skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LIC and Queens was more resistant to hipster techbros than say, Chelsea. Manhattan is already a playground for the rich, lower manhattan even more so. LIC was justifiably worried about tax payer subsidized gentrification.
> on the other hand, everybody understands that out of hundred people in the department there will be a couple of underperformers

The law of large numbers only works when the sample is unbiased. If the stack ranking was working as intended to any degree or the hiring procedures have any quality, no team will be composed of random people.

So, if that statement holds for your company (I doubt it), then both hiring managers are completely incompetent, and the rank process is completely ineffective.
Way true. I wrote the second half of my novel on my iPhone on the train to and from work. (First half written during the mandatory three month paid “garden leave” when I resigned before I could start the second job).
I started out making GUIs in Java. It was definitely harder to make reasonable, good looking, UIs in it than it is in a web stack. There are WYSIWYGs for the web too. Doesn't mean they're good to use. I guess it all comes down to opinion. Clearly the Java model of GUIs maps better to your mind and the web model of GUIs maps better to mine.
Keeping up with AI in 2019
Googler: Getting President Obama to 'Learn to Code' Got Me My Promotion
How long would it be before other businesses would fully occupy the particular block of Long Island City Amazon was prepared to invest in?

And would the employees of these businesses earn on average equal to or greater than the average NYC Amazon employee?

These aren't rhetorical questions, and I don't know enough about Long Island City to have a confident guess at the answers but when evaluating whether Amazon HQ is economically a net positive, these are important to know.
Binary is ~200KB. The rest is mostly images, icons and whatnot, and the auto-update framework (Sparkle). Version 1.0 was 40KB zipped, back in 2004. O tempora, O bloat.
We should also name and shame the politicians that accept money to pass laws for these trolls.
Many jobs are hard enough to hire qualified people for key alone for 6 month temp contract.
Curious, what kind of data would these public entities have that Amazon wouldn't already ?
Why do I always get downvotes for challenging the idea that every piece of media should be free, but no one ever explains why?
ARM royalties 1.0% - 2.0% of the chip cost and negotiable. Higher the volume, smaller the royalty. Foundry pays extra 0.5% for the physical IP package.

When somebody decides to invest into large volume laptop/desktop/server microarchitecture to compete with Intel and AMD, nothing prevents them from adding their own proprietary ISA extensions. RISC-V allows classic embrace and extend tactics. RISC-V for Microsoft surface and RISC-V for Google Chrome may not be fully compatible with each other and RISC-V AWS cloud processors.
Indeed, the lack of in-line comments from the do-ers is telling!

I get what the author is going for though. I’ve been a dev in do little, coffee break, nerf gun shooting, drone flying office. That company never changed the culture and fired almost everyone. Squandered a $30M investment.

It’s a hard hard change to pull off. The author is trying to sugar coat it, but someone’s got to be a hardass at some point.
What's your point? Nobody is criticizing the existence of the civil courts.
This was discussed just a couple of days ago here as well, so I'll just link to one of my comments there:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119398

So the answer is: it really depends.

I think RISC-V will quickly infiltrate the invisible on-chip microcontrollers. The ones that manage power regulation, SDRAM calibration training, etc. There is very little friction there.

Then it will slowly enter low cost microcontrollers where cost is absolutely essential.

The high-end will be IMO negligible for years to come.
There are several tax schemes available and depending on your situation (who pays your bills, employees, etc) you might be eligible for "УСН - упрощенная система налогообложения" (simplified tax system). You'll pay 6% from your income + 15% from your profit. Here's an article you might find interesting (in Russian of course): https://www.moedelo.org/club/article-knowledge/individualnyj...
Using Vim to take time-stamped notes
> Seems orthogonal to me. You can run CI on a branch.

Funny how some terms can be diffused enough over time to come to mean almost the opposite of what they originally meant. Continuous Integration is about integrating continuously. "the practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day." i.e. everyone commits to master multiple times a day.

Then tooling gets built to facilitate this way of working. People start confusing build tooling with CI the practice. Eventually that tooling gets used to support people working in continual isolation on feature branches. People start calling this practice CI even though there's no integration in sight.

Of course true CI isn't applicable for all contexts. Draft pull requests look like a great tool for where CI is impractical.
I doubt that many people would make a connection between their search engine and seeing captchas on other sites. So limited gain for, if anything, many unnecessary complaints.
The worldwide nuclear power industry experiences a meltdown event about every 20 years on average. Not counting the many military nuke plant events, we can see this with the ones that are household names.

Three Mile Island >> 1979

Chernobyl >> 1986

Fukushima >> 2011

Since the fundamental problems of nuclear safety have not changed (they can't; it's physics) and, despite promises to the contrary, no "safer" form of nuclear power has emerged, it's reasonable to conclude that, for as long as BWR and PWR nuke plants exist (today's technologies), we'll continue to see Maximum Credible Accidents (the industry's term) at the same rate.

Molten salt reactors, for those who propose that technology, actually have a worse safety record which is why they're not used commercially anywhere. Fusion, according to the industry's own reports, is "just around the corner." The problem is that, for 50 years, it's always been just around the corner.

Until today's nuke plants are shuttered, we'll continue to live with not only the threats but the reality of meltdowns on a predictable, repeating schedule.
For now it's mostly read-only. We have one component that lets you edit free-form text that syncs back to the sheet, called Notes. We also have a Comments component and a Chat tab, which don't sync to the sheet. And our big focus right now is to add more CRUD functionality.
UEFI/EFI is that "future proofed low level firmware" -- I think there's already a port of it to RISC-V processors
AWS Snapshots script
What NYC’s Cancelled HQ2 Means for Future Incentives
Tax cuts/credits are not taking money of NYC residents. Actually the residents will get less money than if the deal was made. I hope this is obvious.
Easy Payments (Taxpayer Funded Boondoggles in Memphis)
There is another aspect of this which some younger people miss. A hub city means a dual professional couple can both find long term career paths in the same place. That’s much harder to do in a non-hub city. Top talent tends to marry top talent as per assortive mating.
> Your decision is really between "Do you want 25,000 jobs, or not?"

Except that's not the choice either - as others have pointed out. If Amazon doesn't build something in NY, some one else will over the same time period. Will it be more or less than 25,000 jobs? Who knows. But NY is already an attractive metropolitan area judging by its density and property value. It's not a struggling rural town that can't attract talent and capital.
Super clickbaity...

The dude had been prohibited from owning a gun after domestic abuse against his girlfriend.

He tried to buy one anyway and failed a background check.

He bought gun parts and a 3D printer.

Police heard him firing in the woods, when told to put the gun down he told them he was CIA.

Officers inspected McGinnis' backpack and discovered a hit list titled "9/11/2001 list of American Terrorists" that included the names of both Democratic and Republican federal lawmakers.

That's why he was jailed. Not just because he had "a 3d printed gun".
But opening lists/records in another window/tab isn't a limitation of the browser environment, or SPA in particular. With proper router/caching in place it can be done within a browser app as well.
Applications for the Industrial IoT
Why is a prison company storing the voice prints of even innocent people?
> Can you explain this some more? Are you suggesting that governments establish a target figure and adjust that year's tax policy to make sure it's met?

They are just suggesting that the site that Amazon would have occupied will be rented by some other business. Probably, that business will not have gotten all the tax-breaks that Amazon did. Therefore, the tax collected by NYC on that space will be larger with Amazon gone.
I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn which is obviously a significantly gentrified area. Not just the "glass towers" but most of the older brownstones I looked at over the past month while searching for a new place also offer one month's free rent. I can't argue with the fact that Amazon would contribute to gentrification because that is true. But I can also say that Amazon pulling out of the plans isn't going to stop gentrification.
How to make Cron scheduler do more for you
You try it. Make sure that its failure won't ruin you. Then keep tweaking and trying.

Don't listen to any other advice :)
There are a lot of points of cryptocurrency. It's true a private chain has no protection against central control... however it does have protection against double-spends, mutable history, confirmation guarantees, etc.
Tesla rolls out Dog Mode, Sentry Mode to keep your car and pup safer
Private health insurance exists in Europe and Canada. Here’s how it works
I'm intrigued. Anything else interesting to do in the area during downtime?
I think part of the issue is that the software startup playbook is not as generalizable as its advocates suggest it is, and an under-emphasis on domain expertise vs software expertise

For ex, in multi-stakeholder industries like healthcare where the people who pay for a product often have incentives that conflict with the incentives of the user of a product, following the North Star of "making something people want" can lead you astray. So many digital health companies make products no one will pay for, or that end up in a narrow consumer lifestyle niche instead of actually improving healthcare in a meaningful way. A team of engineers / data scientists who "follow the user" isn't enough. It isn't even enough to focus on physicians. You really need to talk to administrators and see how the sausage is made
> competing

I assume you meant commenting? It took me a minute.
Increasing property value shows up on the balance sheet and the only way to access it is to sell the property and leave, or take on debt.

Increasing property values also mean increasing property taxes, which show up in expenses and are due every year whether or not you have the money to pay them.

Does taking out a home equity line to pay your taxes sound like a good idea to you? Me neither, and that's why rising property values are often not welcomed by residents who are not already financially well-off.

This does not even get into the impact on renters, who might face being evicted so a property owner can sell, or rents rising faster than their wages.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Most people are quite happy to keeping buying cheap factory-farmed meat and dairy, despite vague awareness of the generally horrific conditions of the animals (and humans) producing it.
Detect faces in real-time on Android
I see twitter as a good personal bookmarking tool that's exposed to the world. I use it for myself but also hope once in a while a client or employer sees my profile and thinks my view of the world and what I read is interesting. So not personal branding in the sense of growing my brand but more so in the sense of having of track record of my authentic interests, ideas, and shares.
Trump to sign border deal, declare national emergency
right but all of those are more performantly implemented with a cluster of mysql replicas .. the protection against double spends is only as strong as the cluster of machines doing the hashing
It took me a long time (really seeing an awesome Audi with a V-10 motor) to perceive Audi as a luxury brand. For me it was mostly notable for self-driving accidents back in the 1980s. Yet another outpost of European Mediocrity like Renault, Fiat, Trabant, Lucus, etc.

Over time I learned more about the inline 5 cylinder engines that are common in Audis and many special characteristics but before I overcome my ignorance I had a wrong idea of the brand.

And that is the difficulty of branding luxury cars. Few of us experience a wide variety of luxury cars, so our brand image consists of some old news stories, word of mouth, seeing them on the road, etc.
Node.js Implementation of the Actionscript 3 ByteArray
Going from the top, Jeff Bezos himself and Warren Buffet both grew up in middle class environments. Bezos worked at McDonalds as a short order cook while Buffett while young was notoriously hard working and frugal. Buffett would take his paper route earnings (mere dollars) and invest in stocks.

Anyway, I don't have the resources and time to go through the entire Forbes list, but I suspect there are a lot more people than most would believe and perhaps like to acknowledge from middle class or "lower" class environments.
That doesn't makes sense, text can be distributed at marginal cost, tailored suits are expensive because there's not a lot of supply.
And hot off the press, here's an article on that very subject in Memphis, TN:
https://granolashotgun.com/2019/02/14/easy-payments/
I think we should probably assume the author goes by she/her, given that she's pregnant by the end of the story and her Twitter bio doesn't give explicit pronouns. :-)
Not the most efficient solution but this is what springs to mind for me:

seq 1000 | xargs printf '%04d_A.csv\n' | while read -r f; do test -f $f || echo $f; done
For Compute Droplets there are "standard droplet" using shared cpu and "optimized droplet" can use 100% of a cpu. Then for the databases, can user use 100% cpu even for $15 plan?
How do you figure that a family is paying more in property tax / sales tax than a not family? Property size is a function of income, as is sales tax, and you've already included income in your calculations.

The other issue is that this is assuming literally all 25k employees would be new residents of NY. Assuming this is true (which it probably wouldn't be), that also means that the city needs to maintain infrastructure for at least 50k new residents (probably more like 75k assuming an average family size of 3). That's not an insignificant amount of new people who require public services.

Regardless, ($14k * 25k * 10 = $3.5B). Not that much more than the initial tax rebate, and not accounting for any additional costs to the city. Also assuming that the rate of tax-paying by employees remains consistent, and that they don't cut any staff in HQ2, which is far from certain.

As to:

Property taxes on real-estate owned by AMZN

You realize any property that Amazon would purchase is already owned by someone, right? And that the current owner is already paying property taxes.

Amazon already has an office in NYC. If they want to expand in NYC they can. Amazon growing in NYC is not at all predicated on the existence of HQ2. The only probable reason Amazon would continue to expand in NY specifically would be for more tax breaks. Which kinda defeats the argument that "Amazon will grow and we can collect more taxes".
I like this argument but I disagree with it.

I will stipulate that PG&E qualifies as a 'poorly run, centralized utility' and based on its billing it cannot provide power to residential homes for less money than a locally installed solar system can.

The reasons for this are worth considering.

PG&E has to maintain a power transmission infrastructure. That infrastructure has a high inspection cost, land use cost, equipment costs, and insurance risk cost (witness that the threat of the being found liable that their transmission line maintenance (or lack thereof) contributed to the most expensive wild fire in CA history).

Then there are the externalities which we don't account for as much in either scenario. Whether it is the cost of scrubbers on a coal plant, the waste storage costs of nuclear, or the gas pipeline infrastructure for natural gas plants that leaks methane into the air.

What solar does it centralizes the manufacture of the energy production equipment with finite externalitie. It provides highly granular capacity that can be deployed without large step wise changes in capacity (this is the 'nearly unused plant' problem where you have to run a plant because the instantaneous need occasionally exceeds your current generate capacity while the average need is staying below that level (this is where Teslas battery farms help energy companies cut costs).

So when comparing systems dollars to systems dollars, Solar with the current economics of about $3.25/watt installed is actually cheaper than poorly run centralized power plants.
Told them to start acting human or sod off? I can wish, can't I?

Trying harder is never the answer to anything. People already are doing their best, whatever that means in a specific context. And however far from whatever expectations.

Pushing harder might very well lower productivity overall, since everyone now likes working there even less than before. And it's very difficult to regain trust and loyalty.
Thank you for posting this. Few people realize how much of this comes straight from Marx's playbook.

Socialism is incompatible with the family because it requires that everyone and everything be subjugate to the state. If people are allowed to care more about their families than they do about the state, they might take actions to protect their families over protecting the state, and that was anathema to Marx.

Socialism and communism (two words for the same thing) are a scourge upon the earth. They've been responsible for more death and destruction than any other ideas in history. It's alarming to see that, despite these facts, how many people today cling to them as a "solution" to what ails the world.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19165374

They did a vastly superior job than I could do.
Forecasted US Q4 real GDP growth drops 1.2% in one week
> The inane invention assignment clauses

This damn clause is the bane of my existence. It is the main thing stopping me from pursuing a side project because even if the project succeeds, I won’t own the rights to it anyway.

I’ll probably ask my employer to approve some side projects as independent work and have them excluded from their ownership, but I feel like even asking that question paints me as someone who isn’t dedicated to my full time job. I’ve been at my current company for less than a year so I’ll probably wait a bit longer before submitting the request.
Elon Musk needs one up there to charge his Roadster
George Will? He's part of the status quo that laid down the foundation on which Trump build his successful candidacy. That George Will? The old white blowhard? That failure is not Trump's fault, it's Will's & Co. But people like Will don't have the integrity to stand up and be counted. Instead, they use diversion and misdirection, and sadly people fall for that. Will left because he was embarrassed, embarrassed by his own incompetence. Trump was a convenient excuse.

My benchmarks are these:

1) The USA went to War in Iraq over over lie. Thousands died, gazillions were spent, etc. as a result of that lie. The Media barely noticed. People who believe Trump is the worst thing ever clearly never understood who and Dick Cheney was. Trump is a pussy cat compared to Cheney.

2) Not only did BHO renew the (so called) Patriot Act but he expanded its depth & breadth. The Snowden revelation also came to light on Obama's watch. Again, the Media barely noticed. Real journalists would find both of these troubling. Instead, BHO was our first BuzzFeed POTUS.

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I am by no mean a fan of DJT but the truth is nothing he has done to date comes close to either one of those. He's got __a lot__ of work to do to top either one of those. The Media is bending over backwards to discredit DJT because:

1) It's a favor to the DNC. It lets the DNC off the hook because ppl are too distracted to ask the DNC what should be asked. That is: "How negligent and incompetent do to have to be to lose to DJT? And what heads are going to roll for your debacle? We want names!!!"

2) The GOP doesn't like him either. He stepped in on their dance, made all their candidates look like the fools that they are, and made it to the Whitehouse. That's not how it works.

3) Neither party wants to see another outsider do what DJT did, and they will, by any means necessary, make sure it doesn't happen again any time soon.

4) Trump is good for the Media's business. They love the "outrage". They love the "controversy." As long as it draws eyes and clicks - cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-chaig - they're happy. The media finally discovered that giving Bush #2 and Obama free passes didn't help pay their bills. For the Mainstream Media DJT is like printing money.

That is the context. That's how W.DC operates.
If you lose your private key, you lose your JPM dollars. How many people want to have $100K in notes? Because that's similar and a lot harder to lose than something stored on a computer.

Or, if you send the £100K to a valid address that nonetheless is the wrong one. Money in a black hole.

If you screwed up the note to send $100K via ACH, something could still be done about it.
This is honestly one of the issues I have with journalism today. As a non-white person I do not need a white savior. I just want to be treated equally, I do not need to be coddled or "protected". I have thick skin; I am not a child. Sorry for the rant mc32. Services like this have helped to curb delivery thefts, scam visits, etc near me. And I agree with you if the resident is stripped of their control I can see it becoming a huge problem.
Good example of a case where conflict of interest got people killed. ABS was paid to certify ships and that is what they did.
On the flipside, the single best thing you can do for your mental health and quality of life is to get more sleep.
On the flip side, this will give an edge to specific groups that can communicate in highly vernacular/non-written/non-standard languages.
SICP Goodness – Stream (I)
Investor: "Your employees are only working 10-5. You need to crack the whip on your slaves so they work harder and make me more money."

CEO: "Ok, how can I spin this so my employees don't get angry at me. Oh, I know! I'll make a presentation and write a blog article!"

The article represents just about everything wrong with the startup world and the cult of workaholism. The toxicity and brain washing is real.
For the same reason that politicians support objectively terrible deals for sports stadiums: their incentives are misaligned. They get all of the positive press when the deal is signed and someone else will have to deal with the long term fallout.
This is awesome. A lot can be accomplished with 500 hours and yes, perhaps the best achievement is sticking to that goal consistently.
Oh my bad. Point still stands.
Analysis: Who Really Owns Huawei? (2010)
Such weak management advice. Measure performance on outcomes, not on inputs. Telling people to work harder just isn't effective in software development contexts. In fact, it's often counterproductive because you'll get people shipping poorly thought out, little-desired changes that have to be supported on an ongoing basis.
How much storage would hashing every combo with every salt take? Is it still possible?
Yeah, I stopped reading at that point.