skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SV's concentration of investors and startups is unparalleled. There's strong evidence to support this beyond qualitative assertions anybody may make.

But I believe that SV/SF is hitting against constraints. Of course history shows us during gold rushes, there's plenty of people willing to suffer poor conditions to pursue the perception of easy riches.

Seattle has a big limitation for startups because of the lack of ready angel investors. Any startup beginning in Seattle and unable to close a notable angel investor have a hard time raising an angel round. Though SV investors and VCs are showing a willingness to support early stage Seattle startups. A16z has made investments in Offerup and Distelli.

There is a lot of high quality engineering talent available in Seattle. Though many tend towards conservative choices for careers. Recruiting engineers into a startup requires some work. Though once a team's built, there's not the same velocity on job turnover that's typical of SF/SV.

Also for recent grads, Seattle offers a great lifestyle that shares a lot of attributes with SF and Portland. Housing is of high quality and available. Thanks to Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, many rising culinary stars are visiting Seattle in a form of a pilgrimage.

There's a lot of promise in Seattle. Many in the community are dedicated to growing the startup ecosystem. New Tech is a good meetup with great organizers in Red Russak and Brett Greene. I have nurtured my Python user group PuPPy for a year now. We're approaching 1000 members and hold monthly meetings that draw well in excess of 100 attendees at every event.

It's a personal choice. Like choosing a school, I'd recommend a visit. But I'd recommend making several trips over a period of time before making a commitment to either destination.
Being granted equity as a bonus is an incentive. Being granted equity in lieu of salary is asking me to invest in the company.

Let's say I'm asking for X salary. If the company offers me Y salary and W equity such that Y + W = X, then what they have done is gotten me to spend W of my salary investing in their company. If this pays off as an investment, that's great, but it isn't due to their generosity, but rather my investment. In fact, since I'm limited to investing in only their company (instead of being free to invest it in whatever I want), it is a large burden.

If they offer me Equity, W, such that Y + W > X, then (Y + W) - X is compensation (and X - Y is my investment in the company).

To sum up, if a company says, "We will pay you X salary, as long as you invest W in equity in our company" this is not in any way as valuable as X salary. W is a burden on me, not compensation. It is money I am giving them, not the other way around!

For this reason, I always negotiate salary independent of equity.
It's not just us who consider robbery and murder to be crimes. Every criminal code in history has done the same (although there are often exceptions carved out, especially for murder in the service of the sovereign), and some have even instituted more severe penalties for these actual crimes than we have.

I don't see "don't smoke or sell pot" anywhere in the Ten Commandments.
I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why. (2012)
Philips Lumify, an App-Based Ultrasound System for Android Pads
Oh, so she's a neo-hippie. Instead of begging on the streets for money to follow Grateful Dead around, she's doing it on the internet to follow jam bands and electronic artists around.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. :D
A try at a tldr:

> Smells are generally introduced by
developers when enhancing existing features or implementing
new ones. As expected, smells are generally introduced in
the last month before issuing a deadline, while there is a
considerable number of instances introduced in the first year
from the project startup. Finally, developers that introduce
smells are generally the owners of the file and they are more
prone to introducing smells when they have higher workloads.
Same with lending small things and small sums of money to friends/acquaintances. It's often healthier to assume that you are not getting them back.
> "Rejected: a staircase joining the underpass to the central hallway."

I always felt like there should have been a staircase there. I'll trust him that it didn't play as well, but it just seemed like there should have been another way out of the underpass.
Unfortunately, I can no longer modify the title.
> t suggests all of Ireland is growing somewhat evenly when the truth is that while most if is growing Dublin and her surrounding area and Cork are growing much faster than the rest and the picture doesn't indicate that though I'm sure the data will.

As far as I could tell, the darkest red colour represents '> 2% population growth,' so that graphic is not much good at breaking down areas that are all experiencing more than 2% growth.
One of my major hang-ups about transitioning away from SQL Server to Postgres is the productivity that comes from tools like Profiler and Database Engine Tuning Advisor (which uses hypothetical indexes to find performance improvements). Can anyone suggest analogous tools for Postgres?
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Elon Musk: Good Vision, Bad Math on Tesla
From all the credible data I've
been able to find, the
main global warming
is just from the coolest
times of The Little Ice Age.

For the past 100 years, I see
little credible evidence of any
significant warming, and what
there is may just be that we are
still pulling out of The Little
Ice Age, e.g., slowly warming the
oceans from the cooling they got
in The Little Ice Age.

The best data I found is in

Committee on Surface Temperature
Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years,
National Research Council, Surface
Temperature Reconstructions for the Last
2,000 Years, ISBN 0-309-66264-8, 196
pages, National Academies Press, 2006,

available at

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11676.html

There as I read the graphs, as of 2006,
the temperature was essentially the
same as in the year 1000,
and the increase in temperature
over the past 100 years was much
like that from year 900 to year
1000.

For the climate model predictions,
all the data I've seen have
the predictions very significantly
different and all significantly
higher than the actual temperatures.

For the title here "What's Really
Warming the World?",
from all I can tell from credible
sources, so far, to any
significant extent, nothing.
This has actually been in Microsoft's C compiler for along time, too. (The one that is mostly only C89). It is an embarrassing situation really.
It appears you're one of the few that had the foresight to take a screenshot of the results instead of direct linking to the already-hammered dynamic link that appears to have no caching..

For those posting sample results: take a screenshot, don't post a link to the original site.
While Google Docs is good, it's not a replacement for Office if you need to do anything more than basic documentation unfortunately.
Cool! Thanks. Definitely it's in the darkest red area, so she could well be right!
This is why it isn't 'by default'.
As someone who definitely doesn't agree with the mainstream opinion about all this, it comes across as fundamentally un-serious when you casually refer to the opposing argument as "propaganda" without any elaboration. I've used that kind of rhetoric probably too often and it is counterproductive. If you are genuinely interested in communicating what you believe to be good information to those who don't agree, please consider avoiding that kind of language.
You're absolutely right. I've been wondering what results i would get if I seeded all of the population with the reference image data, slightly mutated but let the GA look for variations with a 10 or 20% variation tolerance.
Wasn't one of the forces dictating this migration the famine itself?
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" off at night to discourage freeloaders (e.g., people charging their cars)."

How is charging a laptop not freeloading?
How to make a Sega Neptune
Possibly among other issues, because if you grant options to an employee that are below the fair market value of the company, you've just created immediately taxable income for the employee.
Really? My starting salary as a level 1 engineer in the first dotcom boom was $115K. Now had I taken a more fun (but as it turns out in reality frequently not very fun) job in the game industry, that salary would have been ~$70K. This of course is an industry segment with its own crazy outliers.

Fortunately, someone sensible figuratively smacked me upside the head and convinced me to take a more practical job (which ended up pretty fun actually).
How We Make Cars Is a Bigger Environmental Issue Than How We Fuel Them
You bring up a very good point. I guess it's important to understand that paleo isn't an attempt to copy a hunter-gatherer diet as that would be impossible today. It's an attempt to get as close to it as we can with today's domestically available food. Coconut oil and olive oil are suggested as replacements for PUFA (polyunsaturated) oils such as canola and vegetable oil that oxidize easily and cause inflammation. It's similar to how honey is suggested as a replacement for refined sugar.
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>The IPCC receives funding from UNEP, WMO, and its own Trust Fund for which it solicits contributions from governments. Its secretariat is hosted by the WMO, in Geneva.

What interest do these organizations have in inaccurate science? How could they possibly be more neutral?
Would you care to expand on what makes you such an outlier? Would another person be able to go along in your footsteps?
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I've talked to many people who have sat on a jury, supported a girlfriend through law school, and have a few practicing attorneys in my social circle. So I haven't formed my opinions from Hollywood or even news/magazine articles where the topic is a miscarriage of justice. Wrt this article, it seems like the jury was fed a big steamy plate of you know what and they ate it up.
I highly doubt that people work harder in advancing economies.
Looks like a neat service. Just as a point of information, should I assume if I don't get a response that my submission has been rejected? Would be nice to get a replying if submissions are not taken into consideration just to know not to wait.

Good luck with expanding the service to other cities!
Tesla's Gigafactory could change everything in Reno, Nevada
>Java isn't capable, however, of high levels of abstraction without various surrounding crufts, however.

Well, Go is even worse in this regard, and yet people jump all over it.
My Journey Through the U.S. Immigration, Part 1
"So, I'm a bit surprised to see the divergence here where Greeks shun marriage and raising children while their Spanish counterparts still hold to these traditional values."

Huh?

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

Looks like South Europe has abandoned having enough children to replace themselves simultaneously. One cannot blame them: those countries are horribly overpopulated, even more so than the USA.

And what few babies there are are significantly being born to Middle Eastern and African settlers attracted by gullible immigration policies that overcrowded countries can ill afford.
Regurgitated links are not jokes.
Yeah, that "sheesh" wasn't directed at you, but at the even more ludicrous amount of work required to not have to trust a third party. The response wasn't a rebuttal, I just felt I had more to say. :)
This isn't even good snark. It doesn't make sense. Venture capitalists aren't investing their own money. They're taking money from other people's pension funds. They can't just give people's retirement funds to software developers to be nice.
> I find doubtful the support of multiple readline-like
> libraries (and no linenoise though) though. I would
> rather prefer to have one, but fully supported (with

I myself wanted linenoise, so I took it as a minor challenge and put up a pull-request with the feature. The multiple line edit versions is a feature since there are many non-Linux systems out there where readline was not present, supplanted by the native one, or was a pain in the neck to build. A small, statically-linked shell with rational syntax is very nice.
The options are an investment. It's just that they're "out of the money" when issued. Modal payout is zero, the maximum possible has been tens or hundreds of millions; what is the expected value? Hard to say.
Startups are finally looking to close that diversity gap
Last I heard they had 6 million active users (vs 1 million in 2012).
Harry Beck’s spoof Underground map
That's a satisfying explanation. I want to tack on the projected water shortage in Yakima due to reduced snow pack on the northern Cascades.

Some of this could be "awareness bias" where people are more likely to be aware of information that's similar to other information they've received recently. Are we focusing more on apparent water shortages because of California?

Yes, the water is somewhere. Just so long as it's somewhere terrestrial, and not escaping into space like happened to Mars and Venus.
it should be free if you already own office
This is something else that needs to change: "equity bought as an investor is much less tax toxic than equity options received as an employee of a startup"
No. Options have to be priced at the time the grant is made, and that price needs to be the then-current fair market value of the company.
What's the point of sarcastic comments like this? If this is so obvious why didn't you suggest it years ago?
Cmon, their website does stuff. "Nuts" is a harsh word. You really think Kickstarter clone with 2% rate gets any traction?
Thicker sticks. Coating on the outside of the chalk. Different formulation to make it smoother and less dusty.

Basically, the chalk seems to be optimized for writing Kanji strokes which need to vary in thickness and weight.

And, yes, he did miss the boat in the US. I have never heard of this stuff before they went under (not completely true: my Japanese teacher complained about the quality of American chalk all the time--I should have twigged in). I would have bought crates of this stuff when I was teaching.

Hopefully the Korean company he sold the machines to won't be quite so insular.
New and Noteworthy:
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/
We've tried using it at work but found that it's really full of bugs on anything other than IE.
It was a helper script rather than an existing project, so it was in the "unregulated" region It's hard in my experience to have a coding standard that's team-wide, cross-project and doesn't get in the way. But you're right that parametrised queries could be one requirement that you have to keep.
That's about 3X what mine was for a similar junior position during the same time period, so again, congratulations :-)
I guess I will try to get to installing and testing this tonight or tomorrow. I'll post back here with my findings.
How do you mean? Did you read the paper I linked to? In what way were Mann et al. "proven" right?
Write Without Gender
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We're talking about colonization here, not exploration. That's not even a practical plan to make more living space here on earth, let alone on Venus.
That takes about eight months of practice apparently.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
Lexus just unveiled what it calls a real, working hoverboard
According to a study (granted, from 2010) by our regulator, actual speeds were 65%+ of advertised speeds for all except one (relatively minor) operator, and in my anecdotal experience, they haven't degraded - I usually get 25-29mbps out of my 30mbps connection.
You're certainly not denying climate change, but maybe you're someone who doesn't care about the impact, as long as humanity survives. And why should we care? There are so many reasons not to care.

- We're out of touch with nature.

- Even for those in touch with nature, the human scale is too short to personally see and feel any change.

- The individual's responsibility is extremely diluted with the rest of humanity.

It will sound cheesy, but I care because of the beauty of nature. An extinction event is something that destroys biodiversity, and biodiversity is the source of this beauty as I feel it. Maybe the diversity of life will return in another form a few million years later (and maybe not), but simply understanding the act of destruction that is underway does impact me emotionally, and makes me want to stop it.
That implies hard work equals success. Keep fucking that chicken.
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how the hell i hate such popups
Are you simply trolling at this point?

If you're so confident in your ability to process this sort of data, please, post your follow-up on HN.
As much as hope its not just a PR stunt.. it probably is.
Canadian Senate Report on Digital Currency: You Can’t Flip This Coin
I think he's referring to the case of Roy Criner. What was ridiculous is that I remember watching a documentary that focused in part about this case and they interviewed the district attorney who was denying an appeal of the case after the DNA analysis of the semen confirmed that it didn't belong to Roy Criner. The DA was adamant that he was obviously guilty because he was given a fair trial and that the DNA evidence just meant that the victim also had sex with someone else recently before she was raped and murdered by Criner.

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvicti...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/case/etc/updat...
It's the norm for share options. You can't sell them or even in many cases keep them after you quit the company. It's a very circumscribed deal.
Clara M. Davis and the wisdom of letting children choose their own diets
How can you say this, and not include a link to the video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

This video explains perfectly why even if you are innocent, you should not talk to the police.

Might want to edit your post.
That's the $200k in punitive damages part. The other $300k is compensation for harm.
As a follow up. Today I have removed zxcvbn in favor of what I believe to be a much more accurate custom entropy calculator (which also calculates out crack time based on a trillion key/second crack attempt, which is what Snowden estimates NSA is capable of at a minimum). Since this is working directly off of the known entropy of every Diceware word it gives a much more realistic estimate. At this point the extra download weight of zxcvbn was no longer worth it and the results are more interesting now as well. Cheers.
I don't know why it is so desperately needed, but Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon seems to have lost about 3% population during this period, going from 6300 in 1999 to 6069 in 2012.

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis-et-Futuna are rarely included in such stats as they are not part of the EU and not geographically part of Europe either, unlike French Guiana and the others which are part of EU, so at least part of Europe in a political sense.

(Symbiote, all of these territories are very much part of France though, just under different rules for some of them.)

I don't know where you're going with Clipperton though, it's sometimes illegally visited and trashed by fishers and such, but they can't be considered a population in any sense.
I've noticed one difference. Game companies locally are known as sweatshops. I've literally talked to their recruiters who laugh as they share stories about how some game dev. had his wife calling to ask if he could come home for a few hours because she hadn't seem him in a week.

They have this crazy idea called "crunch time" which seems to be the same thing as "all the time". Also, because so many people go into CS programs because they want to make games, game companies aren't forced to pay very high salaries.
A lot of younger creatives seem to like working from the Ace Hotel here in NY.
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Strategies look beautiful on paper and ugly in reality. Like a photoshopped model
Oh god no.

Grammar still matters, dammit.
Emperor's Groove reference?
You're not wrong, voltage times amperage does describe the energy, but voltage alone means very little.

In this case energy is what counts not voltage.
It's not an issue with ThinkPads. It is a feature.
There is a very strong incentive when you make that kind of money to not let anybody know that you make that kind of money. There's zero upside and lots of downsides - jealousy, people asking for money, awkward conversations, competition in your niche skillset, etc.
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That, or calling your local bar association's referral line. Some cities and courts have low cost legal assistance either through government agencies or via nonprofits.

Better yet, spend 30 minutes on that exercise now, rather than when you're stuck in the situation for real.
Which email provider do you recommend? I am ready to switch after another full day of BS from their support staff.
> I also hate when companies force you to download their app to do something. United wouldn't let me check-in and print my boarding pass from my computer. I had to download an app and scan my passport with my camera.

I have a family member who still uses a dumbphone, so he's just SOL. These arbitrary restrictions must be maddening, especially when they clearly have an HTML/JS implementation already with a cross platform wrapper around it, and they've deliberately chosen that nobody should ever be able to use it from a computer.
Suk tin dix 4 this. k, thx
Unfortunately it's the same deal for free and paid.
Setting questionable English 'fjords' aside, the point isn't that it would be desirable to have a population of 30 million in Ireland, but that it would be possible, without having the population density (and presumably poverty) of Bangladesh. You asked how a small island in the north atlantic could sustain more than 30 million people - well, South East England has a population density of about 1200 people per square mile, at a similar latitude. Transplant that same population density to Ireland and you'd fit 39 million people. So, if you want to know what an Ireland with 30 million people in it would look like, don't imagine Bangladesh, think of Southeast England.

And Southeast England is still considered a pretty beautiful, green part of the world. It contains the South Downs and New Forest national parks, the Chiltern hills, and about 60% of the land in the region is actively farmed. Of course, in the middle of it you've got London, which accounts for the overall density. So yes, a populated Ireland would be different; Dublin and Belfast would be vastly different cities; - but it wouldn't have stopped being the emerald isle if in an alternate history its population had reached 30m.
It's much easier on the accountants and the share spreadsheets to just assign you 48000 shares and make up funny 'vesting' rules than to update the spreadsheet every month to add 1000 shares for you. It's literally just ease of bookkeeping.

When the accounting and law professions catch up with the tech I think we'll see this all being much simpler, as with government and driving licenses and all the other pointless bureaucracy. But judging by how slowly bureaucracy moves, don't hold your breath.
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