skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always remember the #1 industry sector in CA is real estate, not tech. Furthermore, this is why I generally won't consider offers for work in the Bay area (as much as I love NoCal). I do the math and realize I'm cutting my own throat.

On the other hand, I'd love to get a great offer and then buy a Blue Bird bus and convert it into a rolling home but only if I could semi-permanently park it in the company parking lot!
I can understand why you're being downvoted, but I also understand the sentiment. There needs to be a way to tell the OS "I never want to see Comic Sans again".
s/people/americans/
I once wrote a small tray icon to dynamically toggle this stuff, including settings for auto-raise and delay. I haven't wanted it in ages, but I just tried on Win10 and it still appears to work!

https://github.com/cuviper/mousewinx

I won't try to compare this to the Winaero tools. Mine is definitely in the hobbyist-scratches-an-itch class of software, but hey, it's open source too!
I'll put in for Rochester, NY:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10051282
Perhaps, but both the Model S and the Model X are very heavy cars. I guess there are possible savings there.
As a Seattle resident born and raised, and having spent a fair amount of time in other parts of the world, I take issue with your characterization of the people as "way meaner." ;) The traffic is terrible though; I wouldn't want to commute into the city from anywhere outside of it. And the weather... well, let's just call it an acquired taste. :)
https://mobile.twitter.com/GovMaryFallin/status/649328672231...

"I have issued a 37 day stay for Richard Glossip while the state addresses questions about its execution protocol"
Minneapolis is nice.

I'm so biased.
> the possibility of wrongful convictions should make the death penalty more appealing

Did you really just say that? If someone is locked away and their conviction is overturned, we can always let them out. However, we cannot dig them up after we kill them.
I was wondering why you'd ever want to just limit yourself to _exit, but the man page answers that:

A request value of "" restricts the process to the _exit(2)
system call. This can be used for pure computation
operating on memory shared with another process.
Time honored trope for PNW residents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Bastards_Out

Every few years these Californians muck everything up with their SF equity turned into bidding wars, and their fancy cars and stuff.
Solution:

Concentrate your tech workers in a area that isn't hostile to expanding the housing supply when needed.
You don't need a lot of numbers to understand that unloading ships 24/7/52 is better than unloading only during union work hours.
That depends when you got into your apartment.
And you'd get busted - you don't think the CIA NSA don't have internal controls.
How Photoshop Helps NASA Reveal the Unseeable
So you're compromising security to do it?

Game Center is ~4MB, and you'll never remove all the potential "phone home" hooks without rewriting the OS. Your approach is akin to taking wheels off a car to reduce weight so it goes faster.
Perl's taint checking really was ahead of its time (introduced in 1988, according to Wikipedia!)

Are there other languages that have this feature? (wiki only mentions Ruby)
User feedback, and policy transparency?

Tools like LiquidFeedback: http://www.liquidfeedback.org/
Dunno if they replace Finder but I find http://www.mucommander.com/ and http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30073/find-file handy. Both free.
What is the worst part about working at Google?
In Minneapolis less than 6% of my pay is my mortgage and I have a 4 br, 2 ba home 3.75 miles from work. NoCal can't beat that.
It seems really fragile that tame takes a string as argument that is tokenized and parsed? Why not just pass an array of pre-defined constants.
Or, keep your salary and work remotely for an SF co. Best of both worlds! But, you'll have to do without the longboards if you don't move to a properly hip location.
Bainbridge Island is cheating :)

Seattle is still quite affordable, especially where startups tend to have their offices (in boring east side office parks).
Would love feedback from app developers on this post. What was old news and what was surprising for you?
Median rent for a 1-bedroom in Seattle is $1,615, compared to $2,800 in SF (from Rent Jungle)
3100 is almost double the average salary of IT worker in Central/Eastern Europe and these people are considered middle class.

Take a look at China and India there they earn even less.

How many and for how long can these companies keep hiring people for such huge salaries ? And if these people can't live comfortably off these salaries then there is something wrong.
Assuming they'll IPO is a pretty bold statement.
Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is an occasional participant on Reddit, usually promoting either fitness or the after school program charity that he puts a lot of effort into. Easily the most common critical comment of him, that follows him into nearly every thread, is that he reduced the sentence of Esteban Nunez.
Apple just released iOS 9.0.2 one week after releasing iOS 9.0.1
This is one of those things that is a great idea until it isn't. When your employer goes belly up, in SF, you have to fight off job offers. That's not going to be the case elsewhere.

It's also much harder on the employers: if you think finding one good job is hard, try hiring an entire team of decent employees at once.

Ultimately, it's worth the extra cost of staying where the tech is, prefixing your city name ala 'Silicon xxx' not withstanding.
Today we substitute Californians with Chinese, but same old same old. I'm a Seattlite living in Beijing, and you don't see me messing with their real estate market (I wouldn't go near it with a 10 foot pole).
It was a big deal at the time because Clinton deliberately made it a big deal to make a political point in the Presidential campaign.

But, even so, now I don't think its one of the top 20 things most people -- whether they are generally pro- or anti-Clinton -- think about when they think about Bill Clinton, so it doesn't seem to support the "this will be the thing you are known for" idea too well.
Not really related, but Nashorn is dead to me now that I've found J2V8.
Considering that any of the above might not makes the economics for employee #1000 that much worse.
I hardly think you can say that's what Bill Clinton is known for. I've never heard of Ricky Ray Rector, but I have Clinton's autograph.
Most people don't live by themselves in a 1 bedroom. They usually live 2+ people per room, so that they can afford it. For example, a 2 br apt might have 5 people living there, two couples and then one living in the living room. That's how they can afford the $5000/month rent.
This is the stupidest thing I have ever read.
You're studying the tautologic that you're studying

Sickeningly, you're studying illogic

You're a circular logician because you're studying circular logic. You're studying circular logic because you're a circular logician.

I realized you'd been studying fridge logic
Why aren't more companies investing in building out remote teams? Have the main office with a small core team in SF but hire remote devs, customer service, sales. Seems like it would save companies a ton of money and devs would be happier too because they would actually be pocketing more.
I love these high salaries. My thought is to find a job in SF, live there temporarily for 3-6 months, then become remote and move back to my real home on the east coast. Is that feasible? Aren't these kinds of companies pretty comfortable these days with video conferencing, IM, screen sharing etc.?
Wow, I had no idea "Mr. CP/M" was into APL...
Wouldn't it need to happen at a lower level than merely having some bindings to tame()? I mean, the interpreter itself wouldn't be subject to tame(), even if some specific C calls made within your Python or Ruby program are; when you call a Python or Ruby function that makes syscalls on your behalf (which is a lot of syscalls), they wouldn't be subject to tame(). But, maybe I'm misunderstanding how it works. It doesn't appear to be a switch that turns on tame() for the whole process.

I don't know that it would be useless when wrapped and called from Python or Ruby, but it seems unlikely to have the same effect it has on C code (but, then again, C code needs a lot more help than Python or Ruby).
Remember, the Governor of Texas was at the time attempting to win the Republican party's nomination for President.
Well we can dig them up but that really doesn't help the situation.
Not to mention the lack of state income tax...
That's the new normal.

In the 1950s, the average New York City resident paid 10% of the income for rent. It was federal, state, and city policy to keep rents down, with new low-cost housing being built by Government agencies and insurance companies.
Me too, it's great for quickly capturing todos (which themselves can have todos). The Harvest integration is great, but I'd really love a Freshbooks timer button.
I imagine rent control comes in handy for some of those people. Then there are the few who won the lottery and have both!
I stand corrected. I did miss the blog post.
Programming Phoenix – Beta on the Pragmatic Bookshelf
I would say you can park in Palo Alto in an RV for free... but it looks like that's changed in recent history. Kind of sad! :(
Do (m)any of the SF startups allow workers to occasionally commute from places like Sacramento? I actually knew bankers who lived in Sactown and got up at 5AM to head out to SF every morning. But technology requires less in-person time. And Sacramento is much, _much_ cheaper than the Bay Area...I shared a great 2-bedroom place in the nicest area of town for around 1,200, where you could walk to great food, parties, and bars. I now pay way more for that to live in a converted garage in Palo Alto...in fact, this garage costs more than my nice 2-bdr apartment did in downtown Manhattan.

Even if you commute 3 times a week from Sacramento, you'd save a lot of money while still having a good social life...and 3 days/week in-person seems sufficient for a lot of dev work projects.
Kinda off topic: Those who are interested in modern implementations of APL and similar vector languages are invited to join #kq on Freenode IRC.

We have John Earnest who implemented K5 in Javascript (oK.js) and Kevin Lawler who worked on both Kona (K3) and his new friendlier Kerf.

Some really interesting discussion about array languages has been happening there lately. Join us!
Bainbridge island, where green bell peppers are $4 each.
A bit meta, but...

Part of me appreciates that there is no magic javascript which mucks with the browser and makes the slideshow a real pain in the butt to navigate. However, this is going too far in the opposite direction. Each slide as its own page? Navigation is slow, all-but requires the mouse, and creates a N-length list of sites to go "back" through to return here.

Can we just come to a compromise: one page with each slide below the last? Allow us to take advantage of parallel fetching of assets, use native scrolling to progress, and you can even create anchors to link to a particular slide!

Even better, you could easily write some basic javascript and to turn such a page into the former version of a slideshow if you're so inclined.
Surely this will end well
There's also the problem that if your birth rate is below replacement your population gets old and shrinks and dies. This is a bad thing in the long term, and getting out of that situation is turning into a major challenge worldwide. We need to be very careful that we haven't swung this pendulum way too far in the wrong direction.
We do not and probably for the same reason: Amazon can't guarantee one hour delivery in a 640 square mile area without drones or multiple distribution hubs.
Not too late to switch to a very similar yet well-improved open-source language that was created and is being actively maintained by same company:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
Paul Allen’s $500M quest to dissect the mind and code a new one from scratch
Tesla's battery packs are really just a very large array of relatively standard lithium ion cells, 18650 lithium ions if you're curious.

These individual cells fail independently of each other, so the packs slowly degrades over time as a bell curve function of the MTBF, a Tesla battery can be "rebuilt" at any point in time during this lifecycle by replacing the individual dead cells within it.

These individual cells that have gone bad over time and no longer hold a charge can be "recycled" more completely, where the individual materials and electrolytes are separated, processed and reconstituted as a new battery that can then be used in a pack rebuild or a new Tesla car or wall pack.
I remain surprised that Bay Area tech companies don't move to Sacramento. Near the Bar Area for quick access, near the state seat of power for lobbying, well away from major faults so less prone to earthquakes, significantly lower costs of housing (2 Bdrm apt would be about $1k) - so presumably could save on salary.
Eh, I don't really have time at the moment to get into why I disagree that women "can't" date down, but I saw that article and this was what I said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299641

Women do face actual challenges different from men in trying to figure out how to balance work and personal life and so on, but ...it's complicated and ....I have something else I really need to work on right now.

Ciao.
Ah...that's pretty smart, too. It wouldn't be as slick of a collaborative environment, but at least I can grep the entire class folder in one go. I will seriously consider this!
I noticed a slick purple loading bar at the bottom of the page, but it's very thin, it could use some larger height so it's more clearly visible. I'm running Safari on Yosemite.
They are ... for their non-engineering employees (Lyft in Nashville is the most recent example).

But for engineering talent, it doesn't work. I don't know the exact reason but it seems to be some combination of the ability to poach from each other, herd mentality, and the concentration of VC money.

Take a look at the remote engineering jobs on WWR. Most of them aren't in SF. To me that screams "We opened an office in an affordable city but we still can't get people to come here"

https://weworkremotely.com/categories/2-programming/jobs
If I was very very rich and I really hated other people, I'd start a company making miserably slow, unintuitive project management software. Say what you will about the Aussies, their software is slightly less awful.
Visited Seattle for the first time yesterday (from Australia). I have to say that unless you start paying me off I'm going to start promoting it.

The people were super friendly. The weather was great (two days of sunny blue skies). The food was great. Even the roads were easy to deal with

I do take bitcoin.
Bill Wadge is the co-designer of Lucid, the classic dataflow language that Alan Kay, among others, has praised. Lucid seems due for a revival, if not for widespread use, at least for relearning its core ideas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714745
By "most people" you mean mostly 20-somethings? It's hard to imagine people in their 30s and older, married and starting to have kids, living like that. I mean, great if you can pull it off, but you'd have to stagger the shower schedule not to mention maybe get a 2nd refrigerator?
Wow, Seattle actually doesn't seem that much more expensive compared to the $1,263 average 1br in Dallas. But SF... Holy shit. And I'm actually seeing $2,965 on Rent Jungle for SF right now.
I was going to say something to this effect.

This figure does not surprise me in the slightest.

In London I was _easily_ paying 50% of my salary after tax in rent, because I didn't want to share an apartment with someone else.
Perhaps the author is dyslexic, and wanted an easy to read font? As far as I know, Comic Sans is the only font that is easy to read for dyslexic folk that works in about every graphical web browser.
The actual experience is way more compelling than the animated intro. Ditch the explanation (which isn't even worded very well) and bring users right into the experience.

If you want to have an animated intro, make it interact with your actual UI; introduce options, start playing immediately, show cues for discovering additional features.

Also, it doesn't feel natural to have to click the 'hamburger' icon on the top right, when the first introduction to the navigation is invoked automatically and spans the entire width. I keep going back to it to change settings and it's not intuitive.
Panorama and Photographs of Amazon Construction Cranes in Seattle
I don't know about the US. In Germany there is the general rule that you not pay more than 30% of your income for rent, if you want to have decent living.
May be in the US it is different because there are diffrent costs for food.

50% and more just for living seems to be to high for me.
The OpenBSD folks are notorious for presenting extremely basic formatting on their sites, articles, presentations, etc. I think the Comic Sans is most likely a troll of other websites where the formatting, UI, etc, look like they got more polish than the content itself.

Move your mouse button, and keep clicking. Not really the biggest deal. If not having a JS-based presentation kept you from reading all the way through, you're probably the person who will never use tame() anyways, so... it is what it is. :P
That sounds like hell once one starts growing older -- and not a first world country.
nobody wants to read website TOS either, but that's not how the world or the law work. there is a line between 'street smarts' and blind faith in people you don't know telling you stuff. 2x4's are not 2x4...that's something everyone probably should know...similarly, EPA fuel mileage is not accurate...and never has been...its not anyone's fault that everything in the world is not "literally" true

The same transaction costs argument for regulatory disclosure apply to the quality of such disclosure as well. Ever try reading nutritional labels? It goes on and on...has very little to do with one particular instance.

That being said, a auto is a capital good and a substantial purchase and investing some time to understand the buying process is both economic and sensible. so in this case the faux shock/outrage seems particularly misplaced...as the arguments for ignorance are weak indeed.
Anybody in tech in SF is constantly fighting off job offers, not just when their employers go belly up.

At some point, costs will reach a tipping point where people will start to look elsewhere(I don't mean 1% of people and I don't mean the Easy Bay, but actual significant people moving away from the Bay Area).
excellent point. I do suppose that being an accomplice to murder probably carries a less severe punishment than hiring a hitman and being the mastermind behind it. I'm not a big fan of the death penalty in general, and wish it wouldn't be used in today's society. But claiming that this guy is "innocent" seems to be a bit of a stretch to me. It's amazing how one-sided the articles I've read about this have been.
Because intent matters.

If you take out a murder-for-hire contract on someone else, irrespective of if that contact is carried out, your intent is illegal, immoral, and wrong.

Now our legal system weighs both intent AND consequences. For example someone who hits someone else with their car may get charged with very different crimes depending on if that person lives or dies.

Just to put you in the hot seat for a second, would you yourself want to live in a world where I could take out a contract on your life, and doing so would be entirely legal UNLESS they successfully killed you? Effectively allowing me to take out infinite contracts with complete impunity until you were dead?
Because an array wouldn't be any safer than the string (still would be null-terminated or risk buffer overruns if you passed the length incorrectly), and using a string means you don't have to import a pile of constants if you want to use tame from languages other than C.
Twitter and Square are both in SoMa (around 10th St. south of Market), which is not considered part of the Tenderloin.

The Tenderloin's on the opposite side of city hall.
It's not like those other cities are tech wastelands. You'll be able to find a good job. Maybe it won't pay as much as a city where you're being fought over, but then, it doesn't need to.
Do I "want" an end to elected abortion? Yes.

Do I "want" to stop assisted suicide? No.

Do I "want" an end to organised execution of convicted criminals? Yes.

Your move.
One does not simply "become remote."

There are strong advantages to working in direct contact, despite what sentiment on HN and logic dictates. Working in SF for a few months wouldn't make you super rich anyways.
How do I get a Junior Developer job?
Most of the U.S. 25-30% would be considered normal.

That's why the 50% figure in SF is newsworthy.
That's not how I meant it, but I can see how that's a fair reading of what I said. I don't like that people jump onto ideas very quickly without thinking through the ramifications. I don't think a lot of people realize how wide-reaching effects from quick knee-jerk reactions can be, and how much they can actually have effects beyond the first-order ones.
Another missing 'variable' in the cost of living is taxation. Either income or sales taxes do add up in this calculation.
The biggest problems in tech are not technological but the social interaction of primary creative agents: those of us responsible for making great strides in magnifying human intellect. Those of us making the software.
> opportunity to determine whether potassium acetate is compliant with the state’s court-approved execution procedures

Kick the can down the road, typical politician. Of course all his appeals have been used unless new evidence is found. Maybe pg could put his money behind that.
I am not sure which side has interests 'more like yours' in cases like this one. On the one side, the union is trying to squeeze their employers for as much money as possible, which is a benefit for the members but raises the cost of consumer goods, and reduces the earning potential of everyone working at a (goods) exporter. On the other hand, each port is trying to gain an upper hand in capacity and cost against its competitors, by reducing salary (and other) costs, which will allow it to retain a greater portion of the earnings (if they succeed), but will benefit consumers of foreign made goods, and exporters (regardless of whether the port succeeds in capturing more profits).

The average citizen's interests seem to be much better aligned with those of the port, as the benefits of competition will serve to distribute cost reductions to all users of product which pass through the ports.
I think his/her strategy of working in SF for a few months at first is not to become "super rich", but to establish a high salary that could then be "exported" to a cheaper area while staying on with the same company.
I always see articles like this and I wonder...who is winning here?

I'm waiting for an article to break out the stats on who owns which property in these types of areas. What % of housing is owned by the government, foreign investors, domestic investors, institutional investors, real-estate holding companies, and the actual inhabitants of the property?

For all we know, the whole story could just be that tech companies are hiring some kids from ivy leagues and well-off families that are just paying rent back to their parents, who somehow or other own shares of the SF property market. Or that a lot of rent money is flowing to foreign investors, as is the case in NY and London.

So while it's interesting to see who is losing and by how much, what I'd really like to know is - who are the winners? Where is the money flowing?
The only evidence of it being for hire or even masterminded by Glossip is the guy that did the murdering, Sneed's, testimony.

However, Glossip admitted to covering up the murder. He's not innocent, by his own admission.