skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statistical value of a human life in the US is ~$10M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

Serious injuries are some fraction of that, e.g., ~$1M for a limb. The correct tradeoff between safety and cost obviously depends on the marginal cost to increase safety, which is known to the project leaders but not us, but I'd be surprised if the optimal number wasn't between 5% and 25% of total cost. 5% of $500M is $25M, so for a project of this size I'd expect, as a lower bound, at least one death and a dozen serious injuries.

To be clear: by not making this trade off and by spending huge amounts of money to ensure such tiny injury rates, we are wasting resources that could be spent on saving lives at the rate of $10M/life. Indeed, this number is the key threshold by which the EPA decides which environmental interventions to fund, or the NHTSA decides which traffic safety measure to take.
There's also a fair amount of people "grandfathered" into the region. Bought back in the 90s/early 2000s in closer in cities or neighborhoods. They have it pretty good, but at the expense of everyone else.
I've received my fair share of cold call emails. I quickly came to spot the ones who are both well prepared AND actually understand that whatever they offer has to benefit me as well as them.
Day 5 of 100 Days of VR: Going Through the Survival Shooter Tutorial I
>> reality is going to temper their enthusiasm after a decade or so.

>I've been doing this professionally for two decades and my enthusiasm for "chuck it away and do it right" hasn't waned one bit.

I think it's probably somewhere in between the two extremes. I think you should have good unit tests and then refactor parts of your code where you see better generalities, or where basic code cleanliness was disregarded before.

But throwing all of it away is rarely possible without endangering the profitability of the company for a while.
People need to stop comparing app sizes of "Hello World" apps and use a more real, more complete application as an example. One that does most of the things that one would do in the platform, for starters.

If we "compare by Hello World" then Assembly/handwritten bytecode would win, but what's the point?
Snap reportedly stuck with hundred of thousands of unsold Spectacles
I'd like to add that if you're product is fairly technical, or solves a pain that's engineer-focused, you're likely better off finding folks on place like GitHub or StackOverflow. Quora and the like is great, but they tend to be high-level or broader questions.

As an aside: if you're trying to find something to build, just look through GitHub issues and look at the products waiting to be built ;)
Awesome thank you so much :) The GAN paper somehow feels more readable :D
A Curious Tale of Remote Code Execution, the TP-Link Story – CVE-2017-13772
Looks like Walmart is trying to become Amazon before Amazon can become Walmart
Readspike has been live for 5 years with only a handful of regular visitors, this is totally out of the blue for me! No idea who submitted it, I thought my site had errored when I saw it listed on itself
I suspect more than a few people with writing ambitions don't actually read all that much.
I co-founded a startup with 2 other people and really regret that I didn't quit before the thing kind of imploded after 2 years. I was one of the worst experiences in my life and at the beginning I thought like this guy: oh yeah, life is not tough enough, it needs to get harder so it's challenging and I get somewhere. I wish I had failed fast and left this horrible experience after 3 months.
Robot-surgery firm Intuitive facing lawsuits, reports of death and injury
Not anymore it isn't; this goes 100X for women.

Women being paid less means they are forced to live in the crappier parts of towns: the squalor, the commute and the danger are significantly more.

When that movie "the Social Network" came out is about when I noticed it changed. It became literally overrun with sleazy easy-money landlords, big corporate entities buying up the apartments, jacking the rents, etc.

There are thousands of better cities than any one in SF bay area. Technology works anywhere, you can work anywhere. My quality of life improved 1000 percent when I left California.

[edit]

I'm not quite sure why it's so hard for readers to fathom that women being paid significantly less than their male peers would be a key factor affecting what is "affordable" to them, and thus their ability to live safely in the Bay area.

The question I was responding to was: "Is it worth it?" and my advice is that it is not. It is especially not worth it for women. Why would it be worth putting yourself in danger where all you can afford is the worst apartment in the worst neighborhood, 70-125 minutes away (each direction) from your workplace?

The golden era of opportunity in Silicon Valley has passed. The real estate factor is now baked too deeply into every facet of life there. And as long as the AirBnb model ensures that only the landlords thrive, the problem will always be bigger than the solution.
>I own an internet company here and want more tech savvy people in the area ;)

I hope you enjoy crowded national parks and a high cost of living.

Be careful what you wish for. Denver used to be what you've described. Now it's just California's ski lodge.
Pornhub is using machine learning to automatically tag its 5M videos
~$470000000 in lost economic potential due to NIMBYers Its time for San Francisco (and other bay area) to build more housing.
> Busting your ass working IS a waste of life.

Maybe, maybe not. That's your opinion because the only source of truth here is your own feelings.

> You can be passionate about your work, but don't be ridiculous.

You can be whatever you want and if you're fine with that, then great. Everybody is different. Average people/workers/earners obviously think and behave differently than those who are above average.

> You're only here once.

...as far as you know.
There are various levels of understanding. One could simply remember that pebbles falling into the tube was followed by getting a treat, then there is the level that gets the significance of the presence of water and the buoyancy of the treats.
You mean, after they arrived on your website you sold them something?
There are more thorough descriptions on our blog if that is a preferred medium: https://blog.isomorf.io/
There are lots of places good for your resume that aren't a drain on your bank account.
You don't have to convince me. Writing HTML e-mails, especially for higher ups that have no concern for the limitations of the platform, is awful. This is why I just insist on using Mailchimp templates these days[1]. They've done the hard work, it just works (usually), let's just focus on content.

[1]Pick your poison, but I find Mailchimp a great mix of easy to use, flexible, and functional.
Depends. It turns out we have more cognitive power than an ant, e.g., if ants were smarter, they could perceive us, but they have no mechanism to do so. (Here by "perception" I'm talking about ants recognizing us as a living creature, not just a collection of pheromones.)

It would depend entirely on the nature of the "superior" being (ignoring the judgement issue regarding the nature of the word "superior").
How to build your idea into a side hustle
In my five months of living here I've noticed the Mercury isn't exactly known for its depth or subtlety in reporting.
that looks awesome! thank you.
I'm not sure if Poe's law is working here but, if not, you are talking about condominiums (condos) and, at least in California, they are really popular since the 1970's. In many cities, especially San Fran, the laws actively discourage and prevent the conversion of rentals into condos.
I can't find any OECD data that says Germany is the second highest taxed country in the world.

They got it from the same place they found out they found that Germany also had "more than 300000 laws and rules for everything". You know, the "it feels like it must be so, therefore it might as well be so" place.
Are you a physicist with 20 year of career? Otherwise, I'll steer away from having strong opinions and just listen to what they are saying.

The reason: They probably know better than you and not just making an "assumption".

For example, I used to think that they were "speculating" about the big bang happening and the formation of the universe. Until I learned about the Cosmic Microwave background. These guys know better than making wild guesses.
This is exactly true. I've seen many senior engineers and H1B visa holders relocate from the Bay to Seattle/Austin/Colorado etc. I think its great that the major Tech companies are fanning out. Perhaps the other centers will become more or less like SV and ease the pressure somewhat. Or at least induce the landed SF residents to consider reasonable adjustments to accommodate the influx of people into the city.
Last time I checked, bleeve was very slow compared to Lucene, I really hope it gets better over time.
The "average person" is guilty of voting the communist government. Corruption is just the normal result of communism/socialism.
Hah. I actually expected this to be a post (with a clever title) about how all of the leading browsers have finally provided a native implementation of the Promise API.
The t-shirts are a bit of jokey swag, not an access control mechanism. ;)
Sounds like you want a condo.
Leaving aside any restrictions on development which do exist, it’s still a pretty awful thought. Now if you leave for any reason you presumably also have to find new housing in short order.
just curious how long it took to get your first customer from SEO?
Build a Kubernetes Cluster on Google Cloud Platform with Terraform
Fructose has always been known to be metabolized just like alcohol, so, here's the news? The only type of fructose that's tolerable, in my view, is in moderate consumption of whole fruits (not juice or other processed versions), and unadulterated honey - still in moderation. When I see people eating huge amounts of fruits, I start feeling sorry about their pancreas and liver!
38, two kids and a wife. Have been living in a 900SQ/FT apt, I don't know how much longer I can take this before rage quitting and relocating somewhere else (don't know where). The sad part, as a ethnic-minority, I have just found our community for my kids, etc. It would be really tragic if I have to tear my kids away from that.

Don't get me wrong, my daily 30 minute commute on BART isn't the worst. The worst part is that I make $185,000-$238,000 (with bonus and all) and still can't afford to buy a home because I can't compete with other investors that have deep pockets filled with cash, not to mention buying a semi-decent home in a semi-OK neighborhood sets you easily back by $850K-$1.2MM. It's insane! The best I'm able to do is to pay for a $3550/mo rent and tuck away as much money as I can while providing for the wife and kids, which isn't the cheapest.

Anyway, thanks for reading. Back to work.

Edit: Armenian. Also, I'll check myself, there are others in far worse financial/living condition in the Bay Area. Comparatively speaking, I have it easier than most.
This is just laughable. Now, I have no love for any coding bootcamps - in my view they are only effective in separating fools and fool's money. So far every coding bootcamp that I know of is just the Agile version of ITT Tech.

That being said, NY AG is a political hack. He is not doing that well so he needs to get some wins he can flaunt and going after bootcamps is much easier than doing after finance companies or real estate schemes.
A Modern Cross-Platform Approach to ΜServices in .NET
I like ProtonMail but ended up going with Tutanota for a few reasons:

- Encrypted emails sent to non-Tutanota users are permanent (they expire at a maximum of 28 days with ProtonMail).

- Tutanota has an email export feature.

- Tutanota is WAY cheaper.
I believe the primary source was discussed last week. (Discussion is still open but ain't nobody got time for that once it's off the front page!)

75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502074 (Oct 2017, 428 comments)
Never heard of Chesterton's fence before, and it's quite interesting, but I don't see this as applicable here. This was a design error on the part of the programmers, because the software didn't make it clear why it was "misbehaving".
Could you explain that bit more? How is that at the expense of everyone else, did they achieve their wealth illegally?
Announcing OpenFermion: The Open Source Chemistry Package for Quantum Computers
They'll go to cities like Denver and Austin and promptly get to work turning them into the only thing they know, SV.
Exactly. Your friends will still see share just as many ads, except they'll be even more obnoxiously click-baity because the ads will be that much more desperate to make ROI.
Austin has managed growth poorly, which has resulted in traffic nightmares. But the cost of housing has also been going up to a degree that may push people away. (Closing in on retirement in my current job and although I will likely continue programming, I am thinking about moving somewhere else.)
Many seem very keen to, but most housing initiatives brought before at least the Mountain View and Sunnyvale councils (in my experience) face hard opposition from individual homeowners.

And that's how you keep the market up for $2.4 million homes that would go for $300k elsewhere http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/12/now-this-is-ridiculous...
Quiz: How many great online courses could you have had instead of your eduction?
AI is never a being.

It is just a more sophisticated machine or s/w.

If we think in that angle even a telescope is a superior eye as it can see longer than a human. We never consider it as a superior eye which some use at times.

A nature created being which exists would be more relevant to this question than a man made stuff.
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism–Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Exactly. That is what I am doing after 3 years in the Bay Area.
Right, if you're that obsessed with perfection, just pave over the damn thing. I only kill ants if they're building nests that threaten something else, like a tree. Usually though, that's a good indication the tree is already sick. I'm nursing one back to health, hopefully, now that had an ant colony at it's base.

I let moss, and local vegetation that grows fairly small thrive in my yard. In some ways, I prefer the moss to my grass.

I do fog my yard, so guilty, but I live in area densely populated with mosquitos which are a problem and they have plenty of wooded areas nearby to thrive if they want. But yeah, if there was some way to be selective, I'd be all for it, but it's not worth 20 mosquito bites when I go outside for 30 minutes to keep bees around.

Maybe if I could hire a service to do this: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/health/zika-virus-sterile-mosq...

Granted I imagine that's not something I could do without having to get EPA or fish and wildlife approval.
Actually, I'd be interested in what is required of a school and its founders who want this license. There may be more to it than meets the immediate assumption. For example, are there any requirements for its CEO in terms of other pending lawsuits/levies/fines regarding other business they might be into? If so, I might want to look into its leadership... So, it isn't the literal license that should be concerning. It is what that license requires of those who seek it. Of course there are all sorts of crap institutions that provide little value for their graduates who ARE licensed. A license doesn't tell you if a school is effective. Shoot-- if that were the case, then why not hire CS grads who have degrees without putting them through a ridiculous battery of tests before handing them a piddling little jobs in web dev? We should all be more rigorous in what we accept as good mentorship in a time when we so need it, when so many are unemployed or underemployed. As to teaching licenses-- please. The coding bootcamps are hiring grads to boost their outcomes. That's what is happening at all of these places. And most of these grads are not skilled enough at the subject matter to guide anyone else (some of them are, of course). Certainly many of them have virtually no teaching experience. That said, the whole teaching license thing is not really working. For example, teachers with PHDs in their subject can't work in a public school without a teaching license for NYS. They CAN, however, teach at the very tippy top private schools in Manhattan like Dalton, Horace Mann, St. Ann's, Ramaz, and the rest-- because those schools really must seek the very best teachers who are expert in their respective fields if they expect the wealthy to pay them $40-60,000 in tuition for their kids' high school experience. The wealthy 1% who have really buying power differ from the typical code school student in that they can stand to pay whatever it costs to hire the best teachers for the job, whereas the code school student is looking desperately for a way into this kind of broken labor market. They don't have the power because they are desperate and it is this desperation that is preyed upon. ANd that isn't ok.
Singapore does some of these things, sure, but not everything is great about the way they end up doing it. Sprawl is impossible in Singapore, but usable sprawl is a special strength of the United States. I think that if you tried to do Singapore again, you'd be missing out on an opportunity for people to live in houses (which most people greatly prefer to apartments) and mixed-use low-rises (the hallmark of a beautiful, lively city) still without missing out on sub-half-hour commutes.

Singapore also has the problem of being tyrannical in basically every way except the economic, I figure it should be legal to walk around nude in your own house, and also legal to chew gum.
> "But my rent certainly went to pay his mortgage on the property"

Um, yeah. That's the way it works for property investors. Find a property, borrow money to purchase, rent out property to cover mortgage costs. This happens at low scale (individuals) and high scale (property investment companies, REIs, etc.).

> "I now have nothing to show for the $thousands I paid him"

Presumably, you had a job at the time, for which you decided it was an equitable trade to have the job and not buy a property to live. You made a choice, and the outcome from that choice is what you have to show.

You do the math on the rent/buy decision. In places like New York, San Francisco, etc. it's very common to come out on the side of renter instead of buyer. If you're in the mid-west, you are probably buying. But don't say you didn't have nothing to show for the rent.
Before the Fame and Fortune: When the Unicorns Were Just Ponies
As a counterpoint, the last SaaS product I developed, I got my first 10 customers almost entirely through cold contact (emailing and asking for a meeting).

I was able to easily and succinctly describe my product and how it solved a problem all of them face (and that everyone's job in this field depends on), and I'm sure that helped me get my initial meetings.
Modernizr detects supported input types: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/blob/master/feature-d...

It's basically just making an <input>, setting its @type and seeing if that sticks, then setting a known-invalid value and seeing if that sticks.
Alexa's recognition is made more difficult by the fact that you talk to it from a distance. Still, though, you're right that only handling predefined commands should make it much easier.
Realize that your success in selling your product without actually cold connecting prospects is rare.

Also, marketers ruin everything. That's just a part of the game.

And yes getting an email about something that I'm not interested in, i.e. 100k bulk email sucks.

Getting a personal email about something that I need is different. I.e. qualifying your leads.

Provide value first then take profit.
Some pretty bold and controversial (and subjective) statements, but I think the author makes a good case! Very interesting article.
Read up on Prop 13 a bit. That’ll explain it.
As another commenter pointed out, the registration process seems broken, but I was able to use an XMPP account that I registered with a different client, and it seems very slick. I may have to run a copy of this for my own XMPP server.

Some things that occur to me as I browse around:

* what possible reason would you have for having a "gender" and "marital status" field? those feel out of place

* The pre-defined places to put Twitter, Yahoo and Skype accounts seem weird, why not allow a list of account names
I'm not suggesting you personally harbor ill towards them in a racial way. I could have worded it better, sorry ! My comment was political. A lot of commentators here seem to not understand the historical perspective on tariffs, and subsidies and protectionism.

I think people understand the 'every country will look out for themselves' part. What a lot of people don't is the 'this is what we used to do too' part.
Note that "better infrastructure" != "more highways", as traffic grows to saturate the available roads.

If you want better infrastructure, invest in light rail.

http://www.iwillride.org/what-200-people-look-like-driving-c...

I spent ~10 years living in Europe. While there was still a lot of traffic, huge numbers of people took rail. To me, the cities were much more livable than the average NA city.
> where will they go

Other tech hubs. Portland, Seattle - even little Bend has plenty of people from California who are attracted by the (for them) low housing prices. They, in turn, put pressure on housing prices for 'ordinary' people here.

California's housing crisis has repercussions all up and down the west coast.
Add that to the lack of gender balance and one wonders why so many men are conned into moving there.
incorrect

try {
throw new Error("catch me !"); // force try to fail
} catch (catchedError) {
console.log("inside catch");
// throw new Error("hmm");
} finally {
// always executed
console.log("inside finally");
}
// always executed
console.log("after try catch finally");

the finally statement can be useful when another error is thrown inside the catch block, in which case you have more serious problems in your code
As the article says, we know there's important stuff in those repetitive regions, it's just really hard to read.
That's never a completely true statement. It is much nearer false for Venezuela, where the last free elections filled their Congress with the opposition, and where people are literally fighting their government on the streets.
Because tech companies want to be in the tech business, not the real estate business. And investors would rather see slightly higher salaries for employees who then fend for themselves, instead of the business getting involved in real estate as a potential huge distraction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
> and I now have nothing to show for the $thousands I paid him

You had a roof over your head while you paid him. That's not nothing.

> my rent certainly went to pay his mortgage on the property

Whereas the alternative is for him to not have the property at all because he can't afford it, and you're stuck finding somewhere else to live?