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I'm a Texan looking to move out of state because I'm transgender and our legislature wants to make it impossible for people like me to exist.

Since that's the only reason I'm wanting to move, I'm looking for the most Texas-like place I can find. Unfortunately, the closest I can come is Southern California. I dragged my heels like crazy on admitting that SoCal was the only place that has most of what I wanted because the cost of living is so insanely high, but I really have no choice. Everything else either was outside the Sun Belt or not Asian enough. Unfortunately, that means I'm stuck hoping I get a job that pays $140k, because that's what I'll need to make to rent a house in SoCal, and I'll be in a position where if I ever lose my job and end up unemployed, I'll have less than a month to find a new job before I become homeless.

I have a friend of mine trying to sell me on the Vegas area, though. I'm considering it, particularly Spring Valley. But I also have another friend urging me to avoid Vegas because she says there's no tech industry there.

For the record, my main criteria are: must have transgender-inclusive non-discrimination protections at the state level, must be in the Sun Belt, must have high Asian and Hispanic populations (I'm looking for at least 15% of each in the suburb I'm moving to, preferably more), must be a sprawling suburb, must be able to afford to rent a house with central AC on the salary of a software engineer of my experience in the area. The only states that meet the first two criteria are California (and only SoCal, not NorCal), New Mexico, and Nevada. The third criterion eliminates New Mexico (almost no Asian people in the entire state)... and until a few days ago, I thought it eliminated Nevada as well.
it was a very good article, but yes, the bloody knife pic was offputting
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Yes, they can. Every male between 18 and 25 is still required to register for the draft. The database is sitting there ready to go. The president just has to declare an emergency and convince congress to approve activation of the selective service system.

In practice, will they? Probably not. But weirder things have happened.
We've banned this account for trolling. Would you please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That idea a-peels to me.
I've done direct investments in companies and equity crowdfunding via sites like Wefunder. I don't think what you are hearing is true. People (and funds) chase returns and will invest where they can get them.

In the long run, say 5 to 10 yrs, the VCs role will be diminished at least somewhat. Look at Gnosis, who just raised 12MM at a valuation of 300MM, without traditional VC.
> It's less about detachment than it is about non-attachment

Thanks for saying this, those aren't synonymous and at one point I did read/study (cursory, survey level) about both Buddhism and Stoicism and came to understand the distinction but failed to use the correct terms in my comment.

Thanks also for the thoughtful reply. I have some reading to do now.
Stock price up: Give CEOs more
Business sold for parts: Give CEOs more

When does this ever end
There are certainly times I regret having so much space for our kids to clutter, but we ultimately bought it as a place for us to grow into. My wife is expecting our 6th child later this year, and our house has 6 bedrooms. So in that sense, it isn't insanely lavish, but a comfortable place to raise a large family.

Also, as the commenter below mentioned, we do enjoy hosting people for parties and family get-togethers. We spend a good amount of energy and time and money on these activities that are for the enjoyment of other people.

Wealthy people often build massive palaces to honor their own greatness and inflate their egos, I can assure you this is not one of those homes :).
We will open source our CLI(core of the project) in couple of weeks. Stay tuned.

Deis Workflow and Datacol are similar in aim but very much different in implementation and approach. Datacol is tightly coupled and optimized for a cloud platform (http://datacol.io/docs/cloudsql/). It uses managed services under the hood, while Deis has its own components (router,object storage, postgres). Your pricing under Datacol will be lesser.

Pricing page is coming soon. We will charge for productivity and workflow tools. Stay tuned.

Thanks for your time. Let me know if you have any questions.
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The mainstream media is fake because enough people believed it to be so? Are you serious?

Fake news is made up, it has no evidence to support it and can often be proven to be false very easily but it can (and is) produced in enough quantities that it can't be disprove fast enough.

You can believe the MSM is biased or trying to control the narrative but if you choose to live in your own reality where you can simply decide what is true without any corroborating information don't try to pretend that you are vindicated simply by the outcome of an election. Hitler was elected, does that make everything he said true because people believed it?

Would you allow this kind of reasoning in any other areas? Would you accept courts that worked this way or business decisions made like this? What would happen if science and engineering worked on the same principals?

I would cite sources but I think that would be a waste of time for both of us.
I hope not. I'd rather rethink the idea of accreditation.
> The Bay Area is the most expensive place in the US for no real reason except for regulation.

Isn't it more about supply and demand? There are many people here making big salaries at the tech companies, so there is not a shortage of people who can pony up $1-1.5M for a 1200 sq. ft. house. If the demand wasn't there, the prices would come down to meet it.
This is one of the most important and powerful work/research I have seen in over a decade, I'm literally at tears realizing the potential of this technology. Thank you so much for working on this, history will remember it and be thankful.
I am the type of person that would benefit from self-driving cars. I don't pay attention.
But I want cannibalism jokes with my meal replacement.
Yes. Perhaps it would be better to say "the review process" rather than "the peer review process".
> lives of so many people would be significantly improved.

That's ~10k per employee after all the lay offs this year. Last year, it would have made ~8k per employee and even less the year before (only counting full-time workers which inflates these numbers). And it would be even less if you take into account employer taxes for all salary raises.

I personally don't understand this "redistribute CEO income across all employees" mentality because in reality there are very rare occasions where distributing the income leads to any substantial raise in the living standards of the employees. I do believe that she should have done that as a leader, but in terms of what is just/fair/etc, I find the redistribution of CEO income argument to be rather fallacious in most cases!

Note: I am not saying that there are no cases where your argument stands to reason but this is not one of them.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/260291/number-of-full-ti...

Edit: There is a post at the front page now about how 6 fig salaries are low income in SV. Adding a few thousands to that does not improve lives as much as you might think!
Sorry about the hyperbolic display headline. Unfortunately I can't control those.
It's also more convenient to always eat out, but the world won't become a better place if home-cooking dies.

Under the no-private ownership model, you are going to get screwed by surge pricing.
Why there is no recommender system for hacker news?
Everybody is obsessed with ML here, but there is still no recommender system for hacker news?
Note that this is "low income" for the purposes of eligibility for HUD programs. Through the Obama administration, those programs have had the goal of dispersing black and hispanic families into white (and usually high income) areas, particularly suburbs, rather than providing "affordable housing" per se in poorer / cheaper areas.
IMHO, you aren't going to get any respect from HN mods for being "correct".

Group-Think is what runs things around here not fairness.
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If you were a Mormon living in Utah, you might need space for three or four wives, not to mention lots of children...
because she didn't do anything to increase the stock price? You could have an empty chair as CEO and it would be rose regardless. She made a lot of objectively bad decisions like Yahoo's stint in video, or the bogglingly expensive acquisition of Tumblr
Practically, I know it should go further. I think about doing it all the time. But it sure sounds daunting to take a 30-50% pay cut to move to an area with (significantly) fewer jobs.
There doesn't need to be a dichotomy, I'd love to see wealth distributed on a bell curve but I don't think that's realistic (and I don't want the government enacting policies try to enforce some arbitrary distribution of wealth). Wealth is tied up in a lot of advantages - better schools, more opportunity for leisure, etc - that themselves tend to lead to more wealth.

> should those born with average intelligence automatically be doomed to lead lives of poverty compared to others?

Nobody born with average intelligence is doomed to a life of poverty so I'm not sure what the point of that straw man is. I think it's a fact of life that someone of average intelligence will have a harder time amassing great wealth than someone of exceptional intelligence. I'm pretty sure my intelligence is at best slightly above average and I don't see anything wrong with that.
I live more than comfortable with 100K in NYC. Sure, no kids, but money is not something I think about. It's enough for a 23 year old like me.
Yes. On page 6 of the book "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" by Richard P. Feynman is a story:

"There was a series of math books, which started Arithmetic for the Practical Man, and then Algebra for the Practical Man, and then Trigonometry for the Practical Man, and I learned trigonometry for the practical man from that. I soon forgot it again because I didn't understand it very well but the series was coming out, and the library was going to get Calculus for the Practical Man and I knew by this time by reading the Encyclopedia that calculus was an important subject...and then the calculus book finally came out ...and I went to the library to take it out and she looks at me and she says, "Oh, you're just a child, what are you taking this book out for, this book is a [book for adults]." So this was one of the few times in my life I was uncomfortable and I lied and I said it was for my father, he selected it. So I took it home and I learnt calculus from it..."

Calculus for the Practical Man was first published in 1931 when Feynman was about 13 years old, which fits the story (he was waiting for the book's publication).

So that would point to Feynman's calculus book being "Calculus for the Practical Man" by J.E.Thompson rather than Silvanus P Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy", whose second edition came out in 1914. I would not be surprised that Feynman read and used both.

The two books are quite different in approach, Practical having, to me, a rather unique physics orientation and being a more demanding text.
> A key part of this professionalism is that they have robust internal processes for self-criticism.

I am not observing any evidence of such processes existing. In fact, I am observing exactly the opposite - people freely moving between being political operatives and newspeople, political parties coordinating propaganda campaigns with friendly news anchors, known news personalities being openly hyper-partisan and not being challenged on it in their organization, independent thinking people being forced out (e.g. Sharyl Attkisson) and so on. I don't see any self-criticism going on.

> You seem to have an agenda to try and prove that journalism as a vocation is fundamentally broken

Journalism as a vocation is not broken. Journalists as a practitioners of the profession as it is practiced now are. Yes, there exist professional journalists, who do what they are supposed to do, honestly. Many of them. But now they are going against the stream, and working against the odds. And one has to be blind to not see that situation is getting worse, the trust in media reporting is dropping and the quality of news content coming from major outlets is terrible. You can call it "broken" or you can call it "temporary difficulties which do not influence averages which are still excellent" but its in plain view for everybody to see. And it's not my agenda - there are a lot of people around recognizing the same. Otherwise we wouldn't need special startups to do what journalists were supposed to do.

> you'll see that journalism is a profession with ethical standards

Ideally, yes. However, I don't see these standards being really enforced or even seriously heeded to. Very rarely I see any analysis done on bad reporting, and only in a case the organization was externally caught and called out on it.
Maybe you're right and I am focusing on the visible outliers, but it seems to be that there are too many "outliers"...
Yes, I'm also interested :)
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In terms of the job market, things were a lot better five years ago. People used to be impressed just when applicants show basic competency. Nowadays, interview processes usually involve a lengthy homework assignment, and completing the assignment is usually not good enough; teams seem to be looking for a very specific coding style. I don't know if this is specific to Ruby or more of a reflection of the job market as a whole.

In terms of technology, it's just fine as always. My company succumbed to Javascript fever this year and I miss Ruby on Rails a lot. There are so many little conveniences that you don't really appreciate until they're gone.
> objectively Yahoo failed and she bears a large share of the responsibility

Curious to hear more on this. Yahoo! was a disaster before she came in, she tried some things to turn it around, it didn't work.

One of the arguments for this kind of compensation in this situation is that you want the CEO to take a risk to try to turn around the company. A high profile "failure" like this also means she won't be able to get a job for awhile so you're compensating her for that.

The problem is that we don't know what the alternate universe holds, where a different CEO was brought in. It might be that that most likely scenario was that Yahoo! drops to $0 and Marissa actually made $5B for investors that an average CEO would not have made (in baseball terms her VORC [value over replacement CEO] was $5B).
Which is why Londoners move to suburbia...
Yes, but he studied "Advanced Calculus" by Woods later, which contained his beloved "Differentiating under the integral sign" trick.
A: You'd then have people saying "They could have taken that $100M and cut it in half, she'd be fine with 50M and 50M could help people".

B: Yahoo has thousands of employees. Even if you only gave it to the top tenth of employees, we're talking a $10K bonus. Nice, but probably not going to move life significantly.
The example you linked isn't so bad. Perhaps a bit verbose for a simple example. The formatting of the json is ugly though, and I think they would do better to not collapse the whitespace inside arrays.
Imagine ransomware infecting your car that gives you 30 minutes to pay or you'll be rammed into a tree at 90mph. I don't care about any contrived and well-funded narratives about how unthinking, unfeeling, driverless cars will somehow save lives. No thanks, I'd rather take my chances continuing to share roads with human drivers who are careful because they fear their own death just as much as I do.
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For those who are interested in looking at the raw data: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il2017/select_Geo...

The figures that the article cites are for a family of four. The thresholds for individuals are noticeably lower.
Ah yes, the good old "let's steal from others", because that has worked so well in the past (but it's okay because it wasn't real communism so you try again and your retarded system fails but it's okay because it wasn't real communism so...)
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IMO debugging is actually the most practical definition of the buzzword-y "full stack" developer.

> There's no authoritative definition, but I see it as "I can trace a visual problem down through CSS styles, debug the JavaScript code that sets them, intercept the AJAX call with the problem-data, debug the backend language that is run, diagnose the SQL that finds the malformed row... And apply a fix on any of those levels where it is needed."

> You might not like the code you wade through, but...
Even at $190k it wouldn't be completely comparable. Higher taxes eat up a lot of the additional income, and even then things like car ownership and house ownership that are taken for granted in most of the US carry huge costs in places like SF/NYC. To have a comparably sized home you would probably need 5-10 million in NYC for the home alone, as an example.
We don't need to replay this flamewar over and over. Please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm a Montrealer and I visit Burlington regularly for week end trips with the family. From a tourist perspective that city is a nice size with what feels like a vibrant local food culture.
Meanwhile, is there a way to restrict Dockerfiles, e.g. not allowing users to be root in the container?

I had the impression that this technology was only usable for the "single user machine" use-case, as too many bad things might happen in true multi-user environments - what is quite limiting in a unix world where we are used to multi-user reality since a long time - it was disturbing to see that such a successful tec seemed to ignore that.

However, I am really happy for any updates on this issue, I did not follow Docker development too much, so punish me when I am totally wrong!
By reading their writings (not just the Constitution, but the Federalist Papers, their letters, transcripts of their speeches, and so on).
Because in modern american business culture, CEOs deserve every salary and bonus they can get their hands on, regardless of their actual ability or the performance of the company
Interesting...great share on explaining the flexibility in layman terms
Absolutely, under the right procedures. Just recently, women became required to register for selective service too, so everyone gets an equal shot now.
I started by building something simple that would appeal to a tiny group of people I understood: a pastebin service only available over telnet [1]. I posted it on /r/linux, which led to some good conversations and open sourcing what I was doing, building a small HTTP-based service (the start of our API), and having a small group of people to talk to when the product evolved.

The goal was to become a seamless publishing platform, so I built the Android app next (which brought me closer to the broad audience I wanted) and told /r/goodguyapps about it. Every time I went after a new platform -- Chrome OS, iOS, desktop via command-line, web -- I found a community that would want to hear about it and simply had a conversation. I went to listen to people's problems instead of just selling my app, and ended up learning exactly what I should build and what the product could do outside of what I'd originally imagined. Write.as didn't have user accounts for the first year and a half it existed, but somewhere in that process we passed 100 users across various platforms.

[1]: https://github.com/writeas/nerds
Change lanes, allow the other driver to overtake, start braking a little earlier and more gently, touch the brakes to flash brakelights let the driver behind know that you are stopping soon. All ways i deal with tailgaters in different situations - it's a judgement call though.
Again, what is the alternative, total chaos? Every system we have is best effort, all you can do is continue to try to improve your means of gathering information and making decisions.

As far as fake news goes, most of these real events are much more verifiable than someones memory in court. In many cases there is footage, many witnesses (whose testimony can be compared to one another), documents etc.
It's striking how nearly every bad comment in this thread—in fact nearly every comment—traces back to the baitiness of the article's title. "The Holocaust: Who are the missing million?" shamelessly invokes hell with a prim veneer of plausible deniability.

I wish we had noticed this sooner. The discussion is not entirely horrible, only mostly. It probably would have been a notch better without an initial sharp shove into hell.

We changed the title to representative language from the article. Let's not forget that authors of articles like this don't write the headlines.
Video games are interactive stories where the editor is you: so there is some potential for a great story, it won't be something film-like, more like a animated life diary of virtual character.
People usually don't play games "for the story", they see it as atmospheric bonus for the game mechanics: something like background music they wouldn't want to focus their time on, or be forced to run down the storyline the 124th time just to get the gameplay rewards.
The problem is inherent in video games being a competitive, goal-oriented environment where repetitive, constructed stories and art are just immersion decorations for the gameworlds.
Obtrusive stories forcing the player to "rewatch the film again" detract from the flow of gameplay and actually make the players treat the story as sort of wasted effort(interruption in gameplay, e.g. cutscenes, dialogues, infodumps) that makes the game less fun/cohesive/natural.
> you do need to pay for at least daycare

I guess in the richer areas in US, $1000 per child is not an unusual monthly fee for daycare. Whereas in Finland, the monthly fee tops at 290€ per child, and I would guess Denmark is more or less similar to Finland.
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A lot of it isn't "need" for more space; rather, it's that all that is available. I've been living in the same 3.3k sq-ft house for 10 years. There's simply nothing smaller in my area. OK, one retired farmer down the road has a house that's about 1200 sq ft, but that's by far the smallest house.

It's a pattern I found recurring as we were looking at houses: unless you wanted a 100 year-old house (which could be a good or bad idea), there was simply nothing under 3,000 sq ft on the lot sizes we were looking at.