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Every comment in here seems to be missing the obvious. Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Cupertino and San Francisco have the most successful companies in the US/world. Further, the concentration of talent feeds back on itself as people that move here get addicted to the fact that they can meet with almost anyone in the tech world that matters in an hour. Hell, when people visit me in Los Altos I take them on a driving tour where we check out Apple, Yahoo, Google, Facebook and finally through Palo Alto to Stanford before getting back to my house in about an hour. If you are a developer you should move here and leverage the network that exists. I moved to SF in 1996 to be a software engineer at WebLogic from consulting in Chicago and I can tell you that remotely working for some company would never, ever have given me the opportunities that actually meeting with people in the Bay Area has given me.

Further, my kids go to Cupertino public schools and they are some of the best in the nation. It is amazing how stringently they enforce the residency requirement, even to the point of visiting the homes of students who they suspect don't live in the district. Palo Alto schools are also very good though lots of people send their kids to the private schools there and in Menlo Park.

Someone also mentioned the outdoor opportunities. It is amazing how close the wilderness is to almost anywhere in the Bay Area. I can get to the beach, the mountains, or a redwood forest within an hour.
Yep. That's why 8M seems totally over the top unless you had a very large setup that was a total mess beforehand and even then it seems outrageous.
Node is ok, JS is (more or less) ok. The bit I really don't like though is NPM and the horrendous package bloat that it encourages.
I have a problem with this. I don't know if is ignorance by me or what is it. But AFAIK, most "truths" on diferent sciences are based purely on statistic evidence of a sample. Let's suppose that they do an study on why people cheat. They pick 100 random people on an university and do whatever they have to do to test them. Let's say 90 out of 100 cheat because they get bored. Then these scientist draw a conclusion and say "people cheat because they get bored". That's a very broad term.. and again, afaik is the same with other studies.

Is this just one way to do it or is it what every scientist do? How can you possibly englobe everybody to a cause for certain trait based on studying 100,1000, or even 100,000? I can't get my mind atound this.
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> As a former therapist turned software engineer, herein lies the problem. 87% antidepressants? How are we defining "treatment?" Depression is a complex beast, and does it always require "treatment"?

This is, admittedly, speculation on my part based on personal experience. Here goes. I'm sure you know this, but I'd like to throw it out there.

If I want to see a my regular GP and talk about mental health, I schedule a regular appointment and pay my co-pay for the visit and for any pharmaceuticals he prescribes.

If I want to see a mental health professional, I have to call my insurance company, describe my problem to someone who is not a mental health professional, have them pre-authorize visits (if they will), find an in-network therapist and complete treatment in the maximum 5 authorized visits per issue.

A system like this drives people to antidepressants.
The legacy bonus is real, but not as large as you might imagine. Most legacy applicants are rejected. And admission by donation exists, but it requires $M+ donations, at least at a comparable school that I know about.

If it were easy for kids from Palo Alto to get into Stanford, Stanford would be full of kids from PA. In fact, only 36% of Stanford students are even from the state of CA. Top schools value geographic diversity in the admissions process, and the top applicants (in quantifiable areas like SAT score) are highly concentrated in a few areas. Moving to those areas will not help your kid get into a top school. If you want your high-SAT-score kids to get into Stanford, have them graduate from a random high school in Kansas.
My Honda died at 300,000 miles in February. I used the occasion to explore buying a pickup truck and discovered that gas prices had fallen and Toyota Tacomas were selling at a record pace above MSRP. The Dodge Ecodiesel was $40k. The Prius' were sitting the lot and the fleet manager said he'd make me a killer deal. I drove it and enjoyed myself. The car was ~$20k, >50 mpg. I fill up every two to three weeks in SoCal for about ~$20.
Thinking about the sheer numbers might help imagining the mechanics. 2 million pilgrims crowded into very specific places at or near Makkah that year. For reference, the population of Chicago is 2.7 million.
> Depression (and anxiety and other conditions) are all, for the majority of sufferers, treatable with lifestyle changes.

That's quite a broad generalization. It's also naive and dangerous. All depression can't be treated with lifestyle changes, just as you can't cure type 1 diabetes or cancer through lifestyle changes. That statement is one of the biggest problems for people with mental illness: the stigma from the uninformed that someone who is depressed is weak, and that should "just get over it".
The fix to "System.Drawing is not cross-platform" isn't just deleting it. It's to rewrite it so it is cross-platform.
Yea. Those were the same criteria I had. I commute about 90 miles a day. So even with cheap gas fuel efficiency is important to me.

Also I went with the Prius over the Volt mostly because the Volt has WORSE styling and less reliability.
If I'm not negatively affected in any way, why should I upgrade?

Also, how does a user who doesn't upgrade notice a change in wallpaper which doesn't take place until after the upgrade? By looking at someone else's desktop which is running the release version?

What if the user has changed to a custom wallpaper, and doesn't remember what the original wallpaper of the leaked OS looks like?
Searching the history to enforce the threefold repetition rule[1] wouldn't be efficient, but the fifty-move rule[2] could be pretty cheaply implemented (one cell of state for a counter, an increment-and-check per move, and resetting the counter to 0 on the relevant moves).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_repetition
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-move_rule
And sadly ^t doesn't do the Tenex function of a snapshot of sysstat for the current process.
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I lived in SV (specifically, in Sunnyvale) for a year, somewhere around 10 years ago. The rent was absurd, the stable job opportunities were crap, the apartment was laughable (and not in a safe part of the neighborhood), and the pay for a full time job in the QA industry (which took several months of doing temp work to get) was barely enough to live on from month to month.

I don't regret leaving. Moving to a small town in Montana (of course, we don't really have any big towns in Montana) gave me an immediate salary hike, lower rent, and a company which was willing to foster me up through the ranks to development. There have even been enough opportunities to switch jobs when I wanted harder work.

> What's, really, the upside of living in Palo Alto?

Good question.
They've had plenty of time to fix their problems. They have to have known about the issues for some time now, so them not having a bunch of extra time given to them is nothing to be sad about.
For a while now I've suspected that memory management on OS X is actually terrible. I have no really proof, because I just run everything memory intensive on Linux. At work I have a few Python script that eats a few gigabytes of memory, it reads in data, and basically just loops over it, selects the stuff it needs an generate a few XML file (10 to 20MB worth of XML).

All this takes maybe five minutes on Linux, on Mac OS X it will freeze the OS for long periods of time and take 40 minutes to run. In terms of hardware, the Linux box has less RAM, CPU and slower discs.

Regarding the Javascript stuff: Part of it may be that Chrome is the new Internet Explorer. People develop on and test for Chrome (because everyone uses Chrome, right?). Chrome does have the better Javascript engine, still, I believe that much of the slow Javascript on Firefox (an other browsers) could be avoided if people bothered testing a little more.
All of this "self exploration, cosmos consciousness, soul enlightenment" justification for using these drugs sounds to me like the promises of profit in Tim Ferris' 4 hour work week: 1) take drugs 2) ??? 3) Enlightenment. You know that Mt Fuji analogy whereby a hiker hikes to the top of Mt Fuji for enlightenment, choosing his path on the way? Well it seems to me like this people are looking for a quick helicopter ride to the top. And having used these drugs myself in the past, I was so stupid and naive to think that it would impart the wisdom that decades of life should give you. Idk to me this all seems like a bunch of bullshit.
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The one that gets the same gas mileage but has better styling would be the superior engineering achievement, so I'd choose that one. But now imagine a 3rd option that takes whatever advantages made that possible and puts them in the body with better aerodynamics: again I'd choose against style.
> We've seen a massive increase in tuition costs, far beyond inflation in recent years. Such is the result of artificially boosting demand for college on the backs of the taxpayer.

There's nothing recent about it. Tuition has been rising far beyond on inflation going back to at least the 1920s. Take Stanford. For each decade here is the factor tuition actually rose from that of 10 years earlier divided by the factor it would have risen by if it had only risen by the inflation rate:

1930 3.0
1940 1.4
1950 1.1
1960 1.2
1970 1.8
1980 1.2
1990 1.4
2000 1.3
2010 1.3

I've only worked this out for Stanford because they were the only school I was able to find tuition information on going back that far. It would be interesting to see numbers for other schools.
My observation is not applicable to C-levels and other people in positions of extreme power. It really only occurs when an org develops a middle-strata of management and executors with finely-cut responsibilities. Truly big companies.
It seems to me that distributing such videos would have far more in common with defamation than with the original abuse. Merely having or watching them... is probably bad and wrong but not something that ought to actually be legally punishable.
The family unit has been anything but since the industrial age.

For ~99% of human history, families lived, learned, and worked closely together.

As of late, the opposite is now true. How can parents provide adequate love and bonding to their children when they both spend the majority of their time separated from each other with strangers at school/work?
> I'm not sure I follow. My point is that if you're arguing that a DNS query is some kind of added complexity, then I have bad news for you, because DNS queries are already a part of all domain validation methods (whether it is email, HTTP, DNS, etc.)

We're talking about CA's issuing certs - DNS queries for email, http are outside of CA cert issuance.

> This has nothing to do with browsers. It's a mechanism to improve the CA domain validation process.

The browsers need to decide when to trust a cert - and if/when CAA becomes involved in cert issuance, then I suggest this DOES have something to do with browsers. Furthermore, you're suggesting co-existence between CA's that check CAA and CA's that don't - which implies that either the browser or user has to make a determination of whether to trust.

But we're talking past each other. So using your example, think of it like this, how will you as a user know when you visit github that another WoSign hasn't happened? ...or rather - how would a LAYPERSON know they are secure? Github might detect it - but how do ordinary USERS?

> If they had used CAA, and github.com had a CAA record indicating WoSign is not permitted to issue certificates for that domain, it's quite possible that the certificate would not have been issued.

that (wrongly) assumes ALL CA's trusted by EVERY browser will perform CAA check before issuing a cert for github.

> CAA is not a replacement for HPKP, and no one is arguing that. It's an useful defense-in-depth mechanism that could help prevent mis-issuance in many cases, but it's not (and never has been advertised as) a solution to the problem of a fully-compromised CA.

The problem is not so much "fully-compromised CA" as it is we're trusting a whole pile of CA's and not all them behave the same.

> you need access to the DNS in order to change (and bypass) CAA records, whereas you only need control over the web server in order to obtain a certificate that can be used to ransom a domain

Any attacker that can gain access to web site admin credentials can also get the DNS credentials.

> CAA is not a replacement for HPKP, and no one is arguing that. It's an useful defense-in-depth mechanism that could help prevent mis-issuance in many cases

You're using defense-in-depth again. Replace "-in-depth" with "-added-complexity". Here's a directly relevant example - HPKP arose from deficiencies in static pinning - which arose from deficiencies of CA/SSL ecosystem - which arose from deficiencies of plaintext traffic. It's not adding security "-in-depth" when all you're doing is resolving deficiencies in existing deployed solutions. The "depth" is single-level, not multiple.
You need to type one ~ per session level toy want to reach and terminate. In your example, type ~~. to terminate the inner session, leaving the outer one live.
Sorry, it's very-very complicated to get it working without javascript.
>>I've found Firefox performance to be absolutely awful at work on OS X.

Safari is the only logical choice on OS X laptops, at least. Everything else just eats up the battery like crazy.
Since the introduction of ES2015, JavaScript has actually been a really nice language to work with. It's been really well implemented and optimized by browsers lately. So I don't really see a good reason to switch languages suddenly. That being said you'll probably be able to compile and run all sorts of languages for the web with WebAssembly in the near future.
It works fine for me -- I have Javascript disabled by default :P
The reason we choose for digital nomads as our target audience has multiple reasons.

The first reason is we feel that side projects have a better chance when you team up with someone like you. We experienced that people with regular day jobs have a totally different schedule and lifestyle. When you want to start a side project you need someone who understands the life of a digital nomad.

The second reason is that we need to separate us from our competitors. The idea certainly isn’t new and thus we need to target a niche market which for us is digital nomads.
Microsoft is building their own new desktop apps on Electron. That tells you all you need to know.
While I don't doubt the psychological benefits of ayahuasca (or any hallucinogenic), the language of many of those advocating in the article set off red flags. "Format your harddrive", reminds of Arch Oboler's "Society of the Cosmos", something dreamed up by Evangelical hucksters who didn't see a future in peddling Jesus so they turned to techno speak to wring out the marks.

"We manifest abundance wherever we go," sounds even worse. That's the kind of reason Dominionist give when trying to dodge their car taxes.

What did Hunter Thompson say about the seekers who tried to buy enlightenment by the dose?

Instead the real benefit is trying to rationally understand their experience. "Wait, was there a giant hand with my dad's watch on it's wrist crushing the room? Damn, I didn't realize I was letting that take over my life."

Without that personal insight you are just dealing with pseudo-spiritual abstractions.
I agree that Prop 13 is destructive and an unfair wealth transfer from the young and new residents to the house owners with seniority.

On the other hand, the only meaningful macro effect it can have is to reduce liquidity and moderately buoy prices.

A family can't upgrade to a larger house without incurring the increase, so they don't move. A family receives a better job offer... but the commute will be too far so they don't accept it. A family wants to move, but they demand a premium to sell to cover their increase of property taxes.

On the other end, a family buys a house that is far too expensive than reasonable (6x income) but does this with the expectation that their frozen property tax rate will not scale with their income and their property value. Families that aren't willing to accept this default risk miss out on being able to purchase in that area.

Both of these effects are bad but I think it only partially explains the differential between house prices and annual incomes. I assert the overarching reason is scarcity due to geographical constraints and insufficient development. If Prop 13 were a primary factor, we would see high house prices in the Central Valley and near Joshua Tree.
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Despite saying,

"I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world."

He contributed a lot of practical findings in math. The Hardy-Weinberg principle[0] comes to mind...

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Weinberg_princip...
I once saw a reddit comment that explained it really, really well: https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3pcvfb/saudi_arab...
I'm not the parent, but the new Pokemon game has been amazing for me. I'm 28 and single though. So obviously the target market. I've done more walking since the game came out than I had done in years. I've seen a lot of nature too. I found an owl in the park near my house. It was so close I could almost reach out and touch it.

In the context of the article, Kaphan is talking about technologies that isolate versus technologies that connect people. For the examples he gives:

1 seems to be neutral to me (people talking robotically to voice recognition systems). This is neither isolating nor connecting. It is just a different means of interfacing with a computer. I'm sure someone somewhere made a similar argument when the typewriter was invented.

1 seems isolating. Looking at your phone instead of being mentally present at your current location can be isolating. But then it depends on what you are doing. If you are participating in a text message communication, that's connecting you to someone else while isolating you from the physical world.

But Pokemon seems like it falls in the "connecting" category. I have something new in common with random strangers that we can discuss. I go out with my friends to play the game. The downside for some people seems to be that I am now physically present connecting with them and they would really rather I didn't. They liked the park empty and quiet.

Of course there are the incidents of people playing while driving or the one guy who walked off a cliff that one time (99% of the articles I've read slamming Pokemon Go mention the same 3 Reddit posts without attribution). But for me personally, I'm more present and walking around when I play Pokemon than I am when I'm posting on HN.
Indeed. This is not a toy drug. This is heavy-duty.

I wonder if there is maybe something simple, medically, that can be done by a 'non pro' - like - if there are specific and identifiable symptoms - 'take this pill' which has a neutralizing or softening effect or something. Hopefully something safe and natural. Maybe even something like 'drink caffeine and eat something fatty' - or whatever might work that's easy and accessible.
working on a similar project, too. github.com/lez/societybuilder (deployed at jovilag.net). Sorry for not being english just yet.

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To kill the inner one you need to escape it: ~~.
~? displays the supported escape sequences.
> a modal dialog box pops up about subscribing to the newsletter

I was wondering why I had the site marked as untrusted to execute javascript. That answers that.
For me, the issue is that intellectuals, futurists, etc constantly downplay the crucial cultural role that cars play as part of our identity in America.

America has really shitty public transit, so on average, you're driving (or being driven) somewhere and seeing other people driving.

America is also a place that encourages and celebrates individuality (for better or worse). At the same time, it's a country of sub-cultures and mixed cultural identities.

So you get people buying cars that they think fit their personal identity and their sub culture.

Prius(i?) were a statement for the conscious movement, but it's damning that Toyota never pushed the bar further and explored (until recently) other cultural identity vehicles as eco-conscious (like Tacomas, imagine how awesome that would be!).

tl;dr - cars are critical to American culture, and not just as practical tools for moving around. Even if you think you buy a prius because you "don't care" - that unto itself is a cultural and style decision you are making to express yourself. Hoodies forever.

side rant:
Why Tesla is the only car company to make an electric (or even hybrid) that doesn't look like vanilla boring practical dogshit is beyond me.
>You might want to try Firefox's built-in Web Console

Maybe it's a personal thing, but I much prefer the built in developer tools on Firefox to that of Chrome.
Found this pretty informative answer to one of the questions I had (mainly, whether Zika had always been this bad, or had mutated in some way to make it worse).

http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/42891/did-the-zik...

TLDR: It's likely it's spreading so quickly because there's no natural resistance in the areas where there have been outbreaks, though this isn't proven.
They charge extra, because making it open-access prevents them from charging readers as they would normally do.
This needs to be reinforced. Go look at Fortune's list of the world's most valuable companies. Those that are American are all located with a one-hour drive.

I live near a ton of Apple executives. They have moved here from all over the world. Simply put, if you want to work at (for example) Apple and have a significant position in the company, you must be here. Must.
There are two situations where I'd start another project in Node.js:

1) there's an unusual amount of logic shared between browser and server

2) a web layer needs to be isomorphic

Node hits a sweet spot for these, but it's not my choice any more for non-web servers like the micro-services that back up mobile and single page apps.

I abandon Node.js after a first project years ago because of the callback soup. I came back when promises promised an alternative. Now I run into situations where promises cascade up from a few async calls and affect every API built on top of them. Perhaps async/await will improve the situation.

I'm curious where Node.js fits for other people.
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The problem is that people don't stop immediately. You stop, the person behind you stops just a little bit later, the person behind them a little bit later than that. As you're walking the gaps in between people shrink. Finally the person in front of you stops, you try to stop but the person behind you is close and bumps in to you a bit as you try to stop, you bump the person ahead of you who has stopped because they can't move forward, which squeezes the person ahead of him. Repeat for thousands of people and you have a collection of tiny small bumps and pushes that squeeze people to the point of death.