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> then act, vote, and do everything in their power to make it exactly like SF

I won't lie, during my time in Portland I def experienced some schadenfreude when California-native drivers complained about tickets for failing to yield to pedestrians.
>something already out there that outnumbers humans in some meaningful way

Like LEGO minifigures? https://www.quora.com/How-many-LEGO-people-minifigs-are-ther...
This. Though I'd probably add a 4th category, those being none of the preceding 3 groups. That 4th group would include me, and quite a number of others.

In my previous job hunt, I had numerous recruiters try to explain to me that the Bay Area was the only place to be. I helped them work the math to show the CoL differences between where I was and where they wanted me. This didn't phase them.

Then I discussed this in terms of required compensation deltas to make this meaningful, using the rubric of not slipping significantly backwards in quality of life measures (house size, commute, food prices, taxes, etc.). This got their attention.

A few times when I replied here on similar articles noting that the Bay Area was simply pricing itself out of competition for talent and companies, the responses varied between sympathy to ... well ... (paraphrasing) you are a fool to expect higher comp to live and work in this utopia.

Well, no.

There are many reasons why the Bay Area is in the state it is in. It isn't quite catastrophic ... yet ... but IMO it is moving there fast.

Burn rates for newcos are massive compared to other regions. General costs are high relative to other regions. Economic theory suggests that this will eventually fix itself, the invisible hand of the market and all.

For me, I took a position that enabled remote work, and can hop a plane to HQ when needed (1/month or so). This is far more cost effective for the company and I than it would be to move me.

Just my $0.02. There are those whom might leap to the defense of the region, but its worth asking if the critique is founded or not. I believe it is.
In 1999 I bailed out of the valley and moved to Livingston, MT. I had to build my own ISP to get connectivity to my house but otherwise it's been a success. Interesting to watch how the tech "scene" has changed over that time. I used to know all the developers in this half of the state personally!
Whether it's religious or faith based is a kind of tricky question because it's a "Zen Buddhist" place (in rural Sweden, as it happens).

To make a long story short I'd say yeah, basically you spend the time eating, working, praying, and sleeping, except that the "praying" doesn't have a content except for something like "realizing that awareness is already inherently clear and ready", or just abiding in awake alertness without "complaining", or something like that.

There's also chanting which is more explicitly religious, but I interpret this whole religious business as being basically just memetic strategies that use this aesthetically coherent gestalt to reinforce some hard-to-describe point.

Image google for "zazen" and that's basically what's going on for hours every day, during meditation retreats many hours every day (with breaks every 30 minutes or so so your knees don't implode).
saving 50k while paying student loans off is often a very daunting task. I would imagine one would generally need to have a bay-area type salary to begin with to pull off such a thing in a timeframe less than a decade, which leads to a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Or find a way to make a decent engineering level salary while having little to no housing costs. This means having parents willing to support you who also live close enough to a job that pays well, and in your scenario having a significant other who is also in the same or similar enough situation; this is not extremely rare, but it's not the norm either.
Looks like a dumbed down version of http://alltop.com/

How is this on the front page?
The answer is not in policing corruption, since everyone is subject to corruption (no population is free of bad apples), but in preventing corruption. If there is not much power to be had by those seeking election, then the people "in power" are not worth influencing. Note: not anarchy and not anti-regulation; just a little slightly anti-lots of government power. EDIT: But this is the right idea.
The reason for the 24/7 bombers is to counter any Russian or Chinese aggression during the US attack on North Korea.

We can't risk them thinking we're vulnerable to a preemptive strike for even a day or week.

It's precautionary measure to prevent an escalation to WW3. Hopefully it works out.
The Accidental Complexity of Syntax
https://meanwhileinmontana.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/18...

Counter-counterpoint: Visit Missoula when they are naked biking.
let them eat organic gluten free vegan cake? hmm
> Since async and await are strictly better, my recommendation remains to use them instead of vanilla promises

Let's not assume that polyfills are free. As far as I can tell [0], you need two Babel transforms to enable support across browsers, with the generator polyfill running you about 20kb.

[0] https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/preset-es2017/
If you're after investors' money then probably yes, as they say, but for the engineer, there is nothing special.
> one becomes immediately suspicious of the US intent in latin america

These restrictions are forcing an inevitable outcome sooner. Venezuela's debt load is unsustainable for reasons entirely of Chavez and Maduro's doing (as well as the people who elected them in elections that were, until fairly recently, fair and free [1]).

Suspicion is good. Using baseless suspicion to deflect attention from a well-based problem is not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Venezuela#Voting_...
This is happening but, unlike software, cannot be bootstrapped by a few hackathons.

Just one example: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-housing-menlo-park-2...
Jesus, 2k / person a month is insane. This is what people are talking about. This is not acceptable or normal. I pay $900 / person a month for a large house in Seattle that's a 15 minute commute from downtown. Even with the bay's high salaries you're not doing very well. Throw in bills and other expenses and you're looking at ~40% of your monthly income, assuming a salary of 130k. That's ~50k per person, per year, in addition to 100k down.

I'm good on that, thanks.
I am starting to suspect that a lot of the support for UBI is actually fake news, propagated by agents of Putin, or perhaps by people dumb enough to fall for fake news with a pro-communist ulterior motive.
I think that such a tool could benefit my social life, but I am definitely too lazy to write a diary. Let's see whether I will use it.

The fact that your data will be gone after the beta won't make that happen for now …
>Androids will be much larger than mobile phones

My brain froze for a minute getting ready to argue that Android tablets aren't that different from Android smartphones .. then saw you were talking about robotics
Notice I said "the last free election". It is prone to a no true Scotchmen fallacy, but when the police start to violently stop people from voting you can be sure an election wasn't free anymore.
> California's housing crisis has repercussions all up and down the west coast.

You're looking at it the wrong way. It's not that the situation in California has wider repercussions, it's that there is a wider problem whose symptoms happen to manifest themselves earliest in California because it's one of the nicer places to live: there are simply too many people and not enough space for them all to live in the nice places.
They also got metasploit-framework which is kinda awesome
It's interesting how visceral the urge is to own a home when in fact, it's not always the best choice financially.

People love to say "if I had only owned my home I wouldn't have thrown away so much in rent." This is typical in areas that have seen large increases in home prices.

You rarely hear about the opposite which is "I'm $100K underwater on my house" because people don't talk about it when things go south.

Renting and not owning removes you from the whims of the housing market. If your landlord took a 30% hit in the value of his property, as a renter you get to walk away and let him/her deal with it. That's worth something.
Ask HN: Share your dev horror stories
Share your worst dev horror story!

Last year we collected dev horror stories on the CircleCI blog for Halloween https://circleci.com/blog/dev-horror-stories/ and it was so much fun we want to put the call out again.

What's your worst? The scariest might end up on our blog roundup this year, feel free to make a note if you'd rather your story not be shared :)
> You should aim to make so much ( eventually ) that rent doesn't matter any more

Unless this is an unrealistic aim, in which case you are throwing your future away on a false hope..
Mesh fortress.
I have spent few years there but when it was time to have family just left. It is simple not feasible for multiple reasons to raise a child there.
Sure, but don't "just use Bluebird", as the OP said, in every situation. If you require the extra features of Bluebird, use Bluebird. But if you're just handling simple Promises, it's a waste.
You honestly think that paying 100k out of pocket in addition to a recurring 4k a month (48k a year!) just on housing is reasonable?
"Ultimately it's a choice, as to what a company decides to focus more heavily on."

I think you are conflating two issues.

If any company were growing at more than 50% a year - there would probably not be much in the way of 'profit share' because it would be a really bad move. Those profits should almost assuredly be 're-invested' in the growth of the company.

The 'profit share to employees' issue is really about a fundamentally different way to incentivize staff than other means.

" Facebook staying private and implementing a profit sharing arrangement with its employees and shareholders in 2011, would have been a vastly superior deal for most of the people involved. They'll hit ~$16b in net income this year. They could nearly make every one of their employees a millionaire in one year, in 2018, via profit sharing."

No - there is absolutely no reason that FB should be handing out 'a million dollars in profit' to each employee? Why on earth would it do that? It doesn't have to. Every company will pay more or less market wages.

If you owned FB, why on earth would you want managers to be paying people 10x what they need to?

FB private/public thing doesn't matter.

If they stayed private, they'd have to compensate in 'rev share' something roughly along the lines of the value of the stock options they handed out.

"They could have been radically profitable, instead they mistakenly focused on growing the size (bloat) of the company"

???

You're contradicting yourself here. The 'bloat' you're talking about is payment to employees. So you're saying they should have paid people less?

Yes - I agree - they could have been profitable a long time ago, but they are 'not profitable' precisely because they are giving away too much 'revenue share' in the form of 'salary' to too many people.
I think you are right, self-preservation - the atoms of human motivation and behaviour
Google Identity Platform
Eventually ... sure

But mankind already makes far more stuff than there are people .. so this "limit" is a long long ways off
I'm shocked that `.finally` wasn't part of the standard in the first place. Every promise library I've used (angular 1's $q and bluebird mostly) has had a finally method.

Better late than never, I suppose.
Article autoplays video with audio. Just so you know. Incredible that Bloomberg treats their readers so poorly.
I used the process described in this blog post to be able to deliver to Hotmail: https://blog.stickleback.dk/getting-off-hotmails-blocklist/ (not my blog). I got the same strange automated responses as this guy got, but I got off their blacklist after a couple of hours.

More generally:

- I made sure my server's IP addresses weren't on any blacklists.

- I host my mail server with a reputable hosting provider (RamNode). Stay clear of companies like OVH that have reputations for poor abuse handling.

- I have configured SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.

- I registered my server with https://www.dnswl.org/, a whitelist for legitimate mail servers.

- I don't send spam or other bulk e-mail, only personal correspondence.

I also tried sending e-mails to a couple of people I know who use Gmail. I asked them to mark my mails as 'not spam' if they went into their junk folders. I don't know how much this helps "globally" in the Gmail system, but at least it'll teach Gmail not to mark my mails as spam for those people.

I had used my current personal domain for e-mail for a couple of years but I paid a company to host my e-mail for me. It might have helped that my domain had already built up a good reputation in big mail companies' spam filters, but who knows... It definitely helps, however, that my domain wasn't brand new. Newly registered domains are often penalized by spam filters. A poor choice of TLD can also hurt delivery: I know that many mail admins penalize or out-right block many of the new gTLDs like .top and .download.

I am not discounting those who complain about deliverability, but so far I haven't had much trouble with my low-volume, personal mail server.
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Why is the definition of a computer suddenly dependent on whether or not you can "easily" install Linux or Windows on it?
You've just pointed out the key issue - taking the time to grow professional networks.

As always, it's easier to sell services face-to-face and through someone who already knows you than it is to go cold.

As you're looking to do remote work, your competition will be the local dev shops. To be able to command $80+/hr, you'll need to provide proof that you're worth that amount to take on the risk of being remote.

Look at referrals, look at testimonials, share your project communication process, put out side projects to showcase your quality of work, do everything you can to help people feel more comfortable that you will be able to deliver what you're charging for.

Once you've done that, I'm convinced that you can go further than $80+/per person/per hour.

It all boils down to trust and relationship (or rather the level of relationship you have with the person).
A little extra history; Avi Flombaum started teaching at General Assembly (when GA was still a co-working space, and provided an event space etc that accommodated education programs) prior to founding Flatiron School. The following year GA closed down their co-working space to focus on education.
Still 0% performance wins for Netflix. Not a "decade of wasted cores" for us.
Dropbox and Instagram use mypy/typing actively. Also among open-source:
https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy
https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx

I would say the opposite, it is not very useful for small projects.
Apple is a media company that happens to sell phones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, and desktop computers
That’s because Prop 13 applies to commercial real estate as well because corporations are people too.
I've been living in the bay area for about 7 years working as a software engineer. When I arrived, rent was around 1.7k for a 2 bed 2 bathroom apartment. Today, the same place charges you around 3.5k. The cost more than doubled while this is pretty much not true about your salary.

You either need to get huge promotions in 7 years to double your salary which is very difficult (and this is just to keep your living standards) or be forced to move to somewhere farther and face a crushing commute of at least 2 to 3 hours everyday.

Roughly speaking, buying a house is also not a win since houses closer to where you work will usually be more than 1 million dollars. Mortgage would be around 4k-5k with 20% down payment. So again, you'd be forced to buy somewhere farther.

There's really not much to do about it, it's supply and demand and you need to accept it. There are a couple of things though that tech companies could do: either working with local authorities to help improve public transportation or decentralize the workplace.

Companies, however, are doing exactly the opposite: Buying lands which were previously residential areas and building huge mega-structures so everyone can work in a single place while not having the best from public transportation (e.g. Apple).

I naively thought that making the lives of their employees easier would be in the best interests of tech companies but I just see things getting worse every year.
1. Use Stripe

2. Get booted at 11th customer cause their underwriting doesn't like your name.

3. Use different provider.
Came to suggest this, cool that it already happened.

Can confirm. Founder in Chattanooga. About 13 of our people live here / TN.

Housing options (that appear) much better than in this thread with good public schools and sub-30 minute commute available. Specific ethnic communities may be harder to find.

Pretty great housing from $250-600k all over the place
I wasn't alluding to cost as in money, though I do agree with others here that you're paying one way or another.

In relation to Facebook user I was alluding to addiction and the way you pay for that addiction.
+1

I'm making 80% of the SFBA wages and I live in the rust belt. I had a 1 bedroom, 800 sq. ft apartment a block away from work for <$1000/mo - which is actually pretty high for the area. I can rent a house for ~1,200/mo if a 20 minute commute were fine.

I've talked to a few recruiters in the Bay Area but the crime and cost of living are highly unfavorable. As far as I can tell, the only reason one would go out there is to do something state-of-the-art. I don't know why people would do anything else there unless they were already wealthy.
You kidding right? 100k down? 2K mortgage? These are insane numbers that very few people can afford even in the tech community.
> only 100k down

I'm going to need a minute to let that sink in.
One Model at a Time: Integrating and Running Deep Learning Models at EyeEm
Don't be fooled kids, this may sound great but it is in fact the gate to hell. Back when I was young the same thing was called SOAP and it also promised standardized APIs in a vendor neutral description format and code generation. It was pure misery. I still have nightmares about it. They may say they only bring the good parts of SOAP, but there are no good parts in SOAP.
> squirreling away $50k per year

If you can save that much, it's not really 'squirreling'..
>The sad part, as a ethnic-minority, I have just found our community for my kids, etc.

Can you expand on what this means? Have you faced a lot of racism in SF?
A government is a monopoly by definition. And in a monopoly, competence is useless - being replaced by corruption (just a different skill). But the more areas the government is involved, the more corruption it spreads. And in socialism the government does it all: production, jobs, education, health care, etc.
Picking locks isn't like on TV. They aren't talking about bumping locks. Those of use that do it as a hobby do it during meetings and barely anyone notices. If you're making a lot of noise or voiding locks, you're almost certainly doing it wrong. You're supposed to be gentle, with very little pressure, you don't force it.

Most standard door and office locks, I've been able to pop in under 2 minutes. they generally only have 4-5 pins, sometimes less, especially on the interior office locks (maybe 3 in some cases). The whole reason my lock pick group does tables at security conferences is to make people aware the locks are generally not great and you want a lock that will slow someone down long enough that even if they can pick it or bypass it, doing so would get someone's attention or take so long that even after hours a security guard on routine scheduled patrols would notice.
A book cited in this page, ENIAC in Action, has its own pages which are also worth a look:

http://eniacinaction.com/
"Wintel" was more-or-less the only game in town for 15-20 years

And IBM has been around a long time ... it's just they're no longer the only game in town (though I'm a little surprises HP/HPE/MicroFocus/DXC wasn't in there)
It's generous to attribute it to "frustration".
In any other city in the country, including Chicago, Seattle, Boston or others, the idea the it takes 2 earners making more than 6 figures to afford a house is madness. Couple that with requiring 100k down and I don't see any way anybody can count on raising a family anywhere near there.
>>> A fourth category: people who have lived here for a long time, and were able to buy property back before it became unaffordable.

Very well said. So often, some (usually older) person will tell me, "well I know this [choose your civil servant profession] and they get by fine in SF on a 60k salary, so stop your whining."

Yep, I'd get by fine with 60k and a TIME MACHINE.
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Interested in specifics here, if you're willing to expound.
prop 13 is insane. heirs are even able to inherit their parents or grandparent's tax rate (prop 58/193). i was renting a ~$600k property, where the owner was paying $600/year in tax, and the last valuation was $60k... she actually bought the property for $150k, so I think she transfered the property tax rate from a different house (you can do that if you're 55 and older). ca's overall effective property tax rate is something like .8%, so the remaining .2% is basically subsidized by newcomers, some of who pay much more than their neighbors.
SF Bay is definitely in a housing bubble. One of the signals from the 2008 housing crises was when mortgage and rental payments diverged, and even with the high-rents in the bay now you're starting to see mortgage payments outstrip them.
Interestingly, and funny you should mention real estate... the Enbars are also very deep into NYC real estate. (Adam Enbar is the CEO of the Flatiron School) And you are right- the real estate situation in NYC is a disaster for rental tenants. It seems like De Blasio and the AG support real change, but when it comes down to it, tenants can't afford to defend themselves against the tycoons who own property even when the tycoons are in the wrong. So, the for-profit schools are an easier target in that they involve a lot less of the wealth of NYC than real estate feeding into politics but the schools are somewhat similar in that they too oppress those who seek a "fair" way into the economy with certain protections offered by the state.
Your comment fails to even consider the people who don't qualify for a mortgage or have the money for a down-payment.

Relatively few people are in the position of being able to choose freely between buying and renting.
I think the story that WAS told was just as interesting... Angel isn't about the duality of his nature. That was a character device to actually explore Redemption. I think the show did very well at exploring that issue. Angel goes through several phases of trying to cope with what it means to be redeemed... At first, his hardline do gooder stance, where it was never acceptable to "do wrong", which, given his profession actually ended up doing more harm than good. The story continued with him having to deal with "walking the line" and ultimately, allowing others to ALSO redeem themselves, through their own journey, accepting that the path to redemption was as unique as the person who was seeking it.

In a lot of ways, I actually found Angel to be much deeper than Buffy, especially as Buffy progressed through later seasons. The shows were definitely dealing with two entirely different aspects of human nature, so it is difficult to compare them fairly.
last time we've got an invitation from YC. Now I've checked once again to mail and around 1 pm (PST) they send it. I suppose we have to wait few more hours to get invitations. :) good luck all.