skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience in SV is limited to a few months stay, already a few years ago, but it's hard for me to conflate San Francisco and Silicon Valley proper (San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Mountain View etc...).

Where San Francisco is a proper city, plagued by the many problems you mention, the actual Valley is basically suburbs, with a majority of spotless single family homes, lots of strip malls and tiny (but mostly spotless as well) city centers.

As a European, like you and the OP, I mostly felt out of place in both environments (less in SF, to be honest), I could picture living there for a few years at most, but not forever.
I have a friend that works there as an engineer and as far as he has told me they pay about average to a bit below average and the engineers sit in an open plan office.

Just checked glassdoor, and a senior software engineer makes ~114k so that gives you a pretty good idea of their compensation structure...average.

Not to call you a liar or anything, but I get emails from wayfair recruiters all the time and my understanding of their compensation has led me not to respond but I'd love to be wrong.
Blis M18 and K12 strains. There are many brands using these. I prefer pills straight from Blis or Life Extension.

If your mouth has an unhealthy microbiome, you might need to place a lot of emphasis on killing bad bacteria initially. For this purpose, salt water or mild antibiotics (chlorhexidine) for 2 weeks combined with double dose of probiotics should do the trick.

Obviously, sugars feed bad bacteria, which metabolize it into acids to erode your enamel. Avoid entirely.
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I can't believe we are still debating about Communism in this day and age because it has been proven inferior in every way but...

Communism is bad for innovation for two major, connected, reasons. First, there is very little, if any, competition. Most innovation comes from trying to beat the other guy and there just isn't any competition in a system that wants the state to run everything. Second, entrepreneur's are non-existent because there is no way for them to make money off of their inventions outside of cozying up with the State.

Also, your point about them moving from a medieval society to a modern one is ironic considering the USSR's pathetic technology. Outside of military applications they were failing in almost every single way. Just read some stories about the East Germans trying to flee to West Germany or the USSR's Olympic team visiting the US and thinking that our grocery stores were fake because of all of the food.
I believe they're referring to Slack, which is arguably nothing more than a browser-based IRC clone.
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> Cherry-picking one profession to claim low salaries are because of gender is absurd.

Community/support roles are still widely considered "soft skills", and thanks to a century or two of patriarchy, are indeed considered womens' work. (This is, needless to say, bullshit.)

You seem to be implying that there is an "infinite supply of highly qualified" community/support folks; hence the low wages. There is not.
The article describes pretty well the shocking reality Europeans discover moving in San Francisco and honestly I absolutely concur for the most part.

But wait, he glorifies his past alternative life but does feels comfortable in a place where Internet is openly censored and spied on to track and torture activists ? Didn't he just say he loves talking about politics ? People don't get killed by their government for putting Bernie Sanders stickers on their cars here...

Even this aside, on the business side and as a foreigner I would be very scared there: from gutter oil to copycats, it feels totally lawless. What's gonna happen to him if he is successful?
The fact that you can find exceptions do not change the fact that in the common case, tech x is better than tech y. Unless your use case clearly is one of the exceptions most of the time, you still win by choosing the tech that produces the best results most of the time, instead of the one that produces the best results in the exceptional cases only.

So that tech-x versus tech-y is still very relevant.
I think the issue here is not if it is actually helpful or not, but that it was claimed (and advertised) to be without the necessary research.

The AP article explains that flossing had to be dropped from the federal guidelines as those are required to be backed by research.

The groups that claim it is good for you all have a financial reason to claim it. Not alone wrong, but wrong in the absence of quality research backing the claims.
Sorry about my uneducation but if v8 is running standalone isn't this similar to having node running on the OS?
Anyone ever smell the floss after each tooth?
Yea, I'm gonna keep flossin.
Yeah... I did call it a frontier, and I meant that with the good and the bad. -Nils
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Different sense of "platform". The point is that Java SE runs on many different OSes and architectures in write-once-run-anywhere fashion, including GUI applications. We've yet to see whether .net can deliver that.
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> Where San Francisco is a proper city, plagued by the many problems you mention, the actual Valley is basically suburb city, with a majority of spotless single family homes and tiny (but mostly spotless as well) city centers.

That's true, I completed a few internships in Cupertino and Sunnyvale, and they are different. They had too little going on for me, though, which is why I moved up to SF. And I also felt less out of place up in SF.

> I could picture living there for a few years at most, but not forever.

I've heard that from a lot of people, actually.
I reckon milk kefir is pretty good, apparentiy it has a particularly broad and strong co-operative of micro-overlords, ahem, micro-organisms! Dental-protection? probably? No studies to back that, but in my opinion, it's one of the best cultures for your insides.
What is the "CMHC"?
>healthier smiles

You mean healthier teeth?
A little off topic, but non-tech people in the USA seem to have unrealistically negative views of China's tech abilities. Yesterday morning 4 non-tech friends and I were getting our exercise working in our community garden and all 4 of them were going on about how far advanced the USA was compared to China. I pointed out that at least in my field, a good fraction of new research papers are from Chinese researchers and I also gave them the example of WeChat pay.
This is another reminder of how the security model of desktop OSes is pretty terrible. Every time you install software on Windows, you trust it with everything on your computer by giving it administrative rights.

OS X doesn't have this problem usually, as most apps don't require admin rights to install, you just copy them to /Applications, but it still has some apps that use installers.
My mother-in-law is a dentist. When she heard I always brush my teeth but rarely floss, she told me flossing is more important than brushing your teeth. For once I didn't get into the science of things, but still I accept that getting old bits of food and other junk away from between my teeth can only be a positive thing.

It runs counter to my sceptic nature, I like to question everything, but I'm slowly starting to learn that sometimes you just have to take an expert's advice.

I'm sure any half-way decent dentist can see pretty quickly how well you take care of your teeth, in the same way a seasoned programmer can often point out a beginner's bad code or a civil engineer warn about the wrong way to build a bridge or a house on a swamp.
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"I have terrible personal hygiene and write it off as being 'quirky'"
Sorry, I can't take this post seriously. Some thoughts without trying to get too political:

- I guess he was disappointed by Obama? Join the club.

- "I moved to Silicon Valley" No you didn't, you moved to San Francisco.

- The Bay Area is one of the most naturally beautiful metropolitan areas in the world. Beijing is one of the most polluted. You can have it.

- "I was confused by the sheer amount of narcissistic Ayn Rand followers." Really? Where are they, I've been here 15 years and have yet to find this mythic horde

All told, I'm getting really sick of the Euro-lectures-Americans schtick.
I'm also a Swede who has also lived in SF and Beijing.

The social problems of SF are certainly a bit of a shock coming from Scandinavia, and I can understand the author's excitement about Beijing. But there are a couple of deal-breakers about China that would make it very tough for me to consider moving back:

* You'll always be an expat. You can become an American both legally and culturally, but you cannot become Chinese in either sense. As someone who grew up surrounded by US culture, it makes more sense to live in the US than in China.

* Your business is always going to be at a disadvantage compared to
native businesses. I don't have any first-hand experience of this, but from what I understand, government connections are necessary to get anything going, especially in hyper-competitive China.

* There's no public debate. The government has little oversight. The internet is censored. There are plenty of policies that I consider indefensible. The US has plenty of flaws too, but at least there is an open discussion about these flaws and a pathway towards fixing them.

SF can be a bit insular and self-absorbed at times, but I felt more at home there than I did in Beijing.
The problem with this is that if anything fails, you can potentially corrupt your data and have no backup plan. To make that option safe, you would have to copy your data directory first, and you need to be offline for that. So you have to add the time it takes to make that copy.
Finding the right balance is very important. Projecting confidence is important for leadership, and winning arguments. Overconfidence is a fatal bias. [0]

In some fields (Sales?) overconfidence can spur achievement. In many others it's dangerous. ("The US housing market will never drop", "We can make up the time by efficient testing", "Their party will never nominate that clown.")

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconfidence_effect
What OS are you on? LibreOffice doesn't have gradients for me. That is on Linux, but with Breeze Dark system style. (Linux doesn't have a default-style, in case you're not aware.)
I wish I had a project big enough to use this software, it looks pretty awesome.
San Francisco is not the same as "Silicon Valley." Also ill people on the streets although very prevalent in certain section of S.F. is also not a problem unique to S.F.

Nils oversold Beijing, it is not that crazy or futuristic if you have been to other large cities - London, New York, Tokyo etc.
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Go south to Berlin for a year. Move into a room in a flatshare in the east, go to meetups and you'll find someone who wants to start something with you. Your money will last long there, but your boredom will not.

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the fun begins when you click on the logs below. It starts loading the log and firefox slows down a lot.
Invisibilia just had a episode pertaining to this on July 22, "The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes." One of the sections had a study where the participants were asked to do a concentration test. The group that wore a doctors lab coat scored far better than the group who didn't. What was interesting is that when the coat was described as a painters coat rather than a doctors coat the results effect was not the same.
That first point is a painful reality that can't be escaped, for sure. It can be hostile here, but again - it is a frontier.
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1) pollution
2) oppressive government
3) language barrier
4) too many people
5) twisted ideas of morality (not respecting IP)

Well...unless all you care about is $$$.
So...I looked at their methodology, and I noticed one thing right off the bat:

They define a home as "unoccupied for the year" if its electricity usage is low during the non-heating months - aka. summer. This strikes me as flawed: summer is when you're most likely to be in Vancouver!
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As a part of a startup that just went under (by "just", I mean literally yesterday) they either can't release the code due to fiduciary responsibility to investors (it could be worth something, particularly if someone decides to dump more money in or the company somehow miraculously recovers) or because of contracts into which they have already entered with investors.
Because it doesn't fit the goal of the op. ed piece, which is what we are talking about.

If anything, it says that mandated arming of large numbers of citizens (conscription), and mandatory use of such weapons, leads to a higher number of mass killings.

That's a different conversation than the mandated disarming of large numbers of citizens.
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Ah good point. But then how do you verify their figure on total customer deposits?
If you had as many people jumping out of planes as those that have teeth, you assuredly would have studies about parachute design, packing methods, survivability in the face of failure. You absolutely would have research that shows that parachutes prevent death.
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It's true that correlation does not imply causation, but you're still wrong from my experience with hygienists and dentists.

They definitely and easily see a difference seen between those who floss and brush and those who just brush.

Also, those who use Sonicare, especially when used properly around the gumlines, also tend to have healthier mouths than those who brush with an old brush.

The one thing that can throw a wrench in this whole thing is smoking. Smokers' mouths are disgusting basically no matter what.

Point being, I love research, but I trust those who put their hands in tens of thousands of mouths more than skeptics on ArsTechnica article comments.
I got over that attitude when I walked into my uni library the first time. Seven million volumes. No way I was going to read them all.

I focused on specific interests, though also sampled other areas.
When I hear about technological prowess, I am expecting things like rockets that land on barges, self driving cars, and even block chains. Not web apps and mobile apps.

Most of Chinese people share the same opinion. There are huge resources poured into the areas you mentioned above. Though the progresses made on those fronts in China won't be covered by Western media, until they happened.
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>> In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don't make sense.

Your claim is especially true if those people have families. 60% of Families said they planned on leaving the city in the next year due to the problems surrounding housing. Rental rates are also a problem with only a 0.6% vacancy rates and of those available only 16% are 2 bedroom and less than 1% are three bedroom.(1)

(1) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/familie...
I prefer to think of it as "defensive coding" rather than something related directly to self-confidence. Same with driving - I'm confident in my abilities but drive under the assumption that everyone else on the road is unpredictable.
No. Gums (and possibly even tongue) are also part of your "smile". Could have said "mouth" but smile sounds better.

On the note of tongues, using a tongue scraper is a great way to get rid of nasty bacteria that causes bad breath and spreads to the rest of the teeth/gums. Cheap and effective.
He did say "opinion disclaimer".
What was the point then?
> generally benevolent

It's not benevolent, that's pure propaganda at work. It's a nation that acts in its own interests like any other. It just disguises them extremely well.
In that new valid blockchain, the transaction where they were given that coin will simply not be there.
I find it interesting that serving such warrants is done in the home vs. catching them outside. It seems like backing someone into a familiar corner (their home) would be like backing a wild animal into it's den.
The city of Vancouver's population is 600K, while Toronto's is 2.6M - over 4x as large. Are you talking about their CMA populations? (That seems more likely: ~2.6M vs. 5.6M)
Not ironic just naive.
One's view of a place depends highly on which circles he or she belongs to.

There are definitely a lot of corruption and bad things happening in Beijing, but in some circles, like ones the author experiences, people are apparently more up to doing good.

This is definitely a naive view of Beijing, but if you look past the generalization, it shows a rarely exposed part of Beijing and highlighted some problems in the Valley.
There still is not (AFAIK) much partitioning between apps on most desktop OSes. So even if a malicious app doesn't have admin rights, it still can run under your UID, which is almost as bad as it then has access to nearly everything you care about.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1200/
Seems a little biased against folks who are not native English speakers.
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Yes, they are people who think they are on the left, but are actually conservatives.
Do I need AWS to use this tool? The company I work for operates its own data center.
> [React] was developed precisely because iPhone and Android made it so difficult to build robust mobile applications with web technologies

Exactly. Therefore, in my opinion, Facebook should instead try to get the web back on track of being the application delivery standard. If this is not possible (google/apple not cooperating), they should imho give ReactNative an API that is compatible with the web. Of course, they can build their virtual dom etcetera on top of that (but it should be optional).
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So true. If I need advice from someone (for instance, a doctor or mechanic) I never really trust them until I've heard them use the magic sentence a few times.
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Which then begs the question, why does Apache even bother? Can't they just re-gift the trademarks, etc over to TDF? Or at the very least be upfront and honest that OpenOffice is now abandon-ware?
> if you randomly sample the population you'll find that most of us want peace, freedom, success and happiness for everyone.

It's a shame that doesn't come across in US foreign and economic policies.
exactly my point. sometimes the solution has nothing to do with the perceived problem.
REH, most famous for the Conan the Barbarian short stories, has a visceral writing style. I'd start with one of the Conan omnibuses, like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-Cimmerian-Original-Adven...
I made someone rage :)
How to overcome the scare of being caught when hacking?
I'm new to hacker zone so I wish anyone can provide any experience about their feelings of their first hacking activities when they knew they were hacking

I'm asking because recently I found a suspect zero day flaw in a website. I want to do some tests with it but as a newbie, even though I have confident, I'm afraid of being caught by the company for whatever the reason that could be my unknown-unknowns, and of course afraid of the bad consequence.

I do want to do some research but I have no idea of what jargon or keyword I expect to searching for....

I really appreciate someone can provide a hint.
Right, but the dangerous part is that slow motion biases our judgement so that we ultimately determine an action was deliberate and planned.
He's the dictionary definition of one.
Or when you only remember phrases from the letter and you want Google to find it for you.
There are not enough devs and designers. It's an open house, so you can join whenever you like, though. Please read my 1990s-design themed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3u2p7x/tired_of_the_...
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yea well, 'cash' has the same problem, steal cash and it's gone, you can't rollback anything...
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This is why I ensure that the slaves are up to date, then disconnect them, pg_upgrade the master and resync the slaves (which is required anyways). If something goes wrong, I would fail over to the slave.

Also: You don't need to be offline to copy the data directory. Check `pg_start_backup` or `pg_basebackup` (which calls the former)
Flossing can have benefits. That still doesn't mean that we should be ok with medical professionals making specific claims like, "flossing reduces the risk of tooth decay," that have no good science behind them.
Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

They insure the banks against mortgage default. People pay a small premium on their monthly mortgage payments so that if they default, the bank is insured for the cash difference of the outstanding amount on the mortgage.

As a result, banks in Canada face no risks from mortgage default so there's no reason to deny a mortgage. Over 90% of mortgages made in the past decade are CMHC-insured.
Which libertarian philosophy is against strong property rights? When someone sell property, the seller should not have a right to exercise powers that are exclusively to the new owner. DRM is the technical method to remain in control over property after sale, where contract would be the legal method when renting out property.

In open DRM, how and whose digital rights are being managed by said technology? If I lock down my laptops boot loader, is the laptop the digital right that I am "managing" with said security, or is it simply the terms TPM and DRM that is being incorrectly used interchangeable? To use "Open" DRM on property that the digital property owner also own seems as a very rare situation, for example a music studio whose owner want to prevent employees at the studio from making unauthorized copies. The benefit of "open" DRM seems very minor to the world, where the benefit of open security technologies, such as a TPM, seems as a much grander goal.
And we can solve the problem by doing the work and recruiting those missing designers. When do you want to start?
That's not because of French language, they would try even if it had Zulu immersion. It's just that it's cheaper than private schools, but you still get good students and quality environment
Have you tried clicking it? You should try and report back your results.
Diplomatic plates are a similar hazard in NYC or DC.

Literal immunity in most cases, attitude on top of that.