skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually read that years ago and had forgotten about it; I should read it again.

Maybe Catch-22 is another example? Yossarian is a pretty average soldier, from what I recall.
Ask HN: What if all banks had to be nonprofit?
I'm not asking how to go about putting in place such a restriction. Just imagine that you could. Wouldn't that solve a bunch of issues, i.e. fraud, asset bubbles, consumer exploitation via high-interest debt, etc.?

Reasoning is that the incentive for profit maximization would be removed and replaced with maximization of value to the service recipient. Companies (and individuals) would get the financing that works best for them, as opposed to the financing that makes the most money for the banks.
Why I Developed Tax Pain Relief
People can and do get laid off in the US with no severance.
We're talking about bricking a serial to USB chip, not something worth shedding blood really.

We're talking infrastructure: if this was a civil engineer designing a road to spontaneously create potholes that would flatten tires on certain brands of vehicles, they'd be put in the slammer post haste. FDTI has no idea where their chips and drivers will end up, and as designers of such low-level infrastructure type devices, it is criminally negligent to intentionally brick hardware. If I designed a file I/O library to randomly corrupt data when used on Windows, I'd be criminally negligent.

As far as unethical behavior by corporation is concerned I really not think it's even noteworthy.

Destroying other people's hardware to try to ensure your profits? No, not unethical or noteworthy at all.
Watch reality Chinese television with subtitles. You get both the visual confirmation alongside the sound. They can be kind of a drag to get through (esp if you're used to HBO-level stuff), but the benefit of reality TV is that you can miss parts of a conversation and not be completely confused as to what's going on as there is no real plot.
It shouldn't matter what their intent was. If the new version of a network driver accidentally started DDOSing servers, it should also be pulled, regardless of whether the vendor did it on purpose.
I don't care anymore, I just let emacs do the indenting for me. Even if it's actually wrong, like in the case of the if operator (emacs lisp if accepts more than one else expressions, but I never write more than one, so both branches should be indented the same).

No, the real problem is when people in the team don't all use emacs, then you have different "IDE" fighting for the right formatting and indentations.
Bracket Computing
I agree, I didn't call him entitled either. Maybe he lacked training or maybe not, and maybe he saved well or maybe not (he did last for 18 months in SF after he was laid off, after all).

No, I wouldn't call him entitled. If anything, I think he was deceived: he bought in to a social contract and it turned out he was more invested in it than his employer was.
Three wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner is also a direct democracy. Just saying ...
I think you're reading more into his comment than what was intended. He didn't ask, "Why don't these people just move to more affordable places and still work in San Francisco?"

I live in SF and I find it to be a really nice place, but if I was making minimum wage or anywhere near it, I'd never choose to live here. Those kinds of jobs are available in other parts of the country.
Thanks. I do appreciate what you have put together.
I am a little curious what motivate a person to send an email to me and say he is interested in the co-founder role. Idea alone?
Here's how I did it:

Listen a lot, as often as possible. Watch TV and movies - there are many on Youtube and Youku. I like to convert interviews from Youtube into mp3s and listen to them during the day during down time. Pick a character in these shows and try to imitate their accent (stick to someone your own gender). Try not to read the subtitles (even the Chinese subtitles).

If you want to go further, strip out voice clips from these TV and movies and put them into an SRS system (Anki, Mnemosyne, etc...).
A German professor once told me German is actually harder to learn than Chinese.
+1 for LightRaft. It works everywhere on the web, and is unmoderated/uncensored. The quintessence of free speech.
The reason for the double standard is obvious though: no once cares about rich people's problems. I say that slightly tongue-in-cheek, but there's a legitimate social problem here. Rents in SF could not grow so out of control without the income disparities also growing. Of course a city is not a closed population, so a good portion of the problem comes from rich people disproportionately moving to San Francisco, but even with that it's clear that on a national level income inequality is increasing in a very de-stabilizing way and SF is a microcosm of those dynamics.

Unlike previous economic booms of the 19th and 20th centuries, there is no mediating factors such as a massive need for human labor or a common cultural belief among the mega-wealthy in a moral duty towards philanthropy, or even just simple taxation. Automation is getting so sophisticated that these days a lot of productivity gains come from deploying capital to automate things (software being a part of this), and not only do all the gains accrue to the capital holders, but the gains are taxed much less than regular income.

So the deck is stacked heavily in favor of people coming in and flipping SF property for massive profits simply by virtue of holding the capital to be able to do so. The fact that they get one unannounced tax curveball thrown their way is not someone that remotely compares to someone choosing a profession and working their whole life only to find that rents quadrupled in a 5-year period. The answer is not "sorry buddy, you should have been a banker or a computer programmer, but I hear Modesto is still pretty reasonable"; there aren't enough such jobs to maintain a middle class that way.
It's maddening, too, because nobody ever just tells you the actual shares. EVERYONE says, "You'll get 50,000 options!" My answer is always, "Okay, and what percentage of the company is that?" and the answer is always, "Um... I'd have to go look it up."

Just once, I'd like someone to provide that information for me proactively. It would instantly increase my estimate of their integrity by 150%.
Meh. The newer landlords will realize what the rest of us have know for years. You'd be crazy to be a landlord in SF.

Which, of course, is part of the problem.
It's interesting to consider from a legal perspective exactly why this isn't something a company is allowed to do. (Assuming the company did in fact intentionally damage people's chips, reversibly or not -- sounds like we don't know for sure yet?)

- Intentionally sabotaging someone's stuff, legally, is more or less the same as intentionally taking it. Keying a car and driving it away might have different names but are on the same scale.

- There ain't no self help. If you think someone else's stuff should actually be your stuff, your path is through a court.

- We don't fix things with injunctive relief that can be fixed with money. When Apple proves that Samsung violated a patent or vice versa, we don't collect and burn all the infringing phones, we just make someone cut a check. Because we are not idiots.

- The "someone" who cuts the check is Samsung or Apple, not their customers. As far as I know no one's managed to go after end users, even in extreme cases like a $10 designer handbag where the buyer obviously knows it's not real. (And it's at best unclear whether going after the buyers would make any sense, even in those extreme cases -- if someone pays knockoff prices for a knockoff product, it's the seller and not the buyer who has ill-gotten gains. There might be some additional reputation damage and lost profits that the buyer is complicit in, but it makes a lot more sense to me -- and apparently everyone else -- to make the seller pay for those as well.)

- When you do go after the seller of trademarked goods and want to seize those goods, we actually have a procedure for that -- Section 34 of the Lanham Act.[1] Which includes a whole bunch of protections like swearing out an affidavit, getting permission from a judge, informing the attorney general, posting a bond to cover damages, conducting the seizure through government agents, and keeping the seized items in the custody of the court. It's very much unlike showing up at someone's house and breaking their stuff.

(I am a lawyer; I am not a trademark lawyer; I just googled some stuff based on vague memories from law school to write this.)

[1] http://www.bitlaw.com/source/15usc/1116.html
Facebook is not uniformly blocked everywhere in China. I have friends in different regions of China occasionally gain access.

As for Zuckerberg's Mandarin, well done, but he needs to work on his accent and tones.
My wife knew a person in college who got paid for their blood, something like $500 a month. Not enough to retire on, but a nice second source of income.
One example -> the city of San Francisco offers bus tickets home for homeless people who have relatives or friends in another town who are willing to take them in. The program is called "Homeward Bound."

Source: http://www.sfhsa.org/79.htm
it seems that this fear has become limiting

A network of friends and family for such things as childcare and temporary accomodation is worth dollars. If you can leave your son/daughter with their grandmother while at work or can find a couch at a friend's house while between jobs you can put up with lower local wages. To move elsewhere, the new job would have to pay enough for childcare and to allow to build a cushion of savings.

A sympathetic ear and a can of beers is also worth a lot. Often, on this board, we read of burnout and nervous breakdowns.

The decision not to move doesn't seem to come from fear, on the contrary, it's rational, elsewhere life isn't going to be better, and very possibly worse. At the low end of the wage spectrum there is no opportunity left anywhere in the nation.
I use LastPass every day now. Everything about it makes sense (including git versioning for all your passwords). Thanks!
The Hard-to-Tell Story of the High School Classroom
I don't think the Ellis Act allows you to break a lease. It just allows the owner to not have to conform to certain aspects of the rent control law. In most places that aren't rent controlled the leasee doesn't have the option for perpetual renewal in the contract. If the leasee meets all of the stipulations of the contract then he is entitled to live there until his lease expires. The landlord is obligated to perform certain services in regard to the lease and entitled to rent as long as he performs those services. Seems to work everywhere else without the problems listed in the article.
At 52, he had no such notion at all, I can virtually guarantee it. That employment model, predicated on strong unions in most cases, was well on its way to oblivion in the mid 80s, and by the time he was actively working, say in the late 80s/early 90s it was on life support. By that time there were vanishingly few people who though they were going to GM or US Steel for a lifetime job with a pension. This millennial vs. the 50-year-old thing is crazily ahistorical.
For those who thought if this was legit and genuine or a smart phishing attempt, it is legit: http://blog.lastpass.com/2014/10/open-sourced-lastpass-comma...
Yes. If housing is so damn expensive where you live, go somewhere else. It's really that simple.
what if you have been invited to be a co-founder role? I guess I shouldn't expect developers to have the same passion as I do. I hope the interested co-founder candidate should have some passion about the domain. I feel that it is very difficult for a co-founder to stick with the project if he/she don't agree this project is solving some problem he/she cares about.
inbox-0 or not, it is still very helpful to use the multiple inbox feature in gmail [0], I've separated mine into "inbox", "follow up", "upcoming events", "to read". this way the screen is utilized better and i can actually see agenda.. also archive them after moving so that inbox only has items that still need attention.. Most people probably don't realize the cognitive effort they waste on re-parsing the same messages in inbox over and over and over again.

I also tried to engineer a sort of self-destruction messages. The kind that are relevant for a day or few but don't need to be kept. I added the rules to mark those as "disposable" and once in a while i just nuke them from my inbox. This is still a manual step so it would be nice if something like a self destructive message label was invented in case el Goog is watching this

[0] http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-t...
And long commutes mean you're very exposed to gas prices. When our next little middle east adventure starts, or isis wins in iraq, or putin uses oil prices to negotiate with the EU, or whatever it is, the same folks whose FYIGM attitude means people who can't handle their housing prices doubling in 5 years have to leave -- will be saying, "They should have known not to get a long commute and expose themselves to gas prices like that."
Lessons from the Science of Nothing at All
I am happy to be home at anytime if it means I get Fibre. As OP mentioned these technologies are only really suitable in specific cases such as in apartment buildings. In a suburban environment no one will ever see gigabit speeds.
Giant video headers are a terrible trend, its akin to flash intros but at least then it wouldn't cause your eye to constantly drift to the background making it hard to navigate and use the page.
Yeah, I never really understood how they justified the prices on their chips when you could literally code the same thing in a week or two on a micro which was half the price. About the only reason I see to use them is they have quite neat pre-made cable assemblies.
Man, I need to get in to the real estate/rental site business. Every day another acquisition.
Things of the Internet – Awesome Internet, Random Times
I don't quite get it. The Co-founder role is for marketing and sales.
New Rule: I'm officially done with artificially segregating people into "cool people" who have an invite and the rest of us who have to get in line.

Simple was the worst offender-- I should have known with the multi-year wait, to be capped off by bigoted comments from a cofounder to me on twitter (about an unrelated matter. But hey, your CxO makes a bigoted comment- I'm no longer your customer!)

But it's not just Simple, it's google with the wave invites, google with the gmail invites going back when, google with the orkut invites, google with the Plus invites, etc.

No more, Google.
As Knuth pointed out, "computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
Your post should be voted top, it's the most informative. I've spent the whole day scratching my head. The power8 confusion in many ways reminds me of the p4 netburst architecture, not architecturally in any way, but in the sense that "when they are good they are really good". But both by and large are not any great shakes.
Thanks for remembering me. It goes pretty well for product development. We have 6000 market vendors information now. We also build some tool for market organizers.
so basically google wave for those born after 2009?
I know a tiny bit of Mandarin and listened to the first couple of minutes. The first three big laughs seem to be when he looks unsure when asked why he decided to study Chinese, when he says that his wife's grandmother was shocked to hear him speak Chinese, and when he says that Chinese is hard. It's not so much that he tells jokes as that he has an encouraging, sympathizing audience (but what do I know, maybe there are jokes later).
To do the trick, you have to add the account as "not an alias" (you will have to add the gmail smpt and so) and later, select the reply "Reply from the same address to which the message was sent".
Highly impressed. I used to brush him off as just another wunderkind who got lucky. In retrospect, his business acumen, especially when acquiring Instagram for a then pricely sum of a billion dollars has made me realize that he truly is special.
Right. That would be the trademark infringement I mentioned. But aside from that, the fakes get the job done. Aside from who ends up getting the revenue, it's basically no different than if FTDI started producing a new revision of the product that had a different internal layout. Accidental second-sourcing doesn't really hurt anyone other than the first source. Everyone downstream of whoever bought the counterfeits is innocent, and even the company that procured the counterfeits has probably only made forgivable mistakes given that the counterfeits are near-perfect substitutes. The supplier of the counterfeits is guilty of trademark infringement, but is otherwise fulfilling all their obligations to provide the required component.
Someone in the linked thread recommended the Cypress CY7C65213 and posted a link where Cypress claims it is a direct pin-for-pin compatible replacement that doesn't need proprietary drivers: http://www.cypress.com/?rID=83118

It's also cheaper; $2.44 for one and it goes down to $1.44 for 2500: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/CY7C65213-32LTXI/CY...
> My problem is this: a lot of tech companies, based outside San Francisco go out of their way to make it easy for employees to live in SF and get to work outside of it.

This is not accurate, for two reasons.

First off: Many of the peninsula cities (where these tech companies are located) make it even harder to build housing, especially for immigrants. Most of the housing in cities like PA and MV are single family homes that cost upwards of seven figures. You can't even afford that on your average tech salary; the only reason the people living there can afford it is because they moved in before the prices rose so much.

The second, something I only learned recently, as of Sept 30th of this year, companies in the Bay Area with over 50 employees are legally required to either subsidize public transit for their employees, or provide their own (source: https://commuterbenefits.511.org/). Painting Google busses as "going out of their way to make it easy for employees to live in SF" is (at least as of last month) not accurate
Yeah, it would probably bother me less if it were possible to find a job in a reasonable amount of time. Everyone I know who lost a job recently couldn't find work for months. Any reliable trade I can think of takes years to learn if you're apprenticed full-time, so how could I pick that up on the side?

It doesn't help that, even though I went to a pretty nice college, the "career center" encourages resume-spamming as a good way to find a job. And they have completely ass-backwards advice for what to put on a resume - they're very buzzword-focused. I'd like to think I have marketable skills but I never learned how to market them effectively. I've been working on it but how do I know it will work until I really need a new job? And what if the economy gets worse before then? For that matter, how do I know what skills are in demand right now?
Thanks Tangokat, We've heard this a bunch. Just for my notes, what keyboard are you using and what is the shortcut on that keyboard?
Are you aware of any open source implementation of it? I am working on a Scala `Uncertain[T]` library...
Yeah, to be honest, clientside could easily get more complex than the backend in some cases.. happened a lot of time to me in Django with Angular.
An incredible account of WWI trench warfare - fascinating and extremely intimate - was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel for those interested
The UI looks a lot like Twitter.

That doesn't attract me for some reason.
Just in case you didn't see it, and weren't just talking about composing new emails, there is an option in the settings to send replies from the account that received the email.
Ok, propose an alternative scheme of executive pay. Does it work? How about the head of the French Red Cross or Doctors without Borders: how does their pay compare?
As a backend dev I must state: "fuck javascript"
The CP2102 - CP2104 will do 250k; the CP2101 will not. Also, the CP2102 and CP2103 have a fixed table of rates (one of which is 250k) while the CP2104 can do arbitrary rates (within reason, see section 6.1 for details: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/cp21...).
E-mail is constantly changing.
And yet this thread will be filled with tech employees shitting on those less fortunate than themselves.

And what tech ceo is showing up at city council meetings up and down the peninsula demanding more housing, or in any fucking way using the platform their job gives them to help even their own employees, let alone other people in their communities?

Ladies and gentlemen, DanBlake:

If you are a 90 year old grandmother who was counting on your landlord not
evicting the whole building, you should have known that was a risky bet to
begin with. [1]

Yup. Fuck grannie -- why didn't she anticipate rental prices doubling in 5 years?

TheAceOfHearts:

Why don't these people just move to more affordable places? [2]

Piss on off out of your community, family, job, network, etc etc etc.

DannyBee:

Because people believe that once they've lived somewhere long enough, they
have a right to live there forever. [3]

Yup, it's a mystery why people living in sf don't like tech employees. It's literally stunning fyigm isn't more popular with the community!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8495124

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8494967

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8495015
Not exactly a secret
Are the startups allowed to decline the follow-on funding? Without that, run a mile

If I was a year or so into a startup, had already taken on ~$170k in funding for ~15% of my startup, and shown enough traction to be judged the most promising startup, then I very much doubt that I'd either see ~$150k as either a fair valuation for another 10% of my startup or a useful amount of capital to raise.
(Also, with the approximate numbers you've provided, it effectively represents a "down round" compared with the last tranche of funding which is an odd way to reward the best startup in the batch)
I got a build working on OS X (mountain_lion, mavericks, yosemite) using homebrew,
see PR here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/33486/files
I love pass so much. Use it every single day on Cygwin. I remember getting it to work in Cygwin. Fun stuff.
If banks had to be non-profits, private citizens would invest their own money. Then these private citizens would license their money to private citizens or organizations for that purpose (to avoid the hassles of doing it themselves). Which is essentially the system we have now.

Unless you're talking about splitting investment and commercial banking.. Look into the Glass-Steagall act.
I like the weather channel's hourly weather forecast. clean, simple and runs on desktop and mobile. Also fairly accurate - will i need an umbrella by the time my evening commute hits? by the time i am coming home from dinner, etc? And I can link right to it.

http://www.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/graph/10011
I'm an inbox-zero-er (and Googler) and I love using Inbox for that exact reason - it makes it even easier for me to deal quickly with emails I don't want to touch (e.g. promotional), and snooze emails I can't act on immediately so they'll come back next week or whenever I need to follow up on them.

That means I can have an even more focused inbox that just contains things I need to think about / respond to right now.

In comparison, I still use regular gmail for my work email and I have maybe a dozen emails sitting in there that I don't need to do anything about right now but need to follow up on soon.

IMHO, Inbox basically takes the stuff that inbox-zero folks had to learn to do manually, and makes a lot of it automated. It's particularly great on mobile.