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For me, it feels like the article could have been a lot shorter. "San Francisco housing prices have gone so high that people can't afford to have kids here." It never really delved into many of the underlying incentives and such.

Yea, other locations might have some good draws like schools or a lack of fog. Yes, SF might have more LGBTQ folk. Neither of those are going to be a good explanation for the exodus.

Ultimately, I'm not sure cities see this as a problem that needs solving (regardless of what public officials might say to a reporter). I live in a similarly expensive city. Schools are expensive and I have no kids so that's a win for the city. I have high income and can bid up property values which is a win for the city. The city is building a lot of office space which pays very high property taxes while using comparatively few city resources (compared to residential). The abundance of jobs drives property values even higher which drives tax revenue to the city. Why would a city actually want kids?

I think a big driver of this in SF is that the software industry skews young. Software is a relatively new field unlike, say, medicine where you'll find a broader range of ages because computers have become a much bigger part of life more recently. Software can also be concentrated in certain cities in a way that doctors are going to be spread out a lot more. So, SF has an army of young, childless software engineers with more money than they know what to do with who might not have reached an age where they're thinking about saving willing to replace anyone looking to have kids who might move out.

So SF has no incentive to make it a better place for kids. If you want kids, leave and the city will replace you with a young childless person who can plunge their money into the city rather than asking for city services.

I think it's gone on too long to really course correct at this point. If you try to take steps to deal with housing prices, you're going to get a lot of opposition from your voters who have bought property in the city (and sunk their life savings into it). If I've paid $1M for a condo in SF, I don't want the city embarking on a big new plan to double the amount of housing. If anything, I want the opposite.

It's an unfortunate circumstance that wasn't addressed soon enough.
Proposition 13 caps the rate at which property taxes may increase. Unless a huge proportion of SF properties are being transferred (outside of a family), property taxes don't keep up with market rates.

San Francisco has notoriously strong NIMBYs that largely prevent new developments and redevelopments, which also suppresses tax base improvements.
Personal story here. I have a 2-year old, and used to own a condo in what is now called Mission Bay. Here are some factors that we had to consider when planning on a child:

-we are not sure how many children we want, and didn't want to lock ourselves into a lifestyle where that decision was driven by finances.

-our 1-bdm 900-sqft condo is not a bad size but still woefully undersized for 1, much less 2, children. The couple on the floor above us had a baby in their unit, and they told us it was hellish.

- there was a park nearby, which is nice, but the number of dogs we see reliving themselves on that patch of grass makes me think I'll never let my child play on that grass.

-people drive aggressively through my street, and I'd be terrified to let my child play on my sidewalk.

-it's really hard to find daycare in SF, and what you do find is expensive. A co-worker told me she got on a school's waiting list before she got pregnant. And when you do find a space, it'll be $2k+ per month per child.

-the public education system in SF is opaque and confusing; there is no assurance that your child will be sent to the school geographically closest, and everybody has a horror story about a friend's cousin's brother who moved away from SF after getting their child assigned to a terrible school across town. I don't know that I'll be able to afford private school if needed (and, see aforementioned comment about finances).

-when it comes right down to it, I want my child to have the sort of childhood I had, which is from a middle American suburb, with the parks, bike rides, and lemonade stands that that entails.

Are any of these 100% accurate? probably not. Maybe I was horribly misinformed. As you note, most of my info came from conversations with other people who already had kids. But that's how most people learn, and I imagine it's how others learn the info they use to make their decisions too. So here I sit, commenting from my home in the East bay. I miss SF, sure, but you know what? It's pretty nice out here, too.
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I strongly suspect the answer to "do you see a lot of children around" depends heavily on neighborhood.
The top cause of death in the United States is heart disease, which is also the most preventable. Assuming all causes of death have surgical intervention proportional to their occurrence in the population that would mean yeah, maybe not all, but there would be significantly less surgery if there were more prevention.

However, doctors only contribute slightly to the status quo. The food industry more generally is to blame. As well as the government, for subsidizing unhealthy things.
You're not on a Government watch list.

Start working on Tor, LavaBit, Wikileaks or any other technology initiative the Government sees as a risk, and see what happens. Alternatively you could also start acting as a publisher of leaked Government documents.
That sounds awfully expensive for what amounts to an elaborate prank. :)
A healthy person, absolutely if he is 30 years old. Now how will you handle the healthy 80 yo patient? Will you take the risk of a bacterial infection that may kill him, although he is now perfectly healthy and still doing hiking on a regular basis? Now what, if he is 1 year old?
I think you underestimate the potential impact of common infections. This is a grey zone. There is no correct answer. Everything depends on where you put your safety/futility cutoff for the treatment decision, which is what doctors are paid for.
Thank you for saying this.

You'd think the HN audience would be smart enough to actually look at evidence in regards to medicine, but there's a lot of Steve Jobs types who'd rather pay for a well placebo-ed death. I wouldn't mind if they weren't so insistent on preaching their bullshit everywhere they go and trying to pass it off as having any basis.

It's kinda disheartening to dedicate years and years to studying medicine, only to realize there's more money and satisfied patients to be made in hustling bullshit to new-age fools who will preach your crap right up until they die of an easily treated disease.
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> we must also allow people to pool their labor together to gain collective leverage and reap greater returns (also known as labor unions, worker protections, etc.). Having one without the other does not appear ethically justifiable to me, and rigging laws to strengthen one significantly at the expense of the other is similarly unjustifiable.

And free-market does not stop them in any way. In fact FM give them most freedom. So FM favours/disfavours none.
> If you fail to get a job, you will starve.

That sort of implies that you were born to have that job, and Comcast was formed to provide you with that job.

Furthermore, any job that pays more than minimum wage implies there was negotiating going on and either party was willing to walk away.
To get an insurer to want to maximize your health care, you have to guarantee that the insurer saves money if they make you healthy, and loses money if they don't.

If patients can switch insurers at any time, then an insurer that spends a lot of money on preventative care only sees a small fraction of the benefit; they lose it whenever the patient switches away. And if you spend 'too much' money on preventative care, you'll probably end up losing customers to cut-rate insurance providers with lower premiums.

If instead we could measure health perfectly, then you could set up a system where if a person is made unhealthier by an insurer, then the old insurer has to compensate the new insurer whenever someone switches. But we don't really know how to measure health, if by 'health' we mean having a low probability that a person will become sick in the near future; we usually can only notice once a person becomes sick.
> The multiverse approach (the universe forks at every quantum event, and all those universes continue to exist, forking further) is the default you end up at given what we know now.

No, this is absolutely wrong. There are entire families of solutions to the measurement problem and we have no firm idea which one is correct. There are even multiple mechanisms to get behavior that looks like this but is based on very different, often less weird, principles (see e.g. Einselection).

> It means most of the fundamental constants are arbitrary, for one thing.

No, this is wrong and unrelated. You're confusing two ideas. One is where the universe "forks", as you say, during eigenstate collapse, the other is that there is a space of universes with different physical constants. These are unrelated. Eigenstate collapse doesn't change physical constants.
it's not affordable for people to raise a family in your city

It's not quite as bad south of San Francisco. But still bad.

A while ago I worked in the Oregon office of a Bay Area high tech company. I was down in the Bay Area for a work/social occasion. I was sitting at a table with a group of engineers. It was dinner, so the talk turned from work to things like family.

And that's when I learned they were all "DINKs". Dual Income, No Kids.

This was years ago, and even then people in the Bay Area found it hard to afford children. The median price of houses has easily doubled since then.

It made me really sad. The Bay Area is just so different from most of the rest of the country.
I think you are correct. Also, the Kriegsmarine version had an extra rotor, plus they also used a secondary code book to encode keywords before encrypting on the Enigma.

Those were, from what I hear, much harder to break, thus the efforts to capture the code books and devices from the U-boats.
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On the other hand, if your salary history shows you were paid well, the company will realize you are likely more competent than your job history otherwise suggests, and that they should offer you more.
Its 2017 do we really need download accelerators? I remember them from 10 years ago when you really could get more out of your connection or more like more from the servers by downloading multiple chucks at once.

Looks like someone is exited to code in Rust, thats great but I see no need for this.
Perhaps HN needs a monthly "Who's firing?" thread.
You do realize the US was the driving force behind the creation and cohesion of the EU ?

It seems to me that lack of US support might turn out to be very, very bad for cohesion in the EU rather than good.
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And since that is the real reason that the EU welfare state is possible, they can't actually create an army without creating a revolution.
Rapid tests are not available for all types of infections. Furthermore, the doc may not want to risk superinfection with another bug if treating a fragile patient.
Rapid tests for strep throat are regulated by guidelines, and are part of standard care.
With 16 x 8TB drives, we are talking about 64TB usable space after erasure coding. Minio is designed to serve the needs of a single tenant - 64TB is usually much bigger than a single tenant's needs. However you often see 100s of thousands of such tenants in a cloud like environment.

Making a single large PB sized volume where the disks and nodes are managed like a blackbox by the filesystem is quite scary to us at Minio. Any crash means we blew up all the tenants at once. 1000s of individual Minio tenants means, we know when we add the million'th minio instance, it is not any more complex than the first instance of Minio.

Provisioning with k8s [1], mesos [2] or other external orchestration tools is better than Minio's own resource management system. When it comes to the applications, objects are just represented as URLs. Some data sitting on Amazon S3 and some on Minio makes no difference to the application.

We are also planning to introduce a namespace layer to work on top to combine these individual tenants into single namespace. This would allow you to transparently add new clusters as you scale without loosing the ability to have a single namespace.

We hang out at slack [3], please reach out if you have further questions.

[1] - https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/mini...
[2] - https://github.com/dcos/examples/tree/master/1.8/minio
[3] - https://slack.minio.io
I'm gonna call bullshit on this. It's unfortunate people are trying to spin this as negative because Trump is the one pulling out of it, but the TPP was never a good idea, and never good for anybody except big corporations.

The EFF has an entire page on why the TPP was bad. The secrecy was only one part of it. https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

Some HN headlines related to TPP:

"The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared"

"TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain"

"UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights"

"TPP could thwart computer security research and tinkering"

I'm going to stop there because people can search the history for themselves. Hate on Trump all you want, but he did the right thing here.
I believe that we have control over our personality.

Like exercise (to change your body), changing your personality takes time and conscious effort. You need to dedicate time every day for honest self-reflection, self-awareness, meditation, reading and education in the topic, etc.

There are two ways you can lose weight. Accidentally, by getting sick or stressed, for instance; and on purpose, through concerted diet and exercise. The same can happen with personality changes. It can happen accidentally, through change of environment or mental illness like depression.

But doing it on purpose seems more wholesome. Losing weight on purpose is better than losing it accidentally, even though the result is the same, because those people are healthy and the others aren't. Put another way: you shouldn't have to get sick to lose weight.

Everybody should spend some time daily on those mental health items above. It's exercise. Through it you can point your personality and mind in the direction you'd like it to go, and with hard work and patience you'll get there. As your mind gets healthier the less likely you are to become mentally ill. You'll avoid common issues like depression, substance abuse, anxiety and eating disorders.

I think mental illness is starting to become a public health crisis. I know so few people that aren't constantly stressed due to work or school, I've seen many people fall into legitimate depression and only recover after changing their environment (ie quitting their job).

It's said that half of adults experience depression at least once in their life. I bet it's more like 90%. It's like the flu. Pervasive, transmissible and contagious, with most victims recovering quickly, but a small percentage experiencing fatal cases. Now we have flu shots at every Walgreens.

It's time to do the same for mental health.
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I've observed what seems to be a growing sentiment among 20- to early 30-somethings that is... "child hostile" (?)—no babies or young children doing in public spaces what babies or young children are wont to do: cry, fuss, whine, speak loudly, etc. Just seemed to be a notable trend, especially when it came to places like restaurants and airplanes.

I'm not suggesting this is the sole root of the problem, just that it could be a factor when you have a city flush with a demographic that is probably the least likely, after teenagers, to want to stand out for the "wrong" reasons. Who wants to be "those people" at the trendy restaurant?
I've been on both sides - employer and employee. As an employer, the notion I had all this power over people is pretty eyebrow raising. If an employee didn't like something, he was out the door and there was nothing I could do about it. As an employee, if I didn't like something, I was out the door and there was nothing the employer could do about it.
A personal anecdote: I'm a uni student in my last year, and I was working on the first assignment for my networking class today, a small <100 LoC Java app, designed to (1) be a Java refresher and (2) introduce us to raw sockets.

Halfway through the assignment, once I'd figured out what the "protocol" for the communication was by messing with netcat, I found myself immediately writing a wrapper for sockets for the code, and couldn't help but wonder what my natural instinctive approach would have been if I had been writing the code in Python (the one language I actually have experience writing production code in).
https://www.channel4.com/news/trump-cyber-tsar-giuliani-amon...

Original investigative report that the linked article mentions. This version gives some more information, including that the leaked passwords were from mass breaches like those from LinkedIn and MySpace, not targeted attacks.

Unfortunately, it's still light on details as to which accounts may have reused passwords, whether the passwords in question were still in use, etc. This would be interesting to know from a "which staffers know what they're doing and which don't" point.
I don't agree with Peter Thiel often but I do agree with his quote mentioned in the article - SF is "structurally hostile to families."

As someone who is trying to raise school-age kids in San Francsico the insanity of the school lottery process is one of the greatest problems. We have so many friends who drive an extra hour every morning to take their kids to their algorithmically chosen school across the city. This when there is a great school in walking distance.

Don't get me started on Algebra. SF school district has banned algebra in middle schools.

My happiest friends with kids in the city home-school.

Public transportation is OK for adults, but if you have more than one kid good luck. That's why you see in this report that parents with kids are driving everywhere.

And of course, space. Since SF won't build, there is no space.

The parks are great, the playgrounds are great. Most neighborhoods give you everything you need in walking distance: park, playground, library, grocery. Except schools. You're going to drive past your local school to get to the "fairly chosen" one.

We had three candidates running for school board who supported neighborhood schools and an end to this madness. They all lost.
One argument I've seen is that although BLS provides many metrics, they consciously avoid several useful metrics that paint a realistic but negative picture of the economy. If I understand it, one big complaint is that "long term discouraged workers" are dropped from U6, and BLS does not publish a metric showing total labor force participation. I don't know enough about the details to assess know if this is true, but I thought this piece seemed like an objective criticism: http://www.shadowstats.com/article/c810x.pdf
> A free market is defined as an exchange where both sides have access to the same information.

I disagree - it's where neither party is using force or fraud.
SF children are also assigned a school via a lottery. Kids can't go to the school that's closest to them unless they get lucky. My co-worker was assigned a school with a terrible commute, so he reluctantly chose a private school instead.

I think it was done to improve racial/socioeconomic integration, but in practice it means wealthier parents withdraw from the system and send their kids to private schools instead.

The results: 58% of SF public school students are on free/reduced-price lunches, higher than the national average. That means they're in families making $43k for a family of four (quite tough in SF).

The racial impact is also striking. San Francisco is 42% white, but in 2013-2014, only 13% of SF public school students were white. That number is 9% for high schoolers.
I feel like we can trace the hyper-partisanship in America directly to the rise of Fox News.
They should name it Monty. A little humor will help with the tension.
What about some of the interesting domain names in the list featured on his website ? Some might tip off someone in a federal agency to have a look on the guy.
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I think this is an important data point given the powerful organizations that benefit from discrediting academics (especially in the current political climate) -- some of this is happening in climate research, and if it's also happening in physics that matters.

All of this reminds me a bit of the novel Three Body Problem where certain branches of academia (including hard sciences) are discredited as "too reactionary" or "reactionary philosophy."

The motives in some cases are clear: just as tobacco companies benefitted from the status quo, so now do oil companies.

However in physics, the motives may be more nuanced (and more of a territory capture that I don't understand).

Don't doubt for a second that legitimate climate researchers will be accused of doing fake research ... most likely within the year. I'm not sure what the physics community can do besides joining together against this and continually pushing back.

Let's stay transparent. Science is well-defined and important.
One other cause could be that silicon valley tech companies "is about infantilizing people" in the words of the late Aaron Swartz (about Google employees in this case).

They make it so easy to not know how to feed yourself, clean your clothes, or even make friends outside work. Now the decision to care for another human being becomes much much scarier.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googlife
Peninsula? I live here with my two kids, it's full of kids. Burlingame, San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos, redwood city, Menlo park all seem full of people who moved from the city when their oldest was ready for school.
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> SF school district has banned algebra in middle schools.

WTF? What's their rationale?
Its reliable enough that tons of businesses use it for their core operations, I know mine does. When the chips are down, there is a big, talkative community using it and I know at the very least I'll find an answer, whereas if this were MSSQL I know I would just be hosed (having been in a situation like that before).
We need to make sure we're not ignoring motives we don't understand. That happened in the Republican primary, the general election, and perhaps now, too.

Don't just look away from a very real concern.
Why is it stagnating though? Lack of talent? Lack of funding? Is it that all the lowest hanging fruit is gone and the problems are becoming intractable to solve?
This sounds like lifetime insurance. When you're healthy, you pay premiums. When you're sick, the insurance company has to spend a lot of money treating you. In a well functioning market, the insurance company would have great incentive to engage in preventative care to keep you healthy.
It's been known since the 50's that giving penicillin to livestock increases growth rate. Farmers have understood that and used that.

The antibiotics counters and interacts in all sorts of ways we don't really understand (similar to how we don't really, really understand how the human gut works), but one of the ways it surely works is to counter problems caused by unsuitable living conditions.

Ending crop subsidies is probably a good idea in most of the world, but it certainly won't solve the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture.