditionally never described themselves as American but rather as Texan, Minnesotan, New Yorker, and people from New Jersey just kept quiet ;-)

I never understood Bannon or what his role was supposed to be or which parts of the platform he represented. In general, I'm not opposed to the US re-establishing itself after decades of not even trying, but I doubt this Administration is going to accomplish that. For me, Trump is the closest thing to a libertarian (and yes,I know he's not very libertarian--I mean, compared to the big government freaks like Clinton, McCain, Obama, etc.) we have ever elected, but I know better than to expect any good outcomes because big business and big government don't want to relinquish any power or create the conditions for wealth to trickle down, or really do any of the human-centric things that we need. The machine just blindly defends itself until the machine eventually breaks and we go through a collapse. I don't want there to be a collapse, but without real reform, that's where we'll end up.

ETA: Americans have been screwed since Day 1 of going off of the gold standard. The internal powers that run things were handed the keys to draining the people's wealth at that moment and we've never recovered and that was 1971! It's amazing we got this far.
That was one of the conflicts in that article. Several items were related to decline in restaurants - Applebees, Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters - and then later it says millenials are spending more money on restaurants and experiences.

So what are the new restaurants that young people are patronizing? Take out places?

And what are the experiences? Travel? Concerts? Movies?
At my current job, they plan to move office and to change the organisation from "open office layout" to what they call "dynamic layout", including no designated desks.

And they made some studies stating that an average of X% of the company workforce time is spent in meeting rooms, so they can cut off the number of desks by X% (minus a small delta).

People will even have lockers to store personal stuff...

I'm looking forward to see how that will work, have a good laugh and quit.
The BSD + Patents license doesn't imply anything about Facebook's own patents. React may not itself have any patents; that's not the point. The patents involved here are those not owned by Facebook. Facebook doesn't need patents on React to revoke your license to use React if you sue Facebook for patent infringement.

Edit: I see how my reading was wrong. The LICENSE file is still the same old 3-Clause BSD. The PATENTS file is what's new and different.
I was playing with tails and thought github just didn't allow tor usage. Github's service record is so good that I didn't even stop to consider this might be a technical problem with Github.
I think Steam's exploration queue is a great tool for finding off the beaten path games. While some may only go through it during an event where you get cards or something for doing it, I go through a few iterations every week.

It keeps track of games you've seen and up or down voted, so you're able to really explore the library without completely mindlessly walking around.

I've found some niche, not reviewed often games over the course of a year or two. I haven't explored how you actually get your game listed (so perhaps there is some required marketing by devs) but I'd recommend that effort if you have indeed made a game.
I really love using Laravel Mix [1], which is a wrapper around webpack. I know nothing about webpack, because mix makes it easy to just get going on my actual project instead of futzing about with configuration.

Edit: FYI, Laravel not required.

1. https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix/tree/master/docs#r...
That value would put the price per square foot (5" by 5", or 25"sq) at somewhere around $800 annually, around 10x the general office prices for SF or NY. I'm guessing the $20,000 figure is the up-front cost of the entire office, plus furniture, technology, and any building out they did, divided by the number of employees. Which is misleading, since that cost is usually amortized over 5-8 years.

Or your company is really getting screwed.
Is it not implicitly being done to maximize advertising revenue? I would say that in itself is unscrupulous
I think that's going a little far... HN/Reddit doesn't give me server logs either. Very few web properties do. Very very few.
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It's not the marketing and branding. It's the tech.

Cell phones don't attach to helmets and other sports gear: too big, not rugged, not waterproof, not aerodynamic. And it's really hard to text your friends while the phone's strapped to your head.
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I agree and I disagree at the same time. The problem is we did not find a solution yet to cope with the challenges of the next industrial revolution and the global competition.

The way the economy is interconnected is so fragile that it really scares me.

Economy is really a scary game especially in the age of behemoths and we do not really know how to deal with the wealth inequality. An entire nations might find themselves in a position of not being able to compete with large international conglomerates. Smaller nations are less likely to have more than 1 or 2 large corps of their own and what happens if 1 collapses / gets out-competed / bought by the competitors.
We have already seen what had happened in Finland with Nokia. Sure the situation is not that bad at first. Finland is still one of the richest nations. But it hit them really hard. Their economy is "stagnating" and the unemployment rate increased.
> the Unix design philosophy isn't just for software

I have mixed feeling about the "Unix design philosophy" in software. And I'll sure as hell fight to not let it invade other aspects of life!

I happen to like "expert generalist" software and tools, and just as much I like "expert generalist" people.

I can't wait to see the reversal of the "worse is better" and "efficiency first" philosophies... even if this will likely coincide with the brink of technological singularity and the extinction of bio-humans, I hope I'll see the short as it may be age when we use technology to engineer plenty, richness, artfulness and hedonistic excess in all areas of life instead of the current artificially synthetized scarcity in all things for the purposes of "efficiency" and "accelerating growth".
It appears to be down only for some regions.
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I have the GitHub status page bookmarked. Take from that what you will.
How is email even remotely comparable to FB use?

It's not even addictive.

This is like saying you taught your mother to enjoy mint-flavoured soda water ("a glass of water is just as good for thirst") ... as a way to defend having to drink alcohol to feel accepted by your friends.

Oh and in a lot of cases, the fear is not even real, you just believe you need FB. Your friends might just surprise you yet.
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The eclipse will destroy everything we hold dear! It started with the poorest failover system known to man!

GGit hub deserves every piece of criticism they get. How they can receive so much funding and help and still manage to go down so many times every year absolutely baffles me.

Of all the services I pay for, gitlab might be the best one in terms of bang for buck.
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When everything is craft beer, nothing is craft beer. The term means about as much to me as gourmet these days.
I don't find that call for discrimination in the text. Are we reading the same document?

When I read it, he mentions conservatives only in the section "Suggestions / Stop alienating conservatives" where he says:

In highly progressive environments, conservatives are a minority that feel like
they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility. We should empower those
with different ideologies to be able to express themselves.

It seems to me that you are misrepresenting the memo, as so many others have done. Perhaps you have read some commentary, many of which also misrepresented it, and not the memo itself?
Again, we just shift to the meaning of "being a dick", another subjective term.

If you want to pin down a concept, you can't just deal with easily categorised instances - the real distinctions exist in the grey areas.

There's a multi-dimensional gradient between polite and impolite, and where the thresholds lie is determined by personal value. Pick points far enough to either side, and most of those thresholds will fall within - but it is in the "grey area" that they disagree. That is why an arbitrary, but unambiguous threshold is needed as a standard.
The problem is that you can't fire everyone who makes racist or sexist jokes from the industry since they will just group together and start new companies. Those companies will thrive until they become large enough to gain media attention, at which point it leads to another scandal with lots of firings and the cycle repeats.
I'm assuming 100 square feet per person. The office rent is quoted on an annual basis.
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This is a general NLP problem. People use language in more complicated ways than direct literal encoding. In the general case, it's a very hard problem, but hate specifically may not be so difficult.

People tend not to use phrases like "kill all the" in unambiguous ways.
Are you going to partner with a sales guy for Company 3? And at what point now, since you've already raised funding?
Good god, the social share buttons on the right partially obscure the article text. No way I’m reading that.
The problem is not finding a thing to sell. The problem is a sustainable growth model and revenue. You need to actually earn money to be able to re-invest.
Two that don't get enough attention these days: "Billion Year Spree", his history of SF, and "Hell's Cartographers", six writers writing about how they write.
Please edit the topic to summarize what he did, or what kind of topic he's relevant to. I never heard this name and therefore guess many others didn't either.
Some pages (like the github.com landing and userprofile pages) including user sessions seem to be working from here. But not browsing a repository via http. Dunno if git pull is affected.
United States. I've had every payment system from once a month (while working at a Unviersity), to the 1st and 15th of every month (small company in Austin), to every 2 weeks (Much bigger company in Wisconsin).
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It is EXACTLY the point, as the only thing that gets revoked is the patent grant - not the software license.
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Addiction versus having to put up with people defending their addiction as a "social habit".

It's like smoking in the 80s, with the ostracism turned up to 11.

The good news being, what seemed impossible then, we slowly seem to be winning the tide against smoking. Speaking as a (currently..) ex-smoker. If you remember we used to be allowed to smoke in restaurants (I can hardly believe it myself, sometimes), how the consensus felt back then, there is hope :)
My experience in the US is that I have been paid bi-weekly far more often than monthly. (I can only recall one position that was paid monthly.)
So did I. They are grim, but that's kind of the point -- it's a reflection on the tragedy of history and how people end up making the same mistakes over and over again.
Reminder to avoid the github monoculture and move to other git providers as a backup.

Gitlab is open source and has auto-pull from github
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