skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a young person who succeeded (ish; I am still poor, but on a reasonable trajectory) in the labour market.

Many of my friends did not. They are not lazy. They are not useless. They are simply not a good match for the desires of the capitalist machine at the present time.

They do not deserve to be ground into dust. They have immense value to give to the world if given half a chance.

This effective slavery will grind down their morale and turn them against society even further.

Please, see through this 'deserving' nonsense. This is simply a way for the capitalist class to devalue labour. They own all of the land, they own all of the raw materials. You cannot opt out of this; your choice is to work for a pittance (my basic household bills cost more than this), to leave your family behind, or to die.

This isn't about being 'owed a living'. This is about taking away the means of sustenance and renting them back to people.
They're including a 2-axis gimbal that should (mostly) compensate for this.
Put one in the bank, too.
Maybe wishful thinking, but I don't think this is bad news for Skylake. It's just a token refresh, but it also gets Force Touch into the 15" Pro ahead of a WWDC where FT APIs for 10.11 and iOS 9 will presumably be topics of discussion. It might actually mean Skylake is right on time: people would also be ticked off if they bought what looked like a bigger update (i.e. to Broadwell) and then a redesigned Skylake model appeared just months later.
Getting out of dodge doesn't mean immediately upend your life. But if you're unhappy with your work, your boss, etc. it might be a good idea to start looking for a new job.
I haven't looked for any precedent cases.

TRUSTe was suppose to do something similar, but it's seal doesn't mean much anymore (not that it ever really did). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRUSTe

Medical records, children's data, and sensitive financial data is protected under US law. US-EU Safe Harbor has some consumer data protection rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_informa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Applicable_law
From the article - "Other emails cited in the indictment run through 2013, and the government contends they included a “stolen Avago design kit” for the chips."

You can obviously start a new company in the same field, just make sure you don't violate non-complete clause (if it exists). However, stealing code or product design is a strict NO whether you are in Silicon Valley or a University.
Some obscure gems in here! I particularly enjoyed The Sound of the Dialup: http://oona.windytan.com/posters/dialup-final.png
Are you publicly traded? If so, maybe you can do a GoFundMe/IndieGOGO/Kickstarter campaign and offer shares as prizes for support...and then when that 600K revenue kicks in, peoples' investments will offer a higher return for them...

Also, social networking. Get trending on Twitter.

Just my 2 cents.

Good luck!
Those articles are from January, and Cringley said 25% of the workforce would be gone by Feb. It never happened. There have been layoff, and one day in the future it might amount to 100k, but nothing like 100k people in a month, or 5. Typical Cringley "take this little fact, coat thickly with histrionics and invective to drive clicks, and declare yourself a genius insider when the little fact turns out to be true".
The article seems to miss the main reason why elections are a terrible way to designate representatives: you are voting for people who want to be in charge, who will do whatever it takes to be in charge, and remain in power.

Elections != democracy. Elections force us to elect our masters. We elect the people who are supposed to write the rules they have to follow. I mean... come on. A 4th grader would see the paradox in that.

The Republic in Athens was based on the lottery and it lasted literally for centuries.
I wonder this will actually start making networking equipment cheaper.

I guess 6 years ago or so I bought a "small business" Netgear 8 port gigabit switch, for around £100.

That same switch with minor hardware revisions was about £60 when i last checked. Ridiculous when you think how much other areas have advanced in that time.

Of course it runs some crappy Netgear firmware that they stopped updating 4 years ago.

I hope this standardized switching hardware ends up in smaller boxes (8-12 port), that i can run a decent open switch OS on.
Same. Couldn't get it to work.
I have an even easier way, lets find a hack. Lets find a way to use this pipe that Facebook is building to allow access to the wider internet. Lets make it easy, like popcorn time and then lets give it away for free.
> Long-term, FM radio NPR is not going to last.

I'm curious, what do you think will replace FM NPR in cars? In Wichita, KS, I'm lucky to get cell data service before I'm a mile out of the city.

Maybe I'm reading too much into an "FM Radio will not last" interpretation.
Quite frankly, Drupal 7 is a complete nightmare. It's so heavy it has to cache aggressively for even the basic DB operations, and you'll get Mb's of cache in exchange of nothing. The DB schema is so structured that even exporting a table content is extremely difficult to do in plain SQL. You often find PHP code stored in the DB, so taking over a former contractor is pretty hard.
The code style is as old school as Wordpress, and so on.

If I had to, I would choose Wordpress over Drupal every day.
You might want to read about comparative advantage[0]. Even if machines are strictly superior on an absolute basis to humans at everything, there is still plenty for humans to do.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
But this also ties the stability to the stability of the drone itself, if it had a third axis, that could be used to compensate for the drone stability, right?
That's a nice story for what startups should be for the founders, but not for regular employees.
If you have time to link to somewhere listing those hidden settings, that would be really helpful.
A shocking number of the developers who live and work in Silicon Valley think JavaScript on the server is a perfectly good idea.

Keep that in mind when deciding whether living within that self-assembled tech bubble is necessarily a good thing when it comes to being exposed to what is ostensibly the "best of what's happening in tech".
Or work in NYC and live in NJ/Long Island. If you can get productive on the commute, you can live in a nice house for very little money, in a good school district. It's not as trendy as Brooklyn/SF, but I have a basement, a back yard, and a shed (with power and water). I might put a rack back there, and not worry about noise...
> I don't think a CoC makes such conversations impossible, interested parties won't be offended.

My experience is that I feel unwelcome at such events. Instead of being able to speak to my peers honestly and openly, instead I make a point to do so as much as possible in a private setting, lest I break some protocol that I'm not even aware of and end up reprimanded as a result.

I mean no offense to anyone, and go out of my way to avoid offending. I'm not seeking permission to do something improper, nor am I ashamed of my words or actions - I'm saying that as a white male, my actions are held to a very different and seemingly arbitrary standard.

There's a reason I post this sort of topic using a separate account. Every conversation I've had with this part of the community has been antagonistic toward me as soon as it is discovered that I'm a member of the racial/gender group that is most heavily disfavored.
Add a few things like top speed, range, flight time, tracking method, and you've got yourself a nice popular webpage/blog post.
Probably, but then these people should face punitive action, further infringement prohibited, and restitution made to the owners of the intellectual property then? If that's all this is...
How to survive as a travel startup: Think beyond travel
Two things:

1) The people on the "temp-o-meter watch team" are all retarded

2) He fails to show a schema that will solve this, and I seriously do not know what he's talking about. What would fix this:

"Had this company been using schemas, the watch and phone teams could have simply reused the same schema, avoiding the need for the watch team to reinvent the wheel, "

Given that the different languages are used [1], what kind of magic fixes this? Without requiring all the parts to support something common technology I might add..

[1] if not, there wouldn't be a problem
Most of the people in that IBM operation were probably help desk or equivalent.

The IBM help desk (such as it is) is in India.
> Making a will is critical for everyone. Not having a will is frankly not an option, you know this.

I keep hearing this, but I don't believe it. No kids, no assets of any significance, and my state's intestacy laws are fine by me for what there is. Of course, I'll revisit when my situation changes but I just can't see why making and maintaining a will needs to be a high priority for me.
Why would someone write a web server in assembly? just for fun?
Hah, that's not jest, that's helpful. I wasn't sure if this was his exact answer or a summary of some other Quora answer, so I didn't bother searching, shame on me :)

Thanks!
Sure, but, the dominant business model would have been that back then too, if the economy supported it at the time.

There are, in fact, a lot more companies now that do what Hewlett and Packard were doing then.

One can't reasonably expect that set of companies would grow to infinite size, because the economy can only support so many of these types of businesses.

So if we want to define only the former business model as a technology company, the end result would probably be "we've hit the limit of supportable technology companies, there will be no more technology companies until that changes".
Because of this, it doesn't really make sense to define it that way[1].

It turns out the economy seems to support more of this other kind of business, so it has become dominant. That too is the natural order of things.

Otherwise, this is like OP complaining "man, there aren't a lot of paper mills anymore", when the economy doesn't support paper mills being around anymore.

[1] Though it is, of course, reasonable to have liked it better back in those days if you did.
There is an inspiration lineage from Dremel, but there are also very substantial differences. Dremel handles nested data, but doesn't like variable schema and tends to generate code early (AFAIK). Drill handles data that changes shape and type and generates code very late.

The idea that SQL can be applied to data that is pretty different from traditional relational data is definitely common between the two.
Since they are using coaxial blade and vectoring via cyclic control, stabilizing the camera on a third axis would be pointless.

Worse really, it would be excess weight.

The coaxial blades are used to rotate the aircraft around that third axis. The flight controller will just adjust the calculations needed to maintain the correct heading and the corect camera direction on the fly.

The 2-axis stabilization is 'needed' to compensate for pitch/roll of the aircraft cause by the cyclic control of the blades.

I've been pretty critical of UAV kickstarters, but I actually think this one is quite interesting and likely has a bright future.
Well yes, as I indicated, the author is using a phrase in a rhetorical sense to frame the narrative emotionally. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear that I understand what the technique is accomplishing. I am merely pointing out the essential dishonesty in its use.
One way to mitigate this is with removable batteries, so you can replace them between scenes. Both the iris and this sprite both have that feature. The lily's battery does not appear to be removable.
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My experience was exactly the opposite :)
Leadership: Trust and Consequences
Here's something crazy to me about WP - it stores the site's domain in the database. This makes it incredibly obnoxious to set up a local environment of a live site (or automated CI environments with arbitrary subdomains). I had to hack together a bash script to fire UPDATEs to the db to modify these values.

Drupal on the other hand looks for /sites/$DOMAIN/settings.php, and there's nothing domain-specific in that file (except $base_url, which is optional). Orders of magnitude easier to deal with.
did patio have anything to do with the GTM?
eCommerce overall http://trends.builtwith.com/shop
Trending up and to the right http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/WooCommerce
Looks absolutely awesome but I still feel like the biggest barrier to more adoption of Babel and similar tools in the workplace just boils down to those coworkers that know some JavaScript, but come from a different background or are simply too junior/not schooled enough.

They can usually deal with basic jquery / angular and vanilla JS (i.e. without too much 'this', 'bind' or 'prototype'). They will have trouble with the ES6 code and they might have trouble with the ES5 JS produced as output.
It's a shame really because a combination of Babel and maybe underscore/lodash for added sugar and features makes JS look SO MUCH more solid and modern a language. I hope this takes up and becomes enough of a powerhouse that the powers and balances start to shift.
Obviously only you can decide. My vote is no, not if you make an effort to stay involved and to network at least somewhat. I live in San Francisco, having moved here a bit over 3 years ago from the east coast (working in Manhattan, living across the river in NJ). Before that I was in central Virginia.

I love the bay area and enjoy how easy it is to stay connected and up to date, but it's definitely a tech bubble disconnected from how the rest of the world works sometimes. Housing is crazy expensive due in large part to demand, terrible policy, and a weird west coast "I got mine" attitude that's so pervasive among voters.

The bay area is right for my wife and I right now -- we are near extended family, we enjoy being able to walk everywhere, we are easy day trips away from amazing outdoor activities (world class scuba diving and hiking, skiing until the drought finishes it off, etc). We put up with the crazy real estate market because we have to (and I'm fortunate enough to work for a tech company).

I would not move here solely for the tech ecosystem unless I was trying to start and sell a company, though I would probably consider northern California (or the pacfic NW) in general for other reasons regardless.
i think in your sector of the industry it probably matters more than most. if you care about games or finance, you will find that silicon valley is about as far from the centre of that world as anywhere else.
I'm torn--parts of me agree with you (which is why I said holding field of study constant in my original comment), while other parts disagree.

Quantitative is just a style of argument, and it alone can be used to argue for or against good or bad science. E.g. at the onset the Copernican Revolution, quantitative arguments actually were stronger for the Ptolemaic model. The core body of science, however, is a complex of evidence-gathering, hypothesis generation, and hypothesis testing, that collectively generate new sources of and frames for evidence. There's no particular reason that you've got to be able to build an isomorphism between a class of evidence and a numeric type in order for that evidence to be valuable and scientific.

On the other hand, I find it hard to argue with the observation that doing science with numbers seems to lead to a better and healthier scientific community (better in the sense of making testable predictions that pass their tests and suggest new lines of evidence).
I live in Phoenix, Arizona. My cost of living is $800/month, living comfortably (yes that includes rent, food, utilities, and transportation). It's always sunny, and 3/4 of the year it's beautiful weather, and the rest is swimming season. There are no natural disasters here, and when it rains, people go outside because water is associated with fun. Everybody owns a car and there is parking space everywhere. I'm not sure how life could get easier here.
Well, they don't allow interventions that require daily injections, etc, but the implication seems to be that something that requires a once-a-month injection, such as senescent cell clearance, would likely be allowed. Some of the "senolytics" are small molecules as well (Jim Kirkland's work, for example).

Actually the ITP is not just interested in metabolism. They do hormones and anti-inflammatories as well. But I don't get the impression that they're solely focused on those things: anyone who can make a good case for a non-labor-intensive intervention can get in. That's why I asked if SENS has applied to the ITP: because I know they have some different ideas than academia, but I'd like to know more about specific interventions they've proposed or tested.

Are you by chance going to the AAA meeting in Marina del Rey in a few weeks? I'd buy you a beer there and we could continue the conversation then ;)
It's a good idea, but hasn't been tested inside a real airplane cabin.

Back in the days of smoking on airliners, I'd often direct the nozzle to blow in front of my nose. It wasn't very effective, as the nozzle was too far away. It's hard to see how adding fins would improve it.
It's a simple statement that companies shouldn't cheat their customers, nor should we support companies (including HN startups) that think it is OK to cheat their customers.
“Completely trusted computing”
For a coaxial, cyclic controlled UAV like this you could convert to using a fixed RPM gas engine though.
She sounds so young and enthusiastic. I don't think I was ever quite like that.
I was going to say the same thing. Talking to co-workers in a "major tech company" is different from talking to other startup CEO/CTO's and just general Silicon Valley networking. The latter is quite exhausting.
this is a beautiful observation, and very true imo.
If you are young, ambitious, and enthusiastic about technology, then I'd say you are definitely missing out.
The energy you get from being surrounded by other like-minded people passionate about technology is the most amazing experience. Between meetups and parties, I learn about new technologies and how its used to solve a particular problem regularly. I learn about new technologies before it becomes mainstream. I get to try new apps and new experiences that might never become mainstream. All these experiences and learning will cultivate your creativity and as you grow older, might give you a very unique way of solving difficult problems that would have stumped others. Personally, I think that the cost premium of living in silicon valley is worth it. If I had a kid in his/her twenties I would strongly encourage them to live in silicon valley.
Everyone's talking civil disobedience, but the phrase that came to mind when I read the summary was "prefigurative politics": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics

> Prefigurative politics are the modes of organization and social relationships that strive to reflect the future society being sought by the group.

A little more general, and a little more complex, but also missing the negative connotation of "disobedience".

I get the feeling that the study wishes to remove some agency from this equation, as in "people will passively disobey and you should listen to that, because it means something", but behaving in a way that you'd like society to be has a somewhat prefigurative flavor.
I was interested too (as a former school IT admin), a little googling turned up this:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/08/01/37erate.h33.htm...

E-Rate is a major funding source for school Internet connections and is ran by the FCC. The sidebar on that article says:

"Phases out support for some non-broadband services, such as voice services; and eliminates support for others, such as email, Web-hosting, paging, and components of telephone service such as text-messaging and directory assistance."

I'm guessing it relates to that "web-hosting" bit.
While I dare to say I'm generally not easily impressed or emotional: after being just a few minutes on the premises, you can get an idea of what those poor people had to go through. Just by being there. You don't have to read much.

I would describe it as the feeling of powerlessness that everything in that place signifies.

You immediately now you'll never get out (unless they let you, which of course didn't happen). You couldn't decide anything yourself (eat, sleep, toilet,...). Might sound like a regular prison, but it's not.

Not that I have any idea what it must have been like of course.

I think it would be somehow wise/responsible if everyone would visit it once. I wouldn't call it tourism.
Gentrification.

You can find a theme for $45 that will cost $30K to develop from scratch.

You'll find a few plugins that will do exactly what you want that will cost $50k to develop in-house.

WordPress is great because you have things that will cost you $xx,xxx to develop and they are already available for you at a minuscule cost.
Also great startup opportunities.
I'm not sure re: Digicert, we (CertSimple) have an alternate certificate source that can provide SGC certificates, and choose not to.
Coming from iPhoto I have manually organized my photos into albums.

With the new Photos app this is now broken. There is no way that I can tell if a photo has been added to an album or not. Some might be added to several albums (I do not want that), I simply can't find that out.
Drupal is just as horrible as WP with the added bonus of being complicated. Which is why I choose WP over Drupal (when I have to make that choice).
Who do you think I have been working for, and with?
Might be an interesting idea for a UAV like this to include a mount point at the top where you could attach a helium balloon that could carry some percentage of the weight less that 100%. That reduction in weight would translate into longer run-time. Of course it also would reduce maneuverability.
This article was very well presented, clear, and informative. Thank you. I look forward to your next one(s).
I've interviewed for top technical companies in Silicon Valley and have gotten job offers. I've never encountered a scenario as dire as the one you paint. Rarely do these problems go beyond something that can be reasoned out on one's feet. If people are studying for 50+ hours to pass one of these interviews, then they are doing it wrong. You can't prepare for one of these by studying. I give problems SPECIFICALLY because I don't want the candidate to know how to solve it on the way in. I want to see how they think on their feet. If they solve a problem quickly, I give them a different problem or toss in a curve ball. I don't care about what they know coming in. I care about how they apply general knowledge towards solving problems that they have never seen. I care about how they interact with someone in a brainstorming session. I'm interested to see how they handle these sorts of problems, because they will be dealing with them every day.

These aren't exams meant to prove that you've studied hard. They are open problems with dozens of potential solutions. These are meant to see how you think and how you work with others.