skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a technical debt trap. You dive in with a one-click install and follow up with a bunch of plugins that seem to fit the bill. Then you spend 2-3x more time creating a custom theme for someone than you would in a sensibly-architected CMS, and only then do you begin to realize that maintenance costs down the road are going to be absolutely crazy. Especially when plugins X and Y start requiring a different theming architecture in production builds, and an immediate update to the latest version is now critical due to a security flaw. Then the plugin you were relying on for sub-task Z is sold to a third party, and while they keep promising to address security and usability issues, somehow you start to receive spam for telecommunications equipment through their support channels.

This actually happened to me. Low-hanging fruit is often a mirage when it comes to the CMS world.
"We're terminating you as an employee and retaining you as a contractor; please submit an invoice at the end of each month for the hours you think you've worked. [So we can endlessly haggle over what qualify as hours you've actually worked, tying up what should be your paycheque for up to 90 days and making sure you don't end up making a living wage, while also being unable to take EI because you're still technically working full-time for us and have to be available 9-5.]"

I don't know why I put up with that one for as long as I did.
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Living wills and advance directives are a good starting point but they may not be enough. If one is potentially near end-of-life and is serious about DNR-type wishes, it behooves one to get something like a DNR bracelet and/or a POLST document posted on your fridge, so there are no misunderstandings with first responders. There have been a couple NYT articles about this recently. As others have echoed, get the information specific to your state.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/the-right-pa...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/health/the-trouble-with-ad...
The value of references can vary greatly depending on the industry. In finance, this is one thing I think we get right.

When hiring, just from an employee's history I am probably 3 degrees or less away from being able to contact every one of their old bosses. Given this I can get a very clear picture of what an employee really did, as opposed to what they claim they did on their resume.

The second reason to use them is as a filter. Can't provide any references, that's a big huge giant red flag. If you can't find one person to vouch for you that's not a positive signal.

For other industries like lawyers, doctors, and engineers, as you become more senior, your value switches from being 100% dependent on your work ability to the value of your professional network.

ie an experienced doctor/engineer/lawyer brings with them a network of clients, and other professional contacts that may be worth 10x what they can do in their given profession.

As a non practicing engineer, that was one of the biggest eye openers to me. The fact that your professional network can have more value than your professional abilities.

Think of the example of say Mark Zuckerberg, imagine you were going to hire him.

What's more valuable, his ability to get pretty much any person to help move your company forward or his ability to code?

I'd say its the former, and its the former by a long shot.

Where reference checks are pretty useless is when hiring a new grad or someone who is switching fields. In those cases you aren't likely to get any positive benefit from reference checking.
Bay Area does pay more than elsewhere. However, given the extraordinary rents, it doesn't pay that much more. If money is a concern, I'd say somewhere like NYC or LA is a better option.
I'm a freelance iOS developer living in soma SF. I do feel that a lot of what I bring to the table is the ability to work onsite and discuss things face to face. Despite all of our technological advances, I feel like there is just no substitute for hashing things out face to face.
Wonder if they'll keep hosting the site at WP Engine...?
Is that still a requirement for start-ups? Now, if they are not going to spend at least half the money on a new fancy office - that would be a major concern for investors.
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Yes, you're missing out by not being pushed out of your comfort zone. There are many things you're not missing out on: expensive cost of living being a good one, but even living in New York I feel like I'm missing out on the challenge of being amongst so much raw talent and the dynamism / sense of possibility you feel there. It pushes you, inspires you, and keeps you from falling for your own bullshit.

That said, I don't think I would live in Silicon Valley proper, rather SF where you can actually run into other human beings, which is the point. And actually I personally wouldn't live in SF either due to the lack of any meaningful cultural industries (art, music, etc.)
Huh, yeah. I don't really enjoy semantic arguments, either, but I think you've got a lot of great points.

There is something really genuinely different about a "DSL" which has reached the status of being totally externalized. On one hand you're now forced to more completely define the semantics/syntax from scratch (you can't bootstrap, though I think to some degree that 'definition by implementation' here is a big fallacy) but then on the other you're also facing a much greater task if your primary end goal is to just better focus on the domain.

In my opinion, DSLs are just languages with an intent to hit a target domain. External DSLs, as I call what you call DSLs at large, are one mechanism for doing that. Internal DSLs, which are not really distinct from APIs + their conventions, have the interesting property, however, of arising in layers. This aids composition and speed to develop.

But they absolutely suffer from being compromised on semantics and syntax due to their embedding. And before a Lisper comes by and talks about macros, I think the tradeoff is fundamental. The more you bear on the "underlying" language in your DSL the more you must compromise.

Genuinely, a very high-value DSL ought to be externalized, I feel.
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For anyone else who gets here and, like me, isn't familiar with this terminology, it appears to be ecological terminology for differentiating between species that select for quantity versus quality[0].

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
I posted this because of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9569934

I wondered if it was in fact worth the effort to "get your shit together" vs. the probability of an event as described even happening. Unfortunately not everything that one should ideally, one can do. Time doesn't permit mitigating all evils or "maybes" and after the fact (or when you are freshly impacted by someone else's tragedy) doing things like this always seems more important that it statistically.
Well damn; I've literally never had a job (big company or small) where I truly enjoyed the culture or connected with the founders. I guess I'm unemployable.
> I grew in Silicon Valley
> The people I work with seem totally normal.

It could be that it's just what your used to. People that grew up outside of the area may see things a little differently based on their life experiences in other places.
Not until you marry if you intend to. The quality of spouse material in smaller towns is higher.
I agree. My employer Treasure Data (http://www.treasuredata.com/product) has been offering exactly this (SQL on schema-on-read data) for the last three years as a cloud service. But in reality, people "get" schema-less much better than "schema-on-read" thanks to all the marketing that MongoDB folks have done for "schemaless".
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Portland, great weather?! But I agree for quality of life Portland is better.

Unless you're one of the very few that work trumps all. Other factors can be more important. I still live in my hometown (Sacramento) because family is here.

Personally San Diego is more tempting than the Bay. An uncle moved for school and never left...
You may be on to something. I did a quick search for `BDD` and found a LOT of results in google. This Burrito Driven Development must be a thing already.
They're on the Earth, but they're not living.
How does 100k flights a day equal 2.4 millions hours of operation if each flight was on average 1 hour?
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Simple solution to find out?

You work remotely right? Split some time here. about 3 months here will let you know for certain if you are or not.

There are alot of hostels and hacker houses (just google "hacker house sf" or "hacker house silicon valley")

Also remember its really interesting how the layout of companies in the valley follows the OSI model

https://engineering.linkedin.com/endorsements/geographic-tre...

So make sure to spend time not only in San Francisco but also in Palo alto, Mountain View, and maybe even San Jose.

That way you can experience the whole of whats out here and decide for yourself.

Myself personally I found out I very much was. The level of talent and the caliber of the average person in tech here is rarely paralleled.

Not to mention most other markets don't create the caliber of consumer tech compaines I'm most passionate about and are more focused on B2B.

I learn alot through osmosis so I would be short changing myself to be anywhere else if I want to be among the best in the field.

There are certainly snakes and sociopaths around but any place there is money to be made or power to be had you will find those people.

SF and SV do the best job they can to still only reward those with the talent to make big things happen.
One of the major ideas behind CoreOS is that system updates should be frequent, automatic and reliable. As such the self-updating Chrome OS was chosen as the starting point.

https://coreos.com/using-coreos/updates/
Nice! I've actually adopted a minimal approach as of late: https://gist.github.com/montanaflynn/da1f0565c95a5a37b458
>The culture in "silicon valley" is toxic. People are obnoxious and narcissistic; many are pathological liars and self-promoters.

This should be read as YMMV (your mileage may vary). One person in Silicon Valley and his anecdotal evidence based on interactions w/ a few bad apples does not represent every single person in Silicon Valley.
I just really enjoy recalling shared memories with people. It reminds you of your shared past and helps you bond.
according to the source, the issue is with the chip size:

One problem with HBM is especially an issue for large GPUs. High-end graphics chips have, in the past, pushed the boundaries of possible chip sizes right up to the edges of the reticle used in photolithography. Since HBM requires an interposer chip that's larger than the GPU alone, it could impose a size limitation on graphics processors. When asked about this issue, Macri noted that the fabrication of larger-than-reticle interposers might be possible using multiple exposures, but he acknowledged that doing so could become cost-prohibitive.

Fiji will more than likely sit on a single-exposure-sized interposer, and it will probably pack a rich complement of GPU logic given the die size savings HBM offers. Still, with HBM, the size limits are not what they once were.
I wonder if the rebellion of the youth in the 60's (in the US) can be seen as an echo of atrocities our soldiers lived in WWII? Did everyone come home changed, and cold... and rais a generation that reacted badly to that?
I've never heard of this FCC thing you speak of.

And most schools I know are migrating to Drupal.
It will be interesting to see how this holds up longer term. I read a great paper from ISSC on making chips thin enough for stacking and their conclusion was that it takes very little silicon to build most chips. Thin enough that stacking old 130nm dies to get 22nm transistor density in the same thickness using a stack of 6 130nm 'sheets'. Heat is still an issue of course as is alignment (if you heat one sliver before the others heat up it can push itself out of alignment apparently)

That said, I'd expect this to become the memory for laptops in the not to distant future. A Core i7 with 16GB of DDR5 stacked on top of the CPU and all that freed up space for more battery. Look for it in a Macbook near you :-)
I think SF + SV have the highest concentration of interesting people in the world. Just sitting at a run-of-the-mill meetup on a Tuesday night, you might have one of the world's leading experts casually sitting next to you. I haven't lived in any other place where it is like that.
Odd timing - I was driving through that area over the weekend :)
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If the team is encouraging a culture of [x], but you don't support [x]. For x, substitute: workaholism, frattish sexism, elitist we-know-better-than-the-management cloistering, etc.
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Until the time comes when you need to scale out your RDBMS and need to shard it. IMO that's a bigger pain ;).

Plus if you have multiple servers, they will most likely need to pass messages for other things too.
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Does anyone here know of fundraising systems or lists of different micro-economic models?
I think the portion of people the grandparent is talking about is relatively small in numbers, but relatively large in shrillness.

I worked as a dev at one of the major tech companies here for 5 years and basically found that all my coworkers were nice, normal, fairly geeky engineers who really loved technology. My fiancee grew up in the area, doesn't work at tech, and most of her friends are locals. They're all very normal and friendly too. (Probably moreso than I'm used to - I grew up in New England, where everybody's reserved until you get to know them.)

The problem is that the folks who are grandiose self-promoters seem to spend all their time self-promoting, which makes you disproportionately likely to run into them, particularly if you go to startup events. Stay away from that corner and Silicon Valley is basically just a bunch of highly-educated nerds who work very hard.
co-founder of CoreOS here.

We chose to fork from Google's ChromeOS early on because they had a nice SDK setup for taking a set of Gentoo ebuilds and taking them through a pipeline of cross-build, image build and then OEM build steps. Because CoreOS is more like an embedded Linux than a normal general purpose one I was evaluating different options like Tizen, OpenEmbedded, etc but I arrived at forking the ChromeOS SDK because ebuilds were familiar and the build pipeline was close enough to what we needed.

Since forking we have essentially diverged in every possible way a Linux can diverge: different Kernel, different init system, different bootloader, etc. So, even though technically it is a fork, and arguably the Wikipedia should be updated, it was a hard fork to get a set of build tools.

If you are interested you can see our SDK guide here: https://coreos.com/docs/sdk-distributors/sdk/modifying-coreo...
Ah, both at the same time. Yeah, that reduces to "obscured" :-P

"I purchased a 'keyless' keyboard to avoid confusion if I happened to look at the keyboard. For example why did I just press "S" but type "R"? It would be very confusing for my brain."

That confusion is precisely the stick that keeps you from looking at your keyboard. If I glance down and get confused, that stops me looking down much faster then if I glance down and just don't learn anything. At least, that's the theory.

Note, just in case it wasn't clear, by "rearranging" I mean moving the labels and not moving what key location generates what input.
> Do you have any idea at what speed the saliva particles are flying during a sneeze?

About 40mph. Why can't a droplet of moisture travelling at that speed be deflected by air?
Do you listen to TAL much? I ask because if you find it bland when you do, I can't imagine you listening to it much, and if you don't listen to it much, I'm not sure I trust your appraisal to be accurate. Not every episode is interesting to me, so I skip some, but others I find extremely interesting (Radiolab, Planet Money and Freakonomics are my bread and butter NPR shows). To me that just indicates that have a fairly wide set of topics.

Generally I find they try to go fairly deep on both sides of topic where they can, or at least put disclaimers in that there may other explanations for what they are reporting. The recent multi-part set on police is a good example, they spent a fair amount of time talking about the police perspective on some recent events, and how and why it diverges from public opinion. To me, assuming it's pandering to a "middlebrow" audience would have me believing in a much more informed public than I think actually exists.
Where are you getting your stats from? I'm interested in the source for said speculation.
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After a good run building my startups..I've decided to go back to consulting and being a more stable dad.

My CV : http://bit.ly/productDesigner

I've launched two fun creative products : http://JuicyCanvas.com & http://POPteam.io .. so I deeply understand the challenges of birthing product market-fit via lean canvas, running customer dev, and implement growth-hacking.

I use http://Mural.ly for collaborative brainstorming/white-boarding, Sketch+InVision for wire-framing+design..also testing Pixate & Framer these days.

I'm currently based in Buenos Aires (EST+1) and can easily fly into NYC/SF if needed. I'm open to relocation but prefer a long remote trial first.

Oh and.I also have a few amazing full-stack devs here in my studio : http://design2dev.com/the-a-team/ .. ready to hit the ground running.

hit me up for more info here: artur [at] design2dev .com

thanks!
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This constructive noncompliance seems more pragmatic than political, to the point that it feels like a distinct form of disobedience to me. Your examples come to mind exactly because of their tight association with grander social-change movements, and I think that context sets them apart from individual acts of noncompliance in response to ill-conceived legislation. Where civil disobedience is often based in morality and identity politics and aims to reform broad inequities in society with a visible campaign, the examples of civil noncompliance seem to focus on the political change effected when individuals quietly eliminate minute inefficiencies by ignoring detrimental laws.

And there may be something to be said for covert noncompliance in a democracy where strongly polarized political parties shoot down visible campaigns the moment they take off. Civil disobedience (openly democratic) is about kickstarting the political process, swaying society in the hopes of swaying their representatives. But civil noncompliance (covertly democratic) is about bypassing politics entirely, forcing authorities to either punish the community at large or acknowledge the impotence of the law in question.

This is all very stream-of-consciousness on my end, hopefully it's coming across with some clarity.
Salaries in LA area are low. I used to get recruiter spam for positions paying 38k-50k and asking for two years of experience. This wasn't even very long ago, about late 2013 in the Santa Monica area
ouch, hopefully uber isn't biting the hand that feeds

CMU just recently won a huge case against Marvel for patent infringement, if CMU cuts access to their patents that many of Uber's new staff have worked with or developed, then Uber may be out of luck
The recent cross-platform release of Visual Studio is exciting and should lead to some cool community developments and plugins being made.
Let's write the manifesto!
I'm fascinated by Wordpress success.

It's an horrible peace of software, with horrible PHP code 4.x style, a db schema only a beginner could have come up with and an ecosystem with a lot of trash(not even talking about the admin which is hideous ). Yet it's a blazing success in the CMS space, because of 3 things that are insanely overlooked by other CMS developers :

- Ease of installation

- It runs on a minimal PHP/Apache/Mysql setup (cheap hosting)

- It has a great backward compatibly, unlike other solutions that break everything with each major version.

If one compares with Drupal for instance, I mean with Drupal, a designer can go really really far without writing a single line of PHP code, aside from a few tags for templates(but it's really light). You have views, CCK and a lot of handy stuff.

On the other hand, one cannot customize Wordpress without writing more than a few php tags or downloading a plugin that will mess up with the original db schema. And good luck customizing the admin(easily done with Drupal).

I get that Wordpress is more of a "platform" businesses can build products upon, but who would really want to build on that shitty core,with that db schema? one can say i'm negative and unfair in my criticism, but I think my arguments are valid.

It's true however that while Wordpress gets a lot of heat from PHP devs, there is no effort from the PHP community to build something like Wordpress with a better codebase, and a better db schema. So Wordpress still has a reason to exist.

Reminds me of Javascript : dismissed as an horrible toy by smart people, fits an niche, becomes popular and ubiquitous , smart people now have to work on these deployed codebases....
Just makes you wonder, what if Google, Apple or Facebook go broke tomorrow?
There's also the "ice pond"[0] technique: freezing and storing water in the winter to use for air conditioning in the summer.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pond
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This does use containers and in fact they have some interesting modifications that they have made to the rkt container runtime to use KVM isolation instead of just namespaces and cgroups. See a link in 4ad's comment for an LWN article.

Those modifications are exciting for me as one of the developers of rkt. We built rkt with this concept of "stages"[1] where the rkt stage1 here is being swapped out from the default which uses "Linux containers" and instead executing lkvm. In this case the Clear Containers team was able to swap out the stage1 with some fairly minimal code changes to rkt which are going upstream. Cool stuff!

[1] https://github.com/coreos/rkt/blob/master/Documentation/deve...
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I wish I had Drill a few years ago, but even more nowadays.

Drill and Dremel approach to data querying is really interesting in the sense that it's the tool that changes the 'lenses' on how it sees the data, rather than you have to re-shape the data for how would you like to see it. ++glasses && --photoshop;

Thanks Drill team!
It's always quite fuzzy to discuss alternate histories in this way, but for what it's worth, your conclusions quite simply don't "sound right" based on my experience of what and how software has contributed to the world at large. I don't see any way in which "the Dijkstra method" leads in a similar time span to a world in which it's quite so easy for your run-of-the-mill mom-and-pop small business to so simply spin up their own little corner of a messy world-wide network of people to whom they wish to peddle their wares.

It seems really easy to me to navel-gaze at how "bad" we think software is, and forget how great it has proven to be for so many people outside our bubble.
The industry swings back and forth between coarse-grained and fine-grained solutions, centralization and decentralization, development and operations, depending on the currently available technologies.

Build a coarse-grained system, and you find excessive coupling. Build a fine-grained system, and you find excessive moving part interactions. Which kneecap gets the bullet?