skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true -- according to Trulia, the median rent right now in Palo Alto is $6100 vs. $3495 in San Jose. But I think it's kind of easy, living here, to lose sight of just how out of whack those costs are with the rest of the country. In Tampa, Florida (which is actually pretty close to the US average), it's $1495; even in Sacramento, about two hours from here, it's $1600. If you could stand the time sink, it's quite likely it would be cheaper to live in Sacramento and commute to the Bay Area.

None of this means that there aren't valid reasons for staying here; even giving up a fairly significant portion of my income as rent leaves me with more money than I'd likely have after rent if I had a comparable job in Tampa, assuming I could even find one. But I don't think this is a sustainable situation for the region. The nanny in the "This is your life in SV" satire, and other people in her salary range (or under it), are on the cusp of being pushed out of the area entirely.
Thanks for exhausted info. How is it like to cope with diabetes ? Is there a possibility to reverse it ? What if you really ate low carb diet for 1 year strictly ?
That doesn't mean it's stupid to ask. Extrapolating what annoys you to the totality of users would be far, far dumber.
Was thinking Olympic medals per local dollar-equivalent spent on training. Who's got the most cost-effective sports programs?
Well, the UI used to make sense on the Mac before the redesign to a godawful all-black-and-white-looks-nothing-like-OS-X client maybe 2 years ago.
No exaggeration: I want to be like raganwald.
All that in-depth explanation, and he forgot the first rule of data visualization: always label your axis!

This should have been at the top, but was buried at the bottom of the article: "The left side of the 2D representation represents the more serious headlines, while the right side represents the more silly headlines. "
Intro to Multicriteria Optimization
straight from my gut:

virtual renditions of remote touristic places & events: YES !

virtual desktops, apps that work best in 2D forced into 3D and virtual pets: rather no.
I'm thinking you're throwing away your spices too quickly: http://www.stilltasty.com/articles/view/67
Then it shall be used. And we shall be sad about that. And we are not talking about building a platform. Facebook is hardly a platform. We are talking about advertising.
All this to try to win Apple's SoC?
What I'm looking for is a chart of total medals vs. possible medals.

For example, for a country that only has one athlete in one sport, their total possible medals is 1. So if they get 1 medal, they have a 100% success rate, which is pretty good.

I've seen charts of total medals vs # of athletes participating, but that's not quite right, because it doesn't account for team sports. One country might have 4 people on the swim relay team, but that's still only one possible medal (and if they win it should only count as one).

I suspect someone will link me directly to what I'm looking for soon, but I've yet to find it on my own.
kindly add remarks that this is not compatible with windows
I'm one of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15) and am happy to answer any questions about SigOpt or the methods we apply.

More info on our research (and examples) can be found at https://sigopt.com/research
Yeah, that's not a good thing to do in an HN thread. The threads are supposed to be conversations. We've killed those comments.
What to Work on When You Run Out of Energy
The interesting part is that all of those submissions received only one or two points while this one is at 35 and counting..
Downvoting leads to groupthink in ways that upvoting does not.
Curious about what drives the cost difference vs. a "consumer" car. The sensor suite? (Is it just lidar vs. radar?)
I just noticed India has no medals. Can someone with more knowledge on this perhaps shed some light? Of the remaining sports are there any that India is a medal contender? I find it odd that a country with more than 1.2 billion would go through the olympics empty handed.
I feel like there's more to it. When Americans visit me in Dublin they ask, before they get here, how I get by without a car. I don't think they really fathom that not only can it be done, it's actually easier when the city is well-designed. And Dublin's not even particularly great in that regard!
I guess it does get hotter in Southern California :) 90°F days are rare here, and there isn't much in terms of cat 2 or HC climbs either, just lot's of rolling terrain (100k will average out to 1000m vertical, 2000m if you seek out climbs).
It's been used quite a bit: http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/JFP.pdf
Just like my AT&T 3B2 manual from 1985!
They also have more variability. A tiny nation that gets one medal gets a huge per-capita frequency. You'd want to regularize it a bit.
There is a small amount of work that is funded by private philanthropic organizations (e.g., Simon, Templeton), but these come with their own biases. In principle you could look for places that shield researches from influence by guaranteeing funding regardless of results, but this is almost nonexistent. Even tenured professors are very much driven by the carrot of research funds to buy equipment, pay underlings, or buy-out teaching responsibilities.
I've watched plenty of movies from the late 90's and early 2000's that have outrageous sexism and slurs against homosexuals. Watching something you remember being funny that has that type of content is incredibly awkward. It's kind of weird to think about but 2006 was 10 years ago and a lot can change in that time frame.

I'm not saying it wasn't a sexist comment or that if it was that Joel has changed. But I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Ty. Took a look at pepys. Thought it was odd he referred to "2 o'clock" I was under impression time was not recorded or referred to often in that manner .

Also two entries I read seems to be readable - as if it was somehow massaged
Actually, this announcement is about licensing ARM's physical IP to enable the Intel foundries to fab ARM SoCs for other companies, not about Intel building its own ARM SoCs. I'm pretty sure their long bet on x86 SoCs remains unchanged.
Maybe the most important conjecture in the whole thing is the one that isn't backed up; that optimists are in fact more likely to be successful (in any sense of the term). Is there factual basis to that claim? A healthy sense of dread and paranoia can be useful (if not fun). Obviously demotivating depression isn't helping anyone, but I don't understand why, prima facie, optimists ought to be "better at stuff" than pessimists.

Also -- this is great and I really enjoyed it. As I have all stuff of yours that I've read. In particular anything related to trampolines and javascript.
For what it's worth, I didn't need step 0.5. brew install go, go get -u ... worked right away. I did not have go on this machine yet.
That does not matter for single dash and letter options. For double dash long options I like to split them on different lines so that you still have a lot of horizontal space for the descriptions themselves even with very ling option names, so a brute force way:

This is a man page with a list of
.I flags
below
.P
.BR --flag :
.RS
Description of flag1
.RE
.P
.BR --secondflag :
.RS
Description of secondflag
.RE
.P

Also for real tables:

$ man tbl
That they do, but the problem with taking the conversation in this direction is that it gets us all thinking in terms of how some people have had it easier, instead of what we can do that's valuable of our own.
nice find. i liked the comment at the end where he says he is optimistic because no all the great ideas have been found. i think if your in the start up game and have failed a lot of times you can start to feel that you were too late
>> It's extremely cheap to built and operate.

The cost of the facility is inconsequential compared to the efficiency of the developers working there.
Then you are not making 90$ an hour, but whatever is the prorated fare accounting for your not-billing hours.
Basically, you can't take aspirin at anti-inflammatory doses without getting a lot of side effects. Ibuprofen is a much better anti-inflammatory.
Precisely why it doesn't really mean anything right now. Let's see if Intel can actually make something out of this.

Intel had XScale and squandered that opportunity because it saw ARM as a "conflict of interest" internally. Intel has also spent over $10 billion investing in trying to enter the mobile market with its own Atom chips, and so far that has only led to a silent exit from the market.

So yeah...let's see what happens in 5 years with Intel's "ARM business".
While that version is much more popular, it's a mutation of the original quote which actually stated the exact opposite: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...
The breakdown by team vs. individual, and then unique individual athletes with medals would be interesting.

Weight Phelps and a bronze Judo winner equally, in order to better capture the individual talent and reduce "talent stacking" of having a single athlete winning 10 variations on swimming.
The axes are intentionally unlabeled. They don't represent anything, just spatial coordinates.

The fact that X-axis had a parseable interpretation (and the sliding scale of serious is not a hard rule as there are many counterexamples; I noted the scale as an quick observation) was due to the randomness of the clustering algorithm. It is possible that the chart could end up rotated if the algorithm is run again.
This isn't the worst thing in the world, but I hope it'll be helpful to know that the "Uhm" can come across as condescending. It seems to suggest that it's obvious or that someone not considering it is stupid.
Is there any chance you have a link to the talk or related content? That sounds worth watching...
Haven't they always been charging for snapshots? My understanding is that this is a change to pricing, not introduction of charges.

I seem to remember something like and additional $1 per month on the smallest VM.
I think it's a good lesson about making reputation management a priority.

I don't know what to think of the entire situation. But undoubtedly everyone involved and the Tor project is significantly damaged by the affair.

Appelbaum either: (1) engaged in wrongdoing, or (2) let personal and professional relationships languish to the point people wanted to sabotage him. Either way, it is a good lesson to exercise caution within such a tight-knit community.
The most advanced thing I learned in kindergarten was what the letters were and how to print them. We also only went for half the day, and spent most of the day playing with blocks and doing show-and-tell. I don't think it hurt any... well, except for my parent's pocketbook, since they still had to pay for full childcare.
It depends on the inputs required to prime the algorithm. Garbage in, garbage out.
Yes. Unfortunately YC limit of 80 characters prevented me from including the full title. I hope the change is not too confusing and captures the intent of the original title.
Hyperloop Technology to Be Studied as Shipping Tool
A lot of people involved with the Tor project have objections to various governments, and various governments have targeted some of them. Some people are just plain anarchists. Here are the steps the accusers in this case want taken: https://medium.com/@flexlibris/theres-really-no-such-thing-a... It's not exactly a lynch mob.
I run a B2B startup and found this to be helpful; it's a marketing / sales area I don't know much about and know I could be doing better.
Thanks, yeah I used to use fish:/ and fonts:/ and a couple of other kio slaves, just not man, low discoverability I guess. I thought kio slaves had died with KDE5 [that's still the right name IMO despite the framework:applications split].

TIL.
Tracker: Ingesting MySQL data at scale – Part 2
this is common knowledge.
well, IMO news should also cover the issues that affect the masses, yes, an accident in a refinery is an outlier but a vote on carbon taxes in congress is something that affect us all.

The problem with today's mainstream media is that they don't talk a lot about the big issues but those outliers. If we focus on the things that matter well yes we're not in the middle ages but we're not in the best shape possible as a civilization.
I agree with you about working in an office. Regarding the passage though, I think it can be explained by things other than one society is happier. Like, there is such a thing as romanticized notions of another culture that are not accurate. Or a tribal identity that makes it very difficult to leave regardless of happiness.
The BBC published an article on this last week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-36941269
That's when you've chosen too big a problem. Make it smaller. Find a piece you CAN solve. Then as you gain skill and power, expand. This works in every field.
> It's pretty damn hard to buy a new luxury car with below-average intelligence, social skills, discipline, determination, etc.

Yeah. That's why they lease those cars.

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Its rather easy today to borrow money and get things that are completely unsustainable. Nothing against people who actually like leasing cars (some people MUST have a new car every 2 years, so its cheaper to lease than to buy).

But a huge number of people who are leasing cars simply can't afford the car. So instead, they go for a "low cost monthly plan" that doesn't build any wealth at all.
Patchwork Boulder
> The "decline" of angular hasn't happened

Not the decline but I guess before migration to 2.0 a lot of Users will reevaluate if they will use 2.0. I doubt that only a few already migrated to Angular 2.

Tooling gets better but in Angular 1 there are a lot of ways to create a project and minify it etc. On Angular 2 a lot of documentation is still missing.
We have a big angular 1 app but I'm not sure if we will migrate to 2.0.
I also think that once an Application get's really large it's painful to use a framework that isn't tailored to your needs anyway.
One guy blocks Palo Alto project after it got numerous approvals over 5 years
I remember reading Prey by Michael Crichton as a teenager and wondering if the nanobots he described there could be used to "eat" a tumor, like leaf-cutter ants gradually moving bits of material in a pipeline from one place to another. Glad to see that kind of idea realized in my lifetime.
Git with its interface may be rough, but this is merely a superficial trait.
The same category as saying that Erlang is fugly because its syntax derives
from Prolog. Who cares? It's mechanics and semantics, respectively, that
matter.

I can whack git repository with a hammer and achieve good, reliable results
this way (and I already needed it several times in weird scenarios; I wouldn't
get far with Hg under the same circumstances). Pretty much the same case as
with Linux OS: all the internals are easily accessible, and user interface is
just good enough for me to use.
You know, it's interesting: with all the possibilities, I'm find that I need to rethink my goals.

Of course, at the outset, I want to be able to be comfortable at night and see the people and things around me.

But, with the proliferation of feature-rich lighting, I'm now finding myself looking into other goals:

* Create interesting mood configurations with color
* Communicate data (such as current battery charge for the house) visually
* Extenuate the features of workspaces while they are in use
* Utilize geographic data to create a sort of "redshift" experience, where the temperature of lighting changes with the time and location

There are probably other goals that I don't even know I have!
Don't be ridiculous. Eich couldn't be CEO if for no other reason than that he didn't have a narrative ready for when people brought up his donation to a controversial cause. Seriously basic PR, and he wasn't up for it. No CEO.

It's the same reason Yarvin can't run a technical organization -- not because he's not technically competent (he isn't, but that's a different conversation), but because he can't help himself from flaunting his violent racism and undermining whatever it is that he's involved in. If he could manage to turn off his bigotry faucet, maybe he could be trusted to run an actual project. Probably not.

Don't blame an increasingly inclusive and considerate culture for the continued incompetence of a bigoted few. It's not hard to do good technical work, but apparently it's quite difficult for these particular white men to manage without funding/advocating/practicing bigotry and sexism. That's on them, and every time you feel oppressed by "political correctness" a dozen or more people are feeling like they can participate safely for the first time.
Is there a text-only version? The pictures aren't really adding anything and IMO break the reader's flow of thought.

We can obviously get around it with something like

Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("img")).forEach(img => img.parentNode.removeChild(img));

in the console, but seriously. Medium has a lot to answer for.
Intel's always maintained some of the leading fabs with technology usually a fair bit ahead of their competitors, but it is losing an entire segment of the processor design space. It is pretty big news that instead of continuing to make their own plays at these markets, (which haven't worked out) they're allowing others to ship their own ARM designs using their fabs. Intel's competitive advantage has always had a lot to do with the integration and bundling of world class fabrication technology and their processor designs pushing each other forward.

They've increasingly broken this cycle in the past few years, with the final demise of tick-tock and the continued number of devices which opt for ARM.

It's another in a series of developments that are reshaping the processor market and slowly moving Intel from a dominant position to a supportive one.

There's still a large number of brilliant engineers and amazingly competent people there. I wonder when they're gonna start really fighting for their future.
US wiretap numbers still don't add up, and nobody knows why
A while ago I got a sit-stand desk: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/24/geekdesk-max-sit-stand-des... and it's been great. I'd never willingly go back to full-time sitting.

Even apart from whatever health benefits accrue, switching between sitting and standing to work feels much better than sitting alone.
Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley
Another page on TFA's site:

http://www.medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-gdp:2016
In the case of Elon Musk (and for the record others like Mark Cuban) something tells me you don't make billions of dollars without a (from a modern perspective) massively disproportionate ownership share. Zuckerberg gets off from this because FB is an outlier in terms of it's value, he didn't need as large a percentage to make as much, but Musk does not.
How Flower-Obsessed Victorians Encoded Messages in Bouquets
Google Glass was always too expensive and feature-poor, and there was never at any point a concerted marketing campaigned designed to make you Go Buy It Now. It wasn't the social awkwardness of that product which doomed it, it was Google's decision not to fully commit to it at the time.
I assume that since Apple already has a license, so their foundries (whether it be Intel, TSMC, or Samsung) does not need an additional license.
There's a difference between loving Facebook, and begrudgingly using it because that's where my friends/family are.

Facebook sucks, not just because of confusing UI, or because of silent changes to privacy settings, or because it's one stop shopping for scary three-letter-agencies, but because the network effect is so damned strong, it will take a monumental misstep for it to become the next Myspace.
The originals were in shorthand, so versions in readable English have been edited for readability. He also wrote some bits in "code" which he didn't want his wife reading. http://www.pepys.info/bits.html
An incredibly elaborate revenge plot
Was the employer initially interested in hiring 5 days a week for 4?
Grenada rocks.
Mark Zuckerberg didn't say this app was brand new - he just mentioned that he became aware of it recently.

SkinVision has been around for 5 years. "It was founded in 2011 in Bucharest, Romania based on a PhD study to apply the mathematical theory ‘fractal geometry’ for medical imaging. Fractal geometry simulates natural growth of tissue and is widely used and documented in biology." [1]

[1]: https://skinvision.com/team
> If it takes 100 years for one man, it will only take a month for a company or community.

This takes the mythical man month to a whole new level :)
I have not read the book so I can't comment on that but I have done a good deal of cognitive behavioural therapy. Mostly I was taught to consider the optimistic explanation and assess how realistic my negative thoughts were.

The main exercise we used was to write down my thoughts, feelings, physiology and actions in response to a situation. Then we did it again for a more positive imagining of how the same situation could have played out. It's useful to see how each aspect effects the others and identifying how things could be changed helps a lot when the same situation arises again.

For sure it wouldn't be helpful to be wildly over optimistic, it must be very stressful to intentionally delude yourself. But the error bars on most of these judgements are so wide I don't see anything wrong with erring on the optimistic side.

Of course another skill is learning to avoid unhelpful judgements altogether. But that's a different topic and I won't pretend I have much insight there.
My life is similar:
6am wake up with my 2yo son. He wakes up early. Make coffee and breakfast for him and I. I do some emails and do some lightweight coding while we watch Masha and the Bear again.

At 9am I wake up my wife. She's in SF State getting her MBA. If its not a school day for her, I then go to the office and do a meeting or some more intensive coding, otherwise I'll go teach a spin class or lift weights and come home to hang out with my son and we go to the park or for a bike ride while my wife goes to class.

At night and on weekends I'll find myself sneaking in coding work, mostly to put the brain wheels at ease over whatever thing I'm working on.

We have a baby sitter one night a week when our schedules need it. We aren't a dual income family and I don't make a killing but my work is super flexible. We are barely comfortable and I have to teach spin classes on the side but my son and I have an amazing connection. I don't have much work life balance or separation but I think I prefer it that way.
Why the downvotes? It's true. If you stray from AAA titles, you get plenty of PS3-only games that had terrible lags and struggled to even manage 30fps on reduced resolution. GUST titles like the Atelier series come to mind.
I've been writing PHP for almost a decade and I've never come across any PHP hosts that bill by the request. Not explicitly, anyway -- there were always those hosts where if you got over some threshold of traffic and it caused a certain amount of load on the servers, they'd cut you off with no warning/notice. Those hosts suck. Never seen anything like Lambda for PHP, though. Care to share?