skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its impressive how a whole corner of the city has been rebuilt for Apple. Not saying I'd wanna live down there, that area has basically no bus service, and is straddled on all sides by freeways and highways (making walking/biking risky), but $1k will get you a decent 1 bed/1 bath apartment blocks from the office.

That being said, Apple pays people peanuts down there, $32k/yr as a contractor ain't much.
The more I think of it, while it's disappointing from a pure-science point of view, doesn't the lack of our ability to determine whether it's QM or GR that is flawed imply that each is already sufficiently powerful to probe any practical realm we'd care about?
Not all companies/products can be started with an oily rag. Many of the best companies we see in our sector are drive by entrepreneurs that are able to marshall significant resources before they build.
Obike Pulls Out of Stockholm and Leave Their Bikes Scattered Around the City
https://zty.pe/

A very addictive game if you want to improve your typing.
Using a phone number does let the app quickly build a social graph of your friends using it. But email could do the same thing, with higher risk of fake accounts.

It could be worse, an app could say "You must sign up with Facebook"
Not sure, but perhaps you are referencing the article from Stewart Butterfield, We Don’t Sell Saddles Here: https://medium.com/@stewart/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c5952...
This is a good thing if done correctly. Companies could potentially use free food and other facilities (at the company) as an excuse to give a lower wage. There’s also perceived pressure to stay late and work. Why go home when you have everything you need at work?
A few things:

1. A lot of advice on here is "Don't raise, just bootstrap". Recognize that while bootstrapping is an option, it puts 100% of both upside and downside risk on you. If your business does well, great! If it doesn't, it's all on you. You've invested (and lost) your own money. Seed funding allows you to hedge that. If the business does well, your investors get x%, but x is generally fair. If it doesn't do well (and most don't statistically), both you and your investors share in the hit.

2. You've said "someone with a product". How's traction and adoption for that product? Do you have users? Are they paying you? What's your current growth rate? If you have strong answers to these questions, don't be shy about reaching out directly to investors. Warm intros are preferred by investors (hell, by anyone), but investors are in the business of making investments. If you have a solid company, you'll get a meeting.

3. Network like your life depends on it. No elite connections? Start making some connections. Go to a conference or a meetup. Are there any accelerators in your area? (e.g., I'm in Toronto and we have MarsDD and CDL here). Get known in your community. Talk to other entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs, for the most part, like to pay it forward. They asked for intros when they were new and they're generally happy to do the same for newcomers. If you network well, you can expect to meet with 50+ investors over a period of 2 - 3 months.
Correct, and they would risk deportation in Turkey, the UK, or whatever EU state they reside in until discovered.

The other countries tend to check residence before allowing a job, healthcare or similar.
The city is responsible for the housing development. Not all of it but a lot of it. Same for homeless: the city can decide to address the problem by investing on affordable housing and assistance programs
But Will It Play in Peoria? Part 2 (Running F# as a Plain Vanilla CGI App)
Yes, compelling people to buy things that ought to be a personal and private decision is a very popular policy position for governments to take in recent years.
I really didn't like Stride but couldn't put my finger on why not. A lot of shortcuts from Hipchat didn't migrate across but I could live with that, something just felt off...
It's called an implication. Duh.
They're not going to. They're trying to follow the example of WeChat and build tons of other features on the identity layer created by messaging.
Sigh. I know the thrust of your statement; that's why I said "duh". But I made a different point. See, you're not the only person on the planet with points to make. And again: your assumption was unwarranted. That's a mistake on your part, but it seems that you have no interest in whether you make mistakes.
When you consider how complicated computers are, the current state of security is a pretty impressive achievement.
The problem with just having liability is that it greatly reduces the responsibility of others to repair or replace your car if they hit it. Depending on where you live, you might only get a few hundred dollars from them if they total your car.

You may be willing to pay out of pocket if you crash your $30,000 car into a tree, but you'll probably want someone else to pay for it if they run into it while it's parked.
I get enough "buffering..." spinners these days that RealPlayer jokes are in danger of being re-evaluated.
Yup. Everyone who doesn’t heap praise on Elon Musk is shorting the market. Or maybe a pedoguy.
Companies that deal with money aren't going to use SSO; they want to own their login system.
Fascinating! Thank you for posting this. My partner is convinced coffee has no effect on her whatsoever, especially at night.

I'm going to set up a Google sheets integration to try and show her that it might be related to her terrible sleep.

Some kind of automated service that helped track this might be interesting.
Telepathic communication via FMRI research on conjoined twins
keybase is a proprietary walled garden.. so.. no thanks.
The progressives of the Board of Supervisors introduced this. To my knowledge it isn't the moderate members. Perhaps its crony capitalism, perhaps its something more sinister - this plays into the local anti-tech narrative.

Whatever it is, it isn't addressing the important basics to improve our quality of life.
I work on building technology (an iOS app) to help people with newly implanted cochlear devices understand and differentiate sounds in speech. There is technology for solving real human problems being developed, but it doesn't take a huge team to create such technology.
EDIT: It's legit. Thanks to the commenter below.

Can anyone in Russia confirm if this is a legit news story? It's being repeated throughout tabloids in the West all referencing this English language Siberian publication, as well as hordes of definite news apsm sites, all appear to be using the same generic images and verbetium or almost verbetium text.
Empirically, at least among people I've met, what seems to work best is partnering with another person who does have elite connections. Of course, it's true that it might be hard to find such a person. But you only have to find one, rather than already having a whole elite social network.
Also get your data: if you don’t have free meal, you bring from home. This is what the vast majority does. And at the end of the day, this is a matter of freedom: if company X decides to offers free meal, what’s the problem? It creates jobs and attract people! Is this the country of freedom or this place incompetent administration wants to control what companies and people should do?
Show HN: Rebuilding Google Trends data
But it does seem reasonable. Very much so if going down far enough you find micro black holes at the center of atoms.

But you need some really funky geometry to make it more interesting then this played out trope. Say they are all the same black hole from different times seen through its own gravitational lense.
You can build a pretty strong network much more quickly than you'd think, esp in the Bay Area. Getting to know just one or two well connected people can give you access to dozens of potential investors.

Getting to know those one or two people is also easier than you'd think. One thing you could do is make a list of a few startup founders who've raised money from ppl you'd like to get to know, and email those founders. Steve Blank has a great article on this, but just write an email that adds value to their lives [0]. One easy way to do this is find founders in a technical area similar to your domain, so you can connect over a shared professional / intellectual interest, and maybe you can teach them something valuable to their business

[0] https://steveblank.com/2013/08/12/how-to-get-meetings-with-p...
"Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, There’s fewer choices for people.” - Stewart Butterfield in the above article.

When are tech CEO's going to realize it's bad to sound like a monopolist b/c anti-trust?

I tend to agree with Ben Thompson of Stratechery that one of the best ways to thwart emerging monopolies and preserve choice for consumers it to prevent companies from acquiring competitors. Although today Microsoft is the goliath and Slack is the david, in today's world David's grow up very very fast...
I think ‘steamrolled’ is a little strong. Slack is more or less a pretty design on otherwise old concepts and ideas. Not to trivialize that: it was despirately needed.

Really IRC just needs some well designed clients, I don’t like any of the offerings I’ve seen for iOS or desktop.
Did you look at the ads? A bunch of them have people of various ethnicities, represented as doctors, nurses, and random people who are for Leave. I really doubt it has something to do with ethnicity.
I have a different expectation while using Slack. I agree that enough people have your expectation that it's something that should be discussed and agreed upon by everyone using the 'chat' system... Slack provides an easy @channel and @everyone mechanism to control notifications.
That's how you get a reflow oven stuck impossibly in the corner, when the door frame you used to rotate it mysteriously disappears.
I heard the same luring song for the last 20 or so years.
If Linux works for you then enjoy it.
Don’t even try to suggest that Linux is easier than Mac OS X because I don’t like liars.
>As a Bay Area resident

As a Bay Area resident this should be par for the course in terms of the stuff coming from the municipal governments in the area.
I wonder if it's scientific at all to speculate* that this computer security situation is an extension of the fact that biologically, we are built more to destroy (in our cells, and thus our evolutionary psychology) than create (i.e. stay healthy, endure, and be indestructible).

Sure, we re-create, but that cycle aside, it's easier to attack and kill than to defend and live. In all of nature, it is easier to destroy than it is to create.

Thus, our human-created systems of information technology are fundamentally trapped in the same paradigm as we are, with the same characteristics described as above.

If that is true, then truly secure systems may only be possible if an 'AI' singularity occurs, i.e. once a tipping point of self-improving software to fundamentally happens in which it becomes able to re-invent itself as fast as it needs to be (a million times a second until ad infinitum), only then will computer security truly exist, because such a system of creation of no longer bound by nature's cells and earlier evolution.

Until then, computer security is way too limited to our very primitive selves that it suffers from now.

(*) sigh...
How Getting Rich Causes Spiritual Growth
The line-item on your pay stub was a mandate from Obamacare for price transparency. Prior to that the employer contribution for healthcare did not appear.
Well hopefully ETs have javascript enabled, because without it this site is useless.

Can anybody with a screenreader chime in as to how this site renders/plays (no idea what the correct term is)?
I haven't used Stride, but some of the features it was touting that Slack doesn't have seemed nice. I liked the idea of marking something as a "decision". Not sure how that played out in practice, but I know I'm constantly searching our Slack conversations at work to try to find decision points. Would be cool if they integrated that, and other features from Stride.
Of course the right are morally corrupted ... that's the essence of being a right winger.
Any finite speed limit ultimately imposes a O(t^2) rate of growth into a civilization, while the natural rate of growth of a biological system is O(e^t).

The universal speed limit dictates how much of the Universe humans (or whatever comes after us) can ever visit, because of the Hubble constant.

A universal speed limit limits the size of a computer that can still have coherent "thoughts".
Yes, IRC I think finally "failed" once persistence went from "nice to have" to "need to have" feature. Yes, you can work around this if you are a top 20% techie who enjoys that stuff, but most don't.

Mobile basically made the "all clients synced from anywhere" a necessity, and then lack of IRC client development for things like rich media hurt to boot.
Teen burglar wakes up California couple, asks to use their Wi-Fi
At least they weren't using stuffed animals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle-east-17817602/gaz...
I think a better question to ask is not if it is relevant, but what portions of it are relevant. There are certainly many key, important lessons that have been learned in the process of scaling their organization and processes. I'd say it's near impossible that none of those lessons are relevant.

Copying their full process probably won't make you the next Google, but figuring out how to take their learnings and apply them at the right time is a great way to give yourself a leg up.
I was wondering what had caused me to know about this before!
I completely agree. It is also the effort to interruption ratio that has reached a tipping point. Once upon a time if I wanted someone's help right now i would have to walk to the actual desk, and bribe them with caffeine or chocolate. If the effort of levering myself out of my chair was greater than the benefit to me I stayed put - hence interrupting another person had a minimum price point - the other person may not like it but the price was paid in public and there was a perceived value to the business.

Phones reduced that price point - but it still has a cost to me.

Now IM / Slack has flipped it on its head - the cost to the interruptor is negligible but the cost for the interruptee is their mental derailment - and no ability to judge the overall benefit of helping until it is too late

Plus I don't really see the win - for real
time co-ordination it's hard to beat a mass phone conference ( we are doing a complex release with phased rollouts and devops watching the traffic - then get your headsets on, and everyone must hurry up and wait)

Slack is just secondary for that - useful for spelling out what has been said but otherwise ...

For letting others know what has happened - that's called an after the fact report or "email".

So really i don't see the use case except it means that when like the phone, i reach you i am confident of a reply in a given time period - that may well be defining facto
> There's a lot more interest in other locations, such as Austin.

Which, I hear, is quickly catching up to Bay Area in terms of cost of living.
Interesting ad hominems below, but my statements are entirely factual.
It doesn't just have an overlap with politics, this whole thing's 99% partisan political.

Notice this part? "But the hacker soon discovered that WINvote machines all had the same password. The password, which could not be changed, was (you might want to take a deep breath) “abcde.”" This particular bit's got a lot of attention on Twitter for obvious reasons, and it's sort-of true - you can read the report about it here: https://www.elections.virginia.gov/WebDocs/VotingEquipReport...

There's plenty of other hilariously terrible security issues in that security report, but the particular thing I want you to notice is the date, April 14th 2015. This isn't news - it was discovered over a year before the 2016 presidential election, and it lead to the machines being pulled from service almost immediately. (See e.g. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/17/virginia_nixes_high...). There's no particular reason to believe the other machines are any more secure, since the only reason those were audited was because of an unrelated reliability issue, but those ones had already been pulled before the election.

Despite this warning sign, in the run-up to the election the consensus amongst right-thinking people was that voting machines were essentially unhackable. Tweetstorms like this went viral: https://twitter.com/ashbylaw/status/787352959633981440 (On the WINVote machines, the "multiple interconnected counters" that tweetstorm claims make tampering impossible were editable fields in an Access DB with a short hardcoded password.) Publications like Wired insisted it would require a ludicrously impossible conspiracy: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rig...

Why? Trump was pushing the idea of vote hacking, and therefore only Trump-supporting conspiracy nuts would believe it. (A few hardcore infosec folks still understood how insecure the whole thing was, but they kept their mouths shut or were ignored.) It was only once Trump won and his opponents suddenly had a reason to dispute the results that this flipped over, and suddenly it became just as obvious and indisputable that the machines were horribly hackable. The audits and safeguards that Wired treated as infallable instantly became feeble and useless: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/hacked-not-audit-election-rest... The underlying facts about the security of the election and voting machines didn't change - that terrible "abcde" password had been sitting there, public knowledge, since early 2015 - all that changed was the motivation to believe the election had been hacked.
And, if you can work out how to do 1G acceleration, you can probably work out how to 2 or 3 or 4G acceleration.

That's going to get uncomfortable, but most people should be able to cope with 2 or 3G acceleration for short periods.
Wow what in the crazy head reason did they have to not want to allow companies to offer free food?? The impact of this would be more traffic at lunch time right and didn’t the Bay Area already have terrible traffic ?
I'm sure there's a fair amount of business logic between what's in the database and what's delivered to the presentation layer. Pulling from a database means that the new company has to reverse engineer Hipchat's API implementation.
The best example I’ve seen recently is Dynamicland, which is building a self-hosting, collaborative computer.

Pieces of paper represent programs and UIs, and you can grab a wireless keyboard and place it in front of anything to inspect and modify it with the help of projectors: https://dynamicland.org
They are not at the mercy of Facebook at all. They have access to all of the source, and all the build tools too.

People don't remember what it's like, praying to dear gods that Microsoft patches that IIS bug before you lose your last customers.
Put your CNN on a cable news network.
This can be solved by simply not communicating.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS001249661803007...

the affiliations list top Russian schools as well as Princeton.
Then build on top of email, instead of developing yet another 'secure' proprietary system.
The client-side story of XMPP is pretty bleak, especially if you're trying to get non-technical people to use it.
Why would they risk deportation if they legally entered turkey?
This is very helpful and hope you'll consider making a whole series of generators for the trickier parts of css for example:
gradientit
animatit
transformtit
flexboxtit
box-shadowtit
I like this approach very much.

IRC is just a particular implementation of chat. The only thing keeping it relevant is the several hundred thousand people currently connected to servers.

Within a more defined context, such as work communication, adoption network effects become irrelevant. You can just build your own system and set everybody up to use it.
I use a well-regarding money mgmt firm.

We run my "number" through a bunch of simulations. It includes two pensions, social security and tax-deferred savings. The total number today, if you runrate the pension & SS assumptions, is $3.5M and gives me a 95% chance of success going forward.

The only reason I haven't already quit is the chance of pocketing another chunk of change from my current startup. Then I'm gone.
The X is the most expensive iPhone you can buy right now, and the SE is the cheapest. Too bad engineers practically always have the top-end models, so they don't really have to dogfood the everyday pain of using the slower devices.
Better: https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/worms-froze...
There's also the issue of plugins compatibility.

Back in the days when the web was just Flash, it wasn't as easy as Ctrl+S to save content you wanted to keep. In a few years, you may need to spin a VM with an older OS to launch a flash-able browser. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#End_of_life)

I wonder if it's easier with java applets.
I don't know the details of "how memory works anymore", but I do know that on my Fedora 27 laptop, everything stays nice and snappy, with under 200mb swap used, as reported by the system monitor...

...until I hit 8 gb of ram (the amount installed on my machine). The second that happens, the entire OS grinds to a halt. It starts with 5-10 seconds to change focus, and can go as high as 5 minutes if I don't do something about it. My best option for dealing with it is usually opening a new console (Ctrl-Alt-F3) and killing Android studio or the gradle daemon (the most common culprits). If I'm able and patient enough to open system monitor at this point, I can see that my swap usage has increased dramatically.

Again, I can't speak to "how memory works", but I am absolutely the expert on how my computer performs, as described above.
How different, I wonder?

First assume that the 65 mil and 65 k are the amounts that each person has above what they truly need to survive. Like, above a living wage.

Economists often say the value of money is roughly logarithmic as it goes up, which would mean that both of those two people would lose exactly the same utility.

But this would imply otherwise. Does 17% of 65 million truly have less utility than 17% of 65k? (Some people would argue it has more.)
I did calculate them like that, actually.
Hagiography, meet Silicon Valley. "Would Android exist without General Magic? Absolutely not!" An overstatement which perfectly summarizes this film.
The blueprint calls for the AI to train on a data set of everything Jeff Dean does or thinks for the entirety of his life.
At least for well-known Silicon Valley investors, I think that model is wrong, or at best incomplete. It's easy to imagine "oh, there are hundreds of investors out there, all you need is one, just keep trying till you find somebody". However, these hundreds of people are so close socially that their opinions will be very strongly correlated. (See, eg., how everyone in VC-world got fascinated with chatbots at exactly the same time.) IME, a more accurate model is that VCs form an invisible private club, and to get investment you need a "club membership card". Otherwise, you'll find that when you (say) go to a conference, even if there are lots of VCs there, they won't take you seriously; they'll act polite and then forget to return your calls.
Yes, I found a pretty legit article actually naming researchers and having better pictures, but it says 30 000 years. Says the paper about this is published in presumably Russian journal 'Doklady Biological Sciences' and there were collaborators in Princeton.

https://news.rambler.ru/other/40414227-chervi-s-kolymy-prish...
I don't normally comment on moderation, but the post above is a statement of fact linking to a very well referenced source.
> Until, you know, they skip town and you are left with nothing.

Congestion and housing problems solved.