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Supposedly this has already happened with offshore development, and yet, here we still are, paying top salaries for US developers in the midst of a tech shortage.

I worked at a 100% telecommute shop local to Chicago for 10 years. We also used offshore development firms on some projects, and I can tell you, if anyone ever seriously had the idea of replacing us with them, they were quickly dissuaded by the experience of working with these firms.
If you want to treat job selection like a long-term investment, you should be getting a consistently high-paying job at BigCo instead.
United is hands down the worst airline I've ever flown. American, Virgin, Alaska are much better. Even Delta.
Angry customers cry foul over futuristic 'medical tricorder' (Scanadu)
What are these magical alternative routes to space the author speaks of? Outside of the atmosphere, the only way to propel yourself is Newton's laws, and that implies a rocket.

In the context of Spacex's more recent successes in innovation, this reads a bit like those "computers will never be smaller than a gymnasium" thinkpieces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

Considering how broadly the federal government has interpreted this historically, arguably regulating far more than simple inter-state commerce, it seems like they could use this to outlaw this kind of activity.
Opt out usually happens when marketers remember that they need to scrub their lists.
Actually, it really seems equality has always been a bit hairy in mathematics, functional programming aside. It's just that trying to formalize it with constructive type theory sort of makes it much more clear how painful it is. :)

But I don't really mean that "equality is fundamentally hard to compute because of functional programming" or anything. Rather, it might be the other way around: we haven't given a computational meaning to equality, which is why it's all so bad! It's more about equality is ugly at the moment and this results in some of that incidental complexity that I was talking about. To get rid of that ugliness, adopting equality as a computational thing is powerful! The notions of equivalence vs equals vs isomorphic, etc seem to get weird over time, at least in this amateur's mind. And that's not even getting into the problem that you have to establish "equalities" independent of the theory, which is part of, if not the, whole problem (e.g. in set theory, "a equals b" only makes sense once you establish an outside rule for what "equals" means. In HoTT, "equals" is not defined independently of the theory at all -- its in the same universe, so equality is "computational" on its own, in the sense you can talk about equalities, pass them around, and establish equalities between equalities, etcetera. This leads to the notion of infinity-groupoids, univalence, etc)

Granted, it's not like the entire maths community is scrambling to fix this like the Manhattan project; but the notion of equality-being-hazy seems to be understood, even outside of functional formalisms. It seems to be more of a problem in higher order mathematics, too, which is where the majority of people who care about it work, it seems.

While homotopy type theory is the current en-vogue approach to solving the hairy problems of equality (among other things) since it unifies all this... actually adding a computational interpretation is still an open question. So one problem is solved and another pops up, just as usual...
How do I login to lastpass.com when I need my password to unlock my work computer to get to lastpass.com?
I'm no powershell guru, but I'm using posh-git [1]. Is it possible to chain commands using that tool?

https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git
Ok, cool (no pun intended) thanks. I'll watch it.
Not sure, this seems to encourage hotplugging which can damage AT and PS/2 keyboards or motherboards.

I think the real reason was:

if (err) {
puts(strerror(err));
puts("Press F1 to continue");
}
"Even with this dedication, the city’s population dropped 3.4 percent to 20,130 from April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2015, according to the Census Bureau."

UK: Twenty thousand people isn't even a town here, let alone a city. Am I being harsh in suggesting that this is basically rounding error? Isn't the dynamic towards urban (N*10^6 people with 1 < N < 10) concentration?
If I install a virus on your grandfathers computer and show him that his vote has been counted when it fact it wasn't, he will not be able to check that.
I feel that. It's easy to get carried away in an environment where social cues are so attenuated.
I agree with you, but only people who want to make big buck should move to the Bay Area. As you concluded later, money is not everything. I am young and about to finish school, but I am moving away from the Bay Area and even move to a different country. I do not care about the high salaries here, as I just do not like the lifestyle here. So, I'd say that the Bay Area is for people who do not mind having to work 24/7 (mind work, not physically being in the office 24/7). Mostly, this is people who love tech a lot and want to innovate all the time (start up people).

I for one care more about less stress, less inequality, etc. and decided that the Bay Area is not for me.
Ozone gaps were mostly restricted polar regions. But there was nothing restricting it there, it could in theory grow all the way to the Equator.
Can you keep your .git folder in git? :)
(I work at Clover)

As a 23 year old I'm not sure if this is any different than what big insurance co's do for their Medicare enrollees.

The difference is most insurers would say something like "OK, out of X thousand Medicare-age people, Y of them will have this expensive health problem over the next year, are we profitable when that happens?". We say "OK, how can we identify the people most at risk of that and use preventive care to head it off?" So while most insurers just take the statistics as a given and budget for it, we're trying to change the statistics.

storage and management of this tangential customer data

I think you vastly underestimate how much low-hanging fruit there is in this field, and how difficult getting and maintaining good data (so you can find the things you can do) really is :)
Docker open sources container runtime and management program containerd
> I have issue with the claim that Taylor was just beating up on inferior competition historically.

As you should - because, even if it's true, it's silly.

Jordan arrived at post-expansion NBA and his early dominance of the game can be directly attributed to that. But we don't downplay his achievements and skill because of that - we take them what they were - incredible for the era.

Taylor has won 216 professional tournaments - 84 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. Taylor won eight consecutive World Championships from 1995 to 2002 and reached 14 consecutive finals from 1994 to 2007.

We're not dealing with the 60s here in Taylor - we're dealing with a man that is currently dominant in the game. Not as much as he was but he's still the man to beat.

Van Gerwen is good - great even - but he's no Jordan yet. He's only been good for 2 years, let me know when it's been 10.
I did the math on this about 1.5 years ago and came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth it. I was, at the time, in a CTO-level position at a VC-funded startup and so had plenty of opportunities in the Bay, but in the end opted to live in a quiet country town about 2.5 hrs drive away and work from home in a lower-key role.

I have a 3yo kid and another on the way, and I do not regret my decision for one second, particularly when I hear horror stories from my stressed-out friends in SF/SJ. Also we can easily pay the mortgage on one salary and my wife is able to finish her PhD without us going into debt.

For us, it wasn't just about salary vs cost of living, but also about the stresses of big city life, competing for limited places in overtaxed childcare, sitting in traffic for hours every day, and being surrounded by other parents enduring the same tortures. No thanks.
Which leads to a funny observation -- I have never seen so many expensive German automobiles in cheap apartment complexes in my life. Driving elsewhere makes you wonder where all the fancy cars went.
> Scientists arguing that global warming is primarily caused by natural processes

I count eight people who seem to have worked in (broadly) related fields:

Timothy Ball, historical climatologist, and retired professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg
William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology
Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri
Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology at Carleton University in Canada.
Murry Salby, atmospheric scientist, former professor at Macquarie University and University of Colorado
Nir Shaviv, professor of physics focusing on astrophysics and climate science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roy Spencer, meteorologist; principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville
George H. Taylor, retired director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University

You could probably raid a single decent university and find more people working on understanding AGW better.

This is the equivalent of saying "Zoologist X Somebody in University of North Carolina said there's no link between smoking and lung cancer!", and keeping smoking while having a lung cancer while ignoring mountains of research, except that it's not your own lung this time.
I agree with your premise but I suspect your numbers are a bit off.

Regardless, whether it's 2 years or 3 years, to do the lifestyle you're suggesting takes and incredible amount of willpower to be willing to sacrifice and prioritize. It's passing up that cell phone upgrade. It's cutting discretionary spending to zero. It's passing on happy hour and bringing lunch every day.

While feasible, it's hard.. but suffering for two years to benefit for a decade. Quite possibly worth it.
They ordered a fire tv and popcorn. Of course it's a stunt!
This is the double slip knot, I think. I have recently started using it (the standard knot is going loose too fast the way I wear my shoes) and will never go back to the standard knot. Just so good.
Do you even know just how much it costs to run a power plant?

You need a few hundred (400-600) tons of coal per hour per one decently sized BLOCK (few hundred MW), usually power plants have several of those, sometimes a dozen or more, a few jet engines running at full blast its a big deal compared with a FUCKING POWER PLANT /rant

Also, none of the renewable energy sources are cheaper than coal, especially when you look at the bigger picture (mostly unutilised capacity, grid overbuild requirements, volatility)
Would they cover it if you did have symptoms? If so, here are some vague symptoms to "have" for your doctor: difficulty thinking clearly, bone pain, unexplained fatigue.
Well, their entire goal was to determine whether or not it was affordable/made financial sense.. But as a fellow bay area resident, I can't disagree with you on quality of life.

Holy crap, direct flights are critical. My family lives in San Diego now, and they have to multi-hop to go ANYWHERE. What a bloody nightmare. I fly nonstop out of SFO or SJC any time I travel. Last time I needed to take a connection, last week, was a total nightmare. Flight into Chicago delayed due to equipment problems, would have missed connecting flight, rebooked through Houston, THAT flight was delayed due to other issues, missed my connecting flight, spent hours waiting for rebooking and luggage and hotel vouchers. Just enough time to take a shuttle to the hotel, grab a crappy post-10-pm meal at the motel diner, sleep 6h, get up before daylight to catch ANOTHER flight, which finally got me there. You can tell I'm still not over the miserable experience of having to fly somewhere without a major hub.
to apply my point - yes, it is determined that the climate will change, temperature will drop and rise. claiming that current changes are a part of this natural change is to say that it was pre-determined, and we didn't do anything to change this.

your mistake is elucidated when you consider this analogy:

'the earth is going to be consumed by the sun eventually. so we shouldn't do anything to save our environment.'

The kind of future you're talking about is going to happen whether we like it or not. but it's SO FAR away. the changes in climate that you say are pre-determined are on a geological time-scale.
Go to the bay area, spend a few years becoming ridiculously skilled and invaluable to your organization. Then tell employer you'll be moving to X and telecommuting. X being somewhere with a lower cost of living, and someplace you love (nice beaches, near family, etc).
Fly both airlines. Not sure how you say Alaska isn't innovative. They have Wifi and outlets on every plane i've flown. Also have paperless tickets. These are the innovations business travelers want. Other airlines its hit or miss.
That would totally NOT end up in court when one of the programmers hits the Startup Lottery and everybody wants a piece of their stock options.
Where do you imagine you're going to park it? It's 2 hour parking in resdidential areas unless you have a resident permit (not that there'd be any available), no overnight parking in commercial areas.

A paid parking space will run you the price of a 1-bedroom in a sane region.
We've already asked you not to post like this. We ban accounts that refuse to comment civilly and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The downside? They're much lower tech than Virgin: typically no screens on the backs of seats (especially for shorter flights)

This is a deliberate design choice for the seats. They can be thinner, and have more space, if there are no screens. A lot of airlines are moving in that direction - people bringing their own tablets, or Delta now providing them for the flight. It's also apparently a pain to design an aircraft seat with a screen in it - the amount of engineering you have to do to make sure the screen won't kill someone in a crash bulks the seat up tremendously.
In the case CO2 density reach high levels, in an evolutionary way it may be "better" (more supply). So now I wonder, what traits could be developped it there was that much more C02 around.
Testing audio and video contents
Pretty much this. United is only tolerable if you're on a United hub.
Its nice that you are promoting your project but instead of a clickbait title to encourage traffic to your site it would be helpful to add a few details here as to what the project is.
I can offer only anecdotal evidence; take it for what it's worth (not much, I know).

I lived and worked in the Bay Area for a little over fifteen years, almost two thirds of it at Apple, and almost a third of it at a successful startup called Reactivity.

I left in 2006 because of some catastrophic health events, and have lived and worked in Arkansas since recovering my ability to work.

When I'm working, I find it pretty easy to command higher-than-average pay for this area. Of course, I fairly often work remotely for people still in the Bay Area, or in Boston or Denver, and naturally they're going to tend to offer me more than Arkansas companies would. But I can also command a pretty good premium in Arkansas.

I don't know how much you can take from my example. I'm an old-fart developer now, with a long resume that has a bunch of famous names on it. People who are impressed by those things will naturally tend to offer more money to get them. I've seen some employers in this area become visibly more enthusiastic because of some of the people I've known and worked with, or that I can offer as references. My assessment is that some of that enthusiasm has been respect by association.

On the other hand, there may be some real quality differences in engineering culture, and some fraction of the premium may reflect that. Some of the markets I've worked in outside Silicon Valley have significantly different standards and practices, and the differences are not often for the better. In some cases they've verged on infuriating or clown-car laughable. Maybe some fraction of the premium is employers paying for people they expect to know better, and maybe they're not entirely wrong.
I'm married with 4 kids. We like living in roughly 3,000 square feet of housing with on roughly a quarter acre of land, so I'm going to guess in absolutely no universe could it ever make sense for us to move to the Bay Area.
Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans [pdf]
Cook your own food, shop at cheaper places. Big fan of http://www.imperfectproduce.com/

You don't have to spend $6/lb of butter, but if you buy it at Whole Foods (or similar), you do.
Check out Staples line of Arc products. Similar to a spiral notebook in how you can fold it, but the sheets come out easily like a 3-ringed binder and can be reordered. The first page in mine is blank. I write the date and topic at the top, use as many sheets as I need. Then move them to the appropriate section or into another Circa notebook (as appropriate). The covers and disks to create more notebooks are reasonably inexpensive, and you can purchase your own punch for a modest price to make compatible paper out of any paper stock you have available (and to make printouts and such fit into it easily).

Levenger's Circa line was my introduction to the concept, but their notebooks and paper are more expensive and less available (compared to having a Staples in nearly every city).

I use the Junior sized notebooks (8.5"x5.5", or roughly A5 sized for those not in the US). It's not a pocket notebook, but easily carried and fits nicely into most bags. Being able to reorganize the pages also reduces, for me, the difficulty of first writing something down ("crap, it doesn't need to be in this notebook!" kind of nonsense).
This is very similar to something I've been looking to find for a while. I have a large screen in my living room and I would love to stream/view 1080p video from scenic locations (top of a mountain, overlooking plains, a beach). I've read about the concept in several scifi novels but I've never found good footage to use. If anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them. A good example is the live stream from the ISS [1] which atm is pointed toward the station but has been pointed towards the earth directly in the past.

[1] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream
Well, they mentioned home purchase prices, but they also think the Seattle Metro area has average $400k houses which anyone living there would laugh at. Somehow I think "metro area" in Seattle has longer commute times than "metro area" in SJ or SF. There's just no way the average in Seattle metro (with equivalent commute) is half.
I was saying that if they were making any effort to clean up their energy source, there would be no backlash. You're trying to make this into a dichotomy where either you're for or against the deaths of people from smog. So, if I'm not participating in your flamewar, I'm not adding anything substantive?

It is reminiscent of the "clean-coal" marketing scheme that already exists in the United States and that's what most people in this thread are discussing.
Can you elaborate on what you liked about The War of Art? I read it earlier this year and I really wasn't a fan. Maybe I need to change my mindset about this book.
The test my doctor recommends is the 25-hydroxy Vitamin D test and I think is under $100 the last time I had one done however a blood sample is needed. I think only a physician can order it for you.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003569.htm (25-hydroxy vitamin D test information)
http://www.questdiagnostics.com/home/physicians/testing-serv...

Vitamin D deficiency is no joke and as we spend more time indoors we need to pay attention to this. If you search for "Vitamin D deficiency cancer" you will find many sources linking deficiency to cancer and other diseases.
Countdown to Kristallnacht for scientists and their data...
Usually this is accomplished by blocking the keyboard shortcut; pasting via right-click menu typically works.
I'm not sure wouldn't someone say that it is bloating of such simple format as Markdown, but I really want to see embedding of TeX math formulas in Markdown RFC/standard.

I'm talking about $\frac 3 4$ and $$\int x dx$$ notation. It is already implemented in some Markdown parsers, such as Pandoc and Jupyter Notebook, but because it is not standardized there are also a lot of parsers that don't support it. I think that adding it to the RFC/standard would reduce friction in math communications and make them more accessible, especially if Markdown format become widely used for email communications.
I dunno, of my friends under 35 (San Francisco and Oakland) it is rarer to own a car than to be carless. Most couples I know with cars are also single car families. In cities and the surrounding metros (which continue to grow as a proportion of the US pop) I could totally see an ownerless model working. How many Manhattan residents own cars?
Improving and Decentralizing Search and Discovery
I got in a journal after my splenectomy! Being a fascinating subject was bad. 5 weeks in ICU bad.

It's always one of the first things I bring up with a doctor, relevant or not, because without a spleen, my immunity is compromised.

As my GP said, "This stops most people from getting whooping cough, it'll stop you dying from it."
You don't need a conditional. You can set up a mask using sbb.

; precondition: 0 <= x <= N
; (N is constant)
mov y, 0 ; set up mask
cmp x, N-1 ; set carry flag if x >= N
sbb y, 0 ; subtract 1 from y if carry flag set
and x, y ; set x to zero if x == N
Pretend you live in the bay area and use Skype.
> public cryptographically verifiable ledger

This is a thing you actively don't want. You don't want to be able to prove to anyone else how you voted. Otherwise it would be absolutely trivial for your boss to say, "So, you voted for that anti-union candidate, right?" (Or your boss to not say that, but just happen to give promotions to people who show proof of voting the way the boss wants.)

The right to a secret ballot is demanded by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Yes, this renders the electronic voting problem - and honestly the voting problem in general - very close to impossible. That's why it's hard.
The chairs are also pretty damned comfortable as far as coach seats go. I'll take the extra inch over a screen.
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Funny, when I saw "nicer", I sure as hell didn't expect it to be followed by "New England". Fortunately, there's a region for everyone, but man, as someone who moved out of Seattle for better weather, New England would be a huuuge downgrade.
I'm seeing a templating issue on the timer option in the menu. Great sounds!
Yabba dabba don't: archaeology needs to leave the stone age behind
Isn't Montreal marginally a tech city?
Amen. Some asshole in my (urban) neighborhood setup halogen painter lights and was leaf blowing at midnight a week ago.
My experience doesn't line up with your preconceived notions of the Bay Area at all. I've worked at three different jobs in San Francisco, and all of them were standard 9-5 jobs. I've worked weekends under 5 times. Most of my friends are in the same situation.

Sure if you want to work at an early stage startup, you can grind yourself into a paste. But there are plenty of jobs here where that's not the case.
You can work decentralized but it's not particularly great, especially because remote communication isn't a solved problem. You communicate a ton of stuff in an actual face to face conversation through a variety of different ways and even video calls don't really capture that.
What does 'linked' word mean here?

I see that verb in biological/medical articles very often and it always makes me think that researchers are very unsure about the results.
It is like 'We believe there is a correlation, but we don't know for sure'.

Am I wrong?
Didn't they just lay off a bunch of people?