skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone's paying the sky-high residential rents; it sure seems like it's top-compensated tech workers.

See also: Google, Apple, Facebook, et al running comfy buses for SF residents to their distant HQs.

And now the Reddit board is another data point. They didn't trust their CEO's call, unless they got more proof about employee retention after choosing a non-SF location.
Hey, how come this is not yet on the homepage? my last post is weirdly stuck in newest as well... Any pb with the posts are picked up for homepage?
It's much cheaper to work and live in Daly City than in San Francisco. It's probably a lot easier to expand there as well. If you buy office space in San Francisco, you either buy just enough for your current team with some wiggle room, or you buy as much as you think you need for the entire time you plan to remain there, which may be 2 or 3x the size of your current needs. It costs a lot of money to own property you're not fully utilizing, but companies do it, many sub-lease the space to offset the cost, but for smaller companies, this means they move offices pretty frequently. My company is in their third office in just the past year :P
I don't think Ruby is targeted at beginners or newbies if thats what you're implying. The language seems simple at first, but once you start delving into the features that make it a dynamic language it is quite deep.
Your description also leaves out the strictly optional, but common 3rd stage of a thermonuclear device: the thick Uranium blanket surrounding the entire assembly. Even "depleted" U-238 will undergo fast neutron fission, which the deuterium / tritium fusion reaction produces in extreme abundance. In most TN weapons, most of the explosive yield results from fission of the Uranium blanket, not the fusion reaction. In a "neutron bomb", or "enhanced radiation warhead", neutrons are the desired product rather than explosive yield, so these typically omit the U casing.

Richard Rhodes' "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" provides an excellent description and paper bibliography.
Seriously end the hero worship.
Reading what Sam wrote, the board didn't tell Yishan no. They just wanted him to add up the effects it would have. Which isn't just reasonable, it's a requirement if you're any kind of responsible corporate steward. You don't move on a whim, you have the pluses and minuses all figured out.

And no offense, but I find it hard to believe anyone other than Yishan and the board (and maybe some other investors) is privy to all the conversations they had.

It wouldn't be at all surprising if board members are 'nicer' to a ceo in front of employees than they are in private. It'd be kind of surprising if they weren't.
Eh, I don't view it as a hassle - I view it as a progress check. My savings is important to my future, and checking the budgets, etc. helps keep me on track.

Point taken on the attack surface area, that's definitely something I've always been worried about, and I have no counter.
Here's the funny thing: If you had 6kg of U-235 and through it forcefully on the ground it would most likely explode. This almost happened at Las Alamos. All the machinery in nuclear fission bomb essentially just to protect unintentional explosion and make sure explosion is symmetrical and as vigorous as possible when triggered. The triggering mechanism is essentially firing usual explosives around the sphere of fission material.
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I never said I was privy to the board conversations. My reasonings had to do with the PR events that some believe may have contributed to the board's feelings for Yishan as a competent CEO.
> America's adversaries will continue to identify and exploit these vulnerabilities. So legislation that keeps this information out of the hands of our defense/intelligence community would really only serve to weaken us relative to our enemies, rather than making us safer.

Encouraging freelancers to find vulns and sell them to the highest bidder also makes us less safe. It also encourages vulns to be created in projects for the purpose of later selling them.

Secondly, the American point of view on this is colored by the fact the US has never been the target of a cyberweapon of the power of stuxnet, designed to cripple a large and critical military or industrial system.
Seriously I would consider Musk an Co have achieved several of their goals. Each one being the step on the way to a bigger goal.
Yes, I think you are being cynical. If grocers wanted people to use fewer bags, they didn't need to ask the government to create a new tax. They could have simply started charging for them, which would have reduced demand AND they'd get to keep all the nickels and dimes it brings in AND there's no risk of a fine for forgetting to do it.

Also I wouldn't assume that a ban would be more effective than a tax.
I'm surprised this story got so many comments (I flagged it, and I rarely flag.) It seems like a minor internal dispute between an conscientious employee and their bad, less-conscientious manager, over a very small amount of money.

I can't detect a larger issue involved here except that when people screw up in a way that loses money, they will sometimes try to come up with a way to cover their ass rather than admit it and attempt to rectify it and therefore show everyone that they messed up.

Whoever posted it has exposed Amazon to a lawsuit, though. When eventually negotiating to fix this quietly with Discover, Amazon will be at a serious disadvantage.
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According to reports, the co-pilot was still in the cockpit section (seated and strapped in) on impact with the ground.
I think the reason this sort of research doesn't jive on HN is because most HN readers/commentators know how difficult it is to isolate a variable and distinguish between correlation and causation. It's a healthy skepticism IMO. We question the assumptions and methodologies of studies before we accept their conclusions as fact.
> It also works in reverse

Circular reasoning
Bump :D
I downvoted you.

I suspect you will think that this is "the HN hivemind", but actually it's over your meta-comments about HN and attempts to assign motivations to things you have no way of knowing.

Just so you know..
When I lived in the East Bay, it would be really hard to accept a move to Daly City (from downtown SF), because it's another 20 min each way. And East Bay BART riders wouldn't even have to change trains! For CalTrain riders, it's a doubling of the commute or more.
So removed one ching-chong and bringing another. What's the difference ?

Also, are people stupid enough to believe that he is quitting over location dispute.

Its bigger , way bigger. Women in tech. My ass !

Welcome to preparation of 2016 !!
And here's a blog post from a year ago on Chroma.js that goes into a bit of detail about why it matters and some demos: https://vis4.net/blog/posts/mastering-multi-hued-color-scale...
Aren't the reddit demographics, like O'Reilly, 'richer, whiter, older'? (also kinda racist and sexist, so that's more points of convergence).
These aren't for sale yet (and not necessarily even possible) but would make a great use case for immersion cooling. Intel is currently offering selling the passively cooled 8GB 1-TeraFlop Xeon Phi 31S1P for $125 for purchases of 10 or more ($175 for one):

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/special-promotion-...

Additional technical discussion of the 2-phase immersion cooling approach is here:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Could-64-Teraflops-Xeon-Phi-...
Nothing.

Remember: this was done the first time in less than four years, from 9 October 1941 to 16 July 1945, using technology from the stone age.

No solid-state electronics beyond crude diodes. No electronic computation. Approximate estimates on most of the cross-sections. Hopeful guesses on many of the processes (including multiply redundant approaches to some things, including the basic design, because people weren't sure what would work or what would be possible to build.)

Today, a team of reasonably intelligent engineering students with a budget of a few billion dollars could build a bomb in a year, simply because they would know vastly more than the original team.

Again: it took three years and $2 billion ($30 billion in today's dollars) to build the very first bomb from scratch knowing almost nothing about the process and having to custom build and design and invent almost every component.

To suggest that any particularly rare expertise today would be required or that the cost would be more than a tenth of the original development is implausible.

Remember this the next time you hear about Iran's nuclear program, which has been going on for twenty years, supposedly in mad pursuit of nuclear weapons. It's a ridiculous claim: if the Iranians wanted a Bomb very badly they would have one by now. If they don't have one by now the only reasonable conclusion is that they don't want one very badly.

The extreme disapprobation they get from the rest of the world on this issue may well contribute to their tepid enthusiasm, but no amount of Stuxnet and the like is going to put a dent in a strongly committed program. The Iranian's commitment just isn't that strong.

Gas centrifuge technology in particular has been a game-changer in the lowering the nuclear bar over the past couple of decades. People were warning about it in the '80's, and their warnings seem to have had some prescience. It makes practical enrichment of natural uranium to weapons grade, bypassing the need for a reactor program to breed plutonium, and all the nasty, difficult chemistry involved in plutonium extraction.

And unlike plutonium weapons, uranium weapons are ridiculously easy to detonate. Trinity was a plutonium test. Little Boy was one of the very few uranium weapons ever detonated, and it was live tested because the scientists were as certain as anything it would actually explode.

There are uraninite (pitchblende) ores that are getting on for 10% uranium, or 0.07% 235U, so a tonne of ore would yield 7 kg of 235U. It'll only get worse as seawater extraction gets better (it's already capable of producing macroscopic amounts of uranium from the relatively uranium-rich Japan Current, although post-Fukushima the primary research, which was Japanese, has likely been curtailed.)

Processing a couple of tonnes of ore is sub-industrial. It isn't that hard to hide. On the other hand, if countries want to go the plutonium route, plutonium producing reactors aren't hard to hide either: the Russians were running them underground--a few hundred metres below the surface--in the 80's and 90's.
Craigslist used to be...

...the largest real estate site in the world.

...the largest dating site in the world.

...one of the largest job sites in the world.

It's now an also ran in everyone of those categories. They lost every single major market they were the dominant player in. This isn't Craiglist winning, it's Craiglist losing.
Git is so easy a good search for "git tutorial" returns 2.7 million results. I've lost track of how man HN Front Page posts there have been trying to explain just how easy git is. The sheer volume of posts desperately trying to show how easy git is should be enough evidence to prove that it is infact not easy, simple, or intuitive.
Using a biological metaphor to study memes is actually an ongoing debate. This strategy has been questioned by some researchers [1], while others (me included) found that it fits the observation quite nicely [2]. I haven't much more to say than "We just need more research". Sorry if it is not very enlightening :-)

My rationale for this paper comes from the fact that the usage image macro templates is pretty stable, as observed with two years worth of data. I have previous work [3] where I use image macro memes and I show evidences of competition, collaboration, clustering tendencies (which could be interpreted as the creation of proto-organisms, more research needed). On top of those observations, I find that these image macros satisfy at least the weakest requirements to be considered a proper subject to be studied.

Bear in mind the difference between what I call a "meme implementation" (the image with superimposed text, like in http://i.imgur.com/j9CTxt8.jpg) with the "meme template" (in this case the collection of all Socially Awkward Penguins). The latter is the one that's relatively stable, the former is very dynamic. In a paper I just submitted I analyze meme usage in Reddit's post titles and I observe just that. So that's definitely going too low.

[1] E.g. Weng, L., Flammini, A., Vespignani, A. & Menczer, F. Competition among memes in a world with limited attention. Scientific reports 2, 335; doi:10.1038/srep00335 (2013)

[2] E.g. Adamic, L., Lento, T., Adar, E. & Ng, P. Information evolution in social networks. http://www.ladamic.com/papers/infoevolution/MemeEvolutionFac...

[3] Michele Coscia: Competition and Success in the Meme Pool: A Case Study on Quickmeme.com. ICWSM 2013
You can't derive the front page or an individual story's rank from the displayed score and timestamp alone. That's on purpose, as an anti-gaming measure.

I'm going to mark this subthread off-topic now. If you have questions like this, please don't post them here, but rather email hn@ycombinator.com, as the guidelines ask.
Thanks for not requiring my home address and current blood-sugar levels to install the android app!
It's super interesting anyways. I wonder if it has anything to do with trust? Maybe Yishan felt like this was a decision that was up to the CEO, and got annoyed when the Board asked Yishan to do due diligence. Did Yishan see this as the last straw in a string of challenges by the board -- or maybe that it was indicative of how the Board would challenge his decisions going forward?
I've heard that in Denmark they actually have an over 100% recovery rate because of bottles and cans coming in from other countries. If I remember right they charge $1 for deposit.
The divided country examples of west Germany versus east Germany, south Korea versus North Korea, south Vietnam (an especially poorly governed country, but still) versus north Vietnam, and Taiwan (or Hong Kong) versus mainland China all suggest that free market economies in general do better for all their people than centrally planned economies. The recent economic growth in China resulted from basically relaxing central planning in several keys areas of the economy on the examples of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Does AWS Lambda supports cron-like periodic triggers?
Not poor design, the Feather System has to be unlocked at some point. And testing it early, at Mach 1.4 might be a really good idea before you (I assume) commit to needing it.

And there's a good possibility removing its contribution to the center of pressure too early is what caused the destruction.
It's not really a 'new' team, though, it's people who were already very close to Reddit.
So why was that data pushed "randomly" into the updates queue? Or put another way why was it random rather than happening all of the time?
Interesting read. Thank you.
Actually, there are regulations in SF about leasing space you don't actually need. I don't know all the details, but my employer just moved to a new Soma office and we were prohibited from having a huge meeting space, and instead had to partition it and use some as workspace.
It is in the roadmap.
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H-bomb works like this: You need to initiate fusion. For this you actually don't need Uranium or Plutonium, you just want fusion to occur in Hydrogen. However fusion only occurs when temperatures are extremely high and kept that way for small slice of time. This can be achieved by - guess what - firing fission bombs (i.e. regular atomic bomb)! However you can't start fusion by firing just one atomic bomb because fusion material will just fly off. You want fusion material to experience extreme pressures and temps. So - again guess what - we fire two or more nuclear bombs precisely at the same time with fusion material in the center. Another way is to use reflector so that energy from fission can be concentrated on fusion material. That's pretty much it. So each H-bomb may carry one or more regular A-bombs.

A side story, which is the most amazing part, is that this whole process was worked out as mathematical theory and huge amount of time and money spent on the faith that math would work out. The math was so complicated that physicists needed computers to do that. That was back in late 40s and computers used valves and almost never worked. The story is that they finally gave up on computer and physicists would sat through many many days and nights calculating everything by hand and double checking. And all that finally worked exactly what math had predicated.
So, the solution is to just not even ask? Honestly, if you are going to lose the domain anyway, what's the harm in asking once?
Social media is broken
I felt like it was a joke. "I'm the shit - look what I did with Reddit in only 8 days, grew it 5x more than Reddit."
I believe it's this: https://www.reddit.com/user/ekjp
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You stupid white-knight , are you this much desperate for Pussy ? Read with open fucking eyes.

No wonder why your country is fucked up.
sure no problem
A street musician is not a business. Shopping malls and the like are most definately businesses and they certainly charge their customers (the retailers) a great deal.

The whole reason that tech businesses can get away without charging their customers is their customers are not the people using the product. If you are cynical their customers are investors (and they certainly charge them). If you are less cynical the customers are some future user of the product. Tech is certainly an unusual business sector.
Your take on this is colored by the assumption that the US has a permanent lead in all these types of weapons. Aspects of handling bio-weapons can be more capital equipment intensive than making cyber-weapons, but I bet it cost tens of millions in hardware to test Stuxnet, where testing a bioweapon could be very cheap. Virus particles and bacteria can be very durable in plain glass vials and can be "shelf stable." At first-tier player level, I doubt the costs differ by orders of magnitude.
Now I'm in Calafate (glaciers). I didn't do any proper climbing on this trip, but I did a bunch of hiking. Doing a glacier hike tomorrow too!
He also donated the the University of Oregon for obesity research and general scholarships. Considering that's the top killer in most industrialized countries (obesity, not scholarships), it's tough to find fault there. I don't think he's putting all his eggs in one basket.

Once again, the top comment on a HN post is critical. No matter what it is; even donating huge sums of money to universities.
Well there was that big tada about MS/Docker, now this...

A lot of good things happening in Redmond right now.

Now if they can somehow fix this upcoming Lync is now Skype Business business, I'll be really impressed.
Sam , yes we believe you. YC and Reddit are only good heart people in entire tech community.

Reddit is most hatred spreading website on internet. I wish they run it to the ground.
I read the paper† and I have to admit the statistics ("multilevel generalized estimating equations with a negative binomial distribution and a robust estimator covariance") is over my head, but to me it kind of sounds like they couldn't find any results with a simple model, so opted for something more complex. Also some of these results are kind of fishy.

Across all countries, FWHR only had a marginally significant association with fouls committed (B=.291, 95 % CI: [−.040, .622], p=.085). When these effects were examined separately for defenders, midfielders, and forwards, the relationship between FWHR and fouls were in a negative, nonsignificant direction in defenders (B=−.361, 95 % CI: [−.841, .119], p=.140), a positive direction for midfielders (B=.449, 95 % CI: [.015, .884], p=.043), and a more robust positive direction for forwards (B=.935, 95 % CI: [.401, 1.469], p=.001).

So if you are a defender FWHR and fouls are negatively correlated, but if you are a forward FWHR and fouls are positively correlated? That just seems confusing, and doesn't at all support the conclusion that "high FWHR is associated with more aggressive behavior."

† http://www.researchgate.net/publication/264545489_An_Examina...
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Welp, I'm taking my email out.
Maybe they are, but there are hurdles in getting them to market. Here's an example about Merck's suvorexant.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/09/the-big-sleep-2
This destroys heroku, right?
<vim user here>
What did you expect from an operating system disguised as an editor?
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Jokes apart IMHO the only editor comparable to VIM is Emacs :-)
Had it happened in all cases, I'd have noticed it (I hope!) before pushing it to the live site.

This was a case of rare error handling having unintended side effects. The profiles were only published in one very unlikely case.
Maybe a part of the solution to the highly competitive job market could have been not annoying your current employees by forcing them to move to a city with poor public transit?

Was that board's decision, or Wong's?
Welcome to preparation of 2016 !

Started with propaganda of Women in tech. My ass !
In a situation like this don't trust the manager to have an unbiased take on the matter anymore than the employee. I've known bosses who disliked an employee for personal reasons and managed to convince themselves that the employee was lazy/incompetent/whatever else as a justification for firing them.
It's not about eco-karma or mamacorps, and it's not actually a fee/tax.

It simply prevents the fact that if you give something for free, people will waste it - it's a consumerist instinct.

I've lived through both conditions and I found horrifying how people would take large amounts of bags, at stores, and napkins, at restaurants, just because they were free.
Set a minimal fee, and clients will start to take just what they need, and no more (which paradoxically, is the opposite instict - not to waste money).
The idea that all the easy to discover drugs have been found isn't really accurate. What's actually happening is that the FDA has signaled that they are going to do slightly more to make sure drugs targeting the general public are reasonably safe and actually plausibly work, and so the drug manufacturers have basically just given up in trying to pass even this minimal bar. This is why they are all targeting rare diseases, not because they are inherently more profitable to treat, but because the FDA bar for safety and efficacy is lower.
Sam Peltzman's book "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" shows, with statistics, that the 1962 FDA requirements that drugs be proved to be effective has resulted in a dramatic slowdown of new and effective drugs, caused by the high cost of proving effectiveness.

He also shows that the ineffective drugs prevented from coming to the market are far outweighed by the effective ones that are delayed or never developed at all.