skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seem to just be a frame for rainbowhunt.com ? Any reason why .club is better than .com, or is this a different user "cashing" in?
I know someone who bought a house near Seattle, and they've accepted that they're pretty much guaranteed to die if they're home at the time that it hits due to the home being built on a hill.
The salaries here do cover the higher cost of living, and if you are able to capitalize on the additional opportunities that are uniquely available here, you could end up doing much more than covering costs.

This conclusion is patently false. The article mentioned but failed to calculate California state income tax.

That $15k-33k salary differential is going to be eaten by at least $12k in California income taxes. That leaves $3-21k to cover the additional rent expenses which is $250 - $1750 per month. The difference in median rent is almost $1500 per month. The article itself already admits that Seattle is better if you wish to own rather than rent housing.

EDIT: The salaries at Microsoft (Redmond) are comparable to the salary figure for Google, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, and Uber. The salaries at Amazon are $5-10k lower but make up for the difference in stock.

I'm estimating stock and cash bonus to be 40% of salary (which is conservative for Google and Facebook, I think). California state income tax on $160k is $12k.
FWIW, I'd love to get rid of our car. I don't like fueling, insuring, maintaining, parking, or driving it. I'd rather use that time and money on something else. Cars are a lot of work if you take care of them.
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i don't know the Bay area, but can you maybe get a job at a company that has some parking spaces?
this is great! I like the ruby implementation.

I stopped working on an app in this space because encryption wasn't up to snuff; but I also needed to use powerful search, and could not figure out how to merge the two conceptually.

I would love to create software that people can use, and have absolutely nothing to do with their data; i just don't know how that's feasible when meshed with other technologies.
Yeah, same. I live in San Jose and feel 100% like you. I haven't even worked yet and only went to school here and I am already exhausted.

This is why I chose not to live here after graduation.
Here's the reality: fossil fuels will only be replaced by something that's more economical (assuming we don't run out, which doesn't seem close to happening). If renewables get to that point, we won't need regulation to get rid of fossil fuels. It'll happen automatically.
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> There are constraints in the form of probabilities, so it's not like anything can happen at any time. But what actually happens, it's spontaneous, un-caused.

Ah, your problem is that you only seem to be aware of the Copenhagen interpretation. There are other interpretations available that work just as well, but don't have anything as inconvenient as nondeterminism.

> This is a vast area of research that has spanned decades and yielded very little in the way of solutions.

No, you are wrong here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einselection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_collapse_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation
Just use any David Attenborough documentary. There are several focused on different things depending on what you want
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It might be your specific location. It also might be a combination of "selection bias" -- people tend to be friends with people who are like them in some way -- and psychological filtering where you just don't see anything else for some reason.

I remember reading a piece about alcoholism where it was describing an alcoholic who concluded that everyone drinks a great deal and just doesn't admit it because that was what their social circle was like. I rarely drink alcohol and have known plenty of people like me, so, no, not everyone drinks.

Most people suffer confirmation bias. We look for confirmation of what we believe to be true about a thing. It is unusual for someone to actively seek more objective data and try to determine what the actual truth is. Most of us default to trying to fit the world to our preconceived notions of it.
I have already blacklisted SF, SV, and NYC for cost of living reasons, DC for typical job quality, and Chicago and Detroit for corrupt and bankrupt local government. The spouse has blacklisted St. Louis for arguably insane reasons, but it's out of bounds nonetheless.

That leaves plenty of places to live, but not very many that are well known for having a lot of good software jobs.

I don't really want to live in a broom closet with 3 other people that already get on my nerves in the space we're in now. It doesn't matter if you are willing to pay me more if I can't maintain the same standard of living on that.
I recently came across an article discussing the relationship between vitamin D, K, A, magnesium, and calcium levels. I can't vouch for it's accuracy but it does provide a number of references if you want to go further down the rabbit hole.

[1] http://www.precisionnutrition.com/stop-vitamin-d
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"The Bay Area in the early 21st century has produced an astounding number of successful tech companies. Uber was valued at $60 million in 2011 and at around $68 billion in late 2015 [1]; Stripe at around $500 million in 2012 and $9 billion during its most recent funding round; and Twitch at just under $99 million in September 2013, before Amazon acquired it for $970 million less than a year later."

^^^ Is not a selling point. Those are anomalies. How about the hundreds of other companies that are going under consistently everyday in the bay area. If I want to work for startups why would I not move to some where like Austin Tx? Get good experience, have a reduced cost of living, and have no state income tax?
How would this be better than just using stem cells?
Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal
Baseline United service is deplorable. But they've become quite clever at providing better variants for people who fly them a lot. It's almost like being a party member in the old Soviet Union. You get the equivalent of your own, better-stocked stores, etc.

The private United lounges are quite nice. Tasty buffets and excellent coffee machines, at no additional cost. Lots of space and outlets to get some work done. Plus the staff at those lounges have access to all sorts of better tools to get you re-routed, improve your seat, etc.

I'm a mere MileagePlus Silver foot-soldier in their world. But the United Explorer credit card gets me a couple lounge passes a year. On occasions when weather has disrupted my intended flights, the Lounge Wizards have managed to get me astonishingly better arrangements, just because they can.
It depends. If you're just starting out, it could make sense to move to the Bay Area to work for a big name company that will teach you a lot and make you look better on paper. You'll even get a higher salary to use as slight leverage when you decide to work in a different city. Yes, rent in the bay is expensive. But, at least a lot of things will cost the same. An Apple product will cost the same whether you live in the midwest or the bay. A vacation will also cost the same no matter where you live. Just a different perspective of looking at this argument.
Hear-hear on "there's more to life than money", but would still argue many of the things you list ("weather, local arts, music, culture") can be quantified to far larger extent than most bother.

Here's one attempt, as an appropriate illustration for the Bay Area: https://teleport.org/cities/san-francisco-bay-area/
(skip the top for startups, worst for housing and unfold the leisure, culture and tolerance categories, for example).
Finally, we get hot exit. :)
"As a side note, if joining Amazon, go to AWS. If joining Facebook, go to the AI lab or Oculus. If joining Alphabet, go to DeepMind."

I wonder who their target audience is - CS PhD from a top 5 school?
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Locomore crowfunding: Frankfurt-Hannover-Berlin
One hundred thousand is just about a town over here. Best of luck from my small crowded island.
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/DB-Alternative-Locom...
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I really like the improvements to the settings system. It's a lot easier to use now while still keeping it a simple json file!

Also, I did not know how much I needed Zen mode in my life.
It really depends on what you want to do. If programming is programming and programming is just a job, then you can do that anywhere there are programming jobs, and with so many companies offering remote work, that could be anywhere.

But if programming is what you intend to bring as a founder - if it's simply a means to get the burning ideas out of your head and into a product, then there's a much smaller number of places where that will work: San Francisco, Seattle, New York. You need to be able to have coffee with a VC, meet with multiple co-founder options, do a tech meetup and also spend a sizable chunk of the day coding.

If you live near a small city, working that way is an impossibility. You'd have to go to the nearest big city to find that type of collaboration, and the trip will burn through all your coding time, and you still won't have the kind of quality selection that you'd get in NY or SF.

As you say, hacking the rent-salary ratio, which is what the article is about, should be a much smaller factor in how you decide where to live.
See also:

* https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/san-francisco

* https://teleport.org/cities/san-francisco-bay-area/

* https://nomadlist.com/san-francisco-ca-united-states/scores
Ah, I see what you mean now -- yeah, if you simply don't work in the domain of dependent type theory but instead choose something more suitable, then it's not a problem, c.f. why I mentioned DTs still suffer from problems like equality being hairy. Not every approach is so unlucky. :) I thought you meant more generally in "general mathematics" where it does seem in some cases equality is kind of hazy, so I sort of misinterpreted.

> True, but the need for higher-order mathematics in the modeling of computation in the first place originates with the choice of functions as models of computation... But perhaps I'm being unfair. While functions are not a very good abstraction for reasoning about computation, they are a very useful programming abstraction, and for end-to-end verification you must reason at the programming language level (although there may be better ways of doing that, too).

I kind of left "higher order mathematics" a bit vague... Personally in all the proofs, etc I've needed you don't need to go as far as talking about topological spaces or n-categories or whatever, which is what I'd consider "higher order", but this is the space where a lot of the focus on wrangling equality, etc seems to come from, which is what I was getting at. Then again, most people using Coq heavily are probably exactly the people who care about this. :) I'm not one of those people, I just like programming.

And personally I find the choice of functions, etc as a notion of computation quite powerful, even if it gets hairy sometimes! I suppose you could call it pidgeon-holing or laziness, but I tend to get a lot of insight from viewing mathematics from a computational, constructive point of view like this. I more use it as a "bridge" to get places rather than an overarching view of mathematics, I suppose, and I think it's quite useful at that (e.g. recently I found that I like the view of quotients in the computational, type-theoretic view rather than the 'quotients' of non-type-theory where you're really talking about partitions and equivalence classes, etc)... This is also probably partially due to the fact I've spent the majority of my programming career with systems like Haskell. So I'm fairly comfortable with "computational mathematics" from this POV.
"Time Boxed" needs to mean boxed on both ends. If a meeting is scheduled to start at 2:00, it starts at 2:00. Not 2:05, not when the last person wanders in, and not when the organizer figures out how to run the projector. The implied task there is that any setup should be done prior to the start time.

Nothing is more frustrating than company cultures which allow the "meetings never start on time, so I'll show up late" / "not everyone is here on time so I'll wait a few more minutes" death spiral. It's like a game of chicken to see who thinks their time is more valuable than everyone else's.
This is an interesting insight. What if we replace 20 sequential cars with a huge "road train" ala Australia - a tractor with multiple trailers?

The road train has no cushion (ignore the few inches in pintle hooks) so it brakes as a unit. And accelerates as a unit. Does that make it's recovery from shocks 20x as good as 20 cars?
You can MiTM a phone without people ever knowing. If police steal a camera they may as well take the key holder too.

It could just be stolen, but both cases would be helped by uploading and deleting.
Err. I think he's just stressing physical security is the first line of defense and proposing a solution in a case where it is compromised. (Sure, if they can physically hold you, then they can hack into the server via your camera and delete uploaded pictures, but that's a harder task than breaking a locally secret based encryption)
And actually byte and octet aren't identical (octet is less technically ambiguous, since bytes aren't always 8 bits but octets are.)
Not necessarily. See the paper-based Rivest and Smith secure voting protocols:

http://rangevoting.org/RivSmiPRshort.html

http://rangevoting.org/RivSmiAnswers.html
If Trump lost all of MI,WI,PA by a fewer than 80K votes, I doubt any Democrat would consider a recount particularly outlandish - especially if he won the popular vote by close to 3M votes.

As for the leak, we may never know who released it. But I wouldn't put it past them. Some people spend their entire lives studying psyops and it may have been a gamble that paid off.
> It takes about 2 years to save up $100K on a typical Bay Area engineer's salary

Have you actually done this? Know anyone who has?
This seems completely implausible, outside of some extreme frugal lifestyle cases (I'm talking "eating garbage dumped by grocery stores" level frugal)...
"Of course, officer, I can show you the photos I took on this camera. No, I can't show you on the camera. You need to give me access to a computer and let me type stuff for awhile!"
I though vitamin D was produced via UVB rays? How would a lamp without UV allow the body to produce vitamin d?
> Second, and more importantly, when you have only autonomous vehicles on the road, you can make assumptions that all drivers are perfectly rational, and then your safety margins can be smaller, allowing closer travel at higher speeds.

Are you saying that a rational driver will never apply maximum braking?
I thought they were useless. Is there ANYTHING you people don't have wrong.
>> Put a thousand pre-known keys in a hat, one thousand people draw keys from a hat, the key is activated on the blockchain and points to a user-defined voting wallet. Now you have anonymous cryptographically verifiable voting with double spend protection

I just invented a scheme to anonymize votes in 5 minutes. I'm sure if smarter people tried we could definitively solve this. I'm not convinced this is hard as much as people are saying it's hard.
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Manifest destiny stems in part from a religious belief in American moral superiority and the necessity and morality of its expansionism and imperialism.

As a variant of that, I'm suggesting only what I've heard from (and grew up with) midwest American Christians, not least of which is language from the Vice President elect, and many other Republican elected officials: that god created the earth for man to use and consume however he wanted, and therefore there's no good reason to believe that humans can even screw up the planet, because that'd sortof be a bait and switch and god wouldn't do that to us. That man has superiority over all the plants and animals (as it says in the bible) means we can do with them as we will, there are no negatives to completely obliterating entire species, there's no meaningful consequence to that, man doesn't have the power to alter the earth in such a negative way that humanity becomes incompatible with the earth.

I think it's dangerous nonsense. However, I know people believe in this. Around 10 years ago the local paper asked readers if hell was real, and sinners go there to burn for eternity, and the majority of readers said yes. And so on.

So, you know, insane but also socially acceptable mythology. But these are also the same people who say they're sick of political correctness, but get all pissy when their dangerous beliefs are questioned. shrug
I would assume that the whole point of the project is to be able to do SQLish queries on a git repo, and that it was written by and for people who are familiar with SQL and have a preference for it over other query languages. And they probably do enjoy writing SQL statements on the command line, however uncommon that may or may not be.
That seems more true of small companies than large ones. Pet's.com style failure tends to be ridiculed, but failure at the early stages is viewed as reasonable experimentation.

IMO Theranos, get's all kind of hate in part because it scaled without a real product.
I'm stating to really get into containers. They make sense and can keep sane environments; keeping you away from dependency hell (at the expense of potential security issues if you don't have tools that regularly scan and tell you when packages within containers have security issues).

Unfortunately, the orchestration formats are all over the place. Kubernetes, DC/OS and Docker-compose all have their own json schema. DC/OS doesn't even support docker container volumes. Rancher can take docker-compose, and it looks like it can deploy those apps on K8s/DCOS, however I haven't messed with it enough to see if that actually works.

Rkt just adds even another container format. What once seemed like a nice one-stop isolated application that you could run anywhere is becoming more complicated and more tightly coupled to the underlying container engine and orchestration system you chose to use.
Then use an autonomous RV. As long as it keeps moving around, you don't have to pay for parking :)
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Every health plan has been doing this for years. They too have treasure troves of data... they have care coordinators, patient centered medical homes, etc. So, how are you actually trying to change the statistics?
Pebble apparently stiffing Kickstarter backers following sale to Fitbit
Of course, then they wouldn't be nearly as effective. Catching your attention is the hallmark of an effective ad, even if done in an underhanded way.
Sampling bias, I think
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Not everyone has the same experiences with the Bay Area - I live in the Valley and my commute is better than when I lived in DC (where even going < 2 miles to work took longer than it takes for me to go 7 miles by bus currently, even with direct routes in both cases), and I enjoy running/playing board games/hanging out with friends greatly.

For me, it's mostly been great.
A bit of a hodge-podge of books, but I always have a hard time turning down a good book deal.
How on earth do you accomplish that? Or, do you mean that you don't actually touch type on a real keyboard either?

I believe that my years of touch typing experience are the reason I hate typing on glass so much. I follow the text I'm writing and not the keys I'm pressing, so with no physical feedback about the locations of the keys, my text is an endless stream of aggravating typos requiring laborious correction.

I really miss my Blackberry. Every phone since has felt like the designers calculated the experience to be just one notch less annoying than the threshold at which I would actually pound the damn thing to bits with a sledgehammer.
DL4J vs. Torch vs. Theano vs. Caffe vs. TensorFlow
When I started my career I ended up in Austin, Texas. At the time, I didn’t know much about the place (and it was much smaller than now) but it really is a serious tech hub. Even at its current absurd rate of growth and increasing cost of living, it is more affordable than the Bay Area and has enough else going on that it isn’t an exclusively tech climate. Politically, Austin is like a blue bubble in a red state so it is more California-like in that sense too.
Folks have created Dragon-based voiced-sound vocabulary for editor control. Voice strain is an issue, but you can load share with typing.

You can do Google voice recognition in browser/WebVR, but it's better at sentences than brief commands.

Another component, largely unexplored, is hand controller motion. The Vive's are highly sensitive in position and angle. Millimeterish. So imagine swype text (phone keyboard continuous sliding) with 6 DOF. Plus the touchpad (the buttons aren't something you'd want to use all the time). Keyboard+pad is mature tech. But wands-with-pads look potentially competitive, and (not yet available) hand-mounted finger tracking added to keyboard+pad might make for a smooth transition. Plus voice. The space of steep-learning-curve input UIs for professionals looks intriguing.
Voting, blockchain, something something, tada.

Voting wallets? Assign crypto keys? You mean just like issuing a ballot? How would someone do a recount? An end-to-end audit? Keep track of who was assigned which key (thereby destroying the secret ballot)? Who voted and who didn't? How do you handle provisional ballots? Etc.

PM me once your proposal satisfies the requirements (works as a replacement) for current election administration systems.

Okay, maybe I'm being too dismissive, which I normally hate. But blockchains, crypto, signatures are not magical. Design the whole system, make it auditable while accounting for information leakage, simulate a few real world elections. Do the leg work, unlike Chaum, Rivet, others. THEN we can talk.
I don't know about that. I've done hundreds of hours of pair programming with Google Hangouts and usually it's pretty good.

Google Hangouts is decent for every type of sharing except "let another user control my computer directly".

I can press a button and usually within a few seconds I can see the chat recipient's screen on my end. Now I can watch his screen and we can pair with voice chat. I have my own screen to do occasional Googling and pasting info to chat if needed.

Basically I would find that far more efficient than unplugging my laptop, walking up to someone's office, plopping down, having to Google something while we pair, and now show him my laptop because there's no way to get it on his screen without duplicating the search work on his machine.
I don't see where elsewhere in the thread this is stated, especially not with references to studies on similar ideas. Destroying the atmosphere by messing with it on a large scale kills people over time - implementing a solution to the problem of creating smog in the first place kills nobody.

Perhaps this could be useful short term to prevent deaths now long enough to implement a better solution - but the fear is that it's not going to be short term at all.