skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but that's kind of my point. I was replying to people speculating that SF must have more than ~526 people with liquid net worth above $30M.

526 doesn't seem a low estimate to me. Unless your counting unrealized paper Gaines... Before tax, and which often do not pan out upon liquidation the way a naive reading would imply they will on paper.
> It similarly struck me as strange that many US states decide gambling should be illegal because it's a vice, or because it's taking advantage of people, but then turn around and give themselves a monopoly on offering it.

That describes a huge portion of what government does. Heck, that's essentially the basic definition of government in political science.
Well, you might not want to void the warranty on your new expensive gadget.

Which is actually ridiculous, if you think about it. Wiping the stock OS (usually Windows) and installing some other OS on a typical laptop does not void the warranty, and even if it does, nobody will care if you restore the stock OS before taking your laptop in for service. Why should it be any different for phones and tablets?
That was always the goal of rap genius, ever since the very beginning.

Edit: Not sure why I was downvoted. I was Facebook friends with the founders since 2011 or so and saw how "Genius" was intended to be a framework for annotation of more than just lyrics: they were actually trying to gear it towards news, education, and various other things. It wasn't just an internal thing either; back in 2013 they claimed to have been in contact with with Fortune 500 companies about using the platform[0] for what I guess is documentation, and also suggested they might take annotated books and sell them [0].
They were openly discussing their plans to expand "Rap Genius into Everything Genius" after the Andreessen Horowitz investment [1]. This is barring my personal conversations with the founders and even my Facebook message pitch of expanding into education in Australia a few years ago.

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/power-pitch/29-old-gets-15-mi...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/23/rap-genius-co-f...
Yep. That is not an appropriate question for this site. Google "learn computer programming" and come back after a couple years. Any of the (non-advertising) sites on the first page of search results would be fine places to start.
But the proof can't be made. If you’re conditioned to feel like an outsider, you’re going to believe the rejection is always lurking around the corner, and the acceptance is never real, never complete. You’ll remain in sullen sureness that outside is where you’ve been placed — or you’ll keep testing, poking and prodding for the thing you could do that’s horrible enough to prove that you were never really welcome.

The word the author is looking for to distinguish "weird nerds" from "nerds" should never have been "weird" - the word is "wounded." And the wound is real, crippling, and unjustly dealt. Time doesn't heal all wounds. We shouldn't be looking to prove something that can't be proven; we should be looking to heal the wound, actually heal it, in all the generations of children to come. Or even, heavens forfend, stop it from being inflicted at all.
How many people die on government roads every year, and what do you think the reaction would be if a private road system was similarly managed?
we are working on it but are waiting for the 2nd generation of android wear devices.

Concerning Apple/iOs: We usually do android first ;)
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I've got an old Psion Series 5 that someone gave me... fantastic for taking notes, and one of the best keyboards I have ever encountered on a pocket-size device.
The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook/Google
Even losers are winners. Combined market cap of 1.6 trillion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCvwCcEP74Q&t=09
... and with that victory, they have given rise to generations of new weird-nerds that no longer feel as much as outsiders.

Ok, I went there for the sake of the quote, but as someone who spent most of high-school maintaining an online forum about nerd topics on a Hardened Gentoo[1] Pentium III[2] server in the floor of his own bedroom; I still find I cannot quite empathize with the fear of "insiders"/"normals" that the OP talks about and which other comments seem to echo. Not saying I can't imagine it, or that it's not real, but it wasn't like that for me. In my experience: video-games were utterly mainstream, MTG/D&D where "a bit weird, but hey, to each their own", computer programming was cool (not a super popular hobby to pursue, but people seemed either neutral or genuinely impressed if you did).

Many of those cherished "hacker values"? They are now mainstream ideals: Net neutrality! Wikileaks! "I prefer texting than talking on the phone"! ;) Everyone I know is now in an online forum or another (Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/Reddit). Not saying all of the values have been popularized, but many have. Our pop culture now a days makes more fun of jocks than of nerds. It has more nerd heroes (specially for middle-school/high-school aged kids) than "popular" heroes. Freaking LoTR is one of the biggest movie franchises of all times!

Besides, it's not like the groups have no intersection. Geek feminists often are or were at some point "weird-nerd" girls or "weird-nerd" guys that agreed that the world was, among all of its unfairnesses, biased to take male as the default. So we are not excluding just those "not from our tribe" (whatever that means), we are excluding "those from our tribe happen to be different from what we picture our tribe to look like". Even for those genuinely not part of the culture you might naturally want to associate with? Well, we still need to interact with and do business with them in a civilized manner. That's all any diversity advocacy I have ever read demands: not that you be friends with anybody, but that you be willing to interact respectfully with everybody.

"Brogrammer" is less well defined. But the most gym-going and adventurous friend I have is also among the most nerdy, smartest and occasionally painfully awkward people I know. Also, the most social person in my circle is a gregarious, party going, business savvy, MIT engineering trained woman that in the right crowd can make jokes consisting entirely of function plots.

There are no three cliques against other! There are many ideas, associated with different stereotypes, let's try not to pit armies of stereotypes against each other, and be open to the ideas! If that's not a hacker value, then I don't what is.

[1] Why Hardened Gentoo just to host a small PHP forum? Because it was there...

[2] Gives the age away fairly precisely, doesn't it?
Here's the first dyno chart I could come across. 93 octane vs E85 in a supercharged Audi S4. (+27whp +31wtq) (They did say they had to use a higher-flowing fuel pump to handle the increased fuel usage.)

http://solomotorsportsnet@solomotorsports.net/images/B8%20ST...

Other cars get even greater gains when tuned for ethanol.
Believe it or not, sometimes people like going out and not being constantly on guard censoring themselves. Your solution seems to be that everyone must be included at all times and the conversation reduced to the lowest common denominator.
I got myself fired from a job a few years ago, and it occurred to me recently that seasonal affective disorder (SAD) was probably a contributing factor. I'd been feeling low and bored for quite a while leading up to the event, working in a darkened room with a desk lamp, as no one wanted the fluorescent lights turned on.

I like the_economist 's advice in general, and particularly the bit about getting outside, but suggest that longer meditation is fine, too, and perhaps try bodyweight workouts before getting into barbell/dumbell training. I just got a copy of Convict Conditioning and find it and the idea of bodyweight exercise compelling, and you can't beat the price. (See the FAQ at /r/bodyweightfitness for more.)
thanks, found it. Not sure how i missed this before.
Thank god business is more street fight than organized sport.
Personally, I loved working in an open office at my last job (a software consultancy).

Knowledge sharing by osmosis was a very real phenomenon there. I can't count the number of times I discovered interesting new technologies or was enlightened on some architecture tradeoffs thanks to a discussion taking place around me.

I realize that the whole experience around open-offices is very YMMV but I feel it can have many tangible and valuable benefits for the right kinds of people (i.e. those who are not too easily distracted and/or can easily context-switch back and forth).
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What is "appropriate" or not is a subjective matter...
Only the sugar cane growing states and the politicians bought by the cane sugar industry. You can buy fuel with ethanol in the other states at shitty "discount" outlets but many people avoid it. The major outlets generally don't sell it. It has lower energy density so you aren't getting better value, and while every modern car here is designed to run it in theory hardly any manufacturers recommend it.
The history of the case is all out there. KPCB was going to fire Nazre. But Pao petitioned the leadership not to.

The complaint/lawsuit from Pao is: "Nazre was harrassing me. And KPCB wouldn't do anything about it. That's gender discrimination."

HERE ARE THE FACTS.
1) she had a consensual relationship with Nazre.
2) when she complained she was being 'harrassed', John Doerr -- the main guy at KPCB -- was going to fire Nazre. But Pao talked the company out of that.

At each step in her construction of a possible lawsuit, she was complicit. Dated Nazre. Complained about Nazre after they split. Petitioned KPCB not to fire Nazre.

It's all a load of crap from the outset. If this was a clean case, where the complainant had zero complicity, ie. "a coworker is making unwanted advances" and the firm did nothing, well okay. But that's not what happened.

"After learning [from Pao] of Nazre's behavior, Doerr was angry with him and wanted to fire him. But Pao opposed, sending e-mails to senior partners urging them to help Nazre rather than fire him."
This is great! Do you have the source anywhere hosted?
So you guys won't sponsor visa sponsorship?

Is that the case for all IBM positions too?
That makes sense, those journalists just need to have a good writing style.
On my machine your Google link was significantly slower than the other two.
> There is no way in hell a 1.79Mhz 6502 can play streaming video.

It can't decode MPEG 4 real time, of course, but machines of this class are more than capable of streaming video.

ZX Spectrum streaming with a network interface (~3.5MHz Z80):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooi9rpx6ECM

Commodore 64 with lots of RAM (~1MHz 6510):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLv7UosQXs
Got any examples of these browsers? IIRC i used hasOwnProperty as far back as IE6.
Wow.

Do you even know how much time an elected official spends fund raising? Many members of congress fund raise every day, every day they are walking out of capitol hill and across the street to be glorified phone bank monkeys begging some rich guy for money.

Do you know what gerrymandering is? Have you looked, actually looked at gerrymandered districts? They're like something Escher would draw, they certainly don't reflect communities, geographical constraints, or anything besides the best statistical slicing to ensure the status quo prevails.

I'm all for Ghandi's "be the change you wish to see", but being critical to someone who points out the ills in the world is shooting the messenger.

You recall what platform Obama ran on? Hope and Change, how did that work out? The political process in America is broken and voting will not solve the problem of corruption.
That changed in 2011, afaik.

http://www.labornotes.org/2011/08/furniture-workers-win-ikea...

"After scathing articles about conditions in the Swedwood plant appeared overseas, union woodworkers in Europe and Asia pressured the iconic Swedish brand."
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I'm not afraid of computers acting like people (AI). I'm very worried about people acting like computers.

Every circuit, every program is based on a principle: comparators (analogue) = NAND (digital) = if statements (software). Machines choose their answer by taking a huge amount of information, and sorting it. By design, this leads to some monstrous conclusions. For example, eugenics might be logically efficient, but it is morally abhorrent.

Taking risks, making mistakes: these are not flaws, they are the very essence of being human.

Test yourself! I guess that everyone on here is very rational (as I am). I only discovered this problem in my character after a conversation with an artist, a good friend from high school. She makes all her decisions based on the heart, rather than the mind. Try to do something totally random! When things make no logical sense, the emotions wake up again. You'll "feel" again. It doesn't matter if that's a good or bad feeling - acting like a machine makes you feel nothing at all. A machine can defend every action it takes, because it's never wrong. But machines can't apologise.

There will be data-driven businesses. They're not actually run by humans (whatever the management says), they're run by machines. Those companies could ultimately be fully automated away. It's far better, as a human, to be creative (even if the most creative thing you can do, like me, is teaching machines how to talk to other machines).
"The idea of anathematising all of a person’s good works because of something else they said or did is just as alien and repellent to us as our reaction is to someone who wishes Hacker News would die because Paul Graham is kind of a dick sometimes."

Ha, love this bit, bit wordy though. If you squint while you read, it sort of reads like a pg essay.
This article is so spot on and covers many of the things that have bothered me for years about people who try to join nerd communities and then immediately start complaining about "inappropriate behavior" (eg the dongle thing). Yes, there are cases where there is real inappropriate behavior surrounding positions of power in corporate or workplace settings, but in the community at large and in the communal and public spaces that we now interact no one individual should ever be allowed to determine what is appropriate (much less attack people for their supposed transgressions). We all left the world of "appropriate" because we found it a) useless and b) oppressive. The fact that our conversations are now public means that, if someone goes looking for something to be offended by they are going to find it, and then they play the primate power game and we're back to Cardinal Richelieu: "Give me 6 lines written in the hand of the most honest man and I will see him hanged."

That said, this does paint reality for those who do honestly want to see more women involved in tech etc. My take home is that if you keep trying to push on people who intentionally leave "appropriate" communities behind because they don't care about those things and find them oppressive, then you are simply going to drive them to leave again and you will have to start all over again.

edit: Actual take home. The only way forward is REAL tolerance for all kinds of behavior and a good faith attempt to see people in context.
relevant - list of business models Google search could kill:

http://www.elite-strategies.com/list-businesses-google-searc...
"Geez, I already paid for route 284 and Interstate 99. Do I have to pay a separate weekend surcharge for the 1000-feet onramp? I mean, come on!"

OK, not exactly a reaction on people's deaths, but people react to deaths in a more or less similar way whether it's on a government-managed railway or privately operated 747...
One of the biggest frustrations to me, and I do believe this is a new thing, is people with evangelistic universalist worldviews joining these groups and expecting everybody to conform to it. I feel like "nerd culture" was partially defined by being made up of the parts left out of mainstream, inherent heterogeneity, rather than a positive set of things, so arguing you're right and I'm wrong and that's that, is highly alien. There is a lot of talk about how as nerd interests have become mainstream, the disdain many nerds have for this is a sign of their elitism or desire to just be different. But I think also it is because before it was mainstream, you only got viciously judged by the outgroup, so you could at least go "fuck them, they didn't like me anyway" and keep doing your own thing. Now you have people who consider themselves part of that ingroup telling you you're doing it wrong and bringing all their social jostling into the group with them trying to make it act the way they want. I don't think people are exaggerating when they feel like their groups are being "taken over."
No, the $17k Apple Watch isn't the most expensive Apple product ever
I rewrote the headline to highlight the relevance to HN readers. The famous pop song in the original headline is incidental to the issue that this represents a much broader interpretation of copyright than most people would expect. I'm hoping Williams/Thicke appeal the ruling.
Hunger has never been a problem of production in particular but of distribution. For decades, there's been plenty of food for everyone on this planet; it just hasn't been distributed, by politics or by markets, evenly and probably won't be in any time soon.

It doesn't necessarily mean growing vegetation to produce ethanol fuel is a good thing but not doing so wouldn't make things effectively better either. On the other hand, at least the process is renewable unlike fossil fuels. On the other hand, it would make sense to grow this biofuel only in places where the environment is optimal for the most aggressively ethanol-producing plants.

The bigger problem is the demand for fuel. You could build cities where you don't need millions of people to consume fuel in order to merely get by their ordinary days moving between work, shopping groceries, and home. Unfortunately, those cities don't seem to be built until fuel prices get high enough that it's cheaper to abandon suburbia and rebuild the city based on walking and public transit.
I could get them for $250 each, so combined they came in cheaper than the standard Apple branded monitor.
In SQL you can't have a table whose title field is called either `title` or `post_title` depending on which record you're looking at.
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Elementary OS codename changed from Isis to Freya to avoid confusion
Not really sure what you're getting at here...

There is (as far as I know) always a valid reason that medications require a prescription, not the least of which being to protect uneducated consumers from ingesting harmful dosages/combinations. Seeing a physician to have them prescribe medication can be expensive, sure, but the medication itself is also very expensive. Lowering/eliminating the cost of seeing a physician is a different problem entirely. This seems like a fantastic step in the right direction to make medication more affordable after a qualified physician prescribes it.
does IBM do visa sponsorships?
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I am in favor of not working with people who say that giving women the right of self-determination is a negative. Do you really intend to act horrified over such a low standard of decency?

(The anti-poor thing is disgusting, too, but I mean, at least there's an argument there.)
It gets even more fun when you get into curves, or try to draw 1MM lines!

(If this sounds like your cup of tea, message me :))
it is not all about speed in this case. the Google version has no features, you cannot discuss the song, and no other web 2.0 type of features.

which actually kind of surprises me that Google wouldn't take this opportunity to inject some kind of Google+ comment box within each lyric, so that users can comment on each song.
Well he went to lengths to establish anti-competitive no-hiring agreements between the major tech firms. Crediting employees just might mean someone would find it that much easier to hire them away and pay them a competitive wage.
Answer : Learn SQL. It is very easy to pass variables.
> Finally, fuck ORMs.

Amen to that. Many times I wondered, geez I could've written this with a simple SQL query, here I am reading the docs.
Thank god for return of sanity.
> I happen to agree with him.

Her, for whatever it's worth.
If they were going to look that plastic, they should have steered away from trying to be retro.
I was shocked, visibly, when I found out that no one at the first startup I worked at played tabletop RPGs. I was shocked again when they looked down on me because I did. In a city that prides itself on "weirdos", I was the wrong kind of weird.

In college I poured over Steven Levy's Hackers, hoping one day I would be able to meet the tech elite. I jumped at the first chance I got to work out here, hoping I'd finally find "my people" (substitute whatever pithy phrase you like). Hasn't worked out so far.

I'm in SF now and have been for a while. Where are you guys? All the meetups I've been to were fun (hard to turn down free pizza) but it seemed like everyone was more interested in collecting business cards than talking hacker-speak. Maybe I'm going to the wrong ones?
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You're welcome, and thanks! Anybody who wants to can play with different layouts, which are just linear orderings of nodes and edges, which you specify using node and edge attribute files. Features like that are discussed in the blog posts at http://biofabric.blogspot.com/ Unfortunately, the blog remains the best documentation at the moment for various features...
Do people actually use it? Is there ever a reason to use it? It costs 5% less but is 25% less efficient.
> There isn't enough grass to 'let the cows eat' while sustaining affordability for lower income people.

I'm pretty sure there's no shortage of grass. If we turn some of those corn fields into grazing fields, there would be even more grass.

The reason they use corn is because it fattens up the cow much faster and to a far greater degree.

So yeah, switching to grass will increase the price of beef on a per pound basis. Label the meat. Let people choose. Stick a "fed with corn" or "fed with grass" sticker on it. I'll happily pay twice as much knowing the animal didn't eat crap.

We already do this with eggs. Lots of labeling. There's no reason we can't extend this to poultry and beef.
I'm not a fan of MongoDB, but you don't know what you're talking about.

MongoDB is durable. While it doesn't quite support SQL transactions, it is durable. The data is journaled before being confirmed, and once confirmed will be written to disk. It can be consistent, but this sort of breaks the whole idea of scaling and distributing the load in Mongo, or causes massive performance problems, so that is something to consider when using it. Understanding and adopting eventual consistency is tough, but it's an issue with every distributed database, not just MongoDB.

And you don't "keep your entire data set in memory". You should make sure your indexes fit in memory. Your data can be as large as you like. Most people with terabytes of data in MongoDB don't keep terabytes of RAM in their servers.

Foursquare did NOT keep every single check-in in RAM. They kept an index of them in RAM, sure. But the problem was they had a sharded MongoDB deployment and one of the shards became unbalanced and exceeded the available RAM. If that happens (harder to do these days, but not impossible), it can be very difficult to recover.

MongoDB tries to bridge that gap between NoSQL and SQL. I think the MongoDB folks originally ignored decades of database research when developing MongoDB, but they've been forced to adopt it as the years have passed. Is it an Oracle killer? No. But it can be a useful and productive tool if you understand and apply it appropriately.