skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It smells there too.

And roving gangs will steal your teeth
If you have a mobile web-app, make sure users can use it while offline!
What a strange comment. Isn't Paul allowed to be a guy posting stuff that he cares about on Twitter, just like the rest of us? Does his relative fame (in some circles) have any real bearing on it?
Feel free to submit patches to magicpoont...
To me that screams "companies that choose to locate in SF refuse to hire remotely".
Jerry Coyne retires from University of Chicago and introspects on his career
In my experience, no, most people assume you're not working if they can't see you working..

I'm a sysadmin, I could do my job anywhere with stable power and a low latency internet connection- but people insist on sticking me in a room with 80+ people so they can observe my work.
The nicest, most expensive 1 bedroom apartment I can find in $my_medium_sized_city is $1200/mo. Brand new, great view, walking distance to everything...I don't even own a car anymore.

Any kind of six figures goes very, very far if you are willing to be away from the center of the universe. If living in SF to work at a startup with options is speculating in penny stocks, living in a second or third tier city and squirrelling away a nice chunk from $120k a year is buying bonds. Lower variance, lower maximum rate of return.
No, you could have a horrible process and he could still be guilty.

That's why I'm trying to separate the issues. I'm confused about why this case is getting particular attention.
I certainly think rising housing costs are a problem, but is no one going to comment on the fact that this company put together a list that just so happens to put them in a very favorable light against companies they are competing with for talent? We probably shouldn't just accept RadPad's statement as fact that RadPad's employees are much better off than other startup employee even though they are paid less. I would be very interested in seeing the actual raw data that includes companies not listed here and includes other costs besides housing (e.g. transportation costs are higher in LA due to a worse public transit system).
A few questions if you don't mind. What percent of your after tax income was rent? Are you making the same salary in Michigan? And what is the percent of your after tax income is rent now? Thanks! I would love to work remote / in a cheaper location, but salary decrease is worrying me.
Which narrows it down to Las Vegas, and Las Vegas is hell on Earth.
Does assisted suicide not break the Hippocratic Oath?
That's not at all common. In fact I know 0 households that operate like this.
Agreed! Seattle is awesome, but please don't move here!
I keep wondering if it's time for a Gopen BSD or a Rust in BSDeace or some equally terrible name that means re-writing the OS except for the fiddly assembler bits in a safer language.

Where are Vernor Vinge's Focused programmers when you really need to outsource something?
Wouldn't tame applied to the process that called it? And for an interpreted language, that would be the interpreter. And if the interpreter can't is unable to do something, then the interpreted code would be unable to do it too.
It depends on what you mean by comfortable. It's worth pointing out that the median income in San Francisco is $50k or so.
Unless I won the stock option lottery, I think it'd be more cost effective for me to do a complete career transition to, say, medicine or dentistry, including lost income and educational debt, than it would be to move to SF as a programmer. Granted, I'm fortunate to have a relatively high salary in a much cheaper location right now.
Until recently I would have agreed with many of your points, but I recently read a post to the contrary.[1] Here is a short excerpt:

>Everyone talks as if bosses have the better end. But talk is very different from action. If everyone were trying to start their own businesses and hire workers, that would count as "acting as if bosses have the better end of the deal." Most workers, however, make no effort to become entrepreneurs. You could object that most workers don't have the money to open their own businesses, but most rich workers make no effort to become entrepreneurs either.

[1] http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/09/scott_alexander_...
Whoever decided to turn Windows Update into an advertising platform needs to be fired

Not that I ever plan to run it, but my understanding is that Windows 10 itself, not just Update, is an advertising platform.

Nobody in Vegas is taking odds that someone will be fired. But I'm in full agreement with you. Someone should be fired.
Yes.[1] About $6 billion a year is made that way.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/us-advertising-cyb...
The difference is that in court the defendant has an opportunity to put up a fight. If they mount a similarly vigorous defense against a police officer then they're liable to get shot/have additional charges leveled.
> Most people don't live by themselves in a 1 bedroom.

Citation required. None of my post-college friends are sharing a room (though many do share their apartment). Yes, rent is high, but it's not that high when compared to dev salaries.
For people who like big dense cities, you have NYC and SF. That's it. SF has all the 99% of the good tech jobs and great weather.

However, as soon as my employer opens up an office in Berlin, I'm out of the US. Even denser, even cooler and way better public transit.
The crazy thing is that it will be very hard to find a decent 1 bedroom for even that price, realistically you are looking at $3.5k to $4k.
Tour of the language landscape
FB/Google do not employ more in SF than the long, long, LONG tail of startups in the city. They probably do have higher than average salaries though.
He was into quite a lot of things. One of the rare examples of a person who was simultaneously a skilled programmer, a computer scientist and a business-savvy entrepreneur (though one sadly plagued by a lot of obstacles and circumstance).

I would go as far as to say that, at least as far as individuals go, he was the single most important in initiating the PC revolution, doubtlessly more so than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or even Woz from the perspective of fundamentals.

He is also virtually unknown to the public. Go figure.
Correction: He didn't lose his wife in the fire. His wife stood by him (initially) and didn't believe he deliberately started the fire. But shortly before the execution she reversed herself. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/cameron-todd-willin...
I was recently contemplating the hostility between tech workers and some SF residents who have lived here longer. Long-term residents blame tech workers for increasing housing prices and resulting evictions, but high rent is detrimental to both groups.

Then I considered the interest group who is coming out on top in all of this: SF property owners. The total value of all residential property in SF is probably well into the hundreds of billions (a few hundred thousand units, multiplied by a resale value probably approaching a million dollars per unit). That value is driven by scarcity.

So you have a group protecting a half trillion dollar investment. Is it really so surprising that they have convinced long-term residents (most of whom still rent) and populist politicians to rally in favor of scarcity?

Is anyone trying to organize a coalition of tech workers _and_ long-term residents against SF property interests?
Really depends, do they want to track people who are using ad blockers so they have numbers? Because that is a pretty important goal.

Or do they want to track people who are using ad blockers so they can nag and bully them into disabling their ad blockers? Because that will end badly. People will eventually develop browsers which render 2 versions of the page, one showing showing ads that provides all results to javascript and css queries and one which has all ads removed for the user.

If that happens, they will lose any metrics they have on who is blocking ads.
Or even Oakland. I don't understand why there aren't as many startups on the eastern shore of the bay: same pool of candidates; often cheaper/quicker commute for people; cheaper housing.
Your ruby interpreter is in the same process as your ruby code. One might imagine using tame to prevent the yaml parser from calling system().
$2,961 in Brooklyn and $3,361 in Manhattan. Ouch.

Source:
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/14/rents_rise_across_n...
It's to investigate the legality of potassium acetate and, unfortunately, does not address any issue that could save his life. It's 37 days more time to try to come up with a challenge to save his life, but the challenge here was about the methodology of execution.

The governor also threw in an apology to the victims family which makes me think that she is of no mind to spare his life.
I'm reasonably sure that a decrease in CoL would be adjusted into the salary, or at the least, any company in a lower CoL is less likely to give a competitive salary.
"Sorry, blisterpeanuts... we know telecommuting is really attractive, but we like to have people in-office at least four days per week so we can get together in a room and really hash out problems. But feel free to work from home on No Meeting Thursdays!" - Your future SF manager
The commute from Sacramento to SF is not really workable. Traffic across the Bay Bridge has reached a point where there's almost no lull, and parking at BART stations is impossible to find. I go to a Sacramento colo sometimes and would never dream of trying to make the trip on a weekday or Sunday afternoon.
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SVG and the DOM, or “The Weirdest Bug I've Ever Encountered”
The Freelancer Economy Is On The Rise
But it's important to remember that Elon and Jobs were unicorns. It should be an immediate redflag if people compare others to them. I also think it's unfair to compare Square/Twitter with SpaceX/Tesla or with Apple/Pixar.

Also the above commenter's point, talking to people 16 hours a day does not mean you're working. An engineer's work is quantifiable, so they can be held accountable when they claim they work 16 hours a day. Not so for a manager. Their effect (good or bad) is far more difficult to quantify.
Boulder is one of the places I was looking to move. But looking at houses there it seemed far from affordable. Is that not the case?
Hypotheses Testing Using the Science of Persuasion
You cannot study this kind of logic.
The slides are images, so the browser's support for fonts is irrelevant.
Oklahoma governor stays execution of Richard Glossip
Tcl has a safe interpreter mode

https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TclCmd/safe.htm
tame() is one of those things that is so simple and obvious in retrospect that it's flabbergasting that it took so long to be invented/(re)discovered.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; this article is a perfect start: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/

Of course, this is extremely dense! A book that covers this article in a pedagogical and beautiful manner is A Mathematical Introduction to Logic by Enderton.

But still, this is all formal logic. It lies at the locus of many disciplines and ways of thinking, and there are many, many formal logics to explore. It is the idea of formal logic which is important, and the SEP is a good place to put it in context.
> You have two choices. Isolation or death.

Or psychiatric treatment.
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Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So, tell us about the tech used? :)
I admit that I may be using terms in non-standard ways and that my implied definitions may not be fully consistent. I apologize for any confusion it may cause.

If you have a standard glossary of terms I could probably reformulate the statements in those terms.

>I still don't understand what you mean by the word "theoretical". These are practical problems, instances of which turn up all over the world every day. Given that we want to solve these instances of these problems, in what sense are the problems "theoretical"?

I probably shouldn't have used the word. It's not very good. To answer your question, though, they are theoretical in the sense that "better packing" is not an actual driven route that used less resources than the route chosen by another algorithm would have; rather, it is just a description, or template, of the result you (or someone) desire.

>What do you mean by "solving", "problem", and "benefit"? These are genuine questions - you seem to be using these words in ways I don't recognise.

Roughly:

problem = complete data/parameters that can be fed to an NP solver (either search and verify every permutation of the solution space or (hypothetical) specialized solver)

solving = the process of computing the solution to the problem and outputting the answer

benefit = resources saved by applying an optimal solution instead of the sub-optimal solution that would have been used otherwise

>So you don't know what a practical problem is?

I was being a bit facetious, but the statement is still true, I believe (depending on what you meant by your question).

I know what a practical problem is, I just do not have have an actual instance whose solution would be beneficial. My question is to be provided with such a problem.

>Is that what you're calling a practical problem? Is what you're calling a "practical problem" simply a specific instance?

I believe we'd call it an instance of some form of the subset sum problem (I believe it can be formulated more formally).

>I can provide for you a specific instance of a three-coloring problem.

Sure. But, please don't be expecting me to solve it :)
It wasn't smart since I literally thought he was saying there was encoded data.
It is the definition of a monopoly rent.[1]

[1] http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137...
$141.66bn capital left China in August
Everybody is running with your Seattle humor but your comment on IPO'ing is worth discussing. 1) The reason a startup is appealing is because you're supposed to make a great low 6 or even 7 figure sum once your company goes public. 2) To achieve success you're supposed to work intensely hard and smart (@pmarca) for a short period of time (3 - 7 years) and then if you've picked successfully you'll create a really nice nest egg for yourself while you're peers who graduated will only be up to around $50K in their contributing 401K's. 3) Based on the size of that exit you are free to go somewhere else and enjoy luxury or double down in the Bay Area but this time with a little more money to get a better apartment or even buy something in the burbs.

So the point is looking at just Income isn't helpful. One would hope your stock is appreciating in value at an equivalent or greater pace than your income.
Lotta hate in here, but try not to focus on that. Remember that HN is an unrepresentative group of the entire audience that article addresses. I'd guess most HN readers are probably doing a-ok salary-wise in the frugality world (but if you _must_ live in {SF,NYC} forever, then probably not).

Spending-wise? No idea. But I'd recommend trying not to be too put off on the "work hard" advice, you probably already work hard and will get more out of the "spend carefully" side of the savings equation.

Life isn't a code review. Even if you think something is 99% wrong, it might still be 1% right. And if that 1% can get you retired a decade earlier, I'd give it some serious thought and just ignore what you think is wrong.
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I'm looking for good developers for several clients in Memphis Tennessee. Anyone interested?
Why do prescription drugs costmore in the US?
The Swatch Box Is Changing the Way People Shop for their Homes
I deeply enjoy when recruiters are convinced that I'll move to SF for their company, even though I haven't over the past decade. They also balk when I ask for the cost of living adjustment to make the move (+180%, give or take).
Unfortunately, that's not the law, and is a different debate. Articles I've seen (including PG's!) say there's no evidence but the murderer's testimony. Except the guy sentenced to death admitted he had helped hide the murder. The only thing up for debate is if he hired the murderer. It certainly should not be eligible for the death penalty in this case, but he's not innocent.
Here's the PBS story on this, including the "science" that lead to the conviction: http://video.pbs.org/video/1618590505/ Very sad.
Where in the world is it illegal to die?
That is a main issue with people who don't know how to look for the right ones. But I get my images by matching the MSDN MD5 hashes (I am not on 10 yet, even though digital river is gone the MSDN images are still out there)

/this forum is a god send

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/index.php
More like: "If we're hiring remote, why the heck are we when it is so expensive"
Yes, and they're doing a really good job: http://sfbarf.org
Yeah this is expensive, but they're talking about living right next to your office. Of course the rents are extremely high there -- you're downtown. Kind of a misleading article
Why We Need the AirBnB of BitTorrent
So I should keep losing money for the possibility to find another job similar to my last one so I can keep losing money?
>No, it doesn't. 0xFF is a number I just made up, no source data at all, I promise. Also, it's base 16 :)

But the full quote was "base52-encoded". (Though I would argue that base52 implies encoding, because nothing naturally works in base52. The only thing that's naturally 52 is "random letters with random case". Or something with cards.)

>Anyhow, the source data was most definitely base 2 (as is your computer's memory, I assume) and later encoded into base52 to be represented as a string (unless someone at Microsoft wrote it in base52, which seems unlikely).

That is an enormous assumption. It's easier to pick random letters than it is to take a specific binary number and convert it to letters. And they don't give you the same result. Bits stored in base 52 will never start with zzzzz.
I'm spending 25%. I have the whole house 3br/2ba, a garage, and a back yard. Unfortunately single-family homes in SF aren't rent controlled.

You only have to spend 50% if you want to live in a hipster/trendy area of SF.
I had thought your office was in the financial district on Pacific?

At least that's what the window said when I walked by it every morning on the way to work.
From the article:

"To add someone to the database who has not been reviewed before, you must have that person’s cell phone number."

I don't actually own a cell phone, for personal reasons. But that's looking like an even better choice...
When engineers look for jobs, they clearly think "wow, I'd never work in a place prone earthquakes and far from government!"
>> a 1kg 10cm^3 cube that cost a dollar to make and held 1000kWh of energy

>1MWh is 3600000000 or 3.6GJ. 3.6GJ/L is twice the energy density of Uranium, and 3.6GJ/kg is 40 times the specific energy (energy/mass). We wouldn't need a power grid anymore because we could just charge batteries on the moon and lob them to earth.

well, these densities is fusion energy. No need to charge at all. Just scoop up some He-3 on the moon :)
I often get the idea that there's been sort of this slump of scale that occurred somewhere in the 80s where the pioneers of CS found themselves suddenly flooded with new people. The challenge moved from thinking of better ways to "do CS" to teaching what already existed.

Sometimes I think we're just now getting back around to where people were at in the 80s—albeit at much greater scale. Sometimes I think we're not there yet. Sometimes I think I'm just sort of thinking wistfully about some golden age of yore.
In a healthy, well-regulated market, corporations compete to provide products and services. This provides everyone with incentives to improve quality and lower costs, and prevents a single corporation from charging monopoly rents, which is good for society.

Unions do not compete with each other. In fact, the entire point of unions is to eliminate competition in the labor market. Unions have a government-sanctioned monopoly on certain types of labor, and the existence of a monopoly drives up prices and reduces the incentives to perform quality work. All else equal, this is bad for society.

Of course all else is not equal, there are lots of positive aspects to collective bargaining - it does help rectify the otherwise-significant power differential between individual employees and large corporations - and there are reasonable arguments that the labor movement and unionization in general have been massive drivers of improved human well-being over the last century. But that doesn't mean that unions and corporations are two sides of the same coin -- they play very different roles in the market and have very different regulatory considerations.
Url changed from https://speakerdeck.com/eliang/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-c..., which points to this. HN prefers original sources.
I think that's an idiom.
Never mind true or false, it is completely irrelevant that you are studying ternary logic.

edit to add -

I can imagine an even greater being studying ontological logic.
9.0.2 fixes it - or buy an Apple watch because that appears to mitigate it (speculation the Apple QA team all have an Apple Watch :-)
I share your sentiment towards privacy, I guard mine fiercely as well.

If I may say so though, I think you're coming at this the wrong way.

Trying to disable every component in the OS that phones home simply doesn't scale, may I suggest you explore gateway firewall devices such as PFSense, or the free version of Sophos' UTM if you prefer a more polished UI?

I use a Sophos UTM at home and I can see (and block) every request that my Macs use to try to phone home, with HTTP, HTTPS or regular network traffic.

I also use the Always-On VPN on my phone to apply ad blocking at the firewall level which protects my phone as well.

Very much worth checking out. Gateway protections are the only way to go these days IMO.

Edit: Just to add, at first glance I find the SIP system to be rather anti-user, but people in this thread are right. It's valuable protection to have in place. If I used a Mac at home I would only disable this to make the changes I needed before turning it back on again.

Edit to clarify: I use a Mac, but only has a HTPC and not as a desktop or workstation, and all outbound traffic is blocked by default.
The economics of equity for employees in general is out of line with most people's expectations.

You can expect pre-Series A shares to drop by an order of magnitude in ownership proportion between issue and IPO. Since this can take 5-10 years, the equity carrot is nothing more than a bonus unless the company unicorns. It's less than one could probably make in the same time at an established company.

From a compensation standpoint, there's no point being an employee at a startup that isn't aiming at a billion dollar+ exit: there just won't be enough money to go round unless it does.
I'm in NYC and I pay ~10% of after-tax income for rent. I visited a friend in SF recently and after hearing about his situation I concluded it would be very difficult for any company to get me to move to the Bay Area. It just doesn't make financial sense for me. NYC has plenty of tech opportunity, so that doesn't tip the scale either.
A good baby step - but the real issue here is the (lack of) evidence of his guilt in the case.
9.0.2 fixes it
Not only is the headline different, it's misleading or plain wrong.
It is advisable to let it cool first though. :)
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Generally speaking, not unless you're okay with roommates.