skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the other thing: Many of these bay area starter homes are located in safe, but characterless suburbs. I don't mean that in an angsty anti-suburban way: they're just poorly planned with poorly made homes.

You mention Des Moines... As a thought experiment: if the hand of god moved the city of Ankeny, Iowa so that it was a 30 min commute to the bay, it would soon be regarded as one of the "cooler" places to live outside of SF, and quickly fill up with millionaires.
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We have written up a DHT crawler to locate trackers.We are not dependant on trackers. We are also testing an AI based detector which filters out FAKE torrents (it is not currently deployed, but we test it). If 2 more users here demand a VPN warning, it will be deployed.
No it doesn't. As long as you're purchasing not renting, you have a chance of getting that money back out, but it's nuts to me.

I sat next to a SF attorney on a plane a year or two ago. She said she and her husband were putting 75% of their take-home pay towards their mortgage when they purchased their first home. Their incomes rose which made things a bit better. After a few years, they sold it off, made a fair bit of money from appreciation, and got a place outside of SF city limits where they had at least a very small yard.

It's only a matter of time before home prices drop in a bubble and thousands have lost a giant chunk of their net worth which was held up in a single undiversifiable asset.
I always wish torrent sites used some sort of data table widget to allow for easier sorting of the search results.

Something like this would work great (there may be better ones still): https://www.datatables.net/examples/styling/bootstrap4.html
Hmm, at first I thought: If you have a billion dollars you can get 50,000 people in a stadium screaming your name. I mean, you could get me to scream your name for $20k easy, and I don't even like stadiums that much.

But, ok, that's a fairly prohibitive expense. Musicians can get that and have the audience pay for the privilege. They can do so repeatedly, which certainly qualifies as some kind of asset.

So call it a type of capital, a social capital, maybe... ability to muster crowds?

It would be interesting to see a graph of how much "muster" varies across a given population.

Follows Zipf's Law like everything else, I'd wager. Most people would have to buy an audience. A tiny few can get audiences to pay. There's a growing middle-class sitting at the zero-pivot--emerging indie bands and popular academics--they pull in audiences, but only for free.

Once we formalize all that we'll of course need some sort of exchange rate for muster, USD:MST, before we can get down to the important work of comparing the relative capital of a superstar and the super-rich.

Take note young econ grad students: the to-be-written papers on the liquidity of muster are the stuff careers are made of!
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9x? the richest buyers in silicon valley have 90x the income and 900x the wealth, and they're the ones defining the prices.

hint: they're not local engineers. buying a house like this is like going down to the porsche dealership and buying a couple of cayennes as graduation presents for the kids.
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If you implement tree style tabs as well as can handle javascript in multiple tabs without bringing the entire browser to its knees, I'll gladly switch from Firefox.
I wouldn't be surprised either. There are many ways to deal with stress and depression, but all to often food and alcohol will come up.
Having a local storage of this type is half the problem. The other half is syncing the data between different browsers and keeping it backed up. Imagine if all your mail, years and years of it, lived in IndexDB inside your browser on your one device.

I think browsers should implement a standard way to sync local storage, identity information (think private keys instead of passwords), cookies, etc. across all the browsers you use. Oh and obviously it should all be encrypted at rest and you get to choose which service you use to sync the data, so you can avoid the less trusted ones. What kind of utopia would this be?
I kinda like the idea of separating the "Company Machine" from "Customer Machine" and "Product Machine", but Customer and Product are deeply intertwined.
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Your mortgage on that 1.2M house is 5k a month (assuming 20% down). And most of that is tax deducatable. How did you determine 1.2M is the most you can afford?
This is great ... his life compared to Snowden has been horrid!

On a different note I never bought he wants to be a woman just a PR thing to keep his name, plight and fight in the public eye. Maybe in five years or so his story will be told and we will see him as a him not a woman.

*This is getting downvoted? I'm sure your now aware of fake news which is created to push agendas and or make money. Thus, I don't believe much of what I see and read and this always seemed far-fetch to me and that it was so out there at the time that it was made up by those helping him. It allowed him to fight for transgender rights and remain in the public eye ... what other way could Manning in solitary confinement have maintained his visibility in the public and coral as much help to free him? This was great PR ... from someone who has created fake news and such to benefit their start up!
Do they have an API? it might just be some guy who logs in and uploads for you.
Since an AppImage is just a compressed filesystem, you can also extract its content very similar to a zip file. But you then will miss out on the easy binary delta updates using AppImageUpdate, and have an extra step of unpacking, and will need more storage space.
It’s shockingly easy to hijack a Samsung SmartCam camera
Is it too early to call IT dead
I've just came to the realization that I've been in the field for 17 years (started in high school). In that time I moved from awful desktop support jobs to awful sysadmin jobs. In my latest role I seem to be mostly just a name to put on grant proposals. All of the real work is outsourced either to AWS or to SaaS platforms (Office 365, Exchange moving to the cloud, accounting software, etc).

The Windows admins seem to be doing ok for now by migrating something to the cloud every time people catch on that they aren't very busy, but they are going to run out of things to migrate sooner or later.

The linux admins (such as myself) have a different problem. These days being a linux admin also means being a DBA (postgres and mysql at a minimum) as well as keeping up to date with AWS, web tech like CDNs, and several scripting languages. Because the more complicated tech is moving towards linux servers the linux guys are automatically expected to become experts.

I don't even know what happened to the DBAs. I've never worked for a company that had one. I'm guessing they all got laid off.

So my question is, is it to early to call the IT field dead? From what I've seen it is well past the glory days of big teams and big budgets, and not looking like it will ever recover.
It was considered, but this feature required javascript. Since javascript was not a option, it was discarded.If there is some other way without scripting, please let us know. It will be used and implemented.
> "why can't we abandon all our experimenting and learning and just stick to good old Java which obviously would solve all our problems", which is itself MASSIVELY anti-intellectual.

That's a mis-characterization. There is a difference between experimenting and learning and pushing all sorts of questionable fashion trends into production.
But what about kale chips?

Oh and access to great surfing? And quick access to excellent skiing? Oh and an award winning, internationally renowned wine country?

Now you guys do have cheaper maple syrup, that's probably worth it. And the fog in the summer here definitely ruins those awesome summer evenings that are so plentiful in NY.

(Btw, these are the things I repeat to myself to be ok with the cost of living here)
Thousands of Google engineers make $300k a year.
I'm chronically depressed, suffer from anxiety and stress, have high cholesterol (due to genetics) and I'm obese. Not to mention I have a family history of heart disease, on both sides.

I think that's more or less every single risk factor for heart disease. My current goal is to beat the odds and somehow die of something I'm not statically predisposed to, like cancer.
I've been using Google Keep for quick, short-lived notes and Google Drive for long-lived notes. If Google would add support for tagging files in Drive, I'd be able to switch to it completely.

At one point, I used a directory of text files synced with Dropbox, vim to edit, and a few bash scripts and vim functions for tagging and searching. It worked well except on mobile.
> grad school

well there's your problem.

I hear from real estate agents that the typical buyer is a couple making $300k/year. They've just been in the workforce longer and have the downpayment by now. Your profile would suggest "a few years working and a decade of student debt".
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You can't deduct the interest on your classic car.
> The family connections to Russia that everyone conveniently ignores lately?

Remind me, which side of that election is now alleged to have been talking to FSB the whole time?
> I learned to control it voluntarily and can make my ears rumble whenever I want.

I always assumed everyone could do that - I've been able to do it for as long as I can remember, and can (to a minor extent) vary the intensity between ears.
I find titles like this very frustrating. They may as well be appended with "and you can too!" to really wrap up the late night info-mercial feel.

Perhaps I am just jaded after seeing hundreds of very similar articles where the title suggests a great feat has occured and made them money in the process, then it boils down to be a self-promotion of the author.
He describes Heka (built by Mozilla) as abandoned. This is true, but we have a re-write in C that is significantly faster and in active development [0].

[0] https://github.com/mozilla-services/hindsight
Ask HN: How can I improve the performance of this Node.js app?
I have heard how node.js apps are faster than Java so I was surprised when I load tested node.js micro-service https://github.com/gengstrand/clojure-news-feed/tree/master/server/feed4 and compared the results with the same load test of this feature identical Java version https://github.com/gengstrand/clojure-news-feed/tree/master/server/feed3 and found the node.js service to have 40% lower throughput and from 19 to 34% higher latency. What could I have done to make this app faster?
I bet this uses their undocumented API that allows uploads of media. If you use a traffic sniffer / HTTP Debugger like Charles, and use the Instagram app on your mobile device, you'll see that the native app is also using it's own API to upload media.
M.Ds know things, that's the point! Have we been trained for scientific thinking? Absolutely, totally not. Test your mother on basic statistics and scientific reasoning, and you will quickly see the limits. This has absolutely nothing to do with being a decent doctor or not. Now, you are going to tell me she can read the scientific literature and make sense of it?
Medicine is caring for patients, meaning applying knowledge. Knowledge applied in the clinics is mostly passed through practical training from generation to generation. Arguably, the decisive factor of change in medicine has up to now always been technology: a stent in an artery, ether anesthesia, organ transplant, etc. A certain base of irrefutable knowledge is present, of course, but it is proportionally small compared to the amount of downright false information we get from clinical trials.

We could debate for hours on that subject, but I dare say that someone who believes that most M.Ds can do real science is very wrong. Statistics done by M.Ds is akin to a junkie cooking meth. He knows how to make it, but has no idea why sometimes it goes wrong. Moreover, you drastically underestimate the dishonesty of the "experts" you are citing.
If $160k 2 years out of school is typical, I need to know where you work so I can apply[0]. :P

In all seriousness, that is not a typical salary for the vast majority of people in the Bay Area. Not everyone is a software developer working for a company with money to burn.

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[0]: In spite of the smiley, this is also true.
> Just continue building on it.

You say this as though they weren't fresh out of money, energy and competitive advantage.
But all the other actors in the market have the same tax advantage, so the house prices rise in concert with the tax deduction. (at least in SV, can be different where construction costs dominate)

When using normal real estate investment vehicles, investors are also able to deduct the interest as a business cost.
1.2M is also going to have ~14-16k/year for property tax and insurances associated with it. He said his budget is 1.2M not the max he could afford. I was looking in housing in the east bay and the cheapest over there in a decent neighborhood was 650k. Far, far more than I can afford.
Fun fact: in Tokyo prices are 3x lower than in the bay area, in large part because new housing is legally much easier to build.

If you want to make the bay area more affordable, check out the great work these folks are doing to legalize building new housing: http://www.sfyimby.org.
My Sunnyvale neighborhood is not "characterless." You know what is? You are.
> I mean how much more are the prices going to go, so that's clearly not an investment.

Except it is.

You forget that in most scenarios your initial capital and what you paid toward the place is still there, and you'll keep paying it even if you wind up underwater, and you can generate cash flow from the place, and a lot of that is tax deductible, resulting in decent windfalls from the government annually.

Its an ok place to park your money.

Yes, there is risk of loss and illiquidity.
Anyone took this test mentioned at the end of the article?

https://cityss.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bKSkV69EJ6TKmKV

I did not experience "hearing motion" in any of the test videos. Try this out and if you experience "hearing motion", please post here and let us know what a certain video sounds like.
Same reason economists have such a hard time making robust theories.
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From the paper (DEEX - "Depressed mood and exhaustion"):

"Nonetheless, adding DEEX to a risk score based on classical risk factors resulted in only nonsignificant
improvement of mortality risk prediction."

Regarding the causal relationship:

"Although not a proof of causality, in general, depressed subjects are more likely to cluster self-harming lifestyle behaviors and may be less likely to adhere to
prescribed medication."

To put things in context it is also worth noting that, except in old age, a big increase in the risk of death at any given point of time translates into a very small reduction in life expectancy. See for example http://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2012/11/10/mortality-a...
Ok, but what if I had invested the house money - would the rate of return be more/equal/less? There's of course the economy crash but I would expect that to affect house prices too. Just sounds like a bad idea to consider primary residence an investment.
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It's not so much the skyline in SF, it's that somehow "not building anything" has become a sort of "progressive" litmus test - if you are in favor of making any changes that would result in more housing being developed, you are a neocon shill for developers who wants to "Manhattan-ize" all of our neighborhoods, and if you want to continue preventing any substantial amount of housing from being built, you are a true progressive defending the poor and downtrodden. And everyone in the Bay Area wants to be a progressive, so you end up with this weird groupthink where because "not letting developers make profits" is progressive and everyone identifies as progressive there's this incredible opposition to making the policy changes that would result in more housing getting built.

It's really weird and makes no sense to me, especially since the people who get really fucked by this are people working in services who end up commuting from places where housing is cheap like Tracy all the way to San Jose where all the jobs are, who are exactly the kind of people you would expect "progressives" to be doing anything to help.

Also, San Francisco (and the Peninsula) really don't need to develop anything really tall, they just need to develop a lot more 3-8 story buildings, particularly in areas that are currently single-family homes. Nearly all of the Peninsula and most of San Francisco are currently single-family homes on ~1/4 acre lots, i.e. very suburban character.
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For a downpayment in Silicon Valley you can start a career as landlord in Latin America.
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> I understand larger cities offer a higher salary

Nah. Salaries in the Bay Area are a third of what they should be to compensate for the cost of living.

You can live in lots of big cities in the US and still have discretionary income leftover. The Bay Area is just bananas.
Disclaimer: I am also a Brave Software employee :)

Jonathan Sampson, author of the article, has been using similar methods to test popular extensions with Brave to ensure we have support for them (and if not, to identify what's missing).

You can track the progress that he and team have made here:
https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/projects/1
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I've wondered why SV companies don't lobby hard for pro-density policies.

Wouldn't they benefit from lower salaries (due to lower rent/costs of living) and higher productivity/lower turnover due to shorter commutes?
Our jobs are high stress, evidenced by the median tenure at our jobs being about 3 years. The people that leave are not job hopping, they're having existential crises and changing career paths. Basically, we don't want to risk being shackled to our jobs to pay the mortgage.
I felt like the CD = continuous delivery was obvious. But perhaps I've spent to much time on Dev Ops. Maybe simply saying CI/CD would be sufficient.
An RSS feed for searches would be great as well
It's tedious but can be accomplished with server side sorting.

You could have:

<th>

<a href="/search?sort=name&direction=asc">

Name

<a>

</th>

The server side code would interpret the sort and direction parameters and sort results as instructed.
People have been saying it for generations.
I just left a job that was paying about 85% of the current market for an offer way above the market. However, if I had been at or just above the market average, I would not have gone looking.
Anyone who can get the title "senior" from multiple major tech employers can get that salary if they are competent at negotiating. That is where the market is in 2017. At top employers you can tack on another $100k in stock/bonus.
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You could probably afford something in San Jose.
Nor do you have any evidence it isn't true. That was a pretty bold assertion on your part.
RSS feed for searches is already present, after you search you will have an RSS icon for that specific search
Ways to query the data are important and on this newly launched pkg probably need some work (haven't looked at that side of it), but visualisation does not belong in a logging tool, it belongs in external tools querying that tool.
Refrigerators aside, isn't home electricity usage pretty low in Hawaii?
Hi, I experienced some auditory sensation for a few videos. The police sirens were particularly vivid - I imagined a series of rising tones quite involuntarily. The description of this sound as coming from "inside your head" is particularly apt - it is not an auditory hallucination, it's more like something I am imagining involuntarily. Interestingly, what I imagine is the same every time I watch the video.

In retrospect, I have experienced this phenomenon everyday, but never thought much about it.
Who's doing the politicization here, though? The energy industry has been hyper-politicized for decades, and highly biased against changing technologies. The batteries are going to work as engineered, it's straightforward technology. The only question is the cost of those batteries.

This is also not a huge amount of batteries compared to, say, electric car batteries.
What sort of API, please elaborate ?
Don't buy a home you can't afford the mortgage on.
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There's nothing in this article that wasn't true in 2012...
(this made me smile; I worked at NRAO for ten years.)
prices in tokyo are still insane compared to the median salary. thats why everyone commutes.
It means that there is a correlation between "depressed mood and exhaustion" and cardiovascular deaths. The paper does not demonstrate a causal relationship between the two.
Looking at Des Moines, $955,000 will get you a 5 bedroom with 3 full and 2 half bathrooms, 1.26 acres, 7037 square feet, and a 5 car garage.

In Vancouver, it will get you a 2 bedroom condo with 2 bathrooms, 859 square feet, and 1 underground parking space.

As they say... location, location, location.
Everything has risks, but the risks of a lithium-ion battery fire are pretty small compared to the huge gas leak that was part of the motivation for trying batteries.
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But... you can also get six figure developer salaries outside of silicon valley in places that are significantly cheaper and with far cheaper taxes than California. And they are a lot more common than people I talk to from the Bay Area seem to think. It's almost like there is some sort of group think that believes that there aren't any well paying developer job in nice locations outside of the Bay Area.
While true, the "pushing" being done is a very small compared to only the "development" of said technologies. The exact words of the parent where:

> I wonder how much the industry could advance if we could simply persuade every developer to learn Java Postgres.

And that is preceded by what I can only described as a bunch of undue mischaracterization of several languages and technologies, all of which definitely seems to imply that "yeah, all that other stuff is just a bunch of fads, why don't we stick to the real deal and all write Java."

Now, I don't want to be unkind to Java here. It's true that Java is an incredibly powerful language and there are a wide variety of technologies and tools that are absolutely incredible that you can only get via the Java ecosystem. But that can be said of many languages, e.g. C++/C.

I think what the GP may have meant, and which I do agree with, is that our industry would progress if we as developers spent a bit more time learning about the context and history of current and past solutions. We'd probably re-invent the wheel a bit less often.

But I don't want to limit that recommendation to "learn Java Postgres". I think Java developers might benefit from examining the benefits of a language like Haskell, Python programmers may benefit from a language with strong typing, such as C++/Rust/Go, that Unix lovers might learn a lot from examining the Windows NT kernel API's, and so on. If we examine the things that aren't close to us, the things with which we're the least familiar, that's when I believe the most fruitful learning can occur.
Obvious to me too, but people doing CI, even a basic implementation like compiling, are still a minority of developers.
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What millions? The same collusion that had all media screaming about emails all the time? The default support for LGBT rights? What family connections to Russia?; were they in the same league as with Putin is doing with Trump? What codespeak are you talking about? You mean policies you don't personally like?