skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to write code in my free time before I married and had kids. I used to do a lot of stuff in my free time before then.

For a self-insured employer, the fact that I have a family makes me more expensive to employ. Hiring only young, single males or young, single, and sterile females allows them to raise base salary offers without inflating total compensation.

But they are not allowed by law to use the size of my family against me in the hiring process. Technically. Practically speaking, they do it anyway, and the law is unenforceable. If there's a potential legal problem, it's easy to fall back on the "not a good cultural fit" cushion.

If you don't expect someone to be contributing to their github repo on the clock, on your dime, don't check it as a criterion for employment.
Ask HN: Personalized news based upon social media history (feed )
Is there exists personalized news apps based upon social media history ( tweets, Facebook statuses etc ). I am a regular reader of Google News in my android phone. They make use of our history and suggestion in order to have more personalized news feed. Similarly i think social media activities can play an important role towards having personalized news tweets.

Please comment if you agree with my hypothesis

Also please comment if there exists such app

Thanks
This is simple supply and demand. Everyone from liberal economist Paul Krugman [1] to SF board of supervisors member Scott Wiener [2] agrees that California and bay area housing policies are horrible. The only people who actually like these policies are the people who are benefiting from them, typically because they moved to a neighborhood decades ago and are either on rent control or "rent control for property tax" (aka Proposition 13).

The solution is simple. Set aside a square mile in each city on the peninsula and zone it such that it is illegal to build a building of less than 10 stories. At the same time, and more importantly, repeal both proposition 13 and rent control statutes.

For step 3, sit back and watch the California economy go into turbo drive as there is a massive construction boom, which funnels money away from rich landlords and into the pockets of ordinary construction workers and the service workers that support both them and the engineers the region's wealth is built on.

1 - http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent-...
2 - https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/yes-supply-demand-apply-to-...
"I believe that even with optimal housing growth there would not be enough real estate to comfortably house the current lower-middle class population of SV"

The word optimal is doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting here.
This guys startup almost died because he was incompetent and dishonest. New Republic documented it.... http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tec...

More than $500,000 in tax liabilities! $100,000 in unpaid legal bills! No workers comp for employees! All hidden from his cofounders on top of lies about his education.

Thats what passes for a startup these days??!

The companies that bent over to help this so called startup are fools.
Why is it so trendy these days to say that everything was built "with love"?
Ask HN: Thoughts on .ai domain?
Hi,

I am thinking of registering an .ai domain for a data science-centric Saas project of mine.

Could that be appropriate for a more tech-oriented audience?
Thanks for the feedback. The 37,000 is the number of toys being monitored by parents (i.e. added to the database by one of our users). The copy "Toys Being Monitored" definitely needs to be adjusted!

Thanks for pointing that out!

Also, regarding pricing: RecallBee is a pay-what-you-want service ;)
A matter of confidence and deserving better
Luxottica is _very_ litigious. 10+ years ago they would sue anybody selling their products on the web.
After digging around the store and url jumping, it looks like Google no longer sells the Nexus 5 nor 7 anymore. Interesting...
You would only turn on the runtime checks during testing.
my macbook has come up with with this STATUS_CODE_ERROR when trying to log in to App Store... when will it be back to normal or how can i fix it???
Google's CFO Quits in 'Perfectly Fine Midlife Crisis Full of Bliss and Beauty'
I'll have to admit that that sounded unnecessarily judgy. :)
This is very close to how LastPass works under the hood. You're storing an encrypted database on their service (just like DropBox in your case). They don't actually store your original master password.

The only legitimate security gripe I've ever read about LastPass (and people have focused its security a LOT) is that a bad guy can modify the JavaScript utilised by the extension if they took control of LastPass's servers, and have your plain text master password sent to a third party (assuming no cross-site protections).

The actual password database is fairly secure. As is the login process (which can further be strengthened with 2F and various options in the account settings).
Right. Now imagine you live in one of those cities. You're living comfortable as an engineer, etcetera. You have a community going on. Your city has its budget, its school system and so on. The city wants to allow permits to build as many houses as it can to drive the low enough to make them affordable for the homeless. Bear in mind you live in a very attractive part of the country, so homeless will be driven out of the market very quickly. That's a LOT of units. There are only limited public resources, and they can expand only so fast. If you care even a bit about community around the place you live, you know having tens/hundreds of thousands of people (who are likely not going to be long-time residents) moving straight in couple of years is not a good idea. You're going to vote against the city granting those permits. One would rather the city build low-income housing then let the swamped by new transplants.
I recently bought a ChromeBook for development (The $199 one). It's a super light linux machine that lasts for days. So I have all my dev tools and I can easily work on any git repo. I don't do any Chrome OS development.

I tried using a tablet for this, but as an emacs users, I have very specific keyboard bindings that the tablets always had issues with.
> some people feel VERY STRONGLY emotionally about where they live

Those feelings are a luxury. Taxpayers should not be forced to bear the cost of someone's emotional attachments.

I would prefer tax dollars be spent on relocation assistance + job placement to help get people on a sustainable path.
Assuming government resources are needed to be spent to help resolve this, would they not be put to better use helping individuals relocate to somewhere sustainable (especially those who would be making a living wage elsewhere) than to subsidize the difference year after year?
You could fix both issues by moving out of California. The children could get a good public education, and the parents could afford a house.
The major selling point is that it runs Windows which runs the software and games they want, and their old data. Try offering one with BeOS or even Linux and see how many you sell.
Fantastic, also support for Windows servers?
And how do you lots of files and 50tb of data?
Really, a complaint about somebody going through the effort of avoiding these complaints?
Seems my joke is out of date: we've actually hit the 1985 number again! Whee! Granted total degrees doubled over the interval and CS is virtually flat but whee!

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_322.10.as...
I can see the page from Germany, but the "BUY NOW" button
gives me a 404 page in German:

Die angeforderte URL wurde auf diesem Server nicht
gefunden. Weitere Informationen liegen nicht vor.
They don't say they did it because it was fun, only that it was fun. (To be fair, they also don't seem to say why they did do it.)
if it's something higher level it's probably clay.io- haven't seen that sort of performance from anything else
AFAIK the median/average age of founders is around 40.
I'm a 40+ Programmer making good money with a family of five. A year ago I thought long and hard about moving away. In the end, I decided to stay because we have family here. Here's my unsolicited advice: if you are less than 30 and don't plan on being a dual-income family, move away no matter how much income you have. It makes no financial sense to live in the Bay Area: your net worth will be entirely tied to your property which is risky compared to living somewhere else and having diverse investments and savings.

The advice makes sense for the rich as well as the poor.
MS didn't carry the Touch Cover through to the SP3, so it's down to just the mechanical keyboard now. Too much of a learning curve maybe? I only ever tried it out in Best Buy, but I couldn't type on them.
So we're talking baout knockoff frames.But many(or even most people who care about brands) don't like to buy knockoffs and prefer the real brand.So this will probably carry over to frames.
Because reality for the lower class is far more complicated than that. In theory, she should move elsewhere. In practice, its not nearly that easy - there's no certainty of a new job, no money to move, (well-placed) fear of losing what little safety net they have, etc.
I think it is thickly worded. Entire sections have nothing to with the technology you choose. I particularly liked the culture section.
The way you frame the argument is ignoring all the social, economic, and political problems that come with attempts to solve the issue. Rent control, for instance, has some serious issues that arguably negate the benefits that come from it.
Can it run Ubuntu? That is the first thing I would do to it.

I've done it with Acer C720 with i3 processor. Initially got it as a portable light machine used for travel. But now it kind of became my default. I used to lug around my trusty old Thinkpad T60.
FYI the time-lapse movie playing on the screen is TimeScapes (http://timescapes.org/), which is fascinating on big HD screens.
It should be possible to get working. All the drivers are in the chromiumos source repository. Until very recently X was used, so the X server should have the touch support. (Haven't tested on the new Pixel because I don't have one, but the old one, definitely.)

The kernel drivers are in src/third_party/kernel/v3.10 for first-gen pixel, and v3.14 for this one. If you're going to run your own Linux, I'd use that kernel rather than the one the distro provides. Or figure out what patches are different between the two, and cherry-pick those onto your distro's kernel.
Jesus, designing a usable ultrabook must be very difficult.

We have one contender from California, but their ideology has them offer just a single USB-C port. Now we get the competitor from Mountain View, who have rightly recognized the need for more than one fucking port when that's how you charge the damn thing, and what do they decide?

Oh yeah, we'll top out storage at 64GiB.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. It doesn't work fine, it's hijacking the back button behavior to not take me back to where I was.

And yeah, it's pretty harmless, and a neat hack, and I'm not trapped, but it seems a little scummy to me.
The "evidence" provided was pretty weak, IMO. I think the last option, a basic living allowance, is something we, as a country, are going to have to come to terms with. As manufacturing continues to automate, even the low skill jobs we offshore are at risk. It is unlikely everybody in the nation will be able to find employment as a knowledge worker or a service worker. That is the direction the world is heading, whether we want it to or not, and, even if they can all find employment, it's questionable what percentage of service workers can make sufficient to provide for their needs.

I prefer a minimum living stipend for a few reasons: It doesn't treat the poor like they are too stupid or too criminal to manage their own lives and their own money. It allows people the ability to move to more fulfilling (and more lucrative) employment by providing time for training. It protects kids without trying to transition parenting responsibility to the state. In general, it keeps the state out of people's lives, increasing their dignity.

Yes, there will still be homeless people. There will be people who squander the money. But there will be many who take advantage of it and build a better life for themselves and all of their posterity. And I prefer to bet on the general desire of people to better themselves.

The problem is I don't know how to get there from here.
Where can I file a bug? I'd love to be able to view the source on Github and create an issue.
Reasonable people can disagree on what constitutes good graphic design. Further, it has little to do with UI/UX. Even further, most UI/UX designers nowadays are focused on the result (the page), rather than doing a lot of the foundation work of creating the interaction model, etc.

I have little visibility into this field, but it strikes me as one with an awful lot of people stretching their self-description. Even amongst the hard core practitioners (UCD/HCI/human factors people), there are many charlatans who cargo cult.
Sorry if I've misunderstood. When I read passages like this[0]:

> Installing Ubuntu is not easy , either. By default the bootloader of Chromebooks are signed and locked.

I assume that the writer is correct.

[0]: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-12-04-up-and-runni...
It may not be infinite, but it is often larger than supply.
Are you suggesting they move to Latvia? The country just below us(US) in childhood poverty rates?
The "audience" or market for the Pixel are Googlers - hardly folks looking for a browser on steroids. Although that being said, I'm not sure "browser on steroids" is exactly a knock given what you can accomplish these days.
Why app store is not working today?
I am unable to download the apps from app store.
Doesn't appear to mention Lamport Timestamps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps) (Yes, THAT Lamport), which are one of the most elegant mechanisms to deal with the some of the discussed problems.
Chromebook Pixel, not Chromebook.
The new macbook in your link looks thicker than the old ones.
Ah, thank you for that. I may just start using these tricks in all my scripts :-)
"This may not be the most popular thing to say, but ... Just move?"

The other question is (don't know the answer) how many people who owned homes (instead of renting) were able to cash in in some way on rising property values?

My guess is that at least some of the people renting made the decision to not purchase and some of the people owning made the decision to not rent. Of the people who could choose an option.

As far as people saying "it costs money to move" what about one family member moving and the other staying until a life is established elsewhere? [1]

Maybe what is needed instead of handouts is some kind of social service that makes people aware of their options. Edit: And pushes them to take those options even if they are painful. And also to make them realize that "even though you don't want to move because your friends and family are here" you might have to move if you can't afford this place anymore.

Note: I don't live in California and have no skin in this game.

[1] And lastly, has the "problem" even been properly quantified? I watch stories similar to this on TV news reports. They always pick the right people that you seem to be able to relate to and a situation that always seems unjust. But they never show exactly how many people actually are like that person (or even not like that person). They pull at your emotional heartstrings because their job is to make the story attractive, not necessarily balanced. And when they do they always add the "to be sure" that gets them off the hook. As in "to be sure not everyone who is homeless is XYZ" etc.
Why today app store is not working??
I wouldn't be so quick to write those majors off, they involve massive amounts of reading and writing; both skills that I heard many engineering students say they felt they were lacking in. Furthermore both of those majors score highly as well and the marginal difference is not large. I don't think that its the difficulty of engineering that lends itself to the LSAT I think it is the emphasis on problem solving and logical thinking, which is essentially what the LSAT tests.
Wisest words I ever got early in my career from a boss who spent a couple of decades in senior management at a variety of big and small tech companies was if you're hired as an executive you immediately do three things. 1) Get in early, leave late, and read everything about the group you're running. 2) Get to know your people and understand the problems you're dealing with. 3) Change nothing immediately. Waltzing in and changing things willy nilly is a recipe for disaster. I'd counter and say within 90 days you should have a handle on the group you're running, what's going really well, what's going poorly, and identify plan(s) to address major areas that need addressing. It shows you actually understand and aren't simply kicking the apple cart for the sake of making an impression.
Obviously everything I say is anecdotal since I have no data to share but by making components as dumb (i.e. PureRenderMixin) we reduced the amount of logic within a component and were able to make it both faster and easier to maintain. Maybe our approach was naive and Baobab fares better here.

Another important gain for us was re-usability of components. We have several projects that use the same components that represent the same data but the hierarchy of the internal state of the application can look quite different from one another. Passing everything in as props and avoiding as much state as possible has made this much easier as well.

I guess at the end of the day everything is a tradeoff one way or another and you just have to pick yours, as cliche as that sounds. For us simplicity was more important in this particular case.
I meant the 4 in the list (women, bisexuals, Texans, engineers).
Oh, come on. I am not 89 and I would like to get my news that way already.
The Chromebooks given at I/O 2011 were the original Samsung Series 5 models, the first "consumer" Chromebooks after the Cr-48.

The Chromebook Pixel was given out at I/O 2013, I know because that's how I got mine. :)
it's also very possible it's not as fast. consult benchmarks first, as usual.
The lack of empathy on display here is astonishing. Is this quality a prerequisite to participating in the luckier side of the wealth-gap of silicon valley?
$100k as a minimum to raise a family and have a reasonable (read: tolerable -- not luxurious) lifestyle in Silicon Valley is very accurate. If anything, it's low.

On $100k, you wouldn't really be able to save very much, so the idea that you could somehow "escape poverty" while raising a family in Silicon Valley on that salary is somewhat of a stretch.

In Silicon Valley, a "middle class" family typically means two highly educated adults each earning six figure incomes.
> You just think poor people should have to move out of their homes because rich people decided they want to live there.

That isn't how this works, at all. When the number of people who want to live in an area > the area's capacity, prices increase. See: every metro area in the world.

> Yeah, rich people get forced out of their homes because they can't afford them all the time. /s

Rich people move to optimize their finances all the time.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/State-leader...

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/February/Frances-Recko...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2014/04/27/it-makes-sen...

http://www.aei.org/publication/companies-are-leaving-califor...
IIRC from a podcast interview with one of the founders, you swab a bit of your used toilet paper for the gut sample collection.

The concept sounded pretty interesting, and it's on my list of things to do this year along with 23andme. Gut biome health is getting more awareness these days, and with them comparing large populations of samples it seems like a cool way to contribute to a data set that ought to provide some useful insights.

I was reading a post recently about someone who had surgery to remove part of their intestine due to some sort of GI disorder, and wondered how many of these sorts of major procedures could ultimately be avoided using biome-based treatments like fecal transplants.
When times are tough, moving does not need to be expensive. Before I moved to SV, I sold or donated everything I couldn't fit in two suitcases. I moved into an affordable house where I share a bedroom with 3 other people. I would be able to make rent with only $20k/year.

I know not everybody can divorce themselves from all of their belongings, especially large families. Additionally, I didn't have to worry about schools (no children) or work (my industry has ~0 unemployment). I did, however, have to worry about saving enough to survive between jobs and finding an affordable place to stay.

> This is at it's core class struggle, not individual unawareness.
I agree, but I think part of the solution has to involve helping people relocate. We should also strive to encourage a more distributed social life. If we had inexpensive, high quality video telecommunications I believe that people would be more okay with moving away from their families.
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> So we're talking baout knockoff frames.

Actually, I'm not. I'm talking about printing frames as opposed to buying them from Luxottica.
I used to contract at a company and worked beside David Pollack (of the Lift framework), who came to the software world after being a lawyer (I think for most of his life). I'm sure he explained the "why" when I asked, but all I could think of was "Very cool! A lawyer likes this stuff too!". I still have a blast at my job, and one factor of people taking up engineering from other trades could be their found passion for it.
I got a Toshiba Chromebook 2 (4 GB RAM, 32 GB storage, decent screen, but an anemic processor), thinking it could replace an old MacBook we use for web, email, and music. The email didn't work so well, because we couldn't easily see multiple accounts at once. I put in an SD card full of music, but the players I tried were all terrible.

I can see wanting 8 GB of RAM, but I'd need Crouton to make use of 16 GB.
Here's a great Veritasium video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQggDnScsvI
"Unless Glacier just changed their pricing, how is it cheaper and simpler? Glacier is also $.01/GB storage, but only $.09/GB retrieval, which is cheaper than google's $.12/GB. Glacier also comes with 1st GB retrieval free/mo."

As long as we are comparing effective pricing, which is the only number that matters with Glacier and "Google Nearline" (and, to some degree, S3) it should be noted that rsync.net PB-scale is 3.0 cents with no additional charges.

That is, the effective price, no matter what your use-case or traffic/usage, is 3.0 cents per GB.[1]

Of course, you do have to buy a petabyte of it ...

[1] http://www.rsync.net/products/petabyte.html
Seeing as this thread is about software, I think the point might be that kids know they can't really break software, so they're more willing to experiment.

Informing my mom that she should just try stuff out on her Mac b/c she isn't going to break stuff was huge to help her get over her fear that she's going to click a wrong button and break something on a very expensive device.

[This doesn't address the issue of malware, of course, which is (in a sense) "breaking" your security by clicking a link]