skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at Basecamp. From our handbook [1]:

"Basecamp pays at the top 10% for our industry at San Francisco salary levels, regardless of where an employee lives. The comparison data is provided by a company called Radford that polls compensation data from all the major companies in our industry and plenty of our smaller peers as well. Because we don't pay bonuses, we match our base compensation to the base + bonus of our peer group."

[1]: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/making-a-ca...
This is a great point.

I think there is an earnest attempt to save journalism overall ... but also consider that European industries are static, and especially the press are owned by old, rich families who have considerable influence.
> $48K is some phony list price that doesn't matter.

It does matter, though. These high list prices sacrifice the uninsured for larger chips at the insurance negotiation table. The uninsured don't have anyone negotiating rates for them so they end up paying the list price (or going bankrupt instead).
I'm pretty sure it's going to happen, or at least having Docker build files where you can run your own (on the workers, you'd want to install what you wanted anyway). I've had a couple of conversations from folks wanting to do that and it seems like it would be pretty easy, just making the entry point supervisor vs systemd.
IIRC, switch statements bigger than a certain sizes are compiled to jump tables. So it's just a static jump after the code finds a working method.

In theory, it's a very cheap piece of assembly after that point.
It’s fine to debate morals.

But it’s important to make a distinction between legal and illegal.

You’re accusing them of having a different opinion on a moral isssue to you. That’s one thing. Accusing them of doing something illegal - that’s something else. And it’s now super clear that it’s legal, since we’ve decided we have to introduce a new tax to tax them.

My issue isn’t with the debate - it’s about being precise. If you say everyone’s evading then you ruin the power of really saying someone’s evading. You’re crying wolf.
That's the spirit of the current system, and it mostly works. The 2008 crisis was crazy because nobody anticipated the magnitude of moral hazard between insurers <=> (banks <=> rating agencies <=> pension funds) <=> mortgage lenders <=> homebuyers. Homebuyers thought they were in great financial shape because lenders kept pushing them easier loans, lenders were writing mortgages with their eyes closed because the banks buying the mortgages were making so much money packaging them into MBSes and selling them to pension funds, the pension funds were enjoying great returns on these products rated AAA by rating agencies asleep at the wheel, and meanwhile the banks offloaded their MBS risk by purchasing CDSes from insurers who were blindly making lots of money selling them. The whole thing was a self-reinforcing feedback loop that burst violently.

I definitely blame the banks for being overly creative in coming up with perverse, complicated multi-party incentive structures that are hard to regulate while lobbying for deregulation. But at the same time, the mortgage lenders, insurers and rating agencies deserve some blame for being negligent at their jobs.
Damn, that post aged badly.

Yeah, I think there needs to be books that are honest about the tradeoffs of running a business different ways, rather than espousing that "this is the way to do things". Ben Horowitz's "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" is the only one I know that really claimed that sometimes things call for relaxed management and sometimes things call for a maniacal death march.
There are too many apps causing too many dopamine hits. How is anyone supposed to do the meaningful work or gain the appropriate skills in the supposedly AI/ML dominated future without doing deep work away from these things? Everyone deletes these apps and turns their phones to gray scale so they can focus.

Speaking of focus, one thing I want to focus less on is the continual security/privacy nightmare of using Facebook to post content. Either I want to know 100% it's public (Twitter/Instagram/Blogs) or it's essentially[0] 100% private and hopefully short lived (private insta, snapchat).

[0]: Obviously not PGP private and etc. But from a practical perspective. On Facebook you can do graph searches to identify someone based on a few pieces of data. On snapchat you have to already know their username and be added to see anything on their story or in messages to you. etc.
Sorry about that if I still have a typo somewhere - let me know where you found it if I do.

Still hard to keep myself from typing that :)
Microsoft is clearly investing in Docker, they bought Deis already.

http://venturebeat.com/2017/04/10/microosoft-acquires-kubern...
What we need are VIABLE solutions to social platforms... While people are deleting Facebook they're NOT deleting Instagram.

Additionally, we're still vulnerable to a lot of the same attacks that impacted us in the 2016 election.

These networks still hold your private connection graph, know what you're reading, can target you precisely with ads, etc.

I'm building an app named Polar which is an offline-first document management system for people that read large numbers of PDFs and technical documentation.

https://getpolarized.io/

I want to integrate social support and while I will probably support posting to Twitter + Facebook for people who want to I also want to work on building out some sort of distributed IPFS and / or filecoin style storage and collaboration.

Unfortunately, I think the space is still a big early for this. Another approach could be to just build a security protocol using group encryption. You could see your public data by others and anything that was shared socially but NO ONE ELSE could see your social data.

Right now the problem is that Facebook can see ALL your private and semi-private data and that's INSANELY dangerous.
I use Facebook way less than I used to...but I use Instagram way way more than I used to. So, I'm not sure it's all doom and gloom for Facebook as a company.
I don't think it's fair to characterize the Watson developers as C players. At the time, developing a natural language query interface to a web-scale unstructured database was a pretty cool technical achievement.

The problem was that Watson was a (largely successful) publicity stunt. In that sense, it falls in the category of sales and IMO is a top notch, A-player, demonstration of hype. It wasn't designed from the start to solve real problems, so it was always going to be hamstrung as a real product, regardless of how good the underlying engineering was.

* Edit to add a link to the papers they published -- https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_pubs.... -- which I remember skimming at the time and feeling like they were on par with any other typical ML paper. In general, research departments are run with an entirely different culture than engineering.
The gift tax exists largely to prevent people from avoiding estate tax by gifting large sums of money just before death. That's why they're linked. If there was an estate tax and no gift tax, people would just give all their money away in the years leading up to death.

The gift tax exemption is co-mingled with the estate tax exemption, so you can just think of the gift tax as pre-death estate taxes.

As for why we have an estate tax, the general idea is that oligarcies and plutocracies are bad; that while you should be able to give your kids (and grandkids, and even great-grandkids) every leg up in the world, they should have to work and contribute to society; that the pernicious effects of wealth snowball as generations pass; etc. Add to that the fact that an estate tax has the least negative impact on the taxpayer (and their spouse), given that the taxpayer is dead, it's a pretty good tax. Especially now that the exemption is so high, I feel like the value proposition is pretty good.
And load balancing without a separate server to act as a load balancer in front. Just announce a bunch of servers and all clients will all just pick one, with the ratio of servers which you adjust! No more proxy!
I did this one time and my account ended up in a broken state where friends couldn't send me messages in long-running one-on-one Messenger chats (they got some mystery error like "This user is not accepting messages right now."). Group chats still worked and I could send messages to those same long-running Messenger conversations.

Re-activating the Facebook side of the account resolved the issue. Caveat deactivator.
You could be right, I don't know. Maybe the authors can tell us about their experience.

My intuition is that the dataset will be too imbalanced to learn anything useful. Even if you crawl only decensored images, the area you truly care about inpainting is still pretty small. If you don't focus on it somehow, it might learn how to inpaint anime-style geometry correctly (from the rest of the image) but produce "barbie doll" style anatomy.
It's nice to see they can plan a road map for tax but for brexit....

It sounds good but something tells me it will end up increasing prices for consumers.
> Are there still people who pronounce linux lie'-nucks?

In German it's the stressed "ee" variant. I think with made up words that don't appear to belong to a certain language, yoiu just tend to pronounce it like it was a word in your native language.

Google in contrast just looks English because the "oo" is much more common in english, just like the "le" at the end (apart from some regions where you append "le" to nouns to make them sound small/cute).
My boss started having his number get used as a spoofed number, so he was getting calls, voicemail and texts from other people asking why he was calling them. He was getting hundreds of calls a day when it started. His voicemail box was full. The carrier said wait it out or change your number. After about a week it has died down.
>Ain't it great to have plenty of water to drink?

Not if it leads to water intoxication.
Ed Sheeran is a person and is taxed differently than a company. That article is manipulative clickbait.

UK Amazon executives pay more taxes than Ed Sheeran.
They are in the other cities, but it's a network effect. The most interesting jobs are in SF, so they move to SF, so when people make new interesting jobs they do it in SF because all the people are in SF.

As I said, I hope this trend reverses as more people accept remote work as a good way to do business. But until then, it is what it is.
Missing the key component. IBM mainframe colocated with a big three cloud provider. That's the secret sauce to shave latency.
No, it's way more subtle than that. Comments from bots can influence a conversation by their quantity, not for the content of the comment.
Exposing SFTP is like exposing SSH. We're generally not happy about it.
When you see "conservative" you're making the mistake of looking at what they say, not what they do. In the US at least, "conservative" and "business" got lumped together (or merged) while "progressive/liberal" and "labor" got lumped together as the other end.

There's also the question of corruption in both areas, where on the business end you get people perfectly willing to have the government spend billions of dollars of other people's money as long as it's possible to skim a few million of profits off it. On the labor side you (used to?) end up with the historical corruption of union politics (e.g. Jimmy Hoffa and organized crime), though I'm pretty sure the backlash against that has resulted in things being a lot cleaner. The corresponding backlash against the business side's issues (e.g. Dodd-Frank after the financial crisis) has been less successful and many measures have been rolled back.

Social Security privatization has kind of been a holy grail for the business side, with the concept of all.that.money being invested in stocks (and the fees! think of all the fees! skimmed right off the top!) rather than remaining as US Government bonds.

Edit: I'm not sure how a different lumping would work out - there's obviously huge ground for combining of "conservative" and "labor", but I'm not as sure about "progressive/liberal" combined with "business."
I know the study didn't cover it but would be interesting to measure the change in Instagram usage at same time. Anecdotally a lot of people I know have become active on Instagram and stopped posting to FB.
>On another note, I wonder what it will take for middle America to let go of the dream of well-paid manufacturing jobs. I understand the hope and allure, but it's plain that this ship has sailed long ago.

Liberalization of global markets has not had that long of a time to run its course. You speak so confidently that the status quo will run eternal. What is happening in middle America should be seen as pragmatism, the people of Wisconsin are beginning to accept their current predicament. They are accepting a leveling of environmental standards to foster competition with East Asia rather than choosing to go the way of the Dodo. Is this not what classical liberals dream of, a leveling of competition across boarders? So quickly the west is ready to externalize the cost of environmental pollution in the name of liberalization of markets but hypocritically don't appreciate the same leveling of standards domestically out of necessity. Perhaps the coasts should subsidize the cost of living in the mid-west to maintain the cost of keeping environmental standards well above those in developing countries.

Please don't turn your nose up at people that are desperate to make a living and are willing to sacrifice a lot in order to do so.
Maybe it's just me, but I always have trouble figuring out what apps are by reading the documentation. I'd usually understand more if there was an architecture diagram, which also clues me in that I need to do one for Vespene :)

One other reason I didn't build something is I don't have a current need to use something like that, so I'm probably not the one that should be developing it. There's a lot of datacenter use cases I'm ultimately not super familiar with.
Which station is this? I never had this problem doing a reverse-commute out of Yawkey station, but perhaps that's because trains are more packed going into the city.
I believe SSC currently prefers RedHat, but I'm nowhere near the authoritative source :)
This is so much more complicated than the class approach.

What's saved in lines of code is lost in expressiveness.

Feels like a step toward Ruby-like magic.
Big transistor senses the arrival of a single molecule
You could make your app Solid compliant - I would love a good social network UI on top of Solid, especially if it could import all the FB data into your Solid repository. https://solid.mit.edu/
Bell theorem is kinda a circular reasoning in it's attempt to disprove classical mechanics, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
Also all the theories I cited justify in their respective paper why the Bell theorem doesn't apply on them.
Some does it by being non local but it is not a necesssity.
Not in YC but I'm sure they have tools for all sorts of research and understanding of businesses in various sectors. I imagine they would build tools to analyze government reports, data sets published online, perhaps databases of relevant research papers. They've got 1000 companies in every sector imaginable; you're gonna need tooling to handle all that.
I'm not arguing they should. Just proposing a possible answer that would be reasonable.
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you're right, I should've been clearer, the fines came from the Obama admin.
I think the overall negativity is that the article is simplistic.

Everything has opportunity costs. For every lament about "I should have worked more on this long term project instead of going out with friends", there is a "I wish I hadn't spent every moment working on a long term goal, and spent more time with my kids"

The real answer is finding the balance. You are going to be unhappy if you neglect your short term goals just as much as if you neglect your long term ones.

This is most important lesson I have learned as an adult. If you are always working for the future, you will never enjoy the present, because the future never actually arrives. If you ignore your future for your present, the future will be here before you know it.

You need to build a sustainable pace - the now has to be enjoyable, because that is all you have, but the future has to be prepared for, because the future will be now before you know it.
You absolutely can live as you describe (commuting, grocery shopping, going to restaurants, etc without a car) in the center of almost every suburb inside of 128. You can even do it while living in a single family house. Go ahead and move already.
Couriers, close-protection staff, diplomats in high-risk areas.
This one thing keeps me from moving to US. Here in Europe I can pay about $50 for a set of 10 allergy tests (if I go to a private clinic).

I pay about $10 per month for a national health insurance for my whole family (I pay much more, but most of that is deductible from income tax - so when I calculated how much money would I have if I wouldn't pay this, it was $10).

As my wife is sick, she needed some special treatment. For the first days in hospital she got antibiotics, 4 times a day, $300 per injection. I payed nothing. Then she got some more drugs, sometimes a box for 5 days was worth about $3k - I payed nothing.

When our kids were born and spent the first 6 weeks in hospital on an ICU, the cost was about $150 - I payed nothing. When they had to get a special medicine for $4k - I payed nothing.

And yes, my taxes are a little bit higher than in US, but come on, I'd go bankrupt if I had to pay for all that. Or rather: I wouldn't pay, I'd live on street, and we would be dead now.
You can indeed! You can even reactivate your account _only_ for messenger.

I kinda wish you could do that for events...
Suddenly I have come to the realization that my CEO's job is easy.
Texas Voting Machines Are Switching Democratic Votes to Ted Cruz, and Vice Versa
> VIABLE solutions to social platforms...

Porno

Porno is viable solution to social platforms
> Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but could someone explain the rationale for taxing gifts within a family?

Could you explain the rationale for excluding such unearned income, other than privileging generational wealth against wealth earned by personal work and investment?

> Ignoring the possibility of using it to circumvent an income tax, etc., my initial thought is that if my dad wants to give me $30,001 this year, or even $300,000 this year, that he's already paid taxes on it and it's not the government's business.

He's paid tax on his income. When it goes to you, you are the then receiving income—whether it's as a gift or a payment for goods or services, whether you are in the family or not.

Favoring one of those situations over another is just that, favoritism; it's not justifiable by “already paid” logic in one case but not the others.
The rating system seems like a much better answer than the Medallion system.

Every passenger (should be) effectively voting on the safety of the driver. No turn signals or engine light on? Subtract a few stars. If they violate a traffic law, 1 star and report for safety violation.
Another reason why all the talk of antitrust against Facebook is ridiculous. Instagram will be in a similar position a couple years from now too.
I have not attempted to convince anyone to use the app so far :) Initially, I've built the app for personal use (and I am using it).

And yes, it will cost a considerable amount of money to have the app live - for testing purposes.

"If not you have to get good at convincing people to work with you".

That is actually very good advice. Without money and proper market validation, this is not a bad idea at all.

Thank you.
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> but otherwise who, exactly, would wear this?

Hunting or hiking in areas where hunters could be present. Obviously you'd want to wear it under some orange outerwear as your first precaution, but still.
That is the one thing that keeps you from moving to the US? Granted, it is a pretty big problem, but I'd say it is far from being the only thing the US gets wrong that the EU generally gets right.
Makes sense to me. If you really want to make it big in fashion, you move to a fashion city. If you want to make it big in music, you probably move to LA, Brooklyn, or Nashville. Startups are a scene too; you can succeed elsewhere but why make it harder for yourself?
Great video. A bit sickening to listen to him talk about how great and addicting their site is, but an interesting video on their analytics tech
Hang up and wait for a court order.
Thanks! I never understood this difference between em, rem, px.

I learned something very new and I have been doing web development (backend mostly) for a long time.
> Ignoring the possibility of using it to circumvent an income tax

you can't just ignore the reason why it exist.
I don't know, I'm really not trying to make one of those cliched checkbox X vs Y type grids, but when I started building Vespene I was most concerned about being able to make builds more consistent when you had hundreds of microservices developed by a lot of different teams. This is why I did http://docs.vespene.io/variables.html#snippets

I also saw a lot of people trying to do ops style stuff from tools like Jenkins, which is why Ansible has built-in SSH automation so it can hold on to SSH keys and use them in your behalf, and has some really cool built in RBAC so you can decide who can run what and it can be different than who can edit what.

Mostly I just want to build an architecture that can go interesting places - what is here today I think is usuable, but it's just a starting point. My thinking is if you make an architecture that is really pluggable, and the code is easy to read and add to, it can go to some really neat places.

I'd just recommend taking a look at the various chapters of http://docs.vespene.io/ to get a feel for features, and if you like it, spin up a copy using the setup instructions and see what you think.
Note that it's only if reportable gifts exclude the limit, nonreportable gifts (below the annual limit) don't count against the lifetime limit.

Also, both limits tend to go up over time, so it's a moving target.
I wonder how far this will eventually extend. For example, what about websites that have games on them (flash, html5, etc.)? What about websites that host game clients to be downloaded? MUDs could be decently accessible, but most games aren't at all accessible.
I don’t inherently disagree with you but you’re not recognising that as tech evolves, you’re asking people to span an extraordinary amount of complexity. In fact, the premise of the article is that front end development is now essentially two different roles.
Providers do this because it's a bargaining chip when negotiating rates with insurers. An insurer will say "this procedure should only cost $100". The provider will counter by showing that their "list" price for the procedure is $1200. They'll compromise on $250 and some uninsured schmuck will go bankrupt trying to cover the "list" prices.

It continues because 1) Having absurd prices is not illegal. Of course absurd prices are usually self-correcting. 2) It's politically infeasible to fix this because it means "someone" (aka the government) has to mandate what the prices should be.
There is no global economy. The mere notion of global doesn't make sense since everything is local.

Education and healthcare are provided locally "for free", assumed to be covered by taxes. It doesn't work if everything you ever pay or buy is magically transferred abroad and skip tax collection.

Of course, these are basic services provided in most of Europe. It may be seen differently in a different location that doesn't provide these.