skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> French entrepreneurs have been fleeing to other countries, especially England, which some 350,000 now call home.

It's been estimated that between 70 000 and 300 000 French live in the U.K so I really doubt that 350 000 entrepreneurs live in England (granted the article also use the more wide "French nationals", but still).
Oh, the 4965 generation. I vaguely remember the days of the Linux driver development, there were discussions to open-source the binary blob firmware.

IIRC this was ultimately abandoned due to the possibility of turning the 4965 into a pretty sophisticated SDR. What a shame!
Yes to all the above. Round-trip on the BART from Rockridge to Montgomery St. is almost $8. Let's say you need to drive to the station, now you're paying for parking also (additional $2/day).

So you're a minimum waged fry-cook or whatever in SF, you've blown 1/8th of your workday earnings just getting to-from work. You can get the monthly pass ($76.00/mo), but that's a bitter pill to swallow on those wages.

Oh, and you might not be able to take it home anyways since it shuts down at midnight, so don't get a job that does dinner service. Also, IIR, bus transfers to the Muni aren't free.

In the meanwhile the highly paid dotcommers might even get free company shuttles with wifi.

By comparison, a round trip Subway ride in NYC is what, $5? Goes pretty much everywhere, with good service even into lower income areas, transfers to buses are free. So while minimum wage is lower in NYC, it doesn't even kill 1/8th of your workday's pay to get from home to work and back.

Because coverage is so good, it's also unlikely that you'll even need a car, so you can save on all that expense: gas, taxes, registration, insurance, etc.
I don't doubt that programs like your company's exist - the problem is systemic, as opposed to rare, is my point.
I am. Have been for 9 months now and didn't have significant trouble.
Yeah, that might be a good idea.
The tax advantages are mostly gone. If you form an llc you get some legal protection if someone were to sue you. You probably think this is no big deal and if you own nothing it isn't. The problem happens when you do aquire something of value and it can happen unexpectedly. I recommend you contact a lawyer.
It's not just the filesize, it's also the rendering speed. I'm not saying SVG is terrible, I'm just pointing out there's probably room for a smaller vector format that's more focused on the needs of modern websites.
Posted the link to /r/Feminism.
Got banned.
http://imgur.com/7d4k0DV
As far as I can tell, it should have worked like this: The devices would turn on at approx. 3 am and then draw a current from the power outlet. Someone at the power plant would then look at the Watt meter and from the reading they would know what the outcome was.
That's correct. But the cards are stacked heavily in favor of the prosecution in a grand jury so if you fail to indict, you're never going to get a conviction.
3D Printed Tape Measure- 114 Parts Printed in 1 Piece
I'd pay some good money for this service!
Balaji Srinivasan on full-stack startups
"professors really do care that their students don't have to pay ridiculous costs for texts."

Sure a lot do, like the professor in the article, but that doesn't mean they all do. There are some that don't care and I'm sure others who haven't thought about it or rationalize the situation because it benefits them immensely.

That is to say making generalizations like that boils down the issue to "Professors care" vs "Professors take advantage of students" neither is absolutely true for the system as a whole.
>The traditional binary foundation of 1s and 0s is deeply problematic: 1 is inherently phallic and thus misogynistic

Thanks for the link, this is golden trolling :p
That's correct, but it's misleading. The grand jury is a sanity check. Prosecutors won't bring a case if they don't have enough evidence for an indictment.
Wouldn't be a good idea to forget that one in medieval Iceland....

Now, keep in mind that manslaughter was relatively minor at the time, but secret murder was really, really bad. The difference was that manslaughter was where a killing was announced and taken credit/responsibility for. If you hid the fact, that was cause to have everything you own taken by the victim's family and have any legal protections you might have had in the past revoked, meaning anyone could kill you and nobody could give you shelter.
Google's ad mechanism reads all emails sent and received by all gmail users, even in many cases people using paid Google Apps mail unless the administrator has opted out (I've encountered companies that left gmail ads enabled).

Even when the administrator has switched off ads, e-mails are still mined to show ads in Google services that are not covered under Google Apps:

http://safegov.org/2014/1/31/google-admits-data-mining-stude...

Since Google Apps for Business uses the same privacy policy, there is little reason to believe that anything is different when you are paying $5 per user per month. The privacy policy clearly states that Google can mine your data for ads. Ads can just be turned off for the services covered by Google Apps (but not Google+, Google Maps, Youtube, Google Search, etc.).
The other difference? Layout.

If New York were the Bay Area, then all the big tech employers would be in places like White Plains and Greenwich, while all the tech employees still would want to live in Chelsea and the Village and the usual spots. Theoretically there's public transit from one to the other, but it's really a bit of a strain when you get down to it, so they'd need to run private buses.

New Jersey would replace Oakland and the East Bay - downmarket reputation but you've got a few excellent clusters of local culture, and you can get into town from there easily enough for your commute. You just don't actually feel like integrated with the rest of town where everything is happening. Staten Island replaces Marin, eastern Long Island replaces wine country...

and the entirety of Brooklyn and Queens would be underwater. :P
> If you meet me in person and I say "I'm sgentle", that's a weaker proof than if I post a comment from this account.

That's why (for PGP) you, as an assurer, generally don't upload the signature yourself but send it to the e-mail address the assuree claims to own. The proof that they own that account is that they are able to receive the mail with the signature. They can then publish it themselves.
I think despite facebook already having an "I don't want to see this" smart filter that works pretty good, user privacy concerns about sharing their friends' feeds with a 3rd party, and the constant API and policy changes facebook apps have to keep up and deal with, you still have a chance of facebook or any other tech giant buying your company in a couple of years for bazillions of dollars. In the tech world there's no way of knowing what's gonna happen next...
It also helps that it rains more in NYC. NYC is a wonder to behold a few hours after a rainstorm. I've noticed that places that don't get lots of rain just look perpetually more "dirty" and used.

NYC also has this weird way of turning filth into part of the set piece of the city that very few places can manage.
My stock advice, treat downvotes as editorial feedback on the quality of your writing and edit your post to more clearly express your ideas and observations. Add background details which explain your rationales. Expand the content of the thread with links or other references to more information.

If none of those things are applicable, you are probably just expressing a reactive sentiment, as was the case with your downvoted comment. In that case consider deleting the post - actually don't wait for a down vote, the comment is likely to add little.

The long and short of it is take a down vote as feedback which can make you a better writer. To put it another way, while I agree that focusing on stock price in the wake of tragic death is crass, calling people out on it with snark doesn't really contribute to the community.
Guns are extremely expensive, and I own many. I have many friends who wish they could own guns but cannot afford them, and thus live alone without a proper means of self defense.

I don't let anyone fire anything I own without an intro safety course and firing practice with a laser bullet, so I don't intend to throw free guns into crowds, but I do know that there is a large group of responsible people who go unarmed for the sole reason that the price of guns is very, very high.

At $500/pop, I can't afford to be charitable. At $50-100, these become birthday gifts.
It would be interesting to see data on this. My gut says most companies with a large number of employees have some kind of program, so it may just be something that is acquired over time and only systemic in smaller companies. They maybe don't need to spend the resources on it because there is enough competition for the small number of positions.
There used to be (still is?) the half baked blog which was fun and interesting.

A similar sub reddit would be ace if properly run.
I would love that but with support for dual screens and not just a laptop.
Some facts about how NSA stories are reported
Title made me think Stallman did this. FSF = Free Software Foundation not these people. Are xhe and xhem even real words? They make absolutely no sense
SF's neighbor to-the-east, The San Joaquin Valley, is "the nation's salad bowl." Which also happens to be home to many cattle and sheep operations.

Access for foreign imports are important for the gourmet scene, but not necessary.
That's quite true. With CS you can get hired right out of college but with other fields like bio and physics more schooling is required. I don't think a lot of students in the US want research positions (or qualify for them). So yes I believe that you're right it's an apples to oranges comparison.
I'm about to graduate from a US college, and I've never paid for a text book. Very few classes use them for more than supplementary reading or for homework problems. With a combination of learning things online, recorded lectures, finding PDFs of them online, borrowing from a friend, and checking them out from the library, it's been easy to not buy them. I don't think I've actually done either of the last two, which brings up the question: are they even needed? Personally, I think they are largely useless with the wealth of information that is available online.
Ummmm? What? Yeah, Everything is open source and is in the repo. ALL THE DATA IS IN THE REPOSITORY. The repository is deployed, as is, to the internet, it has no database - the data is in the bike_data folder.

You can view the code here, https://github.com/bikeindex/bikebook at the same place the link in the BikeBook footer goes.

It is AGPL, so not creative commons. This is the license the Bike Index is under, so we just went with it. We'll consider a different license for the BikeBook, because maybe that makes more sense. Thanks for bringing it up.
> [..] douches [..] paying huge sums of money for crappy apartments, not even because they want to live there, but because they enjoy bullying the poors.

I find this very hard to believe.
Copies of the program itself are saved on a medium that is made up of atoms. Execution of the program is facilitated by the simple movement of electrons in a prescribed manner.

What is the physical nature of sentience? What are its mechanics? Does it consist of atoms?
> By the way what's Microsoft doing employing some Russian guy living in Lebanon, anyway?

Seriously, what the fuck? Why can't Microsoft, or any company, employ Russian expats in Lebanon? It's foreign (to you) so it's "iffy"?
Done. It's now "open source bicycle comparison and research"
It seems very unlikely that they were spending money to make the banal point that the ads one sees on gmail are the result of an algorithm.

There is a fundamental difference. If you promise not to do content-based targeted advertising (as Microsoft claims), you have no interest to collect as much data from a user as possible. If you do content-based advertising, it's in your interest to collect data from as many sources as possible (from e-mails, to locations, to search queries) and combine them.

The latter may not be acceptable to some people.
Turkey downs Syria military jet 'in airspace violation'
tesr
Duolingo - because it's not just me learning Spanish, it's us translating English only websites to Spanish. Perhaps I'm not versed enough in the services available in '94 - I didn't really start to use the internet much until college when I got access to the computer labs. Was there something like it around then? I say this because the most impressive thing to me about duolingo ( and the captcha system designed by its founder before it ) is the efficient way to leverages different individual goals to aggregate really large differences for both individuals. Ie the person wanting to learn a new language for free and the person with an English only website that needs to get it translated into multiple languages.
> The food in the greater NYC metro area is abysmal. The quality falls off very rapidly once you exit the city.

Oh man is that true :( Long Island is not known for it's cuisine...
As another point of reference, I bought many "high capacity magazines" in 2010 for range practice. In 2012 I sold all of them for 4x what I bought them for on gunbroker because of the gun ban scare.

The economics behind gun parts is wacky, and home production would be a radical shift in technology to finally send the cost downward.

Of course gun manufacturers would lobby against any home printing. How could they sell $2400 rifles when a decent rifle would only cost a tenth of that to build at home?
You are correct. The part of stolen money would not be a problem if we had a functioning government that actually -you know- prosecuted people, like they did with the savings & loans crisis where more than 1,000 bankers were convicted by the Justice Department.
"Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal."

(IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/)

This main difference though is that this is going to be for real.

"Everyone, it seems, is waiting for compromising sex tapes to emerge, a tawdry phenomenon with a history in Turkish politics, especially at election time. Already, sex tapes supposedly involving high-level officials have been delivered to some news organizations, which, for now, have shown restraint. It is probably only a matter of time before they begin showing up on social media."

(NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/world/europe/turks-are-glu...)
Hey I posted a comment below...but
I was just wondering if you could add these ideas to the following site.

It would make it easier than having to go to a github page or read a google doc.

http://ideas.ozonebit.com/
… because American software is usually very competitive – going national usually results in using sub-par software at higher prices. And your clients usually will not pay for these increased costs – and your competition will mostly still use the best software available, i.e., usually American software.
Yes, with the launch of Pinegrow in January we finally reached a break-even point. Plus the sales are growing so there is no reason to stop here :)
SF is like the Hippy movement writ large. Weird and experimental and funky a long time ago, got older and realized money is better and now wears turtlenecks and wireframe glasses that are too small and protects their property investment by artificially limiting availability and keeping public transport away (so the riff raff can't get around as easy). A few folks burned out early and couldn't get in on a good investment vehicle, but the weather is too nice to do anything about it and nobody seems to mind when you take a pee in the middle of the street. Plus, it's not too hard to bum a ride every month or two and head north to score some great bud.
It shouldn't even say that, it should be a dead article, since these are trolls.
> Nowadays we pay for it as we discover how important it is to have secure software.

I'm going to give a very controversial perspective here: Things like jailbreaks and homebrew on consoles are possible because of certain "security flaws" that are more common in languages like C and C++. If everyone used "safer" languages, wouldn't these become much rarer? If it weren't for this "insecurity", would our computing devices and software be even more locked-down and restricted against us and more control be put in the hands of large corporate entities or governments? Making software more secure against malicious attackers also makes it more secure against those fighting for freedom and control. The world is not quite so black-and-white...
I lived in NYC at one point, and I'd agree that the two cities are fundamentally different, but I think he missed what may be the biggest source of the difference: the proportion of people playing zero-sum games. A lot of the most ambitious people in NYC work in finance, whereas in SF hardly any do. Nearly all the most ambitious people in SF make money by creating things that other people are willing to pay them for. That means SF attracts different people than NYC, and changes people who live there in different ways.

You get the money later when you do that, which is another big reason people in SF don't spend so much. In finance you get paid as you go, and a lot of people in NYC spend it as they go. Indeed, friends who've worked in the finance industry have told me firms have a deliberate policy of encouraging new recruits to spend all their salaries and bonuses, as way of getting them hooked. Whereas in SF a lot of people's net worth is tied up in illiquid stock.
There's going to be a tipping point where 3D printers are good enough and new enough that you can turn a profit selling printed goods. Like any technological shift, people will flood the market, bringing down the profit sold by printed goods to 0.

Buying at the right time means that you can more than recoup your investment. I don't think we've reached that point yet.
I just left London for Paris based on:

- cost/quality of life favorable to Paris by a large margin

- France is 2nd biggest consumer market in Europe, giant opportunities still open there (like Germany)

- a gifted talent scene, among which many are short on capital/language to work elsewhere in Europe

- google campus is 2.5h away door to door

- buzzing US community here

- world hub for fashion and 3d

Yes, there are more of this in London:
- capital (London is a fiscal paradise)

- big startups

- middlemen (all things admin to outsource)

- flexible offices (this is changing fast though)

- English speakers

This article (and main character) feels like a giant whine/rant.

If you want a quick buck, London's great- though expect everyone to be working on a booking.com-like something or "Airbnb for x".

As for the next 2 decades, I bet that Paris and Berlin will take off just as smoothly.
Are you the one who called them out in the issue on C+= to which they responded with character attacks instead of a sensible argument? Thanks for doing that!
You missed the point of the quote - it's diversity between social groups, not between race. It's likely that all the employees in the tech sector are of a similar earning potential, a similar age, and have similar upbringings and home lives. This contrasts with the rest of the people living in the area, and causes problems.
Frozen Funds
" Video Only Job Board "

Have seen this attempted before, but the issues about potential discrimination always crops up. Hard to say you didn't pass over someone because of their appearance when the entire process is video-based.
There is quite some bullshit in this article, because the current government has not changed any law about creating a company (so we are exactly in the same state as before). Moreover it's merrily intermixing entrepreneurs problems with banking problems. And there is a little detail here: banking salaries are higher in London than in Paris and bankers are driven by money, so they emigrate massively in the pursuit of money. This has strictly no link to entrepreneurship, starting companies, or creating value from nothing, but hey, there is a complaint train, let's take it.

And you can see the intermix quite a few times (got his wealth in finance, he worked in finance, the google references), Place de la Madeleine, is exactly who Fleur Pellerin is not trying to help, this are different people doing different things. And if for anything, bankers are part of the problems entrepreneurs have.

So here is a nice little piece of context that was not in the article: here in France it's an election day today, and yesterday and today, political propaganda are forbidden in the country. The journalist is based in Paris, and has been for years, so she probably knew that nobody could answer to the article.
>One aside on new editions...

This is definitely true in the vast majority of cases. They take advantage of the fact that there are subjects like molecular biology that change significantly from year to year, even at the undergraduate level.
Just to follow up on your comment. For those less willing to use the apache module, there is always the pagespeed web service where you can change DNS to get this accomplished. (And utilize Google's CDN as well).

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service
|A charge back doesn't immediately make the merchant eat the cost. The merchant has a chance to rebuttal the dispute (show proof of purchase and delivery &c). If the merchant did nothing wrong the card issuer eats the cost,|

Absolutely, but it remains a strong consumer protection. Certainly a 'plus' on the consumer side at the end of the day.
I think the analysis is interesting, but I don't like the tone.

A few remarks:

> [...] All of the following assumptions are made by this model. [...]

> 8. Elites all have times a subsistence income, rather than a smooth distribution of incomes

> 9. Peasants all have , a subsistence income, rather than a smooth distribution of incomes

This kind of hypothesis are standard in a rough model. They simplify the model and with some luck they don't affect the result too much.

> 5. The elite class of humans preys on the peasants and produces nothing

This is not standard and has more ideological than empirical base. You can use this as a definition of "elite class" and then proclaim that wealthy=elite, ...

> There are more assumptions than this, but you get the idea: this model is ridiculous, over parameterized, and designed to get the answers that they did.

This is important. Overparameterization is a very strong red flag, unless you have a lot of empirical evidence to support each (most of) parameter.

> [Nafeez Ahmed in the Guardian's story] asserts that the paper actually compares historical civilizations using this model. It does nothing of the sort. The paper mention historical civilizations, but they don’t even make legalistic arguments that, say, the ancient Egyptians, whose civilization lasted for thousands of years, somehow follow these equations.
Why promote the full name, of what appears to be a troll account, whose intent is probably to cause division?
"There are tons of contracting jobs that are easy to do, but people think only ‘real programmers’ can solve valuable problems."

I see more the opposite - non-programmers attempting to solve problems (easy or hard) and making a huge mess of things. The video series might help people avoid these problems.
As another (mostly) ex-R user I have been trying to move to statsmodels, scikit-learn, etc. with pandas.

I still fire up R/RStudio with ggplot2 for more complicated plots though...