skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. There has been no fundamental change, either internal to SV or external, to cause Silicon Valley to lose its status as the epicenter of the technology world and the unparalleled access to capital that the region enjoys [0].

Interestingly, Cleveland in the early 20th century provides a case study that compares favorably to modern Silicon Valley. The key? Access to capital.

First, we have John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. Why did Rockefeller move Standard Oil's headquarters from Cleveland to New York City? Two main reasons:
1) a concentration of financiers that he needed to continue to grow his business and
2) oil was flowing to large port cities as the international markets grew exponentially lessening Cleveland's importance in the network. [1]

These were both rational reasons for moving and the second represented a fundamental shift in the oil business.

A research article into Cleveland's entrepreneurial decline in the 20th century points to a similar finding:

"Additional contributing factors may include the destruction of the complementary financial institutions that had supported entrepreneurial ventures in the region and changes in the regulatory regime that advantaged New York and made it difficult for regional capital markets like Cleveland‘s to recover their earlier vibrancy." [2]

In the early 1900's Cleveland was described as such:

"It was also an important entrepreneurial center, with well-developed, largely informal, networks linking inventors to new sources of capital and to product markets." [2]
This sounds a lot like Silicon Valley and especially what you describe in your comment.

[0] Yes, cases could be made that housing in the Bay area, unfavorable immigration climate, increased competition from abroad, and even the maturation of the current mobile environment represent viable threats to the long-term entrepreneurial dominance of the Valley.

[1] Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow

[2] The Decline of an Innovative Region: Cleveland, Ohio, in the Twentieth Century by Naomi Lamoreaux and Margaret Levenstein
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/people/papers/Lamoreaux/Lamoreaux47...
on point 1. although anyone coin has potential throughput issues crypto as an ecosystem doesn't.
Sorry, but I'm not sure of the question.
Actually, I use XMPP+OMEMO for 90% of my messaging and Conversations (Android App) is superb. Sadly Chatsecure seems to be a little more demanding in terms of server support (requires some odd Push Notification extension) and the desktop clients need some more love too (I use Gajim and Pidgin so far).

Overall, I feel much better than to use some data hungry WhatsApp or some walled garden Signal app. Yes, it is a little more complicated to setup, but in the end it works as good as the others (e.g. in terms of energy consumption) and you don't have to worry about some company having different plans than you.

PS: While I sympathize with the decentralized nature of Matrix I still like the XMPP clients better.
Was your previous H1B counted against quota, if yes, you don't need to go through lottery again.
And is illegal.

EDIT: Does it really need to be stated that the context here is using bittorrent to illegally download copyrighted works, and that the protocol itself is not illegal?
Sorry to hear about whatever is going on between Chrome and the Console (can you try an incognito window?).

You can always test out the Vision API via the landing page (https://cloud.google.com/vision/). The full text results seem to be under the little document tab. I took a screenshot of the text above it, and it seemed to work as expected (breaking it into two paragraphs).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not on ML APIs).
It's mostly working for patents too, with FRAND.
It is true that Java was the first widely available plugin, but how many people did really useful things in Java? It was always a pain, slow, difficult to use properly. Most people dreaded using Java and it only had a niche in enterprise applications. It was flash that made plugins look cool and brought innovative things like Youtube to the masses.
Edit: less than a doubling. Eg from 128 to 192 or from 256 to 384. I meant to say a doubling is sufficient.
I think they mean nihilism.
Clean format. Don't get too fancy. It should be super basic and completely focused on content.

Don't get too fancy with words. Don't use acronyms or get too technical, save that for the interview. Put what you accomplished in layman's or business-terms ("Improved speed of X by Y%, causing Z" vs "Improved image processing in DFE by leveraging FGFR then post-processed with FESDG")

Shorter is better. Giving a really good tasty morsel is way better than a 5-course bland meal.
The Next Silicon Valley will be in Texas, because I live here :)

That is wrong kind of thinking, but here is my 2-cent thesis, Tech has not outgrown into such mature industry, you will have whole series of regions with robust tech and venture economies, so in that sense there won't be one next silicon valley, but a whole series of mini-silicon vallies.
Unfortunately, as a general rule, no.
Because, as devil's advocate, most programming candidates can't write FizzBuzz in a single programming language.

I know I can program. You don't know I can program. Do you want to hire someone who simply can't write a line of code to save their life and then have to deal with the headache of firing them and hiring someone else?

And that's best case scenario, because someone who can't code can do a lot less damage than someone who can code badly.

False negatives suck for the employee because they don't get a job. False positives suck for the employer because it's a massive headache and money sink. Since employers are the gatekeepers, they're often going to try to minimize false positives, even at the cost of false negatives.
How do you explain NYC if rich people don't like crappy weather?
Rentals would be more appealing if the prices on the main services weren't so sky-high. Why is it that you can buy a 2-year-old AAA game (equivalent to a summer blockbuster) indefinitely for somewhere between $5-20 when it's on sale, but it costs at least $4 to rent an old movie for just a day in HD and sometimes more like $8? Instead of pricing taking digital into account movie studios keep trying to protect their DVD/bluray pricing.

In the end for a popular movie it's often a better experience to just pirate it. Netflix churns through movies so frequently that actually finding something that's not sub-Kangaroo Jack in quality takes longer than just torrenting.
I would disagree - as someone from Cambridge/Boston that frequents SF I would say Silicon Valley isn't all it's hyped to be. The majority of startups I come across out there are simply looking to get rich quick and are in it for the game rather than actually innovating anything.

When it comes to actual innovation I have yet to find anything comes close to the level Cambridge/Boston is on, especially in life sciences & AI. If only it weren't for the frigid winters...

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2017/10/bos...
What do you mean by "compulsory licensing"? I skimmed the Wikipedia article but I'm missing how it worked specifically for video rental but not streaming services.
I believe there must be something like a monetary reward, or a reward worth money, or Mozilla was insane to do this. Volunteer advertising seems like a strange position for Mozilla.
Milwaukee, seriously? I've family who live there and I visit regularly. There is a higher percentage of African Americans there than in the Bay Area, but diversity beyond that is practically non-existent (by comparison).
You being called names or whatever does not compare at all with a political message discipline executed over multiple mass-media channels.
Also, nitpick, those are elements, not minerals. I mean, some elements can also be minerals (eg, gold) but you show me a list of the elements I'm going to tell you they're elements, not minerals. In fact, they're basically all the elements - they're short most of the transuranics (except for Neptunium and Plutonium), as well as all of the Noble gasses.

If Himalayan sea salt actually contains detectable quantities of basically all the elements naturally occurring in all creation, that's goddamn fascinating (although I'd probably say "bullshit" just on that point), but I'm not sure why it makes the salt good to eat.
> "any "AI" is better than none no matter how poor it is"

You don't have to disagree. The OP said:

> "it doesn't really matter all that much how good the AI is"

I think you're both correct and you bring up an interesting point. As long as your AI is "good enough" to replace what would've taken more resources to do otherwise, it's a win. I'm not sure if that's "half" as you stated, but I bet it depends on the task. If the task is saving a few seconds to query something, then I'd agree, half of the time wrong isn't a savings. But, if you have less than half a chance at saving thousands of dollars or hundreds of hours if it works correctly, then that may be chalked up as a win.
> Sure, that makes sense to me. But this seems more like "the company said it wouldn't allow anyone else to query the database" before I bought it. Now that I'm owner, do I still count as "anyone else?" I'd argue not.

I don't think the change of ownership matters. If I say that I won't allow anyone else to query the database, that statement isn't about restricting others from wandering into my offices and pulling up a Python prompt. What I'm really saying is that I commit to not querying the data with the purpose of sending it to others. Maybe that means I commit to not building something to query it for them; maybe it means I commit to not running a mysqld that accepts connections from them; maybe it means I commit to not doing a database dump and sending it, but in all cases, I'm the one not doing a thing.

So, the fact that you "own" the data doesn't mean you have the right to use it how you want - because if you could in fact use it how you want, you could send it to anyone you want. And if you transfer it, e.g., by selling your company, you don't transfer rights that you never had.
This gives me a 404. Here is the google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
> In the case of politicians opposed to international trade, the arguments put forward vary a lot, from the subtle to the grotesque, but all have in common the deflection of responsibility for domestic policy failures to external forces as the cause of those failures.

I would propose that 99.99% of "the costs that the middle and lower classes in the west, in particular, have paid for it" are a direct result of various domestic (social engineering) policies and have very little to do with international trade aside from being a convenient boogeyman to blame for the unintended consequences of these policies.

Is it any wonder there is high unemployment in somewhere like France (as an example, not to pick on the French) with a 32hr work week and being almost impossible to fire underperforming workers?
The BitTorrent communication protocol is not illegal, at least here in the US.
Seriously. I have Netflix, YouTube Red, HBO, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and yet I often have to end up paying (or pirating) for very well-known movies. What's the fricking point.
> when I first started playing with Phoenix I found it palpably similar to Rails, but also faster and better in a lot of ways, especially the WebSockets story.

Thing is virtually every language that is used for webdev has a framework that is similar to rails. So that's not much of a discriminatory when comparing languages...
Portland Oregon is officially the whitest city in the USA (goes back to those early-mid 1900s laws that made it illegal to live in Oregon if you were black). So, yeah, the PNW is definitely not the place to be if you are looking for diversity.
> Would debt be immediately paid off though?

Yes. We all know a lot of people with mortgages, student debt, and credit card debt, who if suddenly given a government handout that would double their savings, would immediately pay off their debts. But I can't claim that all debts would be paid.

> Would people be able to, considering the overall price increases?

Of course people would be able to pay off their current balance if you hand them money. What do price increases have to do with this? Prices may go up (or may not), but your current balance on your mortgage and your credit card bill do not. And if people anticipate interest rates going up, that motivates them to pay it off sooner rather than later. But note that there is a lot of fixed-rate debt out there (like mortgages) not affected by interest rate hikes.

> And if so, how long until they’re in debt again because they can’t keep up with increased prices (since they spent their printed money to pay their debt?)

You keep assuming that prices would go up. Prices are determined by supply and demand. It has been claimed on this thread that prices will go up exactly 2x, but this claim has not been substantiated whatsoever. One potential mechanism for this would be a substantial increase in aggregate demand, as a result of the handout, but much of the money would go into paying off debt instead. This is called "debt deflation". So prices might not go up nearly as much as you are claiming they would.
CBP (and USCIS) is just getting tougher on TNs, sometimes applying standards/requirements that don't exist, and really gives no deference anymore to the issuance of a previous TN when the TN is being "renewed."
Some of these things require push notifications, location services, or other things that are only available in native apps. From the examples, governments using 311 apps and universities offering directory apps seem to be good examples where an app seems like a better solution that a web site.
Disruptive innovation
Why Virginia's I-66 tolls are likely to pay off
So is pot, but it’s doing alright.
Yes that's a different problem different than software freedom:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
Money is THE biggest issue. The companies I work for are motivated by money, so I am too. All the warm fuzzy, "we're family" BS is only good for lunches and bagels. When the company no longer is hitting numbers, engineering will be cast out faster than they can say resume.
Unfortunately, Netflix' physical rental catalog is shrinking significantly as well. I assume they've just stopped refreshing much of their back catalog.

I generally agree that the fragmentation is a PITA. It would be nice to have an all-you-can-eat subscription for any content that's available digitally. Of course, then people will complain that their now bundled subscription offering costs $100/month and they can't just consume a la carte.

The analogy to cable bundles isn't perfect but it's similar in some respects. People don't really mind that they have maximum choice. They just want a cheaper price because they don't personally consume all the options on offer.
Yeah it is getting annoying. I’ve got the bigger ones - Netflix and prime. Anything else I’ll just backfill via alternative methods.
The irony is FB isn't a very good way for staying in touch with your friends, not when they suppress posts about the most important events going on in their lives. If that's the case then what's the point of social media? What function is actually being served?
A portion of its content requires other people to subscribe somewhere to exist.
Another one: Feminism and Postfeminism. I think it's basically because you can respond to a question about A with B with some melodic alliteration, the kind which draws cheers from the crowd. This idea seems to have been ported from the "yes, and ..." idea of improvisational comedy. That is, for maximum offense in a debate, agree with all the accusations of your opponent, and then hit them back with a small "but".

Are you pro-choice? I'm pro-life!
Do you care about diversity? Yes, of thoughts.
Are you a feminist? I'm postfeminist!
You can resolve your misunderstanding using your favorite search engine.

You can be sued if someone injures themselves on your property, even if they are trespassing. They may not have a strong claim if the injury was self-sustained during a trespass, but if you caused the injury either directly or indirectly by negligence you would probably be liable. Certainly, setting a blank box or not posting warnings about known hazards would not help your case.
Woodworking. I've enjoyed it in the past, but not spent much time on it. I will specifically be working with handtools. The goal is to build mostly my own furniture in the future (been an objective of mine for a while).
I just glanced at that repo and what you say is not quite true.

Looks like they have to reimplement the entire DOM API with JS interop:

pub fn document() -> Document {
unsafe { js!( return document; ).into_reference_unchecked() }.unwrap()
}
it's an apparent symptom of the problem
Facebook Can Now Find Your Face, Even When It's Not Tagged
That's odd. You might want your employer to reach out to a Congressman's office to follow up with the Consulate. Were you given any reason at the time of your interview?
What about Credit scoring, to a French this also sound like an absurd idea.
Why, services would have to compete on customer service, quality and price! That would be terrible.
Filmed yes. But then where does the film go for editing, color correction, adr, and other post? Hollywood. And then the executives screen it and then it’s dostributed and all of that is in LA too.

The expensive parts have moved elsewhere (principal photography and special effects) because it’s easy to transmit data, but all the stuff that comes before and after still happens in Hollywood for the most part.
Someone would have to be dumb to use BTC as regular money right now because of the large transaction fees and long confirmation time.

I am doubtful anyone is actually holding and transacting on clear market with BTC.
The reality is that while the EU does not like US tech companies to have user data (of Europeans), they themselves are quite happy to get and exchange that data with US and other agencies, including most importantly secret services. The exact data they don't want Whatsapp to share with Facebook is very likely in the exchanges between secret services.

I could go into a long list about the privacy restricting laws passed all over Europe, specially Britain and France. Germany is somewhat better but they are essentially fighting a flood and most politician think its far easier to go with the flow and significant measures have been adopted even there.

I am far more afraid of being arrested because I violated some EU regulation about 'hacking tools'(yes, those are iligal in Germany, whatever it means), 'drugs' or any of many other freedom restricting or plain nonsensical polices in the EU.

If I can pick who can have all my data I would pick google, facebook and so an before I would ever, ever pick the EU (or most states). Mostly because google and facebook have little interest or care about my political views, my consumption habits or who I am sleeping with and who I associate with, unless it is to offer me deals to get these things easier.

While I know for sure that I am indexed on many list from the government about a potential problem because I was at Snowden and other political lectures and events that explained what happened when the state became angry at you. There are no lecture by people who hide out in Russia unable to see their family becase of google evil data collection.

The EU on the other hand seem very interested in pretty much every single aspect on my live and and am actively in violation to lots of these 'laws' already, indeed most people are. Not to mention that they have a continent wide security service, special forces, many spy agencies and large armies.

A further point relates to the problem that once states gain such control of how any company deals with data it is not gone be long before all companies are legally required to give standard access to all this data (a view already expressed by many, many politicians, police union chiefs and burocrates on al level all over Europe).

So I'm sorry I can't join your positivism about good guy Europe finally going after evil US cooperation (who have given me free services for pretty much my whole live, not to mention lots of Open Source code that I literally use every day).
Have you thought of putting solar on your roof with storage to collect the extra energy you produce during the day and then dump it into your car at night?

Yeah, there are efficiency losses along the way, but two points:
- More and more net metering tariffs are homeowner-buys-at-retail-pricing-grid-purchases-back-at-wholesale-pricing... the homeowner value of solar's excess energy is getting less
- In a lot of cheaper EV purchases, the car company still owns the battery packs. This is for two reasons: 1) They sell you on a new battery pack when your range starts to decline after a few years, and 2) They're going to use the degraded batteries as second-life storage products... maybe not good enough to power your car, but more than plenty to provide a cheap powerwall alternative.

The points you bring up about mass charging is true, but once pricing starts to reflect that, that's going to make home storage far more economical (it already makes economic sense in some markets).
Your last example can be made more concise (and more readable IMHO):

"EH" -> {"BT", "BFR", "BTOW", "PSNB", "GCD"}
"BFR" -> "BPB"
"BPB" -> {"GTS", "GCG"}
"PSNB" -> "BGB"
"BGB" -> "GTS"
"PSNB" -> "BEC"
"BGB" -> "GCG"
"BEC" -> "GCG"
I don't know what's more amusing: the thought that VCs think they'll get plentiful cheap labor in the Midwest (that's what this is really about) or devs in the Midwest thinking VCs will bring SV-level wages and benefits to them instead of saving on all that because "cost of living."
The only one I agree with here is Tahoe. No idea why more startups don't operate out of NV.
Solar panels convert sunlight to energy, this means they don't heat up as much as you might think. Further, painting the outside of a car black does not heat up the inside of a car as much as you might think. Most heat gain is from sunlight hitting the inside of the car converting to IR, and then being blocked by glass. Thus, painting the inside black is a larger issue.

A 120mm computer at full speed is ~6w and can move 75 cubic feet of air per minute. So, 20w worth of fans can quickly exchange a lot of air.

Anyway, 100W of panels is minimal if your using 20+% panels. You can get that from a 1.5 foot x 3 foot section, a camper can have 20 of those on the roof assuming your starting with mostly clear space.
Also Netflix's quality is just shit. I have a good connection. Fast.com (which measures bandwidth to Netflix servers) shows a solid 100Mbps (which is what I pay for). Then why does my movie start off worse than a 10 year old DVD? Even youtube is better.
This is exactly it. Apple is simply requiring that apps be published under the proper owner's account rather than under the accounts of the app mills that generate them.
More importantly, with GDPR you are not allowed to deny customers service even if they choose not to share their data.
Amazon registers lobbyist in Georgia, sparking rumors about Atlanta’s HQ2 chance
Not necessarily because in the H-1B context, an individual can have the equivalent of a bachelor's degree based on professional experience and in the O-1 context, education in and of itself is largely irrelevant.
Exactly, I switched from streaming services and rentals to Bittorrent because I couldn't rent the original Alien film for less than $5 from any service. At the time it was a 34 year old movie that I rented from Blockbuster for $1 in the 90s.
That sounds like too much, $2 an hour median is more than a median wage in a ton of medium-developed or even quasi-developed countries (say it is under $3 in Russia and just over $2 in Belarus). Jobs on Mechanical Turk are simple and nearly everyone mentally healthy can do it. I wonder why wasn't rate driven much down by people from very poor 3rd world.