skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To broaden the question a bit: What's likely to be the next location or locations for Google Fiber?

It'll probably be somewhere without decent options right now, which rules out anywhere Verizon operates FiOS. I would guess that it will show up in a low-regulation stat, which rules out most of the West Coast and Northeast. Somewhere like Seattle is plausible, but the city is teaming up with a company to offer Gigabit Seattle.

Some of the more plausible options might be Phoenix, AZ, Denver or Boulder, CO, a city in one of the Carolinas (Raleigh / Durham?), Oklahoma City, Minneapolis / St. Paul, or Madison, Wisconsin (some may already have FiOS).
Why would you use/support the fork? Why not just upgrade?
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Overkill for a random home, but maybe OK if you WFH and need to vpn/IT wants manage a bunch of devices centrally/etc. $1k in equipment vs. $300 in equipment isn't that big a difference for a few important home users if you're already using all the same equipment in your other offices.

(also a lot of startups have like 20 people working out of a home or condo, and they bump up against memory/crapiness/etc. limits of consumer routers and APs pretty hard.)

OP asked for "low end commercial router", though.
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It doesn't show all of my contacts, only the first 5-6.
Nice! Now to hook that up to some lasers :-)
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It makes sense ... the guy is running a multi-billion dollar new business line for Google that is their most meaningful business outside of search ads.
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Actually I still dislike Steam and avoid that too. Generally I will buy a non-steam version of a game if it is available.
I don't want my computer to take longer to boot up or to run slower in case I want to play a game so I don't have Steam set to start automatically.

This means that if I want to play a Steam game (I have a couple like Portal) I must first wait for Steam to open up, get internet, log in (oh so slowly) and finally it will think about opening my game. However undoubtedly there's been an update and so steam will decide to install this first. All in all I'm bored by the time the Valve logo pops up and the actual game can start loading. Or you know, I could just pirate the game and it would open straight away without the need for Steam.

So in short, Steam is also horrible and forced. But at least they make better games and have something like customer support.
I guess the Python 3 team is in South Africa, and the Python 2 team is on the East Coast...? ;)
> IMHO most real innovation is happening in the space between hw and sw (duino / pi / etc.). The idea that you can call yourself an "innovator" and only know software is quickly becoming quaint.

On what basis do you make this claim? I don't think we've come close to exhausting the space of useful and interesting things that can be done in pure software on general-purpose computers.
>If you made that kind of money, why would you even bother to do anything but just retire and enjoy life?

>“When you have the kind of success Minecraft has brought, you can just choose yourself the way you want to do things,” said Persson. “I don’t want to feel like I’m in charge or anything... I try to have a studio where people go to make games for the fun of it, not just because some investor has said we have to make money.”

He pretty much is retired. Making the games he wants to with other people is how he enjoys life. Profit is not at the top of the list.

Sounds awesome to me!
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The lack of oxygen is the biggest problem I'd gather:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTNX6mr753w (hypoxia in an altitude chamber from "how to kill a a human being" documentary)

I guess radiation exposure is another big one.
I know of quite a few data analytics companies that hire mainly PhD's for their research positions. Many traditional companies do so too, to get on the big data trend.
It is pretty clear that the current users of Python 2.x have voted that they don't want to move to Python 3. Some language changes and lots of library changes. Everything has to be ported to upgrade.
One thing to expand upon:
This is just the classic formulation of the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem. There are countless variations to the formula which have slightly different underlying assumptions.
For me, it's about 50% for each. I often create a branch just to snapshot the current state of the branch before squashing or rebasing. When I do this, I do not checkout the new branch, and in fact, most likely I will never check it out.

A common mistake people make when bitching about Git, is assuming that their workflow is the only workflow. Git supports a multitude of different workflows, and that fact is both a strength and a weakness.
The article makes a point to say that he started with a job that paid a "humble" $60,000 per year in 1997. Based on my quick and dirty run on wolfram alpha, that is the equivalent to $120,000 per year today. Not so much of a humble beginning for a second job out of college.
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I used to ask that question and have been told that the US greatly benefits from having US-educated people in positions of power around the world. I don't know if this is true, but what is true that a surprising number of heads of states of countries that are considered political allies of the US have degrees from US universities. I first noticed this trend when reading about Pacific island nations.
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Also Linux should be written GNU/Linux.
_That is the point_

"We'll stomp our feet and make a big deal about how there won't be a 2.8, then put all the 2.8 like changes in 2.7.x"
The default probably only seems insane to us because we don't grok whatever workflow Linus was using with Git when he came up with the defaults. The defaults probably make a lot of sense for his workflow.

A common mistake people make when bitching about Git, is assuming that their workflow is the only workflow. Git supports a multitude of different workflows, and that fact is both a strength and a weakness.
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Ask HN: How did programming become a respectable profession in Silicon Valley
Hi from Sydney. Based on my observations and some rough research, it appears that programmers in US (esp. Silicon Valley) command at least 30% more salary compared to Sydney Australia for similar roles and years of experience.

Also, many startups in the accelerators and incubators here have zero tech co-founder or outsourced programming (usually overseas). Having spoken to them it appears they don't value/respect what the programmer brings to the table since their idea is king.

I understand that the main factor may be demand and supply. But there is also shortage in Australia for good programmers too, so it makes me wonder if the problem is cultural. So just trying to understand my world from your perspective.
I do SS myself, but one of this article's requirements is he can't be bothered to go to a gym or to buy large gym equipment for his home. And he wants to do the whole workout in bits and pieces no longer than 30 minutes. With those kind of restrictions, dumbbells do fit his lifestyle better than barbells and I'm fine with that. There are many quite effective exercises you can do with dumbbells. Yes, dumbbells are sub-optimal compared to barbells, but he seems okay with sub-optimal, since his primary qualification seems to favor convenience over effectiveness.
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I think what we already have in vim is even better: just use dot (.) to repeat the last action. So you make some edits in your first cursor position, move to the next cursor position and press dot to repeat the edit.
How is the speed? Last time I tried it, about 6 months ago, there was a very noticeable lag when switching between modes. I ran into the maintainer of IdeaVim at PyCon and he said it should be better but my trial period expired and I never got a chance to try it again.
It's not that curious, Georg Brandl is release manager for the 3.* releases, Benjamin Peterson is release manager for the 2.7.4 release and they live in different timezones.
fwiw, http://www.acooke.org/spirograph.html - svg + js, cerca 2005.

anyone have a java applet that still runs? :o)

[edit: the source http://www.acooke.org/spiro.svg]
What? That can't possibly be right.

BLS says it's more like $86k

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=60000&year1...
A thief is MUCH more likely than a random person to be 1) impulsive 2) stupid 3) violent.

It's a calculated risk. I also don't drive on New Years Day at 3am due to the drunks (or, really, late at night on Sunday morning in some areas). I prioritize my personal safety highest, followed by protection from liability, followed by my property. I've seen confrontations over similar things turn into stabbings or shootings. In Oakland, we had a fun game of "armed restaurant takeover" last year, where kids would enter a restaurant or coffeeshop, grab all the laptops/phones, and in a few cases, shoot people.

The police in most non-dysfunctional places are fairly willing to make arrests if you hand them a totally packaged case for grand theft. What they hate is work which screws up their stats (reported crimes which they can't/won't solve).
Am I the only one disturbed by the AT&T Unix PC being mirrored on the intro?
It seems weird that large features like dictionary comprehensions and syntax changes like set literals are making it int0 2.7.x, but I'm not complaining - most of my projects are stuck on 2.7 due to deployment environment or library limitations and I'd love to be able to use these features.
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It's not a blanket generalization, I think that's the misunderstanding here. I should clarify that my advice is targeted at early stage startup founders. I don't think it applies to small businesses or lifestyle businesses. I don't think it applies in your case because you weren't working on an early stage startup.

I've always had more of an interest in patterns at startups, particularly early stage. I wrote a book on this because of my interest, and the founders echoed the same sentiment with the pattern of competitors wanting to acqui-hire by talking early on. More info on my profile if you're interested.
What the article fails to mention is that space is cold. Really, really cold averaging -454.81 Fahrenheit[1] making concerns about oxygen or water pressure irrelevant. The article should have been called "Survival in Vacuum Unprotected Possible."

1 - http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980301b....
What maps is it being overlayed? Haven't seen that one before.
Ask HN: GitHub Portfolio for Summer Internship: where to focus
I already have a bachelor's degree, but not in CS, so I've been taking classes toward an AA, possibly looking at a Masters program. I'm currently looking to get a summer internship, as I've been coding for a year+ (and did statistics programming work before that), live in the Bay Area, and I feel like I could benefit from some mentorship/work experience as a programmer.
Anyway I don't have that many coding projects, beyond stuff I've done for school. My bad, I know. What I'm wondering is, where should I focus my time in terms of those projects in order to make a good impression.

I have a friend with a popular open source project, will contributions to his code in pull requests be more interesting than my own projects?

Should I have a bunch of projects to show breadth of knowledge? One big project, to show the ability to put things together? Should I build something to take advantage of my statistics background? Should I show that I build tools that help me automate things I need, or tools that other people would use?

Maybe I should ask this another way: People who have gotten internships: what did you do that worked? People who have given internships: what did candidates in terms of coding portfolios do that impressed you?
posting content is not the same as supplying content. cards are just meta tags that are used when twitter crawls the link that is posted.
Growth has been insane, with the price rising nearly 2 times in he last 10 days. Better hop onto the bitcoin bandwagon before it's too late?
I'm always amazed at how much can be accomplished with so little code; this is awesome!
That is the same salary I was being paid as my second job out of college at WebLogic in San Francisco in Dec 1996. It was a step down from the consulting company I had come from in Chicago but so much better!
Yes, that' correct. I end up going to Starbucks exactly for the stated reasons in the article. You know what to expect and what you're gonna get. Though there might be gem coffeehouses around but I miss to be there unless somebody recommends me.
Was just about to post that exact link. Still not too shabby.
After having my car stolen, and a bunch of stuff taken, I was surprised to find that ~25% of the folks I talked with about it had the same sentiment; that it's stupid to leave things in a car.

Where I grew up, everyone left stuff in cars. Nobody stole things. Worked great.

Why is it okay for people to steal stuff in cities, but not in small towns?

Do you take your car-fixing tools (~2 BTC, these days) out of your car every time you go into your house?
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It does seem likely that some tricks were involved to arrive at a sensational number.

But if Google pays an average engineer on the order of $100,000 , this is 1000 times the average annual salary as a one time bonus.

That seems exceptional, certainly, but not completely insane.

On the flip side, it might keep a certain type of engineer for bolting for a startup. Even the most optimistic entrepreneur knows the odds of a $100 M payday are pretty much non-existent.
But even you - a smart capable person who likes computers - didn't do so because you already had all the games you needed.

Those home computers? You load a game, or you start programming. Since loading a game often meant fiddling around with a tape cassette and cable, and a few minutes hoping it would load, it's easy to see why people decided to try to code themselves.

I know abstraction is a good thing. I know it's powerful and etc etc.

But there's something nice about being able to squirt data to an address, and know it's coming out the parallel port, and having a hokey resister-ladder DtoA converter hooked up to turn that data into music. Or to have a single instruction to draw a pixel.
29. Started playing with JavaScript in 7th grade. Took C++ in 10th grade. Studied visual effects in college. Moved to web after college.
Yes, but they are hiring PhDs in systems, PL (for some reason, we are good at MapReduce), database, and some data mining fields. Its not like you want to hire an HCI researcher to do big data.
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Not bad, but I was making the same in 97 with about the same experience level, in Atlanta. It wasn't an exceptional salary in any way.
I think a lot is also the existence of role models, companies that were founded by engineers and grew up to become world-changing. Silicon Valley has Hewlett Packard, Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild, Intel, Apple, eBay, Google, etc. all founded by engineers. When you think "world-changing company" here, you think of a couple of guys in a garage tinkering with technology. Meanwhile everybody knows a few "idea guys" who have to go out and beg to find an engineer.

Basically, if you do anything well enough you make it respectable. The difference between Silicon Valley and Sydney may be that we have a long history of engineers who go out and change the world, while it sounds like in Sydney there's a long history of idea & money men who hire people to change the world.
No, it can also go to inland ports by flying short distances over ground at reduced efficiency. Most cities tend to be quite close to coasts.
Are you sure you aren't just procrastinating? I'm joking, it sounds like you are doing the right thing.
If you read that page more carefully, you will notice that the list is about 2.7 changes, not 2.7.4.
Wow. Definitely, an interesting reading. And a special guy, no question about it. On the other hand, the guy didn't cure cancer. Doesn't it give anyone pause to thin that the topic of conversation is 'ads'? You know, those little annoying things you would never click, and which get in the way of your normal life.

I mean we're talking about billions of dollars. So much human talent, skill, intelligence taken away from really important things... Just sad...
I love this.

Since I'm on an old book kick today, here's a link to an old book with similar, simpler, nice graphics.

(http://www.amazon.com/Mathographics-Robert-Dixon/dp/04862663...)
And now he knows where to return to meet the guy that put him in jail.
> Why is it okay for people to steal stuff in cities, but not in small towns?

My explanation is that in cities there are more people living in a small space, there are simply more thieves in any given area, and also more opportunities for them.

However, those who leave stuff in cars create an ecosystem for thieves to operate in, and they should please stop doing so, giving opportunities to thieves may result in more thieves.
Did you even read my other comment? Enhancing the (10 year old plus) buffer interface with functionality it has never supported does not constitute a bug fix
Which contradicts this article:

"Y chromosome losing all genes, but men won't become extinct"

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ20...
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Are you sure you are looking at the right companies? I recently moved to San Francisco to be part of the concentration of people and businesses who use technology to drive their products. It's not just marketing, but a very real thing. There is certain shift in attitude where, generally speaking, no one needs convincing that tech is important. I was able to find this in my hometown, in the American Midwest. There were fewer people who "got it", but we had companies that had the same "west coast attitude".

Make sure you work for a company where software is the thing they sell. The farther you are from the money, the more you are perceived as a cost center. If you are a programmer, find a job with a SaaS company that is making money. Even if it's not the proverbial "startup", you will see this shift in attitude. You won't look back.
Space is for all practical purposes a vacuum, thus the only cooling effect would be by radiation, given that the body wouldn't be in contact with anything around it, as opposed to what happens on the ground where it is surrounded by air or water in the sea. In these conditions, the change in temperature takes a long time.

As stated in the linked article:

"If we put a thermometer in darkest space, with absolutely nothing around, it would first have to cool off. This might take a very very long time. Once it cooled off, it would read 2.7 Kelvin."

So, the vacuum really is the main concern. You'd be long dead before you start getting cold.
How do Robin Hanson's Em economics figure into your thinking on this?

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/04/em-econ-101-talk.html in case you haven't seen it.
Not at all what was said. In fact, the whole criticism you linked to is about structure, and ways in which it is supposedly altered beyond repair. The notion that we are transient electric fields that fade the moment the brainwave goes flat is long discredited.
How does vacuum (the absence of matter) have a temperature?
What does your project have to do with .NET? It seems cool, but the name is a bit misleading.
Yarchive comes to help.

http://yarchive.net/space/science/man_in_vacuum.html

There has been some real quality writing by certain individuals in the sci.space.* newsgroups about this and many other subjects (many of which are popular myths). You can learn a lot if you're interested in this kind of stuff.
I'm not about to say that this is as noble as curing cancer- but then again, the skills aren't one to one. Generally the kinds of people who are able to think at such a high level strategically for a business, have very different ways of thinking from those who do hard science. Science is slow, arduous, and full of rigor in a way that would probably make Neal into a mediocre scientist at best. Things that Neal accomplishes at Google in a week, he wouldn't see movement on as a scientist in his lifetime. They require different sorts of people.

Not to mention- while he is getting paid a monstrous sum of money, think of how many people he is also enabling to have jobs, both at Google and the businesses that use their services. The direct effect is obviously very different, but I'd bet he does a lot of good for the world in his own way.
The core team are already planning how to interact with the eventual community maintained fork. It's not a question of if but when.

The only concrete attraction of 3 for me is the Unicode improvement, and even that isn't exactly compelling. 3 is practically a new language designed to solve problems I've almost never encountered. Perhaps when someone comes up with a meaningful use of annotations or a workaround for e.g. the functionality lost by the cmp removal, I might change my mind
I find this fascinating. It almost smacks of game theory. A land-mined game of incentives, anyway.

Think of the sheer amount of considerations that go into a decision like this. Higher-ups at Google must acknowledge:

* Offering someone an enormous sum only after someone else has made you an offer can be off-putting. Consider the many articles written about never making counter offers[1], or never accepting them.

* Along the same lines, if you're not offered a large enough sum to stay, you might take it as an insult. "They're only offering me this much money after I've considered leaving?" Google certainly made sure the sum was large enough, by any count.

* Offering an enormous sum to one person may tempt others to fish out offers from other companies. Others may feel like they're never going to get a raise unless they are courting or being courted actively.

* Google's decision-makers (or check-writers) have to be careful about the number picked. They want to send a message to the person, and to other companies, and to the market. But they probably don't want to end up paying $100m for every high value employee. Luckily for Google, if its gonna be a cash arms-race against other companies, there are few that can do serious battle with them.

* Speaking of high value employees, while you might get person A to stay, you make make resentful group B. After all, there's already a comment here: "It's only a matter of time before us little developers get's similar packages!" It's not a stretch for anyone to sympathize with that view.

~~~

And then, at the end of all that, people in a room pursed their lips together and quietly nodded while somebody pulled out the (metaphorical) checkbook. This guy is staying, it's going to be this much money, and we're going to make it purposefully public knowledge. Signals everywhere.

It seems to be a dangerous game. Others may (as a default) suddenly feel unappreciated since Google hasn't made them an offer to keep being a Googler, and perhaps hasn't approached them with any considerable raise in some time. 100 million ensures that you keep a single employee, but how many do you alienate at the same time?

Hard to blame Google's decision, I'm sure they gave it much more thought than I have. I wish I could know what they're thinking, it's just so fascinating what goes into this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549384