skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most of these things, this calculator makes some broad assumptions.

For instance, it assumes transportation costs in Manhattan are higher than most other places. This is unbelievably inaccurate in my experience. Maybe it assumes people here take taxis all over the place? I've found transportation to be cheaper in NYC than anywhere else in the USA. No car or gasoline or insurance or maintenance, etc. A car costs on average about 9k/year to own according to AAA. In a place like NYC if you take the Subway every day your cost is about 1,300/year. Throw in a few hundred for cabs and you're looking at 1,800/year. It doesn't cover the rent gap compared to most places but it helps.

In effect this calculator says a salary in Chicago goes nearly twice as far (so if you make 200k in NYC that would be 106k in Chicago. In my experience that is simply untrue. 200k in NYC would be closer to 170k in Chicago.

I think this calculator is making the assumption someone would require the same resources, like a car in all places. Or that someone who had 1600 square feet of living space would expect the same in NYC, which would be ridiculous. No reasonable person would assume they would move to NYC and get a car and garage it. That simply isn't the typical lifestyle here. Most my friends born and raised in the city don't even have licenses.

It also claims that living in San Francisco is significantly cheaper than NYC which is untrue as well.
Compared to the effort of compiling an all encompassing encyclopaedia it's negligible.

Especially compared to the price of scaring away a ton of contributors and contributions.

Why does it have to be a zero cost solution anyways?
It's probably that mindset that keeps wikipedia on its crappy centralised php codebase that requires it to beg for money ever other week.
Vulkan is coming to Android
In CS, a Bachelors is enough for most (if not all) jobs.
Literally no black people in any of the photos.
Landlords are the banks footsoldiers, looking for an easy gain.

In the finance world this is the definition of "good business" is it not? Nothing expended and lots of electronic money to show for it.
I'd agree. I think in 10 years we're starting to have the conversation about when human driving should be banned in metro areas. At that point it'll be obvious that the technology has arrived, and the safety record will be there, but not everyone will have the technology. There will be the problem of telling someone with a jalopy that they need to park that outside of the metro and pay for an Uber to their destination which will probably snarl that up for at least a decade or more... At some point, though, as rich people are zipping along in cars that never get pulled over for speeding or having taillights out, the "Uber tax" is going to be calculated to be less expensive than the "PoPo tax" on the working poor.
The coffeeshop already pays more through conventional rent than the hedgefund in this example. Google also would pay substantially. More importantly, the people who have speculated the nearby city because of Google would pay a lot more.
Let's not forget the coffeeshop also make more money from being where it is.
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Every time I read a headline like this, I can just picture a raving Alex Jones "They want to spy on you through your dishwasher! They want to look at your naked daughter! Ahhhhhhh it makes me so sick!".

Unfortunately this is one of those issues that he is right about.[0]

[0]: http://www.wired.com/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/
It would be useful to add a command line tool with a linq/jquery-like syntax over that.

I've discovered few weeks ago the same feature (a bit hidden) in GCC:

gcc -fdump-translation-unit=ast.txt file.c

It gives the AST in a flat map (parent/child with ids).
Is that still true compared to the (as above) higher salary in LA compared to the other places?
> land is a natural monopoly

There is no shortage of land. There is a shortage of land in urban areas or areas with easy road access.
Vacation residents are made for that, they dont deprive the locals from housing. In contrast, rich people speculatively buying expensive real estate are just that, speculators.
I had a CS professor that said that during the dot com heyday they were seeing hundreds of cs majors every year, and it was a mess as most of them didn't belong and were just there because it was pretty much guaranteed work for high pay and keeping up with everything was a pain in the ass.

But then the dot bust happened and enrollment went back down to much more reasonable numbers, and she was a lot happier for it.

So yeah, I doubt professors are the ones pushing too hard for this.
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I was excited to use this for practicing writing Korean. Unfortunately it looks like whatever regex is looking at what I type does not like Korean characters... :/
While 1, 5, and 6 seem highly subjective, 1 certainly matches my experience talking architecture over the years and failing to do 5 certainly has lead to the death of more than one project that I've been involved in.

6 is only true if you've hired the right people :-)
I actually just started working on a new Node.js project that could get very large, and the first question I asked myself was... Do I want each npm package to be in a separate repo or use a single repo with deeply nested but discrete npm packages?

I decided to go with a single repo with lots of discrete NPM packages using NPM private. This allows for things like:

const logger = require('@org/utils.logger');

Which to me reads beautifully. The real only gotcha is remembering to run npm publish and npm install often. There is quite a bit of duplicate packages installed though. For example, almost all packages I write require lodash, so it is installed n number of times instead of just once globally at the root. But... I'm ok with that.

If each package was inside its own repo that increases complexity and costs (lots of private repos in GitHub) and I don't really see the benefit.
So most of those sound like symptoms of not having pretty basic needs met. A place to eat cleanly, food storage and preparation facilities. I suppose maybe all those could have been dealt with with more work (cleaning, groceries elsewhere) but that is pretty over the top to ask people to live like that.

sad to hear about his challenges. All of us could do well to imagine how much it would suck to be in his shoes.
And any surrounding districts with good public schools will of course have ever higher real estate costs.
> "Yeah I kicked him in the face and robbed his family, but it's just business" seems to be an acceptable sentence there.

No, kicking someone in the face and robbing his family is illegal. It is not "just business." Unless you're trying to equate owning property and renting it out to kicking people in the face and robbing their family...
Sorry, that obviously isn't one of my better comments, and other commenters have done a much better job than I did reacting to the original argument.

What I'm objecting to isn't the idea that React's ideas aren't for everyone, or perfect for every application, but rather that React's issues somehow stem from some kind of Facebook-y need for "control". That's an especially weird claim to make given how simple and open-ended React (by itself) is.
The flappy bird of writing apps. Well done.
I don't think history books remember "The 537th person to do X"
A Land Value Tax would tend to reduce the appeal of land speculation, by encouraging land owners to do something productive with the land, rather than just speculate on it.

A Georgist might say that wealth is actually created in the scenario you describe, but that it's created "by the community" in the sense that it's only because of many variables of the surrounding community that the land has become more desirable and therefore more expensive; and that the speculator's current ability to capture all of that increase via his untaxed monopoly on the ground rent creates a deadweight loss for the broader economy.
Both, but more so SF-proper I suppose. In the city, I look like an astronaut, but further south I only look like a moderate weirdo, mumbling to myself about people wearing shorts while zipping my coat up over my chin.
Sorry, what do you call yourselves again? Didn't quite catch that.
Analyzing the language of the presidential debates
That's exactly what we did! Why did it seem otherwise?
In Minority Report, when the hologram shouts Johns name to attract his attention as he passes by... Is that going to be peak advertising, or could it get worse than this?
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I wager that if this happened, it would both increase the use of public transportation and increase the public opinion of AVs (assuming it is done once the technology is acceptable). Probably not as profitable for the companies producing the consumer vehicles though.
Our laws facilitate the leaching of labor to land owners (feudalism). If it were easier to build a surplus of housing, this wouldn't be such an issue but between NIMBYism, zoning, local municipal red tape, and the near zero incentive from developers to build inexpensive housing units in mass quantities near urban centers, than this issue will remain siphoning any surplus of wealth from labor in cities (Silicon Valley, NYC, etc).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442929
If there was one picture that sums it up for me, it would be the Cal Hacks [0] one, broken down into either four or six pictures (depending on how many employees you have). The actual "hustle" is quite boring--put a bunch of people around a table with computers and there ya go. All the weird places such as beds, backyards, roofs, boats, stadiums, the street--that's not where the hustle happens. That's just an effect of being young and mobile.

Random: How many non-macs can you spot in that picture?

[0] http://i1.nyt.com/images/2016/02/28/technology/silicon-valle...
We use WEC7 - Windows Embedded Compact is CE with two of the letters swapped in the acronym. We're not using 2013 because our BSP hasn't been ported.
I know this is in the context of "consumers", but is that how most people see Internet of Things? I thought IoT was more of a name for business applications, or the trend in general, rather than the category of device. I thought that "smart (appliance)" was how the devices are sold to "consumers", and that Internet of Things referred to a trend that mostly means businesses using internet-connected devices to simplify IT and get information about assets. In that context, it doesn't seem like people are afraid as they are just skeptical and curious about what value it could provide. It is a strange future indeed if fridges that enforce thought crime fall into the same category of technology as a plant floor weight sensor. At that point, they just become "things" again.
This is crazy. Makes me want to post real photos from our office where -- the horror! -- we're actually building stuff for our customers.
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There is other interesting homoiconic languages like Rebol (brackets instead of parens and more whitespaces).

I could add a stack-based language like Factor too.
I agree, no offense to anyone who loves Georgia.

SF is too expensive though. I like Seattle just fine.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the Cordova project is: https://cordova.apache.org
Why Privacy Debates Hardly Persuades People
This is almost entirely due to the dramatic decline in oil price over the past year
I am perfectly fine downloading an external application to write an image the sd card just like I am perfectly fine in using "apt-get install" for any application that doesn't come bundled with Ubuntu/Raspbian. If 99.9% of your users aren't going to use a feature why bother bundling it? If there was no effective way of doing this on Windows then I can understand the reasoning behind your statement. However, that is not the case so am sorry but this comes off as pissy person trying hard to find a reason.
This is it, Twitter is the best ad model and mechanism of the modern day internet. It's your 15 second commercial break of the web.
Many parts of the Bay Area, yes. Not all metros.
Google is a huge outlier when it comes to salary. There are thousands of tech companies in the bay area, and median salary is around $100K.
Taxation distorts the free market. Prop 13 is not an elephant in the room, everyone knows about it and it's a hot topic of public discussion even long after it was passed.
It sounds less like you're not open to "religions" and more like you just don't want to be working in React. That's fine; React isn't a moral crusade.
Your grandma, with the ability to receive telemetry from every other car around her, knowing her position to within a few mm, having a reaction time governed by light speed delays, and knowing as much about the Physics of driving a car as an army of PhDs has been able to teach her.

And programmed to turn off the blinker light after merging onto the freeway...
Boy do I know how you feel. So many things that used to seem interesting and deep to me (often involving syntax or parsing or data formats) now feel like busywork and noise. Or like I'm visiting a land where everyone wears extra layers of heavy, stiff clothing and speaks in long circumlocutions. I feel claustrophobic and can't wait to get back to Sexp-land where I can breathe.

Some of it's just habit, of course, but the lightness and simplicity also seem objective to me. It becomes hard to understand why everyone else keeps jumping through all those pointless hoops, you get ever more impatient and irritable with it all, and one day you fall prey to full smugweeniness.
Isn't this thread enough to proof the movie wouldn't have to be hand-painted? I'm not going to find the Van Gogh themed NN posted before.
The UK Information Commissioner is keeping an eye on this kind of stuff.

https://iconewsblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/how-shops-can-u...
Hmmm, I am learning a lisp now I've been reluctant to dive in but this makes me all the more willing
The fact that they have 4 acres of land is much more valuable to his kids than having to share that property with a bunch of other people in the city, in my opinion. There is room to expand, build, hike, bike, walk, climb a tree, breathe fresh air that doesn't smell like pavement, enjoy nature.

Plus, who said they don't like cold weather? I grew up on the East Coast and I love Winter. I love seasons. I love snowboarding and hiking in the Winter.

I lived in SF for a while and didn't really enjoy it at all. Too much congestion, too many people and no fresh air. I could barely see the stars at night.

That being said. To each their own.
It's not me. Read the history of the game monopoly, it's the polar opposite of the final product.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-h...

Based on the work of Henry George.
pedophile site appearing on a darknet that contains thousands of hours of captured home camera footage of naked kids

That was the GCHQ database of hacked webcams.
Most shops aren't like that.

I don't do "SV style programming" but we have no dress code, no death March schedules, no charts, no meetings, etc. Same thing as my last job in another city.

Though we also don't have ping pong, Foosball, stocked fridge, or many young people if that's what you are looking for. Oh, and not a lot of turnover either.
I had the same experience but with Japanese. It isn't the Regex but that it is looking for certain keypresses, which are being captured by your IME. The IME prevents any detection from occurring.

You can test my theory by typing in Korean then pressing Ctrl+C, which isn't captured by the IME, and registers a "C" press on the site, which starts the timer.
"Build and develop cross-platform applications using this application that only works on one platform"
That wasn't my argument at all. $40,000 was in reference to salary (ie, a $40,000 salary in Atlanta can get you the same type of house as $140,000 salary in SF).

By the way, many here assuming I'm in Atlanta. I am not (and don't wish to be, because of the crazy traffic).
also esp in California, you wont get mortgage hikes unlike rents. And, you are much more free to do as you please with your own property, like maintenance and upgrades.
http://stardog.com/
And it's a bad product for following. I didn't see any of the NBA player tweets that he mentioned. I didn't know they existed before this article. And it's something I would be interested in, I just wasn't on Twitter in the few seconds where that topic was relevant.
Would celebrities love it as much if they had to pay to use it as their publicity platform? Lots of people are using Twitter for free and gaining from it. Except the people actually running the service don't appear to gain as much.
http://matthewarcus.github.io/polyjs/clebsch.html
That's exactly what we did. We committed an entire week of company time to our hackathon. People can stay late if they so choose.

Many did not and made amazing things thanks to the commitment by KA to use company time.
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From the study you cited:

"Under the same assumptions, the 12% increase caused
by switching to organic fruits and vegetables would correspond
to an increase in life expectancy of, on average, 17 days for
women and 25 days for men."

This is

1) all based on a very tenuous model, not on a study of actual health outcomes ("The calculations behind these estimates depend on estimates
of the relative risks of disease incidences according to fruit and
vegetable consumption, most of which are known only with
substantial uncertainty (Veerman et al., 2006).")

2) assumes a linear response (if a 1% increase in vitamins increases life expectancy by X, a 10% increase will increaes it by 10X), which also seems dubious

3) assumes that the input data about the nutritiousness of organic food is correct.

And it's still a tiny effect. The life expectancy at birth for men in the Netherlands (the source of the model) is 81 years, or 29565 days, so it's a claimed 0.08% increase in life expectancy.

Moreover, if organic food had a large effect on health we would expect today's rich kids to be substantially healthier than those of my generation, who ate Wonder Bread and Jif, but I have seen no such evidence.

But then I am deeply skeptical of nutrition science in general.
I have a Vive (Pre) and tested it on some older equipment. Less demanding apps like Tilt Brush will even work on older cards like the 750 Ti, but >50% of the available demos so far won't run at that level. A 950 is much faster and not too far from a 680 though, and Valve is working on lowering the performance requirements and made their portal demo work at 90fps at that level. They are going to be giving a talk at GDC in a couple weeks about their rendering technology to dynamically adjust quality settings to maintain FPS on lower cards, which they will be integrating into Unity so most developers will have access to it.

Anyway, I think it would probably be OK to order it now and expect to have access to a reasonable percent of the content, and then wait a few months to upgrade the GPU when the next gen from AMD and Nvidia comes out.
Depends on what you're talking about. Vancouver has cheap rent compared to SF rents, but houses are more expensive than SF and Vancouver wages are no where close to what people in SF are paid. It is one of the most unaffordable cities in the world in that regard.
and that is a reason to blame "old" people for what exactly? Because young are lazy to vote ? Only if you go by extension that I intentionally raised my kids to not to vote as a part of my evil plan for dominance over young. sheesh
It's true that the prolonged crisis and unemployment are (finally) pushing young people to start businesses. But there is very little "to look for" here, the best developers are leaving the country as soon as they have a good MVP.

The weather is great but prohibitive taxation (and social security contributions), confusing and sloppily implemented regulation, absence of infrastructure and bad work ethics don't help. It's much easier to set up shop in Cyprus.
Ubergraph 0.2.0: Clojure graph data structure that implements Loom protocol
Followup: the 3 is live on Microsoft's site.
> ...unsexy companies.../.net...

At unsexy companies, and at StackOverflow
Exactly right. There is wealth being created but it's captured by people doing nothing for it. Redistribute this via land value tax and discourage speculation, all for one.
What if I said I think people are held back because their food isn't food?

Two liters of Mountain Dew and a large bag of Fritos will satisfy our caloric requirement for an entire day for about three dollars, but compared to eating actual food, it will make people with diabetes risk insulin resistant, people with mental health risk crazier (e.g., lack of nutritional precursors to serotonin production, etc), and everyone else fatter and less energetic.

I live miles from the grocery store, and 100 yards from a convenience store, and I don't own a car. Lots of people in my neighborhood don't have the time or resources I do to go shopping. I think this puts some of them at a real productivity disadvantage. If they're poor enough, I'm paying for it too, so I would like to see the situation improve if possible.
Perspective: nearly 50 years ago we did have Category IIIa instrument landing systems in commercial jet aircraft capable of landing without pilot input. We had reliable gyroscopic autopilot capable of keeping aircraft on a set course long before that.

Vast sums of money have been sunk into developing exceptionally reliable avionics systems since then.

Passenger carrying aircraft still all have a pilot or two.
It's the same in Silicon Valley. Software developers are a "cost center" and balance sheets and accounting reflect that - even at companies like Google.
Not around here... Lexus and Escalades beat out Mercedes. I haven't seen a lot of difference between BMWs and Audi drivers either.
Oregon solved this problem differently: there's a hard annual cap on property tax increases period, which doesn't change when the property changes hands.

That prevents people from being taxed out of their home, without creating a situation that makes it hard for people to buy new homes.
6 is only true if you can afford to hire good people.
what about the money you get when you sell? Like he said, there's no money you get back when you rent
According to the BLS’s CPI inflation calculator, $1900 in 1976 is the same buying power as $456 in 2016. Where are you getting $65 from? (Edit: that’s a rhetorical question.)

There’s a huge difference between 300% inflation the BLS claims vs. 2800% inflation you are suggesting.
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Welcome back (my office is in the 201 building too). As you'll soon find Atlanta has a lot to offer but you just have to look a bit harder or drive a bit further.

You can't fix the lack of proximity to the ocean, but being able to get a direct flight to most airports in the Caribbean almost makes up for that.
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>That said, having the option to forego controllers entirely would be preferable, and a nice way to reduce cost.

Although it is a third party peripheral the leap motion is what you're looking for:

http://store-us.leapmotion.com/

Plus it's half off today.

After using a kinect for a few years, I think buttons and controllers are very important for most applications.

Having that tactile feedback for input helps for so many situations. Also it will make it easier to port existing games/apps. The learning curve will also be much easier.

I have a leap motion on the way. I don't have very high hopes of seeing wide adoption and integration due to it being a third party controller but this should hold me over until the oculus touch controllers launch.

If I wasn't getting a Oculus CV1 for free I'd probably be ordering a vive today.