skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you partly right, you do need to pay for at least daycare, and retirement. It varies, but around 15% of your salary should go towards retirement and even if you employer pays part of you retirement that normally include in the statistic for house hold income.

The four zip code, with the higher average income also have an average price per square meter of 7000USD, so that's of cause a little less than in the Bay Area, assume the 8000USD per square meters I saw a while back is correct.
Their blog posts about search are kind of the same. Reading anything google tells us about their search algorithm feels like I'm churning through countless iterations of PR spin, rather than actually learning anything new (contrary to, for example, how backblaze blog posts are packed with info).
Ya, true enough. Most people want to believe what they want to believe.
> Feynmen

What an interesting world we would live in if there really were a plural of Feynman. :-)
I wonder if Jay Z is selling

Jay Z once wired money to Mr. Michael in an attempt to invest even more in Uber. Mr. Michael and Mr. Kalanick, giddy at rebuffing a celebrity, wired some of the money back, saying they already had too many interested investors. Representatives for Jay Z did not respond to requests for comment.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanic...
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8) as a resident, kids have year round disney passes

What? Surely you pay for those?

Also what about the humidity? Every time I've been there it's like a sauna.
Or it could be simply that he wants to understand the people of the country better. After Trump's election he may be surprised by the outcome, and instead of cursing intelligence of people who voted him, he just wants to understand the perspective.

I know Zuckerberg is not a well liked on HN, but still if we consider his previous resolutions of reading book, running, building AI. Most are simple without ulterior motives of ruling the world.
> Somebody did the math and determined that people without mobile numbers weren't worth the support cost.

While I'd normally agree I'm not sure that Yahoos decision making process should be the role model regarding optimizing user growth. Their lack of users was not a minor issue.
If it makes you feel any better, remember that a lot of these people would be preaching Anglicanism in Hawaii if they'd been born 150 years ago.
CA should simply mandate that all taxpayers carry a jar of Vaseline. To make sure the objects of their oppression don't chafe needlessly during their reparations exercises.
First: XML is a markup language for encoding documents, JSON is a data-interchange language. Each can be twisted to do the job of the other, but they don't naturally do the same job.

Second, XML is extraordinarily complicated. Flipping around the XML 1.0 spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/) isn't really encouraging me that all of this is there for a reason. I'd love to be proved wrong though!

In contrast, RFC 7159 is incredibly short and readable: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159. The TJSON spec isn't bad either: https://www.tjson.org/spec/. Even combining both the result is still far shorter and more clear than XML.
I have been in bay area for the last 4 years. I moved to bay area for better opportunity. As an Indian, I find bay area more conducive. I moved from deep south (Alabama). Our combined family income is around 350K and with that we were able to afford a very good home in east bay in good school district. I think, the perspective needs to change. If you come to bay area, you are coming here for opportunity in the tech world and it's not going to be easy here. There are many talented people here and to make it here, you have to compete and compete hard.
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You know, maybe not. Even in the excelsior, a 1200sf ft house that is liveable (not remodeled highly, just liveable) will run you $900k. It can go up from there easily.

It's possible, I suppose... You'd need to be a one income family at 100k, because there's no way you could cover that and child care. But yeah, a stay at home spouse and a working spouse who brought in 100k might be able to make it work south of 280.

EDIT: just realized you said Bay Area, not San Francisco. That changes things.
I fail to see how this is an issue, but even if I concede the point, she still brought the stock up and created an exit for shareholders.

The goal of a resurgent Yahoo seems to only have been one shared by outside observers.
Turning down that deal was what got Yang booted. He hates Microsoft for historical reasons (as did we all) and refused to take what was an obviously great deal. Afterwards, Microsoft decided to compete and the offer was never available again.
I did a thing that don't scale. I wrote emails to my potential customers, not cold emails but real emails.
Note: this article is from 2012
> Georgia drivers ... can't. I jest. But seriously...

Triggered Atlantan
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That's tricky indeed. And doing things properly seems quite involved.

For now I'll keep my limits.h. At least until I get a real-world bug-reports telling me this is causing real-world issues :)
For those wondering why a five year old article is on HN today, you can thank Taylor Swift:

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/85669833453010944...
"Trawling through data, running lots of statistical tests, and looking only for significant results is bound to turn up some false positives."

That's most of the field of macroeconomics. It's all data analysis, not controlled experimentation.
That's great, this should be helpful for people to get up and running with React without getting bogged down by the tools/config. Just my honest feedback though:
The lesson "Why Just React" should be a part of the preview. It would be hard for me to pay for the tutorial without that information.

Anyway, I've just completed the free React Fundamentals course on reacttraining.com by Tyler McGinnis. What resource would you recommend to dive deeper with React (learn best practices to make complex web applications)?

Thanks!
That is a fair point. Instead of the word "quite", it might have been better to use the word "more".
If there's one last thing we need in threads like this it's more national slurs. Please don't do anything like this on HN.

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This seems great. I'm a big fan of open source but I often hear criticisms from people who are deathly afraid that they can't make money if their source is libre.

Do you have anything to say about the difficulties of running an open source shop? Do you worry about competitors taking your code and standing up their own sites?
Really good article.

It's interesting that right now, we're trying to make learning easier. Gamification, bite-sized lengths, multi-sensory ... they all have merits but no one in edtech is talking about instilling a habit of grit. Not all knowledge is presented in a silver dish !

And not to be Luddite but technology has made us more detached [1], so emulating the Japanese amae will also not be easy.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39666863
When you hide a shared link, you can tell Facebook to hide all links from that domain, forever. It takes surprisingly few blanket bans from the big clickbaity domains before your feed gets back to showing mostly original content.
The University of Minnesota did a study on cross-device emoji interpretation.

https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m...

Many of the really common emojis have very different emotional connotations on different devices. For example "Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes" is viewed much more negatively by Apple users -- probably because the face looks like its grimacing, rather than grinning.
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with exponential support! https://github.com/amoffat/dockerbomb/commit/2b474f2d97ddf3d...
It just comes down to the math of living in a high cost/high compensation area. Your standard of living is highly dependant on the ratio of high economic productivity earners in your unit.

I know plenty of young engineers who are easily socking away 60 - 70% of their post tax income because they basically need a futon to sleep on and a macbook and don't really have many needs. After 5 years or so, they'll have half a million in the bank free and clear which is hard to do anywhere else in the country.

Now add it a spouse who works in non-profits or is a schoolteacher or any other job that's not tech. Now your expenses have risen 2x but your collective earnings has only risen 1.3x and now you're only saving 20% of your income.

Add in a kid and your expenses go up another 50% and your income rises not a jot and all of a sudden, you're in the hole and heading into debt.

Low cost/low compensation locations completely flip this equation around since there's no huge disparity in earnings and large families are less of a relative strain.

Neither is intrinsically better or worse than the other, they simply suit different lifestyles better.
I was in a class where the required book was written by the professor. However, fortunately, the book was really fantastic and better than any other book I have seen. Plus it was like $15.

I think he wrote the book so that students didn't have to spend money on a huge textbook containing information they don't need. This book had everything you needed for the class and not much more.
I mean, my COMBINED income with my partner is around $160k. This isn't a whole lot of money in a large city, and especially not with children.
Fluid-filled ‘biobag’ allows premature lambs to develop outside the womb
Curiously, Absinthe (which is made from Artemisia - aka Wormwood) was a malaria preventative for the French Foreign Legion[1] which presumably did increase the willingness of patients to take it, at least.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe#Rapid_growth_of_Frenc...
Burlington if you want both size and cool vibe (Vermont native here).
Serious counter question; Why is nobody talking about cost? Cars are very expensive... is self-driving tech going to increase or decrease the cost of a vehicle? Do people generally want more freedom or less freedom choice?

Why does everyone assume the cost will decrease with scale? How many people can afford a Tesla right now? Let alone a fully autonomous car?

If flying were more affordable and less strict more people would own their own plane. It isn't and they don't. I see self-driving cars a lot like airplanes and John Deere tractors. That is, expensive proprietary tech that you have no control over. No thank you.

Why does everyone assume that most people want to share a vehicle?
Running a SAAS business made me realize that no matter what, you will always lose customers. The goal is to ensure that you don't lose too many very quickly. You can never assume that once a customer joins you, they won't leave. We had some of our best customers leave because their circumstances changed. Things happen. Not because of us necessarily. Just that they didn't need to do that anymore.

Customer retention is probably THE hardest thing in running a business other than hiring and retaining talent.
I don't think someone on £70k, paying rent, would be able to build up that kind of deposit.
If it's not a validator, then what's the value? Why would I use this?

I assume the TJSON libraries throw errors if invalid types or formats are provided --- which is good, but that makes this a validator. Developers have been representing non-standard formats in JSON for years.

Google's response to JSON's limitations was the Protocol Buffer [1], and as I understand it, it's used internally relatively extensively, but there hasn't been much adoption outside of Google. JSON is just the right mix of simple + robust for the majority of use cases.

[1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
Where are you renting near London (so you can work that same job) that you can both pay that AND save 60K?

Considering that looking at similar 3 bedrooms to those suggested for purchase gives rates of around £1350 / month. Even putting aside another 1/3 of your income (high) still leaves you looking at 5+ years to save a deposit.
The GNU Hurd approach to PATH_MAX is to set it to something ridiculous like SIZE_MAX, something that cannot possible be allocated, to illustrate to programmers that it is a fiction.

I don't think that's necessarily the best approach, but it matches reality more closely than typical Linux/BSD values (1024 or 4096).
for one, getting your license could be more than just a formality, and be more rigorous.
When ordinary people take a job and fail, even when the job itself is impossible, they don't get rewarded. CEOs shouldn't be treated differently is my point.
If it was impossible and the company couldn't be salvaged, there was no compulsion for her to take the driver's seat. If she was hired to sell the company and she accomplished that, then I'm fine with her getting rewarded. If she was hired to turn the company around, but if instead, she drove it to the ground and ultimately sold, then she does not deserve the reward.
There is something to add, which is the tech community is remarkably complacent about all of it, and the leaders in our community aren't doing much to support pro-housing causes.

Higher up I posted a list of actions we can take today to help make housing more affordable in the Bay Area.
Mortgage rates are fundamentally unpredictable, you can't assume that they'll revert to a 30 year average.

However what mortgage lenders do is "stress test" at 5%-6.5% that means they evaluate if you'd be able to afford to pay the mortgage + cover your essential costs (food, energy, etc.) if rates rose to those levels.

It's essentially a worse-case assumption to ensure you wouldn't be bankrupt if that happened, not whether you'd be comfortably off at that level.

If interest rates were to rise in 5-10 years time don't forget you could also remortgage to a longer time period to significantly reduce monthly payments if you needed to.

Rates aren't going to jump overnight; if they rise it'll likely be a long slow-rise by which point you should have already paid down a meaningful percentage of your mortgage.
I taught a calculus class the the department had mandated
be managed with MyMathLab. There is a kernel of a good idea in these subject-specific course content management systems, key among them is they give a reasonable way to actually manage homework for large course sections. I tended to grade HW very lightly, I just want them to have their head in the space a small bit every few days, and MML was a way to make that manageable for a section of 70+ students without losing my mind.

But the execution is so half-assed that it not only turns off students from the platform, but it runs the risk of turning them off to the actual subject matter as well. The whole thing had the stench of static requirements doc to a sub-contractor to a sub-contractor development pipeline with little to no end-user (that is, students, not department administrators) feedback in the development cycle.

It's a bit like self-driving cars in a way. The execution is everything, and the half-way hybridized situation is the most dangerous for the end-user. And the missed execution to me smells a bit like an arms race between Pearson, Wiley, etc. to get their platforms out and entrenched with individual departments before each other.
Great point. Let's regress backwards. San Francisco's housing crises and living cost is self inflicted by limiting supply.
How many people realistically go from a "flatshare" to a "3 br home" in one step like that?
Unfortunately it's pretty slow as it has to rebuild the docker image in each child - this could be made better by dumping the image and passing it in in the docker context
The precision this needs is mind boggling. Same for LiGO where they have pick up movements a fraction of the size of a proton.
I'm happy to see that my server side rendered react site is cheaper in every country other than my own. In most countries less than a cent.
If the camera was on and recording it could be argued it was with purpose and not merely "passing through the airspace".
Have you seen my Son project? (https://github.com/seagreen/Son) I think I may have gotten JSON canonicalization right.

Also, I'm collecting a list of all subsets of JSON here if anyone knows of more: https://housejeffries.com/page/7

EDIT: Wow there's a lot of criticism in this thread. For the record I think TJSON is great.
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I'd love to know what games the author has played in the last decade.

Gone Home was nearly universally hated outside of media outlets, and is hardly a game in the first place; so it's interesting he brings it up as a shining example.
I'm basing my course this quarter on one from Northeastern, where Ben Lerner has written a pretty impressive set of notes, the latter half of which are data structures content:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/course/cs2510/Lectures.html

The NEU course assumes that students have taken How to Design Programs in Racket, so the early notes refer to Racket syntax. I'm working on notes for a Racket-less introduction that uses the same tools for my course right now:

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp17/cse11-a/Lectures.html

These notes also rely on a particularly good testing library that is capable of doing things like comparing objects for structural equality without requiring that students define a .equals() method first, which can be incredibly helpful for getting off the ground.
if you take out alcohol and cell phones, you've reduced 70-80% of driving related fatalities with those two alone.
You get used to the heat and humidity after a while.
She also made all Yahoo's products dramatically worse -- at least, she ruined the ones I used via the web. That applies to Flickr, Email and Yahoo Finance in particular.

The general approach appeared to be to make things look prettier while destroying their usability.

If there was anything she actually improved, I missed it.
"Which fighters do you have in mind that explicitly don't do weight training?"

The fighters at my gym.

I guess I can't say for certain what the pros do or do not, but I assume some of the competition amateurs I see are doing the best they can. And they look like it. And I know that guys like Conor McGregor have made statements about doing purely "functional exercise". I'm sure some pro fighters weight-train, because it has obvious benefits. It's also hard to sustain muscle in a cardio-focussed sport.

I'm definitely a weight-training advocate, as well. I'm a believer that in order to "get stronger" you have lift heavier and heavier things. That's only really feasible at the gym. I try to get there a couple times a week.

On the other hand, so many people who are starting out try to get some heavy duty "system" in place before they feel they can begin. I see these people at the gym; there for 2 hours, putting everything in their phone, not even working up a sweat. It's not that complicated; just do work.
It does not, i'm sorry.
Let me know if it feels better with clight compared to redshift though; may be different algorithms lead to different (hopefully better) results!
In case anybody else is confused:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Hospital_of_Phila...
Hi, it's a transcription of my recent talk where I'm asking a question if we can experience data instead of just counting it or treating as just raw numbers. We are using various health and wellbeing data, live streamed social network activity and even track a colony of naked mole-rats. All works were done in PEX http://pex.gl (our own webgl/js library) and D3 http://d3js.org.
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Where do all the SV teachers, garbage truck drivers, police etc live? How long is the commute for a single person working at a grocery store checkout in SV?
You're refuting the wrong point here. It's not that business involves no skill. It's that the difference between competitors can be due to random chance.

Two people could have equal ability to make decisions - some good, some bad. In some fields of endeavor, they might succeed about equally.

But in startupland, it's easy for one wrong decision to kill the business, so they are removed from ever trying again. Or one right decision could cause them to experience accelerating returns – which compensates for all the other dumb mistakes, and eventually kills off their competitors.

So, paradoxically, the more cutthroat the environment, and the more exponential the possible returns, the less we can use survivorship as evidence of superior skill.

Note that I'm not saying a successful businessperson is unskilled. It's just that it's not conclusive evidence of superior skills.
Agreed, I should have been more precise.
I get the feeling that tech people no longer have reasonable understandings of cost of living. I live in the PNW and could keep my current nice standard of living on a $60k salary (as a single person). I cannot think of a scenario where I would need two six figure incomes unless I really ramped up spending (private school, nicer car, nicer house).
Could be worse. I've found a piece of metal in a burrito and there was a recall for possible glass in a brand of ravioli I eat.
"...Your previous relationship with Smarterer...."

What was your previous relationship with Smarterer ? Can you clarify ?
I think you're mixing cultural identity and historical identity.

Sure the first one is built on top of the second but mostly it's a by-product of society. People mostly become what they're surrounded by not because they're expert in history.

Yes, there's no question there's a French cultural identity (and one could argue the French from Europe and the French from North America are two different animals but it's a different matter), but that's not what the book is about.

The book is putting in question the French "heritage". Not the fact French people think they're French.
Ha ha, good one. It is good that they love nature and it is nice if there are good companion apps. Some I saw, are not that great, so there is clearly need for more apps.
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> Wikinews just summarizes current events.

Not true. It has original reporting, too.

* https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting

I wrote an original reporting article for Wikinews once.
I make just over six figures in the southeast, and I definitely have a blessed and comfortable lifestyle (no kids, no debt). I can imagine the equation changes drastically once kids/family are involved. I've visited San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, and LOVE the cities. But according to CNN's cost of living calculator, I'd have to make a base salary of almost $190k to have a similar lifestyle in San Fran and Seattle. That seems borderline absurd!
I have to ask: 8000ft²? What are you doing with all that space? Are you Mormon?
I don't think it has anything to do with size or population. Compare Canada with Australia. Canada's area is roughly 10 million km^2. In 2015, the population of Canada was ~36 million (3.6 people/km^2). Australia has an area of 7.7 million km^2 and a 2015 population of 24 million (3.1 people/km^2).

These numbers don't even take into consideration of the fact that 75% of all Canadians live within 200 km of the US border. Assuming the population in the south subsidizes the cost for expanding to remote locations it's hard to believe we need to pay as much as we do.

Canadians pay too much because the big companies like Bell and Rogers control the networks and push out competition. They charge as much as they want and we just accept it.

I currently do not own a cellphone (even though I'd like one) because I'm not willing to pay the fees.