skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That says it’s about back to where it was 10 years ago. Mind you there was a fairly big run up to the peak of the bubble but most people here aren’t complaining about prices having risen again to 2007 levels.
Sure, but I'm guessing this happens rarely enough (once every couple of years) that it would fall under the same category of "severe thunderstorms", i.e. an act of God that was going to delay everything no matter what you would do.
You would just see 2) disguised as 1).

How much pollution is OK? What is the market price for a pound of carbon in the air or part-per-billion of mercury in waste water? Those decisions would be made by regulators, meaning there would be influence-peddling.
In Sunnyvale, a two bedroom townhouse with two car garage, and a 30 foot by 12 foot back patio, in a complex that I was very, very happy to get out of (for various reasons) 16 years ago, is listed for $1.1M, but I would expect it to go over by $100-200K because supply is so tight right now.

Yeah, I'm catagory #4. Been here long enough to get on the escalator when it was possible, living in a modest house in a neighborhood I could never buy back into. And I understand what the money would do elsewhere, I moved here from Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and would be shopping for lakeshore if I moved back there.

Housing is broken. Sunnyvale is at least building new high-density housing, but not at a fast enough rate. Units are sold before the dirt has been scraped clean to start construction.
Ahh the good old days. I can't hear SOAP without thinking this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhllo1xQer8

in particular 1:45 to 2:00.
Sidebar: I wish open source authors would think a bit harder about naming their projects. Here's some other projects already named riot:

- http://riotjs.com/

- https://riot-os.org/

- https://github.com/vector-im
Insomnia supports GraphQL pretty well
This is amazing. I hope you'll keep working on it. There's always a long tail of details that need taking care of when trying to cover a large corpus, and ploughing through successive 80%'s is (as you are no doubt acutely aware) serious grunt work. But you've made a fabulous start, so I hope you find the stamina to do it!
> Separation is a matter of perspective.

Indeed separation is matter of consciousness. If we believe that the universe is more or less a frothing foam of energetic particles, the only thing that differentiates my teeth from my gums and me from the room is my recognition and identification of them. There is matter with or with out me, but there is no room, no tooth, no me without my consciousness.
How about populating it with an example or two, eg the USD and EUR current curves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
It sounds as if it would make a lot more sense for people to agree on 2 days per week to be in the office and work remotely the other three or something along those lines.
For anybody curious, I did a quick search and came up with these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14941564

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567261

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774715

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296347

The posts are chronological, so you can kind of see the idea developing in Mr. Rochefort's mind.
>>I don't think the people in the bottom 60% really care about this because they are becoming increasingly segregated physically.

This is an important point. A high Gini coefficient is associated with higher crime rates when it is present in more integrated communities. Physical segregation between income groups (like one sees between countries in a region) reduces the crime-boosting effect of income inequality within that community.
Daisy-chaining a couple bigger recent related discussions that might be helpful since this one didn't get much juice:

Ask HN: Just made Director, now what? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937290

Ask HN: Developers who became engineering managers, how was the experience? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15463612
> tabs can be interpreted differently from editor to editor.

You should ask a tabs advocate what they think the primary feature of tabs is :)
> but I wonder how much money you burn because of not clicking one checkbox.

Abstraction is no replacement for knowledge.
Fun Survey: HackerRank's State of the Developer 2017
I believe Susskind was of the opinion that that one could create an ER=EPR wormhole between two entangled black holes, and that jumping into one of the black holes would allow one to access the wormhole, and meet someone "in the middle" who had jumped into the other wormhole, but it would be impossible after that for either person to get out of the wormhole.

Additionally, because the entropy of the wormhole increases with time, the "length" of the wormhole seems to also increase with time.
This is fine and dandy except for the fact the vast majority of people that get hit with such ransomware malware (i.e., low computer knowledge folks) a) won't enable this feature because they don't understand it and b) malware will simply evolve to socially engineer folks to turn it off.

If you can get someone to believe some random, Indian accented fellow calling saying they're from Microsoft and would the person please give them full remote access to the computer then it's child's play to get them to disable any optional, controllable feature in order to allow malware to spread.

And since CFA only protect user files the malware can still infect and block access to Windows and most people would then believe ALL their files were locked down rather than just Windows system files.

I guess for enterprise folks that can deploy via AD this might offer a bit of security although it's not clear if CFA can protect network files which of course would be just a vulnerable to malware when the attacked user have read/write privs in network directories.
> where will they go?

I'd change that to where _do_ they go. This trend is becoming more pronounced but has been around a while.

As other posters note, they leave for other tech hubs, or other industries. Even if they could earn even more in the Bay Area they recognize that it's a long path to a quality of life that would be more accessible somewhere else.

There's also a weariness folks in the industry get after a while. On the one hand, it's an amazing place to get 20 years of experience in 5. Put at some point the bubble grates on you.
I use Paw almost every day and my usual workflow is:

1) Copy request as curl from the Chrome Inspector

2) Import curl command into Paw via their importer

3) Inspect request, play around with parameters etc.

That is a really great feature of Paw and saves a lot of time and is worth the money for it. I also discovered some bugs and reported them and they were usually fixed in the next release and the developer is fast and responsive about them.
If you go to tools you will be able to load the eonia curve from "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Multiple Interest Rate Curve Bootstrapping But Were Afraid To Ask" from Ametrano
perhaps the problem was that the control wasn't obvious. agreed, can't use it with white text on black background.
Isn't some of this just the difficulty of describing something unique?

If you asked me to describe what the aliens from the Alien/Aliens movies looked like, I'd completely fail. If you asked me to describe the alien from Predator, on the other hand, it'd be fairly easy. The Predator is a guy in a costume so I could just describe the differences.
SRC isn't Cray at all though.

Cray Research, from which Seymour departed long before, was acquired by SGI. When SGI cratered, the SGI and Cray _names_ were separately sold off. "Cray" was bought by Tera, a faltering supercomputer maker in Seattle, who adopted that name (sort of a HPC witness protection program thing). They're as much "Cray" as gadgets sold at Target are "Westinghouse".

SRC is a distant descendant of the 3rd corporate vehicle started by Seymour (Cray Research, Cray Computer, then SRC).
Not yet but that is the plan!
With distributed computing and cloud hosting allowing for thousands of instances, with huge amounts of resources such as obscene terabytes of RAM, is there still a need for supercomputers? They are, effectively, the same thing, right?

I am guessing that I'm not understanding something fully. I don't really see the benefit anymore, now that you can lease thousands of cores, petabytes of disk, and multiple terabytes of RAM.

What's the benefit? What am I missing? Google is none too helpful.
I have regularly spent multiple hours in the non-US citizen queue waiting to be admitted to the country.
Out of curiosity what framework do you use in Python?
The point of most video games is to be distinct, not to look like reality. Furthermore, they use high-contrast to help distinguish game elements. Games are not movies.
oh boy, how I envy you.
I was kidding. Clearly I'm not up to speed on latest invisibility research.
The article is aggravatingly short on details. It looks like the MIT sensor this is based on is:

http://news.mit.edu/2016/wireless-wearable-toxic-gas-detecto...
There are definitely a ton of Californians here in Austin. It seems like every third person I meet is from SF/LA.
Was this the OS that they were planning on replacing segments of AmigaDOS with to avoid needing to rewrite a modern kernel?
Thanks!

In terms of applications, our initial work has been to export functions as microservices onto existing platforms (e.g., Lambda). We've also explored downloading code as either native artifacts (e.g., maven) or as command-line apps. We are also playing around with adding integrations for ReactJS to support web applications. Where we focus our deployment efforts is one of our current big questions, and one where we are most interested in community feedback.

In terms of the abstraction, you are quite right that the examples we've shown are very trivial, really just to convey the concepts. The more interesting work will probably be sharing much more complex functions, or sharing the built app/services themselves (which could be made transparent within the platform itself).

Definitely reach out if you have more thoughts or feedback!
The typical data center has fewer than about 50 people on-site.
> This comment seems to conflate resistance to mass surveillance with resistance to targeted surveillance.

ProtonMail doesn't meaningfully address the mass surveillance aspect, though. Most emails still hit its servers in plain-text form. Encrypting once it hits their server doesn't help the mass surveillance aspect, it only helps the targeted surveillance when a warrant comes in.

And if you're willing/able to get everyone that emails you to switch to PGP to get real end-to-end encryption then protonmail is worth even less, since none of their benefits matter anymore (google is obviously not able to decrypt your PGP emails, either).
Arch linux 4.12.8-2 came out in August.
I'd suggest this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90R2taD1WQ
Good to know, LAX was ok, no experience with the other airports. It might just suck to be a non-US citizen trying to enter the country.
I used a service once, just recently, whose API was SOAP (I think it was the one for VoIP.ms?)

Instead of documenting their API, they gave me a WSDL file to download and told me to plug it into any WSDL-supporting SOAP client.

So I threw it into http://fagiani.github.io/savon/ in a Pry session, got back an object representing the API gateway, and then just... started exploring the API using it and Pry, treating the objects and their properties the way I would those of a regular Ruby library.

It was honestly a nice experience, and it would have been even nicer if I had to deal with more than one API, because I could have just kept dealing with Savon rather than finding a new (maybe not-very-well-written) client library for each new service.

So, I don't get the hate for SOAP/WSDL. Is it the process of building the SOAP service that's frustrating? The process of creating the WSDL document? I didn't have to deal with either of these, so maybe that's where the hatred boils up from.

Was it integrating code-generation into the build process? Again, since I was using a dynamic language (Ruby) whose SOAP library (Savon) parsed WSDL and built up its client-proxies in memory at runtime, I didn't have to deal with this.

Or was it dealing with brittleness and edge-cases and a lack of fidelity in the types you could pass through such APIs? I didn't have a problem with this personally, but I might have just been dealing with a uniquely-well-architected backend service.
The thing is - normal economics don't apply to a game of hype, brand and relationships.

The top funds, the press, the special talent, the specialized talent, the customers, the early adopters, yada, yada.

When everything is in 'one cluster' - there is a very good reason to be located there, and it almost always makes economic sense.

Very few companies grow gangbusters outside the clusters.
Educated guess, one die will have many layers, requiring many masks for all the layers
Internode latency, when you have one big problem and communication is the bottleneck.
BSC Builds 21st Century Supercomputer in a 19th Century Cathedral
I tried a bunch of papers that weren't yours and they came out really well.
I re-read just now and yes, you're right. Sorry about that.
My daily apps from SetApp:

‣ HazeOver (dims any window without focus by a simply-configurable amount)
‣ Mosaic (window position/size management), TextSoap (quick text-cleansing recipes)
‣ Timing (track time spent in all apps/paths for client billing)
‣ Marked (Markdown editor with live preview)
‣ Paw

I also use:

‣ Gemini (dupe file finder)
‣ Chronicle (bill organizer)
‣ NetSpot (wifi analyzer)

For me, it's definitely worth it.
Yes it does:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

fair.c
deadline.c
rt.c
[video] Let's Build a Blockchain – A Mini-Cryptocurrency in Ruby
The article that the author links in that sentence goes into more depth; it claims that async/await is better in part because V8 can optimize it better than it can Promises. In other words, async/await is better than Promises, provided that you are not using polyfills. He isn't assuming polyfills are free, he is assuming that you don't need them (or that you can pull them out of your bundle over time)
They all do have 100K up front? Most software engineers I know have this much in student debt.
Fast low latency interconnects, and scale up versions of the resources (eg lots of gpus per box) to minimise communication overhead.
Speaking for at least some of the H1Bs and other non-immigrant visa holders, they'll leave—taking the savings from their Bay Area salary back to Europe, Asia, Central America or another place with reasonable living costs. I've always thought that that was one of the most compelling, pragmatic reasons to fast track the citizenship process.
It's less than at 8, making acceptable new previously darker parts of the image. But I agree with the "infinite scale" argument
The motion controls on the Oculus and Vive are spectacular.

You can't even compare them to the wii. Playing Robo-recall on the oculus is like being in a john woo movie.
I've used it for over a year and I like it. I have to debug things like SAML IdP/SP handshakes and session management for SSO in multiple environments as multiple users.
I switched to Paw after spending many hours over several days wondering why the API I was calling was working sporadically through the client I was using at the time, Postman. $50 is nothing compared to the pay my company spent for me to realize Postman was using Chrome's settings (and more importantly, cookies and caching), and thus causing me inconsistent results. I agree $50 is steep, but Paw is well worth it, and I've been thrilled to use it ever since.
I wonder if they're using succint data structures.

I'm in bioinformatics and the first time I implemented a wavelet tree to reduce the size of genomes in memory.. It was just breathtaking.
GRPC is fantastic.

You define a few data types to communicate about, and call procedures remotely with them. I mean it’s right there in the name!

Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a Methodology you can cram your business or research problem into. It just wants to talk about your problem. Way too on-the-nose for many tastes.

It needs a religion attached, then masses will follow.
Thanks for the feedback, the registration has been fixed.
Those fields are planned to be removed in the upcoming weeks, they are indeed not relevant anymore.
Can you go into any more details on the product you built and the acquisition? It sounds like a pretty unique success story, I'm sure others would like to hear more about it too.
> I personally know I will never be able to afford housing close to work based on how things are now. Currently I'm just saving my pennies and hoping I can move to another job with a lower cost of living somewhere else in a few years.

This is exactly my situation as well. The neighbor to my left bought his house 3 years ago for 320. The neighbor to my right just bought an equivalent house for 570. No can do.

Unlike SF, however, the balance here does seem "worth it". I looked at the job market were I to return to Virginia right now, and while the land is cheap and plentiful, it took some digging to even find a posted role that felt promising. Tech hub job markets are no joke.
Here it is!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_London_Air_Terminal

Or rather, was.
This picture is from a video game ?!
Absolutely. Take a look at Sacramento's real estate / rental prices.
I didn't reply to that person's post because I took it literally - buying someone else's hotdog stand. In that case yes, 0 growth.
Parallel processing is about network latency and bandwidth for the types of algorithms that don't divide into small computable/paralelizable bits easily. For those tasks, supercomputer buses are unmatched.
Their Tasty content is social media gold (well produced food "porn"). It's highly viral and well liked by many people. It's weird to me that you're getting downvotes for suggesting that Buzzfeed take this content and do more with it.

I may personally hate the idea of social media popularity being used to dictate the content of a menu, but I suspect there's a kernel of a great idea there. After all, this is essentially the big data or Netflix approach to deciding what content to make. Likes are just one metric that would be needed, but you can certainly get an idea of the kinds of things that make people drool.

Buzzfeed will likely first want to move into more cooking shows before opening a full restaurant to see if they can create some more fans, possibly even see if they can have their own homegrown celebrity chefs, then branch into restaurant/food space.
Is Your D&D Charachter Rare?
It sounds like you are saying Nexus devices have a hsm separate from their gsm card for hardware protected keys, do all fingerprint enabled Android devices have this?
Ok you jest. Pretty sure there's a transcription error there.

"Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall at the bottom of the page. Anyone passingly familiar with Perl has probably encountered it as a guiding principle of the language design.

If perl 5 had use strict; and -w enabled by default maybe the write only line noise crud would be less prevalent and we'd still be using perl rather than python? It's not actually that hard to write readable, clean perl. Python's signficant whitespace seemed like such a rubbish idea at first but wow, how much easier is it to read code written by inexperienced hackers when there is no choice in formatting. That strength dominating the lack of default strict and warnings, (maybe oo bolted on syntax too?) in perl probably won the day for python because after a decade of writing python it still feels like a step down from perl and I miss it some, although not as bitterly as all these lispers seem to miss lisp ;-)
> dna = ''.join(random.choices('atgc', weights=[30.9, 29.4, 19.9, 19.8], k=3_234_830_000))

On a tablet, I highlight and pull down. It grabs it all and I can then read it. It is a very awful workaround that impacts the site's usability.
Singapore to cap number of cars – there's no more room for them
Thanks for the list, MT has been a place I have admired for a while now. Just had not thought of being able to actually support myself there. I am pretty niche as far as my interests go (Geospatial Development) and there aren't a whole lot of options around. OnXMaps is quite interesting though, exactly up my alley. Didn't know about them before.
The SF area is a desirable part of the country because of weather and cultural reasons (for some). So people who live here are basically buying access to good climate and desirable activities/amenities.

It's also worth noting that these figures are for a mortgage, which is in part an investment. When the trend of SF area real estate is factored in, it doesn't look as crazy. If you purchase in very popular areas (Palo/Menlo/north MV, on the Peninsula), you're pretty well insulated from downside market risk. Even during the '08 recession, things mostly just flattened out for a couple years (and have since gone on a tear). People used to joke about million-dollar-fixer-uppers. Now even the fixer-uppers are well over a million...
Functional Programming Language with fewer indirections
Americans think government is evil and all that. So there's no government rescue plan to build more housing because that's commie talk. So everyone's waiting for the market to fix it.
Thank you! Eskil is such a wizard.
This is the "traversable" part: throw a qubit into black hole A. Measure a particle of its Hawking radiation & transmit the result of the measurement through the external universe to the other black hole B; then use this knowledge to operate on a Hawking particle coming out of black hole B to "reconstruct" the original qubit.
What type of business problem are we solving?
I think naming things is difficult, and the best name for a thing is the most meaningful to you and your company.
To be fair, this is with our current understanding of physics. The SoL barrier is VERY unlikely to be 'broken', however, more interesting things may crop up. I mean, 'dark matter' is ~20% of the universe and all we really know about it is that it falls down. Then you have 'dark energy' which makes up ~70% of the universe and all we know about it is that it makes other things not fall down (maybe).

There is a whole heck of a lot of physics out there still so I think calling a galaxy-wide intelligence impossible is premature (let alone the debate over what 'intelligence' is counted as).
Look at the white brick pillars in the background behind the car; they're exactly the same. Some other stuff like the soda bottle pops out as well. It does look nice though.
I think the key is in your parent, with the focus on increasing overall performance through decreasing latency (as opposed to increasing, say, parallelism).
Lots of layers, yield < 100%, multiple teams / designs in flight.

In any case,

> how long it takes to write a mask is the principal determination of both the cost of the mask and also the yield of the mask
> Javascript

I think Python would be so much better. These languages are almost the same technically, but Python has the better syntax and better errors.

(ok I just realise it hasn't the same support for lambdas but they just make me think of node.js style anyway...)
The possibilities were endless in secondlife but the experience was choppy in 2006.
Yes, there are mods out there that make GTA look like a photo-realistic adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cbL3HUqAJU