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The east coast of the USA was settled first, recall. What did they do back east to 'solve' this problem of "we're running out of space"? They increased the density of occupants per unit of land -- they built UPWARD.

That will have to happen here too. It's already happened in LA.

There will always be crybabies like this attorney during the growing pains of a popular 'destination city.'

For now, think of turning the Peninsula into tall buildings, concrete and asphalt. Think how the picturesque drive up highway 280 to San Francisco from the South Bay will be affected.

Everyone wants the nature. Not the tall buildings, concrete and asphalt.

Crybabies need to do precisely what this gal chose -- LEAVE. There's the door. That's how markets work -- when the price of a good or service is too high, demand drops. Well, she's a living example of a smidgen of demand disappearing.

People who don't like markets should move to Venezuela or North Korea or Cuba.
I have successfully used Haxe in isolated cases to build games for WebGL and Canvas. I think transpilers are most useful when you rarely want to reach outside of your own code, or you only need to rely on a few key libraries that are known to be well supported within the ecosystem of your transpiler language. I also struggle without a static compiler, so for my case it makes sense to use a transpiler, even with all of its pitfalls.

If there is one thing however that I have learned from using transpilers it is that externs as a whole are a huge waste of time, as it can be difficult to determine their quality upfront. If you are building a Node backend or SPA, you are going to need to rely heavily on existing libraries and will probably find yourself constantly hitting walls while you try to swim against the current of the ecosystem if you try to use a transpiler.
Ah interviews; when you realize all your programs have been opening all the files they need to for months and you can't remember the exact syntax for opening files in any of the half-dozen+ languages you've written production code in.. :D

Fizz/buzz, graph traversal, and etc actually come much more easily for me haha.
There are pros and cons to both centralization and decentralization and it is never that one is better than the other, therefore your statement "Centralized solution is not safe for the user, and therefor(sic) shouldn't be an option" is not correct. There are tons of cases where decentralized systems are unsafer for the user than centralized systems.

Safeness is not just about whether something is technically sound, it's also about how it works in practice. Banks are extremely centralized and for a good reason. You may say it's very unsafe since it's a "single point of failure" and one robber can break in and take everyone's money. But what makes banks appealing is the single point of failure functions also as a "single point of responsibility", so by centralizing responsibility it makes it much more efficient to manage risks. If we didn't have banks, every family probably will be spending tons of money just for securing their money--they will probably need to buy super secure vaults, secure their household from intruders, etc. Again it's not whether one is better than the other. There are pros and cons.

Try owning a Bitcoin in as secure way you can, and you'll understand how cumbersome AND unsafe it is to not have a single point of responsibility. A lot of people on HN seem to think the reason people "don't give a shit about security and privacy" is because they don't know enough. But that's not correct, they have better things to do and they're simply delegating some things to a centralized authority because it makes financial sense. People are not stupid.

Anyway, all these comments don't really matter because this was not at all my point, you keep saying I'm missing the point, but I think you are the one who's missing my point. I didn't say what is better or not. I didn't say open web is not necessary, I didn't say it shouldn't happen. I just said the approaches these people are taking is far from ideal, it's not even about centralized/decentralized argument. It's about "if you're gonna do something, do it smart, instead of thinking something will magically happen if you keep doing something the same way even though you keep failing". How can you succeed at something when you don't even understand why your enemy is winning?
How many transmissions do you rebuild in the average year? If this is to change the oil, just use a couple of small ramps like a normal person. I once changed the oil on my old Integra by driving one tire up on a regular red brick. b^)
> If not for FED chicanery, housing prices would fall precipitously to meet real demand.

Maybe in some places, but I don't think that would happen in Silicon Valley. As the article says, the population of Palo Alto doubles during work days. A lot of those people would rather live there than commute from wherever.

Silicon Valley is not a creation of the Fed.
When you say 'NUMA disabled' do you mean NUMA aware scheduling and memory allocation is disabled? Because it is going to be NUMA no matter what you do.
But the reason, to my understanding, why this is important is the cost to bring up a baby that's born with severe mental issues is a lot of money.

Human lives have a cost, it varies a bit on how you measure it, but around $1 million in western countries.

So if the cost to bring up this child is more, you are effectively killing someone.

So by stopping the creation of this costly life society is better off and lives are saved.

Certainly the concept a baby suddenly becomes a life just after being born is very flawed.

So Singer doesn't take the side you believe because he believes life don't exist at that point. He is not arguing for just killing someone.

If you scientifically prove a baby is a person he will change his opinion immediately.
On the one hand, it's disappointing to see how this is all going down, it's a bit of a shame for Rio...

On the other, considering the litigious nature of the IOC and just how overtly controlling they are over the cities they come into, I don't mind seeing them get a bit of a black eye.
Your theory doesn't explain why she's moving to Santa Cruz -- the schools are nothing special there.
Well put. Most discussions around here take a simplistic position, "build more to drive prices down". And then wonder why it doesn't happen when the solution is so obvious. Because it is not only about new buyers but also about folks who have invested everything they have into a market that was already in place before they invested.
I graduated from a "systems design engineering" program. In it, we had courses in human factors, mechanical engineering, electrical/computer engineering, graph theory, software development, and you could branch out from there as you wanted.

Unfortunately, people seem to think that it means I'm a software developer, in IT, or something along those lines. It's quite unfortunate as both my Master's and Ph.D. were more towards mechanical engineering.
> This is close enough to a universal truth that there's no point in considering the exceptions for public policy purposes

That's an exceptionally dangerous line of thinking. And more to the point, an unnecessary one: prohibit actual anti-competitive behavior, not the existence of a monopoly. If the universal problem you hypothesize holds true, the result would have the same effect.
1) Exclusionary zoning is a problem-- it's keeping those out except those who are fortunate (rich or lucky), and not paying for the privilege. It's a country club atmosphere, but with Prop 13, without the requisite fees (which should go back to the community at large)

2) "Many cities near Palo Alto have houses at a reasonable price, East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park, Mountain View, Redwood City"

Their houses sell for less than Palo Alto/Atherton, but they're far from reasonable. An artificial scarcity of land has driven prices up everywhere.
Tenure in higher education is probably one of the hardest ones... some legal and medical programs are pretty locked down as well.
I really wish you had replied with some actual citations, because in fact, many types of smoking do not cause cancer (to the best of our modern scientific ability). In particular, there is no unambiguous evidence that smoking marijuana causes cancer, and in fact, the predominant findings today support the hypothesis that marijuana smoking has a slight protective effect against cancer.

If you want to learn more, the book "Primer of Biostatistics" cites a number of studies (see the problem section) where numerous studies showed an absence of cancer being caused by marijuana smoke inhalation using controlled trials. Further work on humans has also shown no credible evidence.

That's just marijuana. There are other substances that are smoked and have no evidence of increased cancer rates.

If you're going to make a general assertion, please back it up with scientific data.
You are being worse than Palantir.
That's what most software people think my "systems design engineering" degrees are about, but my program fits the NASA definition much better. It's quite frustrating.
Equivalence classes aren't just jargon, they really are an important nonobvious concept.
This is an article like many others, that acts as if you simply work yourself as hard as possible, you can be successful.

Most will fail, few will succeed with this approach. I'm much happier enjoying my life, making good money, and spending/saving appropriately.

Stop pretending you're special - you almost certainly aren't. Enjoy your life for what it is and just enjoy it. You only have one.
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It's funny, but I should have mentioned that one as well... Higher level politics is pretty locked in too, though that may change drastically in the next decade in the US.
Particularly the Senate.
Supreme Court Justice.
What you're missing here is that the market delivers rent to the holders of a natural resource (land) far in excess to its marginal product-- which is to say economic rent.

Landowners in the Bay Area are rentiers, and unless we enact policy to reverse this, we'll never have a competitive market in housing.
I live in an apartment in a major city for the utility and because it makes me happy. I am within walking distance of a cooperative food market, a Trader Joe's, and four supermarkets. I am within walking distance of dozens of bars, restaurants, concert venues, cafes, and bookstores.

I can walk to my community darkroom, where I spend hours developing film and black and white prints.

I can walk to work. It's between 1.67 and 2.5 miles each way, depending on the route. The walk back includes an elevation gain of about 300 feet, giving me a pretty decent cardio workout just by commuting.

I drove briefly today because I had to go to purchase containers to store my overflowing material possessions (oh, irony). I was stuck in traffic, and it sucked. I love getting to bus, or take the light rail, or the street car, or walking.

I love living in a dense neighborhood overflowing with interesting people and shops, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. If that makes me a special snowflake, then so be it.
Residential construction with 2x6 framed walls (for deeper insulation) are often studded 24" on center.
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I guess we're just not arguing at the same level of abstraction?

You keep referring to it as forced labor, and missing the central point while labeling the elimination of the moral hazards inherent with mercenaries as a "poison pill". And referring to subverting democracy.

If a fighter in a war is ever remotely close to being labor then they should not fight, in fact they should probably be fighting those trying to send them. I'm not arguing for a poison pill of forced labor, that isn't on the table. Ever.

Do you disagree that there is any form of conscription that isn't "forced labor"?

For example: defending your own home or community or democratic nation from an invading army is not labor, it's a non-economic activity. Say a contract of mutual defense with your fellow citizens in the case of an invading army? I'll go fight if they invade the east coast even though I live on the west coast because of a legally binding reciprocal agreement that is in all our best interests? In that case we are all called in to serve and organized to fight effectively. Our neighbors who can't fight take care of our kids while we're away. Is that forced labor?
It's ugly by my book. But it's not my house so it is not my business.

Risk is part of life. And the risk that your neighbour might build an ugly house is hardly one of the worst ones. (And the expected future value of your land is a guess, not a right).
But tax rates generally adjust for increasing housing prices. In my old hometown, when housing prices went up 20% in one year, tax rates decreased by ~15%, so overall the increase was about inflation. Otherwise you'd see city budgets double in only a few years in really hot markets.

Of course this doesn't work in California with Prop 13, but I've seen it in other areas.
Hey there. I'm Kate Downing. I don't insist on living in Palo Alto at all. See? I'm moving. But what I'm trying to say is that we have a serious problem because people who are integral to our community who SHOULDN'T move can't afford it. You can tell lawyers and engineers to go get lost and they don't HAVE to buy a house in Palo Alto. But are you also going to tell our police, firemen, teachers, city staff, nurses and EMTs to get lost, too? They all make less than we do. What happens when they follow your advice?
The civil engineering department at my university doesn't have any dedicated programming or numerical analysis course. So, they're taught to use Excel. I took a structural dynamics grad course from them and the instructor explained how to do an explicit ODE solution using Excel. I was horrified. I just asked if I could use Matlab and the prof said yes. The prof just used Excel because that's all the undergrads (and therefore the new grad students) knew.
East Palo Alto's crime rate has dropped significantly in recent years and is rapidly gentrifying.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/10/12/report-violent...
Relevant:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/col...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/lai...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/10/why-c...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-s...

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-27/zoning-has...

Get involved:

http://sfyimby.com

http://www.strongtowns.org
At the risk of looking ignorant (because I am) have there been any exploratory works on imposing term limits on SCOTUS justices?

EDIT: Is 'exploratory' the correct term, at least in the PoliSci crowd?
tl;dr Have a zen attitude about getting turned down. The best companies in the world are still spectacularly bad at technical interviews.

Whew, reading these answers is depressing. Not because of any of the answers that anyone has given (they are mostly good) but because it's a reminder of the state of both software engineering interviews and the state of the JS ecosystem.

I recently started a company but before that I was at a company that would be considered by most to be top-tier amongst places that create web based software. After leaving that job I interviewed at and received offers from several other places that are top tier by SV standards (think GooAmaFaceSoft and their similarly hyped but non-public peers).

One of the interviews was over coffee because networking really is the bees knees (there were further rounds involving actual programming). While it started as a fairly straightforward "tell me about…" interview, we eventually got to just chatting as peers in the industry. One of the points of discussion was the state of interviewing technical candidates. I've interviewed >150 candidates over the past 8 years. I'm opinionated about all sides of the process and I think I as well as the rest of the industry have a lot to learn.

In a moment of candor I said to the person across the table something along the lines of "I'm very confident in the fact that I'm a great engineer overall and that I'm particularly skilled and highly marketable as a JS dev because that's what I've been focused on for the past five years. That said, throughout these interviews, I wouldn't be surprised if I get an offer from about 50% of my interviews."

The person who has sat down to interview me and would later give me an amazing job offer mostly agreed with my statement. They tried to be comforting asserting that it would probably be a little more than half. In the end I got offers from 3 out of 5. All three of the offers were had a first year take home north of 2x my previous salary.

None of this is an indictment of the companies that turned me down, I just think it's worth saying to someone prepping for interviews that there's a strong chance that you'll get turned down. You might truly bomb and interview and you might walk away thinking you nailed it only to learn that they didn't feel the same way.

Don't let it get to your too much. Zen mode, enabled.
Honest question: why?
Is there really a lawn on TJ's front porch? That looks fun to mow…
I think this shows how various factors correlates with the amount of water/food still in the digestive system.

I'm not surprised that for example sleeping longer would make you having less water in your body.

Most foods that gave "weight loss" were high energy foods that have lower mass per calorie.
Yeah that sounds like a lot of architects. They have an ideal home in their head, and if clients let them they'd only ever draw one plan. Every request is a deviation from the ideal, so it would be better if clients didn't communicate such banalities as how many children there are or how big the home office should be.
The sfyimby people are quite active - they go to local meetings, get out the vote and otherwise engage with the political process.
This looks cool, but complicated.
The problem addressed seems to be that turbocharged (and supercharged) engines are sub-optimal at lower powers.

IMHO mild electric hybrids, or full serial electric hybrids would be a more elegant solution - only run the combustion engine when full power is needed, and use the electric motor otherwise. "full power" could be used to top the battery if it's not all required for motion.
The true "Swift in web" will happen when WebAssembly is ready and LLVM has a WASM backend. Then I can just compile my Swift to WASM and bypass JavaScript altogether because Swift is already a LLVM front-end.
Yes, exactly. The same phenomenon is seen in fine arts when people apply for grants, fellowships and such. It's very formulaic --and plain language is not going to persuade any of the gatekeepers.
haberman's point still holds: nothing's really stopping a poor single working mom from being a starving woman in Africa, or a captive suffering torture and indignity. There are plenty of starving people elsewhere in the world who literally risk their lives to be a poor single working person in America.
My team and I launched our product about 17 days ago. It's might look better than an MVP, but it's literally just that. We're trying to identify the users who would love using even the crappiest version of our product.

With over 300 users now, it turns out they do want browser extensions and mobile app. So our product is far from perfect. You can have a look at it -

http://www.searchtrack.co.

SearchTrack helps teams and individuals collaborate to save content, contacts, products and services around any topic. Best of all, you can share your research with the community so others in need can spend more time learning and implementing from your collection of rich resources (than they would, in finding and organizing those).
Housing is not just an app...

I'd like to see someone mass produce stackable prefabricated units out of pieces and assemble them into multi-floor apartment buildings, increasing the number of aparments on offer very fast and driving costs down. Unfortunately, I think the problem here comes down to regulations. It's hard to acquire land. Much of the bay area has laws preventing you from building new housing much higher than a few floors. The property taxes are very high, which also makes it difficult to offer low cost housing.

My general impresion is that the bay area does not want to grow... Or at least, much of the existing homeowners, the NIMBY crowd, don't want it to grow. They want tech people to get out and for things to go back to how they were in the 1980s, while maintaining the price of their own homes as high as possible.
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Wouldn't double-glazing just make the greenhouse problem worse?
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How about people applying for software jobs who cannot write a loop that prints out an array in reverse order in a language of their choice? That sounds extreme, but describes easily the bottom 50% or more of job applicants.

I see sibling comments complaining about the state of CS education, but new graduates actually have among the best signal-to-noise ratio; it's the people that have hopped from job to job trying to hide their incompetence that are the worst.
Nice read on how to check your rsyncs.
The "technically correct" way to fix this would be to remove the investment potential of housing by taxing away land value (the grand old panacea of the Land Value Tax[0]).

I think this is a good idea, but it's a disruptive one, and one unlikely to happen soon. But in the meantime, we might as well fix the policy that's in direct contradiction to this ideal:

1) Repeal prop 13. Full stop.

2) Intervene with exclusionary zoning on a state level. Zoning is, after all, a state power that is entrusted to cities. (Jerry Brown is already doing good work in this department[1])

3) Implement split-level property taxes a la Pennsylvania. There's work that demonstrates that this partial LVT had real benefits for Pittsburgh when it was under effect: [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
[1] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-housi...
[2] https://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/property-valuation-an...
We're moving to Santa Cruz because we wanted to live in a walkable area. If you travel up and down the peninsula, any house near the walkable downtown area is going to be $2M+. Yeah, sure, you can buy for less and have to travel by car absolutely everywhere. But why spend $1.5 to live in a dead cul de sac when you can spend the same money to live in a lively walkable area near the beach? If you're going to hang an albatross around your neck, you better think it's awesome. We're sick of driving everywhere and we want our kids to be able to go bike around the neighborhood safely.