skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That made me wonder, though, in this particular context, are these really outliers?

Even just counting population, the Bay Area's CSA is 8.8M, NYC is 23.9M, Boston is 8.2M and LA is 18.9M. That's already over 18% of the population, just in the major urban centers of California and the Northeast.

It's not much of a stretch for the percentage of tech jobs to be in those areas, and less of a stretch to imagine that the vast majority would be in some kind of high-cost area.

I wasn't able to come up with suitable web search terms to find any numbers, but perhaps someone else has.
We have a standing army. Kiwis have fought with distinction in both world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Malayan crisis etc. etc. We're in Afghanistan, Iraq, we helped restore peace in East Timor...

http://army.mil.nz
While I am in agreement that BC has plenty of authentic south asian cuisine, Seattle is not so terrible.

Food recommendation: Gulberg Restaurant, 5943 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z6

Authentic Lahori food.

The cuisine is way older than the 1947 partition...
Without teeth, the ACM Code of Ethics is just a bunch of lofty-sounding words on a website.

In this situation, ethics is management's job, and value-creation and loss-avoidance (with appropriate documentation to list-out during pay-review) are our jobs. Sum ergo mihi prosum.
Does this mean more Big Data IPOs coming? A few good private ones have been close.
There was also an era of “human computers”, and when someone ultimately decided to automate their jobs away, people gradually realized that a computer could do things we never thought of as computation before, and that information could be encoded as numbers, and a lot of wild things like that.

One thing I learned in college was a means of encoding a secret: n people all learn a separate point on the curve and the degree of the polynomial for the curve, and you encode the secret as the Y-intercept. That way any k of n of those people (depending on the degree of the polynomial) can recover the secret. I thought, that’s not so hard, and I asked why this wasn’t discovered centuries ago. It’s because encoding arbitrary information as a number is an idea that never occurred to anyone before computers, aside from things like bible codes and numerology that are usually lossy anyway. But you can do this with a pad and paper if you wanted.
To be honest I think that's jumping to conclusions based on an article that's absolutely leaping to conclusions. It's highly unlikely Google's web crawling team conspired with AMP to force the web to convert to AMP
I use exactly three productivity systems. Jira for anything involving code. Trello for collaboration on bigger picture topics. And a personal to-do tracker.

Tools don’t solve productivity problems. Systems do. Figure out your system and then use only the minimum set of tools you need to implement the system.
Extended family may be a thing in Western Europe and derived cultural areas but clans are not. Descent based political groupings are for backwoods peasants at best, not the commanding heights of the polity, unlike every other meta cultural grouping.

The recipe for setting and enforcing a policy over vast areas of time and space is incentive compatibility. It is always in the interest of one powerful political group to make coordinated action against it more difficult. The Catholic Church had a strong incentive to break up extended kin groups and they did. It was possible to get dispensations for royalty and the peasantry mostly did whatever it wanted. Keeping up the same policy for over a thousand years was enough to make Western Europe and especially Northwestern Europe uniquely atomised in human history.

If you want an academic source look below. Frost basically took what blogger hbdchick had been writing about for years, did a review article on it and didn’t cite her. http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/

The Hajnal Line and Gene-Culture Coevolution in Northwest Europe Peter Frost

http://file.scirp.org/pdf/AA_2017082915090955.pdf
Haha you're very close. Not Tech though ;D
I kind of have a problem with an BS in AI. the degree itself proves no edge over a BS in com sci / stats / etc. when applying for graduate programs, and there are very few positions in the field that would hire someone that was not a masters or PHD. However the same BS in AI isn't as applicable to other said undergrad majors.

seems like someone would be limiting their options for little gains.
Things like GDPR aren't supposed to be enforce in every instance. Similar to things like FCC or CE certification. That is just the better way to have such regulation. When someone complains or something happens, then these things will come into effect.

Things like the new roaming rules are essentially universally followed. It used to be extremely cumbersome to get mobile data when travelling, today it is essentially a non-issue. SEPA payments is another similar thing.

Other regulation isn't for users at all, but for other businesses. Most users won't directly notice the revised payment directive, but they will very likely get a lot of new service.
What is a boomerang queue?
Is it? I've never heard of net neutrality being applied to web standards - only carriers and usage pricing/prioritization.

To me, this sounds like antitrust, not net neutrality.
Or just taken away by locals who don't like rich foreigners trying to buy our country. The fact that Peter Thiel got citizenship here is a disgrace.
Absolutely satisfied with Firefox. I wanted to use FF for years, mainly for ideological reasons, but didn't because next to Chrome, the performance wasn't there.

But the changes Mozilla did in recent years convinced me to come back and it has been great!
i know i'll get just as downvoted, but I agree with this.

Googlers: you are bright, talented and don't need to sell out the future of the web to build interesting and worthwhile things. Your paycheck, however large, is not worth what you are taking away from future generations. Do the right thing and quit.
Regulation harms business (mostly smaller) in the short term. Consumer pays for regulation in the long term.
Early millionaires. The article makes it pretty clear.
"vis a vis", I believe, is what you wanted to say.
Google lvl 5 total comp is ~$320K. So it is pretty close and still less than PHP consulting.
There's a much older and a much more substantive article about this as well: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/magazine/a-patel-motel-ca...
There's nowhere to hide a backdoor in TEA either.
Some rich people are genuinely charismatic. If he were alive, I doubt Steve Jobs would have too much trouble finding people to follow him even if money is worthless.
I'm not arguing for any specific government model in my comment. I'm stating that less intervention from government is better for business.
Haha, this article - the cartoon refers to "the island"... singular. Come on guys, you even mentioned Cook Strait, the stretch of ocean separating the North and South islands.
> If the electric telegraph hadn’t been invented, would engineers have continued to optimize the optical telegraph?

Isn't that today's Free Space Optical Communications? Bandwidth is measured in Gigabits per second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicati...
Have you put any consideration into the fact that your children might grow up and be rather unhappy to find out that their parents created a permanent photo/comment record of their life on the servers of an advertising corporation?

I'm glad I'm too old to have been subjected to that. Just thinking about what it would feel like to be one of those kids when they find out that they were robbed of any ability to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted that stuff out there makes my skin crawl.

Some parents I know seem to have mainly had their children for the purpose of using them as a social media fashion accessory. It's incredibly sad.
Thank you. That's confusing enough that I think we'll take $100M out of the title above.
I think you can be sure that Facebook is not happy with usage not increasing, especially over a period of 8 quarters.
Are you replying to the correct comment? Was that claim made in this thread?
screw writing an entire book in markdown. You'd have better luck writing it in troff for chrissake.
In the beginning, there was the markdown.pl perl script (probably still available on gruber's blog). It converted a markdown file to an HTML file. It was probably also available as a wordpress plugin, which would convert markdown text in the textarea box to HTML.

That pretty much covers Markdown to HTML conversion today - either a standalone utility (markdown.pl, lowdown, commonmark, etc) or a library for your preferred language (kramdown, cmark, etc).

I guess the only other advancement is markdown-savvy editors that render the HTML in realtime as you type.
this is how a lot of cool shit got done in history though, not focusing on the task necessarily
Somewhat ironically that link doesn't work on my mobile device...
Searching among descriptions would be "unnecessarily complicated and I'm guessing very barely are actually used" I suppose.

Oh if only there were some engine inside, like SQLite or something.
Cheaper than spending the time doing it yourself until you’re paying people to do it for you.

Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource. Throw dollars at the problem when you have them and it’s cheaper than your time.
People routinely get sick when traveling to the point it's basically a trope. Keeping your hands clean is an excellent problem way to reduce your likelihood of getting sick in general.

You, personally, may not get sick traveling, but your experience is not a solution for a systemic problem, nor is your proposal of doing nothing.
there are documentaries about that, and at least one hospital was shown using copper handles and knobs in some area.
Looks like a CS core with a stronger math and stats component than the traditional CS degree. Then add in some extra AI courses (which wouldn't have really existed years ago as separate classes -- maybe 1 undergrad and a grad course in AI). Now you can do computer vision or NLP as classes in themselves. So it actually looks harder than a traditional CS major.
Detroit has an excuse, it follows the auto industry's fate. Indiana just elects too many republicans.
The Boston Phoenix and Time Out London along with a bunch of scruffy local 'zines were my windows into music, movies, and culture when I was in my late teens and early 20s. I picked up the Village Voice when I was in NYC or saw it for sale elsewhere - in addition to the arts and culture coverage and listings, they went deep on investigations and exposes that was really refreshing.

Later I was the editor for a daily newspaper's weekend supplement, which mimicked the alt-weekly style and voice. Like the author of TFA, I regarded it as one of the best jobs I ever had although the pay was basically poverty level wages.

While I lament the loss of the Phoenix, the Voice, and many others, others seem to be doing well (I was happy to see Time Out Tokyo when I visited over the summer). It's also encouraging to see that windows to music, arts, culture, are thriving online, many of them controlled not by third-party gatekeepers, but by the creative people themselves.
Downsized in my old age so nothing special, just a pair cheap of Pebble speakers (https://amzn.to/2wJBMR3) which sound okay, not great but okay.

If i was going to run it to an amp I'd probably run it via a long jack, there are these fancy wireless things available these days for a couple of bucks but meh, good old wires for the win.
My concern wasn't with speculating that anybody is hiding anything in HPolyC but with the comparable amount of code amongst which naughty things might be hidden, today or in future, in Linux, or more likely, in something else.

Unfortunately HPolyC is _much_ bigger and more complicated. I'm sure it gets Google's job done, but I think overall purging Speck because of people's weird paranoia about the NSA was an unforced error and we'll regret it.
The Vegas Cosmopolitan's stratospheric high rollers
There isn't, though misuse of TEA helped break the XBox security model.
Instead of just marking the extensions incompatible with particular versions.
> above the line (e.g. billboards), below the line offline (e.g. snail mail)

What is "the line"?
Definitely, feel free to email me (in my user bio). Thanks for the info about the upcoming comment period, will have to put a reminder on my calendar for that.
I'd be surprised if even 20% of companies' accounts payable process is sufficient.

The point is that AWS removes friction and Elastic chose to add friction. They're chasing big Enterprise hard and it doesn't seem to be working out.
For smaller countries, could a service small up exclusive rights to most feature length media, effectiy locking out competitors?
That claim was the basis of the entire article. Did you read it?
Ethicists are no more ethical than other philosophers. There’s no reason to believe an ethics course has any effect on behaviour rather than fluency in discussing the topic.

Joshua Rust, Eric Schwitzgebel. Ethicists’ and Nonethicists’ Responsiveness to Student E-mails: Relationships Among Expressed Normative Attitude, Self-Described Behavior, and Empirically Observed Behavior. Metaphilosophy, 2013; 44 (3): 350 DOI:

https://talkingethics.com/2013/11/25/why-arent-ethicists-mor...

•	U.S.-based ethicist professors are more likely than other philosophy professors (60% vs. 45%) to say it’s morally wrong to eat the meat of mammals, yet the ethicists are no less likely than the others to eat mammal meat.
•	Ethics professors are also no more likely than other groups of professors to donate money to charity, donate blood to hospitals or the Red Cross, pay professional conference fees on the honor system, or respond regularly to student e-mails, though they tend to believe that these behaviors are more ethical.
•	And in one of the most quoted findings of Schwitzgebel and Rust, ethicists seem more likely to steal library books. They found that relatively obscure ethics books of the sort likely to be borrowed mainly by professors and advanced students are about 50% more likely to be missing, presumably stolen, than non-ethics philosophy books.
Thanks for the links--I checked out the AMP event. This quote and after got me thinking:

> From a user perspective, they want to see...where is this content coming from?

It's interesting because it sounds like he's saying: If the bits are coming from Service Y and not literally "Joe's Closet," we want to show people that this Service Y stuff (like Google's AMP URL for Joe's content) is essentially still Joe's Closet.

I'd be more worried for domain registrars in this case than anything. URLs could indeed stop being so meaningful as a faux-ID, because now Joe has much more flexibility and less concern for this or that domain. URL segments to the right of the domain name will be even more of a back-office concern than they are now.

And the big infrastructure cats like Google, who "own" the methods by which published things are effectively spread to audiences, get to now "own" the content, but only if you look at "own" through the old URL-based lens. That's interesting because after this change, what does "my own digital real estate" mean? It effectively means that I own an identity or group of identities, and now vendors get to compete for rights to carry or express my identity. URLs were similar but this can remove a deceptive that's-a-scam-site-even-though-my-name-is-in-the-URL part and allow in a Google-owned-domain part.

And hopefully there really will be more than one entity that can compete. Right now the scary part is that for example if I'm using AMP to publish news, Google gets to express my "everything ADHD news" by default, because they have so much leverage there. (I did catch myself using !gn a lot this week in DDG...mmmph)

Anyway: Remember when you HAD to have a .com to be taken seriously? Wow, "those were the days" comments incoming in the next 5-10 years if this lands well...

Still, I don't know if it's "good" or "bad" so much as another layer through which to work with connectivity.

> What happens if your “web identity” certificate expires or is revoked/blacklisted? Does your web identity certificate require a separate yearly fee from the domain name?

Or maybe more practically: If you have like 100 different hobbies, is a single identity certificate which becomes associated with one of those hobbies going to jack up your chances of getting "found" in some way for the other hobbies? URLs handle this really well.

Also, think about some pretty-good-case benefits: Your domain name or URL problems will no longer get in the way of your "stamp of quality" identity, assuming your identity is looked at well _by some content consumer or group of content consumers_. You have always been a brand just by having a name and an objectively-sense-able set of properties. Now the subjective question is deepened--the quality of what you produce and represent.
>I'm stating that less intervention from government is better for business.

And I'm saying you're wrong since the Free Market and our current governance models and public buy-in and wealth distributions have led the greatest business success and innovation in the entirety of human history. Good intervention from government has been fantastic for business.
That's from 2016. A lot has changed since. Try doing a search. There are plenty of non-AMP both at the top and in the carousel.
More like "Mechanical Empathy"?
That’s Shamir’s secret sharing algorithm. Very clever, yet easy to understand.

The one caveat is that it should be done over a finite field.
Wouldn't that be an excellent solution for Google to silence the critics? (Excellent for them, not for us.) Donate the whole thing to a non-profit like Apache, who barely have the manpower to do more than host it, then still regain control by having many of the contributors on payroll?
Airport Security Bins Carry More Viruses Than a Toilet
I believe they also want to support iOS which requires a BTLE token, not NFC which will work on Android devices.
Or Shahnawaz, not too far away.
Honestly, SaaS is a relatively easy sector to value, since valuation tends to be a pretty straightforward multiple of ARR (with the exact multiple tending to be based on growth rate and (un)profitability). Throw in comparables of other IPOs with similar product types, and you can pretty reliably estimate how much a company will IPO at.
Vocus uses new cable to route traffic off broken SMW-3
I understand the purpose of the regulations -- France, in particular, has had similar regulations for movie theaters since forever, so there would always be some French movies playing. Here it is easy -- consumers are not required to watch the movies, they can do whatever they want, but the theaters are required to devote some theaters and showtimes to support the French culture.

The question is to whom the regulations apply in this case -- presumably Netflix has the primary responsibility, but some regulations are expansive in scope. For example, money laundering regulations require not only that you report certain particular transaction types and not knowingly support money laundering, but that you also go out of your way to monitor and attempt to detect money laundering.

So in theory, regulations for Netflix could also require that Netflix go out of their way to prevent users using VPNs or IP address masking in order to access non-regional Netflix content. Or they could require VPN providers to ensure that they don't allow their customers to do that. Or they could assign criminal or civil penalties for individuals who attempt to circumvent regional restrictions. Or they could just say that Netflix is only responsible for serving content compatible with the user's stated region, and leave it at that.
This morning when I was reading the thread about how Google wants to kill the URL, nobody was seeing the more sinister implications at all.

I couldn't pay a parking ticket I got a few days ago because I needed to download a half gigabye app to pay it, and my $250 phone from three years ago wasn't new enough. And they developed the app first, and there was no fallback to just HTML. My only choice was to go to the station and pay. What if I couldn't afford to travel to pay my ticket in person and couldn't afford a phone made in the last 18 months?

And yes, certificates will be politicized. If you displease them, they can have every device in the world block your server.

Of course, soon, Firefox will just be a re-branded Chromium, because of course Mozilla's brand is the only asset it has, as we all know that if Mozilla can't make Firefox keep up with the impossible standards that Google sets for us, then it is worthless. If Firefox can't implement the latest polyfills or DRM garbage that Google decided on, then it should be thrown out and we should just accept our new overlords.

Use any technology in a non-standard way, and it quickly becomes clear how bad things are. The rot is even more visible in developing countries.

This is hegemony. Not exaggerating.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17911009
I think that’s a false cognate: in French, sortir means to leave or go/take out. Trier is means to sort or classify.
Yes very interesting thanks for sharing. Have you used in production? Have you used the change steam functionality?
So then it's even less trivial to take the island by force.
"Google wants to kill the web" should be the title of this article.
no. The #1 office perk is a real freaking office. Not a worn spot on a table and an ikea chair.
> What are ATL and BTL activities? They seem simple enough. Above The Line (ATL) advertising is where mass media is used to promote brands and reach out to the target consumers. These include conventional media as we know it, television and radio advertising, print as well as internet. This is communication that is targeted to a wider spread of audience, and is not specific to individual consumers. ATL advertising tries to reach out to the mass as consumer audience.

> Below the line (BTL) advertising is more one to one, and involves the distribution of pamphlets, handbills, stickers, promotions, brochures placed at point of sale, on the roads through banners and placards. It could also involve product demos and samplings at busy places like malls and market places or residential complexes.

http://www.theadvertisingclub.net/index.php/features/editori...
> annotations which translate certain words (the name of which escapes me at the moment)

Perhaps you're thinking of glosses? I'm not familiar with graded readers, but I am rather familiar with mediæval manuscripts, wherein it's common to see copies of Latin works with little annotations near certain (sometimes all) words. When the gloss has been added above (or below) the word(s) they annotate, they're said to be interlinear, but marginal glosses aren't unheard of.

The glosses were sometimes written by the same scribe that made the copy, but often they appear to have been added later, perhaps by the owner of the book—sometimes in a comically small hand so as to fit in narrow spaces :)
And somehow distinguish between the signal and the flood of solar neutrinos.
What happens in the case of TCP when the remote end hasn't acked the data yet?
40% rule for SaaS: https://www.feld.com/archives/2015/02/rule-40-healthy-saas-c...
I always end up scrolling back on the url to change 'amp' to 'm'. Manually editing a URL on a mobile device, it just makes me sad.