skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you... I was most definitely not trying to say I support what they've been doing or that I oppose anything you said. I was in a similar boat as you; I forced to upgrade to 10 for a different reason and I hated that just as much as you did, if not more. I'm just trying to suggest a way to at least take advantage of your situation and make yourself at least a little happier (I know I did) given that, like in my case, there probably isn't a whole lot else you can do about it.
They tried running the documentation site for a while, but as far as I can tell it's already shuttered.
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Ok, I stand corrected. It was Venture capitalism I had in mind.

I wanna note though, regarding crypto exchanges. One does not need to use them to invest. Use your own wallet. Use decentralized exchange if you don't wanna risk using centralized exchange.
It really depends on which part of China you are visiting. The first tier cities are superficially way more developed than most countries in the world (although not so much in terms of quality of life and access to opportunities). As you move down the tiers you see the opposite end of the spectrum and some of the poorest and least developed parts of the world.
Still too broad a range, smoking some weed at 7pm doesn't necessarily make you unsafe at 7am. Zero tolerance is unrealistic and unnecessary for most jobs that drug test.
I deliberately omitted most of those. ROI on appreciating assets depends on allocation and macro factors, not your socioeconomic position. You can also choose to buy cheap health insurance and your employer typically covers it anyway in the US. Costs related to children like day care similarly apply to every strata and you can choose to optimize those expenses no matter who you are.
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Permanently slowing my device down = Making my device less usable = obsolete

I could have gotten many more years of usability out of it, but they nearly bricked it with an update that I could not say no to.
>> especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.

>But this isn't true.

What do you make of their statement that "Many people, especially those in marginalized groups do feel less welcome. We know because they tell us."?
the logo is the opposite of timeless, trying to grasp currently oh so hip and pop retro aesthetic

I'd have expected to see that logo on the e-bikes scattered across the neighborhood.
Liquid equity?
A different way to think about this, which isn't presented in the article.

For every new airplane manufacturer, there are huge additional fixed costs. Why does the world need two very similar planes, such as the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320? If there was only one plane manufacturer, the plane development costs would roughly halve. And of course, if there is to be a third manufacturer that produced a 737/A320 competitor, the worldwide total plane development costs would increase by 50%!

To put some example numbers here: say there is a total demand for 100 planes to be bought, and it costs $1000 for Boeing and Airbus each to develop their own plane. That means the total fixed development costs per plane are $1000 * 2 / 100 = $20. Now let's say a third manufacturer enters the market, and each company will get 33.3 of the 100 plane orders. Now fixed development costs per plane are $1000 * 3 / 100 = $30. The fixed cost per plane actually increased 50% with a new competitor!

I'm not saying that we should only have one airplane company - as market forces usually not work well with monopolies. I'm only saying that increasing competition is not always good for consumers.

More info: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/natural_monopoly.asp
Sounds to me like you're trying to find a rational answer when it's likely just politics.

There's tons of (acceptable) prescription drugs that have a worse effect on performance than THC being in your system from the weekend before. Someone's glucose level being outside the norm would have a larger effect.

> Work places (particularly those with high safety concerns) shouldn't make any sacrifices just because something is socially acceptable.

Should it be illegal to be on the job while sick? Good luck getting that legislated.
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I can't even download FPGA toolchains like a regular person without an account saying I live in the US and a US VPN to support my claim. FPGAs still accounted as ammo, even if you get the dev boards from China.

I'm looking at you, Xilinx.
Yeah, I generally agree. I think one thing that is often forgotten/only mentioned in comments is trade schools. A good education in a trade can bring about a good income. Due to the lack of people joining the trades as university has been in vogue.
Most businesses starting on Weebly (or similar) will never grow over $200k/month. Most small business isn't like the tech industry...it doesn't scale exponentially once market fit is found. It scales based on number of widgets and number of employees and how many physical locations or whatever the business has, most small business growth is governed by the laws of physics.
First of all, this iPad was almost untouched for years, she only got it to use this one particular presentation software, so it was in near mint condition.

Secondly, I've seen this happen to other iOS devices, in a clear progression.
Do you think that a minority needs to be identified as such to feel unwelcome in a community? That is the premise of your rebuttal
That’s exactly what it is. The increase in prime price makes me think they’re feeling very confident in their market demand. Also very damn greedy.
I haven't checked, but I don't see how or why it should. It happens in kernel-mode with a filter driver; it's pretty transparent to user-level code (though not absolutely 100% invisible).
"not" enthused.
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If you were a Vietnamese born with defects caused by Agent Orange. Or a child in Yemen. Pretty sure these "pros" are not worth anything to you.
23andme requires quite a bit of saliva. They could definitely up the requirements to decrease the chance of fraud.
Does that matter on a site like SO? I usually use “they” not to assume gender, but does it really bother you if someone assumes male?
But: are they sustainably harvested?
> iOS devices do not update on their own without any user intervention. In order to schedule an overnight upgrade, you have to agree to it then enter your PIN...

iOS devices will download a 800M update package over and over again, and then present you with the option of installing the update now, or between 2AM - 5AM the next day, at which point you must enter your pin, and only then, can you decline.

> That statement makes no logical sense at all. The reaason they prevent downgrades are to reduce support costs, to ensure broad compatibility, and because of security flaws in older versions.

They are clearly making an intentional choice with how they deploy updates. The ability to roll back updates is not difficult.

They clearly do not want users to even have a chance to think about whether they want an update. And they certainly are not going to clearly explain how an update would remove features and degrade their UX.
What, do you think that's incorrect? If you think that the average construction worker is as smart in terms of raw IQ as the average computer programmer... well, I highly doubt that you're correct.
> drown out the voices of these anti-tech activists

Can't make that shit up.
You missed it. It's subtle but it's a really, really big effect worth understanding. You really wanted to have as much debt as you could service without going bankrupt.

Australia had a massive redistribution of wealth from savers to borrowers. As long as you didn't become insolvent the more debt you had invested the richer you got.

Borrow $100k as long as your salary kept going up so you could make the payments every year the amount you borrowed was worth less. Think salary goes from $20k to $50k over 5 years. $100k borrowed goes from 5 times salary to twice. Borrow, and invest in anything that isn't hit by inflation. In the 80s houses did that job.

Now if you had $100k in the bank (or government bonds or similar). 5 times salary saved just became 2 times salary saved. Ouch.

Unanticipated inflation is always a redistribution of wealth from lenders (savers) to borrowers.

Of course if you borrowed for a car or a holiday that's something different but you are still paying it off with devalued currency.
I’ll just say this. There are a lot more stories of equity not working out than there are of equity making folks rich... so be sure to do deep research about this subject and also on the co. you are getting involved with.
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That service alone isn't worth 9.99
Google been buying up AI resources well before anyone else and has the strongest and deepest team at this point.

It is why so many of the break throughs have come from Google. Great example is winning at Go almost a decade earlier than anyone thought possible.

They probably two of the strongest teams with one the Brain team and then the Deepmind team. But all the other engineers and infrastructure is first rate at Google.

Really at this point do not think the $100B cash is as important as Google already built the team and now experinced resources are far more difficult to get.

The other advantage for Google is their ability to attract the top engineers in addition.

Google just got started a lot earlier on all of this.
Counter-example: Ironman.

Though, I guess he's also a rich playboy who happens to build robots powered by advanced AI.
>Consider this creepy altrnative: You have a drink at a bar. Stranger swabs it, or steals the glass, collects DNA, sends it in, now triangulates who you are from your relatives.

Sure, but following you would be much easier.

Why go through all the trouble (AND live an online trace).
I agree that it can deepen divisions, but ignoring the issue doesn't make it go away. Not sure what to do.
$1M in stock sounds great... until you realize it's actually $600K after taxes.

With a 4 year vest, that equity is worth $150K per year. About what a Top Engineer sacrifices in salary to go work at a start-up.
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The link still refers to the old logo for me.
Bletchley Park has to be up there too. Existential threats seem to be good for assembling dream teams.
Don't cars generally park in designated locations, pay large amount of money in taxes, often also in parking fees. Even in SF I think you are more likely to walk into a pile of excrement or scooters in a middle of a sidewalk than into a car...
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This issue has been addressed already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464730

I don't believe there was any intention of making Dropbox hard to uninstall. I think the intention was to make the process seamless for users, and there was a bug that caused a setting to get reapplied after a user changed it.
2-10 grand is way low. I’ve bought out my equity from two startups and they were both over 15k despite only vesting a small portion of the overall grant.
This is a great example of why media companies fear tech companies. The media has been engaged in outright war against FB. The end result? Nothing.

People don’t let media companies tell them what to believe anymore, they do as they want and they want tech. The media is no longer the gatekeeper of public opinion and you can see their fear in every anti-tech push they make.
How to think about equity for me: either believe in what you are doing as a founder or get market rates while getting equity anytime else. Unless you are a founder you probably will be outmanuvered on your ability to exercise your option .
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"Your food costs more, but if you bought a new iPad, it would be faster, so it balances out."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUSTR...
>"Latency is bad but thoroighput is amazingly good."

No the throughput is most certainly "amazingly good."

The number of of avenues and major east-west thoroughfares is small compared to the number of one lane one way street. Throughput is decreased further by the volume construction that happens now, the protected bile line and dedicated bus lanes.

>"Can you explain why LA and manhattan size or aspect ratio make them incomparable rather than just hand waving? "

There was nothing hand wavy abut anything I wrote. Nor did it concern aspect ratios, there is nothing geometric about the footprint of LA at all.

The fact that Los Angeles is such a sprawl means that amount track miles it would now take to provide similar transit coverage isn't feasible. And probably never will be. There will never be a train that takes someone from Northridge to Culver City or from Westwood to Altadena.
just even thinking about 'capital' is wrong. we'd be so much in better shape now if we dropped that idea (in all forms incl state capitalism) already.
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Let’s guess the likely minimum age?
I get your point but AFAIK there actually are many people annoyed by the mere idea that some people wouldn't work and would just enjoy their free time while they work, but as for me if I were producing (voluntarily and without working too hard preferably) a lot more productive output than I need myself I would absolutely not mind if the rest was distributed among other people and I would not care whether they work or not. I would actually be more happy to know that the people my work feeds just attend a university, do art or just have fun rather tan that they spend their lives on a chair in a government-funded office doing some useless paperwork to justify getting what they get.

As far as I understand modern production technologies may need rather humble number of humans to produce amounts of goods enough for much much much more people so the situation when one man work yields enough to feed a thousand is not a fantasy. I actually doubt many people that actually do useful productive work do just the amount to feed themselves even if they are paid just the amount.

And there also is a huge number of obstacles that can prevent people from doing what they are good at or anything useful at all. In many countries and in many areas people still have to compete to get a job even if they are willing to work. A coder can be denied a job for not smiling enough, being bad at solving puzzles or having a degree less fancy than another applicant has. Will to do a job and will (and capability) to compete are very different things.
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First 10, half billion valuation is an OR condition, not an AND.
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I am in Hyderabad right now and I agree. Hitec City has a veneer of modern but it is thin and already showing wear after only a few years. And I don’t have to travel out of this area to see plenty of people living a third-world existence.

Having friends here now I want to see them succeed but at this point most of them that can figure out how to leave here, do.
That's precisely it -- one does not build modern applications using the kind of knowledge OP is being tested for.
Nitpick: that salary is also subject to taxes.
Simple (yet complex) Solution: don't make health a for-profit business.
It is very informative to make a an online dating profile of the opposite gender. I'm a man, but when I made an account on tinder with a female friend's pictures I was blown away by just how radically different the experience was.

Almost every person would match with me. Everyone would message me straight away. If I didn't reply most would message again in a few hours. A few would get very angry/upset that I didn't reply.

I think Tinder is a real stroke of genius. All users, men and women, get given the same interface and the same choices. But of course things are not really equal. Men shotgun and women pick and choose. Tinder has essentially made Bumble, but they have plausible deniability. No need to enforce any rules about women messaging first when that emerges naturally.
In the US, the combination of globalization, automation and lack of support for private sector unions means workers outside of the creative class have very little bargaining power. I'm sure workers will get raises, but I don't see much hope for them getting much above the inflation rate. The only political solution that seems to be getting any traction at all is raising the minimum wage. Some states are doing that, but I don't see the Federal minimum wage getting raised any time soon.
First of all, 55k isn't the ceiling. My dad is a union carpenter and made about $50/hr ($104k). Electricians make even more, and are paid decently throughout their 5 year apprenticeship (which is half classroom half job site).

Secondly, depending on where you live that is a lot of money. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and my parents home is only worth $250k. It's 4 bedroom, 2 car garage, finished basement, on a 1/2 acre.
In 2015 I was targeted by scammers who claimed to be from Microsoft and said that I had a virus on my Dell computer. Another graduate student had originally registered the computer with Dell technical support. When the hard drive failed I updated the phone number, but I had overlooked updating the name in the contact info. When the scammers called me they addressed me by the name of the other grad student. I tried to report this breach to Dell at the time, but I didn't get anywhere. Seeing this news reminded me of the incident and I searched to see if Dell had disclosed the breach. I found a few articles from early 2016 where others were reporting similar experiences but Dell was not admitting at that time that they had experienced a breach [1-3]. In May 2016 Dell still claimed that they had "no indication that customer information used in the scams has been obtained through an external attack" [4]. Does anyone know if they ever admitted to the breach? They ought to be sanctioned as well if they failed to disclose.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/dell-to-customers-report...

[2] https://www.cio.com/article/3020733/security/scammers-target...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/lates...

[4] https://blog.dell.com/en-us/dell-phone-tech-support-scams/
This comment section reads like half the people didn't bother to read the article or even Google the case and somehow think the police are framing an innocent man.
Good data point. Yes, very few folks have it available. Especially younger folks who get talked into equity comp. Sure, you can get a loan or something. But it’s a lot to ask for most people.
Sexism aside, the morality of this service is interesting. What if this service was involved in a match, and some time later the couple married?
I remember there are Mexican American politicians in the US who's whole response to their platform against illegal immigration was literally that they're closing the door on people behind them (jumping the border). Understandably there will be people like that, but that they'd get elected and can espouse such beliefs shows that there are people out there with seriously messed up values.
No worries, I didn't get the impression that you were trying to excuse anyone, just trying to be helpful. And it's generally fine; in my case I use my Windows tablet for very specialized purposes, so I can honestly cope with a lot of annoyance as long as the two or three apps that I rely on still work.

I mentioned somewhere else on another post though that I try to recommend Linux to less tech-savy people now, and experiences like this are definitely a contributing part of that.

I spent a fair amount of time setting my Mom up with Ubuntu, and it wasn't particularly easy to get everything the way she wanted it. But then when Ubuntu started pushing Gnome 3 I just kept her on an LTS release and everything was fine - no annoying prompts or stealth upgrades, and she still gets security fixes.
Lots of people in the DNA databases are relatives to someone who lived in Sacramento.

The lead came from the police searching through DNA databases which identified some set of relatives who were suspicious, but they later obtained the DNA from the suspect himself which was an exact match to what was gathered from crime scenes.
I think his points is in India, even tier one cities are still feel like 3rd world.

(Just paraphrased what he said, I've never been in India).
Sample mixups and other mistakes can happen. I know of cases where family history could become exposed through these tests, but if you get results that are unexpected it's worth some follow up to be sure.
For those unfamiliar with it, Closer to Truth has a weekly TV interview program[0] that airs on public television in the USA.

[0] https://www.closertotruth.com/about/tv-program
Weird bit about these types of sites they are quite strict about using your real name, but do not really check your ID (but leaves it to post office I guess).

On a fun side, I wonder what would happen if I submitted dogs or pigs saliva.
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The logo is awful.

- it ham-fistedly plays on the name Go (look, the logo is "going"...)

- it is not opinionated (it conforms seamlessly to contemporary corporate logo design, it looks like stock art)

- it does not repay sustained attention

Go is a brutalist language. Clean lines, no frills, lots of power, close enough to the metal. I want monotype, exposed beams and concrete, RTFM, no ugly movement lines.

I would actually rather they had taken a photo of the word "Go" written in concrete.

And honestly, I don't care about any of these things, it's just window dressing on a very solid programming tool. It's frustrating when the miss is that obvious, though. Whoever pushed this through was clearly very risk averse, rushed, or both.
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Once you hit any significant volume on Square, you can call them and move to a cost-plus rate.
You're right that it was originally a two year plan, but they aren't terminating it a year early. It will still run for the full two years. As your link mentions, it launched at the beginning of 2017, and the Wired article mentions, it will run until the end of 2018.

What's happened recently is that they declined to extend it past two years.
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If the real value of the residential property in future sale price and rent received goes absolutely nowhere. Having it mortgaged will cause you to win big.

Stupid example, say inflation goes to 7% year on year.

Your house is say $100,000 totally financed by debt.

You pay interest only on your loan.

10 years time, your loan is $100,000 and is worth $50,000 in 2018 dollars due to the inflation. If you have a 0% real return on the value of your house you can sell it for $200,000 in 2028. A nominal return of 100% over 10 years even with zero increase in real value of the house.

So if you have a good investment property it will go really well. But if you have something that becomes a future slum, you can still lose.
You are exactly right. People used to be excited about updates. And if they didn't work out, you could roll them back. It's ludicrous that somehow everyone forgot how to do that now.

And it's not just a technical problem, it's a cultural one. It's spread to open source software. When an update from Firefox destroyed certain user's Bookmarks files that they had spent years creating, the official response was that users should have made a backup.

Using computers today is so much work. I have to be so vigilant about making backups because I can't trust that my data won't be destroyed by an update.
Ok so you could say 'I don't see the value in Prime Video myself', rather than asking 'what value', which makes people think you are genuinely asking a question.