skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. I rented for many years in Cupertino and Los Altos while I worked at Apple. Now I realize that that was a serious mistake. I want to encourage young professionals in Silicon Valley to avoid making the same mistake. Rather than attract more downvotes, I'm happy to discuss this offline. My email is chmaynard@gmail.com.
I think some smart companies in "third tier" cities are tapping this. There are some hilarious targeted ads I see for an Austin company (HomeAway) that prominently shows the median home price in Austin and a link to their open jobs. Similarly, Duolingo (Pittsburgh-based) put up a billboard in SF advertising the prospect of working in tech AND owning a home: https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/23/duolingo-to-silicon-valle...
I’ve found the iOS app ntwrk to be good for this.
> I don't see how this is either hypocrisy

Seriously, you don't? It's all "over burdensome regulation" and "tort lawyers looking for a huge payday" until it's YOUR child that is hurt or killed. Legislator is damn lucky the tortfeasor was from out of state.
> Hair loss cure has been around for a while

Strongly disagree.

When I was a teenager I had very thick, curly hair. Now I'm bald. Unless the cure involves reactivating my dormant hair follicles into growing back exactly what I had when I was 15, it's imo not a cure.

Right now the alternatives are: shave my head, or risk potential scarring and weird hair pattern from a transplant, or take a pill forever and sacrifice boners for some wispy strands that I'll be self-conscious about all day long.

So for now, I'm shaving my head. Call me when there's like, a single-application stem-cell therapy.
It's not though; it's Reddit's community. They give moderators the ability to do whatever they want with subreddits, but can (and not often enough do) get involved when particular subreddits bring them bad publicity. So many of Reddit's moderation policies were created when the founders expected Reddit to be used very differently, and are sometimes absurdly simplistic.
Maybe this is a better approach: what happens to the podcast market if Apple stops shipping a podcast app?

The priors that come to mind when trying to answer this hypothetical is what happened to independent blogs when Google shuttered Google Reader and what happened to news companies when Facebook tweaked their algorithm to show less 3rd party content. In both cases, distribution was decentralized (blogs host their own RSS feeds and news sites host their own content), but attention was centralized (people accessed blogs through Google Reader and news through Facebook). In both cases, the decentralized distribution failed prevent a massive decrease in traffic to blogs and news sites. And that’s because competition for attention is fierce, so aggregating attention is hard.
This is true. It's also 'whataboutery'. Slavery was always abhorrent, and the fact it was and is widely practiced does not excuse its beneficiaries. What is interesting is that I don't think you are deploying this rhetorical trick as a means to persuade others, so much as to make yourself feel better about something: to assuage some sort of cognitive unease. Contrast this with the author of the article: she owns it. That is absolute moral bravery.
My standards are probably different, but I don't feel like I see very much those those kind of comments. Our conversations are really pretty decent in contrast to much of the web.

The overattribution of notable effects and fallacies gets a bit tiring, though. As the article mentions, we love to bring up things like the Dunning-Kruger effect, the Peter Principle, the confirmation bias, etc. Sometimes I don't think people actually know what they're talking about when they say that someone has "confirmation bias"; it's just become a 115 IQ way of saying that the other person is stupid.

When it comes to comments, I see downvote abuse happen a little more frequently than I'd hope. I'm not just complaining about my own comments, but just about every day I see a comment that got downvoted for saying nothing objectively wrong or controversial. It's only a few people abusing the system, really, but it'd still be nice if I noticed such things less often.
This really whips the llama's ass.
There will be more and more info in the coming months about CBG, CBC, CBN, etc and its effectiveness to alleviate certain things.

Eg. CBN is now known to be the compound that makes you lazy or couch locked

Here's a good talk by Manuel Guzman on his labs studies on Cannabinoids and Cancer

https://youtu.be/lHI6RcTKdNk
In my case it seems it was more due to cardiovascular problems than to PTSD or 'brain self-harm' if I may say so. But anyway, I do try to have deep slowing moment[1], aiming at stable relaxation. But I'm never sure what to expect from meditation. Give me your favorite books.

[1] a side effect of fubared cardiovascular system is that I had to monitor my breathing and heart a lot so I would naturally have sessions of calm slow breathing exercises.
FTA:

What’s more, according to court documents, the
investigators learned that on July 3, 2014, one week
before the ride’s grand opening, an engineering firm
hired by Jeff and Schooley to perform accelerometer tests
on Verrückt’s rafts had issued a report suggesting that
if the combined weight of the three passengers in a raft
was between 400 and 550 pounds—the weight Jeff and
Schooley had agreed was appropriate—there was a chance
the raft would go airborne on the second hill. The ride
opened anyway, with the weight range unchanged.

So that sounds pretty damning.
+1. Between unicorn RSUs and salary, I have more than enough long exposure to the Bay Area tech industry’s fortunes. I’m not sure that my anxiety about homeownership even makes sense.
This is a reasonably good post, I think. Worth reading if you're interested in reddit community governance.

One thing that might make the solution marginally better would be a public record of bans with a brief note about the reason.

edit: fix typo
Agreed on most of what you're saying here.

> For me, a house isn't an investment but it's a place where I house my family.

I really want to view the world this way :) I wish housing were a boring commodity that depreciates in value over time like a car. With prices being what they are, I am _forced_ to think of housing as an investment because of how much of my net worth will be tied up in it.
When I visited the US for the first time 3 years ago, I was shocked by the levels of segregation. For reference I grew up in black South Africa.
Yes and no, it is much thicker than the regular T470's but it's still not thick by any measure I'd care about.

My criteria for too thick/heavy is "can I use it on my knee for a few hours without it feeling like someone parked a deathstar on my legs?" in that realm the T470P is just fine.

Aesthetically they are marmite though especially when put next to my GF's Asus Zenbook (One looks like it came from an advanced society, the other like it's used by the engineers of that advanced society).

The really strange one for me was that the T470P lacks a Thunderbolt 3 port despite the 470's having it.

Not a big issue for me because I drive a 4K display with DP just fine, I'd also have liked to have not gotten the 940MX, nothing wrong with it I just don't use it, the onboard intel graphics are absolutely fine for 99.9% of what I do.

Honestly I love the thing, it's been the least hassle, nicest laptop I've had since (ironically) my last Thinkpad around ~2003.
NetBSD rump kernels come to mind, they've been around for a few years
Ah the nostalgia!

I'd love an Android app that is just the main WinAmp window in portrait mode on my phone, and has the same basic features (simple MP3 player basically, maybe try add support for podcasts and some streaming music). It'd be so perfect for my car. WinAmp for car audio, Google Maps for mapping. I know it's purely for the nostalgia kick and the stock audio players work fine, but... WinAmp!
Regarding the first quote: https://mobile.twitter.com/themlotsdad/status/99822758680631...
Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?
I agree Python isn't simple at all, but I think it does have a kind of surface simplicity that its culture reinforces. 'one obvious way', etc.

Or to put it another way its a language you can do a lot with without caring too much about details.

Or to put it another way still you can go a long way with Python, Stack Overflow, and a bit of copy and paste.
A bit odd that this has so many votes and no comments apart from a new account.
I tried to get this to build so hard 6 months or so ago whenever it first came on hacker news, but no luck at all!
Another option is Void Linux, which is explicitly inspired by NetBSD.
The photo looks like it's of a cask firing at Ariake Sangyo [0], which manufactures barrels for a variety of uses. About 10 percent of their barrels go to domestic whiskey producers, and the rest to shochu. Yamazaki has their own cooperage, so that barrel isn't going to them.

However, Yamazaki does use a variety of different barrels, including wine casks for finishing, sherry casks, mizunara (Japanese oak) casks, new American white oak puncheons, hogsheads made of used barrels, and ex-bourbon barrels. AFAIK they use a variety of char levels on the barrels they produce in house and on re-chars.

[0] http://www.ariakesangyo.co.jp/, mis-captioned as a distillery here: https://www.masterofmalt.com/blog/post/qa-brian-ashcraft-aut...
Replace subreddit with country and your argument becomes rather xenophobic.
I can't help but feel like the OP's post is an example of getting carried away in legalese. It isn't hypocritical in the legal sense, but absolutely is in the moral sense.
Got my job through a recruiter on linkedIn seemingly cold messaging me. I initially only interview because I thought it would be good practice, but the more I learned about the company and eventually got an offer, was blown away by the opportunity. YMMV
> I use a USB-C docking station at my desks. Once you get a docking station that connects everything, including power via a single small USB-C you never go back. You just need a dongle when traveling.

Which dock do you use?
Given that Kansas apparently allows water parks to self-assess the safety of their rides, and that the owner of the park doesn't care about safety, but has a construction background, it's not a surprise to me that no engineers were involved in the design.

It's not a good idea to build public buildings without the input of a structrural engineer, but it's not impossible.
The current optimistic estimate for Caltrain Downtown Extension (and we know what happens to estimates for transit-related projects in SF) is 2027.
From a little personal experimentation I've been surprisingly impressed. It helps winding down before bed after a hard day, but also helps to settle the mind for work, and doesn't interfere with concentration. Unlike other health fads (e.g. coconut oil, tumeric) it appears to have a quickly observable effect.

I theorize it may work by reducing or helping to manage stress. This could explain why it has raving supporters for a wide variety of real problems in distinct online communities, since stress is such an important factor in many kinds of physical and mental health issues. Admittedly it is hard to detect the placebo effect, but the indications so far are promising.

If it lives up to half of the promise of the online claims by people with significant problems, it is going to be huge. I'm wondering if there is an investment opportunity there somewhere, but don't know enough about that sort of thing.

It should be pointed out that there are a lot of bad or fraudulent products available, the market is immature and full of hype. But there are quality oils which taste good and work well. Also worth noting that much less is absorbed by drinking rather than than putting under the tongue.

There are also some bold claims flying around about it's effect on the Endocannabinoid system [1], and how improvements to that can improve many aspects of health and self-regulation. Whatever it does, I have a hunch that science is going to turn up some interesting results from looking into it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system
This definition does not match people's expectation of what counts as "psychoactive". By this definition, if eating chocolate alleviates my bad mood, it's a psychoactive drug.
After recreational legalization here in CA I've been using the Dosist pens with varying success. The first one I bought was the Calm pen [0] and have been attempting to use it for things like headaches, muscle aches, and just general relaxation. Unfortunately, it never really worked for any of those use cases, not in the same way Tylenol would.
What has been extremely effective for me is the Relief pen [1] which is something I use to fall asleep (think onset insomnia). Using the pen itself doesn't cause you to be sleepy, but for me it allows me to relax to the point that sleep comes easily. The real killer feature is the measured dose of specific THC:CBD ratio that provides a real medicinal effect without getting too high. I think what I'm most excited about is that continued use hasn't minimized the effect the same way treatments like melatonin become ineffective after extended use.

[0] http://dosist.com/pen-calm/
[1] http://dosist.com/pen-relief/
You weren't joking. Just skimmed through the rest of the blog and this is an absolute treasure!

Good place to start for others: https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
True, but remember that Rome and China could trade without any Roman and Chinese person ever meeting.

My understanding of the Silk Road is that the cargo got reloaded many times and each individual leg was relatively short, at least in relation to the whole distance.
Tattoo ink nanoparticles in skin tissue and fibroblasts
Viruses being alive is a debated topic and doesn’t have an objective distinction from what I understand.
Sure, just like "Jews can get their own country somewhere" or "There are no gay men in Chechnya - but if there are they should be deported to Canada"
Forget about WebAmp, let's talk about the killer play list that has been prepopulated!
Tattoo Ink Nanoparticles Persist in Lymph Nodes (2017)
This seems the same as someone selling you a 4K monitor (for 50% more than other 4K monitors) without ever mentioning that you can only actually have 4K for 5 min max, otherwise it's QHD. It sure sounds like something that should be illegal to me...
If you'd like to download the compilation (good songs, depending on taste), you can get it here:

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/netBloc_Artists/netBloc_V...
Are you suggesting that’s impossible or improbable given the prevalence of fake LSD as well as research chemicals being sold as LSD-25?
> This is actually a mildly compelling argument.

I liked your post up to this point. But no, it's not a compelling argument -- especially one made by a lawyer.

I wouldn't absolve Tesla for the liability of its cars just because Elon Musk is a "genius". I would expect a genius to know the limits of his knowledge. Maybe he was too proud to ask for help.
All the comments so far are stating how obvious it is that they can't claim anything about what you do in your free time.

It is not so clear cut, at least in the US. See Joel Spolsky famous answer to "If I'm working at a company, do they have intellectual property rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?"

http://www.brightjourney.com/q/working-company-intellectual-...
Are people quitting because they don’t want to move?
Maybe it's my age and having come up via years of Usenet where inline quoting was absolutely standard, but I find inline quoting of a discussion helps me keep the flow of discussion. I find it's easier to follow than trying to retain a lengthy parent that a commenter is replying to, also at length.

If it's a long comment it's also likely some commenters are only able to address parts of it - again an inline quote clarifies.

I've never had cause to see it as a warning sign or more likely to be someone scoring points, that's going to happen sometimes with or without inline snippets.
As a foreigner getting tech news here, I have learned a lot about the culture from the comments here. If once a kind of comment is said it couldn't be said again, then people would need to dig deep back to learn about those! Overuse is not good of course, but stopping them would be as bad IMHO.

I feel most of those are trying to bring an important point though. "If you are not..." => "What is the monetization strategy?". "Early optimization..." => "Beware, this probably doesn't make sense in your small co", etc.
I've been really happy with the Lenovo X260 and, were I in the market today, would get an X280.
Previous discussion from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333550 (208 comments)
Chocolate contains caffeine, which is indeed psychoactive.
Defined behavior is a mere shadow of undefined behavior. All form comes from the constraining definition. One who limits his explorations to the defined has crawled into a hole and pulled in the hole after him.

Ya, I know, offtopic.
No problem, its not a serious pet-peeve. I even find it a bit amusing.
Sober trip sitters are a requirement, in my experience. Like, cigs and alcohol at most for them
Possession of cannabis is still a felony in California, as well as all 49 other states.
Decline service based on what?

Political opinions, skin color, sexual orientation, what they had for breakfast?
For those who find LinkedIn pointless are you making crazy bank already and find no need to raise your salary by using recruiters who offer you better jobs weekly on LInkedin? When they do it's time for you to say I make 100k more then you really do and boom you raised your salary a ton.

I don't get the hate though and again those that hate it I guess don't need to play the game? They already have maxed out their salary and or aren't in tech to make as much money as possible?

Or maybe they are the programmers who hate facebook and social networks in general; have no clue how to use Linkedin to their advantage?
Seems like that's a good definition then, if it's reproducible across a large number of people in a scientifically rigorous format.
They had to make that comment because that is exactly how it was and is used, e.g. see ConceptJunkie's reply.
>what the heck is a 'thought leader' anyway?

As far as I can tell:

Someone who very successfully spreads ideas they only partially understand with the inevitable oversimplification here and there.
It would be interesting to calculate:

- cost of living in the SFBA

- cost of living somewhere other than SFBA but generally "equivalent" in the sense that living there wouldn't be seen as a negative

- a average-ish amount of VC funds that must be invested in a company before capital is returned.

- average amount of capital raise that goes to salary

- what amount of salary is due to cost of living.

It is getting a little bit convoluted, but that would allow you to approximate how much VC money is going to SFBA landlords due to the chokehold on housing supply.

We're seeing a shade of this in the Amazon HQ2 process, but if you have actual physical mobility as an organization over different real estate markets and political jurisdictions it will shift the balance of power in terms of rents and taxation. I don't think it applies to small companies for various reasons, but the motive is there.
It's interesting to me that it took so long to catch on in the West. In Eastern Europe, it has been a well known fact for centuries that Hemp Oil was calming/soothing. They would even give a little to fussy babies to help calm them down. I suppose everything old becomes new again.
totally not how he got rich but OK.
Boeing faces a setback with the spacecraft it is designing to fly astronauts
> I don't want anyone to record me secretly

Well, too bad. The photons that bounce off your skin don't belong to you in perpetuity. You don't get to tell the rest of us how to use our eyes (including electronic eyes).

Do you instruct everyone you converse with to forget what you've said unless they have your permission to remember?
There are five things I wish developers with whom I work understood:

1) At the end of the way, we're a business. The purpose of the business is to make money. Not work on cool things, not release a cool product, but to make money. It's not about experimenting with the latest, greatest technology all the time. If we don't make money, you don't have a job.

2) I'm juggling a lot of priorities, and I've _always_ got the bigger picture in mind. The tasks I assign you might seem dumb or not useful in the moment, but trust me, either someone is _paying us to do this_ or gets us closer to a goal on our roadmap.

3) I believe as engineers that we have a unique skillset among most people in our respective industries: we can automate repetitive tasks. Automate all the things. Most of the time, it will make all of our lives better.

4) As a corollary to #3, I wish more developers were willing to adopt a mindset of being willing to shoulder more work to make their colleagues lives easier. In 95% of cases, I would rather that my team take on the burden of doing X, Y, or Z, because I know we can automate it. Not only does this earn goodwill among the rest of our company, but it makes us look like absolute powerhouses of engineering.

5) Delete the phrase "it works from me" from your vocabulary. People don't complain about things that work for them. If it works for you but not them, then there are two possibilities: there's a bug or the user is doing something wrong. _Always_ assume that there is a bug, unless proven otherwise. It's just good, professional communication policy.
Just use a purpose designed cannabis vaporizer?
Be part of the world’s largest brain
People seem to be missing character classes like [[:upper:]]. If you need some other sort of range in a portable script, say, just make sure you set LC_COLLATE. And if you're testing with GNU sort, use --debug to check what it's actually doing in case you don't have the definition for the current LC_COLLATE, for instance.
Sure, and neither is a car. But we understand if someone says "My car is dead" they don't mean merely that they switched off the ignition.

If you prefer another word is "inactivated".
As a self-taught developer, I used to think that some of the theoretical elements were overhyped. I can build iOS apps that work, and I did just that for the last 2-3 years. However, many of the programs that I wrote have not been as easy to maintain as I would like and some difficult to fix bugs have popped up overtime, both of which are due to a lack of deeper understanding of CS fundamentals. Last year I started interviewing and was ridiculed at one company in particular for a lack of CS knowledge. Afterwords I started exploring a lot of the CS concepts listed in this link and I have since found numerous ways to improve my code quality and have a better understanding of how CS best practices came to be. I also used to think that algorithms and data structures were relatively useless for an iOS developer, and I was able to do the job without them, thus proving my point. However, after gaining a better understanding, it quickly becomes clear that things like view hierarchies are simply trees and understanding ways to traverse these hierarchies can lead to much cleaner code. With the open sourcing of Swift, I also became more interested in understanding the language, but a lot of the language design decisions didn't make sense to me until I gained a better understanding of CS fundamentals. I have found the programming languages course on Coursera [1] to be particularly useful, and have also greatly enjoyed the book Designing Data Intensive Applications [2]. There's also a great video from this year's WWDC that really inspires algorithm study and use in everyday applications [3].

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/223/