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Ask HN: People who moved to SF with kids for a tech job, was it worth it?
If you could have gone back in time, would you have asked for more? If so how much?

I was always reluctant to move to SF, but that was only in theory, I just got my greencard and I have several emails from recruiters from pretty "top companies" as they say, talking about jobs in SF, I'm the kind of person who wouldn't start a process unless I know there is a real chance I'd consider moving.

Would you guys please help me with this impossible question? What is the gross household income (including base, bonus, equity, assuming both me and my wife work in tech) that you think is "worth moving for"?

(I started a process with Google, told them NY only, and they never asked me what I make or what I want, and I'm not going to mention it until they do... but according to Glassdoor / Payscale, I probably am better off staying in Atlanta if adjusting cost of living... but I'm not sure Glassdoor / payscale are representing...)

tl;dr - Just got my greencard and I'm probably over excited about getting approached by recruiters from top tech companies in SF, and really have no clue what can I ask for if I am getting to the negotiation phase.
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Edsger Dijkstra famously made such a comparison [1]:

"The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

[1] E. W. Dijkstra, EWD898: The threats to computing science
I see your point, but it wouldn't have been possibly for him to build Google had it not been for people with MUCH more than $10M in their bank account to bankroll his growth.
You can eat an 800 calorie Soylent 1.5 meal for $3.08 all-in which is probably going to be healthier and less of a time-waste than either American or French school lunches.
I remember one of my first hobby projects was trying to simulate the universe with python (thousands of 3d celestial bodies gravitating around each other). About a month later I tried to simulate a economic system with Ruby.

Let's not become the old people telling the kids not to have any fun.
>If for example you save all your tax-related documents in Glacier, then you are audited then the accounts department or the government will want all the information. Not 5% of it. Not 10% of it. Everything.

Are you sure about that? I haven't worked with tax litigation specifically, but I've worked with e-discovery w.r.t. e-mail and I can assure you that no one ever asks for all the e-mails sent by a particular company over all time. It's always a matter of asking for the e-mails sent by or received by a select group of people, over a fairly discrete time period. For something like this, a Glacier store might make sense, if it was coupled with an online metadata cache stored in e.g. S3.
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The conflation of fitness and strength is common and completely useless. Like the other commenter mentioned, how many have permanent injuries? How many have guts as their activity stalls?

Also I think most people looking at your lifestyle data would assume you were reasonably muscular and thin. You work out for nearly a third of every day.

I do agree that how they've quantified fitness is absurd. Having lived in Atlanta, it's a horribly unfit city riddled with obesity. Having a park near your house doesn't mean anything if you don't use it, and buying vegetables means nothing if you're using half a bottle of dressing to eat them.
Oh, I agree with you as far as majority rules. It's not great, but you need something and that's less unjust than most other options. What I'm complaining (pointlessly) about is that in these cases majority does not rule: some administrator or corporate functionary has already decided, and that's that.

With regards to who should be trusted to manage communities, I'm afraid I can't convince myself to believe in the experts. In most cases, these "experts" are not people who have successfully managed communities or are even particularly well educated on how they work; they are self-appointed thought leaders with, often, fringe agendas and little concern for who gets trampled in the process of enacting them. They are generally the last possible people you would want to put in charge of anything.

>. If programmers want to run their own communities and not rely on the advice of experts, they're welcome to do it outside the mainstream platforms.

Not if the "experts" do everything in their power to marginalize and poison the public image of those non-mainstream platforms, unfortunately. I think it was either Scott Alexander or one of his commenters who pointed out that, if you take over a community and impose anti-witchcraft policies, you can then easily dismiss any alternate communities -- with a certain amount of accuracy, even -- as being full of witches.
Everything between where we are and Star Trek. Shuttlepods. Food replicators. Holodecks.
Naked Statistics is the book I read a while back on the topic. There are two particularly interesting chapters, one on Descriptive Description and one on Statistical biases.
Ask HN: looking for a remote front-end dev?
Anyone looking to hire a remote front-end dev, with about 4years experience and solid Javascript skills, with knowledge of AngularJS and ReactJs? can work for about 5hrs a day and the difference in timezone means round clock surveillance of you app.

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The real package manager itself comes upstream from Debian; Ubuntu just normally puts fragile GUIs around it. Most of the positives for Ubuntu come from Debian. The Ubuntu specific stuff on the other hand sometimes breaks core functionality like booting off software RAID being broken in 12.x, which has worked fine in Debian for at least a decade.

Generally speaking, a server environment is not the right place to run bleeding edge software. Debian's conservatism is quite sensible when it comes to production server environments, and traditionally (before the whole systemd debacle) they were pretty good at prioritizing stability over the feature of the week demanded by more desktop-centric folks. There's Ubuntu and other derivatives that can cater to their specific needs without compromising the integrity of the distribution in general. And if you have a specific application that requires a more recent version, you can always make use of a 3rd party repository (that you'd of course have carefully vetted first), a binary package, or just rolling your own from source. It makes much more sense to take those extra steps for specific applications than take a blanket approach to rolling out new code all over your production environment.
The exodus from Zappos – or why Holacracy doesn't work
"So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality."

I think this is where the evidence is to the contrary - economic inequality predicts poverty and poor social mobility.

"These results suggest that the takeoff in income
inequality may account in part for the decline in mobility."

http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/working_papers/mi...
How many hours a week should academics work?
I would caution against reading too much in departures of Rocket managers.

First, Rocket managers come and go all the time. In my first two years at one of the Asian Rocket companies (I own no Rocket stock today and am not affiliated with anything Rocket anymore), I think I counted 4-5 CEOs. Since I left, it's been the same CEO, though. The key thing is that the Samwer brothers have designed their companies to be resilient to any departures; "people should be replaceable" which sucks a bit when you are "people" but is good corporate governance when you are a publicly traded company trusted with billions of dollars. I'm pretty sure from what I saw that this also applied to Berlin; and since we're shortly after the IPO (and maybe the start of the period where executives are allowed to liquidate their equity?) it might be that those who culturally were more comfortable in a privately owned conglomerate are not enjoying the public version. It's also common for senior executives to be poached for more money by smaller Rockets, CMOs are in particularly high demand and managing directors find it relatively easier to raise funding and start their own thing (e.g. Shopback in Singapore).

Second, there are a LOT of Rocket companies. Some are very successful, others are case studies in problems. Just look at the map: https://www.rocket-internet.com/companies and imagine that each of these countries will have at least three companies (one fashion retailer, one Amazon clone, and one of several of the smaller concepts like Birchbox or FoodPanda). There are hundreds of companies operating in vastly different countries, legal systems, business models. I'd be wary of extrapolating too much from one or two examples - it's like picking a few YC failures (and I am sure there are spectacular ones, just from the sheer number of companies funded - HomeJoy is the most prominent in my head right now) and saying YC as a whole has failed as an incubator.

Third, Rocket is relatively operationally decentralised. Yes, the Samwers visit often, but companies are ultimately left alone to figure things out, even if insights are occasionally emailed around, and even if Berlin has some R&D and obviously runs the financial and legal aspect. I would doubt that Berlin departures would significantly impact the operations of non-Berlin-based companies (which is to say most of them).

> The stock was down another 0.2 percent on Tuesday, to 23.33 euros at 1330 GMT, valuing the company at about 3.9 billion euros ($4.2 billion).

I've always found these short term stock price tidbits fairly useless. What is more interesting is the long term trend (from a peak of 57 EUR down to 19 EUR) [1] which is strangely not mentioned in the article. Nevertheless, I used to be fairly critical of how the Samwers were running their conglomerate, but thinking back about it, I'm not sure I would do much better. How would you go about starting 200 companies in parallel in 40 countries? I do not know any other examples of even remotely successful attempts...

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RKET.F+Interactive#{"rang...
Either side can be responsible. Communication is a mutual process, and if your goal is to communicate, you have to do what you can do---if you're writing, try various tactics to find which one can penetrate the reader's precognition. The reader, otoh, try various way to interpret what's written to make sense.

If communication fails, then it's a loss for both side. You can blame another side but that doesn't make things better...

It's interesting that pg has already written how difficult a nonconventional idea to be heard. This can be another instance. It might take 10 more essays. Not the direct rebuttal like this, but tackling the issue from different angle and/or different abstraction level; e.g. ok, how could we attack wealth influencing politics?
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"Positive reputation can still drive revenue, even in this day and age."

Can it drive a business model, though? Again, let's turn to the case of Nautilus. We can probably assume it has a great reputation amongst an admittedly small group of readers. But is that reputation driving subscription revenue sufficient to keep the publication in the black? To keep it growing? To keep it securely in business?

Once again, I'm 100% aligned with you in my hopes and desires for the industry. But hope isn't a business model. I'd like to hope that Nautilus is a great example of how to run a content business; unfortunately, at the moment I have insufficient economic evidence to back up that claim.

I agree with you that excellent products can outcompete commodified trash under certain circumstances. I'm less sure that enough people want to pay for the product at all in this case, however, be it excellent or otherwise.

Whatever the case, thank you for a compelling take on this subject. I quite sincerely hope you're right.
> It would be quickly realized that the displaced employees could easily simply get an AI for themselves, and price the ex-employer out of business rapidly.

I think you're missing the point. It doesn't matter who winds up running the AI, the AI is still doing all the work many people used to do, all of those people are still out of work, even if some of them displaced the old boss running lower overhead, most will still be unemployed due to the collapse of the demand for human labor. Increased productivity in the AI age means human jobs lost with no replacements coming.
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Every time I see things like this a part of my brain wonders, "How would these people describe what they're doing in sprint tasks and give estimates in points."
When the rocket stages, it has significant horizontal motion (which is what matters - after the rocket is high enough to get out of the atmosphere, it has to speed up horizontally to achieve a stable orbit). Returning to the launch site requires cancelling that velocity out (and applying more horizontal velocity to return), while stationing the ASDS downrange means you mostly don't.
> Paul directly addressed this in his reply to Klein (http://paulgraham.com/klein.html); Ctrl-F "the conversion of money into political power"; in brief, he says that if you're upset that economic inequalities leads to unequal political influence, attack that. Fight to remove the political influence that wealth currently has.

It simply isn't possible at this point. The Supreme Court has seen to that quite thoroughly.

A constitutional amendment to "fix" the problem is beyond the realm of possibility.
It's amazing, but I suspect not something that would be easy to export, culturally.

I think this would be especially awkward with the prevalent safety culture of the US. ("How dare you put our kids in danger by giving them knives!")
Chrome on Android shows the proper data - with no special permissions or warnings. It updates at ~57 samples/s.
Two things I thought of

1) This isn't entirely a case of migrants not having access to safe transportation. In many cases migrants will intentionally puncture or disable their vehicle if they see the coast guard coming their way. They know if a Greek boat picks them out of the water, they will not be taken back to their point of origin. But what will happen if they grab on to a strange robot? I would not be surprised if people actively avoid the robots during testing and instead opt only to be rescued by an observing vehicle.

2) It's really cool that the Greek government reached out to the Texas A&M University’s Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue. I'm sure these robots are very affordable and the Greek government will happily foot the bill in order to lessen this humanitarian crisis. /s. Interestingly there is not one dollar sign in the article, however at the end it does mention the research team is willing to leave at lease one robot behind when they are done with their research.
I'm sure you never say something that hits an emotional trigger in others and renders any further conversation difficult.

Imagine a world where everyone thinks the world is flat and somebody comes out saying it isn't. Now imagine what the folks believing in a flat world are thinking. Outrageous? Writing skills not good enough? Bad taste in the mouth? Crazy scientist surrounded by yes-people?

:)
> Doesn't mean it's not true.

If Coke made a commercial that said Diet Coke will help you lose wait, that wouldn't mean it's not true either.
To recap, if you want to implement your own exceptions in C++ with the stack trace in the same way as Java or C# do, that's good fun.

Just use Google Breakpad. For Objective-C, you'll probably do better with PLCrashReporter (or possibly KSCrash) which can reliably unwind at the time of the crash because of certain assumptions it can make about ObjC binaries that the more general Breakpad does not make. (Breakpad just captures the stacks to a minidump, which you then unwind later using symbol files generated from your binaries.)

you usually need to allocate a piece of memory in the heap

Breakpad preallocates. The ObjC (Mac, iOS) handler included with Breakpad (should you go that route) goes so far as to mprotect the preallocated memory to help protect it from memory smashers.

None of this is perfect, but I'd rather have stack traces than not. It's also useful to have a breadcrumb mechanism in the app to include with the stack trace.
Glacier is about storing a large amount of data in a cost-efficient manner, when you do not anticipate needing it 1) cheaply and 2) quickly.

Legal issues, at least in the US, do not have those requirements.

I have had situations in the past 12 months where recovering past data would be worth >$1k for the right 100k of data.
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Knowledge that the score is the score, is knowledge of the game. Deep reinforcement learning uses the score as an objective measure for how well it's doing. That's is the definition supervised learning.
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Sure it would, many smaller investors would have had to be found - it would have spread the wealth.
I think that this book is really interesting "Surfaces and essences: Analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking" by Hofstadter and Sander

Many people got dissilusioned with classical AI because mathematical logic (inference engines) would not scale to 'strong' AI.

Hofstaedter says that most concepts handled by Humans do not fit into clear cut onthologies one to one. Instead each higher order concepts are created by finding analogies between objects or simpler concepts, and by grouping these similar concepts into more complex entities.

I have a summary of the book here http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/blogg/2013/10/15/po...
The Secrets of Sherlock’s Mind Palace
In order to see your screen shot of a captcha, I have to solve a captcha. :/
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Submitted a few minutes before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10922386 (13 points, 1 hour ago, 2 comments)
They're both the problem. It's like saying there is no problem with guns, because guns don't kill; people do. You are right that there is indeed problems with American food culture, but that does not mean schools should automatically inherit those problems. In fact if we're gonna make things better it's always easier to start with children for they're considered the most precious.
I was also concerned about this when I was looking into Arq, so I wrote a cross-platform restoration tool that'll also work on Windows and Linux (not just Mac): https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator

This is purely based on the author's excellent description of the format in his arq_restore tool: https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt
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The research here is interesting, but the title seems odd for the content. A consensus of researchers found either no results of racism (which are often unpublished) or results with the similar meaning (that race was a factor). In a research paper, rather than media echo chambers, methods are generally clear to their intended audience. To me, the finding indicate that research is functioning correctly.
120MB is no small deal when you're using a 50MB data bundle on a crappy Kenyan ISP, on your phone. There should definitely be a prompt, I just lost half my day's data (before I stopped it).

Edit: changed "your" to "you're" ;)
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Your programmers != engineer issue brings up a larger issue I'm always wondering about when people/companies/etc say we have a software engineer shortage.

Just what type of developer are they talking about? There are many types of engineers/developers: front end, back end, write algorithms, do data integration, automate systems, write database queries, real time, graphics, embedded systems, and on and on and on.

So which ones are we talking about? What types of background do they need? The discussion on "the shortage" is always lacking in details.

~ Bryan

PS: I think this issue is also why some say developers != engineers.
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Is the summary basically "turn off WPAD and this won't work?" Because that's not hard to do:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15029615/how-to-turn-off-...
Here’s their list:

1 Minneapolis, MN 77.2
2 Washington, DC 76.8
3 Boston, MA 69.1
4 Portland, OR 67.7
5 Denver, CO 67.6
6 San Francisco, CA 66.8
7 Hartford, CT 66.8
8 Seattle, WA 66.5
9 Virginia Beach, VA 65.8
10 Sacramento, CA 65.3
11 San Jose, CA 65.2
12 Richmond, VA 64.2
13 San Diego, CA 63.3
...
50 Oklahoma City, OK 24.6

“The AFI reflects a composite of preventive health behaviors, levels of chronic disease conditions, health care access, as well as community resources and policies that support physical activity. In addition, demographic diversity, economic diversity and violent crime levels are included for each metropolitan area to illustrate the unique attributes of each city. Communities with the highest AFI scores are considered to have strong community fitness, a concept analogous to individuals having strong personal fitness.”

http://www.americanfitnessindex.org/docs/reports/2011_afi_re...
> a time-waste

If this is how you view eating then Soylent is probably the best thing since sliced bread in your mind. For the rest of us... not so much.
I'd hazard to offer Rust :)

Someone has to.
An excellent article making good, clear points. If only more science writing were like this.

In summary, the authors got 29 teams of researchers to work on the same data set and answer the same research question (are football [soccer] referees more likely to give red cards to dark-skinned players?). The teams proposed different analytical/statistical approaches, discussed each others' approaches, and came up with a range of effect sizes based on the data.

Some key quotes:

"Most researchers would find this broad range of effect sizes disturbing. It means that taking any single analysis too seriously could be a mistake, yet this is encouraged by our current system of scientific publishing and media coverage."

"The transparency resulting from a crowdsourced approach should be particularly beneficial when important policy issues are at stake. The uncertainty of scientific conclusions about, for example, the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, and the consequences of economic austerity policies should be investigated by crowds of researchers rather than left to single teams of analysts."

"Scientists around the world are hungry for more-reliable ways to discover knowledge and eager to forge new kinds of collaborations to do so. Our first project had a budget of zero, and we attracted scores of fellow scientists with two tweets and a Facebook post."

It would be great to see collaborative platforms for the scientific community grow in popularity and give rise to more valid, vetted research findings.
Previous work by Chris on word2vec

http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-w...
This exploit doesn't depend on that; 80 might as well be 8000 or 8080(common proxy port) or anything else. Observe that the proxy port can be specified:

return "PROXY 127.0.0.1:80";}
SO was actually my initial thought, but I seem to get a bunch of downvotes on those kinds of questions, and comments telling me to go to some other StackExchange site to ask that question.

Thanks for your response though!
I just did an install of CentOS with the minimal setting, and I am amazed by the crap that is loaded up vs not loaded. Don't need sound, don't need IPv6, don't need wireless. The base install is missing stuff like nano, wget, network related tools like traceroute, and several other packages. Thankfully, bluetooth or CUPs wasn't in the list this time.