skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is a significant misreading of his current statements as well as where he's come from. Yes, he's very skilled in the corporate world, but he's just as skilled in the open source world. You absolutely need to be awesome at both to be able to do the right thing as the CEO of GitHub. Check out his history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Friedman
Non mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirnetX
Except a human driver had just recently crashed in the exact same spot - that's why the divider's crash bumper was damaged at the time of the Tesla accident.

I think there's no excuse for shipping an "autopilot" system that can't detect massive, stationary objects in broad daylight, but humans also do crash in those exact circumstances all the time.
Please rethink the value of from PR vs. $7.5 billion dollars they paid in the acquisition.
This is truly inspiring.

We're bootstrapped and profitable. Unfortunately we incorporated as a Delaware C Corp because we didn't know we wouldn't raise.

If non-VC were more normalized, like Rand thinks maybe it should be, it probably would have saved us a bunch of money and hassle from the get go. I also think the expected return as a founder is probably better if you don't shoot for the extremely unlikely event of building a billion dollar company in 5-7 years.

I'm rooting for you Rand! Btw I finally moved our blog over to a subfolder like you suggested. Keep up the awesome work, can't wait to try SparkToro.
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.”

― Herman Melville
2. See 1. We aren't disconnected from social trends.

The cost of change is huge, because the cost of a software developer's time is extremely expensive. We are tightly networked into cities where the cost of housing is 2-8x elsewhere in the country. So that two week integration costs something like $7-10,000 to execute on.

The other interesting thing is the volume, the raw size of the software we have today. We have tens, hundreds of thousands of lines of code - and it's getting spread out in distributed systems.

1. I will make a flat statement without more than a basic justification... it's extremely expensive to live in the US and achieve a healthy life without extreme amounts of risk. Health care costs are absurd. Housing costs in a region with adequate city services is absurd. Housing costs in a region where you can find a job when you lose your current one is absurd. In the US therefore, most people have to orient on survival far more than they did 30 years ago.

For justification, I refer the reader to the Guardian. But. I also have spent time reading memoirs of different people who lived 1940-1990 and taking a note of how easily they could rent/buy/move/find work. It's far easier than anyone I've met my age. Those times are gone, gone, gone. Today, talk to most anybody who just graduated college, and you will hear a story of how finding work was hard.

Another aspect that is playing out is that the Boomers and "Greatest" generation basically vacuumed up a lot of the wealth and power, siloed it into their children or or haven't really released it themselves.

And when you're worried about your health care and mortgages, you don't really have a reasonable way to take a new risk on your own.

And when your employees are insisting on living in expensive places that mitigate risk, you pay the cost and refuse to take the risks, because they are stupid expensive.
Lying is not an impeachable offense, however perjury certainly is.
Horrible idea. Ethically. More so if the reader is not notified.

You should probably add “loose potential customers” to the “cons” section. I would not follow such a link the way I don’t follow links to Scribd and such.
Agreed, here's one for everyone else coming through. http://staruml.io/
Like the stacks in ready player one?
Wouldn't this increase the upload bandwidth needed by 31?

There might be a way for it to be end-to-end encrypted, but it's not a simple problem.
Here's an advocate in the Bay Area:

Solving the housing part of homelessness through the construction of modular, micro-housing is described in the above video by Patrick Kennedy, founder of Panoramic Interests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC0fyFtbaQk

And here's an example in Sunnyvale:
http://www.palisadebuilders.com/projects/domain/
I can only agree on the lack of self awareness. Lack of understanding that they live on a community and everybody is doing their part. Giving respect to every one even if they earn a fifth of what you earn and treating everyone as dignified people. Also, lack of empathy not everyone goes on the same speed.
I'm not sure this is what 'tech bro' means to most people, because the term also gets applied to California natives who went to Stanford. (Obviously the completely inconsistent usage of the term is an issue in its own right.)

But you do strike a chord with "a word for cultural immigrants that haven't assimilated yet". I know one person from the rural midwest who studied CS, landed in the Valley, and ended up leaving for some midwestern company - earning less money for work he liked less - because he couldn't assimilate. He swore teaching English in Japan had been less stressful and shocking than trying to keep up with the demands and hostility of SF culture, and honestly I don't find it hard to believe.

I've had people quite sincerely tell me that there's no such thing as "Bay Area culture", just an expectation that people do the right thing. I suppose it's one of those "fish in water" situations, but I still have trouble understanding the amount of hubris required to say "oh, other people have cultures, we just have the right way of behaving".
The author says that training their own model would have been too hard due to lack of training data, but evidently Rekognition had sufficient training data to make it work? Why can't NYT use the same training set Rekognition uses? Does Amazon somehow have a secret non-public collection of celebrity photos?
No idea about the support but it's got me looking at it just for that. I know a few things where those kind of diagrams would be really nice to add.
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What I want is an MVP house (room + bathroom + kitchen), which I can expand ( extra rooms, extra bathrooms, etc ). Normally with construction, when you add stuff, you need to break stuff, but if there could be a modular housing system that would let you expand without destruction, while being competitively priced, I'd do that.

In Elon Musk fashion, it would have to be better than a normal house, right? A modular house ( like a mobile home ), which is expandable, which is simultaneously better than a normal house. Maybe for my next startup idea ( since this is a problem I have and I would use ). The end goal would be a transition from a tiny house to a mansion, with each state being as good as a comparable house, and about as cheap. Maybe some panels they could sell back?
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In some cases, your conclusion is correct while the problem is completely different. I live in a college town, where rent and housing prices obey different laws of economics.

Unlike the Bay Area, a brisk 15 minutes drive in any direction will bring you to dirt cheap rural property, but because a huuuuuuge proportion of renters are college students, they tend to live in the city and put the rent on their student loans instead of moving further out and spending time (and money, on a car) commuting. It’s not as if a college student is going to throw in their hands and say “well, I could get an Ivy League degree at the school I was accepted to, or I could get a second-Tier degree somewhere else and pay half the rent.”

Case in point, Ithaca’s Collegetown neighborhood used to be a sleepy community of large rental houses, but over the last 20 years it’s been heavily developed into very large, tall apartment blocks, all while Cornell built massive developments of dorms and grad student housing complexes. And rents just keep climbing higher and higher...
I never said you denied it, I said you ignored it. If you wanted to debate this serious issue, then maybe you shouldn't keep ignoring one of the crucial cornerstones of the discussion. If you're unwilling to discuss points that challenge your own opinion, then it's clear that you're just trying to push an agenda rather than have an actual discussion.
I don't know that our economy and technology is actually advanced enough to handle full UBI but there are places we could start. A food allowance for everyone would be good for instance and possible. Just no checks, here's x amount of money which will buy you enough food whether or not you use it on food.

Housing is another example. We don't have more empty house than homeless people in America. We don't necessarily have more house in downtown SF or NY but if we could set up a system where you could accept a house, with no real control over where, it would relieve some pressure off of people as a number of the population would accept that offer

I agree on the free markets inflating away free money. University costs are a perfect example where demand was artificially inflated with federal student loans, but the supply was not equally increased so the price just went up. If we started providing basics I'd believe they'd have to be controlled more like a utility. We try not to let market forces control water because weve decided that basic for everyone. So we give a company some garunteed profits in exchange for them not being able to wrong every last dollar out of the economic niche. We lose some efficiency, but gain stability

Targeted assistance might help better, but it's extremely difficult for the government as a single entity to try and provide help on the demand side without constraining the actions on the supply side. The increase in beuracratic costs also eats up much of the benefit
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Solar panels mix well with heat pumps in hot and dry climates indeed, because of the happy coincidence that peak solar radiation=peak demand for cooling. In that case it's not a bad combo, especially if you have mild winters without temps deep in the freezing (which ruins the COP for heat pumps, assuming you use them for heating too).
c.f. https://github.com/deech/LeftPad/blob/master/left-pad.org , in particular "At the type level we have:" and "At the level of sorts and refinements:"

Or take this silly code: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50658528/how-do-you-repl...

At the type level, nothing changes between the first program and the second. At the level of sorts and refinements, ATS2 is given more information in the second program so it's able to turn the two noted error conditions into compile time errors, when in first program they could only be runtime errors.

I haven't heard anything bad about Hongwei Xi. Who are these ill-regarded researchers?
Well, we now know Nat Friedman's favorite cheese. :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman...
Well if we're gonna give Andrew suggestions on places to emigrate, S.A. -- like N.Z. -- has the advantage of English as a first language. BUT if Andrew and S.O. have any Spanish, they shouldn't overlook the often-overlooked country of Uruguay. From[1],

> Uruguay is ranked first in Latin America in democracy, peace, low perception of corruption, e-government, and is first in South America when it comes to press freedom, size of the middle class and prosperity... Nearly 95% of Uruguay's electricity comes from renewable energy, mostly hydroelectric facilities and wind parks...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay
I think you're ignoring the significant carrying costs of a house. My house last year had over $11,000 in carrying costs in just taxes, insurance,and interest. Never minding the upkeep and repairs (which are significant yet difficult to estimate). There's other hidden costs like opportunity cost, the return on investment you'd be getting if you didn't have that money tied up in your house.
In that case any IT consultancy could fool those people. If a US consulting firm is chosen, how could anyone make the claim that they were chosen on merit?

If it's a US firm, then there can be financial and legal repercussions. Good luck going after a firm in India.
The same product categories definitely do exist (I know I changed your wording there a bit). In fact, many of the software companies that advertised back then still exist today in those same categories. The main difference is that today they advertise in ways that are out of reach for most ad budgets.

It's the "reachability" that is so difficult, not deciding which category one wants to target.
But even then, labeling them as slackers strikes me as callous to some degree.

Where I'm from, and in the various countries I've lived in (including the US), I've met plenty of people who for one reason or another couldn't - bar sheer luck - get a job that pays anything decent. Be it lack of connections, no idea how to build those connections, lack of ambition, lack of education, whatever. There were good reasons, and probably not so great ones, but in practice I seldom got the feel it was about good spending habits or slacking.

If anything, and anecdotally, I probably met more people with terrible saving habits when interacting with segments of the population that were rather well off to begin with - that is, they had excess cash or the potential for it. The "worst" example I can think of was a patent attorney who charged $500/hour, worked a single client per month to make ends meet, and enjoyed life the rest of the time. $10/hour or $2/hour people just don't do that insofar as I've interacted with them - and I did quite a bit while traveling. The "worst" I've encountered on their end were people deciding to work less hours after they got a raise because, you know, they only need so much to make ends meet and were happy with earning just that; and no assets/low income folks getting subprime loans just before the housing crisis.

Admittedly it's only a small unrepresentative sample at the end of the day, but I honestly never got the impression the low wage earners I interacted with were slackers or spending like there was no tomorrow. Mostly (if only potentially) mid- to high wage earners were, and they oftentimes had some savings or could earn money in a heartbeat if they really needed to. They're far from the majority of the population.
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It seems like the box color would be used to differentiate if multiple congresspeople were in the shot
FWIW, IMDB has a list of movies with both 'environmental issue' and 'oil' keywords at https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=environmental-i... .

It seems to support your observation.
> I’ve always found it odd that house construction is so bespoke.

I know very little about building construction but we just bought a new-built in Vienna and very little of that seems bespoke. The entire construction is largely made from standardized prefab elements (I think there are around 130 units in here).
No. I’m in engineering/desktop dev and very aware that if I ever switch to the web side of the world then I’ll either do very menial stuff like CRUD, or very complex stuff like scaling CRUD. Unless there are actual algorithms in what I do, I get bored very quickly!

I think it sounds like you should find a job with more algorithmic challenge. Games, finance, insurance, simulation, engineering.

Or just work on write the libs and tools. I don’t want to write a sql query I want to write a sql parser.
By not defining them, you leave the priorities of the business up to what amounts to a popularity contest with each manager. Raises and promotions thus get handed out to the people who are most likable.

Senior executives (usually VP and above) at major companies typically sign contracts explicitly outlining their goals for the next 12-24 months. They are incentivized or fired based on meeting those goals. And it’s the executives who demand this, not the companies.

Point being, if the executives are demanding clear performance goals for themselves, it’s probably good practice. Managers typically are not responsive to demands from below, so guess where the mandate has to come from.
Here in Vancouver, we have been building apartments to house homeless using modular construction.

http://vancouver.ca/people-programs/temporary-modular-housin...

Start-to-finish I believe the timeframe is about six months and one of the benefits of modular is that they can reconfigure or move these buildings in several years as needs and neighbourhoods change.
I don't think that expense has been the problem, rather the efficiency has been the problem. Most of these machines only affect a very small area around the machine itself, even with the inclusion of fans to increase the area reached it is still so small that it requires lots and lots of machines in a public area to make a difference. The problem then is the space required to place the machines, e.g in urban areas rather than the cost.
The problem is not whether the object is moving relative to the radar. It is whether the object is moving relative to all of the stationary objects behind it that might confuse the radar.
But isn't total wealth relative to the economy one lives in? I'm thinking of Steven Pinker and his latest book "Enlightenment Now", where he discusses some staggering stats about world poverty that are really worth considering. Of course things can definitely be much better. But it seems we actually have been making tremendous progress along this line, so the article's negative connotations may be a bit misplaced.
Peace for our time!
Geographic region must be important, because I see very few Ruby devs around here compared to PHP and .NET.
Are you suggesting that Reddit, or HN, have had an intelligent discussion about the GH acquisition at any point this week?
Key word being "think". OP is saying his personal biased opinion.
If you're looking for a replacement font for your tagline on the homepage, Montserrat isn't too different at the heavier weights. Nice to see Laravel Spark in the wild though.
"According to researchers from Credit Suisse, the richest 1% owned 50.8% of the world’s wealth in 2016"

That should be a wake up call.
It's just a long way to say he was laying...
Given that the first submission had over 70 points after a few minutes, I don't think this is the case. I do think that people are interested in this story, otherwise it would not have become so popular.

Some people did not think the submission was interesting or insightful, and that's OK. But the right way to express that is by downvoting, not by flagging.
> You do realize that with adtech dying those sites and services will go out of business, right? Or you didn't think that through?

When will this happen? Does it happen before or after Hollywood stops making films because piracy, and the entire recording industry falls over and bursts into a fire?
Apple has great competition in Android, however it would be silly to open source iOS. GitLab/Android are customizable and have a ton of features, while GitHub/iOS are more cohesive. Differentiation is how competition exists.

Even if you prefer Android/GitLab, you can't deny that most of the early innovation was copied from iOS/GitHub. In fact, most open source projects (Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice, etc) take their lead from closed source competition... and for all those examples, that competition was Microsoft. That's not to say they can't eventually innovate, however much of the R&D, creation of a marketing, etc come from closed source.

The downside of Open Sourcing so is losing billions of dollars from companies who say "rather than paying $10k/mo, I'm going to just fork it for free".

Lastly, part of the value of GitHub is the network effects. If everyone's hosting it on their own, then there's no network effect.
We're not ready to name names at this point, but you're actually correct. If one looks closely at what China lets through the Great Firewall in terms of the major VPN providers, there is something that stands out.
Market cap: 202M
If you have land and looking at somewhat high-end:
https://www.bluhomes.com/homes-landing/origin

These are popular in Tahoe and Napa.
I have to agree with your dad as long as your work is not illegal or causing severe damage to part of the community. The honorable part is usually discarded if you are cleaning toilets for a living but I've talked with people at work that have that job and there is honor to it. They usually have big dreams for their kids and talk about sacrificing themselves for them to have just a little bit of a better life. Also they ask for advice on how to get them interested in tech and things that they don't have the time to sit down and get a grasp of. That is the definition of honorable.

Thank you for sharing your introspection! You seem like a great person.
I think the primary purpose is the notifications, not the blocking. Even if they browse to the page once, see the block and disable it, you'll still know.
It's the 3G connection used by the public in one of the basement floors of the capital building that has low bandwidth. The capital has its own internal network for congressmen and their staffers, they just don't let random reporters connect to it
of those 85 million how many are actually active and not just placeholder empty repos or automated mirrors for wordpress/jquery plugins? Not on anyones side here but if the top 250k repos switched, that would be really bad news. I think it's more important to compare size and popularity of the repos than just what the % is.
NASA's Curiosity rover finds organic matter on Mars
It should be noted that all they've done here is create a computer simulation with no controlled in vitro measurements of performance.

This does not necessarily predict real-world effects.
The domain name is still available - openfacetime.org - I am happy to donate it to an open source project. Ping me on Twitter @satefan

(I registered the domain while I was sitting in the audience at the WWDC where Jobs announced it would be open source)
Yes, I particularly enjoyed the historical operating theaters scenes
So you should be able to send a selfie to this api and it will tell you which member of congress you look most like
citation please.
(It is in 21 states in 2017)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery#United_States
> not because it's impossible to do in the US

The US manufacturers couldn't compete on cost because critical materials were either solely available or so low cost, from China, that it drove competition out of the material markets in the US. This is one of those, ask any manufacturer, rather than a guess. Then factor in labor costs and you ended up with yet-another-chinese-dominant market where improvements were done in China snowballing the situation to today.
If there is one thing technology has been doing, it has been taking things that were once only possible with a large organization, once only possible with lots of knowledge, once only possible with lots of money; and making those things do-able by one person.

Building houses fits a few of those. So it's foreseeable that eventually someone will be able to build a house with an app, for fairly low money, fairly quickly, fairly automated, but it might be many years until it's really that cheap/easy.

A potential stop gap would be like an app that told you every single step how-to build your house: buying, delivering, cutting, etc etc etc, for the millions of edge cases of construction.
658 kids separated from parents in 2 weeks: project 45K by Jan 20, 2020
I answered this already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258458.
Electric buses are fast growing in cities, led by China. LA says it will have all buses converted by 2030.
Netscape?
"Spokesmodels"? Those were SpaceX employees. SpaceX engineers. And at least initially, I don't think they actually knew what happened. Maybe they did later, but not initially.