skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for the throwaway, and numbers are rough

$140k:

- 1500/mo in 401k
- 6200 after-tax, after 401k income
- 2800 savings from after-tax income
- Total discounted savings/mo, roughly: 2800 + .85 * 1500 = 4075

Is the bay area cost of living expensive? Absolutely. But I'd argue if you're a generally frugal person you'll save more (in absolute terms) here than anyplace else. I doubt I could get much above $100k anywhere else but NYC.
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So room mate and no transportation costs. That context helps a lot, thanks!
Looks like this is the location of the test facility they talk about... https://www.google.com.au/maps/@37.3705986,-120.5747932,237m...
Interesting choice of name for their Expressway...

EDIT: Apple maps has up to date satellite imagery https://maps.apple.com/?q=37.3718,-120.5749&t=k
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You realize that saving half your income is actually living on a sixth. The government always get a third.
Not sure what kinda Lisp it is but HN runs on Lisp
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Indian supreme court: Privacy is a fundamental right
For proper capitalistic and rational decisions to be made both parties need as much information to make wise decisions. Lower skilled workers might demand higher wages but they can be told no and they can leave. There’s plenty of supply of contract workers to fill the gaps but in the end it will leave firms with people who are not only happy with the compensation packages they have also the products or services or tech stack the firm is creating / using.
I don't necessarily agree with your final points. Often tools will be branded and stylised, but as long as they hold utility they're more honest than "articles of self" or items that you didn't create, have no relationship with, and are using to vaguely define your sensibilities.

The simplest rule: Buy tools i.e. anything that can be used to create or modify something. A knife is a tool, a (functional) camera is a tool, a microwave is a tool, a couch is a tool, a bed is a tool, a computer is a tool.
For the analogy you're drawing to really hold, we have to picture a computer where the bytes get a lot of work done on their own and our code merely exists to slow down and redirect their efforts (in other words, a negative and a possible positive). If you were concerned with the fast, efficient operation of the computer then you might indeed want a rule like "one in, one out" for lines of code.
HN is written in Arc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

There's an old (~5yo) source code dump on github if you're interested.

https://github.com/wting/hackernews
> They are not flashy buildings.

Actually, that's a pretty good way to tell who they belong to. Apple buildings have a signature "style"–blacked out windows, trees very close to the building, a small Apple logo on one of the doors somewhere, and umbrellas on the second floor terraces. If you learn the clues it's pretty easy to spot them.
Mormons are fair game too.

LOL can you imagine if the South Park writers made a Broadway play mocking Muhammad?

I can only imagine all of the openminded liberal attendees laughing at all of the mockery like they laugh at the mockery of the Mormon religion.

The current chattering class views on race are fucking sick.
I'd say no. Not the valley. I just moved my family to Seattle, same situation. I'd been a freelancer in Kalamazoo and the work had mostly dried up, so I got this huge offer and it seemed too good to pass up. I'm having huge doubts as to whether it was the right decision. SV is twice as expensive, I'd not consider it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15082982

Also have you lived in SV before? I did years ago and didn't care for it even as a 20-something. At least WA has no state tax, mountains right next door, and eh, I like the culture better. More real, less flashy, and still has some blue-collar too. I think better for families. If your offer is from a big name, then they've certainly got a Seattle office. I'd inquire about that possibility. And salaries are very close, especially considering the state tax.

But like I suggested, even Seattle is hard to call a slam dunk. If there was more than one crappy company to work for in Kalamazoo I'd have loved to stay. It's cheap, it's a college town so there's stuff to do, has an amazing arts scene for its size, great outdoor activities, good public schools and park/trail system, and a good mix of political views that still talk to each other. I've lived in IN and OH too, and had less affection for those. So I guess a lot of it depends on your current situation too.

But if you've got a decent job with benefits and are living in a place you don't mind, 140K won't get you far in SV. One other quick note: before moving out here I looked at housing prices but didn't realize that the places that were showing up in my budget were all horrible school districts, so if you think you're seeing some nearly-affordable options, cross-reference the school guides.
Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court
For those who wonder who deprecated it, Red Hat did in the release notes for 7.4.

Search for brtfs in https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp... for details.
$5M in 10 years at $120k? Even at $200k it's $2M before tax without living expenses. I don't see how you get to $5M unless you're working at Google etc. and even then it's extremely unlikely. You'd have to save half a million a year. Where is this dream job?
So 3400/mo or less in expenses?

Mind breaking that down?

What's your housing situation?

Transportation costs?
> Investigators who examined the random number generator for the Wisconsin random number generator concluded it contained two extra bits of coding that instructed it to produce Tipton’s numbers on just three days of the year.

Super unfortunate wording. I spent a second wondering how you could encode that much precision in two 'bits'.

This seems like a good case for open source; and pay bounties for anything untoward. I really am curious what the code looks like for this.
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$100K+ is doable in just about EVERY major metro area outside of New York as a developer depending on experience. e.g. You won't find that for jr-mid level positions but Sr. and up you can easily.
>She doesn't actually own dollars at any point; she is just "trading" with you.

How is that different than trading oil; gold or public stock? If you have ever traded any of those, I'd be willing to wager or invest that if you have, you never took possession of and never really owned barrels of oil; gold bars or even actual stock certificates.

You are most likely to have actually owned stock, but when you get into the real nitty gritty of litigation, you would be very surprised (or not, but many would) how stock trading and ownership actually work.
Iran is a pretty safe bet if you are hiding from the West as long as the crimes are not committed against Iranians.

https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/j...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/07/the-sho...
What's your living situation that makes $1150 per month possible? Room mates?
I can attest Houston is a great city for saving money. I was able to save $40,000 living in a nice 1400 sq ft house in a beautiful historic neighborhood, 5 minutes from downtown. This is while my wife was going to school and not working, we were going out to eat and/or drinks 4-7 times a week, and taking two week long vacation each year.

Used the savings to quit my job try and get a startup or consultancy going.
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I have not gotten this impression at all in my 5 years in Seattle. There are certainly people who live the stereotypical active northwest lifestyle but I've never felt pressured to do the same by any of them.
Are you saying that as soon as you forgot one single payment, the freelancer stopped working for you? One single payment?
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One of the ways it matters is that giving something an overly euphemistic name leads people to wonder exactly what it is that you're hiding.
Sort of like chauffeurs/drivers in the old days before taxis and Uber, I'd say.

I think the other alternative is a pornhub in which you pay for, which I can attest to, is not what I'm or any regular consumer is looking forward to.
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It's not! Instead it's part of principle #6, "hire the best." Hire the best, frugally.

Their leadership principles are deliberately contradictory. This is ostensibly a strength: you are tasked with satisfying all of them at once. But I fear in practice it's license to justify any management behavior.

Source: oh god I interviewed there.
In Houston sr. devs(3+ years of experience if your driven, 7 if your not) are easily making 100k+. And most devs who are on hacker news could easily make 140k+.
I think you misinterpret frugal to mean "cheap". Also I love the idea of the urban campus both from a convenience and a social consciousness perspective.
Came from low-medium income Russian family ($9k/y household), made it to multiple $100k/y total comp. in one of the big 4.

But here's a thing: pretty much anyone of my old non-CS schoolmates/university friends would call that 'luck', but somehow most of them would consider a suggestion to learn Computer Science to be arrogant.
I hadn't seen that video. That's over the top. The administrators are building themselves an administrative paradise.

This isn't even the entire Stanford administration. There's also the academic administration (deans and such), the Stanford Management Company (the investment operation, established 1991), and Athletic Administration. Those remain on the main campus.

It was in the 1990s that the administrators really took over.
As an alum, this is embarrassing. But Stanford no longer has a real alumni association which could pressure the administration. The alumni association was acquired by Stanford's development department in 1998 so they could focus on their core mission of extracting money from alumni.
Why not live in the suburbs of bay area (East Bay, for example), and quickly cut 30% of your housing costs? Obviously the commute sucks (I endure it daily), but it makes the numbers work. It boggles my mind that most software workers think that they have to live in SF. Bonus: There's Walmart and strip malls in the East Bay. :)

Agreed with your other points though. Not having staate income tax is a huge bonus.
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Unless maximising income is not equivalent as behaving rationally, which is always a possibility.
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Yea. How about Chrome?
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OOC, what's your daily commute in total hours spent on the road, and what does it cost you monthly?
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Well, he published Lolita through Olympia Press. According to Wikipedia, it was "Paris-based", and "specialized in books which could not be published (without legal action) in the English-speaking world".

The equivalent today would arguably be a Tor onion site. Or perhaps Freenet. Sure, Google and Facebook would ban him. But then, in the 1950s, American publishers did ban him. Until the 60s happened, anyway.
My most vivid memory of that tour is standing on the 3rd floor balcony of an office building and looking up at the ceiling.
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> And the common user wants fast load and doesn't care about the philosophy of data retention and web ownership?

While this is most certainly true, it doesn't mean that data retention and web ownership aren't values worth fighting for.
"And anyone who is on hacker news could easily make 140k+"

If only it were that easy.
I live in Seattle and almost never hear a good thing about Amazon's presence here (people like the service though). Multiple times a week people blame Amazon for the very high rents and home prices.

Amazon employees also have a bad reputation (not individually, but collectively) in my experience. To be fair, I think that has a lot to do with over-eager college interns.
Sorry for the confusion, I used quotation here in sense 6 from http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Quotation-Marks
In my opinion in this context "unfit" and "unsuited" are synonyms.
Redmond and the rest of the eastside are very much part of the Seattle area. Many people commute both ways. I agree that when you go as far North as Everett and as far south as Tacoma those are different areas.
Supreme Court of India declares privacy as a basic right
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As has been discussed in other threads, RHEL's kernels are ancient compared to mainline and so they probably decided it's just too much work to continually backport btrfs changes onto increasingly dated kernels. The sky is not (necessarily) falling.
This interview he gave make think he has really unique ways of making decisions.

http://africa.dmm.com/special/chairman-interview.html
Yep; this is the same problem people talk about when they talk about bundling. Not interested in a gym membership? It doesn't matter, your tuition is still going to go to subsidize the gym at the university.

It's also worth pointing out how colleges end up benefiting from having captive customers. It's usually more difficult for a 17-18 year old to rent a place off campus and commute, and many schools even have policies against that. And a social environment is encouraged in dorms and dining halls, so students who aren't buying stuff from the "company store" end up at a loss. Whether or not the school is good at managing housing and food is often immaterial.
lol, Obie doesn't have sources
That's not what Amazon is doing at all.
Eddie Tipton tarnished lottery's reputation. The State milks lottery (taxes) and therefore loses financially if lottery reputation is tarnished.
I liked this a lot. It was fun pasting some of my diagrams in to see how svgbob rendered them.

I think I still prefer a monospaced font in the SVG (but that's easy to do with CSS).
Neither is willingly exchanging goods the same thing as capitalism. But if you go back so far and claim that some -ism develops naturally, you have to find some similar actions.

Not even talking about that "exchanging goods" (even for money) does also happen in socialism and communism.
"With UBI, you get money. You can spend it on whatever you need or want"

As long as you have a slave class doing the producing who are forced to take your money. Otherwise you just get inflation because you haven't added anything to the supply of production side.
Used to live in Kalamazoo, but now in the Bay Area. Kalamazoo is a great place. A big enough city so that you can find most things you need, but ridiculously cheap housing. At 25 and fresh out of school I bought my first house on a salary of $50K/yr. Brand new home, one of the better neighborhoods, great schools, short commute. You could find nice bungalows from the 1960's for less than $100K.

However, it was a one company town, that's why I left.
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> $10/month would be worth it for me but it's probably not realistic. A single movie usually costs more than that. With this plan they'd cannibalize their own media market.

Another way of being 'realistic' (not moral) is to see that 1TB hard drive is 100 bucks and can contain a thousands of Disney movies, which can be obtained fairly easily online.

They can't charge too much for something that people essentially buy out of good will rather than necessity.
The OECD periodically studies trends in public opinion regarding the use of nuclear power. Their most recent study is from 2010, and its conclusions largely refute any cynicism you may hold regarding public understanding of nuclear energy.

From the executive summary:

"In 6 out of 7 of the countries considered, public opinion has been growing more supportive of nuclear energy in the energy mix. The data show that countries where nuclear energy is already present have populations that are generally much more supportive of its use. They also show that these publics are generally better informed and more knowledgeable on nuclear issues and there is a clear positive correlation between knowledge and support."

(https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2010/6859-public-attitudes...)
I'll have a stab. Value = what someone will pay. what someone will pay is X% less than what it will be worth in Y-Z years (where X is usually 50% and Y and Z are between 5 and 10).

So, what will Uber be worth?

The hyper-growth startup model is double revenue yearly, while adding 50% to costs. Lets do the maths using simplified numbers: Uber makes $7 billion per year, and loses $3B, for total costs of $10B.

Year1: Revenue = $7B * 2 = $14B. Costs = $10B * 1.5 = $15B. Loss = $1B

Year2: Revenue = $145B * 2 = $28B. Costs - $15B * 1.5 = $22.5B. Profit = $5.5B

So, if you assume a P/E ratio of 25, Uber would be worth $137.5 in 2 years. Would I pay $62B (if I had it) for a company worth $137B in two years? Imma go ahead and say yes!

Now, 100% growth on 50% cost increase may not hold, but as long as revenue growth > cost growth, Uber will inevitably be profitable. The question is by when, and profitable to what $ value, and at what multiplier? double revenue, 175% costs, and a 35 multiplier, and Uber is worth $200B in 4 years.
This was the first language which I learned after failing @ Fortran in 1970s. We did not have easily accessible Simula, but we were using it as specification language for traffic simulations, which it was originally intented.

So when they tried to force me to adopting the "revolutionary C++" 20 years later, I was less enthusiastic , which made the executives very unhappy.
More like... 250m people use a given brand of lock.
The csv rendering isn't a standard in markdown, but I just think it would be nicer to have it render same as the table, since csv is a readable plain text format.
Carlos I'm really surprised to see you propagating fiction under your actual name. This shit straight up didn't happen, there are still social justice projects actively going on.
Dallas, make 110k and take home 6100 and expenses are about 1.8k including car payment and nice 1k sq/ft 1 bedroom apartment in uptown

it really depends on where you want to live but man its really nice to live where there are no income taxes
"it is the lender who loses out if the resale value is less than rejected."

And those lenders are linked to the car manufacturers for a large part of the market (since car finance is largely a form of vendor financing).

Who then book the losses to the cost of a new car, or start shipping off lease cars to Africa.

Unlike houses, cars are mobile. So you can correct the market if you have enough power over the market.
Single earner with kids? My wife and I moved here on an offer less than that and were quite comfortable... That was almost 5 years ago, but cost of living was close.
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I'll second the comment about $100k in Houston, though in general most of the jobs are in health care or energy, and you'll find yourself doing something like .NET or ColdFusion.

I do think you overestimate the average skill level on HN though :-)
If Yearly Revenue = Yearly Revenue X 2, and Yearly Costs = Yearly Costs X 1.5, Uber is profitable within 2 years.
Spaniard here. I pay around 750€ a year. If I can prove I don't make much money, not only I don't have to pay, they'll also pay part of (or the entirety of) my rent, food, etc.

100k a year is just, wow.
Also subjective, but at that size on my machine (13" MBA, non-Retina, El Capitan, Chrome), I find Roboto is a lot easier to read. Interface looks 'greyer' and the contrast isn't so good.
I imagine scaling it from 3 watches to 179+ watches would be the main problem here. Is he going to build all 179+ units by himself?
Needs [pdf] in the title.
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I also experience crashes from time to time. The project is compiled into webassembly(wasm), and I think the wasm has yet to be tested more with bigger code base.
I think I've mentioned this story here before...

I grew up with horrible seasonal allergies (pollen and the like), to the point where I even got allergy shots and was heavily medicated. Visiting my cousins on the farm in South Dakota was awful if I didn't have a heavy dose of Claritin or Benadryl, which would basically put me to sleep. Fast forward several years to after college when I was in the Army...I found myself in Ranger School were most medications weren't allowed. So basically I just gutted it out when I started Darby (phase I of III). For the first 72 hours, I experienced the worst allergy attack of my life to the point that I didn't know if I could continue. For reasons that to this day I cannot explain I woke up on day 4 (or 5, I guess) and had no symptoms. None.

To this day I require no medication and have no allergy symptoms to speak of.

Edit: if there are any Allergists reading, I grew up in the Midwest and was the child of two parents who both grew up on what were basically farms. I was born in an urban center and would only experience a non-urban environment for fleeting weeks in the summer at Boy Scout camp and the like.
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All your SaaS products are generating revenues? How did you come up with the ideas/pain points for your products?
At least you'd probably have to pay a lot more of the bills if you chose not to have genetic problems corrected before birth.
What put t in perspective for me was that here's a company who was a product and they make their money giving those products the utmost attention to things like compatibility and stability, and that means helping when these things break. This is not them making a political move or a line in the sand, this is them saying they can not afford to put the same 110% into this project so they're not going to carry it forward. It's the circle of life and I appreciate them for the rest of their works even if it can be mildly inconvenient in some cases.
I've really wanted to put up a server to the rendering api on the server side, but I don't have to resources for it yet, so I leverage on doing the rendering on the client side.
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Supreme Court of India rules Right to Privacy as Fundamental Right
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Motor vehicles are interestingly less fatal than our intuition suggests: "only" 11.3 deaths per billion vehicle-miles. [1]

To my surprise, railroad travel is more fatal at 29.0 deaths per billion miles traveled. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

[2] http://www.caranddriver.com/features/safety-in-numbers-chart...
The poster was talking about ALBs. I'm not experienced enough with them to know whether the claim is true.

I do know on ELBs though, pre-warming is essential for high throughput.
I'm baffled by adults that grew up with computers yet seem to be unable to google a school for their reputation and the job prospects for graduates.

Back in my day, pre-internet, every high school guidance counselor had catalogs that compared schools, so did public libraries, and magazines like US News & World Report would annually publish rankings.
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A hundred years would give us plenty of time to develop alternative energy sources (fusion?). The fossil fuel age also last(s/ed) for about that long.