skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a generally well documented trend that once rich it becomes difficult to actually fall out of wealth. I'd definitely love some unbiased research in how much better these purported rich people are better at allocating capital.

Because I can easily start naming microeconomically selfish ways of managing capital that the wealthy practice on the regular that it is no way economically beneficial to the parent economy - offshore tax havens, tax loopholes, real estate bubbles, buying politicians and policy to harm liberty, investing in companies that themselves offshore, launder, and hide their capital outside of the economy.

Businesses in the US are magnitudes wealthier today than they were forty years ago but the standard of living has at best remained stagnant for the last 20 (depending on locality, there are substantial regional swings). Money is flush in the upper echelons of society but it has provably and demonstrably not resulted in economic prosperity for the whole nation.
I think it's just how people view large tech companies on this site. The view of those large companies is very negative in general here.
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3.5 pounds of poppy seeds to concoct one dose of tea. I can only surmise that this was being taken, knowingly, as a recreational drug, no?

I think my curiosity with this website is that it speaks with two conflicting tones. One is the desire to educate, protect others, and take full responsibility for their son's death. But the other is almost a, "if you're reading this, we assume you already read between the lines on what people are doing with poppy seeds."

Maybe the site needs a section to educate people of how exactly poppy seeds can be abused?
This is the real problem. And the consequences are more devastating that most people think.
Families and lives destroyed because they don’t understand what they are getting into, and doctors are not much help.
Tire slashing and threats to schools by local man have nothing to do with Islam
I would suggest getting rid of a TV completely (I.e selling the TV or not ever buying one), so many hours are wasted per week when you have a TV
And let's not forget, the Republicans and the Trump administration have placed all their bets on fossil fuels forever.
Let's just ignore the racial epithet part shall we?
I've had a hard time explaining point 3) to people in other parts of the US, but its a huge and very real problem in the Bay area.

Someone should do a "lights out" analysis in the Bay, where you count the number of homes that don't turn their lights on at night for 30 days.
What frequently happens is that a simplified alternative appears.

HTML5 rather than XHTML, Markdown vs. HTML or LaTeX, HTML, originally, vs. SGML or Sun's ... proprietary hypertext system (Vue?).

Arguably, replacement of much office suite software with Web technologies.

Multics -> Unix.
>Add in the "sneakernet" of communication: Heading over to another's office or cube, and the event/conversation/information never gets captured in a form that can nor is communicated further.

This is a strategy and culture fail, in my opinion. Our team has a rule that sneakernetting is allowed but anything substantive that comes from it must be communicated immediately on our collaboration platforms (Slack/Box/etc). No "meetings after meetings" when people aren't connected and over-communicate whenever possible/necessary. If you discuss something and there is information that's needed that you're not communicating to people effectively, that's on you, not on the people working remotely.
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Not really. The money mostly goes to landlords.

VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord
> willing to impact their own comfort or convenience to truly follow them.

*method of survival.

You can "stand up for your principles", or you can not be an ideologue, survive, and live to fight another day making progress and positive change along the way. Full stop boycott stops nothing. Changing from within is the most effective. Instead of posting shame-inducing posts like this, labeling people and assuming the worst, try assuming the best, encourage them to take actions to increase privacy and increase security. I work in that field, and when my own principles are violated, I speak out. I guarantee that changes more than people shaming others on social media. Advertising and Data collection have about as much as a chance of stopping as world governments agreeing to stop producing bullets, so let's try to make it as ethical as we can.
the language detection is done client side; many years ago I pulled the code out to use it in another project!

presumably she had "automatically translate" on...
> Regex syntax sucks

Learn it, use it, accept it. Or are you trolling?

It is supported by most languages with special syntax because string manipulation is still important. The native support matters due to optimisations present that are peculiar to the runtime. Most any developer can understand your regular expressions, or they know who to ask. You need to know it if you expect to use shell tools.

It's just like SQL: sure SQL is missing modern features and modern syntax, but at least once you've learnt it you can use it for debugging, performance, administrative tasks, reporting systems, dev tools, and your future projects that use another language.
Mastodon is better than Tumblr; I agree. But I still think the protocol is too complicated (I am working on implementing a simpler one).
I'm being a bit over-dramatic, truth be told (I never had the courage to roll my eyes at any of them). I put "smart engineer" in quotes because that was really just a label (for my MIL, it meant I was the only engineer in the family, for people in the company, I was one of many smart nerdy folk). I'm primarily a self-deprecating guy with a healthy bout of impostor syndrome once in a while.

My strong dislike from BBT comes mainly from people associating me with a show that I find wholly unfunny. Not because it makes fun of geekdom and I don't like that, but simply because I don't find it funny at all. I saw a lot of parallels in the type of comedy on BBT and that on "2 and a half men" and could never understand their high ratings.
I'm not making any claims about what environmentalists are doing. I'm making a claim about the marketing. People don't like their industries, their beliefs, or their ideas being painted as evil or immoral. There are plenty of good people out there who are involved in the coal industry, some of whom are or were coal miners.

If you want their votes and you tell them that coal is evil and should be eliminated, you're going to gain a lot of opposition. I think that, instead, environmental groups should cast it as: coal is being outcompeted in sustainability, and, when the cost of handling emissions and waste is factored in, cost. (And it's often being outcompeted in cost even without any of that.) I think that people who have an economic state in coal should instead be encouraged to demand that the coal companies apply some good ol' American ingenuity and some genuine R&D investment into making coal remain useful.

(A similar idea applies to industries like steel. Blaming foreign countries for the US steel industry's declines at various times may appeal to some voters, but a more productive message would be to blame steel industry executives for sitting on their collective arses. [0]) A message demanding that they spend money and effort to keep up might be much more effective.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-05/steel-...
Thank you for sharing your experience. I think there is a lot of truth in what you said. It is probably very situation dependent - in my case getting that first cert and paying out of pocket is how I broke in from IT Ops and got my first security consulting gig. The resulting pay bump paid for the cost of the cert in 6 months. For all certs thereafter I've had my employers pay for it as part of a benefits package. Obviously this is only a single data point, but many of my colleagues have similar stories so I feel like it can't be completely unique to me. YMMV.
>2. a lack of face to face contact and the setting of being in my own space keeps me in a semi-permanent doubt/guilt cycle about my work quality and how my effort and reponsiveness is being perceived.

This seems like a personal issue rather than an issue with the concept of working from home. For me, personally, I don't care about when/how people work as long as they're delivering on what I'm asking from them. I may just be extremely fortunate that my team is very responsive but I never have issues with being available for my team or them being available for me and that kind of negates any kind of guilt cycle there could be.
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Congrats on an original model and impressive results. I love how donors know exactly where the money goes - to support themselves while training.

Do you think it's scaleable?
Keep in mind the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

It will take a lot of political organizing to undo. There have been several attempts and they all meet stiff resistance.
That used to be a good idea 4 or 5 years ago. Sadly now aggregators are echo chambers themselves due to publisher pressure.
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So much of economics (as it exists in reality, not in theory) is not about maximizing RoI or efficiency or revenue or supply vs. demand, it's about power. Exercising it, abusing it, using it to set up class distinctions, reveling in the feelings of superiority and control, etc. That's a big reason why workers end up underpaid. It's not because it's good for business (it rarely is), it's simply an exercise of power. It feels good to those who want to set themselves up as being above others.
My wife and I are bootstrapping a business, and we're nearly at 100 customers (92 right now). I would not say it's an easy road. We've been working on it full time for 1.5 years so far.

A couple things I've realized while doing this:

1. Business is a competition. Much like in sports, skills are only built up through practice. For an entrepreneur this means actually selling something. You will start at level 0. There is no substitution for actually doing the work.

2. The bigger you grow, the easier it gets. A year ago we were running around like headless chickens not knowing what to focus on. Now that we've got a core group of customers, and it's much easier to decide where to go. We can start to plan a month or two months out now. Opportunities such as partnerships also present themselves as your business grows larger.
I was surprised to (re)discover that Monty Python had a laugh track.
With that much $$ Mr Trump should have done better than the index if he is that good.

And at least in the UK people and families that want preserve wealth actually run their own funds. There are a number of listed self managed Investment trusts (with low TER) based on preserving family wealth.

RIT Capital Partners is one example 12.6% pa for 30 years its base was Rothschild family money and there are others Much older.
Just nitpicking - Baskerville 95% people won't have. Even less people will have 'Hoefler Text'. So you end up with most people seeing Georgia - you should focus on that experience. For some reason with Georgia there is gigantic word spacing. Like you would need like word-spacing: -0.6em to get somehow cool. Not sure why it happens on site or if its Georgia.

I see you have gripe with designers but you have to understand few things

1. There is as many bad designers as there is bad programmers. Lot of the companies hire quite unexperienced designers because it sort of works out. Don't forget designers get lot less money then programmers so it might also mean that the quality people are programmers by now.

2. Designing graphics is mostly about putting yourself into someone elses shoes. Nobody else in company has to like the design, important is that your clients do and for that you can gather data. Often you would be suprised what people actually like.

3. I have read this https://geoff.greer.fm/2018/04/02/conserve-vectical-pixels/ and it seems like you want to have very functional approach to design. But you have to realize that function in visual communication is not straightforward. Its not about cramming most of data on page. Empty space is extremely functional element. It might not be so important for you but for most people it is. It establishes hiearchy and helps to rest your eyes. 95% time you are not designing Bloomberg Terminal but some interface people will see for the first time or maybe just from time to time. Things might seem to you super obvious because you spent so many hours with them but thats just not what most of the people get. And i am not even talking about their experiences with the computer itself.
I think gardening is a pretty lucrative business right now in the bay area. Atleast by the rates that many are asking. And I've seen many of my neighbors asking each other if they know of any reliable services. All one needs to be is reliable, communicate well and do a decent job.
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Another problem is that the labeling laws apply only to oil bottles sold in Italy/EU. Most olive oil sold in North America by Italian companies will just say "Product of Italy" without mentioning that the olives used come from Tunisia or other countries. The US and Canadian labeling laws are a joke compared to most European countries, and should definitely improve on this.
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I think the claim is more like the Kardashians play dumb characters [who happen to have their real-life names].
In office space Peter Gibbons, our white Alpha, and the only guy with any sense, tries to stay sane and hold it together in a world that has gone haywire.

In King of the Hill, our white Alpha, Hank Hill, the only guy with any common sense, tries to stay sane and keep it from all falling apart in a world that has gone Haywire.

In Idiocracy, our White Alpha, Joe Bauer, the only guy with any sense, tries to stay sane and keep it from falling apart in a world that has gone haywire.

In Extract, Joel, our down to earth White Alpha, tries to stay sane and hold it together in a world that has gone haywire.

And in Silicon Valley, well- you get the idea. I love Mike Judge films, he is an astute observer and hilarious. but his ouvre is not broad. He's got a formula, and it works, and that's fine.
I'm typing on my phone but if this works well, its the most promising web development platform since previous X (is that React?!). You're a genius! Any examples of how you organise your code, testing etc?
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Might be anecdotal, but hooo weee, if you are a good electrician right now, you can essentially name your price. Companies will pay it because they aren't willing to take the risk of having it done wrong. Family knows a couple career electricians -- company is paying for them to come out of retirement, paying $50-55 an hour, AND letting them keep their retirement benefits.
That unpaved parking lot and rundown building are part of the aesthetic, and probably part of what makes the shop so appealing.

If the exact same bagels were coming out of wal mart, or out of some glassy office building and made by a robot, I don't think anybody would look at them with the same reverence.
More like affects the top .02%.

What a lot of discussions on economics miss out on is that for every order of magnitude less people you are talking about out of the whole (10%, 1%, .1%, .01%) you are talking about people who then also have orders of magnitude more wealth than the previous categorization.

Your .001% is billionaires, your .01% is hundred millionaires, the .1% is tens millionaires, the 1% millionaires, the 10% is hundred thousandaires (of readily accessible capital, at least - a lot of people in the 10% push themselves into the millions on their consumable assets like their house). Beyond .01% it exponentiates up to Bezos levels of wealth.

When talking about wealth taxes we shouldn't even be thinking about anyone but the 300,000 who have as much wealth as the bottom 292,000,000 - the .1% - at most.
In my career I have found programmers generally fall into two camps:

- those that prefer high-level overviews first, then drill down to learn details later

- those that want to thoroughly understand each smaller building block first before dealing with bigger picture concerns

For example, I jump right into projects and skim the docs and start hacking stuff together without learning the nuts and bolts, whereas my cofounder likes to read the theory behind the library, then read the source code before even starting to write a single line that uses the library. Both approaches are valid, I've just found most people tend to strongly prefer one approach or the other, and it's helpful to identify what a person's preferred approach is when working with them.
None of the paid students dropped out. If you were paid the same amount to improve yourself and learn vs packaging boxes at an amazon warehouse, I think the decision is easy.

We didn't have an interview process (in terms of selection). I was originally volunteering at a local library at a Free Code Camp meetup and got our first couple of students from there (the ones who really needed help). Afterwards it was word of mouth.

Finding students wasn't hard. We ran a 3 month pilot at our local library to teach coding for free (our students teaching the public) and many students showed up. In Silicon Valley, libraries wants to provide more technical resource / training but there aren't enough volunteers.
I love how H&CF talked about innovations of the 80s-90s that we think of as revolutions now that they have taken off: online games, social network, streaming, time-sharing/cloud computing.
>As an engineer and computational scientist, drawing conclusions from correlations like this is absurd. Maybe Reagan was good for income inequality or maybe he was bad for it. Did you control for the other variables before drawing your conclusions?

Drawing absolute conclusions in this area is nearly impossible, and we can't say with any certainty that Reaganomics caused this problem. The evidence does seem to suggest that the policies are not fixing the problem, which is a far easier claim to make. They might not be the cause, but it seems very likely they aren't the solution.
If you look up Transparent California, some public employees make pretty good income. In San Jose, there are quite a few of them making >$500k. Similar with other cities. And that doesn't count the lifetime pension, health, early retirement some of them get.

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2017/san-jose/
Is this glorification? It seems like they're just stating a fact. It's mentioned right before that he wakes up every day without an alarm, so this is part of his routine.
I know a person who is happy with that choice.

Unlike many, he was an actual SF native. He grew up there, and has family there. He is a highly competent software developer. He now works in Melbourne, FL. He has in fact switched jobs several times while remaining in the area.

He lives on 12 acres with a commute of about a half hour. He has sheep and a couple dozen chickens. He can shoot his AR-15 in his yard.

What salary would he need in SF to get all that?
What IQ level is optimal? And what is the role of IQ from a societal standpoint, if you are to presuppose that mass literacy and contemporary education is meaningless? What is the benefit of literacy from your perspective, for that matter
Is there any high level api/lib like we have for Google Datastore?
That's great, but isn't it orthogonal to the topic at hand? We need non-tech jobs in Silicon Valley as much as anywhere else. Even if we could get every single person in the bay area a job as a software developer of some kind, we would be left in a barren wasteland of office buildings with no services. The solution clearly has to be to somehow make living here viable regardless of how you're employed.
This is a really awesome project: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

I've really tried to use Firefox... Chrome just runs so much smoother, especially for media.
post 3taps, craigslist won't be able to stop scrapers.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub...
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I don’t watch it. Not because I’m too sensitive; I don’t even live in CA though I do work for a tech company. Rather the bit of it I did watch was just kinda funny, and from what I’ve read it seems to take the most obvious jabs at SV culture. Probably good content for lots of folks, but I just don’t find that very interesting as a mode of critique. I’m up to my elbows every day in the silliness of SV tech, I don’t really need all that to be recapitulated.
I am someone who still has all but my immediate family still over there, and I really appreciate you saying this. It really goes a long way. Greece has been at the very short end of the stick on some EU trade deals, austerity measures, increased war games from their millennial long mortal enemies, front lines of a refugee crisis, and more. For a country that has been through so much it truly is a testament to their resolve. And they still take great pride in making the best damn olives they can.
I am an Italian living in Vancouver, and I totally know what you are talking about. You can get pretty close to that by buying boutique cold-pressed olive oil. Here in Canada, I can only find it in high-end Italian grocery stores, and unfortunately the price is generally around 20-25 dollars / 500ml. But yes, you can find it.
There is none; the appeal is still open. You can check the status of the case on PACER – at least if you don't mind paying a few cents for every request due to the judiciary being stuck in the 90's:

https://ecf.ca9.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servlet/TransportRoom?se...

(The case number is 17-16783.)

There was oral argument on March 15, and the 9th Circuit posts video recordings of all hearings on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvLdJujOp8k

(I haven't watched it yet, so I don't know how it went.)

Since then, the only filings have been a few citations of supplemental authorities, the last one in June. If I'm not mistaken, the case is just waiting for the judge to write an opinion. According to the 9th Circuit's FAQ:

> 18. How long does it take from the time of argument to the time of decision?

> The Court has no time limit, but most cases are decided within 3 months to a year.

...It's currently been 8 months since the date of the argument, so hopefully that won't take too much longer.
I have an interesting question.

Say there is an already established business that has more than proven the idea is viable.

What does it take to... join the same market space? Can you offer the same features at the same price? Can you offer the same features at a lower price? Can you offer less features at a lower price?

Are there cases where there is only room for one player and no matter what you do, you will not be able to steal any sizable amount of market share from them?
80k cars x 45k avg price is around $3.2 Billion cash coming in a quater. Usually they get 2-3 months credit from suppliers. So unless Tesla spends $2-3 billion at once or the demand for its cars drops dramatically the crash crunch is unlikely to come. Tesla is selling each car at a profit so unlike tech unicorns more sales doesn't mean bigger loss.
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