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The housing situation isn't quite as fucked as the Bay, in that Seattle is actually building more units (there are dozens of high-density apartment complexes under construction at the moment). It's not enough to stop rents from going up, but it's something. And hey, we can always hope that Amazon opening a new HQ somewhere else will ease the influx.
No, this doesn’t happen in other states that don’t have Prop 13. Instead in California the property tax burden is shifted to new home owners, young families just starting out.
How can we entrepreneurs work together to stop biodiversity loss within 10 yrs?
How can we as entrepreneurs work together to stop the ongoing 6th mass extinction within 10 years?

It is a tough problem but our community has the intelligence and resolve to tackle the loss of habitat and biodiversity on our planet. What are the next steps to organize individuals, small and large companies alike to tackle this “moonshot” problem?
Each to there own ;)
Nothing to do with START. It's all about the NK war. Do you also believe the story that they recalled 1000 retired pilots due to shortages in recruiting?

And that this weeks evacuation "drill" was already scheduled?

This is war time preparation.
Or...homeowners might become slightly less NIMBY? They would be less enthusiastic about house price increases outpacing inflation and would be less likely to vote down new development?
Still live in Livingston? I'll buy you a beer at Katabatic just to say hello.
Amazon competes with Walmart for selling crap

But they're also a hardware company (Kindle, Fire, etc)

And a media company (Prime Video, etc)

And a logistics company

And a *aaS company
> Also, parsing and generating N languages is a really, really hard problem.

Really, it is not a hard problem with the right tools. Haskell, for example, is extremely good at parsing and generating (maybe that's the only thing that is is #1 in, but it is miles beyond any other language I have used...). An example of this is pandoc https://pandoc.org/
FYI: If you want to build your own little news aggreator page or sites, try the open source pluto planet tool (gem/library) [1] it incl. a top theme [2], for example. Happy planet. Cheers. [1] http://feedreader.github.io [2] https://github.com/planet-templates/planet-top
All naturally evolved species, including humans, are extremely complex machines. There isn't anything supernatural involved. That means that a general AI, with the capacity to learn and interact with the world, would easily be a thinking being. It might not be smarter than a border collie, but it is still a thinking being.

The difference between a simple machine, even a computer controlled one working off of a program, and one driven by a general AI is that a human did not have to be involved in the task at all. General AI, like the current purpose built AI, will be able to learn from first principals. That means they will be able to select and perform their own tasks once they are mature enough, just like us.

It is important to note that a real general AI has not yet been created. The technology is getting ever closer, though. It is only a matter of time before there is a break-through moment.
My RSS feeds quickly became noisy dumps of data
Cisco Buys BroadSoft for $1.9B
Definitely true. Even other nominally 'expensive' cities can attract away Bay Area expats if they're less comprehensively pricy.

NYC has the same problem as SF: it's hell to get in and out, and no one is building new units with easy access to the city center. (LA likewise.) But Boston, DC, Houston, and other very big cities are way more forgiving to people willing to commute 20-50 minutes in return for some decently-priced housing.
What are the parameters of that $1M home?

For example, I looked at comparables for my current home in a recent job hunt. My reasonable sized (1700 sq ft) house in a good area of Michigan (western Wayne county, bordering Washtenaw and Ann Arbor) is about $250k if we sold today. As far as I could tell, this would not be the down payment on a roughly similar house in comparable neighborhoods in the Bay Area.

[added]

When I was looking up the mortgage costs to help in my negotiations, it was looking close to $100k/year in payments (6500-8500/month). Which meant, when I looked at that in terms of after tax income, we didn't have much money for things like food, sending kid to college, cheap clothing .... stuff we might like to do like going to movies ...

So, yeah ... there's that ...
100K down but the average salaried offer appears to be 140K?

140K, 40% for taxes, leaves with 84K, 3K a month for housing (assuming you don't want to shack up with some rando Craigslist'er), leaves 48K.

Another 20K for food and booze, and you're left with 28K.
Seattle is quickly becoming 'bay area'-ish from what I can tell. Housing is certainly becoming difficult at incredible rates. Here in Bellevue, a colleague of mine bought a house for ~400k, it's now worth well over ~500k only a year later. Many houses in that area also sell for at least 700k+ assuming you can even get an offer in before a cash buyer grabs it. Don't even get me started on the traffic. I run as many of my errands before 8am as possible.

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.

Edit: For reference, I am just a just above 'entry level' engineer at Microsoft. I'm paid well, but not well enough for the housing around here.
>Vim/emacs/kaoune might be superior

My google-fu is failing me; what is kaoune?
This is an awesome tool. Thanks!

Only issue I've run into so far is that cross-references to theorem numbers don't seem to always work correctly, e.g. you'll see a lot of "Theorem ?" in https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1607.06711/.
If you look at an historical chart of GDP growth by city you'll find others[1], since I believe the issue of increasingly coveted zones that push out lower income inhabitants has been a problem in rapidly growing large urban centers since before history. I read how it was a common complaint in ancient Rome. I experienced it myself working in London during the 90's, and now too in the Bay Area.

I wonder how self-driving cars will impact conurbation size when compared to other advancements like boats, horses, carts, roads, canals, trams, steam-engines, trains, tarmac, subways, combustion-engines, bikes, cars, steel bridges, and mechanized roadway construction?

[1] http://www.best-cities.org/2014/best-performing-cities-repor...
Those laws are implemented by humans who don't always follow them, or only follow them for certain groups of people.
"If you don't ship it you can't sell it."

Now tell that to any sales team and they'll tell you to hold their beer. The problem is, now they've sold your vaporware and you _reallly_ need to ship it, now. Like, yesterday.
Don’t worry, enterpreneurs are working hard replacing them with robots!
Cali is the only US state where lane splitting is legal. How many people with a long commute are riding motorcycles to work every day? The weather is great for it. Were I in the bay area, I'd be riding in every day. If not for the love of motorcycles, just to shorten my commute times.
Pretty sure these were pulled as highlights from the "References" section, but I can't guarantee that beyond confirming they are listed there. The article does add some interpretive commentary quoting experts.

The best TL;DR I could grab from the previous discussion:

>MrBuddyCasino https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15503474

Der Spiegel discusses issues in the methodology of the data collection. The intervals over the years weren't uniform, data was collected by volunteers/hobbyists and they did not measure the dry mass weight. There are differing opinions whether or not those issues have relevance.

SZ gives some details on suspected causes. Neither climate change (warmer weather should yield more insects, not less) nor changes in plant diversity can explain the observed effects alone. Main suspects:

- agricultural fertilizers, especially nitrogen

- pesticides, especially neonicotinoides
Email is one backdoor less to care about, step by step you can regain total privacy with project like these
No. It's up to the application to decide how it wishes to interpret timezones. Or if timezone should be a factor at all.

E.g. if I'm booking a hotel you don't want it to pick up the user's timezone and frob that into UTC to send it over; you want the local hotel timezone. But if you're setting a calendar event you do want the timezone to be configurable, and you can add a picker for that.

Assuming all time fields must have a timezone is why e.g. jekyll will re-date your prior posts (breaking all URL slugs) when you change your timezone.
>Is it a privacy violation if someone checks a checksum of my incoming mail against a blacklist?

No, the privacy concern is about the potential for abuse if there is a known place in the world where a very detailed account of all my online (and some offline) activities, contacts, communication and personal interests is stored.

It obviously arouses the interest and desires of criminals, governments, employers, politicians, landlords, insurance companies, creditors, marketers, ex partners, extremists and bigots, journalists, potential mates, researchers, etc.

Some of these groups are overlapping and some of the concerns might only arise in the distant future. Governments change. Ownership of companies changes. Personal circumstances and opinions change, but you can't take anything back once its out.
And as long as the after tax take home pay of the 2 people is no less than 16K/month and it's a 15-20 year fixed rate mortgage then things should be fine.

The back of the napkin numbers on those parameters; each of those people need to have a salary of 130-150K/year. Certainly not crazy for the well placed Apple, Google and Facebook employees but pretty much a pipe dream for the unwashed masses.
Why is it important that teachers are licensed? I work in a teaching college; there is no such thing as a "college professor license" yet I think my colleagues do a very good job teaching. If licensing teachers ensures quality, then our K-12 system should be great. However, as you know the K-!2 system in USA is a joke... yet our college system on average, without any "licensed teachers," is fairly world class.
So I generally agree, even within SF itself, basically nothing outside a tiny area of downtown is the height it could be. Tons of the bay area is under built. The regulatory environment is a nightmare. There is intense fear that any new building will bring newcomers that will destroy the community.

That said...

San Jose and Oakland both definitely have downtown portions with 20 story + buildings. RWC has been building bigger too.
Experience with psychedelics associated with decreased risk of opioid abuse
There are no hard rules, but very few of my non-white friends are OK with Phoenix or most other red states. AZ especially given the papers-please laws employed 'randomly' on brown people.

Besides jobs, California offers open minds and much a much friendlier atmosphere for brown people.
That's why the Dems have been courting "split-roll" for a long time, to prevent the corporate abuses of Prop 13 - which can bee pretty powerful, but keep the homeowner version.

Here's how a corporate Prop13 exploit goes: first identify land you want to own that's owned by another corporation. Make a private agreement to buy the property. Over time, replace board of directors of property-owning corp with folks from buying corporation. Eventually you have full control of old corporation, with old tax rates. This happened with Ernst & Julio Gallo for millions of acres of arable vineyards.
As a simple example, take the water out of the tube. Do the animals continue dumping rocks on top of the marshmallow, since that process used to work, or do they appear to understand that it was the water in the tube that made the rock-dropping process work?
As someone who's originally from California (not the Bay Area, though), let me tell you this: the cost of living, for what you get, is astronomically high compared to other places.

Here in North Texas, I make around 100k/yr, and due to cost of living I can squirrel a lot of that away. We have no state income tax, and our property tax, while high, isn't nearly as high as California's (and will vary depending upon which county you live in -- massively expanding counties like Collin will charge more than rural ones like Johnson).

With that income I was easily able to buy a ~1800sqft two story house in a good neighborhood. My total consistent expenses for each month are maybe 2/3s that of your rent, which includes non-consumables like mortgage, insurance, utilities, etc.

In all of this, of course, I don't have kids and my wife doesn't (currently) work. If your spouse does work, then your spending power here becomes so much greater.

Trust me. Get out. It's the best decision I've ever made and there's absolutely no fucking way I would ever live in CA again.
Sharing home with strangers is just a no-no for me. In other places, only extreme poverty (ex. as in early USSR) forces people to do it.
How much land and house does that $1M buy you? In New Hampshire where I live, $1M buys you quite a bit: several thousand square feet of house, several acres of land, an excellent local public school system, great views... Heck, I even imagine that in the greater Boston metro area you'll get a similar bang for your buck.

Your normal family property (approx 1500 - 2000 ft/sq, ~1 acre land) goes for $200k - $250k. Still expensive, but doable, especially if both parents are making decent money (>= $50k/year is what I count as decent money). Less than $30k down payment brings your monthly expenses to less than $2k/mo. Exactly half price for what I'd imagine to be similar living conditions in SF Bay (albeit Bay Area public schools are probably better than NH's, though New England has very good schools).

It's clear that you're making a lot more money than I am for similar experience -- I too am less than 30 years old -- but I wonder the difference in percentage our savable income is, given the difference in costs we both pay for housing. I too wonder for others in our age and job demographic what they're able to save when living in SF Bay vs. elsewhere.

The cost of living there doesn't seem worth it to me. Heck, NE I think is too expensive! Been looking to move down to Raleigh, NC after I get married, but that's neither here nor there.
>> No matter what you do, it’s time to stop watching Netflix every night and browsing webshops for the newest clothes.

> I'm betting in their final hour they didn't wish they were still at work, or got more hours in.

The might feel better about the work they did than the time spent on netflix or buying clothes. Or the other way around. Or wish they put more time and energy elsewhere entirely. Everyone -- me included -- would probably benefit from thinking hard about such questions and adjusting their life accordingly if needed.
Oh, that's awesome idea!

If it uses IMAP4 variant under the hood and not completely different/proprietary API - are there any plans of possibly releasing this as a standalone tool someday?

I don't use Protonmail, because I already have self-hosted own-premises mail system for a long while, but I don't have encryption at rest. Given that you use OpenPGP, this bridge app looks very interesting. If it only could talk to a local gpg-agent as an option (rather than an PM account), it would be probably just perfect.
Terrible for minorities also.
Sent you an e-mail. Hopefully Gmail doesn't chuck it!
what were the multiple reasons?
How did Arron Banks afford to bankroll Brexit?
That amount of money should suffice to mortgage a house if you can..people with less income buy houses in the area.

However..remember that buying a house does not save you rent. You become an owner, so either you pay rent to the owner, or you stiff him, which happens to be you.
I feel this all the time. Especially for flights, I will pay like $20 bucks extra if I can buy using Google Flights and don't have to go through the slowness, upselling, and credit card entry of the airline's site.
This is awesome! I was literally rolling my eyes this morning about trying to read an arXiv paper on my phone.
>this goes 100X for women.

Using obviously ridiculous hyperbole like this is going to do the opposite of helping to solve your pet problem, FYI. Consider other strategies for advocacy.
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You blow a hole in the border with the first plane. Then fly the rest through. EMP attacks can also blow a hole.
Hackers target public schools for ransom in exchange of data
I noticed an "error" in your icons. The icon for "dependencies" of a function is a left->right spreading tree, but should be a right->left condensing tree to suggest to left->right language speakers that the dependencies are coming together rather than going apart. Similarly, the responsibilities icon should be switched to be a left->right spreading tree to show that the function is going out and being used in many different places.
As someone that took a tech job in a (relatively) rural area, I can say there are some amazing perks, but also huge risks. Tech jobs pay roughly the same in rural areas as they do in larger cities, but housing costs are low enough that you can get a really nice house and still afford to put money in savings.

The biggest downside is a lack of employment options. When the company had a huge layoff I started looking around for other jobs in the area and realized there weren't any.

I ended up taking a great job 1000 miles away in a major city. That's when I realized another downside to smaller markets - it's really hard to sell a house and house values don't change. Even though we bought a foreclosed house in 2007, the value in 2014 was unchanged. After looking at what we had spend on improvements and upkeep we would've been far better off renting a house and putting more money into savings.
It's hardly insane for a house in a large metropolitan area! That's actually pretty reasonable, and lots of apartments in SF are 50% to 100% more in rent. If you look at current, or anything within maybe 5 years, house prices in Seattle I doubt you'll find much if anything within a 15 minute commute to downtown Seattle for a 900/month mortgage.
Saudi Billionaire Prince Alwaleed Predicts Bitcoin Will 'Implode' Like Enron
I think I just take a different view than you, who writes the country's rules, the people in power, who has the power, the people with money / property to protect, I think we are both describing the same loop just diverge on where this loop began.
It isn't Portland or Seattle or San Francisco but it isn't as bad as you might expect (based on what I hear from LGBT friends and my observations). There's a tradition of leaving people to do their thing. We have a democrat governor. Probably best to keep to the left half of the state though. The college towns and tech firms are in the western half.
I am parents with school-aged kids. This is outrageous. Can we prevent this?
From Wikipedia: "The "genome" of any given individual is unique; mapping the "human genome" involved sequencing a small number of individuals and then assembling these together to get a complete sequence for each chromosome. Therefore, the finished human genome is thus a mosaic, not representing any one individual."

Members of a species share most of their genetic material with each other, but there are known areas of high variability between individuals. So to build a specific individual's sequence, it seems like they take the baseline "human genome" data, and overlay the areas that are known to change.
> Optimizing for things like cheap rent, etc. is silly. You should aim to make so much ( eventually ) that rent doesn't matter any more

This flies in the face of basic economic theory. If everyone in the bay area "made so much that rent doesn't matter anymore" the rent would go up until it did matter. The reason it doesn't is that quantity demanded goes down as rent goes up precisely because people are price conscious.
>> 15-20 year fixed rate mortgage

forgetting property taxes?
Can you please explain that more?
My opinion:

- Seattle has more diverse industry. I toured the bio-science companies down at the harbor and was really impressed. Seattle is more than just "tech".

- SF is way too restrictive with allowing new housing to be built. I did not perceive the problem to be as bad in Seattle.

- In SF, a lot of the streets reeked of weed--It's like when someone cranks up their music too loud forcing everyone to listen to it. I don't care if someone smokes weed, I just don't want to smell it everywhere--it's not family friendly. Meanwhile, Seattle's streets appeared much cleaner to me when I explored the city (on foot).
9 months of rain?
Many software companies fail outright. Other enduring bad software delivery outfits enjoy specific types of subsidies or captive pricing powers until they fail. Those are different cases.

Outright unsubsidized failures that never deliver any product to customers are mostly functions of communicative challenges. The opacity of costing for simple speed/space or protocol adherence engineering decisions is easy to underestimate. Business actors will nod and agree to anything that sounds good and give wrong signals. Others wave hands frantically around every buzzword and easy windfall demanding features. Many purchase agents subject to hype have no idea what they are buying and fetishize wasted software LOE. Training is routinely shortchanged for industries with high turnover.

Accept failure and then low quality as the norm. Then seek team members, suppliers, channel partners and customers around new or rekindled software with needs to focus intensively for 2 months and then 24 months. Most enduring software requires stakeholders more than customers. Leave other endeavors up to researchers and understand what capital resources amplify or do not amplify.
The US can probably see the position of every sub on the planet using magnetic imaging.
It's pure speculation, but I am suggesting that instead of some sort of annihilation imbalance, the mechanism might be a sorting process that causes antimatter and matter to collect into horizon-shaped pockets.

If there were such a sorting process that was inherently linked to cosmological horizons, it could explain both where the antimatter went, and why we don't see an annihilation zone where the boundaries meet.
This is not especially dissimilar from how CPUs were made and marketed for years - CPUs that wouldn't clock at 1.6GHz would get sold as 1.4GHz, for example

Kinda like how ladders are rated: they say 300Lbs .. it'll probably take more than double that - but if it breaks when you overload it, the manufacturer can point to the rating and say, "you exceeded its spec"
I was looking for a way to turn my (soon-to-be-defended) PhD thesis into an epub, and investigated the various LaTeX2Html converters.
I was pretty disappointed when I realized that all of them are terrible and have no hope of handling my manuscript. My current solution is to create a rendering of my thesis in a5 format. :/

This look quite a bit better, so here is the question: what do you not support at the moment?
On Friday, the government-run oil giant PDVSA owes $985 million.

Maybe an ignorant question... who do they owe... who own's these bonds?
Ah, looks like we don't support theorems. You can track it here: https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/157

Thanks!
not to mention the fact that kernel devs knew about it as well, so the whole title of the article is a bit bunk