skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is absolutely true. Your car, clothing, computers and gadgets, and most of your groceries will be a lower percentage of your discretionary income in the Bay Area than in most other places. Your housing and gasoline will cost more, and maybe your car insurance.

However, the caveat is that housing is so expensive here that it's difficult to save up for a down payment on any kind of housing on a single engineer's salary. A 20% down payment on pretty much anything is more than $100k, and even a highly paid engineer will need a long time to save up that kind of money while also paying high rent. An 80/10/10 mortgage or some kind of mortgage with PMI is easier to achieve, but those have significant drawbacks.

So, if you have significant cash savings, or a home somewhere else you can sell, you can achieve home ownership in the Bay Area (but it will probably be a smaller home than the one you have now). If you don't aspire to home ownership, you'll be fine too -- a software engineer with an average salary can afford to pay rent here, and people who say otherwise are simply incorrect. But if you are just starting your career and move to the Bay Area planning to buy a home anytime soon, you're going to be disappointed.

Given that many people predicate their quality of life on home ownership, that's a pretty big caveat.
I just don't want you to get the wrong impression. This is a single paper about a technique for adding neurons to ANNs over time, and it is only one of many over the last few decades. The paper does not have the evidence to indicate that this is a major breakthrough. The industry as a whole generally does not add neurons to an existing model when updating that model. The vast majority of applications also use backpropagation for training, which is not what our brains use. So even if we ignore the implementation on CPUs, ANNs are still far from behaving similarly, even in a conceptual way, from brains. I must disagree that "we are getting so many achievements out from mimicking nature".
That "glue" can be Android's Databinding library. I've used it to bind ViewModel data to views. Works really well.
> In less than eight months, four engineers who had never written production Java code, let alone production Android code, shipped a 1.0.

Wow. That's pretty impressive
I'm sorry. that sucks. That's just stupid. I could see employers requiring you to use their password manager, but ugh, not allowing use of one is just gross.

That said, lastpass can work without any modifications to your local machine(i.e. it can work without any browser plugins even) tho it's not very fabulously integrated, it does work... Assuming of course they don't block access to the lastpass website and JS.
Wouldn't we be seeing "hot spots" in darker northern climates and trouble-free zones in sunnier southern locations?

The most compelling linkages I have seen are to certain pesticide / herbicide exposures and pollution exposures.
Third world countries don't have the liberty to make choices based on their perceived good-ness - they can't choose renewable energy sources based purely on the fact that they are better for the environment. They kinda sorta had to go down that road of fossil fuels because economics is crucial. I think that if there were a breakthrough that made renewables vastly cheaper than coal, India would be the first country to adopt the new tech.
From reading the commands, the cells were never even executed.
Ask HN: Key things to know before hiring a PR agency?
Our collaboration tool started getting traction in education, so I'm thinking of hiring professional PR for the first time to speed up adoption an attract more users.

Getting good reviews by notable web sites had the most significant impact for bumping up active users in the past, but we've not been able to get any new significant reviews for a while, despite a lot of interesting development. I blame this mostly on me not knowing how to manage the relationship with journalists or not knowing how to package/sell the news to them, hence the idea to experiment with a professional service. Education as a market is particularly challenging as it's outside our area of expertise, so we lack contacts and knowing how to tell a good story, but seems to be an area of a lot of promising potential for growth according to our user stats.

I've never hired a PR agency before, so I wouldn't know what to look for/what are the most common tricks and pitfalls. If you've had success using a PR agency before to generate buzz around your product, what are the key things to look for?
I don't see the point in wrapping the data in all that ascii art noise, will make it harder to script with.
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Not necessarily. Alaska's onboard product is dated, but my experience has been excellent customer service on the ground, and friendly crews in the air.

Something I recently learned - Alaska's flight attendant contract has the lowest duty period in the industry (10.5 hours a day), and in general has better terms than the legacies. I didn't know that until a couple of weeks ago when I read it in a Flyertalk thread, but I wasn't surprised given that Alaska FAs seem happier than their legacy counterparts. VX has that same solid core customer service.
I think all it would take is Gmail adopting it to start a chain reaction, and Gmail adoption actually seems somewhat plausible to me. Google has a habit of implementing things aimed a bit more at power users (while also omitting things that a a bit more middle-of-the-road). I could totally see some internal project that does this for Gmail making it to the public.
I missed it at first too, and started thinking: "I guess she has no hands maybe...?" Then I realized I'm an idiot.
> username: rememberlenny

What about Lenny? You aren't referring to "Lennie" from Of Mice and Men, are you?
Totally fair point. CA state income tax may take an additional 13% out of the Bay Area numbers. I'm adding this into the post now... Thanks for pointing this out!
Investors diversify their portfolios by investing in a number of startups and also in more reliable investments like well-established companies. You can't treat a job that way - there's no way to diversify the hours of day into several different companies with different risk levels. What the author describes is gambling. You bet all your resources (time, in this case) on one horse and hope it pays off big. That's not a good strategy. If you want to "invest in startups", then do that. Use Republic or start a VC. Don't gamble on a single startup and lie to yourself that it's an investment - treat it as a gamble, and only bet as much as you can afford.
If you read any of the pieces discussing the late Thomas Schelling's contribution to game theory, you know that making a pledge to do X if Y occurs is a perfectly sound strategy to discourage Y from happening.
I'm aware of it, but last I checked it didn't seem production-ready and lacked features. I believe they updated it at some point, but other than some talk at Google IO not much came out of it - even the docs didn't reflect it back then. Perhaps it's up to the task now, I admit I'm not looking it up regularly.
I disagree. I'll be surprised if any electronic voting system matches the integrity, performance, scalability, feature set of the Australian Ballot, of paper ballots cast at polls sites counted when the polls close.

Your jurisdiction's voter registration database is (hopefully) up to date. YMMV. Note that verified reports of registration fraud are very, very few. Whereas caging, purging are fairly common.

Briefly, On election day: voter shows up to correct poll site, shows some kind of ID (YMMV), name found in that location's poll book, voter signs in, ballot is issued, voter marks ballot, voter casts ballot. If there's any error (question) during this process, voter is issued a provisional ballot, to be adjudicated out of band.

Ballots are counted before the polls open and again when the polls close. The bookkeeping is simple and easily verified.

Everything is bundled in tamper evident seals, observed and signed by members of opposing parties, physically escorted by opposing members, etc.
I never understood this mindset here, maybe because we didn't have it in Houston where I grew up before moving out to the Bay Area for an engineering job. I found a nice small but profitable company and am quite cozy here, but people are always telling me I need to do the 2 year startup hop. It seems like gambling to me - 2 years of my life again and again in the hopes I'll strike gold? I'd rather slowly and steadily squirrel away savings and grow my 401k and other investments while actually enjoying my work.
> None of the data can be decrypted on foreign ground no matter what the authorities demand.

You may have trouble convincing the local authorities of this. In some circumstances, it may be better to be able to provide a decryption key so they can review your photos and leave your kneecaps alone.
CompCert took painstaking work by many world experts, it was certainly not some heroic one-man effort by Xavier.
Yeah, but it's not like 'Winter is Coming' was a completely uncommon phrase before Game of Thrones existed, it just blew it up so that most people assume you're making a Game of Thrones reference now.

What if some show took something like 'Her life is in your hands' and made it so popular that most people assume you're referencing that show when you do? Would they be able to do cease and desists because of it?

By the way, add 'dude' to the above phrase and it's already a popular Big Lebowski quote.
Ah ha, we're starting from different assumptions. Makes sense now, thank you!
Yes. Adoption never waned, only implementation. Not as hip an monitizable as social buttons. Therefore less pressure on devs to support it. Find a way to push ads, and watch it take off again.
Manufacturing jobs are returning to some places. But these jobs are different
Sometimes dumb-sounding ideas actually work. Pollution is a serious problem for many cities, so it's sensible to at least consider whether this idea might actually have merit. Even if the answer is no, at least those of us who read the article and comments here have perhaps a better understanding of the problem.
That's only true if your compiler actually outputs a modulus instruction when it sees you doing N % pow2. It really should optimize that into N & (pow2-1) for you, so whether you write the & or the % it will end up running the cheap & version.
"I'm not certain this has been thought through sufficiently."

150 documentary filmmakers are requesting it, so I tend to believe they've thought through the alternatives and settled on this request as the most feasible, flexible, and worthwhile.
Oh yes. If we want to put a bigger one on the list, then there's the whole matter of vast quantities of circumstantial data being left out by ANNs (sight, sound, past memories, emotions, arousal, touch sensations, etc.). But lists like this can go on for very long.
It all depends on your own situation.

I, myself, moved from the Midwest to a very high COL East Coast city 7 or 8 years ago. My salary has pretty much doubled, though I imagine at this point it is about $40K more than I could get back home.

But I live very frugally, and I have saved a lot of money. The plan is to soon get out of here and buy a nice place somewhere cheaper (South or Midwest) with cash and not worry about making the same salary.

OTOH, I think many people end up losing out financially in places like NYC and SF. If your salary is only $40K more than it would be in Omaha, after taxes, you're probably looking at only $30K. If you rent a typical corporate apartment, you're probably now underwater.

I think we're going to start seeing more and more people refusing to move to SF, NYC, and DC if salaries don't allow similar lifestyles as $20K less in middle America.
most of the android/ios devices that are out there have had this capability for many years. Typical resolutions of 16 - 41 megapixel are common today. Why not use these cameras?
Yes, thank you. We've added "successfully".
Further, our first past the post election voting system is especially brittle AND the window for detecting and correcting errors is very small.
It'd be interesting to see if there's a seasonal correlation here - since most of our vitamin D comes from the sun, expectant moms are probably more deficient in the winter. Wonder if third trimester during those months, when there's rapid neurogenesis, leads to an even higher incidence of these traits.
> My threshold for what is safe is irrelevant

>> There is ample space to fly right up to my door step without ever coming close to any person or vehicle

You used your threshold for safety as the basis of your argument.

> what makes you think every possible item to be delivered would need to be accounted for in modeling a service like this?

I think this because I highly doubt Amazon wants to make the move to drone delivery in order to move potato chips, or single video games, or movies which cost at most 70 bucks. The aim to automate delivery as a whole through drones, not automating special cases. We're not talking about a set of weights here. I gave the example of a single blu-ray player, which is a reasonable item for delivery.

Even if you want to stay with your special case, dropping items from 20ft in the air, or lowering a drone with spinning propellers to street level, in a city is a issue. Companies don't like potential liability.
So, I guess you would agree that the "ignorant" scientists on this wiki page all base their disagreements on their conservative political beliefs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_th...

> It's ludicrous to think that I could hold a "healthy skepticism" on the efficacy of heart transplants when I don't know the first thing about human anatomy, biology or medicine, but this is exactly what is happening with an equally complex scientific issue.

I also find it interesting you speak of the complex nature of the study of climate change yet make the blanket statement that anyone who disagrees is an ignorant person. I would be correct in assuming you are a scientist that has studied climate change?

> I will treat an informed dissent respectfully

And therein lies the problem. You assume every person who 1) disagrees with any part of climate change and 2) holds politically conservative views are too ignorant to form their own opinions based on their own self study. You assume they are a bunch of low IQ ignorant hicks that can't think for themselves and must rely on big evil corporations to feed them their climate change arguments.

Yes, that's very respectful :)
No, I meant in addition; if you want it to be used widely, a few tweaks (if that?) and you could make a Django version (Django already supports the feature, it just uses a short (1000) wordlist by default).

So https://github.com/timboss/Django-Common-Password-Validation is just a a longer (10,000) wordlist, for example. If nothing else, it makes what you worked on more discoverable.
This is a really great example of how to do it right when it comes to Swift, MVVM, Reactive Cocoa, Testing, CI etc. Lovely code and architecture!
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Again, gross ignorance about India and its people. This is probably modern day version of imperialist "Indians are ignorant heathens we need to show them the light".

Indians actually don't care about climate change and global warming and will not care for a long time to come. This is an exclusively first world problem.
I skimmed through the posts but apart from the website that uses Django and marketing that needs analytics, it's not clear how you use tech?

I was hoping there would be insights or code on the "inputs/outcomes" seen on the title

I'm doing http://outcomereference.com/ so i'm esp. interested in this
Those exist https://store.nikon.co.uk/accessories-accessories-for-dslr-c...
I wonder if they've considered using something like React Native or Xamarin so they can share some of that functional-style code between the two platforms.
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That's so cool. Unfortunately for me, the one time I could have used something like this, I was working on an embedded system with no mmap / virtual memory.
If you plan on buying a home it is worth considering the future when you decide to (semi?) retire from Corporate and sell the kid-raising home.

Cashing out in Arkansas means you can move to ... a cheaper part of Arkansas. Cashing out in Silicon Valley means you can go about anywhere.
Not at all, I'm pointing out an alternative source, nor am I "taking a dump" on him. I phrased it quite tactfully I thought.

If you want to be a fragile zealot, afraid of alternative sources which I asked if you had read, go ahead.

In fact at the cost of worshiping one person as "the creator/first" of something we have the loss to history of the role the engineers at Commodore played. That's why it's important to question this stuff.
Xamarin has some pretty sweet tools (Inspector, Profiler) that are only available for Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers.

This is a bummer because things like this live coding add-in require installation of the Inspector, which adds some magic to every build to facilitate dynamic assemblies: https://github.com/praeclarum/Continuous

The Xamarin Workbooks thingy appears to offer an IPython notebook experience (a chance to reduce edit/build/test cycle for prototypes); not sure if it's headed for Enterprise-only or not:

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/workbook...
Vacations are already being soiled by people driving loud vehicles in areas of natural beauty, now we get to have our day-to-day countryside soiled by fleets of cars and trucks delivering popcorn.
20 million dollars does not go a long way as far as civic infrastructure goes. Someone farther up pointed out that this is equates to $2 per person per year. Someone else pointed out that the fuel cost of jet engines is around a quarter of what the parent comment estimated. So, all in all, I'd say it's a somewhat reasonable approach.
Cool! Interested to see your take on it!
Totally unrelated. Totally. Pure coincidence. Really. ;-)

https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o
You're spot on with the issues you mentioned.

The issue I thought about was who is going to be the one housing the centralized database. Would it be governments? Private corporations? Mixture of both? It's not clear what's the best option. Not everyone trusts the government to have all that information and not everyone trusts private corporations either.
There's a huge difference in quality between a $200 smartphone and a $6,000 high end DSLR camera.
No-one would be opposed to "taking better care of the place we live". This is a strong indication that this is not an honest way to frame the dispute.

Cuts in emissions (e.g., the 80% cuts the EU is pushing for) will require major cuts in energy usage. We know what a low-energy economy looks like - it looks like a pre-industrial economy. We might not need to go back to the middle ages, but we'd need to reverse many advances of the industrial revolution.

In contrast, we're facing a maximum of 59cm of sea level rise by 2100. (IPCC estimate). That's not desirable but it is manageable - at least if we maintain our technological, industrial civilisation.
I can't help but reference https://xkcd.com/795/
For what it's worth, Seymour Cray's Control Data 6600 implemented ring buffers for I/O channels correctly in hardware using gumdrop-sized single transistors in 1963. This is not exactly a new technology.
> At Triplebyte, we help engineers around the country (and world) get jobs at top Bay Area companies

I admit that I stopped reading at this point. Maybe I read that wrong and they meant "in addition to other areas", but from the way it's written it sounds like a conflict of interest. It's going to be difficult to make an objective assessment of the pros and cons of living in the Bay Area if your business depends on people wanting to live in the Bay Area.
No, Vitamin D supplements are cheap and plentiful.
Ask HN: Does anyone else have problems with Instagram API OAuth2?
Ah, I think I found the problem:

If your goal is to maximize your financial outcome

No, actually, my goal is to have an awesome life. More money can certainly help enable more awesomeness, but it is a means and not an end.
Too far indeed. Please don't include these things in your comments here, they violate the guidelines for being uncivil.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The title should be "Italian doctors graft kidney to splenic vasculature, sacrificing immune function for intra-abdominal real estate".
Are you aware of https://ia.net/writer ? It is a markdown text-editor for MacOS & iOS that many people seem to enjoy.
There are sections of this that overlap with how I treat meetings, but overall it seems like a bunch of verbal fluff that's the opposite of what a meeting should be. Exceedingly clear, short, and purposeful.

I learned a more pragmatic, even meeting-hostile approach to meetings: http://hackaday.com/2016/10/06/life-on-contract-how-to-have-...
Currently I'm seeing a lot of 400 errors: "Matching code was not found or was already used."
> I mean, how much do you figure flooding New York permanently would cost?

I honestly don't know the answer; I never said or implied that I did: I just noted the questions we have to answer to make a rational — rather than an emotional — decision.

> Hurricane Sandy cost billions of dollars.

True, but an awful lot of that was repair, wasn't it? If you abandon something, you don't need to spend money fixing it first. There would certainly be huge costs in losing New York City, but there would be some benefits too. And, again, taking the measures needed to not-lose-New-York isn't free: there are costs associated with that course of action.

It truly boggles my mind that so many folks here think that, 'something must be done; this is something; this must be done!' is valid when applied to climate change, when we would all recognise it as invalid in a software-development context.
> What else does it mean for something to have the ability to decide?

Is there any evidence for free will? Or maybe actual free will vs perceived free will is meaningless.
Arkansas and other places where land is effectively free work differently than California. You buy a starter home straight out of college, maybe you improve it, it'll probably increase in value marginally over the next 5 to 7 years. Then you sell it and put what you've "earned" into your next house.

My friends back in Oklahoma are on their third or fourth houses (we're all around 35) at this point.

In the Bay Area, you probably don't buy a house until you're 35. In fact, you have to get a bit lucky to be able to do it then.

Houses aren't retirement plans in most places. And I think that's good.
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I'm not above the occasional cheap shot.
> The Bay Area, with a large number of startups, is probably the best place to do this.

This is the bit I take issue with. I've done the whole startup thing, worked for 4 different companies in under 2 years, and it worked out great for me, but I did it in the Tennessee Valley, not Silicon Valley.

The Bay Area is not the only place with startup jobs. It's just the place with the biggest multi-national corporations still pretending to be startups.
I was surprised this wasn't being discussed here. Mods, could you revisit this?