skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't Broadcom founded by a few UCLA folks in the early 90's?
They have never had female candidates apply. I'm not sure how positive discrimination would help in this case, they need to focus on outreach instead.
Reminds me of this old website I built back in college http://xkcdgraphs.com/
After a bit of digging, I think his story is plausible. He got into the game in 2004; At that time, it was very much possible for a smart, determined teenager to grind a hundred bucks into a quarter mil. Before Black Friday[1] chased all the soft money out of the game, pretty much anyone with an ounce of sense could play profitable poker and some people made a lot of money very quickly. He claims to have blown most of his winnings in that one-month losing streak, which is very much a thing that cocky 18-year-old poker players do.

I think it's fairly clear that Meyerson came from a relatively privileged background and had a lot of advantages - he attended one of the best high schools in the US - but I don't think it's necessarily fair to dismiss him as a trust fund kid who lucked his way through life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
Easier web version :) http://xkcdgraphs.com/
Why the GIMP Team Obviously Hates You
They have and they do.

https://securelist.com/masha-and-these-bears/84311/
The validity of both arguments assume the existence of evil. That is not a given.
Not sure I'd call it a "good portion" in this context, but it's 6.2% according to FHWA.

> Today, the 46,730-mile Interstate System includes approximately 2,900 miles of turnpikes.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/tollroad.cfm
Or, rather than giving up or "creating homogeneous bubbles" instead you could look at things on a case-by-case basis as Reddit is doing. At the end of the day the privately run company does get to decide whether content warrants removal or not since they are running a business and advertisers don't like advertising in a space associated with extreme or harmful content. They also have an incentive not to take the moderation too far since to do so would put the company's most valuable asset — its user base — at risk.
I choose to believe this is the latest battle in Trump's fight against undocumented foreigners.
That's a weird comparison. Not every household makes enough money to afford a home. I don't think home ownership is a universal human right so I don't really see the problem with this. The median household shouldn't be buying a median priced new car either
'Baconian cipher' is a particular kind of steganography, invented by Francis Bacon - he wrote about it and called it a 'cipher' in 1605. This is really more of an SNL Coffee Talk topic than a nit - 'Bacon ciphers are neither ciphers nor made of bacon, talk amongst yourselves'.
Just to be clear, we're talking about the same guy that settled a fraud case for $25M right as he was taking office and said that the judge on the case couldn't be fair because he's of Mexican decent.
my recollection from the days of the Eclipse plugin is that building from a command line and building from the Eclipse plugin were two separate pathways. you could get a different apk building through the IDE than through some CI system running the build from a command line!!

so, they addressed that pain point by using Gradle, which also did dependency management really well (compared to say Ant and, many would argue, Maven) and by incorporating/integrating the Gradle Android plugin with the intelliJ IDE.
> That doesn't mean a Code of Conduct is not a necessary step.

I doubt that necessary is the correct choice of words here.
What's the evidence that speculation is driving price increases in California?
>I’m not ignoring the article

You didn't address any points made by the author. You made a generic comment that could apply to any post on codes of conduct, and that's specifically against Hacker News posting guidelines.
And yet the comments from her lawyer detail reveal how much money she's donated to which charities. So much for anonymity! Between that, her gender, her home town, and even the name of her lawyer, there's WAY too much PII to pretend her identity is a mystery.
How do you even rig the lottery? If the numbers are drawn the usual way (machine, spinning drum, balls) you'd have to use weighted balls, but of course the weights are checked before and after and the balls are in strict custody.

But in the US, where even the elections are computerized, anything is possible.
> I'm not sure what discussing a lack of clothing or dressing provocatively would achieve - it's never an adequate defence for poor behaviour or assault by a third party.

It might open people's eyes to some of the hypocrisy in the current public dialogue, just one of many issues being that the same action (wearing revealing clothing) is considered just fine and don't you dare even question it you victim-blamer when committed by one gender, and sexual assault when committed by another. Oh and by the way, "all we want is to be treated equally'.

> Any nuanced debate about the topic is difficult and likely to be a no-win scenario.

This is correct. It would be a step in the right direction if we could get people to extremely explicitly admit that they refuse to debate the topic.

> One of the few reasonable points to be made is that revealing clothing can be inappropriate in professional settings

I'd very much to read a statement of consensus on that as well as many other topics. I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason we don't is that all of these things that men should "just know" don't have anything approaching a consensus of opinion on the female side. But we'll keep that secret between you and me.

> This might be an overly simplistic way of looking at it, but female exhibitionism is not dissimilar from a guy flashing how much power and resources they have. It's a signalling system, and it attracts both wanted and unwanted attention, but in a civil society assault and harassment are never acceptable no matter how provocative someone's behaviour might seem.

Once again, you are correct. But good luck getting anyone to admit that female exhibitionism is ever deliberate and strategic, even though it absolutely permeates society and was an utterly uncontroversial idea < 10 years ago.

The whole public discussion is a farce, and the longer we let it go on before some adults step in and tell people to clean up their acts, the more innocent people on both sides will get hurt.
You Might Not Need the Virtual DOM
> I don't think most people know this.

You don't think most people know they're gambling when they buy a lottery ticket?
Thanks for the feedback and for laying out your investigation :)

I'd say it's pretty unfair to call a 20 char id 'security-by-obscurity', unless you want to call almost every username/password authentication mechanism the same. The id has vastly more entropy than the average password and is far beyond brute-forcible.

Along the same lines, there are no known attacks that can break 2048 bit PGP with a sufficiently strong passphrase.

So there are two layers of security that cannot be broken by any real-world attacks. I believe that is indeed sufficient for protecting customer data.

It's likely that we'll move away from the S3 failover eventually in favor of our own replication strategy. This wouldn't really have security implications, but it does make it simpler to have a single source of truth for logging, which is coming soon.
That’s a good point. Out of curiosity, how do those constraints get surfaced with hosts running in ASGs?
> A daily podcast that lasts an hour? It's remarkable that he can keep up that pace. Could he make just as much money from having fewer podcasts? would the scarcity make the podcast more valuable to advertisers?

As a listener, you're in a good position to judge - do you think that the content suffers from being so frequently produced? So they're making $2k per episode on ads - would they make $15k if they made one podcast a week? On that time scale, is there a better monetisation model?

Scarcity really valuable to me as a listener - I don't have time to listen to an hour a day of a single show. I have an audible subscription (ca 10-30 hours per book, unabridged), shelves of real books, Netflix, Spotify, a list of TV shows and movies, a girlfriend, all vying for ear-time. Some people solve this by speeding up podcasts, but I like listening to real voices. Remvoving silences can work well though.

Consider podcasts like http://moviesbyminutes.com/ - they look fun, but who has time to listen to potentially 100 hours of content about one film? That's more than all of LOST. Would you rather watch every movie on the IMDB Top 250 or listen to people going through every Star Wars movie minute by minute? I once listened to the complete Wheel of Time - it's over 2 weeks unabridged. Took about 4 months listening to nothing else - commuting, exercise, walking to the shops, flights, trains etc.

SED at least offers listeners the chance to skip episodes they don't care about, but podcasts really have to be impressive for me to listen to them.
> First, you're assuming that Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but it is very difficult to differentiate between 'please go away with your bullshit because it is distracting' agreement, and a 'here is some money so you don't talk' agreement. If you have special insight into this matter that has not been reported on, please do share it.

Are you this naïve in every facet of your life, or only when Trump is involved?
I live in Oakland and am a member of a few groups that give me a look outside my usual wealthy tech bubble to the sentiments of the lower income folks here. There is HUGE resistance to new development in Oakland among the very people who are being priced out. But unlike property owners who tend to resist new development because they worry about supply pushing prices down, many of these people seem to see an opposite correlation: that new development means higher rents, which displace them and their communities.

I think this is simply a misunderstanding of how development works. They see rents going up, and new buildings going up, and assume that the new buildings are the cause of the increase, not a response to the increase. They think we need to build more below-market rate units, because the luxury ones raise average rental prices.

But really, the shortages which create high prices are what create the business case for building expensive luxury condos. If rents weren't already high, these buildings wouldn't be built. If the demand is there but not the supply, everyone at the wealthy end of the spectrum will take all of the supply, leaving the poorer ends out of a home. So the more market rate units we have, the more lower end units that are available. Seems simple to me, but a lot of people seem to get this wrong.

They have this idea that there are a bunch of wealthy and greedy developers out to get them and their precious neighborhoods. The buildings these developers start have a shockingly high rate of spontaneous combustion in Oakland, right when framing is complete.

I wonder if the property owner interests only encourage these mis-perceptions since they serve their interests.
Yes, but how does it sound?
> "USA only has two things: a nice weapons industry and Silicon Valley" stuck with me. As I thought about it the days after, I could not really find anything to beat the quote with.

The U.S. has liberty, democracy, and opportunity, and believes in those things as universal principles for everyone. The current administration and their party have, unusually for the U.S., moved away from those principles, but they are the core of U.S. influence in the world. It's not a fringe idea, but it has been the core of U.S. policy and that has been very broadly accepted by experts and practitioners for generations.

It also has great affects on the economic and political systems: By empowering people economically and politically, they thrive. You end up with a far better meritocracy and far more effective, more just, and more compassionate government. All the richest, most free, most prosperous countries in the world follow this same core belief, and it has spread around the world.
I have fond memories working on an interactive visualization on a MS Surface table using this data. Great to see TOL still being used!
tldr; At the macro (city-wide) level, renters tend to be more supportive of development. But wrt development in their own neighborhood, renters in high-rent cities exhibit NIMBY-ism towards market-rate housing (associated with gentrification). Interesting that they don't mind more affordable housing, which suggests that their concern is not simply economic but rather involving risk-aversion, fear of lesser quality of life, and gentrification.
How much did AlphaGo Zero cost?
I'm not sure what's impressive about growing revenue in an industry that has no obvious economies of scale. This seems like a case of "sure we lose money on every ride, but we'll make it up with volume!"

Looking at it another way, given a huge funding pool (say $10B) a modestly competent company could outpace both Uber and Lyft in revenue growth by the end of the year simply by subsidizing rides even more. The initial skepticism towards ride sharing services is gone and there's little keeping customers and drivers loyal to either Uber or Lyft.
And this parody: http://abstrusegoose.com/339
Exploring Simple Game Algorithms with Color Walk: Dijkstra's Algorithm
The program has been extended multiple times but now excludes the 2012 model.

Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/17/apple-extends-free-stai...
Do you think we've reached the absolute apex of having a well-informed citizenry?

If not, if critical thinking doesn't work, what could we do to improve this situation?
I've been a fan of PocketCasts. Lots of people recommend podcastaddict because it's free and has a million knobs, but I enjoy the comparatively slick interface of PocketCasts.
Yeah. We accept that “if you don’t like it, you should just move” is a bad excuse for bad laws. But people still think they are so urbane and clever when they say “oh, if you don’t like (service X), just don’t use it.”
It does say that but that’s not quite it. I actually just read a translation with some really cool annotations and explanatory text. That said, I’m no expert, etc. But ....

... basically what this author was saying was that in the context of Taoism “do nothing” kinda means to do what is natural - as you say, ants just do ants. To do “something” would be to go against the nature of what being an ant is. This is also true for badgers, bears, flowers, people, etc - everything has its “way.”

So, the “way” of being a person could, say, involve taking compassionate action to help a fellow human beings, if the way/nature of humanity is to help others, say.

I dunno about the Tao of free markets. If anything you could argue for a harmonious balance of unregulated and regulated. Not sure what “free” means for the consumer if they face a monopoly or a syndicate or shit wages or dangerously defective products or tons of pollution.
Latest update: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/17/apple-extends-free-stai...
Solution: more development in rich neighborhoods
Sidenote: I remember that my teacher Maarten van Steen (who taught distributed systems at my university) talked about Leslie Lamport and I remember that he started TLA+. If you don't know about any of this, I invite you to take a look.

Background info on Lamport [1]. Maarten van Steen offers his book for free on distributed systems. See [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport

2. https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/distribu...
I haven't seen much discussion about how 20+ year-old CDs are doing. IIRC about half of my self-burned CDs have failed after about 10 years. I wonder what the situation is with factory-stamped -data- CDs. (I have yet to -hear- a problem with my 30+ y.o. music CDs, but I suspect that some aren't 100%.)
How we built the same app twice with Preact and Glimmer
Nope not due to rent control. It's due to things like it it taking me 45 minutes today to drive from my apartment to the bay bridge.

What I find annoying is the same people that are against rent control and zoning are also utterly against government providing basic public services such as buses, subways, and mass transit.

So developers build more office space, businesses add jobs, people get packed in tighter with no increase in transportation services to match. You don't need to be a renter or owner for that to rankle. And at least as a owner in theory the value of you asset is going up. As a renter there is no upside at all.
Broadcom was acquired by Avago, which then changed its name to Broadcom.
Prospective renters prefer low prices. Existing renters don't care, but they like the things that cause high prices.

The rent will not change for the life of the lease. Under rent control, the renter won't be much affected ever.
China Unveils 'Revolutionary' Plan to Give Communist Party Even More Power
It sounds like that was a bankroll he built up through play, not his initial stake.
What holds people back?
But NIMBYism holds back the development that might lower rent. I understand why property owners don't want development, it can undermine the value of their property. But why don't renters want development?
Sorry, I meant no offense... I've been very confused lately with people using slang or ambiguous wording. Could be because I'm getting old. I do remember back in the 80's when "peace out" was a popular saying, it basically meant goodbye. In the 90's it evolved, saying one "peaced out" meant they had died usually murdered. I can't keep up on what it could mean now, so I asked. Perhaps my parenthetical went too far, it wasn't meant as an attack, just observational humor?)
As you might expect, these types of games appeal to quite a few people that frequent HN, and have come up often the past.[1]

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zachtronixs&sort=byPopularity&...
One of my biggest issues with reddit is post history. Oops this person posted something we don't like 3 weeks ago, dismiss his post and attack him. Oops, this person posted somewhere we don't like, ban them from the 46 subreddits I moderate. Oops this person posted for the first time in a default sub they have been subscribed to for 3 years today, ban him for brigading.
> a tax log, but the real name is out of public sight

of course all of the money is tracked by the IRS and state.
I can think of a few reasons why that might be. You might typically drink more soda than coffee in a sitting, so you just might ingest more caffeine when you drink soda. It’s also possible that coffee has some alkaloids that moderate the release of caffeine into your system, the same way that tea and coffee do. Finally, you might drink varieties and brews of coffee with low caffeine, such as darker roasts and mild brews.
Something being a valid attack vector does not make their security process and procedure valid, effective nor anything other than Theater to make people feel safe.

Countless of time they have failed Red Team testing, TSA is useless if your goal is actual security, they are pretty good if you want to shift people in to accepting more and more intrusive violation of their rights...
Is there a net increase in housing stock, or are cheaper units being replaced by higher priced luxury units?
I don't think it's disingenous, becasue there are lots of different kinds of wealthy people. At the least, I meant to distinguish him from silver spoon types that simply purchase viewers/apps/influence and ride it out, or those that just fail and fail and fail in incredibly stupid ways, learn little and fall back on parents' money all the time. As far as I know, he is not that person.

In my mind what he's accomplished is doable by just living at your parents house (yes, that's also a bit of a luxury that others may not have), which is why I don't consider this to be simply a byproduct of wealth. With a bunch of drive and sheer will it could be done in nights and weekends. Is he entrepreneur of the year? maybe not, but he's certainly not richie rich who bought his way to the table -- while I have no idea what his resources are or what his interactions with whatever wealth source allowed him 250K @ 19, what he's done is not out of the realm of most office workers, especially in tech.

[EDIT]: He actually responded with how he got his start:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573002
Conversely, If half the city wasn’t a dump, rent would be high everywhere.

Neighborhoods evolve as time moves on. Both waxing and waning. If you are familiar with NYC, places like Bushwick and parts of the Bronx off of the Degan Expressway were bombed out, full of crackheads and squats in the early 80s. Today they are vital neighborhoods. Conversely, many parts of Long Island and the Hudson Valley have declined.
Which isn't going to happen if the residents have a say because the rich are the worst offenders when it comes to NIMBYism.

Multiple residents of the North End of Boston went to a public meeting to complain about the addition of handicapped ramps on brick sidewalks because it would damage the historic authenticity of the neighborhood.

The Cape of Massachusetts couldn't get an offshore windfarm because locals complained about how it would negatively impact the view.
Absolutely could have happened even if he played the lowest variance games available with good bankroll management.

All it would take is good streak (maybe luckbox some SnGs), move up the stakes, and have a good run in something like PLO to do the same in-a-day.

I played extensively and still have friends that play professionally, this type of story is not uncommon at all.
Beautiful! :)
Thanks for laying out your concerns. Is your feeling that any sort of usage-based tiers that go beyond per-user pricing are too complex? Or is there some way to limit usage in a reasonable way that wouldn't rub you the wrong way?
Sam Altman – Startup Investor School Day 1 [video]
Ask HN: Is your marketing site outsourced?
I'm curious to know if your engineering org handles the "marketing site". Does your team have a conceptual distinction of "app" vs "marketing site" or are they the same thing?

Does your team own your marketing site or did you outsource it to an agency? Why? Pros and cons in your opinion?
because it's their apartments being developed, they get kicked out for rent hikes
relevant: https://priceonomics.com/the-mcdonalds-monopoly-fraud/
then this brings a discussion on what "just" is. Does just implies impartiality? if so, different treatment by color would not be just, from what I can understand.

Secondly, one can't be sure that others won't feel alienated. You just put them in a different classification. I would definitely tend to feel alienated..
There are always geographic considerations that limit market availability, of course.
> But if the whole city had proper services, transportation, properly maintained housing units and relatively low crime, that should ease the demand on those few neighborhoods.

The problem is that this is what everyone is already trying everywhere, and it simply doesn't work.

The minute you improve any previously-bad neighborhood with any of the things you just mentioned, you immediately price it out of any person who previously wanted to / could have lived there. The act of improving anything is itself one major cause of the un-affordability.

Chicago is the textbook example of this - https://local.theonion.com/neighborhood-starting-to-get-too-... is 'satire', but basically 100% true.
On that allegory though, the poison is in the dose.

Small amounts of copper are required in your diet to keep your body functioning. However, large doses of copper are toxic.

Same goes for most drugs.
Nice, the screenshot looks neat. Is this the tool you built? Is this available as open source project?
Agreed. And that sounds like a great approach. We didn’t conform exactly to FSA (which I want to try out on future projects). Our isWaiting was equivalent to your pending, I think.

(Edit) FYI we had actions to set isWaiting, etc.