skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would definitely suggest putting some extra effort into networking if in that position. Fly out to SF for some conferences and use Twitter like a maniac. It'll pay off if your job goes south and you have to end up looking for something else. You'll probably have to move in that case though.
The "YC advice" is similar to the oversimplifications I have heard, pawned off as wisdom. Take it as a chance to listen, learn and develope a relationship with those guys. Just make sure you understand who the decision makers are, and only deal with them.
My biggest worry is that it's not science that is in trouble, it's humanity as a whole that is in trouble.

The drain towards industry is to solve industry's problems: make a profit. And yes, these can be extremely interesting problems, and hard ones too.

But what would our current world look like if the scientists from the last 500 years had bent their minds to solve the problems of merchants? (and don't get me wrong, some of the problems merchants had evolved great solutions for mankind)
i think it takes some leap of imagination to think of kids having fun with this kind of toy. it's engineering plus toys plus the confidence to know that it will be massively successful so you pursue it all the way and get a patent.

it's more of an innovation than something like Bratz, which itself is somewhat of an innovation. what does it take for you to make Bratz in a world of barbies? it really does take imagination, a lot of thinking, and a lot of experience, i think.
Not the original poster, but I lived in Istanbul for a month a few years ago. I found the people to be the most friendly I've ever encountered in my travels, probably against the expectations of most Americans. Try to live on the European side, north of the Golden Horn, in the Taksim area.
TL;DR — No.
I live in Munich since 1 year. I am originally from Istanbul. I guess Munich has the highest salaries in Europe. But the city is a bit expensive. I pay 755 euro for a 36 square meters apartment. Berlin is another option. It's a very international city and cheap but the salaries are lower.

After Istanbul, Munich seems like a dead village to me. I still can't get used to that streets are totally empty after 9-10 pm.

Istanbul is an amazing city. And a lots of job opportunities there. Better climate than Germany. You can't earn as much as Germany but you can still catch the same life standards.
Birth of Youtube. This is the First Ever Video upload to youtube
No, you can break them into 10e8 Satoshi per BTC. Still a large number, though.
Portland, Oregon can be /very/ cheap if you live outside the city. And, if you live in a large 4br house with other people (or even just another person if you both make enough) you can get your rent down to $400ish if you live with 3 other people, $800ish if you live with one other person.
True. One has to apply one's conscience to the question of whether one is sharpening the saw, decompressing, skiving or what.

But I have e.g. said to my boss "I'm reading up on 'Orrible for the next two hours", put on the headphones (Metal Machine Music by preference ... it never gets old) and read far too much about Oracle, ignoring with explicit permission anyone who interrupts. That's clear. New thing you've never seen before that is suddenly your problem? TOTALLY hit the books on the clock.

Learning about the thing you are dealing with at work is totally work, and if it makes your work sufficiently more effective then not doing it is the wrong thing.
I would recommend you to keep out of Eastern Europe. The people there wants to believe they have left their history behind but they haven't.

When I visited Budapest the police acted as Stasi and on the local metro they only asks foreigners for valid tickets. Very unfriendly. I would never recommend anyone going there.
Ulam spiral
Providing internal guidance for larger layoffs.

Just a reminder that if corporations are people, they're sociopaths.
Even in "non-deterministic" style prolog, the execution order is still fixed, and dependencies are traversed in the order you wrote them. There will be no surprises.

The missing full-stop is no different to a missing semi-colon, comma, or backslash, issues we still have in many modern languages.
Has anybody seen good articles that address the topic of a new global reserve currency and how that role could be served by ecash/digital cryptocurrencies? Especially from two points of view:

- China making remarks in that direction, enhancing the role of SDR etc.

- Liberalizing currencies in general, from Airmiles to Whatevercoin with simple decentralized exchange mechanisms? (The Ripple/Bancor idea)

Following Izzy Kaminska at FT Alphaville (http://ftalphaville.ft.com/tag/bitcoinmania/ free signup & highly recommended), but more interested in stuff by nerds within central banks etc.
It depends on the surveillance.

GCHQ slurping all my data doesn't have much negative effect. But some of the surveillance the Americans go through isn't okay here - drug testing in the workplace is limited for example.

And GCHQ's slurped data is tricky for law enforcement to use, which is why there's been a debate about changes to the law to allow (or not) collection of metadata by domestic law enforcement agencies.
For almost all of my queries, this is just giving me the list of "categories" on the corresponding wikipedia page, leaving out the wiki-specific ones such as " Articles with Open Directory Project links", etc. Clicking the categories just opens the listings on the corresponding Wikipedia category page.
I was just in Budapest. It was really beautiful, but I encountered some of the rudest people I have ever met. I've read on other travel sites that people in Budapest are extremely rude to tourists compared to the rest of Hungary. Maybe it's implied by the nature of this thread that you should learn the language before you move there, but you definitely should for Budapest (assuming you don't want to encounter rudeness).
As a former longtime resident of the south, including a few years in Tuscaloosa (we seem to have overlapped - 2008-2010), I'd advise against judging the region by the standard of Tuscaloosa. I know it's a huge college town and that seems like it should be a positive influence, but it's not. The University of Alabama is a lingering bastion of negative southern stereotype.

I suggest Atlanta as a counterexample - a real city, full of educated and inclusive people, art, culture, a nascent modern tech scene, and several good schools which notably lack racism as a cultural touchstone.
This definitely is based on Wikipedia categories, which can be extracted from DBpedia.
Tracy Flick rubbed her hands together gleefully. The 'PaulMetzler' handle was available! Old Ivy would be none the wiser. A dark shadow passed over her face. Hmmh...what would it take to get Mr. McAllister branded a pedophile?
Atlanta is an island of civilization compared to most of the south (including decent sized cities like birmingham which are not). Don't excuse GA by citing Atlanta.
The US has always had a horrible "you are on your own mentality".

I mean, over a hundred kids have been killed by gun rampages in schools over the past several years and nothing has changed. Oh wait, no MORE guns have been made legal and available, not less.

So basically the American public becomes trained to be desensitized to deaths, cyclists, schoolkids, drunk driving, etc.
Quite a few, actually, which is why the Scheme class ended up being awful in practice -- you'd get a bimodal distribution of students where some are already familiar with multiple languages (usually more mainstream than Lisp) and some aren't familiar with any, and the class, by necessity, targeted the trough right between those. So it was too fast for the students who never programmed before, and either too slow or too _different_ for the students who had, and served neither group very well.

The new (Python-based) classes handle this a little bit better, from what I hear.
It think so - if it relates to the current assignment. Hell we've got a time-code for it. "Technical reading".
Las Vegas, NV

Tony Tseh Hsieh and his downtown project are spending ~$350 million to build a tech community in downtown Las Vegas.

- Las Vegas is a cheap place to live. Depending on your needs you can rent a house for under $1500/mo.
- You can hop on a plane and be in San Francisco in an hour. There are direct flights to most major cities.
- There are tech events most nights of the week for when you want to get out.
- There are a bunch of new co-working spaces if you want to have a place to work outside of where you are living or Starbucks.
How would you rate Krakow compared to Warsaw? Numbeo says it's a bit cheaper[1]?

[1] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...
Casual Activism in the Apple Store
I lived in my car for three months this summer in Palo Alto as we were getting a startup off the ground, then when I headed back toward the Valley a few weeks ago for startup school I decided to relive it all again - from sleeping in my car to showering at the YMCA.

On the drive over from Utah I stopped in Elko, Nevada to sleep for the night, and as I had before I found my "spot" in Palo Alto, I drove off into a less populous street, crawled in the back of my Civic and tried to look inconspicuous.

This time, however, I woke up to a police officer shining a flashlight in my window. After I explained who I was and gave him my license to look me up, he said, "Really you should just go sleep in the walmart parking lot." Since I had to go to the bathroom anyway, I decided to do just that.

It was after midnight when I pulled in, and there were probably a dozen cars and RVs in the darker section of the parking lot. Having lived in a car, it's pretty easy to notice the signs of someone who is set up for permanent residence as opposed to an overnight stay. I got out of there early in the morning, but I estimate 10 of the 12 cars in the Walmart parking lot in Elko, Nevada were occupied by permanent residents.

Go to any parking lot (especially hospital parking lots) late at night and look for windshield covers on both the front and back windshields, curtains or rods for hanging clothes, ultra-portable bathrooms or cars full of clothes, and you'll realize the nomadic and/or homeless population is much larger than you previously supposed.
Ask PG: How did you make Hacker News so much faster?
This is so awesome. Everything is loading immediately now.
When an article's main source is the author's son, you know you're in for a treat.
You'd better read it this time maybe.
That will always play a role in situations like these. However, you can see things are turning around in US, at least with the population.

I think the issue in UK is the old "boiling the frog" theory. They've gotten used to it, they've embraced it, so now they aren't particularly in a rush to throw stones at it.

But that's the population. The article already mentions why nobody in the Parliament says anything bad against it - the opposition started all of this, and the others are in power.

I do think the lack of a proper Constitution is also a major problem for UK. For example, in US, whenever someone tries to stop you from speaking, you can easily point to the 1st Amendment and say it's your damn right to say anything you want, even if it's scary law enforcement people. In UK, you don't really have anything like that, so people may "feel" something is wrong - but in comparison to what?! They haven't really put the principles on paper. It's all pretty vague and it's hard to get angry at a vague target.
Because you will end up investing a lot of time learning skills that don't transfer anywhere else.

Two of the last three companies I've worked at had their own internal version control systems. I'm sick of having to learn how to check code in all over again every time I start a new job.
Drug tests and credit checks in the workplace always struck me as being screwed up.
As adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 13 and May 15, 1990.

I'm quoting the official position of the university. Their policy is not a government policy. It is a policy that governs speech in the university environment.

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic847338.files/FS_G...

So, I would say about your comment: it might not be 'false', but to the extent its relevant it is only so narrowly (ie, its 'trivially' true).
"It's frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane" - Alan, "The Hangover"

Really? What's this kind of article/column doing in HN?
This sounds like a question of how declarative your deps are, with Chef and Puppet picking different points on the scale.

I can relate that with Babushka now, we commonly rely on ordering of requirements (A <- B, C in that order!) at times when we should really have one of those requirements require the other (A <- B, B <- C). This works fine for the original purpose, but leaves minefields floating around when you want to reuse deps for another project.
Snap chat. Sexting is the new communication.
so very, very little of day-to-day coding is what I bucket as CS problems. It's mostly turn the crank part assembly that's needed.

Not that CS problems aren't out there, but your architects should be decomposing those for more junior people.
> the merchant contracts with the credit card companies require merchants to charge the same fee, independent of the payment method

That's not true. There used to be clauses in the contracts prohibiting merchants from charging an extra fee for credit card transactions. However, these clauses were recently (this year) removed by the credit card industry as a result of litigation. Also, it has always been possible to give a discount for non credit card transactions. You're right, it doesn't make sense, but it's true.

Since merchants usually eat the credit card fees themselves instead of passing them on to the customer, they have a big incentive to encourage consumers to switch to bitcoin. It will lower the fees they pay, which probably means discounts for bitcoin users. Merchants will also like the lack of chargebacks. On the other hand, consumers like chargebacks. There's no reason why a payment processor couldn't implement a chargeback-like system on top of bitcoin. The next Visa might be something like that, in fact.
I guess France, Belgium and the Netherlands are out of the question? Since you included "cheaply".
> "We sold everything we have and decided to find, as we put it, our American dream," says Josiane Simpson. She, Jared Holfeltz, and their son Gabriel are currently living out of their car.

The American dream is a delusion that makes people pursue wrong objectives.
Steering the crowd: Jon Kleinberg's HCOMP '13 keynote
Do you add salt? How about pepper?
Yeah, hard bounce off the atmosphere trades angular momentum for radial velocity and increases eccentricity, meaning next time you hit the atmosphere is gonna be even worse.
I am probably not in the top 10 percent of developers at this point, but I consider myself a good developer, and definitely a great problem solver and an all-round asset to any team. It is most unlikely I will even consider a company that uses stacked ranking, and this is perhaps the primary criterion I will look at. For me it is an important indicator that there will be a dysfunctional, damaged culture, and subtle or overt politics.
I don't give a darn what people do in their homes but I'll tell you, I am terrified of stoned driving becoming common.
> I guess Munich has the highest salaries in Europe. But the city is a bit expensive. I pay 755 euro for a 36 square meters apartment.

You should try Zurich (higher for both: salaries and rent) ;)
"Four weeks, use it or lose it" wouldn't tell me whether people actually used the vacation or not... which is a somewhat harder question to phrase.
I am pretty sure you'd have said the same "Nintendo used to be but is not anymore" thing during the GameCube ages. We all know what happened after that.

Regarding Valve, its controller may or may not represent a lot of things. But until it defines at least one generation, we can't say anything. Other than that, what have we seen from them that is so innovative?

EDIT: Also, "resort to lawyering"? It's not like they are suing the guy. They are just politely letting him know that what he is doing is illegal.
The only way your body would know or care if it was consuming a genetically modified food was if that modification produced something toxic (poisonous). Barring than that, to your body, it's all proteins, carbohydrates, fats, etc... If you are concerned about genetically modified foods, you should probably also be concerned with domesticated foods, since those have been selected by their farmers for many generations to produce specific things - bigger fruits, better tasting meats. We've been doing genetic modification since we started farming. It's only been the past generation or so that we started hacking the DNA directly.
Throwing Nashville, TN into the hat for similar reasons as other places listed in this thread (affordable living, good weather, etc). If anyone does head there, give me a shout. I'll put you in touch with some nice folks :)
The Daunting Challenge of Secure E-mail
0xdata H20: An open source in-memory Prediction engine for Big Data Science
It _is_ their stuff.
Ironically, standardised tests like the SAT were themselves originally conceived as a way to justify limiting the numbers of Jews accepted into elite colleges---it was thought that they would be unable to perform as well as the "right" kind of student.
Thanks! :)

It's a little aggressive in calling sudo mainly because I'm using it to bootstrap new systems non-interactively. I don't want it to ask any questions at all, just to go.
The US has always had a horrible "you are on your own mentality".

I get where you're coming from, and I wouldn't say it's wrong, but I really think there's something else going on in this case.

If a driver kills a pedestrian or a person driving another car, there are consequences; if a driver kills a cyclist, there are effectively none. That contrast isn't explained by a "you are on your own" mentality.
As BitCoin Touches $400 The Senate Starts Seeking Answers... As Does The Fed
I just noticed your username, and I have to say thank you for your detailed articles and specially for your melatonin study. It personally helped me in improving my sleeping habits when I was having a lot of stress-induced sleeping issues. Thanks again!
Deliberately impersonating someone with the intention of damaging their reputation may fall afoul of some slander/libel laws.
Optimise thy output
What is the best free VPN service?
I can't find a decent VPN for free. As I would not use it regularly, I don't want to pay.
Mass surveillance is the natural state of man. When humans lived in clans and tribes, everybody knew everyone else's business, including the leaders. Today, that social surveillance network still exists (tips given to police, etc.) but in a degraded form now that people live more individually.

People instinctively dislike spying because they want to be in control of their own PR (social status), and secrecy gives them advantage even while it hurts society as a whole due to information asymmetries. Gossip networks tend to distort the true picture as well. This, humans evolved to protect their own secrets while simultaneously snooping and gossiping on their neighbors.

However, living in an organized society involves compromise for the greater good, and community surveillance is one of those compromises. One might as well ask why the Brits accept paying taxes. Instinctively, you hate to part with your money, but you must do it.
Exactly right. Trolls try to extort money after the fact. Mr Johnson licensed his idea to the toy company before they started producing it. Lucky for him, his agreement granted him 2% of any 3D product that resembled his invention.
If there was ever a title to draw you into reading the article.. this is it.
Did you read the article this discussion is attached to? It said in part:

"Initially, researchers had success proving both the short-term and long-term dangers of MSG: mice injected with the additive showed signs of brain lesions, and humans fed 3 grams of MSG per 200 ml of soup presented symptoms congruent with “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.” "

If you believe the original article is wrong, then you should perhaps make a comment in the main thread explaining why it is wrong instead of contradicting me. I merely assumed what the article said about the studies was more or less correct.
Canary Islands, Spain, is one of them. Good weather all year round, good internet connection in many places and plenty of flight connections to most important cities in Europe. Affordable prices for housing and food.

You just need to avoid the too touristic places.
If someone could provide a good pointer to better understand lisp syntax / Clojure I would appreciate it. Clojure is so confusing and hard to follow for the beginner!
I've got a towel.
You must not have read the article, because that's definitely not the TL;DR. Sentences like this tell a very different story:

> We do not know of a single case of a cyclist fatality in which the driver was prosecuted, except for D.U.I. or hit-and-run.

That sure sounds to me like society has de facto decided "It's OK to kill cyclists as long as you aren't drunk and you stick around to apologize afterward."
Those are two different things though. Success and innovation. I was referring to innovation alone. Success is a whole other beast and I am sure it can be debated to great lengths. Especially in this context where it's not a zero-sum game. In order for Nintendo to be successful Valve doesn't have to lose and vice versa. They have to successfully capture whatever the market they are after. Is it the same market? I doubt it. Is there some overlap. Sure.

The future of console gaming is Valve

I don't bet because I am strongly opposed, for personal reasons, against gambling. We can bet on proverbial 'I told you so' if you will. Even though I haven't alluded that I think Valve isn't the future of console gaming in any way, now that I think about it I am sure it won't be. There's a possibility they will be a major player in console market, but I don't see that happening any time soon. I am quite sure they will disrupt PC gaming market once again... console gaming? no.

So if you will, we can bet on that and come back to this 5 years from now for an 'I told you so' moment :)

PS

As long as I remember (and I remember back to the dinosaurs age) Nintendo has been regarded as 'soon to be dead'. Same with PC gaming. It just didn't happen over and over again.
Legally it's OK to kill cyclists.

Lobbyists who work for car companies, write the law on road safety.
Does it depend on pot being legalised or not though? I'd believe people who want to smoke pot do it already.
I got run over from behind by an MTA bus in New York several years ago and the bus driver drove away. I called the local police precinct (non-emergency line) to report it with the bus number (the 4 digit one on the back) and they repeatedly hung up on me when I told them I was run down by a city bus who drove away.
If Bitcoin ever truly rivals the dollar the government will just make it illegal. You will listen because they have guns and jails.
Are there any statistics what happens to drivers at fault that kill another car driver?

What would be the "best" outcome in these cases? Do you want to throw someone in jail for making an unintentional mistake? Should there just be a civil lawsuit where either the driver or the insurance pays to the victim's family?

I don't have an answer to that, just asking for opinions.
Differences in LD50 does not directly imply that one is easier on your body to absorb than the other... It says that one will kill you faster, by eating absurdly large amounts.
> Many companies are just not aware, because they never hired the people who are familiar with automated testing.

Established shops mean established culture. If it doesn't already exist, and you aren't in a position of sufficient authority to make it happen without buy-in, this "opportunity" is probably more likely to be bailing out the ocean.