skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that both of you chose to focus on one facet of a multi-faceted question and are now talking circles around each other.

As Aloha pointed out, SCOTUS has ruled that a corporation only has residency in its state of incorporation, so Texas no longer qualifies for Apple (as it could before the 2017 ruling).

You then pointed out that a case can be brought against a defendant if they have "an established place of business" in that district.

These are two facets of the same problem, and a thorough answer to OC's question requires both parts. It wouldn't make any sense for Apple to close their locations before the SCOTUS ruling, because a plaintiff could argue that they had residency there, regardless of where their physical places of business happen to be. One is the what, the other is the "why now?"

But I think Aloha's point was less "here is the entire explanation" and more "maybe if you RTFA you'd have the answer to your question". Which is what OC definitely should've done, rather than NOT reading the article and immediately going to the comments to ask a question which is answered in the article. Instead, you guys each answered half of the question and then started talking circles around one another.
“Hearing” the Hammond Organ
It’s not just cost of living but taxes. Living in a state with no income tax is an automatic 10-12% bump in take home pay.

Agree though if you’re single your living situation is more flexible and you can find a place for less than market rate here pretty easily. It’s once you get married and want kids that SF makes no sense for most people.

Someone making 200k in Austin has a much much better quality of life than someone making 300k in SF. No question.
I'm curious how the algorithm works, as it doesn't seem to work as I'd expected.

My first thought was to go back and look at the day I launched my startup with at Show HN [1], which got over 700 points and was at #1 from roughly noon to 2 AM the next day (PT). Sure enough, this post shows up in the #2 slot on the day I posted it (Sept 5, 2013) [2], but it doesn't show up at all on the following day [3].

This is strange because it was at #1 at the beginning of this day (assuming that's midnight PT) and was on the front page for much of that day. Even when you go hundreds of entries down into the Sept 6 page, it doesn't show up.

Any idea how the algorithm works that it's generating these results?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-09-05

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-09-06
TIL I need to work @ netflix
> totalitarian censorship and surveilance

Trying to discourage self harm or teen suicide is totalitarian censorship? Such ridiculous hyperbole.
...with 2GB less memory
Yes, it was. And those links didn't address it in the slightest. Your first link is completely unrelated, that is, of course I understand that I am far more likely to contract a disease that I am not vaccinated for, particularly if traveling. And if anything, your second link ("herd immunity") underlines my question. I'm vaccinated. Everyone I know is vaccinated. The country I live it essentially requires that people be vaccinated. So again I pose the question, how would I endanger others if I weren't?
> in close to a decade of living and about 6 years working in the Bay area I have met exactly one co-worker that openly expressed conservative views.

In my experience in the bay area, it's very rare for co-workers to express political views at all. In fact, I find the bay area to be very politically reserved compared to the open embrace of conservative viewpoints where I'm from (I probably lean more conservative than liberal, so I don't think I'm simply being more sensitive to it).

I have encountered people that aggressively espouse liberal positions every now and then, but in my experience, this makes most other people around them (including me) uncomfortable, and the conversation usually stops quickly. While it is maybe more rare for a conservative to do this, I find it to be met with the same response.
And how exactly is Russia threatening the US?
There's a lot of literature that states otherwise. Of the assembly languages I've studied (and within reach of me I have references to the Motorola 6809, 680x0, VAX, MIPS, Z80, 6502, and x86) it's only the x86 line that used the name `IP` (Instruction Pointer [1])---the rest all use `PC` (Program Counter). And (to be even more pedantic) that register (`IP` or `PC`) always points to the next instruction to be executed, never the current instruction being executed. And just to note, on the VAX, the `PC` register is also `R15`, so it can participate in any instruction as either a source or destination; whether that's a good idea is another matter.

[1] Technically, until you get to the 64-bit version, it's `CS:IP` (Code Segment, Instruction Pointer).
I think time and time again the creators do end up understanding these things, it’s just by the time they do their ultimate owners don’t care.
many companies have instant acceleration on change of control, with regard to the vesting point.
Having worked in some departments with developers before, I agree with you! They take A LOT of pride in their work and don't want it mucked with by outsiders who don't understand the language or who have no REAL RESPECT for what they do.
Elon Musk Pokes Fun at Himself While Hosting PewDiePie’s Popular Meme Review
You don't take VC money if you want to build a lifestyle business.
Half the population didn't vote for Trump.

More than that, in total population terms.

Then again, Trump got over 40% more votes than Bill Clinton did for his first term.
The line below that seems like a hint:

> We’ve run into serious talent recruiting issues when we reached this stage
E2E Automated Exploit Generationfor Validating the Security of Processor Designs [pdf]
at a large enough company with an independent enough board, sure. but these committees are largely driven by ceremony and politics under the guise of having to do with objectivity.
Not really a relevant metric imo
In other aspects a tech lead must lead by example. If the tech lead reviews pull requests in a sloppy way then the juniors will surely do so too. It does not mean that the tech lead should review all pull requests, of course.
You must be new to the mess that is the node package ecosystem...
Not necessarily. Bats for instance evolved flight separately from birds, and can still climb.

Evolution will try everything. If there's sturdy carnivorous rats around, the rest of the rats will try their niche. Some will try faster, some will try playing dead, others will dig holes to hide in, or climb trees. Some might grow thicker skin, or looser skin, or venom, or just being poisonous to eat.

These empty niches can be filled pretty quickly. After removing top predators like wolves for instance, the average size of coyotes has been steadily increasing over the last 50 years.

A side note, plants figured (in the evolutionary sense) that birds were great seed spreaders compared to the non-birds. Some evolved impressively strong spices (Capsicum) that birds are impervious to (up to several % by weight) that eliminated non-bird consumption of their berries. So to protect bird feed from squirrels at Capsicum.

Any bird like feature will help with a particular niche. Feathers, beaks, dexterous claws, bird songs, gliding, and of course powered flight. So it's not like you need a huge jump from land based mammal to full flight before you have any evolutionary advantage for a particular niche.
> The good news is that Clang can cross-compile fairly easily. Much better than gcc.

How so? The complications in cross compiling come from setting up all the system libraries, not the compiler and linker.
Fair enough, and to the extent that the zeitgeist is sort of retroactively determined by whatever technological and political things are going on at the time, I wonder what new beliefs people will have about the state of the world in 50 or 100 years as the result of DLT.

On the surface the ability of banks to steal from folks seems like largely a different type of power than what the economist is talking about, which is the ability of metrics (and the people who define them) to shape human behavior. But maybe it just looks that way because it's difficult or impossible to really perceive the full extent of how living in a non-DLT world is affecting our behavior.
> you are making it more difficult to express yourself

First of all, I think phrasing matters here. "Making it more difficult to express yourself" makes it sound like someone is going out of their way to make it more difficult. What is actually happening is youtube deciding "not to go out of their way to make it easier".

When phrased like you said it, and you claim it is censorship, that makes it seem like youtube is obligated to pay you money for expressing your views. Do you not see how absurd that is?

Setting that aside, it's a lot easier for Sean Hannity to express his viewpoint than it is for me. My speech is much more limited than Sean Hannity's. Am I being censored? Is Fox obligated to give me a prime time TV show to express my opinion?
I have been a GitLab CE user for several months now, hosted on my own server. And I agree the performance is not really good compared to GitHub. I know improvements like this is a huge challenge for you guys. But it’s been several years already since you guys said you are about to deal with performance issues.
We wanted platforms that connect the world - now we’ve got them. We’ve given everyone a voice: the pedophiles, the self-harm fetishists, the terrorists. Now we’re reaping what we’d sown.
Are you talking about the interview script, or the programming script? And what if the interviewee brings out Lua and LPEG [1]:

local lpeg = require "lpeg"

local balance = lpeg.Cmt(
lpeg.P {
(
(lpeg.P(1) - lpeg.S"()[]{}<>")
+ lpeg.P"(" * lpeg.V(1) * lpeg.P")"
+ lpeg.P"{" * lpeg.V(1) * lpeg.P"}"
+ lpeg.P"[" * lpeg.V(1) * lpeg.P"]"
+ lpeg.P"<" * lpeg.V(1) * lpeg.P">"
)^0
},
function(subject,position,capture)
return position,position > #subject
end
)

print(balance:match "") -- true
print(balance:match "()") -- true
print(balance:match "((()))") -- true
print(balance:match "()()()") -- true
print(balance:match "()(())") -- true
print(balance:match "(") -- false
print(balance:match "(()") -- false
print(balance:match "({)}") -- false
print(balance:match "({})") -- true
print(balance:match "()))((") -- false

[1] http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html
>I believe what most people mean when they say “not quantifiable” is “not fully quantifiable” as opposed to “completely indescribable”.

Describing something and quantifying it are not distinct actions. If you think you can make any progress at all in describing something, then you are doing the same thing as those enigmatic "quantifiers." The only reason it seems different to say "this apple is red," versus "this apple weighs a half pound" is because people are a lot more handy with colors than fractions.
see the USENIX Enigma 2019 talk:

Hardware Is the New Software: Finding Exploitable Bugs in Hardware Designs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojVGI2nH7NI
How about stopping monsters from doing things like My Lai massacre?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
I agree. But HN is advertising for ycombinator. It is a known quantity what ycombinator wants from this site, so the risk of "paying" some unseen and unfortunate price is small.
What I had in mind, is that the ads & tracking companies, would want to integrate/add some of their code server side, to be able to set HttpOnly cookies. Crazy next step?
I understand, and I know you are right. I'm just frustrated with the state of things and how people try to do the best they can to live, grab what seems to be a helping hand, but it turns out to be a foot stomping them down further. I will will be more formal and neutral in the future. Sorry for taking your time.
U.S. Campaign Against Huawei Runs Aground in an Exploding Tech Market
This is not a problem for a gas transmission pipeline

Actually, it is.

I used to live very near a major natural gas pipeline in New England and each year the operators would send us a leaflet in the mail reminding us not to be alarmed by the helicopters that would fly up and down the route because they were just looking for dead or yellowing trees, which were the first signs of a pipeline leak.
Just because the US has better tech now doesn't mean the US can sit back and think "ah, well, they'll never catch up, let's just stop with the technological progress". That's entirely unrealistic. 30 years ago, China was a country of poor farmers. They're now an economic superpower that is increasingly sinking tons of money into their military and research.

I'm not sure you realize how much of our modern technology is thanks to defense technology grants and DARPA. Military, academia and private business have always been tightly coupled in the US and it's dishonest to pretend otherwise. Microsoft has always had plenty of defense contracts, hell , they have the largest or second largest R&D division in the world. These moral qualms are entirely new.
> recorded video as an expression of speech

Far as I can see they still have the same ability to speak to the world as they ever did. All that changed is they won't profit from spouting lies.

It's not more difficult to upload a video, it's not more difficult to view it. Their ability to express their view has not changed in the slightest. If they cannot afford an internet connection of any form (that's vanishingly few these days), well they can get a soapbox, go down to the local park, and express their view in the traditional way.
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This reminds of the Person of Interest episode "Q&A" where a software company was specifically targeting people with mental illnesses and debt to satisfy their advertisers. Some serious effort needs to go into preventing algorithms from suggesting this stuff, lest we risk a few negligent developers threatening the lives of millions.

Then again, that course of action could be a slippery slope: what happens if the algorithms start censoring things that could potentially upset us? We could end up in bubbles, completely unprepared and unwilling to face the hardships that life presents.

I think the problem with personalized advertising is that it often isn't personal, since the algorithms base their assumptions on data gathered by observing people who haven't lived through the same experiences. I mean, yes, we can average things out and disregard outliers in the hopes of maximizing our finances, but by doing so we'd be neglecting the individual circumstances befallen a person.

I suppose this is the million dollar ethical dilemma that advertising companies are struggling with right? Too much moderation makes content stale, but a lack of it makes things dangerous.
It think its completely short to blame or qualify ethical distinctions purely upon technology or innovation decisions. Whether those technologies are present or not it still doesn't immediately address more immediate ethical considerations. To solve for that you need formal policies, regulations, or laws in place to govern use, impose oversight, and provide review.

I recommend the movie Good Kill as a solid fictional example. The topic in the movie is morally ambiguous and that doesn't change through the movie. It starts out completely ethical, but the ethics go away once the governing processes are removed and consequences follow.
Is this attributable to the quality of the startups or the easy access to capital?
This. Companies and academia too.

This has been a huge part of academic investment by government too. Yes we'll sponsor your PHD in this area because (often without the academics direct knowledge) we have a need in a certain area and we think this might help.

That might be signal reflection calculation (like more precise GPS in a place with tall buildings).

It might be a new kind of harder material (carbon nanotubes/ graphene).

Or perhaps it's a better understanding of a drug / mental health / the mind that has a side-effect of having nefarious applications as well as helpful ones being considered.

Even if the result is that it doesn't work, the armed forces and clandestine services are very interested in the outcomes of research that might fix a piece of their puzzle.
"it dwarfs their military capacity ten times over"
... as measured per spending, right? How do we account for spending efficiency? How much more does the U.S. pay for the same thing?
I had to look this up, here's FB's historical market cap: https://ycharts.com/companies/FB/market_cap
Lol.... Verge disabling comments for this piece; pathetic, no?

Not to mention that it feels like the article was written by a 4-year old...
Nicky Case & Vi Hart have a model "Parable of the Polygons", which relates to what you're saying.
https://ncase.me/polygons/
1080p benchmarks are helpful for those of us on 144hz monitors at least

Mine is "only" 1080p, but at 144hz it still makes my GTX 1080 sweat in just about every game I throw at it
Gaming forums? They rank up there as the worst the internet has to offer. Which one exactly are you taking about? Because all the ones I've seen are toxic cesspools unless it's a subreddit for a niche game like Factorio, which is consequently small with a very specific demographic.
Off-topic, I'm sorry but I just can't help it, the aggressive modal that pops up instantly when you view Medium enough as a non-signed in user drives me away instantly. I can't imagine continuing to post content on a platform that treats my readers so poorly.
"Citation needed" for the 6% figure.
This is not the discussed point.
This is like a great https://www.reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep/ post, to be honest. This existed for thousands of years.
Absolutely NOT. Moderating comments is hard, and it is rarely clear if someone is arguing in good or even bad faith.

Tone of voice does not carry on the internet.

Worse, Good moderation is simply a better training environment for the next generation of harassers and bad users.

From my experience - basic rules got rid of the dumbest type of harasser currently active on the forum, but then created a medium for a more evolved and trained harasser to arise. What used to be obvious hate speech, misogyny and so on was exchanged for veiled abuse and dog whistles.

The rule of moderation is that your attackers keep moving up a Turing-like scale, till inevitably their arguments are indistinguishable from genuine comments made out of ignorance or lack of malice.

This ignores the damage done to your relation with the community, peace of mind, and the paranoia that slowly starts to grip your team as people threaten you, try to doxx you, and worse.

While you may rarely meet insane people in real life, because of the limitation of physical reality - online behavior is not regulated by the needs of actually having to use calories to move your body to interact with a person.

Instead, its a lot cheaper for people to give in to obsession and hammer away on a keyboard as they vent their frustration on someone standing between them and speaking their mind about things they feel strongly about.

God- I could write chapters on what happens when you have enough disgruntled users who decide to make a new forum, driven only to hate your team and moderation style - then spend their time attacking you.

But in the most delicious of ironies - the new forums created to target your rules and moderation style, eventually have a crisis of behavior which they fix by foisting similar rules as the one that got them banned in the first place.
Facebook Planned to Spy on Android Phone Users, Internal Emails Reveal
So tell me what better way there is to defend yourself when somebody is throwing an army at you.
Entrepreneurs are more likely to do better on an early exit than to try and build a unicorn. Less dilution and lower probability of failure.
We have plenty of diplomacy. But diplomacy only goes so far. Military exists because diplomacy doesn't always work and there are plenty of reasons why it might not work.
Definitely not the first.
There was one with leaking file descriptors which weren't opened with O_CLOEXEC.

Another with ptrace (fixed by making the process non-dumpable).
I'd sure hate to be the one stalling jet aircraft development only to be confronted with an Me-262.
7-1 Lite Version, an Extraordinarily Neat Architecture That Any Web Designer
Time for something new!

What do you suggest?
> the fact that it could one day replace NAND flash and DRAM.

Why would you want to use a volatile storage device as your main RAM? Isn't it a invitation to all forms to data extraction and cold-boot attacks? Okay... Perhaps the memory controller in the future will generate a new AES key on each boot.
"It's sort of where grownups play Crayola with other grownups who are far away. Sort of like a magic portal, only it's real and based on science."
Expected this to be about hiding content in Google Docs.

I know of some pirate streaming sites using Google Spreadsheet(!) to store encrypted video chunks. JS player pretends to grab data from google docs, decrypts and throws into decoder - user experience doesnt differ from using any other html5 video player while pirates get free, fast and unlimited storage.
I also have a phone with an auxiliary button and even though there are many many things that I don't like about it (for instance it only gets 2g data) I am loathe to replace it almost exclusively because of this feature. I have it set to turn on the flashlight with a 1 second press and I probably do that more times in a day than I talk on the phone.
Caret Package – A Practical Guide to Machine Learning in R
The success probability for one startup is too low, but if you invest in a lot of them you still have a very good chance of making money
YC HQ2 exists. It is the China program. https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-china-qi-lu/
Yet the historical fortunes of many companies are clearly dependent on their CEOs. See Apple and Microsoft, for example.

It's much like how military battle outcomes are clearly dependent on the decision the general makes, for better or worse.
Not prioritizing growth at all costs != lifestyle business

Nor does not taking VC money mean you're a lifestyle business
I had dinner with a co-founder of Hotmail who has spent years buying up lots of real estate in the Bay Area. They commented that less than 4% of property in San Francisco is owned by someone born in the city.

Don’t know how to fact check that but it would be fascinating if true.