skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a neighborhood built in the early 40s in the East Bay, and is marked red in the NYT article.

This crisis is one of those "You reap what you sow" moments caused in large part by institutionalized racism. It is not hyperbole, I have seen the old covenants included with my parent's house, also in the East Bay, that literally said no POC could live there. These covenants are of course now invalid, but thats where zoning comes to into play.

The rules now latched on by NIMBYs, such as minimum lot sizes, low lot occupancy, low heights etc. were precisely implemented to keep POC from being able to afford to move into largely white suburban neighborhoods. Depending on the racial composition of certain neighborhoods, they would be zoned to allow denser development, or restrict them to SFH. All this combined with lending practices where banks "redlined" neighborhoods that were deemed too full of POC has brought us where we are today, even in the progressive Bay Area [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/books/review/richard-roth...
I imagine that with cracking the protocol with 39 hours return time... it would be a challenge.
Quit my job. Travel the world.

Although one thing that's always bothered me about the UBI idea is that if everyone else is getting this basic income, wouldn't it effectively make that 5k worthless? Perhaps someone with a greater understanding of economics could enlighten me?
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Absolutely nothing. Live happily ever after.
Google Codejam has some great problems.

https://code.google.com/codejam/
16 developer hours is 2 million dollars? Each developer hour costs $125k? I think something is off in your math...
The main reason people flock to the Bay Area is because of the growth in the Tech industry. However, as we all know, there is very, very little technical reason that has to be there, or could not be spread out. The only reason really is the concentration of developers, and that VCs don't want to leave the peninsula. If we could change VC attitudes toward "You HAVE to be in the Bay Area," that could go a long way to spreading these things out, and stopping the explosion of housing prices up there.
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You could make the argument that the software engineering students writing programmes in their degree wrote more and bigger proofs than we did learning mathematics.
I don't see how transactions made in 2016 (2014 even?) are part of malicious FUD, they exist and are verifiable.

You could assume malice, yet their hypothesis is somewhat testable: if it is uninitialised memory you should have private keys based on word-size shifts due to alignments. 2^64 hashes is somewhat doable. Truncation should be easier to test (in case it's null-terminated).
Hah, nice work with the ST links of Joe Minicozzi's work! I sent mine a few minutes after yours.

That guy is a good speaker if you ever get the chance.
Write open-source web app platforms that enforce transparent administration of schools, prisons, and local governments.
Spend the rest of my life writing FOSS all day
Of course they have to be novel! You aren't allowed to just copy them off someone else.
> you have no interest in having a meaningful conversation around it.

Likewise, you wanted to show off your superior knowledge. Have a good one.
Volunteer full time.
I was most of the way through last year's in C# when I decided now was the time to properly learn (algorithmic programming in) Elixir. That set me back in terms of speed, but it was well worth it. I'm now fairly fluent and I'm doing this year's in Elixir from the start, so - yes, it's a great way to get into a language, I would say.
As someone with 25+ years in the same area of (non-web, non AmaGoogBook) engineering, this is totally the case.

The wage curve goes flat and nobody offers anything above the median for increasingly large years of experience and battle scars.
Starting dev of some product, you might have a lot of generalists. They make the original architecture and design decisions, do the first implementations of features, etc. It's their baby. Later on, the company identifies laser-focus areas where specialists are appropriate, and you contract or hire some. The original devs (the generalists) will have knowledge about why something was built a certain way, and might react strongly when the specialist advises deep changes to the program to help it scale up.

That's the messy part of the transition: There's kind of the implication that past decisions weren't correct. It's easy for people to get emotionally involved and take personal offense.

Example: Backup product. Design started in the late 90s. By late-aughts, multiple CPUs were obviously a serious thing. New guy was brought in, and set on the project of re-architecting the core program into a more asynch data processing model. 6 or 8 months later, the changes were working for base cases, but the senior devs threw an absolute hissy fit focused on how much of their code was changed. We should've banded together and fixed the edge cases. Instead, we spent years fighting over the structure of the program, and that dev transferred to another group.

Bringing in security-focused employees worked out better. Their changes were more around the edges of the various programs, rather than in their cores. Fewer toes stepped on, fewer disagreements.
It is not necessarily inflationary, just redistributive
That's my plan too (charitable open source software). But, something else besides just work? I worked so hard past 6 years I almost don't know how to find other stuff to do.
It will most likely be worse as inflation will hit widely consumed products (basics) harder than least consumed ones. Quantitive easing 2.0.

Anyone said housing?
It's probably true. There are more CS majors now than ever in the history of the US.
I'd imagine the whole scandal has negatively effected the firm and its future.
This is so profoundly wrong on so many levels. Mind backing up your claim with some math? Thanks.
You're assuming you will quit your job and do nothing but that is a choice. You could choose to stay in your job and continue to progress your career. Alternatively you could choose to quit and finally dedicate some real time to that project you've been dreaming of, save in the knowledge that if it fails you won't go homeless.
Disclaimer: I would categorize myself as a generalist so I might be biased here

> Unfortunately, this change often means generalists lose jobs in favor of specialists as a company grows

> And this is not inherently a bad thing for the company

Yes, it is not _inherently_ a bad thing, but I would say that it is _generally_ a bad thing. Sure, if you are raising a Series C and everything is about optimizing the hell out of your product, there might not be a place for generalists.

However, I would claim that if you throw out generalists, you throw out some of the core/most valuable people who could help the company establish new products and help you grow into a multi-product company (diversifying your portfolio is generally a good thing). If the company is only left with specialists it will slowly transform into another one of those industry giants that struggle with innovation.
Now I am confused - where exactly do you stand? Should company executives be extradited for not obeying some random country's law even if they haven't broken any law in their home country? If so, I vehemently disagree with you.

> In many cases, corporations are currently more powerful than sovereign nations, and I don't think that's a good thing.

Why not? Tuvalu has a population of 11,000 and a GDP of $34MM. Why should it have more power than Apple, who has 120K employees and $230B revenue in 2017? There are 140 other countries whose GDP is less than Apple, and 40 whose population is less than Apple. Why should they have more power than Apple?
and everyone is some kind of minority in some way or another. This is why solidarity is so critical.
The OP said they had not forgotten AT&T violated net neutrality, and then used that as one of the points for moving to T-Mobile which also violated net neutrality.

Either OP didn't know (which is fine) or didn't care but wanted to try and make a comment out of it (which isn't good).
People are assholes (you and me included). That's why we have so many laws (and lawsuits) about this kind of thing.
Pay it all to keep up with rent increases that resulted from everyone having $5000/month.

(When you call it a "basic income", that suggests everyone is getting it; "free money" would be more appropriate if you didn't mean that.)
Quit my day job, work on ideas for companies, build OSS.
Really? Let's put the shoe on the other foot.

Let's make the sentence read:
" The entire movement has been hijacked by sexual deviants and people who don't want to work for a living. Aligning yourself with such an ideology rightfully has a serious social cost now."

Does it seem more offensive to you now?

Failure to look for the merit in the other person's point of view is a mistake. There are good conservative as there are good liberals. Using inflammatory rhetoric (as the author did) does nothing to disprove one's ignorance of the other person's point of view.
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Great, you found a misspelling. But you missed out on all the content. I'd say that's your issue and not his.
It's not even the entire map of the languages listed in the article. It's a small subset of the languages with an unintuitive coloring scheme.
Why would you need basic income for that?
Wait, does that mean any iOS11 device with my AppleID? Or just my (single) iPhone?
Ah you're totally right about it not producing an exact copy, they even mention how they used different error functions for the different classes of distortion, my mistake.

But w.r.t. the regularization term, what I thought they meant by
"we replace the regularizer R(x) with the implicit prior captured by the neural network"
at the end of pg 2 was that they let the natural behavior of a neural network during optimization serve as the regularization, without need for an explicit regularization term. Not entirely sure though.
Who's talking about bulldozing Tracy? The article is about a three-unit condo in the already dense Berkeley/Emeryville area.
Uncharted territories are quite a challenge. But probably there are projects out there that are doing those already.
I think he means to a company that hires continually- that is, $2M per year.
> Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution.

Simply not true. Ask the Winklevoss twins.
Nope.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/which-vs-that/

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/which-ver...

http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaThat_Versus...
Get involved in local politics.
Sure, but they can't be brought to a stop with engine breaking.
> tapping the brake turns on the regen in normal D mode, without moving the brake calipers.

Surely I'm not the only one terrified by this? Is there seriously a computer sitting between the pedal and the pads, and the pads don't move unless the computer says so?
As with every packaging approach we have so far, no.

Package manager have nuances, and so have flatpak and snap installations.

Also, add Windows and macOS into the mix. Down the drain it is. It's basically what Docker was trying to get out of the way. Funny thing is that actually Go and Rust might be more the solution to the whole packaging dilemma that and packaging solution.
Patio11 talks about charging more a lot: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/ https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...

His argument basically is that, businesses/consultants/employees fail because they charge/bill/demand in salary negotiations too little WAY more often than they fail for charging too much. Therefore, you should charge more than all of the decision making biases in your head say you should charge.
In the context of a belittleing “Oh, the horror”, it’s perfectly acceptable to argue that he has he right to not be happy about it.
I've definitely been part of a hiring process where "over-experienced" gets thrown around a lot. Here's stuff that comes up all the time:

- The main and probably unfair assumption that they will want more money and special treatment for the same amount of grunt work.

- They will not respect the (majority 20-something) peers and will try to subtly enforce seniority (again, unfair).

- They will refuse to do grunt work and only want to work on high level problems. We have enough chefs, we need line cooks.

- Veterans can come well-seasoned, but they can also be old cranks who are stuck in their ways and can drag a team backwards. It takes experience to tell the difference (irony).

- If they were truly experienced, they would be getting poached or going through a headhunter. If they are experienced and on the market, they must be damaged good. (This one is truly unfair, but it justifies people relying on paying the premium for a recruiter).
He's not writing "extract as much money from other people as you possibly can". He's making a subtler point, similar to Hofstadter's Law, in that you're not charging enough, even if you know that you aren't!

So, the point isn't too extract as much money from other people as possible. It's too charge more than you'd otherwise be comfortable charging because, even when you do, you may still be under-charging relative to the actual costs required and value provided.
I'm already quite comfortable living off less than $1,000, so I would split the rest among four of my best friends.
Know the big dish from James Bond? Used legit:
http://observer.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds...
You might as well not use the Internet at all.
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I'd like to point out that Trump was a Democrat for nearly his entire life, just up until the point when he hijacked the Republican party (against great efforts from the Bush family, Mitt Romney, etc.)

Confusing Donald Trump with a conservative is a mistake.

As for Evangelical conservatives, I'd suggest you have a few conversations with some and then form an opinion. So long as you are respectful and make reasonable assertions, I am sure you'll come away with a different point of view.
To use two extremes. Berkeley is probably somewhere in the middle with some single-family areas and some more urban areas.
Your opinion amounts to "if you're doing nothing wrong, what is there to hide?".

Privacy by default should be the norm, not the other way around - lots to be inferred/exposed from even the smallest bit of info.
I think it doesn't come until a second degree, or sometimes a graduate degree. Not post graduate.
Thanks for clarification. It's "hard-earned money"
Yes.

For instance, if you consistently put out good pieces on your past experiences in the software industry as a PM, then your current experiences as a software business owner, you will gradually become widely known as the guy who gives advice about what you shouldn't be doing in your software career or software business.

This was essentially how Joel Spolsky grew his audience through his blog -- turning his knowledge into published pieces. His blog audience combined with Jeffrey Atwood's blog audience were instrumental to getting StackOverflow off the ground.

You never know, but having an existing audience can be an incredible enabler for getting your future ventures off the ground.
I would do exactly what I'm doing now (building for profit companies and doing non-profit work @ spreadthevote.org) except I would be much more thoughtful between for-profit projects. I would likely work on slightly bigger problems.
They aren't low compared to wages in other industries, but I've heard it repeated over and over that they're low compared to the value that software devs create.
For those worried about the inflation risk: it depends on how the money is generated.

Theoretically, if it is created by, for instance, taxation (redistribution over people) or bonds (which is redistribution over time), you shouldn't risk too much overall inflation.

It will, however, change which goods increase in price. I suspect restaurants will become more expensive and yachts will be cheaper if it happened by taxation.

Having said that, inflation itself seems to be blind to the theory and does whatever it feels like.

For the purposes of this exercise, let's suppose I get $5k/mo and others don't. I think it depends on when I got it.

In my 20s -> Travel and grad school

In my 30s -> Supplementing my meager income to enjoy myself

In my 40s -> Investment
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Where does the money come from in the most common UBI scenarios? Is it the richest people subsidising the entire rest of the world?
The hardest problem in B2C is distribution. The hardest problem in B2B is sales. AppAmaGooBookSoft are AppAmaGooBookSoft primarily because they have mortal locks on distribution.

I agree with this, but I think it's interesting. Wasn't the Internet supposed to democratize distribution? All someone has to do is go to your website. And anybody can set up a website.

So it seems like the Internet just shifted the goal posts for everyone? The winners are still as dominant as ever.

But I guess it is true that you can have a break-out hit like Instagram or WhatsApp, and that wasn't possible pre-Internet. The time scales are compressed.

But perversely, maybe because distribution is easier and software flows more freely, you have to be even better? You can't rely on "local inefficiencies"? You have to be globally the best.
That's fair, but a hiring manager might be more easily able to see this overlap if you have some recent side projects.

And again, I'm not even the type to code for fun at home (at least not since my first two years out of college). My significant other never codes for fun but is probably one of the most talented programmers I know. I'm just stating some reasons why one might ask this as an interviewer.

The absence of side projects doesn't indicate a lack of passion but the opposite of this is mostly true.
> shouldn't you just charge whatever you think something (a product, your time) is worth?

How exactly do you, as a programmer without knowledge of the employer’s or client’s business, determine what a piece of software is worth to them?

You have no idea. So you use various heuristics which are more easily available but misleading, like “what are other people being paid?”
Absolutely, it's not a new thing. I don't mean to be implying it's a new development, or limited to these schools. Just expressing how sad and frustrating it can feel as an architecture student at a good university. It's talked about a lot among students, and I liked this article for sharing it among a wider audience.
Probably quit my job and spend time pontificating on how someone managed to provide a BMI at a level which is above the US median household income.

Sorry, that number just doesn't work, even granting a government willing to do redistribution on that level, you're looking at an outflow that is something like 3x current total government tax revenue.
> slingshot it around something

It's in interstellar space. Barring a really lucky encounter with another interstellar body, it'll be another 40,000 years before it's close to anything.
Live somewhere great, have myself chauffeured everywhere, donate to some choice people.
Maybe birds reproduce faster and needs lesser food to survive
I always thought "thrusters" were devices that always spewed out majestic flames and plumes of smoke whenever they are fired. I was surprised, as a kid, to learn that the Voyager thrusters effectively are no more exciting that pressing the nozzle of an aerosol spray can for a split second. Stands to reason that they don't need much force to affect the spacecraft inertia at those weights and speeds.

Still, a stupendous achievement to have them still working 40 years after being deep frozen in space!
Exactly. :-)

And it’s great progress if people at least realize that they are, or would be in the same situation as that Berkeley neighborhood.
I love that every time I read one of these articles it is extending the life of the mission by 2-3 years. :)

My favorite use of tax dollars ever.
How is this concerning? This is very good, because it makes it easy to do that, which means that's much harder to dismiss as "something that will never happen".
> In the spirit of what this community's name suggests it's about, how hard would it be for someone to hack into the spacecraft by sending it a signal to turn on its thruster too soon given the technology is 40 years old?

Perhaps listening to the traffic could help deciphering the encryption (if any).
What it wouldn't be easy at all is to have antennae large enough and in various parts of the world: amateurs still don't have the capacity to do that.

> Has anything like this been tried before with other spacecrafts?

The only thing I can remember is reviving an old satellite with linux and SDR (https://www.ettus.com/blog/2014/07/contacting-a-36-year-old-...) but that was with some cooperation on part of NASAs.
Lucky then that the second Voyager gets blown up by a wildly overacting humanoid alien with mad hair