skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The current total market capitalization of YC companies is around $150 billion. The YC network now has over 4,000 alumni and 1,900 companies, and it has become a reliable source of advice, customers, friendship, and support for YC founders.

A question for people more savvy about VC than me. What's your ballpark estimate on YC's bottom line? They put $150K at least into each company, right? So that's $285M right there? But some of those are non-profits, in which case they only put $100K into the company. And then they get 7% of each company, which would theoretically be $10.5B? $150B * 0.07 = $10.5B (just removing non-profits from the equation). But accounting for dilution, it would probably be less than 7% ownership? In other words, I guess we'd need an estimate of how much YC actually owns in its overall portfolio.

Forgive me if my numbers are wildly off or naive. VC isn't my domain.
> Humanity is not expansionist on a galactic level

The sun will go boom soon enough, so survival is also temporal. We understand distributed systems are more reliable and require 1+n
appreciated. I haven't polished the thing really in years its a bit rough.
And tomatoes are fruits.

But there are multiple actual definitions of words and very often "animal"1 = non-human "animal"2
Not arguing with the contents of the article, or its applicability, but is there a large mass of people who think that people are more emotional than animals?

Wouldn't the logical straight-forward way of looking at it would be that because humans have higher abstract intelligence/thinking capabilities, they should obviously be less emotional than animals? All animals have is basically emotion (well dolphins and monkeys probably have some simple symbolic language, but nevertheless), while humans have both emotion, and also the logical apparatus, the thoughts, the prefrontal cortex to inhibit (that's its function in a nutshell - selective inhibition) the rest of the (emotional) intelligence, thus making the general operation of an individual less emotion-based, as compared to a generic animal?
I was winning for the first 300 iterations, but then by 1000th iteration it was guessing correct 57% of the time. I noticed the faster I go the easier it is to predict me.
>It's a traditionally poor working class area undergoing massive housing displacement

Kind of makes you wonder why the existing folks are hostile...
Mark Zuckerberg ‘has secret panic chute leading to car park’ in conference room
Interactive Spreadsheets in Jupyter
Small nitpick. North-American domestic power isn't 2-phase. It's 1 phase, center-tapped.
This is Embarcadero West, right near Jack London Square!
> "Lyft & Uber have gotten much, much better at routing..."

i had to chuckle at that. i've had multiple experiences where my driver had to loop hack toward my origin to pick up someone else, literally passing my pickup point in some cases. other times drivers were expected to swerve off of a freeway with seconds' notice to pick someone else up.

i think they have some ways to go in that regard. sure, they have a lead on an unprepared/undercapitalized competitor, but i'm not sure they'd have a lead on google (who also owns waze).
The foursquare app is literally called "Swarm" - it shows in the app how many people are actively checked into which venue, and the most busy hours of the day.

I'm so confused by people's response here. It's a location tracking app. I've been using Swarm for almost 10 years for this exact purpose.
Is that a quantified thing? I've only worked at 3 tech companies, but that was not at all my experience. Engineering was the only one that had predominantly men.
Oakland is dangerous and gross compared to SF, and that's saying something as I found heroin needles next to a bench eating lunch in a beautiful office courtyard.
I was accosted outside of the Oakland station in broad daylight and local police couldn't have cared less.
"The violent crime rate in Oakland, California, is 1,421 per 100,000 residents. Forty-nine people were murdered in the city in 2016."
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-i...

Please let's make smarter choices about where to move businesses to, given numerous options. Oakland definitely should not be one of them.
The move into the web alone was responsible for a lot of that killing. Up to this day web tools are not as good as the old desktop ones, but those old ones are all dying. Mobile devices also killed some stuff, but much less.

Before that, computer networking killed most of the running systems. And before those, any new computer would require all new software, so there was no continuation at all.

Things seem to be getting slower with time... maybe except on Javascript frameworks.
It should, as encryption/decryption is done on a packet basis.
You can send 1 Mb packet or 1000 1k packets.
I've built tools based on undocumented output of other applications because there was no documented way to get the information I needed. I don't expect that these won't break but it certainly doesn't make it less annoying when they do break.
I like how quickly this line of thinking leads to panpsychism.

Alright, so your dog has some level of cognition – sensations, emotion, joy, pain. Perhaps less complex than a human, but nevertheless nonzero. Because whatever computations happens in its brain feel like something from the inside.

How about a frog? Less, but still nonzero.

How about a worm? Less, but still nonzero. But hey: we can already model a worm's nervous system [0]. And if consciousness is just what computation feels like from the inside, then torturing the model worm creates real pain (or the worm-equivalent of pain, whatever that emotion is).

Something interesting to think about.

[0] http://openworm.org
and not an assumption.

What do you mean? 'You have to replicate the solar system to come up with intelligent life' is a gigantic assumption, on top of the 'solar system-like planetary system are rare' assumption. Is this a conceivable narrative for the Fermi paradox? Sure. But it's hardly supported enough to make a reasonable probabilistic argument out of it.
Ah, so plain text go/test would be linked? That would need full permissions I guess. What wouldn't is for the markdown [jobs](//go/jobs) - that would only need the ability to intercept links on the `go` host - but that wouldn't be nearly as convenient (I didn't realize it would need double slashes before it until now, that makes it a lot less appealing.)

It would still be possible to create a permission that makes it so the code that edits a page can't make any network requests (the output would need to be HTML sanitized, including links), and I'd like to see that, but it would be more difficult to design, implement, and communicate to users.
You illustrate in interesting psychological effect. Given that the title of the article is "The Norwegian art of the packed lunch", the subtitle is "Could we all learn something from Norway's culture of ‘matpakke’?", and the first sentence is "Every day, across Norway, something strange happens", and even the visible link includes the word 'norwegian', how did you accidentally write Danish instead of Norwegian? Or is it not an error?
Malana: A Himalayan village shrouded in myth
> I have many coworkers who ride BART

Have you personally taken BART on a consistent enough basis? I took it two days a week for a significant length of time and calling it filthy is not hysteria at all.
For the unfamiliar, AfD is "Articles for Deletion"
Sorry for not replying earlier. Thanks for the reference to Masstagger which I wasn't aware of as I'm not a regular reddit user. Every platform has its own quirks, but the brigading techniques are easily adapted from platform to platform much like skills learned in one FPS are fairly transferable to any other FPS etc.

If you're interested in this topic and/or have any expertise in directed graphs and network mapping please drop me a line, same username at gmail.
IMO fear is widely viewed as one of the simplest emotions, yes. Or at least, it can be: the word can be used to reference different aspects of fear, one of which is the emotion of it.
I wonder what effects the lack of variety might have on someone's gut bacteria.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/bart-investigating-3-violent-deaths...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-s-approval-...

slightly depends on your entry/exit stations but I would regularly see crack/heroin use, defecation, deranged meth heads screaming and/or picking fights. I doubt I am alone in this.
1000 iterations for me
Only profits are taxed, and they're only vaguely related to revenue, and both profit and revenue are vaguely related to whether a company is a monopoly or not. Profit is an okay-ish measure of how much a monopoly a company is, but not great. Comcast and Amazon turn profits of ~10 billion. Apple is 60 billion, microsoft is 16 billion. Amazon is much more of a monopoly than either of those, and Comcast enjoys a much stronger natural monopoly as well. The industries are just different sizes and the supply/demand curves are different, and for some reason people are just super willing to pay an absurd premium for Apple products.

A progressive corporate tax still makes some sense, and there's basically no excuse for their taxes being less simple than a citizen's. However active management is still required. Markets are fast and efficient but they are often dumb.
It’s not really gloating; I’m in the same situation as GP - I’ve worked enough with languages and their ecosystem to apply those skills to new languages and ecosystems. It takes me around 5-7 days to grok a new language and how to be pretty good at it with its tools/frameworks/idioms. Having experience where understanding basic fundamentals make it easier to extend to a different implementations.

The language + tools aren’t barriers anymore, the interesting part of solving business problems and how to apply the tools become the fun ones.
When I took classes with Daniel Dennett, he was always amazed at the strength of convictions people had about consciousness even without education in the area.

This is an unpopular opinion, but the human intuition is not a good discriminator of consciousness: "Dennett (who argues that consciousness is unique to humans), claims that intuitive attributions of mental states are “untrustworthy”, and points out that “it is, in fact, ridiculously easy to induce powerful intuitions of not just sentience but full-blown consciousness (ripe with malevolence or curiosity) by exposing people to quite simple robots made to move in familiar mammalian ways at mammalian speeds (1995).”"[1]

Personally, I'll be agnostic until consciousness is much better understood.

[1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/
> Housing in the suburbs was more expensive in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, but that is no longer true in many cities.

I think it's still true. If I go far enough out of the city center, I could afford a 3000+ sq ft house. Close to downtown, it's an order of magnitude more money for that much space.
You pretty much just listed out our current backlog. Great minds think a like! For the first item though, we plan to implement “tags”. The sub directory format actually causes links to be siloed under a specific subname, so if 2 links should exist across 2 sub directories, it would need to be duplicated. With tags, you can tag the link and aggregate the links with the tag.

For the 4th point about someone using another link redirect, that's an interesting use case. Should we change the link to the underlying link, removing the intermediate links, or treat it as its own links? I can see a user doing this to try and create their own analytics, or maybe they found it easier to copy an already shortened link. That's a great suggestion, and we'll look into that use case.
Laser Impact on a Drop (2014)
> One obvious expense to cut
> was eating out for lunch
> every weekday

Honestly amazed this is the default position for anyone. What situation of living prompts this?
Sometimes you don't have the option. Usually you can't book those seats with online checkin. And the people at the checkin counter will be allowed to give you the emergency exit or not based on what category of ticket you bought. If you bought the ticket with a very low price, a special offer, etc. you have low chances of ever receiving any upgrades. If you paid a full price within the same class you may get something.

Most of the times when I showed up with a full price company bought ticket (coach) they would offer an emergency exit seat even without me asking. Almost never when I traveled privately with the same airline but bought the cheapest coach tickets I could get.

Sometimes I fly low cost because I know I can get the extra leg room with minimal hassle.
Yeah, enable -Wall. It won't catch everything, but it will get some of them.
Per-packet overhead dominates over per-byte overhead. This is true for almost all network functions, even if they perform heavy calculation on the payload like encryption.

So large packets will always be better for your network.
a constellation of partnerships happening through more tangible corporate boundaries sounds much better. right now it seems to happen in unclear ways, and I assume is much less observable from outside forces (e.g. Sidewalk Labs & Google & Intersection, etc.)
The flaw in this logic is that in today's online world if you want to participate in the relevant discourse, where everyone else is participating, it's Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/etc...

This is like saying if you don't like the debate happening in your city hall or town square, go to the small gathering in the woods to have your conversations.. where no one will hear you, and what you say will have no impact.

I know this the analogy is flawed because there is no "public space" on the Internet.. The places we have chosen to hold our public discourse online are all privately owned..

It's a challenging problem and "go somewhere else" is not a viable solution because it marginalizes and suppresses unpopular opinions or minority groups..
YouTube fought trolls by changing its algorithm
Great! This directly addresses one of the reasons I use Clang most of the time, and it's great to see that the GCC realizing that error message quality-of-life is important. As an aside:

$ gcc-9 -c cve-2014-1266.c -Wall
cve-2014-1266.c: In function ‘SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange’:
cve-2014-1266.c:629:2: warning: this ‘if’ clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation]
629 | if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
| ^~
cve-2014-1266.c:631:3: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it were guarded by the ‘if’
631 | goto fail;
| ^~~~

this is a cute example ;)
Is it equally unacceptable to be entitled to try to force companies to hire/fire who they don't want?

What about forcing companies to offer housing to people they do or don't like?

And what about offering loans? Should companies be forced to offer loans to people, even if they don't want to?
Isoflavones have no effect on male T levels, this has been disproven over and over again: https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(09)00966-2/pdf

People are just exploiting insecure men to sell nutrient powders.
It means that the next developer will have to learn your bespoke logging, authentication, etc. and other cross cutting concerns instead of just being able to go to stack overflow and finding an answer.

If their is a problem, they have to wait for a response from the one Guru who wrote it.

Most architects who think their problem is a special snowflake usually isn’t.
People always ask this as if it's impossible to change laws or have agencies that actually want to follow through on their missions. As if corporations are so devious and brilliant they are unfindable. It's just not true. If you vote for people who actually want taxes, the enforcement takes care of itself. It works the exact same the other way, because these people gut agencies and replace them.
He definitely doesn't have podcasts (though there are a few recorded talks). His blog posts seem popular though. :)
How is this flamebait? People have a right to know the limits of their bubble.
> companies who engage in age discrimination are probably shit companies, so are you really losing out by them not considering you?

If they have the money to make my life easier, and I end up not getting it, then yeah, I lose.

If they have the experiences that make me a better dev, and I end up not there, then yeah, I lose.

If they aren't actually that bad, they just have this one area of ignorance, but I never get to experience all those other benefits, then yeah, I lose.

If I'm NOT in a hot tech center and this is one of the relatively few jobs that is available/is a step up, and I don't get it, then yeah, I lose.

I myself have nothing to complain about, at least not in my experiences to date, but in terms of considering the issue overall, I don't think it can be so easily dismissed. I recall plenty of older techies struggling after the end of Y2K and the dot-com bust when the market wasn't "If you want a job, you can get a great one", and I assume there are plenty of people in the above categories.
Jupiter is hard to find. It’s orbit is ~11 years making it harder to measure and more time consuming. It’s pull on the sun is a lot harder to measure than a hot Jupiter, making the radial velocity method more difficult. We aren’t finding average systems. We are finding systems that are easy (and quick) to find using the methods we have available.
If you imagine you're pressing one of 4 keys and then collapse the key choice as a projection on to two keys then do you get closer to the original 4-key randomness?
No mention here of the fact that European governments went much harder on austerity policies than the US after the financial crisis? I seem to recall reading for years that European countries were lagging in recovery rate due to policies of austerity while the US largely resisted calls from erstwhile deficit hawks to do the same.
Reed is not an Ivy League school.
Is there any more technical data on performance during re-entry (was there any issue will roll?) and at splashdown (how did the parachutes perform?)

Those were the two big question marks from what I understand.
Exactly what is happening in my town.

The city wanted to launch a municipal internet service. Predictably, it failed because the requirements were to provide service everywhere and the bids all came back too high.

Meanwhile they continue to resist private ISPs who want to expand into neighborhoods where they think they can do so profitably.
This is absolutely not the case in the metro areas I've lived in. Suburbs are generally much more affordable than the neighboring urban centers.
A Surprise in Every Box.. A Root Certificate to China
I definitely understand the point on moving to SF. I was there for a YC hackathon few months ago, and their current office wasn't logistically easy to get to without a car/Uber. It wasn't close to a Caltrain station either, so it's a much bigger pain point for those commuting down from the city too.
See my response to a similar comment by tod3834.
That's a good point, I never thought about it that way.
Moderation of public utilities would be unconstitutional.
Wouldn’t moving some businesses there eventually lower the crime rates?

Violent crime is twice higher in Oakland, but property crime is about the same: 5,983 per 100,000 in Oakland [1]; 5,715 in SF [2] (6,168 according to [3]).

[1] https://www.areavibes.com/oakland-ca/crime/

[2] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...

[3] https://www.areavibes.com/san+francisco-ca/crime/
I think you mean variable costs. Fixed costs are costs that are fixed regardless of the amount of goods or services provided.
Indeed, I recall the mid-00's when Cringely's predictions would show up on Slashdot to be roundly mocked. I think it was the first time I understood the practice of making outrageous claims just to drive traffic.

Thus, I only remember Cringely as a bloviating laughingstock. It's interesting to see where his authority came from, this book seems very interesting.
Procrastination Quotes
Housing would be more appropriate.
For self-driving cars, what would that be? You can misuse a non-self driving car by speeding, giving you above-average chances of accidents. You can be old, giving you above average chances of being involved in accidents (per km driven). You can smoke, giving you above average chances of getting lung cancer. You can misuse a partially self driving car by somehow convincing it that you do follow the traffic while actually not following it, and then blame any accidents onto the self-drive feature.

But fully self driving cars only have two inputs: starting point and destination. Doesn't matter whether you are old, sleeping, 13 or a dog. Unless some roads are more susceptible to accidents than others, or manufacturers let people also fiddle with how much a car should risk accidents in order to get a little decrease in travel time, I don't see any way possible. And if manufacturers really do give that option, it's truly their fault.
I tried to make the same argument against using Electron. Easier deployment across a range of platforms at the cost platform optimization.
If that's the case, I don't think it is their fault. The tax collectors should then distribute the taxes they collected in a different way.

Also, it stands to debate of the kids are forced to live in the pollution.

While the article mentions that the school was there before the highway, the students were probably not born yet. So they (or their parents) made a choice to live there and go to that school.
>but much of the peninsula's population only has Caltrain access,

Fremont has a lot of potential if Caltrain were to reopen the old Dumbarton railroad:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/14/proposed-dumbarton-ra...

Facebook has offered to contribute but so far the Bay Area urbanist movements have been disappointingly silent about this.
I've been here for 15 years?
> has what looks like interpreting Windows-1252 as Unicode

The other way around. The underlying data is UTF-8; it's being misread as either latin1 or Windows-1252. E.g., "Pérez",

Original string: "Pérez"
Encoded as UTF-8: b'P\xc3\xa9rez'
Those bytes, erroneously decoded as latin1: "PÃ©rez"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

These two (latin1 and Win-1252) are the most common mis-decoding. UTF-8 data is common. HTML/HTTP/the "text/*" mimetype default to latin1. Windows, for North American users, defaults to Win-1252 in places. (Both encodings are extremely similar.)

It used to be that if you typed "QuÃ©bec" into Google, it'd give you Québec, and wouldn't even issue a "did you mean?", just silently corrected it. Seems like that's not the case anymore. Back when it was, I wondered if the "machine" thought that QuÃ©bec was an alternative spelling. (The results for "QuÃ©bec" are still decently relevant.)
Maybe the people living there should factor it into their decision for living there?
They bought youtube because their video service was a big flop.

Google might have smart engineers, but their user experience leaves a ton to be desired IMO.
Just in time for SXSW...
A Post to Play Magic:TG Turned into an Afternoon with the Woz
I was pretty surprised when I saw this video about a dog watching Lion King movie and getting sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHKC958R8Z8
That’s your experience as a Tesla driver?

I don’t have any “reengagement lag” as you might say. When I want to start steering the car again I just start steering. There is a slight resistance felt in the wheel if you turn past the autopilot without flipping the right stick up to explicitly disengage AP first.
A thing to also take into account is that it is very unlikely you will live the rest of your life without going into some other money-making venture. People who know how to accumulate money tend to accumulate money.