skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way I could see privacy not mattering in the future is if knowledge stops being equivalent to power. Even if everyone knows everything about everyone, I don't see that knowledge ceasing to be useful for manipulation.

The important question to me, then, isn't whether the embarrassing (or mundane) secrets are true, but whether they would give someone the power to manipulate the subject of those secrets, or to manipulate others with respect to the subject of the secrets.
Hi, that is good point. It is something we are working hard on. I think that starting with machine translation helps with maintaining coherence in style. In way it is as if the first translator (the machine) translated the whole document. The rest can be tackled with a lot of preprocessing and post-processing. That being said, our method is not suited for really long forms, such as 25 page documents or novels. Anything that requires creative translation would probably need a professional translation dedicated on the project. I would be interested in talking to you about your idea for Japanese. Anything I can do to help let me know.
If you feel that way with $200k/year, how would you feel with $50k? You are somewhat wealthy in comparison. A rule of thumb I've heard is that most people can't understand or identify with the financial concerns of anybody with an income in excess of three times their own. You're definitely in that "3x higher" class compared to a ton of people in the Bay Area.
I did at first, and I am a Mozilla engineer. Mozilla makes heavy use of AWS for running portions of our continuous integration system; the cost is significant:

http://oduinn.com/blog/2013/12/13/the-financial-cost-of-a-ch...
Adobe are huge in the enterprise analytics world. I would argue they are kind of shitty at it but they are huge all the same.
Twitter does have a library named typeahead. I'm not sure if you meant that was obvious, or I'm just missing the point.

http://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/
"...whom Kerouac goaded to résumé writing..." cf "...whom Kerouac goaded to resume writing..."
so you're telling us you don't know what content creation or CRM has to do with marketing?
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They could both make money and live in the city, which would make the city a better place.

Turning the city into a bedroom community is bad for the city. It works in suburbs because suburbs are designed that way. Sprawl, low density, distribution of goods and services. Cities are not designed that way.

High density produces higher rents, for homes and for businesses. Businesses with high rents can't survive when the neighborhood is only occupied at night and on weekends.

What you have here are people who want the advantages of this city, but aren't around enough to make it worth providing those advantages.

The medium term outcome of this is pretty clear- many businesses in SF are going to go under. Most of what makes SF unique is going to be driven out by cost. What you'll be left with is some sort of bizarre bedroom city that no one really enjoys any more.

And then what?
I do find that I'm not nearly as productive working from home as I am working elsewhere. There are far too many distractions.

If I do work from home, the best way for me to get work done is if I'm sitting at my kitchen table, which is not in view of a television. Even then, I leave my phone in a different room to avoid looking at it. Even at the office I find I get more work done if I accidentally leave my phone in my car. Even if I'm not doing much with it, if it's there I'm tempted to look at it every single time there's a notification.
Maybe it's like a sort of Stockholm syndrome...

Yesterday a buddy of mine (and partner in crime - the proverbial kind) tried to install a new language and dev environment on his machine. 4 hours and much frustration later, he still couldn't do much.

On Linux the same tasks would have taken 20 minutes (and did, as I had installed the same environment several months ago).

I couldn't imagine doing any development on Windows unless it's C++ or C# on VS... Everything is a hassle compared to Linux.
My employer spends a small fortune with AWS, and we make use of many of the services. There's no way our small team could have built our product on any other platform.

Still, as my colleague observed, it must be the only business in the world you can spend $1m a year on and get only basic support, with web-only tickets that take hours or days to get a resolved.
$50k is lower middle class in this area. I didn't say that wouldn't suck. I said that I am by no means elite. Nor upper middle class. Upper middle class people can at least afford to pick a reasonable 3/2 house in an area with good schools. I can't do that. Elite people can have mansions and multiple homes and they don't need to work. They aren't the techies riding the WiFi shuttles to work. No engineer is elite.
That's fantastic! Great turnaround.
Not surprised to see this, although I am surprised more companies aren't following suit. We abandoned AWS a year and a half ago and cut our server / infrastructure costs by 90% in the process.
If the malware depends on a sufficient number of system details to decrypt itself, then no amount of code analysis will help decrypt the inner layers. As you say, it's like obtaining a password, and a sufficiently strong password (or sufficiently unique set of system details) cannot even be brute forced before the heat death of the universe.
The scale where doing your own thing makes financial sense can be much lower than many think.

About two thousand dollars a month gets half a rack with a high-speed, highly-reliable connection in co-location. The lease payments on several extremely high performance, flash storage rack servers would be a couple thousand dollars a month. Throw on some shared nothing redundant virtualization, and you have the equivalent of an army of 4xmegaxlargemongos.

AWS has a place (such as being the redundant offsite backup for that scenario, or for extremely variable service requirements), but endlessly on here we see people disbelieving alternatives make sense.
I think Bootsrap is minified, but the HTML and custom CSS for each example is available.
I'd say don't say regret. The negative connotation of that is not as good as... "Hey, I know you have been on hard times and feel guilty for not paying back that loan. Don't worry about paying...(the rest of your phrasing)
If you really just want to do something else, then maybe you should be doing that? And if in response to this you think "oh no, I can't do that because XYZ", then maybe that XYZ is the motivation you are looking for. You won't shitcan your schedule if you have a good internal reason for doing those tasks, because then you wouldn't get what you want.

My current motivation is that I want to grow recurring revenue by enough that I can move to a new apartment in Tokyo, which I have already picked out should I ever hit my goal. The tasks I pick for each day, I try my best to think "how will doing this task help me get there?". And sometimes the motivation is that whatever I happen to be doing is just interesting / fun in itself, where no grander goal is necessary to work on that.
What you seem to be referring to is valuing the word of an expert, or someone known to have more knowledge in an area. That is totally valid of course, and should be strived for (we should not listen to pundits, we should listen to experts).

However, geographical segregation (I take this to mean separating AND isolating, which might be my mistake -- segregating does not necessarily entail mutual isolation though I took it to mean that based on what was said) does not achieve this result (assuming the only people who know about SV live in SV), but it DOES exclude people who know a lot about relevant parts of SV life/culture/business that do not live in SV.

In the general case, it is not strictly impossible (nor even improbably, I would argue) that someone OUTSIDE of your geographical area (especially if you consider that people move around) does not hold important knowledge on anything related to your geographical area (and even more-so with super generic areas like "business" and "startups" and "venture capital"). If the possibility exists that someone with such knowlege exists outside of your geographical community, the geographical community will experience (I use that word liberally, you don't know what you don't know) a loss in potential knowledge -- in short, the person who COULD have contributed knowledge cannot, since they are excluded.

So what if annoying people drown out the voices of the insightful ones, or even cause people to leave? I think this is relatively difficult, without a pretty large out-pouring of annoying. They would have to be annoying enough to drive away people abroad (all potentially gained due to inclusion) AND at least one local person. I don't think HN is at that point yet, and I think it's really hard for any medium to get THAT noisy, and be obviously too noisy to be any good.

(oh also -- I didn't downvote you, actually upvoted, I just want to debate the point, since I have thought that before)

(also -- definitely, I should have qualified "community" with "community that seeks to grow knowledge, membership, involvement, etc"
Well, then that advertising idea seems like a bad one. Thanks for the update!
You'd probably repeat that for several areas, like around Boston perhaps?

No. I'm saying that, of course, some companies in other areas have been able to attract highly talented folks -- it does not follow, therefore, that the region as a whole has been able to do so.

Being able to randomly pick a better developer from the general population doesn't really help in any practical case I can think of.

The quality of the distribution determine your pool when recruiting. If the middle of the distribution skews toward lower talent, with a low sigma, then it says something about your likelihood to even find someone toward the upper end of the scale. Let alone begin vetting them on other factors, such as accomplishments, interpersonal dynamics, expected compensation etc.
"This one" being this one- http://www.adafruit.com/products/1651
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What advantages are they supposed to be providing to the city? They pay taxes in the city. They are customers for the city's businesses. The eat in the city's restaurants. They have a stake in the upkeep of the city's properties.
I don't agree with most of those statements. You're not in a small rural or even medium sized town. San Francisco is one of the most popular cities in the US and the world. Even very wealthy people generally make sacrifices to live there. What you lose in square feet you make up for in location. That's the whole point of cities.

It doesn't make sense to treat San Francisco as if it were a town of 100k people where everybody lives in houses, because it's not. The traditional metrics (middle class = 3/2 house with a yard) do not apply to cities like Manhattan and San Francisco.

I also don't think it's right to ignore your buying power relative to the rest of the US. Maybe you only have a downpayment for a San Francisco condo, but that might suffice for you to pay cash for a house in many somewhat affluent suburban communities throughout the country. Social classes are nationwide strata--you can't lose focus by literally looking at a single city and deciding that you're middle class or lower just because you're not a multimillionaire.
jQuery arose in an era where browser quirks and incompatibilities were everywhere and, due to the circumstances of developing accessible websites, enjoyed widespread adoption. Nowadays that the front-end is getting so much attention, it pains me to see so much jQuery hate. Here are some thoughts I feel need to be articulated:

Rather than everyone reimplementing their own utility libraries, here we have one central library already cached by most areas of the internet, being maintained by some of the brightest developers in JS, and provided free of charge.

If your site permits, you are probably using the Google CDN hosted version of jQuery. If not, you should. If you can't, then your users can handle some 80kb one time load for a tremendous reduction in development time and increased consistency between browsers (let's be honest, cross-browser testing is a pain and we avoid it as much as possible).

So many people think that by using jQuery your code must immediately be bad. Spaghetti code is code with bad structure, jQuery does not enforce any structure so any bad code that includes jQuery is not the library's fault. I also believe (I don't have evidence for this) that this thought tends to occur amongst people who have learned front-end development using jQuery because it was very accessible, and then moved on to something else, and then looking back at their old, cruddy code developed negative feelings towards jQuery itself. jQuery doesn't care how you structure your code; you can use jQuery (admittedly with some difficulty) with Angular, Backbone, or any other popular framework. But you can't use Angular with Backbone. Arguments against jQuery that attack poor code / structure / "prettyness" are completely misrepresenting jQuery as a library.

In that same vain, jQuery is not slow. How you use jQuery, just like how you write your vanilla JS, is what determines performance. Some jsperfs show jQuery being slower than vanilla JS or lodash/underscore, but that's because jQuery is checking for many more things. You don't have to use jQuery if you know how to improve critical code, and you really shouldn't. However, it allows for you to write code quickly, without much complex thought for validating against edge cases at a very negligible performance reduction.
85% loss on the deal? - No
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/did-google-really-los...

.. considering 1. Motorola had cash on hand and tax credits worth $3B. 2. Google sold Motorola's STB business for $2.4B to Arris. 3. It valued the acquired Motorola patents at $5.5B.

Considering #3 is overvalued by 100%, it still comes to a loss of about $2b. But the gains would not be just monetary as Google now has a patent portfolio to be a stronger player in the smartphones business, and has had a say in the organization of the smartphones hardware segment which it can leverage.
Care to share more details? Which services were you using? Most everything reserved? Were you taking advantage of auto scaling / was your traffic very elastic? Do you have as much redundancy in your new host / do you have redundancy requirements?
The picture of Craig Gentry in the article shows him standing in front of the National Cryptologic Museum at the NSA. :-)
We've actually never crawled out of Amazon (mostly because it was expensive to do so), so the crawl blocking stuff is unrelated, at least for us. As Sarah noted, it's really been costs, service, and support issues.
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Obviously they (rackspace) can't give away something they would prefer to sell for $5/mo. Has anyone found a similar service that hasn't sold out yet and is not priced per mailbox?
"Drop the drop"

Love it.
What goes around...

In a closely held company being a hardass negotiator with your partners poisons the long term personal relationships that such companies rely upon to maintain stability. That seventeen percent that the author won upfront with hardball is now a 33% burden two years later.

Unresolved resentment over being treated as a subordinate due to a weak negotiating position from the lack of a formal agreement is the context that makes "now you are working for me" legitimate. Things would not be worse if the author had gone fifty fifty and focused on growing the pie instead of victory.

This is why Spolsky advocates just having equal equity.
Awesome. I'm learning about Moses at the moment (MT course at Edinburgh), see you worked with Ben Taskar also, RIP. Exciting idea here!
I own 15 OVH servers (32 GB RAM, 2 TB HD, quad-core), and the cost monthly is less than $1000. What can that buy more in Amazon? Maybe a huge instance? But I surely can't run thousands of distributed crawlers and store a distributed search index.
poor management -- it's a major risk factor

This is true of any field in which, in the words of Feynman in his report on the Challenger disaster, "reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled".

the man who made that happen argued strongly against nuclear power.

As the Rickover quote you give shows, Rickover thought of "radiation" as having magical powers, like many members of the uninformed public. His arguments on such grounds are not cogent. (Another quote in the Wiki article shows that Rickover also disliked nuclear power because of its relationship to nuclear weapons, which is more reasonable, although still not sufficient to justify getting rid of nuclear power IMO.)

His comments on the US Navy's particular philosophy, which worked for a military organization but would not work for civilian power companies, are valid as far as they go. However, to me that's a bug, not a feature. To see why, consider the following sketch of an alternate history: in the mid-1970's, having realized that OPEC is not going to play nice any more and therefore foreign oil is not a good basis on which to run the US economy, the US government makes nuclear power a national priority on national security grounds (much as France did). Knowing that existing reactor designs require skilled operators and strict procedures to ensure safety, the government institutes licensing similar to what is done with professionals in various fields, such as engineers, whose activities can, if done incorrectly, pose significant risk to the public. The US Navy program is used as a model, but the military-style aspects of it are adjusted to something more appropriate for a commercial endeavor.

Result: in the alternate 2014, the US imports no oil (except possibly from Canada), the majority of base load electricity comes from nuclear power plants, coal mines are all shut down and their sites cleaned up to serve as ski resorts, offshore oil drilling is a thing of the past (so no Deepwater Horizon spill), and the US can just leave the Middle East alone (so no special treatment of Saudi Arabia, probably no 9/11, no invasion of Iraq).
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Would it be normal for a minority owner of a start-up to be able to legally force the majority to buy them out? I wouldn't have thought so.

The 30% owner could have sat on the shares and waited to see what happened. They were effectively free (in the sense that he didn't buy them and was apparently paid a reasonable salary as well).
Public infrastructure?

Perhaps they should start with toilets for the street urchins.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06bcseats.html?pagewant...

http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3758-why-is-there-so-m...
MooTools modified built-in objects in future hostile ways. Do you miss that too?
Hence the qualification, depending on the current living situation.
Why aren't you spending even the $50 support tier if not enough for one of the higher tiers if you're dropping that much in usage costs? I don't understand why anyone expects free support when every little thing in AWS is charged for as a utility.
Because every time they try a bunch of people go 'OMG nuclear waste aaaaah' and object. We could be storing all the waste in a super-secure facility under yucca Mountain in Nevada, but is in limbo because of a few thousand people in Nevada. So we have it stored unsecurely at 131 different sites instead.

http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/depts/comprehensive_planning/nu...
Amazon continues hypergrowth, tops 117,000 employees
I'll get the medic.
Every consultancy I've ever worked at started threatening to fire me whenever I dipped under 95% billable time for more than... a day.
I will look at it. Thanks for the info.
In my anecdotal experience non-tech founders are quite arrogant. They exhibit a Randian belief that they are capable of doing everything better than the peons who work for them, and like to dictate to others, especially technical folks, how things should be done. They tend to ignore advice from technical folks.

I don't know. Maybe only two out of the ten I've worked with have not cared and have actually listened to the advice of the techies. In one case, the techies forced them to rewrite everything in a new language for no real reason, and blamed a lot of shortcommings of the old system on the language when it was really a problem of poor implementation. In the 2nd case everything worked out great, and that founder's business is really taking off, traffic still nearly doubling every year. His stuff is running off a single WordPress server.
Isn't it a giant security hole to be loading part of your library from another site you don't control?

Zillions of people do it anyway, so it's not like you won't have lots of company.
Comparing Facebook to Zynga is like comparing an astronaut to a bed ridden granny. They may believe they have acquired something which is innovative and defensible - but the kind of morale and culture Zynga has will completely overpower anything they do. I will definitely be interested in seeing how many NaturalMotion employees stick around - I am assuming most of them got big payouts with 2 yr cliffs which is probably the only reason not to change.

Compare this to Facebook which has some of the best talent, culture and reputation of incrementally shipping out product.
Those are really all of the options that you can enumerate for a developer not choosing to live in the Bay Area?

Honestly, every response you've written on this thread makes me cringe.
Cloud premise is an ability to fire expensive sysadmins and let cloud babysit your needs.
Amazon was the first in the world to create the cloud but it's still a bare-metal cloud today.
"Lacking service" ? Of course - they didn't promise any service whatsoever to begin with.

In other words you pay more to use Amazon cloud + you still have to hire and pay sysadmins to babysit the whole pile of Amazon cloud mess.

That's what MSFT is perfectly positioned to solve with Azure + their excellent set of mature tools and services.

MSFT came late to the cloud game (as Ballmer was mostly doing in all other games for the last 10 yrs) - but they are getting this enterprise play right step by step.
You mis-read that.

The point is that they don't make it worthwhile to businesses to provide those advantages. They aren't there 12+ hours a day, only at night, when people spend less money anyway, so how could they?

They aren't sufficient customers for the city's businesses and restaurants. Later at night, a bit. On weekends, some. During the work week? Not at all.

And that works in bedroom communities where rents and other costs are lower. It doesn't work in cities.
There is no `NULL` in Python. It is `None`.

Idiomatic test for `None` is:

if something is None:
# ...

It would be incorrect to use `if not something:` here.
This chart is part of the reason that Amazon's recent quarterly report of earnings is a little off, despite record revenue. These guys are growing their businesses at an enormous rate!

I have a lot of friends working at Amazon now, and my projection is that everyone I know will work there by 2016
> I'm not sure what Adobe or salesforce have to do with marketing

They're some of the largest players in marketing and analytics, especially since Adobe's $1.8B acquisition of Omniture in '09.

http://www.adobe.com/solutions/digital-marketing.html

http://www.salesforce.com/marketing-cloud/overview/
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Personally, I would have been happier if the deadline sat -- if only because I needed to get back to regular life, and it's hard to resist the temptation to squeeze out those last few points.

But I might have felt differently if I hadn't finished...