skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr. Strawberry, you live in one of the most affluent cities in the world, with virtually every convenience mankind can imagine. Yes, having a car is expensive there. Yes, getting great produce for cheap may require you to transport yourself outside your block or neighborhood. Yes, housing there is incredibly expensive. Yes, traffic is bad.

Nobody has an easy time looking for good healthcare in the US. Call your insurance provider and ask for doctors on your plan, and ask people who live nearby.

Why in the world would you get your hair dyed by an Instagram celebrity? I wouldn't hire Jared Leto to cut my hair just because his looks nice. If you mean a stylist you saw on Instagram, you probably want to read reviews or get references from a stylist if they're going to charge that much. It's also not difficult to take a train to a borough for cheaper, quality services.

Manhattan sucks if you have unrealistic expectations about living there. Downvote me for negativity if you want, but your list seems like entitled whining, and this is honestly ridiculous.

On the other hand, what I would have said sucks about Manhattan are the politics and corruption that stifles the ability for poor people to live there. What sucks are actual food deserts. What sucks is the low-level stop-and-frisk that continues to discriminate against people of color. And, on the lower end of complaints, the deteriorating subway system that still works, but not nearly as well as it used to.
How a Lawsuit Against Coca-Cola Convinced Americans to Love Caffeine
X-Ray Vision with Only WiFi Power Measurements [pdf]
> … disappointed by things like an indoor family gathering where if I didn't want to use a flash…

I didn't want to use flash at family gatherings because 1) I didn't want the disruption of flash spill in people's eyes 2) the aesthetics of hard flash shadow.

Now I use bounce-flash close onto a wall and a half-snoot made from $1 artshop foam + elastic hair band, at base ISO.

If they're too dark I'll make tifs across a range of EV and blend with https://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse
Great place, ive been there myself. Not as good if you're jewish though.
Thank you! That was extremely informative.
My god, this is hilarious
> I'm curious what they expect Facebook to do in this situation. [...]

> This feels like a class action lawsuit brought by garbage workers because they have to handle trash all day long.

Yes. Why are people creating jobs in the first place that obviously suck? It would be far better if they worked 10% on these disturbing images and 90% on something different, like software QA for instance.

I don't want to deep dive into political theory but the mere existence of people whose only job is to dispose garbage or clean toilets makes very little sense, is highly unfair and hardly works. It would be much better if people "cleaned their own sh."
Wikipedia already has a problem with cash injections and not being able to save extra money instead of launching more and more projects.

As for the point you're making, I disagree as long as the income from one company isn't reaching too big a percentage of their total yearly income. And then again, Firefox clearly wasn't politically subservient to Google, despite most of their income coming from there.

So it's not so much an automatic reaction, the internal culture plays a big role. Which is why Wikipedia pre-existing issue with incoming cash usage is a red flag.
I'd call Bret Taylor a product genius.
Echochamber could be even better if it had a trolling bot that responded to your comments.
Yeah, I've done that on all of those as well.

But you know what? People I've met on IG aren't the types I would've found elsewhere on those other networks. And why does "setting it apart from the others", to paraphrase, have to be an issue? In that sense IRC and forums are exactly the same.

And no, hyper-optimized advertising app would mean I'm constantly seeing ads for products that fit what I like, which is further from the truth than any of this. I rarely, if ever, follow brand accounts, so I rarely, if ever, am subject to "hyper-optimized" advertising.
If you build the python ecosystem yourself and supply a custom binary, you could probably obfuscate a bit by modifying the compiled bytecode values. Supply only .pyc and maybe modify or not supply the dis module.

Here's a resource that may help:
https://devguide.python.org/compiler/#introducing-new-byteco...
>I will say that I think he dismisses Snapchat's founders too quickly. Yes, they've been struggling, but they are trying to build a business rather than just integrate with an existing conglomerate.

From yesterday: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/24/snapchat-amazon-visual-sea...

I am aware this is not the same as acquisition or total assimilation, but I think it speaks directly to your comments about how Snapchat is trying to create it's business side of things.
Facebook (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
It has to be, even with as irrational as the market can be I don't see people sustaining this kind of spend on public clouds -- the cultural barriers and perverse incentives that prevent effective use of private / hybrid cloud have to erode eventually.
Zoho Services Disruption
All of our end users are internal, so the main bloat-related problems wouldn't really be an issue at all. Why should we be worried about electron in the future?
you are right. being merely a system to weigh chaos, it only helps the 'notion' free will.

free will in itself will never be provable.
It might be because people are getting married and having children later. I find that most people that I know that had parents that got divorced, it happened when their kids were in their mid to late teens. People now getting married at older ages and having kids later might get divorced now outside the 45 year old window.
His beliefs are also a part of the unfolding of the universe, and as such his beliefs also have consequences even if he has no control over what he actually believes.
The bottom of the article says that they are also getting married less.

Basically, back when the Baby Boomers were young it was a major source of shame to have sex outside of marriage for a lot of people, so they got married early and then discovered that it wasn't a good match. Lucky for them the divorce option was available at least.

These days kids are much more free to experiment before they tie the knot and aren't forced into bad marriages as much. General availability of contraception also helps I suspect.

The downside is that when they do have kids outside of marriage it's a worse situation as the families are less stable without the institution holding them together.

So the ideal situation seems to be for kids to have lots of sexual partners using effective contraception before they settle down and get married to the partner they are most compatible with and then have kids. A policy that seems sensible from one angle, but sinful as hell from another.
It's because you don't take it for granted, so you probably work harder at it.

There was a couple once that would get together every Thursday or something and see if they wanted to continue another week. I think they did this for like 45 years.
Rework Podcast – Basecamp Data Analyst Leaves to Pursue Woodworking Business
Boston, MA

People drive extremely bad. Like when I say bad, I'm not talking about US-level bad. It's universally bad bad. I grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and people drive there better. As a reference, I lived half a decade in the Bay Area, and compared to Bostonites, people there are driving experts. But what's so bad about people's driving?

They're fast all the fucking time, even in streets they're supposed to go 20, people try 30-40 if they're alone. Insanely dangerous.

They completely disregard bikers. They try to force pass you all the time, if they can't, they honk. People yell at bikers. The fact that biking is very popular in Boston doesn't help.... Very dangerous.

People disregard crosswalks, I can never reliably get cars stop on crosswalks without waiting a few minutes so that traffic slows down and then someone finally decides to stop for me.
They should allow you to download databases based on things like genre. The 64gb Pixel could hold a very very large amount
GoDaddy acquires San Diego e-commerce startup Plasso
Fights about finances are known to be one of the top causes of divorce.
> Contract law, if I understand correctly, takes into account the relative power of the parties.

It really doesn't, at least not in the US.

There are a bunch of things that are necessary for a contract to be considered enforceable, but the two that are relevant here are "meeting of the minds" and "duress".

"Duress" is the obvious one, but it's a really high bar. It usually means something like physically threatened or blackmailed or literally locked in a room and told you can't leave until you sign. There's not generally a case that an employee or contractor was under duress from their future employer because they always had the option to not take the job in the first place.

"Meeting of the minds" is a bit more subtle. The parties have to believe they're agreeing to the same thing. This is also hard to show, though. Generally speaking, if you've been given the full text of the contract and had ample time to read through it then you are legally considered to know and understand its contents. There are a few cases where shrinkwrap licenses and extremely one sided terms of service get rejected under this theory, but it normally requires the parties to have signed materially different documents or for one party to be able to show that they weren't given adequate access to the document before they signed.

It's also worth noting that contracts are basically considered valid until proven otherwise. So even if there is a case to make that you shouldn't need to comply with some terms of a contract you are bound by you still need the resources (both in terms of relevant supporting documents and in terms of time and money) to actually prove that case in a court of law.
This is OK though. (IANAL, but I've seen cases like this)
It doesn't even need to say it. Basically as long as the judge finds it funny and agrees it's satire, you're ok:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/828...
> clean diesel…has killed at least a few hundred over the years

[citation needed]
Vienna, Austria

There is hardly anything that really bothers me, the streets and walkways are sometimes dirty and of course everything is kinda crowded all the time, but hey, that's a property every city has.
.. to Very Winterkorny Streisand, or short VW Streisand? ;)
Completely agree and aforementioned expat here.

My only nitpick is the quality of career opportunities though I see a lot of new companies coming through like Message Bird, DAZN.

Any other promising opportunities that you are aware of?
I'm outside Washington DC (Reston, VA)...
1. Housing costs (not quite NYC or SF levels, but still high)

2. Traffic (pretty terrible, some areas rank worse than part of notoriously bad cities like NYC).

3. Weather - really a double-edged sword. We get 4 seasons, which is nice. But, summer can be pretty miserable (very humid). And winter is cold, but not cold enough for lots of snow (lots of icy mix instead).

But, really, we're an hour from the mountains, three hours from the beach, and employment is pretty good. So, I can't really complain.
Stoke UK:

Public transport:
shockingly bad, both expensive and time consuming, our city is 5 towns, all of which link through one meaning any journey requires 2 buses and usually an hour or more all to travel around 4 miles. there is no tube/tram or other option

Jobs:
there just arent any

General life:
most major stores have given up on the city, the high streets are becoming increasingly filled with empty shops that serve the sole purpose of housing the staggering number of monkey dust addicts living in the doorways

this city is dying and at this point there is little that could be done to save it, we are the Detroit of the UK, once the centre of industry in the UK, manufacturing was revolutionised here, the place was so important its the only place in the UK that is a city without a cathedral (generally a city has to have a cathedral to be considered a city but it was given special status due to its industrial significance)
You're completely missing the point.

> being frugal ... 30k in annual expenses

Requires budgeting and is a bit of a standard of living lower than most people would prefer. Especially if they got kids.

Plus how you going to live in SV on $30,000 a year when rent alone is that much?

> 7% average returns

So requiring those 10 years are during a bull market.

There's a big difference between "work at a startup for a good salary living an average life for 10 years" and "live in a shoebox with 10 other guys, eat nothing but lentils and beans, and own no possessions for 10 years"
Fair response. I am in the UK, so it’s not profit orientated in any case. It is moving that way to a certain degree, but clinical decisions are based more on what’s good for the patient and in a defensive manner. The opposite effect is in place: reduce costs wherever possible (don’t do tests unless it will change management, don’t treat unless it will improve the patient’s life).
I bet nobody from VW is going to know this exists for a year or more, if ever. How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN?
Arafat didn't. See f.e https://www.quora.com/Where-is-Yasser-Arafats-supposed-1-3-b.... Who knows how much money Putin has embezzled? Since no one has any idea, I think it is wrong to claim it must be this or that much. It's just shots in the dark.
that's an interesting definition of "non-ugly". I would hesitate a lot before making an app that looks like this screenshot public.
It's a matter of dosage. You might be talking about how another tech stack would perform better at this metric, but the price of that is the company would have been simply unable to ship anything in the time they could afford.

Swinging the conversation beyond the dosages of either side doesn't produce interesting insight
Denmark:
- 56% personal tax rate, 22.5% corporate, always increasing

- Low/negative growth

- Massive lack of talent/quality education

- Free healthcare = Long waiting lists = Losing family members for totally curable diseases

- Everything is overly regulated, lawyer bills piling up

- Traffic in Copenhagen is a nightmare

- The hightaxes means high wages = expensive products (+42% EU average)

- Government fees on everything. My electricity bill: Usage: 800kr, after taxes 4.500kr. Gas, Usage 10L @ 5DKK/L = after Taxes 100kr. Cars are 150% taxed, car at 100k = 250k selling price, etc etc. Fun fact: We have a tax on air if, and only if, you blow it into ice cream.
Your base argument is hugely flawed. Take a second look.
s/Ghandi/Gandhi :)
I would love to see a breakdown that shows the amount of money companies spend to be in the Bay Area versus the amount of money they raise, compared to the money companies would save not being in SV versus the amount they can raise there. It might be worth the added cost, it must be worth the added costs, but it's strange to just say "they can raise more money" because they also spend more. There may be fewer VCs in Pittsburgh, but cost of living is also lower, there are plenty of challenge-hungry programmers and MBAs there, and CMU is (subjectively) a better CS school than UC-Berkley.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/798035/world-leaders-literally...
Electron is notorious for disregarding all platform conventions, being slow, and being a memory hog.
Very few people turn that down, and even fewer are capable of running $100B companies. But those who are in the second camp are also probably in the first camp, because being an effective CEO requires the irrational confidence of first believing you are an effective CEO with limited evidence.

It's a little tautological, but the fact that they took it means they probably wouldn't have succeeded.
More common than they are today, but there may be survivorship bias happening here - I'd imagine church-housed manuscripts would have a higher chance of surviving into the present day than random texts not church related.
Coming back to iOS from Android can be painful - there's too much "you're holding it wrong" mentality in the platform and its UX. If your use cases fit the design, everything's great. The moment they don't, it's extremely frustrating.

(This is very similar to Windows vs macOS, by the way.)
I love the reference to the diesel emissions scandal. Nice touch.
Having lived in and worked in France, I think it has little to do with respect for the law, and more to do with other social/structural factors. In no specific order:

- A much less developed culture of failure

- Few(er) "real" startups. For reasons (see above), many startups in France are startups in name only. They operate under "incubators" that are internally-hosted by industry giants (e.g. AXA). This means it's harder to pivot since whatever you're working on has to serve the interests of your structure. In the AXA example, if you want to pivot from insure-tech to something else, good luck.

- A culture of "I'll work a normal job for 10 years to gain experience. Only then will I be legitimate as an entrepreneur." Again, see point 1. The effect is that most people never really get started.

- A culture that values job stability to an extreme that's difficult to grasp for Americans. In France, the idea that one should work his entire life in the same company is even built into the law in the form of stringent protections against layoffs.

This is slowly changing, but France is not the startup nation Marcon wants it to be.

All the French entrepreneurs (including yours truly, but then again I'm a French/US dual citizen...) are in London.
I can help:

Dallas is a city of suburbs, sprawl, and strip malls. Looking for an artisan? That'll be 30 minutes driving please. Driving everywhere means people don't have places to walk. And when you do walk, you're walking amongst dangerous, loud, and smoggy traffic.

There's a race for larger and larger homes in Dallas. Those homes take more energy to cool and heat as the seasons shift, and the larger footprint means the sprawl accelerates.

What do people do with the larger homes? They get lonely in them.
It falls under the protection of the Streisand effect.
If a soldier develops PTSD is it just 'the job the signed up for' and giving them some token support gestures is good enough when it happens?
I sometimes look at my spice cabinet in awe, or down at my eggs when I crack pepper over them and think "people used to die for this."
As a side note, its interesting how similar pepper's preparation is to coffee (in the harvesting, husking, drying process)
LMAO it looks like it would actually work in some cases, he mocks the assert function.
https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen/blob/master/.these/...
Uhhh, yeah, but the question wasn't "what is something Chrome offers you that you can't replace", it's "what do you get by getting logged in that you enjoy". I'm sure competitors offer the same sort of thing.
Interesting, I did not have those issues when I lived in Boston. I wonder if it is more of an area by area thing.
I've seen very few people questioning Pichai as Tim Cook gets questioned. Why does he get a free pass?
The wedding industry is a giant racket. It's so hard not to get ripped off when trying to plan for a wedding.
Louisville, KY

- Entertainment - not much to do. There isn't a 'young urban professional' vibe that many cities have. No pro sports teams, etc.

- Jobs. Healthcare is the biggest employer, there's not a lot in tech. What does exist is mainly in the Windows world, which is not helpful for a linux guy. Lastly, the wages aren't good. I'm lucky to work remotely for a coastal company, but realize I'm a hostage of sorts as I won't be able to find similar work nearby.

- Weather. There's not much of a spring or fall anymore. It seems to go from freezing to scorching and back.

- Allergies. We are consistently ranked in the top 3 for allergies, and mine are terrible.

All in all, housing is cheap, people are nice, and there's some charm to the city. That said, I plan to finally leave next year for somewhere with better weather and job prospects.
> "If you want your software to be adopted by Americans"

> Not to get too off-topic, but while taking the piss out of America

I read the opposite into it. I figured it was a piss-take directed at VW.
The fake fashion of decentralization
Not safe from being forced to respond to a lawsuit though — even if you ultimately win.
Are sentencing and parole decisions influenced my meal breaks? A re-analysis
Chicago (specifically Printers Row/South Loop):

1. Homes
- Many apartment buildings are 75-100 years old which comes with a whole slew of issues
- Buying a condo or apartment in the city is difficult due to Illinois taxes and the states shit financial situation

2. Outdoors
- Chicago has a fantastic lake front and some public parks that are nice but there is little to no, "outdoory" things to do in the city or even near by outside the city. The state is flat so there's no elevation hiking to do. There's no real forests. It's prairie land. Frustrating if you like the out doors

- It's easy to get into a routine that is comfortable in Chicago and they have that be drastically altered when the weather changes. This happens in a lot of cities but Chicago it can change your whole life due to the cold and things being less walk able when it's freezing outside.

3. The Cubs
- Chicagoians love sports. Cubs fans tend to be the worst of the fans in the city. If you happen to forget the cubs are playing and have to go through Wriggly on a game day you're in for a bad time. Need to use the red line on game day? Good luck.

Other than that Chicago is incredible. More people should move here. If it wasnt for the lack of mountains I'd probably never leave. Can someone tell me what sucks about Denver before I pack up and move?
Daniel Ellsberg on the Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
I would not use a shared server for E-mail hosting, for this exact reason. Even if you are the only person on the IP, you need to watch out your first couple of months because the IP you have could have been misused in the past. If you find your new host’s IP on a blacklist, request a new IP from your provider.
More ram, cpu usage, etc.

So, imagine you have a given task. One option is it takes 60ms to execute and during that time it takes 50% cpu. Or, it takes 50ms to execute but takes 80% cpu. The second one takes less wallclock time but more cpu time.