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Are you thinking about adjusting the salaries as well?

I mean, it sounds like a win-win situation to me. If a family can save, say, $3,000 a month on rent, and the company can save, say, $1,500 on an engineers salary, both are actually better off.

I guess the risk of moving out of the Bay Area is that you somehow are betting your future on a single company. If you decide to get a new job, you might be too far away from a decent tech hub. Another issue for families is moving both working partners. If the partner works at a company that might not be as flexible or open, moving somewhere else is going to be a tough decision, as it's always going to be better to have 2 jobs in the Bay Area, than just one outside of it.
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Imo housing first has always been the best option. Think about how hamstrung people feel trying to conduct their lives out of hotels... now imaging being homeless.
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All but the most IP-sensitive code at Google is visible to all Googlers, yes. And being able to tell what code is being executed by what machines in production is required for ops and reliability reasons in any big company anyway. But most important of all, it doesn't make sense to make what's arguably the best private security team write your defenses, to then not use them.
There is a main difference. Instead of sorting those results on the best fit for what I am looking for they are sorting them based upon the highest bidder.
You are right that sometimes these results are similar but these days when I ask Google a question about products I pretty much only get to know about the ones that were willing to pay Google to inform me of them. Great for Google but only ok for me and the product company.
Eh... the difference is when there's photos of war crimes something often actually happens. When it comes out that there were business crimes, no a whole lot ever happens. Maybe someone resigns. Real justice happening there...

Don't get me wrong, things slip by on both fronts. But when it's financial, there isn't any sense of moral/righteous indignation to incite actual action. It's more like, "oh, bankers are screwing people again? Well, that's what they do. They'll just worm out of this like they do everything else."
> so there's a possible that the visible universe is a black hole?

No. The universe is expanding. If it were a black hole, it would not be expanding. The calculation of how much mass has to be inside what radius in order to form a black hole assumes that the matter is static (or collapsing); if it's expanding, the calculation is meaningless.
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People would be shocked if they knew how frequently soldiers put themselves in grave danger (and die) to avoid violating their command's ROI and the laws of land warfare.
I'm not involved in any package manager development, but this strikes me as extremely arrogant. Successful package managers are most definitely not a dime a dozen, and the skills required to make one and maintain it over years are something which the majority of engineers at Google (or anywhere) do not possess. There's a lot more to software engineering than working on the hardest of the hard tech problems, and being very successful on the social side is a huge asset that no company should discount based on the theoretical difficulty of the problem being solved.
If an airport can't get a dog under control, I would be a little worried about the rest of the security.
I'm going to guess they looked at things and found that 80% of the ratings were either 5 stars or 1 star. (edit - not that this is a good thing.. I'm guessing they could have carved out the 2-4 star ratings and did its own data analysis that probably provided much more nuanced information)
Does the employee's chosen "de-location" need to be approved? E.g. would Zapier prefer Pittsburgh to Moab?
Wikipedia is pretty good. The page for "consensus algorithm" has links for Paxos and Raft.

The basic idea is how to coordinate multiple independent agents over an unreliable network. For example, multiple servers trying to manage a shared database. Lots of HN people know about this because it's a key building block of reliable and scalable cloud computing.
I'm not looking forward to a world where I have to like "boyhood" and "pirates of the Caribbean" the same amount. What a joke.

Of course, Netflix solves this by removing the quality content....
I love that gimmick and play lots of metroidvanias, but it's also refreshing for the Zelda series to try something else. They've been locked into a very specific formula for 2 decades. I haven't played BotW yet, but Link Between Worlds remixed the formula a bit (no mandatory dungeon order etc) and I loved that game.
> It would be totally plausible to have supermassive black holes inside of universe-sized black holes

No, it wouldn't. You can't have one black hole inside another one. A black hole is a region from which light can't escape to infinity. There can't be such a region inside another one; that makes no sense.
Not a vet, eh?
Ah, right. Like a weekly maid versus a live-in maid.

Still, as far as I know, the safety of standard commercial airlines is much better than both charters and private planes. Without the regulators to monitor the maintenance and pilots, it turns out people take more risks.
I would guess in places where biking is extremely common (like Denmark and Holland), it's also a lot safer to bike (dedicated bike lanes, etc.)
Same here: best Zelda, best game ever. Don't play a lot but with BOTW spent the first days playing continuously without noticing it was already dark outside.
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Just fyi, you were presumably thinking of incur rather than infer.
100% remote gigs are intrinsically riskier and lower paying. You compete with every worldwide Tom, Dick, or Harry who is capable of remaining awake during business hours. Low visibility in a mixed office makes you the first fired and last promoted.

Limiting your job search to 100% remote is a great way to unexpectedly find yourself earning eastern European wages while paying midwestern U.S. living costs. Or, worse, being forced to change geography when the work dries up.

We all know "that guy" who moved his family cross-country, put the kids into new schools etc only to come back to the city a couple years later, when the "perfect" remote gig ended, or the single employer in Nowhere, KS eliminated their local technology group.
I wonder if better/more accessible health care would eliminate homeless as a side effect. It seems much of the homeless in Boston, anyway is mental health/health related.

I doubt anyone will say that what Utah did here is bad, but you have to wonder what's preventing a more comprehensive solution (the answer is politics, but ideally you'd get a more specific answer).
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I have it for Wii U as well. It runs pretty well, though 1080p would be nicer than 720p. If you don't have a Wii U already, getting into the system might not be easy right now unless you can find good used stuff. Many of the major retailers just cleared out of Wii U systems and official accessories.
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uhhh... who here has yet to adopt a radical fuck-all-ads-always-and-forever-i-dont-care-if-you-go-out-of-business attitude? if you're not already blocking all ads wherever you possibly can, you can expect zero privacy and a lot of invasive advertisements and surveillance. and it'll annoy you.

seriously, fuck em. if they go broke, they'll ask you to pay for their service. that might be what needs to happen to restore privacy: throw money at them so that they don't need to sell you out.
> In real live at small scales the continuity gets broken

This is a common speculation in quantum gravity, but at this point that's all it is: a speculation. We have no evidence that spacetime is not continuous. And given the predicted scale at which continuity would break down if the quantum gravity speculations are correct (about twenty orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest scale we can currently probe), we aren't likely to be able to test those speculations any time soon.
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Gryadka is less than 500 but supports membership change :) yet 3 hours on it is quite impressive
I think that this is cause mainly by the fact, that Leslie Lamport had first written "The one time parliment", which was said to be complex because of the language he used there. I think this is the main cause, as now there are a lot of materials available to understand Paxos.
The parent explicitly hypothesised a conscious program.

You can argue that such a thing is impossible, but assuming that it is, arguing that such a program would be comparable to a shell script is facile.
Wars are fought not only by the aggressors. And the aggressor can be acting to prevent amoral behavior (attacking a state which is engaging in slavery/genocide of its people, but one might argue that is an act of war in the moral sense).

If one accepts that acting in a war in such a capacity is the more moral choice than inaction, then it makes sense to talk about the ethics of war, such as: when is lethal force against enemy combatants acceptable, what weapons of war have justifiable risks?
The copy button is still broken for me on 54.0a2, W10, no flash, no addons. I'm talking about the third icon in the animation well "Generate code".

You're right regarding the downloads! I must be super silly or this is slightly counter intuitive, didn't even notice the sidebar and the download page that requires you to "fav" animations first. And go figure, the copy button works there.
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After you hand Comcast your money, you can also watch their content on your phone or tablet, anywhere, both live and on-demand. You can also use the phone or tablet to access what's on your DVR. Comcast is actually doing a good job of making it quite easy to watch the content on any device.
I guess it should be noted, though, that the choice being perverse doesn't mean the outcome is obvious. I, for one, generally will just refrain from contacting you if the only contact info I have is a gmail address, if it's not exceptionally important for me.
I can second this, in particular if 1) you like Nintendo games, and 2) you haven't played all the Wii and Wii U titles (or perhaps even GameCube).

I bought the Wii U even though I could've bought the Switch. It's my first Nintendo console since the Gameboy Advance (SP) and GameCube, and I'm very happy with my decision (giddy, even).

Here's a few arguments in favor of getting a Wii U:

- you can play all the WiiU and (most?) Wii titles. Even just the first-party ones are worth it: Metroid Prime Trilogy, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wind Waker HD, Mario 3D World, Mario Galaxy (1 and 2), Mario Kart, Wii Sports, and so on, along with and admittedly small selection of great third-party titles.
- through the Virtual Console you can also play a pretty decent selection of N64, NES, SNES, Gameboy Advance, and DS games. This gives you access to many if not most of Nintendo's Zelda, Mario, Paper Mario and Metroid titles, among others, as well as tons of games that at the very least have high nostalgia value (although the first party ones are generally highly acclaimed too).
- there's a decent amount of 'indie' titles available, although I suspect that to be quickly eclipsed by the Switch.
- based on (ridiculously extensive) googling around before making the decision, it seems that Breath of the Wild is just as good on the WiiU as it is on the switch, with the one big (but to me unimportant) exception of resolution (900p on Switch, 720p on WiiU). Plus, for now at least it's better than the 900p docked version for Switch, performance wise. But that might be fixed with a firmware update.

Basically, the Wii U is at this moment the ultimate Nintendo console. And even if (or when, really) they start offering these games for the Switch, I consider it unlikely that they'll support Wii games on account of having to support the Wii controls (remote + nunchuck).

All that said, obviously the Switch is far superior when looking forward (WiiU is discontinued, even) and for mobile play. If those things don't matter too much, I'd say get a WiiU even if you can get a Switch, and sell it once Mario Odyssey or some other new game you want comes out. The WiiU will probably retain much of its value, even as your 'retro-gaming machine' to handle all the weird control schemes Nintendo has been going through lately.
Since commas are used for apposition, it's unclear whether the author's mother is Ayn Rand.
How do you know what metric Netflix are optimising?
Thank you, I'm not a native speaker :)
And at least a few praising them as a refreshing new alternative to blah blah blah, or something.
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Each has odd exceptions that have to be thought about, and each is polarizing.

In both cases I really wonder: why the insistence on adding to cognitive load?
Shouldn't it be: (agree I (with you))?
> star ratings on Amazon Products and Yelp Locations have the exact same distribution

Source?
Perhaps it's just my selective biases, but I feel like I am reading about more notable people in the tech industry speaking out in favor of privacy over the past couple months than even when the Snowden revelations happened in 2013.

Could this possibly be a tipping point for adtech as a revenue model? (Although I've been reading about it for almost a year now [1], [2], [3]) I'd like to hope so, and am also curious: how invasive can companies be before consumers start to push back?

[1] http://digiday.com/marketing/copyranter-ad-tech-bubble-explo...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/41zyoo/why_i_bel...
[3] https://kalkis-research.com/google-end-of-the-online-adverti...
'Insider trading' isn't really a law in a very straight forward sense. And it's a pretty stupid one, even if it were properly legislated.
My point is to provide another perspective on what is the real entry barrier to backend programming.

Many people underestimate backend programming, and underestimate technologies only because they make use of a some scripting language like JavaScript, Ruby or Python.

I have seen millions of dollars wasted and jobs lost because of the harmful idea that backend development is for everyone and that anyone can do it after some simple training.

Production-strength backend development has become more productive because of better tooling, but not any easier. It still requires plenty of domain knowledge, discipline, rigor and attention to detail.

A functional prototype for a small startup might not strictly require a lot of rigor, but load test it or throw some millions of daily active users at it, or get a pen tester to see if it's secure enough or just advertise it and start receiving malicious users to see if holds up.
Can only second this, but my favorite was the SNES before.
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Yeah, that site is indeed one of the worst offenders. Try a fluid dynamics textbook. I genuinely don't think you understand what I'm saying. Air isn't magic fairy dust that pushes on airfoils from a distance. Pressure is impact.
I decided I cared less about this considering that I (and many others) already have a Google listening device with me more often than I'm in my kitchen: an Android phone.
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> I feel like star ratings, if just given in general, are pretty useless for anything that has multiple qualities.

This is only true when those star ratings are taken out of context. Individual reviewers can have completely coherent star ratings that are very useful for making determinations.

The golden age of Netflix discoverability, for me, was back when they added social networking features. I connected my account with many friends and family and was really able to get a sense for everyone's taste in movies. When it came time to discover new movies/tv to watch, I'd open up the ratings history for someone who's tastes I felt aligned with the mood that I was in. Some of my friends would only rate high quality content with 5 stars, others would typically rate mass market, mindless entertainment with 5 stars and others tended to include a lot more 5-star reviews within a certain genre. Over time, I got a feel for that and could use it to my advantage.

But when you remove that individual context and only aggregate 5 star reviews across a massive population who all view the 5-star scale in their own way, you get that uselessness that you talked about. Some people may reserve 5-star ratings for truly extraordinary content, but Netflix doesn't weight those ratings any more highly than the 5-star ratings of someone who rates nearly everything as 5 stars. This makes the ratings that Netflix displays meaningless. But that's only because Netflix's current methodology makes them meaningless, not because they're inherently meaningless.
I can safely say up/down voting is pretty terrible across all social media. You end up with HN and Reddit: popularity contests. Meanwhile, popular movies are rarely the ones worth watching, and the top 100 movies on metacritic is a grab bag of (great) movies that probably don't fit your taste profile.

Meanwhile, I have to like all the things the same amount. This is just going to lead to me not rating the vast majority of mediocre content on the platform.

Why not let you choose as a user?
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I think it's a fair assessment, since setting up a self hosted solution generally costs money and may not be as safe/secure as something Google has. I probably wouldn't host my own solution to most things if there is a version available that isn't too costly.

Currently I avoid Google as much as possible because I don't want them to have my information in exchange for a service; I'd rather pay some money for a service that won't siphon my data and use it for various, advertisement based purposes (it's not surprising but it's kinda terrible that they put ads on a device you paid a bit of money for). The reason I stick with Facebook is that there isn't as much of a solution otherwise, but I do try to use alternative messaging apps (Line, Wechat, Kakao, iMessage) when possible.
> if you think about a typical large, star sized, black hole than you can see how degenerate matter in the center

There is no degenerate matter in the center of a black hole; it's vacuum inside. A black hole is not an ordinary static object with "stuff" inside, that happens to have a radius smaller than the Schwarzschild radius for its mass. It's a fundamentally different kind of thing: it's made of spacetime curvature, and that's all.

> In case of a black hole the process doesn't stop and as more and more mass comes in the degeneracy goes further/higher with the neutrons being pushed into even higher energy levels and starting to be teared apart into separate quarks and gluons, and as even more mass/energy comes in the quarks get teared apart even further one from another with the new pairs of quarks appearing as a result... That would provide the pressure opposing collapse into singularity.

There have been speculative models along these lines, but none of them have any experimental support.

> that boiling quark-gluon soup looks suspiciously like something that is hypothesized as what was in the beginning of our Universe

Same comment--there are speculative models along these lines, but none of them have any experimental support. Figuring out a way to test these models, as well as many other different speculative models of the very early universe, is an open area of research in cosmology.
>... though it'll probably sell like hotcakes

For a while. Then the novelty/fad factor will wear off and people will realize that it's mediocre hardware, the screen scratches if you put it in the dock too forcefully, the battery life is abysmal compared to an iPad, and the game selection is arguably worse. Then sales will fall off a cliff, just like they did with the original Wii.
> Where does the concept of "falsification" come from? Karl Popper was a philosopher.

Karl Popper didn't invent falsifiability, he discovered it. This could have happened to anyone -- Popper happens to have been that one. The influence of the falsifiability idea eclipses its source. If we lose Popper, if he turns out to have some glaring personal defect that would end the career of a politician, falsifiability remains. The reason? Falsifiability is an idea, and ideas don't have parents.

Henry Ford invented efficient production-line methods. He was also a rabid anti-Semite. Does this character defect undermine the value of efficient production methods? Only if we try to associate ideas with their originators, or imagine some connection between the two.

This is how it works in the realm of ideas -- ideas are the focus, not those who express them.

In philosophy we talk about Popper or Foucault or Derrida. In science we talk about biology or evolution or physics.

There are an infinity of primes -- easily proven. Who first had this idea? Not important -- the idea stands on its own.

> You are right that most philosophical statements are not falsifiable, but that simply means they are not scientific according to a definition of science that assumes all scientific statements are falsifiable.

Yes, and that's how science is defined. No falsifiability, no science. But this requires us to imagine a world in which ideas have a life of their own.

> In short, you haven't really said anything ...

A perfect philosophical rejoinder. All ideas are constructed on a foundation of sand and no particular idea has more persuasiveness than another. Falsifiability is an idea. Therefore ...

Therefore why not take the next step and try to claim that all ideas are subjective, that we can't expect to meaningfully express and share ideas, or let reality-testing rank them in an objective way? In short, why not accept the postmodern thesis? The answer is that postmodernism contradicts the very idea of meaningful, productive conversation, conversation that might lead to a social good. To address the postmodern thesis is to fatally undermine the exchange in which it's introduced -- an exchange that requires the very thing postmodernism denies.

Meanwhile, outside philosophy, we have the recourse of testing our ideas against reality and letting reality rank the ideas for us. According to reality, natural selection shapes the biological world, and the identity of the people who stumbled on this idea is irrelevant. According to reality, there is no ether carrying light waves -- in spacetime theory, no medium is required -- and this idea's originator doesn't matter. When you understand the equations of relativity theory, you have learned the topic, and Einstein's having abandoned his first child can't undermine the idea or degrade its value.

But all that requires us to accept the idea that there is an objective, shared reality about which meaningful conversation is possible. As it happens, among philosophers this idea hasn't taken hold.