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> Brave on Android is [...] basically Chrome with ad blocking.

This is what I've needed for the past four years!

Ads on mobile have gotten ridiculously out of hand. Half of the websites I visit are downright unusable with their extreme bandwidth consumption, scroll hijacking, impossible-to-click/dismiss ad overlays, etc.

I'm downloading this immediately. I'm sold.

edit from Brave on Android: this is amazing in the way Firefox mobile never was. I'm so stoked right now! This is fantastic.
The cost of hosting will probably be insignificant compared to the cost of dealing with DMCA takedowns and possibly lawsuits.
I understand not everyone works in tech but it's not unusual for Bay Area couples to make $300k-$400k per year 6-8 years out of college working in tech.

Consider an example of new grad with CS major working in major software company. Currently new grads start at $120k total package (base + RSU/stock + bonus). After maxing out 401k, taxes, rent(with roomates), car payments etc., one can save $35k-$40k per year. So for a couple having worked for 5 years each could save $35k * 5 * 2 = $350k in total. Use $250k to make downpayment to buy $1.25M home making most of mortgage interest deduction. That's how myself and most of my Indian tech friends in Bay Area bought homes. Being lucky in an IPO also helps. Above calculation assumes no student or credit card debt.
I think this is right on the money. As a vendor, you have to understand who your users are and who your customers are. In this space, they are different. Just look at the number of developer tools that are "free for non-commercial use". Developers don't pay for tools. Companies pay for tools that they are convinced they can't get any other way.

They didn't have a poor market; they didn't have any market at all. If I'm the CTO of XYZ, explain to me what I'm buying. I hate to keep coming back to it, but that's what Cygnus did so brilliantly: "You need an embedded development system. The existing solutions do nearly what you want. Pay us slightly less, and we will make GCC do exactly what you want." I know what I'm paying for.

"Build it and they will come" does not work in the open source space -- because if you have already built it, they don't need to pay you. And if you haven't, then they don't want it.

Now, if they had built a DB similar to Mongo and then sold a service that migrated people off of failing Mongo installations and onto RethinkDB, then they would be on to something. Tired of having your DB chew your data for breakfast? Want to have your reports finished the same day you ran them? For the price of a single developer, we will fix all your problems by migrating you to RethinkDB. That's something that will make money.

But who wants to charge for services? How will we get our multiples if we only charge once for our work? That's just folly!
I am sure I am very easily identifiable for someone lurking on hackernews.

What do you consider a well-known, credible medical professional? A Harvard professor? I happen to have worked with world-renowed clinical researchers, and I have nothing but disrespect for their scientific abilities. I do however, value their clinical teachings very much, and I am thankful for the training they provided in the clinics.

I am frankly not motivated enough to look for papers about it, and I clearly speak from my own experience. I do know that the proportion of research considered as valid is very difficult to estimate, though. If you are interested in "evidence-based medicine", I am sure you know PubMed and related websites. At this point however, I find it extremely difficult to believe any medical paper containing statistics.
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I just needed a domain name for hosting it. I have already clarified that currently this tool does not read/parse excel binaries. May be in future, it may do that. Sorry for the confusion.
Others here are missing the point. Until platforms like Bitfinex allowed margin trading, arbitrage was impossible because the exchanges are extremely risk averse. In order to arbitrage you would have had to buy on one exchange, then wait for 3 confirmations (~40 minutes?) before the receiving exchange would take the risk that the bitcoin was actually transferred. Now with short selling it looks like you can instantly borrow a bitcoin on the exchange that's inflated, then sell it immediately. You don't need to transfer between exchanges - all done completely on internal paper transfers inside the exchange.
This is not the original format. This PDF is formatted much better.
http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~psingla/Teaching/CelestialMechan...
"Taking over" is sensationalism.

High-speed trader's are taking advantage of arbitrage on zero fee digital currency exchanges.
deflation still going in Japan though
this article might have been good without the race-baiting. hard to understand what "white" has to do with having a job.
As somebody squarely in your target audience (sr software engineer with major respect for databases done correctly and no respect for anything like mongo) let me give my perspective.

A) I have no idea what makes rethink db better than mysql off the top of my head (maybe stuff exists, but I don't know what it is. I also am risk-averse and don't really have any major complaints with mysql).

B) I understand there are a lot of database technologies out there (mysql is always improving, people speak highly of postgres, people keep mentioning this maria DB thing, etc) which leads to a decision fatigue. It's much in the same way that if I have to choose between learning 3 frameworks, I'll just use none and see which one dies first because I'm optimizing for not learning dying technologies.

So unfortunately it comes down to marketing, which is a disappoint to anybody who wants to believe the best products will market themselves and win out. Sorry betamax.
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Qualcomm allegedly bribed Apple into not making a WiMAX iPhone
The Guardian ran everything by the US government first before publishing. Every responsible journalist does. They're looking for a response or comment to the story, to make sure they didn't get anything wrong, and to see if there's a any reason to withhold details (a reason beyond "It's classified so don't").

In fact, in Greenwald's book No Place to Hide, he describes how they held off publishing for several days while waiting for a response from the government. Greenwald was so frustrated with the delays that he considered quitting the Guardian and going on his own. I think that's the idea that eventually turned into The Intercept.
If anything, it makes the case that much more egregious -- there's a difference between borrowing your employer's pen and borrowing expensive high-end lab equipment to start your own competitive enterprise.
That's correct. Our main differentiator from Signal/WhatsApp/Wire/Telegram/etc is that we have no centralized messaging infrastructure. Users are free to run their own servers, or connect to any 3rd party providers they trust. We also have integrated Tor support, but plan to remove that once iCepa reaches maturity.
The exchanges in question are not implemented on top of any blockchain, so no
Yes, but the Tokyo population is increasing. [1]

1 - http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/ABOUT/HISTORY/history03.ht...
There are at least two arguments in favor of ability to keep Russian launches cheap(er).

First if mentioned in John Clark's "Ignition!", where he says that the Russian approach to bigger payload isn't the technology, but just the size of the rocket - with same low-tech as something smaller. So, in other words, technological edges aren't always translating into lower costs in this industry.

Second is Russian's technological edges with kerosene liquid fuel engines. Technologies are well-optimized, including costs, and are the primary used ones for Russian space program. Not solid rockets, not hydrogen - and comparatively little hydrazin-based rockets, at least by the number of launches.
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Spirituality is not outside of science. We can study humans in the psychological states raised by practices in the spiritual traditions http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/dalai-lama....

The challenge from scientific point of view with human traditions is that they are a mishmash of established techniques affecting measurable outcomes and superstition, and sometimes it's quite hard to tell from the point of view of an outsider which is which.
And your average college grad makes $30k out of school there.
> I read once that a feeling of being watched was common with sleep paralysis.

I've only experienced a couple of times, but that was the most noticeable thing about it. I knew about sleep paralysis before I first experienced, so it didn't really concern me (as soon as I realised I was awake but unable to move, I knew what it was and roughly what to expect), but glancing over to my doorway and seeing a vague silhouette just standing there watching me is somewhat disconcerting nonetheless.
I would agree that the medical field is plagued with empiricism which consists of asking a naive question (rather than working from a deeper theory) and then doing a study to 'measure' the thing in question. Third parties then note the correlation and issue 'advice' in the form of suggestive reporting. I would guess this puts the public off science altogether!

Perhaps the best way to look after the body will turn out to be as Aubrey de Grey suggests: regular servicing to repair accumulated damage. But we aren't there yet. Plus we urgently need new antibiotics.
We don't want to be shackled to a house we can only afford if we make at least our current salaries. A $1.2 million dollar house would not be such a house, as even if we made only $200k we could likely afford it. We are planning to live in the Bay Area long term for personal reasons, so buying something makes sense.
I like this way of thinking.
This isn't just Silicon Valley, the same is happening in many parts of the world, like London, Vancouver and Sydney. At least in SV there are still a lot of people that can afford those inflated prices, the rest of us have to wait until the bubble pops.
Whats the rental yield on a SF property?

Here in Sydney you are lucky to get gross 4% on an apartment, 3% on a house.

It kind of implies that there isn't "too many people" because if so the rents would shoot up too.
Maybe you're being facetious about kale chips, but NYC is the world center of hipster gastronomy, if that's your thing (it's not mine, but some people like it).

NYC's also got great skiing and the wine is nothing to scoff at. Really, the only thing missing is surfing and "internationally renowned" wine.
Not yet, but this is definitely a use case we want to design for. It's not that it's not possible, just we've built up towards extensions linearly, and have started at the simple use case when you have an account. Not relying on an SF account means Dropbox and Standard Notes will need to understand where the last sync was, etc. Not impossible, but probably not trivial. But this has been an oft requested feature, so it's definitely high on the list.
I just want to nitpick about Node a little bit--as a Java developer and Postgres user myself--because there is more to Node than just async JavaScript and I think it gets a bad rap a little bit because of that. Async is one good quality of Node, but it also has this really great debugging integration with Chrome DevTools. And even really huge Node programs start fast--usually in less than a second--so you get this really tight development feedback loop. So you have this overall pleasant experience of a great module system where mostly everything out there is already going to be async (less likely in Java), a REPL, a fantastic debugger and profiler via the Chrome DevTools, and extremely quick process restarts. I think for some people these qualities outweigh the lack of static typing and JavaScript language quirks (which a lot have been ironed out in ES6 and ES7 anyway).
This is pretty deep, and pretty smart, since it deals with the things a firm is about: its customers, what it gives those customers, and itself.

One could do worse than to consider those three areas in any decision.
Bay Area has a housing affordability issue for people who are in non-tech sectors.

For those in the tech sector, there is no affordability issue, only entitlement issue

If they are married, both in tech, their salary will be in the 300k-400k range, that's about 25k - 33k/month before tax, or about 15 - 20k/month after tax. with today's interest rate, $1MM house will need a monthly payment $4k - $5k/month including property tax. The couple will still have about 10k/month left after paying the mortgage.

Assuming they are renting and are fiscally responsible, they should be able to save about 70 - 100k on 300 - 400k income/year. which means they will just need 2 years before they can save up for the down payment.

So where is the issue? The issue is they jumped their league - Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Mountain View, SF are the 'major leagues' - foreign cash buyers, tech execs or, more commonly , average Joe who sold their first house with $500k+ gain in tax free equity - (not hard to do in the bay area btw). First time home buyer will have a tough time competing in this league.

Try the minor league instead, try east bay, dublin($900k), livermore still in the $700k - both good schools but 60min+ away, or how about places like Newark or Union City, still in the $700k, both within 30 mins drive (but so so schools).

If they are struggling to buy a $2MM home because they have to buy in these neighborhoods. it's an entitlement problem, not an affordability issue.
Isn't Hawaii the only place that would be more expensive than the Bay Area besides maybe manhattan?
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> he is working from Hawaii

ie, one of the only places more expensive than the bay area. Not sure what point this proves...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2014/07/07/why-you-sho...
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There is a liquidity to the market here that is unmatched. Also, 200k plus here is not rare which I don't think you can say for many places.
You should consider open sourcing the static pages/text at least, so people can improve paragraphing, punctuation, and grammar/spell correct:

"donot" should be "do not" (separate words)

"atleast" should be "at least" (separate words)

I realize English is probably not your first language, so no big deal, but it would be nice to fix.
https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Javascript Here is a good collection of web-components which can be implemented without using JavaScript. Hope it helps you guys in developing the site. All the best.
> 538 made a model, not a poll; they are only ever as good as the polls they represent, and even then, they still managed to be better than quite a lot of public polling and commentary.

I completely agree with almost all of your post, but want to defend the polls, even though you didn't explicitly blame the polls. FiveThirtyEight themselves consistently defend the polls even in the 2016 election. For example, they ran an article a few days before the election that Trump was only "a normal polling error" away from Clinton [1], and in their podcasts and articles since the election, have stated that in fact an average polling error was exactly what happened. The problem with a normal polling error in this case was that the election was close, and in particular, states that were critical for Clinton were very close. And FiveThirtyEight's model was the only one to really recognize the degree of uncertainty this really created by giving Trump a 25 or 33% chance.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-...
Doesn't seem to be the case in iOS 10.2 on iPhone 6s.

http://imgur.com/RypAJcY

edit: Kept popping up this message as I was trying to type in airplane mode.
> while the increasing dominance of sophisticated traders begs the question of how long the juiciest arbitrage opportunities will last.

Raises the question, not begs it. Begging the question would be to say, 'Bitcoin always generates profit, therefor it will always generate a profit.' Begging the question is assuming the consequent of the argument; raising a question is, well … raising one.
You can actually swim in the ocean in nyc without a wetsuit. (Summer of course)
It's kind of passion project.
If both Russia and Cuba were ok with this, what is the reason he can't just get on a plane to Cuba now?
This has nothing to do with performance.
Also, there is no such clear distinction in how vectors and lists are used. You still require context to know if a vector is evaluated to itself or not, or if a list is a call. Without context, you can't say looking at [x y] which of x or/and y is being evaluated:

(let [a [x y]] ...)
(let [x y] ...)
(fn [x y] ...)

As for parenthesis, you have special cases too:

(defn foo ([] (foo 0)) ([n] ...))

And sometimes, people aren't sure about what to use: https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide/issues/64
The deduction also phases out based on your income, and if your mortgage is over $1,000,000. These are both more likely to be a reality in SV over most other places in the US.

On the surface, you would be missing out with those numbers, but we have to look at the whole picture. There is no equity gained in a house if you're renting while saving up for a downpayment. Let's look at San Jose vs Des Moines and use the overall median downpayment for comparison.

# Assumptions
We'll go a bit conservative here. San Jose developer pay 2k/month more in rent than the Midwest developer.

San Jose developer will earn double the base salary (not a mere 48k/year more as suggested above.)

Outside of housing, the cost of living in both cities is identical at 20k/year. 20k will give you quite a good life in the Midwest as a single person. No idea about the valley.

# Midwest developer living in Des Moines, IA:
$80,000/year salary (about 57k after taxes)
2 bedroom apartment in a safe place can be found pretty easily for under $900/month. 1 bedroom for $750 or so. No roommates. Perhaps a 20 minute commute to work.

Rent = $900/month = $10,800/year

Other Living Expenses = $20,000/year

Leftover money = 2,200/month = 26k/year

18 months of saving at that rate to get to the median down payment (39k).

Money sunk into rent before getting any equity in a house: $39,000

# San Jose developer:
$160,000/year salary (about 105k after taxes)

Rent = 2,900/month = 34,800

Other Living Expenses = $20,000/year

Leftover money = $4,183/month = $50,200/year

46 months until you have the $192,000 down payment ready, assuming housing prices stay the same.

Money sunk into rent before getting any equity in a house: $133,400

# Result

When the San Jose developer buys a home (assuming the median downpayment didn't go up in those almost 4 years of waiting), the Midwest developer stopped paying rent (11k/year) and was paying down their mortgage with that 11k and the leftover money of 26k/year, totaling 37k/year.

Neglecting mortgage interest because I don't want to calculate that, the Midwest developer put 86k towards the 192k house after the downpayment.

Total equity for Midwest developer: 86k+39k = 125k.

Total equity for San Jose developer: 192k.

Yes, the San Jose developer has more equity in the end, but we also assumed:

* Identical cost of living

* The housing prices in both cities stayed the same until San Jose developer had their 192k. That will be pretty true in the Midwest, but may not be in SV.

San Jose may not have a huge commute, but other areas of SV would. We didn't even look at the fact that the Midwest developer isn't spending 1-2 hours each way going to work (numbers I see cited here frequently).

After tax estimates are based on this calculator: https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#347zLoGvwJ
There's a fairly clear misunderstanding here. I think it's absolutely true to say that money doesn't motivate people. For most people, giving them raises won't make them work harder, stay longer, be more creative, etc. - at least, not long term. And if there are problems making them unhappy, throwing money at them isn't going to help much long term either.

But if you're underpaying people or not giving raises, people quickly become unhappy and will either slack off or eventually leave - that's the 'certain point'! You absolutely need to keep giving good raises to keep good people there - but for most people it will just maintain their performance, not to motivate them to be better.
Thank you for the detailed analysis & post. I am myself embarking on a startup journey, albeit in the world of consulting & I wanted to let you know that your in depth writeup was extremely valuable & in many ways poignant to me. There were so many learnings in there and the way your bared it all, it feels it must have been excruciatingly hard to let go of your company (& co-workers) in the end. Thanks again & I wish you all the very best for your next venture - wiser & better.
Perhaps attributed to the infamous Upton Sinclair quote:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
> Where I live at least people rarely switch phone numbers…

First, it's not about people switching phone numbers. It's about switching devices. This can be something as innocuous as uninstalling/reinstalling the WhatsApp app. Or upgrading their phone on a one or two year cycle. Or because they broke their phone and are using a friend's old phone for a few weeks. Or wanting to send and read messages on their laptop too. And their work laptop. Except they also had their work laptop reinstalled because of a virus, or because IT needed to do an upgrade, or whatever.

This shit happens all the time.

> …and I have yet to hear about a single person that I know or have worked with who have had their phone number hijacked.

I think this proves my point. The signal-to-noise ratio for this type of message is precisely zero for greater than 99.999% of WhatsApp users who are not being singled out by a nation-state for surveillance. And he number of these users who actually bothers to confirm keys out-of-band is, while not precisely zero, near enough as to make no difference.

For users who do anticipate being singled out, there are two plausible options: they are savvy enough to look into the settings and ensure the toggle is enabled, or they're not savvy enough to look for this type of option, and they're probably screwed anyway because actually achieving practical privacy against a highly-funded and highly-motivated governmental adversary is brutally hard and requires significantly more active involvement than merely toggling a switch on a messaging app.

> So, lets say that other people are less lucky than me and this warning will pop up twice a year

Twice a year times fifty contacts adds up to seeing this message frequently enough that you learn to subconsciously ignore it. People still try to bypass virtually every TLS warning browsers throw at them even though that number for most people is less than once per year, and even though browsers have made it painfully difficult to do so.