skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand I was only saving around 10% of my income in. Nowhereville, Midwest (similar cost of living to Nowhereville, FL). I moved to the Bay Area. I'm still saving about the same rate, but it's a percentage of more than double the income.

I doubt 40% of Nowhereville, FL salary is as much as 20% of Bay Area salary for a large number of cases. Developer compensation in Nowhereville caps out much lower than it does in the Bay Area (I'm talking base salary): figure in RSUs and other benefits (e.g. job abundance) and it's almost a no-brainer that a move to the Bay Area is better.
IMO a cleaning service makes living with roommates a much better experience, and given that the costs are split N-ways adds relatively little to the cost.
Archeologists hate him!

No really, they probably do. Archeologists have a love-hate relationship with laymen who hit upon artifacts. On one hand, a find is a find, and local communities can often point out likely archeological sites. On the other, these people might not handle artifacts properly, or fail to take notice of their context to the degree an archeologist might want, like taking notice of the depth at which it was.
> if it turns out we can’t trust the people who are making them.

...or if we can't trust the people who'll use them.

Self-driving cars and trucks are every Jihadi's wet dream.
Yeah, there have been a good number [1] and a steady stream of submissions about Bloom filters (and truly, the inevitable re-riff about Cuckoo filters), but this article is toward the higher end of the quality scale.

It's a bit odd that a data structure attracts this kind of attention, but not all of it is about self-discovery, and the fact that people feel writing about them belies the fact that they either consider it a novelty, or expect members of their intended audience to consider them as such. Hopefully with time, we will reach a saturation point where most people (including beginners) are familiar with Bloom filters because they've been formally taught or read one of these articles.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bloom+filter&sort=byDate&type=...
any source on this? that would be horrible indeed.
Here's my counter-anecdote. I hesitate to do this but I think it's nice for aspiring software engineers to have details.

I moved to San Francisco in 2006 straight out of college to work at Google as a SWE. I was $27k in debt (student loan + credit card). My rent was $1450 at the time (2 bedroom with a roommate in a nice part of town), and I took out a $26k loan to buy a car. I'm not particularly frugal.

I did well at Google, left in 2010 with >$200k saved, and used that to fund my entrepreneurial adventures from then til now.

I was very fortunate to land that job, YMMV.
Have you ever seen an electric car driver a few seconds after learning that a charging station costs half a pound per kwh (that's US$0.66/kwh)?

They'll be hyperbolic all right :-)
The most interesting thing from the bottom of the abstract.

This mechanism might be used by our tactile sense to identify materials and has implications for the design of tactile displays.
Plenty of successful freelancers make good money just by themselves (or maybe 1-2 junior people).

Great point. The underappreciated thing is how much stress bringing a few other people to your freelancing brings. Suddenly, you realize that all these things that are obvious to you (when you "flow" working alone) need explanations and coordination and planning and checking and ...

You may find yourself at a substantially reduced income (because you have to pay these extra people), but without the increased productivity / revenue to show for it. There's like this uncanny valley between freelancing and having a stable team / process structure (aka company).

For me, building a proper consulting company around machine learning / Python services took the better part of 4 years. Along with considerable stress & hair pulling. Sometimes I long for the solo freelancing days...
Kite – The smart copilot for programmers
Great list. The only thing that I might take issue with is #5: "5. Every decision must be made extremely carefully. Bad decisions cost money."

Taking too much time on decisions is a good way to kill a new company. Many, if not most wrong decisions you can recover from, and it's very difficult to know what the right decision is beforehand. So a lot of the time the "right" decision is just to do _something_ to learn what the real right decision is and then do that.
> no girls

Now consider: what would you do if you were already married and wanted to do this? (Meaning, move to the Bay with your SO, not leave them behind.)
Just do what Lotus Notes does: hide the button, but if you click in the same place as where the button is, it force-refreshes.
Good for TaskRabbit. They've worked hard for years
Did you find it harder to raise VC outside the bay area? We definitely did when we were raising for our Baltimore based company.

Whereas now that I live in the bay area, I see companies get funded all the time and think to myself they would never get funded if they were HQ'd elsewhere.
I have used them for text segmentation. It's an extremely quick way to test for membership on a set (30+ million tokens in my case) that would otherwise be too large to hold in main memory.
We use Balsamiq Mockups.
Idea for an app (what I thought this was going to be): you take a photo of your problem. That can be that your tie is untied, your plug's fuse is blown, your cable is frayed, your haircut is bad, your kid is having a tantrum, you've got five ingredients for dinner but you don't know any recipes, even some kind of problem you can see but don't know how to describe. The app uses some computer vision and heuristics to say "I think your problem is dandruff" and then does an appropriate web search and presents a video or a paragraph explaining a solution.
I'm sure they can, but they usually either like what they're doing and are OK with the pay, or have other constraints (do not want to leave the city, etc).
Sure. React Native made them have a great business model that covers a niche and solves a real problem. Thanks to React Native they could negotiate a better deal with Ikea.
Sigh.
The bitmex founder is brilliant. Read their newsletter, it's some of the best writing in crypto.
Your wife can meet you half way by getting some therapy for her anxiety disorder. I went to a CBT psychologist for four months to address General Anxiety Disorder, and it did a lot to make me aware of anxiety driven behaviours and teach me coping skills that were actually pretty easy to apply, in my case.

"Emotional efficiency" is probably not the best way to address this, but at root, if your wife's anxiety is causing problems for her and for your relationship, that's a treatable issue. It's as if your wife has a sprained ankle that's preventing you two from going on walks, and neither of you are addressing the sprain.
What appealed to me about this article was precisely the fact that it stuck close to experience and whenever it went 'broader' provided caveats. Your comment somehow strikes me as the opposite of all those qualities.
Libya was failure of aggression. Where was there diplomacy happening? Hillary Clinton's quotation on the diplomacy was, "We came, we saw, he died."

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/3/the_libya_gamble_insid...
This is an interesting move, a design/manufacturing/retail company buying a labor marketplace company.

Ikea has grown a ton based on having widely appealing products at extremely low prices. Their growth over the past decade has been driven by expanding their physical retail presence on the one-giant-store-per-city model. The store build-out on this model may be done, at least in the US. Still, many potential buyers aren't willing to make the pilgrimage to Ikea because it's far, or simply because you can get an OK entertainment center at Target instead.

Key to Ikea's brand is the memorable in-store experience. If they can match that in their in-home shopping apps and in delivery/assembly/install services, they could grow significantly. If they believe this, expect them to leverage TaskRabbit not just to streamline delivery/install but to offer new Ikea-branded services. A few ideas:

* New apartment? Use our app to pick and place furniture, our designers to get advice, and our people to deliver and install everything.

* Remodel mockup services. Not sure how your kitchen layout will look? Have us block things out using cardboard boxes to you can walk through and feel it out.

* Organization & storage. Have someone go through your basement and inventory everything. Use our app to route each item to donation, resale, or storage. Once stored, app helps you find an item whether it's in your basement (shelf 3, bay 12) or retrievable by delivery-on-request.
How Crossrail is using 3D-printing to build its stations
Because it sucks to hold a plastic pen slipping around in sweaty hands?
Ubiquity AmpliFi Teleport
You say she is a meticulous planner, and maybe that's the case, but maybe you are missing the point(as is most of the other commenters here). the point isn't whether it's Restaurant A or B, the point is you have to make a decision about A OR B, or even going out to a restaurant at all.

Someone has to think about: lets go out for dinner tonight @ restaurant A. Women generally do that thinking, because like you said, you just don't care. The point is, she is still doing the emotional labor, because she has to think about dinner tonight for both of you, and if it should be a restaurant, or making it at home or whatever.

or TL;DR: She is still holding the responsibility of making sure you both eat dinner.
This whole topic mostly boils down to partner choice. If a person is messy, that person is messy. If you are tidy, and not willing to compromise, a messy person is not a good partner for you. It's going to be a pain point, he won't change, you won't change, people don't change. A relationship is a game of compromises. I don't know where are you from, but where I'm from there's a prevalent culture where people think that when they find a possible partner that fits some of their criteria, they can change him/her in the future, when they're married, to make a perfect significant-other; and I feel many commenters here have similar mindsets. This is insidious and toxic, and produces perennially unhappy relationships. If you won't love and accept a person as they are, better don't mess your life up, nor theirs.
sed 's/\n/;/g' and tada, one liner
40% of $45k is 12% of $150k, and that doesn't value in the experience and networking opportunities of working in the Bay Area
YouTube Limiting Ability to Promote Crowdfunding Pages
BTC is easy. There are a million sources for it. The altcoins are the hard ones.
In the interest of security we've had to take on a white glove approach to senior execs. No we won't allow you to use the same shitty password. Their assistants handle the password changes.
> NK isn't some rationalistic actor.

I think they are, from their perspective. First, non-rational actors don't survive to establish and hold political power, for years (generations for the Kim family) in dictatorships where failure means death. Kim Jong-un's behavior would be madness in a democracy and where we care about fellow citizens, but it's successful (by his terms) and makes sense in a dictatorship.

Second, consider the history of U.S. regime change from an outside perspective:

1) Iraq didn't have a nuclear weapons program; the U.S. said it did, invaded, and overthrew the regime.

2) Libya did have a minor nuclear weapons program. In an agreement with the U.S. (and maybe with others too) it gave up the program. Soon after, the U.S. bombed the Libyan military and helped the opposition overthrow the regime.

3) Iran had a very capable nuclear weapons program. It gave up the program in a treaty with the U.S. Now the U.S. is at high risk to renege on the treaty, continues to threaten Iran, and continues to talk about regime change.

It seems that no matter what you do, what the U.S. says, or what international law is, if the U.S. doesn't like you then it pursues regime change. That's the Russian point of view, too, to an extent. It's openly discussed that perhaps the only way to protect yourself is to own nuclear weapons.

(As a side note, when people question the value of following international law, this is it: If the U.S. reliably followed international law, NK could trust that a deal to give up its weapons would be followed and others wouldn't feel the need to acquire them. On the other hand, if the U.S. withdraws from the Iran agreement, why would NK - or anyone - bother even discussing an agreement? So they can disarm and be destroyed?)

> Sometimes you need to stop being Chamberlain, and start being Churchill.

And sometimes you need to stop being Bush and start being (name your favorite peace-maker). I'm not sure what that proves - sometimes one tactic is appropriate, sometimes another, and often a a completely different approach. Also, this situation does not at all seem similar to WWII.
You mean people aren't champing at the bit to spend $1500/month and adhere to your 10pm bedtime!?
That seems like a lot more trouble than it's worth.

From a cost perspective it makes no sense at all. An LTO-6 tape is $25 retail and holds 2.5TB of data, LTO-7 tapes are $90 for 6TB. A 4 Layer BD-R disk is about $15 retail and holds around 100GB of data.
1,200 people will be killed in Europe by these cars:

http://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-deat...

They won't be killed by the cars physically running them over or otherwise going out of control, true, but that's because the untrustworthy people chose to be untrustworthy in emissions standards and not in handling or self-driving algorithms or anything. You can't rely on them always making that choice, because they're untrustworthy.
"But I thought the internet removed all boundaries?"

And yet inexplicably I still can't walk through walls.
I think "treasure hunter" is more likely to conjure the image of someone who'd pawn off an artifact to someone else. Like the people who busted into Egyptian tombs over the centuries.
That's silly.

NK is a complete basket case, with a population that has been brainwashed by 70+ years of misrule, a development level probably below China in 1949, and they have a different language and culture.

Right now, China gets the benefit of a buffer state without the downside of fixing generations of problems. They would take the blame for every problem.

Did you know that the goal of reunification is explicitly written into South Korea's constitution? Yet I've spoken to younger South Koreans -- even they don't really want to reunify with the North, because it would significantly lower the reunified country's standard of living.

It took an entire generation for East Germany to reintegrate with the West, and even now GDP per capita is about 30% lower in the east. And East Germany was only about 20 years economically behind the West. For NK, multiply that problem 10x.
TLS 1.3 still has problems with STEKs. If you use STEKs with 0-RTT mode, then you lose forward secrecy and that's where the most sensitive data is likely to be: your request, password, credit card number, etc ...

0-RTT doesn't have to use STEKs, there's a better way to do it, but TLS1.3 won't enforce or require it (though it could), so it'll be up to the marketplace of ideas and security standards to sort it out.
Weirdly enough, it works if the first number is an integer even if the second isn't.
> NK isn't some rationalistic actor.

I don't see why you say this. I wouldn't say they are especially competent, but they seem to have stayed in existence and played off various larger rivals successfully for 70 odd years.
My response, then, is "Oh poor you! You have to call the proletarian house cleaners, rub shoulders with the 'help'! How difficult it must be."

Leftist cynicism aside: I'm talking more about the "socks on the floor, chair in the way, keeping the house in order mentally" side of things
Is there really? For a long time I've lived in an area (East Hastings in Vancouver) that people say is similarly "sketchy", but from what I can see, it's not dangerous to passersby—it's instead that there's a lower class involved in drugs and sex work, and they sometimes attack each other (i.e. people they know, who they have a grudge against.) They don't go around attacking random strangers.
The "scumbags" you describe are the ones that exhibit a strong "need for power" as described by McClelland. Engineers tend to have stronger "need for achievement", eschewing the power grab.

But organizations today and perhaps in the past have always rewarded those who attain the power. Perversely, if you want a place where achievement (ie doing the work, building things) is rewarded properly, you need someone with that mindset to suck it up and win the power game.
Please try to be more civil and thoughtful when you comment here and leave out parts that clearly violate the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The thing about DNS and naming is that there were a lot of ideas flying around, some of them in the big standards committees. X.400 and X.500 were the OSI standards for messaging and directory services that were going to handle finding entities using specific attributes rather than with direct names or even straight hierarchical naming (like DNS finally used). It's interesting to read all the old stuff -- I had to sift through much of it a few years back when I wrote my dissertation on the early history of DNS (a cure for insomnia).

I wonder with the Internet now if anything effectively different is even possible, considering that it's no longer a small network but everywhere like the air we breathe.
...and medium.com drives away mobile users with non-closable pop-up windows.
Even though you're marketing to technology companies, you'll still want to speak in benefits/features terms. Hit the point about how you're going to help them achieve something with your product and you're likely to get interest. Have links to tech details if you'd like.
> Perhaps China wants to annex NK.

They could have done this in the 50s when the red army controlled Norks during the war. They want a buffer state between them and SK.
You're exactly right, this was the point I was trying to make. I never realized this before. I used to only see it rationally, that she should choose since she cares and I don't. But then it turned into her always choosing and having to decide and plan it. Once I realized this is what was happening I made a conscious effort to ease that burden and take my share of the emotional labor. Of course choosing a restaurant is only a single, low-impact example.
Right, she is holding the responsibility of making sure you both eat dinner. It's on her radar, it's been there since last month, and it will be there next month too. Until you two talk about it, and decide, gee maybe I should handle making sure we have dinner every night next month, so you don't have to.
We were looking for a new washer and dryer. Our friends moved and offered us their old units. I was amazed at how much stress this removed--not because of the monetary savings, but because it removed our need to make a decision about what to buy. I think that was the point of the article. The decision-making process is emotionally expensive and that is what she wanted as a gift.
>Smart search: We built Page Shot to not only capture a screenshot, but to capture lots of metadata as well. Page Shot extracted text and other attributes from the underlying pages and stored it along with each screenshot. In practice, this meant that shots of text were fully searchable.

This is a great feature. I'll freely admit to taking gratuitous screenshots to share things (Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-4 makes it so easy on a Mac); of course, this makes the image impossible to search for later. It would be great to be able to search through the images I lazily take with a good old text search.

If Mozilla keeps it up with features and performance improvements, they'll lure me back from Chrome.
> This is an insult to the thousands of people who make it in the bay area on barista wages.

No this is the reality of living in the Bay Area. People who are living on barista wages are getting screwed by it. It's an insult to them that this is the reality today.

> Just fucking wow.

Alright calm down, you're on HN not reddit. You can express your viewpoint without being dramatic and vulgar.

> You can save in the bay area, live with roommates and pay <2k rent.

A tech worker shouldn't have to be loading up on roommates to get sub 2k rent (which is still crazy high compared to the rest of the country) but in the Bay area they have to. Why? It's insane that's how it is.

> At a salary of 100k you should be able to save 1500-2k per month comfortably.

Again looks great on paper, but you bet California tax is going to eat most of your paycheck in one go. Not to mention that many are having to carry student debt, personal debt, or have other financial obligations.

> and save for a downpayment if buying a home is your goal.

Let's be absolutely clear on this: there is currently little to no path to home ownership in the bay area for the majority living there. This isn't drama, this isn't made up, this is fact.

> If you think you're entitled to owning a big house, 2 cars, with money left over for dining out everyday and to pad your savings for a 5M retirement fund, you're going to have a bad time.

If you think that those living in the Bay Area still subscribe to this "dream", you're completely disconnected from SF.

> you're going to have a bad time.

Again, not reddit. You can express serious viewpoints here without memes and jokes.
My experience has been that jumping from employee to any level of executive is the absolute hardest step, at least for me.

I think once you are a team lead and have some number of direct reports, you can then start jumping your way up that ladder. But going from 0 to 5 direct reports has often seemed impossible. I'd be open to tips on how to do it.
CPX doesn't have the breadth of exchanges I'm looking for. CoinAPI is interesting. I'll play with it and give you an opinion.
I think that's not contradicting OP's point. It's a "long tail" type of problem--nobody's going to buy a Super Bowl ad for Uber for model train assembly. Not even every model train buyer wants it. (Incidentally, I can think of plenty of situations where you would give a child a model train and not be willing or able to assemble it and still have it be a net gain for the kid).
Why would we?
In the circles I hang in (as in, both people I talk to, and articles I read) the term "emotional labour" is used like it is in this article.

Sometimes terms mean different things in different circles or groups or contexts, it doesn't mean either usage is "wrong" necessarily.
Apparently if you have less than 10000 in total views you can't monetise at all making the restrictions on sites such as Patreon even more troublesome for small channels.
https://twitter.com/InnuendoStudios/status/91342618558922752...
MOOCs will make that happen within a decade's time.