skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterpoint, my family of 3 is living in San Bruno (San Mateo county, on the peninsula) on a budget of $50k[1], and enjoying life immensely. We do without a lot of things that other people probably take for granted, but it's by choice, not necessity. And even within that limited budget we can afford some great perks that most of humanity can only dream about, like a reliable car for getting around town and the two trips we took to Europe last year. I don't blame anyone for making different choices -- our lifestyle probably isn't a good fit for many people -- but I do think it's important that everyone realize that life doesn't have to be as expensive as what the median consumer spends in the developed world. Once you know that, you can make a deliberate choice about how much each additional luxury is actually worth to you, taking into account the opportunity cost of spending a dollar now vs having it available later.

[1]: This number is not related to my take-home pay, the balance of which is automatically invested and ideally forgotten until retirement. One of the great mysteries of human nature is that the average individual living a perfectly happy life on a salary of X will, upon finding himself earning 1.5X, naturally increase his expenditures to 1.5X as well, and yet find himself no happier than he was when his spending was just X. Don't be the average individual!
I think they just chose the best executive they could find and hoped for the best.

Could they have chosen a c-level that would take zero in the event of a sale? Perhaps. But they did not.
I'm not an expert, but from my experience this is not true. If you do well in Bay Area (lets say ~500k total comp) it will be hard to match that in another area even including cost of living.
Http/2 is only supported from clients to the load balancer. Connections back to your instances will always be http/1.1
Just to clarify, shooting a .22 into the air is still very dangerous. A .22 round can travel a mile or so after being fired to the air.

Anything other than birdshot in this situation would be unacceptable, IMO, assuming shooting the drone is acceptable in the first place.
First, either XML or JSON are suitable for encoding documents or data interchange. Second, XML is also very _sophisticated_ and has an array of useful features that JSON developers are suddenly realizing to be pretty valuable sometimes. XSD is verbose, but it's rock solid. XPath and XInclude are also pretty awesome.
I just installed it, it goes really well with my workflow. I love the fact that it looks like atom, awesome UI!!
Yahoo had a female CEO before Mayer, I think. Carol Bartz (from Autodesk) ran it from 2009-11.
I think that is a criticism of the whole concept of golden parachutes in the C-suite. Mayer's compensation wasn't that unusual but it just seems silly to offer a huge amount of money in the event of failure.

I mean, even high level employees joining a beleaguered companies don't get big payouts if they fail or the company goes under. Why should it be any different for the C-suite? You should only get a big payout for success.
I believe berberous' point is that if Yahoo's primary achievement (in terms of share value) had nothing to do with her, they could have appointed a stump as CEO and saved $186M+.
Grew up in FL.

Weather is actually terrible about 8 months of the year. It's too humid and hot. The climate is perfect for mosquitos, forcing you to wear long sleeve clothing at night during this humid weather (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis). Insects and arachnids thrive in FL's swampy climate. People who aren't from either that or a jungle need to take time to adjust. Imagine being sweaty after walking outside for a few feet. AC is a must and you will pay around $200-300/month (maybe more) for electricity without an EV (on the bright side your house is 2-3 times larger than the Bay Area). Great place for solar. When I think about it, FL is probably the Australia of the US; there are a lot of things there that will kill you. (Almost every Floridian knows not to let their children play near water when it gets dark. The ones that don't end up on the news.) The good part is that it's easy to grow avocado and mango trees. Also unlike earthquakes, hurricanes are easier to forecast.

Other than water and the beaches, there's nothing to do compared to the SF Bay Area. Yes you can swim and surf in the beaches but due to decades of pollution, 'sea lice' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_louse) has been prevalent since I was a kid. Also due to erosion, most beach sand is now crushed rock. That said, the water is way nicer than anywhere in the SF Bay Area. If you like diving or snorkeling, you can hunt for lobsters yourself. Unfortunately, due to damage to the eco system, sharks are also a lot more aggressive, and they've been known to attack surfers as well for years now. Still, in some parts the water is so clear that you can see fish below while on a boat.

Florida is primarily a giant retirement community for northerners, making it mostly a nice giant boring, suburb unless you are attending a party college in the far north. Miami has a club scene but it gets old. It's not NYC or LA. Cuban food is amazing though and even if it is available in another state; it's not the same.

Forgot to add that there's less diversity in FL compared to other metros, even if you just compare it to other metros in the South it's still less. Maybe things have changed since I left?
I may well be basing my opinion on outdated information, but I was referring to stuff like this :

"A Federal Communications Commission document disclosed Saturday showed for the first time that the software in Google’s Street View mapping cars was “intended” to collect Wi-Fi payload data, and that engineers had even transferred the data to an Oregon Storage facility. Google tried to keep that and other damning aspects of the Street View debacle from public review, the FCC said" [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
Learning new languages can definitely make you better-informed about language (for example about etymologies, like you mentioned, and about different ways of doing things with language on every level from phonology to pragmatics). When I studied Portuguese after Latin and Arabic after Hebrew, I was making connections between languages all day long, due to their historical relationships. Many of those connections would be missed by monolingual native speakers, even though they have much more overall ability in the languages!

It's also interesting to see how different languages give you different options. For example, Latin has infinitives that can inflect for tense and voice, so you can say "to have written" or "to be written" in single words, not just "to write". Portuguese lacks these, but has infinitives that can inflect for person and number, so you can say "for us to write" in a single word. English has neither! This is just scratching the surface of grammatical variation within closely related languages.

I think the controversy alluded to in this thread is that there is an old, fascinating theory that people think qualitatively differently when using different languages, or else that some languages are more effective at or conducive to thinking certain thoughts. (One form of this idea is called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, even though it's not clear that Sapir and Whorf understood it in exactly the same way.) There are many suggestive examples in support of this idea, but the strongest forms of the claim are in disrepute in the academic linguistics community.

The Sapir-Whorf sorts of issues are potentially rather different from saying that you'll understand language better by learning more languages, since they suggest even that you may understand the world as a whole differently.
Good foresight.
Is 250k considered unusual in the bay area for a BigCo for someone for someone 3-5 years out of college? If that's the case, choosing to living in SF is even crazier than I thought.
textbooks don't disappear after one semester
I could have increased the value even more just by sitting in the chair and doing nothing. Her decisions resulted in less increase than there would have been had she just done nothing.
It's great! Videos are great, as are the virtual office hours. Very helpful. Go Group 42!
Ensure has way more sugar and doesn't claim to be nutritionally complete.
This is not the main thesis of the book though. I do not blame you because the article strawman hard on the book's opponents at the same time it does a poor job at extracting the actual thesis from the book.

No one says that French culture has been created at a discrete point in history, and since then never changed. This is the biggest strawman of this article. They wish their enemies were that stupid. In fact, it is known that France is a marvelous mix of celtic, latin and germanic influence. The criticism stems from the book's anachronisms and obvious Multikulti undertones. It defines France, not as an entity in itself, but as one that solely makes sense in its interaction with others. Nothing is French anymore, and the so-called french culture is just a collection of sophisticated anecdotes.

It's nothing more than a poor attempt at taking away whatever is left to the French: their sense of culture and history.
Because the range of a 12-gauge is not so great, and the noise is loud enough to make people watch.
Surprised no one here has mentioned Transit. It's an extensible typed data format with both JSON and binary representations. In other words, you can configure custom types, such as Immutable data structures, and they'll be automatically serialized and restored for you.

Good intro: http://cognitect.github.io/transit-tour/

GitHub: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-js

Note that in the introduction they provide a simple benchmark where Transit is both more compact and faster to parse than JSON with custom hydration.
There may be something to that idea, but the Wikipedia article mentions several studies that cannot be explained that way. For example, the study discussed in "Origins" looked at companies who were adding new board members, and discovered that they were more likely to add a woman if the company had been performing poorly in the preceding months. If the glass cliff phenomenon is simply a result of increasing availability of women in leadership, then you would expect that study to show no difference between companies performing well and companies performing poorly.
>> San Francisco actually has a large number of 10/10 rated schools.

Is that on a national or state scale? I find my district in Michigan making all kinds of claims like that about many of our schools, but it's all compared to others in the state. Nationally we're still above average but nothing to get excited about.
This is pretty much what the Quicken Loans guy, Dan Gilbert, is doing.
Thanks for the inside info - interesting.
It's nice to see you've reached out to Alex publicly.

Any time someone or an organization brings in someone else's code and makes use of it, no matter what the license we really need to recognize that, it's just the morally responsible thing to do.

As far as ourselves, we're definitely using uWS and that is not going to go without recognition.

Nobody should need to "open a ticket", send an email or post on HN to get that sorted.

npm install and git clone making it way too easy for people not to give a crap about the works of others.

Good to see you guys are doing the right thing, uWS is a serious piece of tech and well worth recognition.
My impression is that Ensure isn't marketed to the general public for use as a 100% meal replacement, but is commonly used that way in hospitals.

I drank Ensure fairly regularly in college when I had mismanaged my schedule too badly to eat a proper meal, and I never had any health trouble. I'd expect you can find as many anecdotes in favor of Ensure as in favor of Soylent.
Not really a mystery. The anti-dietary-fat trend resulted in lots of "low fat" high carb foods that were, and still are, much less healthy for people. We're still slowly crawling out of that hole.
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What's your standard for "substantiated"? We're only going to have reports of what people said about him.
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From what I heard Ensure doesn't aim to be nutritionally complete. It's designed to replace unhealthy snacks with a healthier alternative.

Soylent on the other hand can replace most (possibly all) of your meals, if you want that. And if you don't get a moldy batch.
"Who doesn't know Zuck?"

Outside of tech nobody.
Hm, early childhood care is more expensive than I thought. I think the schools for my address do happen to be good.
The Renaissance of Intellectual Racism
Create lean Node.js image with Docker multi-stage build
That was my first thought too. The only exception might be if I get bored and have an idea worth working on. I was thinking a wifi connected device to open a banana? But only the ones that curve to the left. You'll just have to throw out the ones that curve to the right.
UX/UI Design for Company Morale Analytics SaaS App
I feel like the author had a point they were trying to make in this article, but it ended up being a complete mess that just comes across as stupid.

This idea that games are just cheaply emulating hollywood is just wrong. Games can and do tell stories that just don't work in film or books, and those stories are valuable. Games can use interactivity to make a story more personal and give the player investment and ownership.

The article essentially ends by saying that games should focus on mechanics over story. The same argument has been made before and is just a bad argument. Subtle uses of interactivity can be effective just as subtle uses of the visuals in a film can be effective.
Linkerd 1.0
Yep, men don't get called for routine thefts.
And she is talented.
Still a theft.
Do We Need Mobile Devices to Survive?
> Turned out the secret sauce to putting photos on the internet was the social interaction with your friends

Flickr actually did the social aspect well with their communities. What they missed was transitioning this social component to mobile.

And the UI change around 2013 where they got rid of the grid layout and moved to some Pintrest collage / infinite scroll ostracized a lot of users.
It is. We've seen some spectacular self-driving vehicle failures in the past while. Teslas running into half-opened garage doors, vehicles pulled over on the shoulder, the side of a semi, navigating roundablouts by driving into the ditch, driving on the wrong side of the road, yelling at the driver for staying in their lane...
> The problem is that you can’t meaningfully define a constant like this in a header file. The maximum path size is actually to be something like a filesystem limitation, or at the very least a kernel parameter.

AFAIK, "paths" aren't a thing filesystems think about. As far as a filesystem driver is concerned, paths are either—for open/read/write/etc.—plain inodes (a uint64), or—for directory-manipulation calls—an inode plus a ptrdiff_t to index into the dirent list†. The only things that care about NAME_MAX are lookup(2) [get inode given {inode, dirent}], and link(2) [put inode in {inode, dirent}].

So it's really only the kernel, through its syscall interface, that cares about paths—and so PATH_MAX is just a representation of the maximum size of a path the kernel is willing to accept in those syscalls. As if they each had a statically-allocated path[PATH_MAX] buffer your path got copied into.

† Writing a FUSE filesystem is a great way to learn about what the kernel thinks a filesystem is. It's very different from the userland perspective. For example, from a filesystem driver's perspective, "file descriptors" don't exist! Instead, read(2) and write(2) calls are stateless, each call getting passed a kernel-side io-handle struct that must get re-evaluated for matching permissions on each IO operation. (You can do some up-front evaluation during the open(2) call, but, given that a file's permissions might change while you have a descriptor open to it, there's not much point.)
It's less about detachment than it is about non-attachment; it's the same for physical objects and even mental phenomena as it is for people - attachment to these things causes suffering in the same way, when the inevitable time comes that they pass and fade, their qualities change, your life moves on.

>"Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, & despair are dukkha; association with the unbeloved is dukkha; separation from the loved is dukkha; not getting what is wanted is dukkha. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are dukkha."

Dukkha is the word used by the Buddha to describe stressfulness, unsatisfactoriness, suffering, anguish etc., i.e that pain which is emotional; his position is that these arise from our desire to be stable, and from that desire acting upon it, to try and slow the tides of change. At least, that is my understanding.

But non-attachment to people need not mean that one stops feeling compassion for them, nor does it mean that one has to break up with one's friends. It's more about being mindful of the kind of relationships you have, and how they affect you. For example, one of the Buddha's prescribed techniques is to meditate on the theme of death, that one's body will eventually die, to visualise each process of birth, aging, sickness, death, one's decomposing body, the bones left over, those bones themselves yellowing and decomposing.

But here we have even the most important of all - detachment from one's own body. I don't mean this in a kind of "outer body experience" way. It's not that one stops caring, it's that one understands on an emotional level that things pass; it's not enough to understand this on an intellectual level. This kind of base understanding within us, acheived through meditation, is referred to as nibbana/awakening/enlightenment.

>"Just as if a great mass of fire of ten... twenty... thirty or forty cartloads of timber were burning, and into it a man would time & again throw dried grass, dried cow dung, & dried timber, so that the great mass of fire — thus nourished, thus sustained — would burn for a long, long time. In the same way, in one who keeps focusing on the allure of clingable phenomena, craving develops. From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origin of this entire mass of suffering & stress.
£70k = 48k post-tax

60k/(48k*1/3) = 3.75 years

And that's assuming you start from zero savings.
> With that said, the motorcycle is clearly not value-less without the screw the same way it is not value-less without a rider.

I don't think your comparison makes sense. A motorcycle is not broken without a rider; it is not being used to move from point A to point B, but it is capable of being used to move from point A to point B.

A broken motorcycle is not being used to move from point A to point B, however it is not capable of being used for that purpose. The broken motorcycle is clearly at a lower state than a functional motorcycle.

Perhaps a comparison that works would be (a broken motorcycle + a rider) is as worthless as (a working motorcycle + a broken/ignorant rider).
As any normal JSON document is not a valid TJSON document (and worse, some JSON document may be valid TJSON documents but TJSON imposes a different interpretation) using the "JSON" suffix is just misleading.
>Telling them "hey, make me some tea" is bad manners -- same as if you asked a lower ranking male employee whose job is not it, that.

No, treating your women colleagues as if they are inferior merely because they are women is wrong. It is not merely bad manners, any more than racism or xenophobia are merely bad manners.

>It's also an excuse nobody made.

Are you just referring to the fact that I used the word 'wrong' instead of the word 'evil'? If so, just substitute 'evil' for 'wrong' in my previous comment.
this sounds like a great idea from the rational standpoint, but our data says otherwise. we've seen a conversion increase and generally more people started buying when we enabled monthly prices and again when we made them default. I have a few theories to back it up – but generally speaking pricing perception is emotional, not rational. looking at our prices you'd assume no one buys monthly, but about 40-50% of people do :)
>While Tesla and Uber have both just recklessly (imo) jumped in and started setting loose self driving cars and making bold claims

Do we know how many lives have been saved from Tesla's autopilot? I've only seen anecdotes but I get the impression that it's already a big net win for safety.
I stumbled across this quote somewhere in my university days: "The errors of great [people] are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little [people]." (It's Nietzsche reflecting on Schopenhauer IIUC – and it's a quote I think can apply equally well to Nietzsche himself!)

I think this applies to a lot of the great writing I have loved, and perhaps Pirsig's ZAAMM falls into this bucket. After all, for all of its classical philosophical underpinnings and serious intent, it does not seem to have achieved much status as as work of philosophy. You won't find Pirsig's name (except in passing) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example. The book is also over a generation old. I suppose there's a question, therefore, of whether it will endure as a book that future generations will draw inspiration and ideas from.

Nevertheless, I think it stands admirably as a iconoclastic, genre-bashing, cross-pollinating, fascinating exploration of philosophical ideas, and, as Pirsig himself observed, as a "culture-bearer" of the time and place it was written. This makes it a classic of American writing as far as I am concerned, if not a classic treatise in philosophy.

RIP, Mr. Pirsig.
> It's that there's decreased motivation.

Unproven. In fact in North America several experiments suggest that it is untrue.
> He even had a hit movie made about him.

In which he was the villain.

He has more or less zero people skills, but truckloads of money, and creepy amounts of personal information. IMHO his best bet for being elected President would be to straight-up purchase a major party's nomination, then buy the necessary votes in swing states. Let's say it costs $1b to buy a party's nomination. Florida was won by about 100,000 votes in 2016, and he can probably target persuadable voters using FB's data. Can he buy those people's votes for another billion (i.e. $10k apiece)?