skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what if he asked friends/associates who are lawyers for a quick feedback, or even paid the lawyers for limited amount of time? When a lawyer gives you a quick assessment and it's "This is very risky," how likely is it a more thorough review of the contract will be more positive?

Considering DJI's position at that point was "this is a final offer" how useful would it be to shell out a considerable amount of money for a more thorough review?
Same here. I remember trying Nightly in 2010 and having be super unstable. Coming back after years on Google Chrome, Nightly feels super stable and responsive.

I do get the occasional rendering issue, but that's my only nitpick.
No one ever got fired for doing backups. It's "industry standard" so if you don't do it, you'll be out of your job faster than the server which went down. Backups being actually restorable in a reasonable amount of time isn't "industry standard", so nobody cares.
> Nobody will talk with me.

They're not singling you out. Seattle people don't talk to random strangers on the street or transit unless there's an actual reason. This aspect of the city is well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze.

The good news is that it's not personal. The bad news is that it's still difficult to get to know people.

There are some exceptions to the rule. If you're a coffee drinker, you can definitely talk to your barista (about half of them are really friendly in my experience), and if you have a dog, you can talk to other people who have dogs (you might think I'm joking, but I am not).

Your best bet for human interaction is to join some sort of formal group. I still have a group of friends I made through Seattle Works (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Works) a decade ago.
"How large do you think that population of people in finance making 6 figures is in raw numbers?" you mean 7 figures? if you are a top engineer in finance with many years of experience, you are likely making close to 7 figures.
Not all transactions are equal.

If you look at this[0] representation, you'll see that the vast majority of transactions (like over 90% by size) are extremely small fee transactions (most under 10 sat/byte, 90%+ under 20 sat/byte)

Ignore those low fee transactions, and the mempool is under 8MB (and you can ignore them as long as you pay over 20 sat/byte, since miners will take the highest fee transactions first)

[0] https://core.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h
Corporations themselves (or the natural persons for which they are abstractions created to serve) have freedom of speech, and controlling what speech they relay, and how they present the speech they do relay, is an exercise of that freedom.

Asserting that they should not be able to do so is, in fact, an argument against freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is not an entitlement to have other people use their resources to further your speech irrespective of their own preferences.
> Europeans tend to view issues through a classist lens. That society is split up into the workers, and the capitalists, and that your ranking in the social hierarchy is solidified.

And yet social mobility between the classes (they exist in the US too even though you don't necessarily think in terms of them) in many European countries is better then in the US. Especially the nordic countries. Pretty much the only EU countries doing worse then US are UK and Italy and the difference between US and UK is much smaller then US and Finland for example.

Maybe we Europeans are a bit pessimistic when it comes to our economic futures but in terms of the chance of making from poor to rich (or vice versa) in many places we are doing better then the US.

https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways...
It could be a somewhat arbitrary bar to separate the wheat from the chaff. If they get a lot of questionable submissions, prioritizing encrypted submissions means prioritizing submitters who at least know enough to use encryption.
i did just that, but kept programming as a 'hobby' (a real engaging one, time-wise and all). I feel, as older I get (turned 37 a week ago) that more power I wield. Tasks that were daunting when I was younger now seem trivial, new technologies are understood with more in-depth views and I grasp them faster than ever. Focus is much more intense too. I feel it's not even my proverbial final form. Age is an advantage as much as youth is regarding energy (although I still haven't noticed a drop in work stamina yet).
There are a lot of studies that show that the phone has a negative impact on the development of the child.
You can google: why smartphones are bad for kids site:*.edu

But even without all of this researches, I see a difference between children whose parents do not control access and those who have control.
I mean, it's straight out of his book Zero to One, something about being "last to market"
But that's not Thiel at all. He does want power concentrated; he just wants to be one of those it's concentrated with.
Spent time here unknowingly doing Geology research, saw an F-35 doing all sorts of goofy stuff such as what appeared to be a circle at a given altitude, climb a few thousand feet, another circle of the same diameter. Also plenty of sonic booms. Didn't realize it happens so frequently, I may just take another trip out there
They're probably referring to Fritz Zwicky's observation in 1933 that the luminous matter in the Coma Cluster couldn't support the observed velocity dispersion. Zwicky hypothesized that there was a large amount of non-luminous matter that allows the velocity dispersion to be as large as it is. Zwicky's hypothesis wasn't taken seriously until the 1970s when Vera Rubin and others found a similar effect in galactic rotation curves.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Byzantine Prosphora as a comparison. It's an ancient breadmaking tradition, Roman in origin, and still in widespread use today in Eastern Orthodox churches.

Although it doesn't have the eight slices of Panis Quadratus, it does have the distinctive ridge in the middle, formed by taking two circular discs of dough and pressing them together with a stamp.

This seems to me at least as likely of a theory for the ridge in the middle, as wrapping a bit of twine around it solely for the purpose of making the indentation.
Replacing ads on the client side is normally associated with the scummiest of malware. I'm not sure how Brave has maintained even a vaguely positive reputation.
Actually, we all need to grapple with the fact that big corporations are behaving more and more like startups because they can. If Google has a higher standard (as has been reported by Google SWEs who perform interviews at Google right here on HN) for entering SWEs based on their age, then we need to take a hard look at that. Yeah, it's illegal and unfair, but no one over 40 and really over 35 is allowed to be a great "junior dev" - they are only comfortable w over 35 who have been in the industry. The ladder is pulled up at most places for even excellently skilled beginners after 35. One should be able to enter if one has skill at a higher level, but we all need to face that the level one must hit at 35+, as a woman, as a person in any underrepresented category in this industry is much higher than it is for those who are a good "culture fit".
Nobody will talk with me.

I mean this in the most constructive manner I can muster: consider that you contribute to this in some way. To put it more bluntly, maybe it's you. Because I've lived here for seventeen years, having moved from the Midwest, which was a hell of an adjustment. Because I'll agree that Seattlites are generally not as outgoing. For example, you move into a neighborhood in the Midwest and you'll be eating casserole for a week as the neighbors one by one drop them off. In Seattle, meh, it'd be nice if the neighbors acknowledged that I'm new to the neighborhood. But to just not talk to you? Really? An entire geographical location comprised of people that won't talk to others? C'mon, how likely is that? Hell, most people around here these days aren't even from Washington, so they're just fast learners of local culture?

Now I'm a bit of an introvert, so I'm not all that outgoing to begin with, but I have no trouble getting people to talk to me. Not as "chew your ear off" as Midwesterners can be, but they'll talk. If I had anything to complain about with West Coast living in general is folks can be a bit self-absorbed compared to what I'm used to. So they'll talk; oh, how they'll talk, but it'll be about themselves. But at least they're talking to you. :-) So ask people how that Paleo diet is going, or how Crossfit workouts are treating them. My experience says that you'll beg them to shut up.

But all of this is one huge, monstrous generalization because you can't just dump 700K people into one pigeon hole and call it a day.
They haven’t learned how to produce cars, that’s sure. And judging by the past, your car will become outdated and obsolete in 5 years.
Facebook worked like this up until recently, and now sort of works like this.

"females who are single, age between 16 and 20, who likes writing" would have returned precise results.
Git LFS doesn't solve the gamedev/large asset problem.

The issue is that these giant binary files cannot be merged. Because of this you need a locking mechanism(which SVN and Perforce both support).

Without that you have two people working on the same file and someone having to throw away work which makes for a very unhappy team.

DVCS is great but not every problem domain maps to it.
Would I technically owe taxes on tokens received even if I'm never notified of having received them?

Yes, I understand that if it's not reported it's unlikely anyone will be caught, but by the letter of the law does receiving a token mean I've received income?
OMG Peter Thiel helped shutdown a blog that in the grand scheme is hardly consequential! By all means, let's have a ticker tape parade for this man!

How about his terrible company PayPal absconding with people's money for years now?

How about his other terrible company Palantir being a shady analytics firm for the government?

How about his desire to destroy the government in a non-democratic way to serve his billionaire interests, under some delusion that since he's rich he obviously should be allowed to do whatever he thinks.... and we all should just be ok with it.

He's the sort of person that reminds of that Kirk meme: "What's that? I can't hear your arguments against what I'm doing because of how awesome I am!"

His beliefs align largely with the chunk of the population that is being exploited most by his billionaire class. Meanwhile, the other 58% he'll happily ignore so long as he stands to benefit.
I wonder, in ten or twenty years, how many rocket scientists will have been inspired to that calling by spending way too much time fooling around constructing rockets to try to escape Kerbin's atmosphere?
And? Lots of companies do; it's a best practice.
> My understanding is that the average finance professional makes less than or equal to tech, but the top 1 - 5% of finance easily make 7 figures.

This is more or less true, but an interesting thing to think about is that the number of people (with technical backgrounds) making 7 figures in financial firms is smaller than the number of people making 7 figures in technology firms. This is probably obvious to you if you work in finance, but I think most outsiders don't realize that.

If you include people with sales backgrounds like investment bankers then the numbers might shift in favor of finance.
Post deleted-Web app that find chances of getting accepted by Y Combinator
The US Government? and by extension, the US people? No, it is not getting paid at all. Private government contractors though? Yes! This is Neoliberalism in a nutshell. Move social profits into private hands until everything collapses.
Meme?

Say you're rich today.

You had the opportunity when you were 18 and an adult to move country and live somewhere with a regressive tax regime. You didn't, because those countries suck, don't start moaning about it now you're earning good money.

Now you're rich and you're cheating the system because you don't like paying your fair share. Your fair share is a percentage. Without the percentage based tax system we can't afford to be a great country for businesses. You want to move to a regressive tax regime because you've got all the benefits already, but can't because the electorate don't agree so you're now "avoiding" tax. Or maybe even Daddy/Mummy made all the money and you want a free ride.

That's simply you trying to have your cake and eat it. You've already benefited from a progressive tax regime where the rich pay more because they can afford to. Previous generations paid for your opportunity to make it big. Paid for gangsters not to turn up and take over your business. Paid for no corrupt politician throwing you in jail and stealing your business. Paid for the roads and postal system and educating your employees and giving you the courts to pursue late payers. It paid for the opportunity you or your Daddy/Mummy had.

But somehow we should change the rules for you?

But, on average, within 2 or 3 generations your family will be middle class again. They won't agree with your temporary stance. Your own descendants will, in all probability, be against your stance.

It's not that it's "WRONG", it's that you want the best of both worlds, a fantastic country protecting you and nurturing you to do business in, and paying a small amount of taxes.
> in others it is flat out wrong. Git was designed for tens of thousands of developers (the Linux kernel),

This is easy to check, and the article is right. The Linux kernel does not have tens of thousands of active developers. Over a little more than the last year:

titan:~/src/linux geofft$ git log v4.8..v4.14 --format='%aE' | sort -u | wc -l
4857

If you look at just the most recent release cycle:

titan:~/src/linux geofft$ git log v4.13..v4.14 --format='%aE' | sort -u | wc -l
1839

Alternatively, if you look over the last ~year, but at people who have more than five commits (chosen arbitrarily):

titan:~/src/linux geofft$ git log v4.8..v4.14 --format='%aE' | sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 > 5' | wc -l
1814

A codebase with 20,000 actively working on the code base is at least an order of magnitude more than the Linux kernel. If they're committing patches every single day, probably more than that. I have, last I checked, four commits in Linux: two for a summer internship in 2009 and two doc fixes. That certainly contributes to the scale of Linux the kernel in the sense of "there are so many people working on it!", but not in the sense of being an "active developer" of the git repo. I was fine sending in my patches to a mailing list and hearing back at some arbitrarily later point, not triggering any CI, not asking anyone else to collaborate on my work, etc. That doesn't work if you have 20,000 engineers on the same codebase writing code every day.

> Admittedly it is slow for files that are large in size, but it was designed for source code; what sane developer would have source files that are hundreds of MB in size?

Sometimes that's the best way to get things done? The best Debian workflow I've ever worked with (and I've worked with a lot) involved actually committing binary .debs to SVN alongside their source code, because that meant that the SVN revision number was the single source of truth. There wasn't some external artifact system, nor was there a risk of picking up the wrong packages from an apt repo when rebuilding an older SVN revision.

I'm not defending this as pretty. But I will defend this as sane. It got the job done reliably and let me work on actually shipping the product and not yak-shaving workflows.
That's pretty great to hear. I'd like to know what your web development team is doing for the purposes of your company. Incidentally I have been been through the hiring process with Bezos' more familiar company before. What is the hiring process like on the technical level at your company?
If talking to your clients mostly gets you new feature requests, it either means your product isn't adequate yet or you're not asking the right questions. In a nutshell you want to get of feel of:
- What was going on in your clients' heads before they found you. What precise problem were they trying to solve. This'll give you insights on whether or not your product is adequate, and on how to phrase your landing page.

- How they went about to look for you. What google search they did, whether they checked out reviews and how, etc. this is to better focus your SEO and adwords campaigns.

- What their decision process looked like. Was it a single person making the call, or were several people involved? What objections got raised? What were their key decision criteria? Raise them in your sales copy or in drip emails.

- Are they talking about your product? Would they? This is to help you spot segments with viral potential. Don't forget to politely ask for referrals if applicable.

- And, of course, feedback on the product itself. But don't spend too much time on this, and don't promise anything or build expectations.
Except, this guy never finished the ML algorithm either... So he had nothing to simulate. I don't get the purpose of this piece.
They could always have designed their product in a way that doesn't turn into a brick when the servers disappear.

Call it "negligent bricking"?
You have a enough rep on tech topics to hold sway.

Don't think it auto-translates over to other contexts.

You have a point, make it. Don't manipulate the conversation, and front load it with opinions.
And what if the content creator doesn't want/never wanted to give their details to Brave?

Will you ever refund the money, say if its not claimed in a certain amount of time, or if the content creator hypothetically tells you to go jump?
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
> Couple that with the anonymity and rampant upvote/downvote based on disagreements (My comments on this thread rapidly oscillate between -5 and +5 -- it's crazy how enormous the pro-Trump population on HN actually is and how blissfully Silicon Valley pretends they don't exist)

I think you are making an unjustified and inaccurate guess as to the source of your downvotes.
It is a tough place to move. Especially as a tech person.

People there think that the explosion of tech money and tech people from outside is ruining their city and their culture. They are right. By default, as a tech immigrant (or even tech person, really) you are seen as an invading enemy. So if you move there realize that's a terrible reality you are going to have to deal with.

They think that you, as a new arrival and a tech person, are part of the problem. They might be right. You have to try hard to assimilate, and accept that you're moving to a place with an already pre-existing strong culture that is wary of outsiders (Seattle is one of those places where people ask adults where they went to high school). People in Seattle are not particularly warm and welcoming. You have try hard to dig yourself in there. You have to try hard to make friends. If you make music or art or do outdoor stuff, that's great, do that, talk about that. If you just write code, well, you and a couple million others.

Honestly, if Amazon had set up its offices in a quiet suburb outside the city, like Boeing or Microsoft did, this wouldn't be happening. It's Bezos' fault for not understanding or caring about his own city, really.
And what if the battery weight is nearer axle centerline than an ICE?
> Nobody treats you like a human being if you're in tech.

That sounds depressing.. I've lived in Seattle for ~3 years now and can't say I really relate.

Where did you move from and where are you now?

Although I'm curious why your situation is so different from mine and others, I hope you can find a way out of it soon, whether it be by moving or finding others who you feel you can converse with.
at least they posted the public key instead of the private one like adobe: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/in-sp...
Yeah but it's not like, work electronics. It's like, robots and lights and fun stuff like that electronics.

Doesn't matter; nobody cares. I thought I'd meet, you know, artists who might be interested in making creative things with stuff like that. Or someone, anyone, who'd have a reaction besides vague unease. I dunno, maybe it's just me. I can sort of understand why they wouldn't, but I wish people would just say if I were bothering them...it's fucked up but sometimes, I really wish I was more marginalized.
Which are the type of extensions that change so much about the browser that average users just won't use them.

When I discovered Classic Theme Restorer, Tab Mix Plus and similar, I was already a semi-pro user and I still found them intimidating.

There were a lot of checkboxes and they changed around a lot of things and I didn't yet know how to create a separate Firefox profile where I could've actually just wildly tried different options without the fear of something breaking irreversibly.
I remember applying to SpaceX in February, for a Full Stack Enterprise Software Engineer position, and got a rejection letter. I'm not sure what the reason for rejection could be, but it may be that I don't have enough experience with large scale systems.
All NASA centers have a need for web front-end designers and data visualization interfaces. [source: I work at JPL]. Feel free to apply, we could use you.

To "build chops" I'd suggest doing some side projects in displaying data, especially using data sources like http://stuffin.space/
Would you be willing to elaborate on the pros/cons of mono repos vs what git encourages? It seems to just be the wrong fit for a given use case, but works very well others.
anything similar for Emacs?
The only reason cryptocurrencies are valuable is because buyers/sellers can remain anonymous. Once that aspect is taken away there is literally no use for the currency other than being a hedge against government backed money. Even governments can shut down servers making the currencies useless similar to what china did.
Here lies my concern with any sort of government-sponsored program in the US: once it becomes policy, any discussion that involves cutting, limiting, or removing expenditures becomes an ethical argument against the group benefiting from the programs. Here's another spin on this: subsidies to graduate students are bankrupting the United States. This article isolates a single decision, politicizes it, and demonizes anyone who isn't in favor of keeping the program as-is. But here's the kicker - they don't offer a solution or an alternative. The US has an unsustainable level of deficit spending, and we can either increase taxes, cut spending, or some combination of both. The article doesn't even offer an alternative, or explore the underlying justifications for why they opted to cut these benefits, which further emphasizes the point. We don't live in a world of limitless resources - every dollar we spend on X is one fewer dollar we can spend on Y. This type of narrowly-focused journalism isn't productive, and has made me more cautious of politicians who want to implement policies that cost money, but don't talk about how they're going to get the funds.

Just as a full disclosure, I'm actually in favor of the deductions/exemptions, and I'd rather see reductions in government administrative staff, entitlements, and military contractors. But I'm not naive - cuts need to be made, and as recent news has shown, increasing taxes isn't always as cut-and-dry as it needs to be due to the various loopholes. The most egalitarian solution would be a flat percentage-based cut across all programs, and some form of flat percentage-based increase in taxes, but instead of gaining bi-partisan support, it would probably just piss off everyone. This is probably why I'm a better accountant than politician - because people want to do what they feel like doing, irrespective of whether or not it's the right thing to do.