skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something to consider is that these complexities are emergent, they are not architected. Years and years of experience with different banks trying to get the best return for the company going public (in order to be the bank most likely to take a company public) is a fitness function. And over the years various strategies evolve based on what has come before them. That is why when folks like Google decide to do things really really differently it causes everyone to both flee in terror and watch intently :-).
Well the impression i have is that Indiegogo only got traction because Kickstarter stopped accepting projects that didn't have working prototypes to demo.
Yeah, that attitude is odd. My strategy is to be intentionally clueless as to why anyone would have a problem with 28-year-old-me reading The Hunger Games.
In the end there is no need to embed (exported) io.Writed, it should be replaced with non-exported non-anonymous field.
In my experience, that's not the case. People (or at least people not primed to take a tricky-logic-puzzle stance) think they understand the problem just fine, and quickly give the wrong answer. Asking about it afterwards (once you get past the defensive denials et al), it's usually revealed that they did in fact understand the problem. They just failed to grasp what a proof/disproof actually requires, because they've never had to think too deeply about the issue before.
I'm working with a kick-ass team on a 3D-printable smartphone-controlled open-source robotic telescope. Currently undergoing testing in South Africa.

Code not released yet. We're using tools like Azure, with a Windows Phone as the smartphone controller, and Arduino to drive motors for the scope.
Why do people downvote the parent? Because its style and self-pitying tone?

I did not know that vaccines sometimes contain a mercury-compound. Mercury is highly toxic. I'm mildly surprised.
Not quite. Demand is going up faster than supply. Add in rent control and other local oddities, and you get some absurd situations, ike perfectly qualified people leaving the area.

My rent is about 40% of the going rate for the identical apartment above mine. This has several consequences. I literally cannot afford to move. For another, it would be difficult to fit another child in the place we have, so we're not having one. And it's more difficult to hire people from outside the area because they can't find affordable places to live.
What's the basic story? (bonus point if you link to tvtropes.)
or this - http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20130403b...

Still ongoing research in terms of impersonation and other attacks, but quite interesting.
We bother with TLS for accessing online banking because we don't manually build site-to-site VPNs between our house and our bank, unlike hospitals which have dedicated IT staff, a ton of security appliances of all types and, if they are in the same metro, often have dedicated waves or dark fiber between them.
I don't disagree, and it will happen because it has to, or we all go out of business. But the article just seemed to me to paint too rosy a picture of a painless transition to renewables without actually getting into the really hard stuff. And by that I mean the things for which we currently have no replacement, or only early concepts of what a replacement might be for fossil fuels.
>++good. Meds, rectify.

You reminded me to take them, so wish granted. ;)
I live in Austin, TX and had 3 job offers earlier this year in Silicon Valley. I turned all of them down because of the high cost of living.

I have 3 children and a wife that I support. Even with the high wages offered from Facebook or Google, our quality of life in Austin was far better than it could ever be in Silicon Valley.
From the Wikipedia page on it, it seems so. The problem is described as:

You are shown a set of four cards placed on a table,
each of which has a number on one side and a colored
patch on the other side. The visible faces of the cards
show 3, 8, red and brown. Which card(s) must you turn
over in order to test the truth of the proposition that
if a card shows an even number on one face, then its
opposite face is red?

Perhaps it's a consequence of being a programmer/mathematician and doing this for so long, but it seemed clear to me.
> let me pay a dollar to find all the single girls in the bay area who like Starbucks and C++ that have a primary or secondary connection[friend of a friend]

That is a really creepy idea.
>It's about 5% the first and 95% the second, sadly.

I do agree and believe most VCs successes to be self-fulfilling prophecies.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1207

I always wondered why there aren't more comic books about him given his stories, his melancholic looks, sad death, etc. He's a ready-made comic book hero!
I agree. It won't happen any time soon. The way I see it, it will be sort of a revolution (or a slow change?), and the current system will become irrelevant. The only viable alternative that I see is a peer-based system based on peer trust, a departure from a centralized system. The same thing should happen also to the certificates and root-certifications where "trust" is traded now in exchange for money.
ADHD is a cultural representation. Its not an actual condition. If you believe in the Religion of DSM, then you've got a problem: you live in a box.

Not everyone on planet Earth actually considers that attention-deficiency requires drugging and dependency on industrialized pharmaceutical dealers.

Its probably part of the "American supremacy" package, though - which is not necessarily only a US infliction, but more of a "Western" one. If you look beyond the West, you might find that its not as big a cultural problem as those who control your mind would have you believe ...
At around $150k/yr, a bank will typically lend around $350-400k (more would be imprudent, even if the bank agrees). So even with two people working and making a decent, probably average wage for SV, it's still impossible to buy a median home there. Of course people are leaving.
It is hard to make the argument that people are fleeing silicon valley when real estate demand keeps reaching new highs.

One question, that isn't often discussed, is how many homes are bought to live in vs. bought as investments and rented. Either way, monthly mortgage or rent is going up, but I wonder how much of the movement in the market is due to real estate investors vs. home owners.
People have been saying this about the fantasy and sci-fi genres for decades.
Oh Lord, yes. Signed. Upvoted. Just give us good stories with a scope the author can deal with in a human lifetime.
> In one version of the task, one subject (always one—he spurned testing subjects in groups) is presented with four cards lying flat on a table, each with a single-digit number on one face and one of two colors on the other.

From the article. All the needed information is present.
>The problem with this is that the 5 card also needs to be turned; it might have an even number on the back.

"Each card has a number on one side and a color on the other side."

So 5 could not have an even number on the back given the rules. But your reasoning would make sense if you missed that statement.
It's also because they explicitly prefer to shift as much compensation as possible towards salary as opposed to stock, benefits, perks, etc. They released a long presentation about why they do this, I think it's somewhere on Slideshare.
If GNU is copyleft, is this then copy far right?
Yes, this. I should be so lucky to build a 'lifestyle business', some kind of stable enterprise that is the livelihood of 10-20 people.
Fair enough, I've read lot of worse criticism of him. And while your reasoning is clear I do tend to agree more with the comment I responded to over your article.

But I do acknowledge that your article was civil and to the point. I should have clarified that I was generalizing my exposure to Stallman, his fans and his critics over years and not specifically talking about your article.
They should have stopped using that hot wallet immediately as soon as transfers not authorized by them happened. They detected that manually after a few hours, not automatically. There's still much to be improved in terms of security in Bitcoin exchanges.
Isn't it better the Google way? You will be taxed less since you can keep the stock for 1+ year and get taxed at the Long Term Capital Gains rate. Being almost all salary will get you taxed to death.
"Systems are getting so complex nobody can build something complete from scratch."

I would claim there is still a large chunk of areas that have very poor service from the software field and would find tremendous value of a trivial software product that is just applied correctly. So it's more about service design rather than hightech, if one is just looking to make a profit.
Hehe that'll come to bite you ;)

I'd actually equate auto-layout when it was first introduced to the current state of flexbox. It can do what you want but boy are there some gotchas along the way.

It has gotten a lot better - the pain point with autolayout remains when when you need to add constraints in code - then it's a painful API. In UI, it is quite a pleasure to work with I find.

I wonder when that's coming to web dev - a GUI for web layout using flexbox would make a lot of people happy. The reason dreamweaver and the like didn't work well is because there were too many gotchas, do this in javascript, that in css, etc.

With flexbox, css selectors and some good plug'n'play javascript components (carousel, etc, everything bootstrap offers basicaly) - I can see a tool like Dreamweaver making a big comeback. What do you think?
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IANAL, but speaking generally, the courts seem to take a dim view at technical workarounds, and instead focus on the actual intention and result.

In this particular case, I believe what you would have produced would be classified as a "circumvention" device under the DMCA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention).

The state of "IP" law makes me very sad.
In my experience just now I think the "old system" and "new system" makes sense. After reading the problem my initial reaction was "8 & Blue". I thought about it for a couple seconds and immediately realized it would be "8 and Green", which was the correct answer.

After taking a second to reason about the problem, the answer came and made sense. I guess that's why it's always good to take a second to choose your words, etc in day to day life?
it feels like it's starting to get shaken out. the whole mega-popular digital book thing is enabling wider distribution of formats like novellas.

heck, even sanderson is getting in on the gig with all of his recent success with the shorter novels like "the emperor's soul" or "legion" -- which are both fantastic, btw.
Same reason my wife and I moved to Florida. I can live within 2-3 miles of the beach in a 4K sq ft home for $100K-200K (depending on level of fanciness).

I can work remotely from anywhere; why would I artificially lower my quality of life to live in SF proper as long as remote work exists?
It's interesting that they mainly start around more recent series, mentions older ones "Les Mis", but don't say how this is and always has been a thing. I remember reading most of the Xanth series (first book published in 1977!) when I was in high school (1999)- and there were already 20+ books in the series.

I like long stories about characters I care about. When I stop caring about the characters (or if the plots get too out there), then I stop reading the books.

I think it's fine if people want to read singular episode books as well. As @teirce says, this is why I also like Neil Gaiman (currently my favorite author). His stuff is self-contained and quite enjoyable.

It's up to the author to decide what they want to do with their characters, and I'll be game for it either way.
“Upstream oodles of Chrome for Android code into Chromium”
RAIFS?
Did you factor in the transmission losses to move the electricity from the Arizona desert to the rest of the US?
Except we don't need to stop burning fuel, right? We just need to stop using it for net energy.

With enough "free" electricity we can "buy" fuels via carbon sequestration, and you can run your (somewhat pricier) camp stove as much as you want.
No, we need exchanges not built by a bunch of amateurs, opportunistic risk takers and outright scammers.
I agree with you. I was like whaaaat..
Perl's (C-based) regular expressions make it faster than many compiled languages for lots of real world tasks.
I think the problem is that "Young Adult" encompasses a wide level of maturity, and authors may tailor their works towards vastly different levels of maturity, that the quality can vary quite a bit. Some works are targeted for young readers, but are rather mature in their execution (well explained, well reasoned character motivations and plot, etc), while others bank on the possibly lower expectations of the young and inexperienced reader. I've picked up some horrendous young adult fiction before and read it (I'm looking at you, James Patterson!). That doesn't keep me from reading it, but it does make me wary...
Perhaps my pretentiousness-recognition skills are poor, but I'm not sure I can regognize any ways in which the GP's post or writing style is pretentious. Can you elaborate on what makes one think the writing is pretentious? I'd like to avoid it.

... and if you think I'm being pretentious when writing this, sorry. As I mentioned, I don't even know how I'd recognize it.
They all work fine on Project Spartan, which uses Microsoft's new EdgeHTML engine.
Let's hope it's actually the first time.
You should seriously re-post this on Reddit's /r/sysadmin there are tons of DevOps people in there.
Sprawling multi-book series work kind of the way fast food does. It's a known quantity in a world of unknown quantities.
what does "status: withdrawn" mean ?
Wasn't that statement in reference to Silicon Valley? Sure some of it is coming from there, but a lot of it is not.
Nesspreso(and Tassimo) make coffee + proper froffed milk. As in - if I use pods for latte, it makes delicious, layered coffee with milk at the right temperature. For me it's cleaning - the caffetiere and whatever you used to froth milk are two things which I don't want to worry about cleaning before/after having my coffee. It's all about convinience, really.
unfortunately that site hasn't been updated w/ 2014 or 2015 data
I was watching an interview with Mike Judge, the creator of the show "Silicon Valley" last night. He said that he asked many real-world VC's about realistic reasons that Pied Piper would have trouble finding financing so that he could integrate those into the storyline. Regardless of the complications he suggested, every VC told him "that really wouldn't be an issue...we'd still invest".

I think that says alot about the Valley today. "I might miss out" seems to be a mantra on Sand Hill Road these days. If you or one of your cofounders has dropped out of Stanford or Harvard, you can and will get funded. Despite Peter Thiel's protestations to the contrary, Stanford in particular is worth the money for a year or two if only for this reason. Any education you receive is just a bonus.
Fun. From everything noted about Slack, thats all they've got as their 'core' as well (PHP/MySQL I think, with maybe nodejs websockets).
This article is an embarrassment for the author. Akka, Play and spark are scala. Comparing Java scala and Javascript in the same sentence is idiotic.
Working on a concussion sensing mouth guard - www.fitguard.me

Little demo video I shot with a prototype board and app : https://youtu.be/LRWONOSZbaE
This is a great tool. I hope it helps every H1-B fight for the skills they are worth.
Please rename the HGST drives. There are only Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba - HGST is no more.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital! To address the requirements of regulatory agencies, in May 2012 WD divested to Toshiba assets that enabled Toshiba to manufacture and sell 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop and consumer electronics markets. So all HGST 3.5" HDDs are now Toshiba, whereas the HGST 2.5" and smaller HDDs from Western Digital.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
Your numbers are low. $150K/yr will get you almost double that with good credit and a decent downpayment.
Such a salary in academia is really incredible. No way this is not just a typo?
Real computer scientists use comic sans for their presentations.

In all seriousness though, I've noticed that it was the font of choice for my CS professors in college.
Absolute centering only works when the element you are trying to center has a defined height. If you are trying to center an element with unknown height inside a container with unknown height, the table-cell is likely the front-runner, sadly.
Buysmaart.com - an artificial intelligence product
buysmaart.com is a website that uses artificial intelligence (NLP) to help you find the right phone.
Austin is a great city with great food, music, and brews. And you can even afford a nice house too
You're not being pretentious. :P

To answer your question, it's a combination of being long winded, using unnecessary non-standard phrasing like "industrialized-pharmaceuticals", thinking they know better than medical science/that there's a conspiracy to drug everybody so that they can't notice the conspiracy, and it all just adds up to a crackpot.

In general, pretentious is when you try to make your content 'deeper' than its actual information value.
what do you guys think is the best option?
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The problem is that the question is poorly written, so it taps into the human brain's desire to extrapolate.

By saying "a card" in the general sense, it sounds like there might be more cards involved, and we are supposed to derive a rule for a larger set.

If you explicitly state that the only cards you are talking about are the cards shown here, things become a lot more clear.

To clarify the question:
"When one of the cards here has an even number on one face, then its opposite face is blue. True or false?"

In my experience, it seems like lot of interviewers like to make themselves come across as "clever" by relying on poorly phrased questions which can be easily misinterpreted.
I doubt it. But anybody can tell the IRS that they believe a person or company isn't paying their full share of taxes. I suspect that the IRS would prioritize complaints from, say, disgruntle corporate accountants, but it should be possible for anybody to report what they believe is tax fraud.

The IRS probably already knows about Uber. They probably haven't audited the company or asked for details, but they must be vaguely aware of how the company operates.
Yeah, and the other thing is that the square footage of a "median" home and its lot size also varies greatly between these places. Not only are homes cheaper outside SV, they're also usually bigger and sitting on bigger lots. So it may be even worse than it sounds.
Sega tried this to prevent third party games from running. It didn't work: because their string was required for functionality, it wasn't protected by copyright. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade for details.
Yev from Backblaze here -> They are run as separate entities: "It was agreed that WD would operate with WD Technologies and HGST as wholly owned subsidiaries and they would compete in the marketplace with separate brands and product lines.[4][5][6]" So, they compete with each other and use different supply-chains, so they are quite different, even if the money eventually flows in to the same conglomerate.
Neat project. My brother, who is an immigration lawyer and presumably somewhere on the list, asks for a way to search by attorney.
Yes, but nowadays HGST is no more. The company has been bought by WD, the 2.5" and smaller HDDs are now part of Western Digital. The 3.5" HDDs are now Toshiba due regulatory requirements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
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I think the conclusion comes from a perception that the narrative in my position is not 'the mainstream perspective', and therefore its a matter of pretense over the popular.

And to that, I can only say that the popular opinion is not always the better position. Fight the power. In this case, the power is industrialized pharmaceuticals. Just because its been sold to you as a solution, doesn't mean the problem is solved ..
Not just Silicon Valley. It's part of his broad argument that we're seeing a slow down in the rate of progress and innovation (specifically the sort that benefits society), that we're stagnating.
Why are the answers here so coy?

"Send me an email, we'll talk"

Is it a secret to be shopping your website/product to a new management? Why?
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See https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitfinex-passes-stefan-thoma... and https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/audit

But even if you trust that (just think that they could borrow the money or convert usd to btc specifically for the audit), it's only the BTC part. They have tons of USD deposited too, there's no proof for that.

So there's no definitive proof that any exchange holds all the value it owes to its depositors.
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This post is Off-topic.

Why do so many react so strongly emotionally to this topic? Or does my impression misguide me?
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>>"unnecessary non-standard phrasing"

You mean in lieu of those presented in the DSM? Oh, I get it: you're a member of the pharma-cult.
I'd like to add... the key test for trademarks is whether or not the use will cause confusion in the marketplace as to the origin of the product.

So calling something "Open Slack" would almost assuredly not be fair game... while claiming that the product is "mostly compatible with the Slack API" would probably be fine, especially since it almost self-evidently implies that the product is not Slack.

In any case, best to tread lightly with the use of their name at all, and certainly don't use it for marketing or promotion. Unlike patents and copyright, the only way to obtain and keep a trademark is to use it and defend it, so companies are rightfully aggressive in that regard.
Host it in China and advertise directly to their current customers.
Well, it could power the U.S. if transportation weren't an issue. I worked with the Wind Energy Project Group several years back at the TU Delft and when I asked why the US didn't just exploit its huge reserves of wind and solar energy available, say in the Midwest, an engineer who worked there with me thumbed through some books and came up with some ballpark statistic, which I think was something like "1% power loss per hundred km" or so -- basically it meant that this was potentially feasible for powering Chicago with a wind farm in Iowa, or possibly even getting energy from Canada to New York City, the rest of the possibilities were far more limited. Maybe someone on HN is an actual engineer for one of these power companies and can give a more reliable figure?

Solar grid parity would definitely be pretty awesome. Do you know whether the gains come from better efficiencies, or from cheaper manufacture? In any case, I'd caution HN on that: don't expect an immediate turn-over. It's sort of like how poor people are constrained by their food budgets to eat an obesity-inducing diet: solar power works well if you can buffer the more-up-front costs (investment, maintenance, the volatility in the electric bill induced by weather) with your budget in exchange for the long-term payoff, but that's just a really hard sell to people who are in the middle and lower-middle class.