skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. There is a huge difference in having bought just three or four years ago versus now. The median price in the city has skyrocketed to $777k and on the Eastside it's just short of $1 million. Even in Shoreline, I don't see anything for under $400k on Redfin. "Just north of Seattle" used to mean Shoreline or Lake Forest Park. These days, it's the Alderwood side of Lynnwood and almost up to Paine Field.

(Also, there's a pretty big gap in salary of "we don't make $250k and we own." It's possible to buy a $600k house on under $200k/year and $600k will still buy you something even in Bellevue.)
I think some blame belongs with Western leadership who've created this monster. Without companies falling over themselves to set up shop in China, and Western governments not stopping to think about the geopolitical ramifications, China never would have amassed this much power in so little time, obviously with a lack of corresponding wisdom.

Unfortunately, there's now no going back, lest we cause a recession! China will be the de facto leader of the world very soon, and when that happens the Marriots or any of us won't have the option of refusing their requests - you will do it, or else.
The 10 Startup Commandments as inspired by the Notorious B.I.G
One of Afrika's biggest solar power projects in Namibia secures funding
failure has no_std feature for the no-heap cases.
>>Roy sure didn’t mean to get fired from his $14-an-hour online customer service job, a job the 49-year-old says was his best ever.

$14 an hour and a "Marriott customer care manager" ? Just wow.
Afrikan entrepreneurs most likely to start necessity-driven businesses
Sorry but why should the law have to cater to someone's business model?
If they're the only viable alternatives, people will adapt. And I'm sure that usability will also improve.

But yes, the potential for privacy-compromising security failures is indeed troubling.
I actually appreciated that they posted it on Dropbox. Even though it's a subpar publishing platform (it wasn't meant to be![0]), it still seems very fitting.

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[0] - Also, if we're talking about publishing through Dropbox, then RIP Public folder.
I know this is going to sound uncharitable and I acknowledge that any death is tragic but...

This person carelessly crossed a busy road at night! The victim practically did commit suicide. She could have just as easily been killed by a human-driving car, just like thousands of pedestrians do every year. Why are we so quick to try to blame the car? At least the car was in the right place.
which presentation is it to whom? to get into ycombinator?!?!
Computer Graphics Make Another Major Leap
Thanks for this description. So it seems to me that they are consultants who come in to a non-engineering focused company and kind of "train" their engineers to work in a certain way on their own tools and then run a subscription model on those tools.

Pretty smart way to do it - and I can see how it would be really aggravating from a power-user/10x engineer perspective.
You are conflating undefined with implementation defined. If you use undefined behavior the compiler might simply delete your code since it's not defined.
They use those plans to avoid discrimination lawsuits, that is really the only reason behind it. HR in the US is totally different too, it's basically "just protect the business from being sued by employees."
The response when he shared the file on his messenger was "why are you sending me this crap" :)) so funny if this was part of the original presentation of what would become dropbox.
Because it's clearly discrimination to only hire union members. Same as only hiring christians.
Your employees are also the profit generators so I would say it just comes with the territory.
sh I had the same idea around this time and implemented something similar (different but similar), and I was that crowd was coming in and needed such a thing. I was too young to think that this is an opportunity and just dropped it, continued with my day job etc.
I think creating the right environment for work starts with the internal/mental environment first. And this starts with developing a new design theory.

Mindful design, as I define it, is a theory designed to preserve connection, respect/grow attention, responsible use emotion as an input, and be anti-addictive. It starts with human centered design (where innovation practices currently are, to my knowledge). From there, we add mindfulness, nonviolent communication, category theory, and computer science to hack our language so we can better communicate with each other.

I'm tired and know I'm leaving things out here, but this is where I started researching over a year ago. I'm now working on a programming language for humans to program themselves through with the written/spoken word being the only technology required for it to work. I'm looking for help from anyone interested.
> Nah, you're just enriching someone else while building chat apps less capable than what existed 20 years ago while telling yourself you're doing good. That same effort would probably have a bigger impact somewhere else. You can tell yourself that but it's a justification for cash. "Wealth" and "progress" aren't inherently good.

I tend to share similar sentiment in general, but this is a bit rich, talking about Dropbox, whose biggest feature is that it does one (useful) thing and does it well better than anyone else in 2012, and better than anyone else now. And they've made a huge impact worldwide - by covering something almost every computer user needs with a solution that's easy and reliable.

I actually liked their letter, because it suggests they'd like to build something other than bullshit-but-shiny, acquihire-ready web apps. I applaud everyone who tries that way instead of the typical startup playbook.
No that's implementation-defined. Undefined means code that is logically incorrect, but too expensive for the compiler/runtime to check and handle (reject) it. A simple example is array out of bounds access. It's too expensive to demand the compiler prevent it or guarantee to trigger some kind of signal at runtime. But if you are willing to pay the cost , you can use a language or compiler that is safer and promises to throw an exception or provides safe statically sizd arrays
The YoY growth rates suggest they're at least capable of convincing new business that it's good value.

(Though in enterprise sales, even amazingly poor vendors often get to re-bill for several years, until the exec who signed off on the subscription moves on and it becomes politically possible for people internally to admit to each other it was a stupid decision to sign up in the first place... So perhaps 2 years growth here is only telling the "sales capability" side of the story, not the "ongoing value provided" side...)
You don't have to empathize with a business owners. It's their resources at play. So they simply will do business elsewhere. I don't have to open an office in France. I just don't. It's too much hassle. I open it wherever I want. So if an employee loses out by not being hired by me (or I lose out by not hiring some French awesome person), then so be it. But the point is that the US environment is more friendly for businesses, and as a result we have a lot of them. Maybe other places also have a lot of them too, but if you did a poll all over the world of what country they would want to emigrate to, it would be the US who will lead the worldwide poll.
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For all intents and purposes they're the same. My Vanguard Target Retirement 401k charges 0.05% and invests in Vanguard index funds for Total Stock Market, Total International Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International Bond Market. My Vanguard S&P 500 fund charges 0.04% and my Total International Stock Market charges 0.11%. (For comparison, typical actively-managed funds charge about a percent.)

In many cases you may actually pay less in fees because you can get Institutional shares instead of Individual ones.
> How do I know you actually ran what I paid you for and not just generated random data that looks right in the shape I wanted it?

See https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/nodevms-alpha
Sometimes a story captures lots of little elements of the world we live in all at once.
[Zoho](https://www.zoho.com)
I feel like now — after the recent furore — is a great time to be on Facebook. They know they’re under the microscope for privacy issues, and have the time and treasure to find real solutions. Also, naive as it might be, I think Zuck genuinely cares and wants to fix what he’s broken. I am less inclined to trust any other service to get both security and intentions right.
Figure splunk and sumologic are weeks away from product releases, I’m sure.

Either that or it’s already one of their consultant up-sells, for professional service add-ons, before they GA something standard.
> If you can fairly credit anyone other than President Bush with that, its Vice President Cheney

And — relevant to the present moment — John Bolton.
This is fully implemented at the network level. It's just the services built on top of it where this starts to go to shit.

It's dead simple to build your own intranets on fully open-source stacks.
How Indian women succeed with meagre funds, no salary
Pull the other one!
> how is Dropbox not effectively dead in the water? Between GDrive use driven by close integration with Gmail/GSuite and iCloud having major user capture, I don't understand where Dropbox is necessary or wanted anymore.

- It came first.

- It does one thing and does it well.

- It does it across all platforms.

- It isn't tied to other product offering. That's a feature, not a bug. It means Dropbox isn't pushing other bullshit on you, unlike GSuite/Office356, where file syncing is a second-class citizen meant to encourage you to use relevant company's cloud office suite.

- Therefore, it's free to offer integrations between usually competing companies. It integrates with GMail just as well as it does with regular Word documents. But integrations are still a side story, they don't interfere with the core competency - being a folder that syncs.

Seriously, I'm not sure why would people use OneDrive or Google Drive, when there's Dropbox.
In Seattle, most of the RV people tend to be homeless and use the RV to camp out in on-street parking. It's a big issue.
Trust me, they were pulling the kinds of stunts over Tibet and Taiwan and the Diaoyu islands and a few other issues loooong before Trump made that fateful ride down the escalator.
Show HN: NakshaDB, mapping application
How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea
Great recommendation. It's snarky, but entertaining and raises some good questions.

> Using a neural net... would be a useful way of generating custom Ross-Chernoff plots, and also allows me to include “deep learning” in the author keywords.
The Flight of the Zuckerberg: 20 Quick Thoughts About Facebook
While people can learn Go in a day, it is basically impossible to learn Rust in a day.

The only reason people can learn Go in a day is that Go is similar enough to a language the person already knows. Rust is different enough to every other language in existence (including C and C++) to make learning in a day impossible.

I don't think "deciding to spend a day" is the right way to evaluate programming languages. Unfortunately, it is the common way to evaluate programming languages and Rust fares very badly in such evaluation, in my opinion, much worse than its fair score.
You're right, I've got no knock on Dropbox itself. It's a great product. They're getting what they deserve.

In the context of this conversation, the poster was justifying working at megacorps and "having to believe" that they were making the world a better place. Some of those megacorps are not doing that, so forcing yourself into belief is the step towards delusion and unreality.

I actually liked their letter, because it suggests they'd like to build something other than bullshit-but-shiny, acquihire-ready web apps. I applaud everyone who tries that way instead of the typical startup playbook.

Is it too much to just underpromise and overdeliver? By couching their goals in those terms, Dropbox is not just trying to make a better product, they're seeking some kind of enlightenment, something which is utopian. It's unachievable. It's the same kind of speech you'd give to soldiers before they're going to go off to battle to die in some pointless war.

I'd rather see people say specifically what they aim to achieve, be realistic about it, and then do it. The tech world likes to talk about itself too much (I know, that's rich), but the people I personally respect don't talk about how great they are, they're just great, and everyone knows it.

Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king.
Have you not heard about China's 50 cent army?
JHU leads all U.S. universities in research funding 38 years straight
Priya Prakash Varrier viral controversy vs. Robert Kennedy election campaign
Show HN: Wesify – an easier way to sell anything
https://www.venturecoffee.xyz/ - A platform to support indie makers in building successful businesses. After reading Andrey Azimov's post ( https://www.medium.com/AndreyAzimov ) on medium, I was really impressed and thought of building something to help him and other makers like him.
> If a person is performing badly, document that and then fire them.

Which is entirely subjective. There are a billion criteria you can reasonably evaluate someone on, so it's trivial to make the average person look below average by choosing the things they're bad at as the things to evaluate them on.

A company will always be able to get rid of an employee they don't like one way or another. The only choice you have is how much bureaucracy to impose. But it's the same amount of bureaucracy even when the company has a justifiable reason.
Be very stealthy.

Cops go out of their way to hassle people whom sleep in their vechicles.

My biggest gripe about The Land of the Free is there's literally know where to sleep for free without breaking some law.

(I had two friends who tried to live in their vans, and they were harassed beyond belief. One friend had a big friendly dog. This big stupid cop started banging on the van. The dog barked. The guy warned the cop about the dog. The cop opened the back of the van, and shot the dog. It happened in the Bay Area 15 years ago. I'm angry just writing about it.)
A few years back, we had a junior candidate join us right before a major launch. He ended up being fired after a few months because after he spent 3 weeks doing nothing, when we tried to ramp him up, he struggled with the tasks he was assigned. I suspect that he struggled to find his next job because he b had worked for us for 3 months and had essentially done nothing in that time. You don't want that. You NEED to get familiar with the codebase. The team after doing the launch, will be busy dealing with post launch issues and will struggle to onboard and train you. Anything you can do to get more familiar with the product and the codebase will help. Some suggestions are to ask for a bug list for the current launch and work on those or volunteer to QA issues for the launch or work on automated tests. Ask the PM what you could do to help.
> (1) cement the power of Google and Facebook, since they have logged in consent

I might be missing something, but won't they actually have to get your consent again, on everything, but this time in details and with option for you to refuse without service degradation?

> (2) kill third party retargeting companies

Good riddance. That would be the second most annoying ad technique today, after ads interrupting your video streaming.
But if your contract with the "non-employee" says that they may not work for any employer for n years or that they may not use what they learned from working at your business elsewhere then I say they deserve compensation.

It is obvious to me that if you want an employee to not work for someone else, you need to pay them the same as if they're working for you. This is how things work at the executive level. This is how it should work for everyone. It is the least we can do.
GCHQ checked itself out of EU ;).
But no mention of PKD (Philip K. Dick) and his novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", on which the movie "Blade Runner" is based.. ?
Alan Kay: Why functional programming is seen as OOP's opposite, not in addition
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That's an interesting arbitrage to make cloud computing costs drop towards mining costs, i.e. cost of electricity.
For decades gaming has been the programmer equivalent of the waiter-actor/waitress-actress in Hollywood trying for their big break.

The competitiveness and desire to work there is what drives these insane working conditions.

The big difference is this: If you have the skills to work in the gaming industry, you also have the skills to work in another software industry that will compensate you appropriately.

Nobody needs to work 100 hours a week on salary for at a AAA studio who will discard you.

The key message is this:

AAA productions are losing touch with their audiences and spending unholy amounts of money on garbage games. (this is accelerating just like Hollywood).

Unlike the poor actor/actress who has to suck Spacey/Wienstein's dick, YOU have options. Go work a boring 9-5 webapp job with benefits and then hack on a game with a few passionate friends with a vision of something AWESOME.

The Internet levels the playing field for us. Minecraft is an excellent example of this.
Can you provide some technical details on what you do? Do you divide the number of channels on each real layered network by 4? I don't see anything describing this in the paper.
I’ve created a simple app for myself that lets me keep track of all my conversations, and it encourages me to keep in touch with all my friends, family, (ex)colleagues.

If you like friendly contact reminders or like to recall what you talked about with friends whom you don’t meet every so often, give it a try. You can create your own timeline with conversations, photos, and other important things. As well as general background information. It can send you reminders to talk, and birthday reminders.

The data is in your control, stays on your phone, is not synced. An internet connection is not required.

Currently only for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/social-contact-journal/id118...
The value of the land goes up, but the potential rental income goes down due to increase in supply. For house-owners the net change in property value will likely be positive, but for apartment-owners it might well be negative.

In any case, support for NIMBY suggests the current level of financial compensation is insufficient.
>When we launched 13 years ago, we never imagined that a company that we’d funded would one day go public.

What does that mean?
That does sound bad -- have you tried pinging them again? Usually when I report issues, they're English issues, so the check/fix process is probably much simpler for them.

For a little background information, I'm mostly deaf, so I generally use subtitles for English (my native language) in English-language programs, so the problems we encounter are likely very different. :)

At this level of handicap, I'm simply happy that the subtitles exist -- I can't say the same for Hulu or Amazon Video.
maybe show what you got under profile settings somewhere or button which will email you report with all or frequently requested information.
Fastmail

the outrage with facebook? the ability to read your mail keeps gmail free.
And given that a single asshole can drive only one car at a time, but can program a million cars, and given this is Uber we're talking about, I'm worried too.
I live in the area, and I actually have calculated how much an upper middle class existence would cost for a family of 3. $90k or so. Upper middle class mortgage from 2012, taxes, one midrange car loan, medical insurance, utilities, food, other insurance, one decent vacation a year. Pretty good lifestyle, all in all. As a family of 3 you don’t even have to work that hard to earn this amount in Seattle area. So I have a fairly limited amount of compassion towards the dwellers of tent cities etc.
Cambridge Analytica's influence seems to be exaggerated
Listing Tibet & Taiwan as country was discovered by some while filling a survey on Marriott china site.
Tweet Like wasn't the cause of the firestorm
I don't understand the panic about this law. Mens rea is appropriately considered in the law. Unless they can prove that you built your site with the intention of facilitating sex trafficking, you still aren't on the hook for what your users do.

And, if you become aware of sex trafficking on your website and you don't do anything about it, you are absolutely complicit. This is hardly rocket science, and it doesn't seem to overreach the way everyone is screaming that it does.
Mutual consent is very important in interactions.
It needs to be because they're the new(er) player. There's a vast difference in attracting customers between "costs the same, but it's neater" and "it's neater and cheaper!".
Ask HN: Would buying FB stock right now be a great idea or horrible idea?
Considering it. I don't like FB or what they stand for but I think I could buy low and sell high. I know a vocal minority are upset right now but most people don't care enough to delete their accounts or do care but are too addicted to delete their accounts. The government could regulate the industry but I think this is wishful thinking considering this is one of the largest corporations on the planet and is entrenched into the fabric of civilization and world history at this point.
Which is wrong obviously. I should be able to purge all info about me from the site. Its not hard - after all, people tag users they talk about.
I second FastMail. I originally tried Proton, but the iOS app is kind of annoying. FastMail seems really polished on all platforms. Setting up custom domain was a breeze.
Exactly.

I only now remember off hand the passwords for less than a dozen apps. Dropbox being one of them, my private email/domain, Google account and a handful of others.

That's the biggest endorsement I can provide for any successful product that I use, day in and day out.
The car was not in the right place, or it would not have hit her. In the state of Arizona a pedestrian has right of way in front of any vehicle, and the driver must yield to any pedestrian on the same side of the road.

Edited to add: We don't know anything about her physical or mental condition that might have made it difficult for her to perceive the car or the distance when she was crossing, so to assume that she had perfect perception and chose to cross in front anyway assumes facts not in evidence.
They essentially bought CMU's robotics department which ranks #1 (in terms of universities) in almost all AI conferences. They also bought part of UToronto's ML department which is where GHinton was teaching.
This is a super interesting tip — thank you, we were not aware of this (it is reminiscent of tracking of shipping vessels). Do you know of where and how we might be able to make these data available to local partners, like the Tembé tribe, and others? Do you have any contacts at Deere Forestry? Thanks in advance.
But that wasn't the other option. They could have fired the executive who was responsible for managing and training the staff (who clearly failed to do so) or the executive that implemented a customer support system that allowed staff to like tweets that could cause significant damage to the company.

Or they didn't have to fire anyone - it's not like China actually gets to see employment records for random staff in Omaha.
The worst sex in the world is anglerfish sex
We should go for decentralized platforms that are harder to control. We should go for local. One Facebook is easier to shut down than 10.000 chat rooms.