skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand "incomparable" given that I gave three links which make that comparison. Here's another:

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/13/the-hidden... - "The New York Times did some research and found that the typical suburban lifestyle in the New York City area costs about 18% more than living in the city itself. ...

The second link I gave does a breakdown. Some cites are more expensive than the suburbs, some are less expensive. In the US, the Dallas suburb is $14,128 cheaper than the center of town, while in Cleveland it's $9,034 cheaper to live in the city. What about that analysis do you disagree with?

The analysis in that link makes two assumptions: 1) you commute into the city for work, and 2) you have a child.

There are certainly other possibilities. I knew people who worked remotely from a small city (35K people) in Illinois for Wall St. firms, getting paid Wall St. wages. While it sounds like you are in a similar situation, you must certainly be aware that is relatively uncommon compared to the numbers of people who commute for work and have a child.

Also, your example of living in a mid-size town is not living in the suburbs. I earlier wrote, "I think UBI is more likely to support living in small towns than living in the suburbs."
Could you point to some papers about that model?
Fair point. That approach is pretty easy :)
The worst month of employment growth, meaning, growth is slowing down. Not hiring enough + layoffs.
NSPR is still all over the tree. Off the top of my head there's some log functionality, the print format strings, and the environment variable support in use. Searchfox turns up a bunch more: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=PR_&case=true...
> Does having your weeks start on Monday get confusing at all? I guess I'd just find it weird to have Thursday be the middle of the week instead of Wednesday.

Quite on the contrary! Wednesday is still in the middle of the working week, leaving the two day weekend kind of as a special separate thing. :)
I wish the link for "The Russian System" didn't just go to an article about education in Russia. I definitively remember having some sort of woodworking class in Russia, where I had to use a chisel to build a boat. (I remember understanding working with vs. against the grain when I split my poor little attempt in half along the center.) I wonder how it differs.
Sorry, didn't mean mostly fruit. I meant to say that it's best to start by replacing all your sugars and most of your carbs by whole fruits instead of veggies. And I say that only because it'll be easier to achieve, and still better then the alternative processed foods.

You should also have fish/meat, nuts and seeds for proteins and fat. And if you can, do have veggies instead of sugar rich whole fruits. But its hard enough eating healthy, I've found that the first thing to do is focus on eating better and not the healthiest. So fruits are the best deserts, and are better then most snacky thing people eat between meals. Yet they're easier to adopt in your diet because most people find them tastier.

For example, I see some people who when hungry and looking to snack down a whole bag of chips, or a whole box of oreos without thinking. But who'd mentally find it excessive to down a whole container of strawberries. Changing that attitude is a good place to start, and eating a whole strawberry container instead of a box of oreo is a pretty easy and simple change. Easier then just not snacking at all, or then eating coliflower instead.
I was being sarcastic. Of course, it's been like this forever, but the bragging we see today is beyond control. Be humble about it, people are not that stupid. I'm especially disgusted by Apple's "the best iPhone ever". Of course, it should be the best by being the latest model! And the over-glorification of Jony Ive is pretty annoying. The reality is that recently Apple is behind the rest, got too big, fat, and lazy, and all design innovation comes from rivals.
Meanwhile I find those multi-column views infuriatingly wasteful. I KNOW I'm in folder A/B/C because I literally just clicked them. I prefer being able to use a smaller explorer window that shows more info. One key to this is a mouse with a fourth and fifth button, which windows intuitively maps to "forward" and "back", and mac unhelpfully maps to "nothing" and "expose" and doesn't seem to have useful alternatives built in.

Having back and forward buttons on my thumb, with Window's "Folders come first" list sorting makes folder spelunking much simpler for me
yes, that's kind of the idea of doing research. you know, to learn things that we don't know yet.

or did you think science was a book of unambiguous answers that only the godly scientist may read?
Is it worthwhile to work there for a few years as a 20-year old though? I'm thinking it's a unique experience even if monetarily it's a poor choice.
Website seems pretty broken? "Learn more" link is dead, massive loading times mean I don't really want to spend time trying to find more.

Basic search function seems to work though. I think something like this would be most useful to me if I could have it track my personal selection of podcasts.
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Its funny that to advertisers this is like the start of nuclear war, but to me it might mean I actually start using facebook more. I hardly ever login any more, when I do I usually have 80+ notifications. I never bother looking at my facebook feed since its just a dumpsterfire of garbage I'm not interested in. Mostly I use Messenger to talk to 2 or 3 people who are on messenger.
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Sure, what is different about GPIO vs. ATX power?
This is so cool. I'd been taught in high school that the human genome was no longer a mystery, and that science had fully decoded the entire thing. It seems pretty obvious now that the subtleties would be even more complex than we could have imagined.
Not if the filter system you were subjected to attempted to block any URL containing the substring "proxy"... This led to as many false positives as you might expect.
Or just copy Singapore.
For email clients, Thunderbird is still being developed (latest release was from less than a month ago):

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/

Also, the V1.0 release of Mailpile is meant to be coming soon:

https://www.mailpile.is/

https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile

For setting up your own email server...

https://mailinabox.email/

http://www.iredmail.org/
I think I'm still an advocate of inbound marketing, but feel like I've also been learning a bit over the last 10 years. One thing I've learned is that the lead time on it, particularly if you're starting from the position of no platform and (potentially) no experience producing public artifacts, is quite long.

The lead time on writing emails is pretty short; you can execute on it today, have a call lined up for Thursday, and get agreement in principle by Friday (depending on the complexity of the sale, but assume something which could be adopted in a low-touch fashion). Having a customer on Friday is a lot more effective in terms of learning what still sucks about your product than getting your first customer in February 2018.

Your mileage may vary; there are lots of ways to play mix-and-match among approaches here. (I'd note that most of my previous success with high-value deals was indeed mix-and-match; something inbound like "Hey I liked this blog post" from a software company occasioned "Really glad to hear that. I have some thoughts about how it is relevant to your situation, too: $THOUGHT, THOUGHT, THOUGHT. Would you like to discuss in more depth?" occasioned Actual Sales Work (TM) quite a bit of the time.)
Reminds me of a bit from Cryptonomicon:

"So anyway, you probably learned in elementary school that Athena wears a helmet, carries a shield called Aegis, and is the goddess of war and of wisdom, as well as crafts—such as the aforementioned weaving. Kind of an odd combination, to say the least! Especially since Ares was supposed to be the god of war and Hestia the goddess of home economics—why the redundancy? But a lot’s been screwed up in translation. See, the kind of wisdom that we associate with old farts like yours truly, and which I’m trying to impart to you here, Randy Waterhouse, was called dike by the Greeks. That’s not what Athena was the goddess of! She was the goddess of metis, which means cunning or craftiness, and which you’ll recall was the name of her mother in one version of the story. Interestingly Metis (the personage, not the attribute) provided young Zeus with the potion that caused Cronus to vomit up all of the baby gods he’d swallowed, setting the stage for the whole Titanomachia. So now the connection to crafts becomes obvious—crafts are just the practical application of metis."

"I associate the word ‘crafts’ with making crappy belts and ashtrays in summer camp," Randy says. "I mean, who wants to be the fucking goddess of macrame?"

"It’s all bad translation. The word that we use today, to mean the same thing, is really technology."
I used to have a day/night mode but my analytics said 0 people used it, so I removed it to reduce cruft. Maybe I should put it back!
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This sentiment is close to my heart. I love the command line and only grudgingly use a browser when necessary. The tried and true Unix userspace is truly a joy to use.

However, it takes a significant amount of time to bootstrap oneself into general cli productivity. This is why I find it hard to encourage beginners to use more cli tooling. For man pages to be useful, you have to have a base of general familiarity with your os and cli conventions. Then we also have info pages and --help/-h flags or 'help' subcommands. Every tool has it's quirks, and we also have the differences bewteen various implementations.

Not to mention we have all the choices of various shells: bash, csh, ksh, zsh, fish, etc.

I'm comfortable enough with all this that I kind of enjoy the development history that's fossilized in all these complexities. However, it's a ridiculous barrier to entry. I remember installing Mandrake Linux on my first laptop at age 10 or so and getting throw a command line. I remember typing in the command 'help' and feeling way more confused with what came out.

Anyway, I love the command line but just wish it was easier to share that love with more people.
I agree.

Six lanes of traffic moving an average speed of 25mph is a hell of a lot more net volume than three lanes at the same speed.

Good infrastructure also side steps a lot of the social problems that come with high population density.

Cue whining about how pollution and an over-priced mass-transit utopia and high rise apartments will solve all our problems.
Nobody wants BSF. Plus the government does shenanigans with the exchange rate, with the official exchange rate having no relationship to reality.

If you refloat debt in a different valueless currency that you control the exchange rate on, you're de facto defaulting - nobody wants your currency. They want hard currency.

Re: currency you don't control, do you consider Ecuador a colony? They have debt in the sucre, which is pegged to the dollar. Is most of Europe a colony of Brussels? Except for the British and the Swiss, everybody else runs debt in Euros, which they don't control.
I've been thinking that apartment cooperatives might be a way to break "investors'" stranglehold on housing.

The last landlord I had was a decent fellow - the property was well maintained and he fixed problems promptly. But my rent certainly went to pay his mortgage on the property, and I now have nothing to show for the $thousands I paid him. One time he was showing off the little 8-unit complex to someone he wanted to go into a partnership on another property with him.

My cousin has a few low-end houses that he rents out. He's jokingly referred to himself as a "slumlord", but... rent is what economically strangles his renters.

My grandparents owned both their homes free-and-clear, and stayed in their homes for 40-50 years. This is the hope of anyone who buys a house: independence from the landlord & bank.

The cooperative I'm envisioning would channel rent payments into a fund. After long enough, you'd be able to live there for just maintenance costs, or you could "work off" the monthly fee by contributing somehow. And if a person moves out of the coop, their "equity" could be returned to them over time... Or something like that.

(minor edit on 'work off')
Protonmail says they have no access to user data and so I guess that means they offer zero protection from spam and emailed threats.

One could argue that Google's filtering of spam and potentially harmful mail is a point in favor of Google.
No, the US has no official language at the federal level:

" English is the official language of 32 states; English and Hawaiian are both official languages in Hawaii, and English and 20 Indigenous languages are official in Alaska. Algonquian, Cherokee, and Sioux are among many other official languages in Native-controlled lands throughout the country. French is a de facto, but unofficial, language in Maine and Louisiana, while New Mexico law grants Spanish a special status."
Long Now's use of five-digit years is also supposed to jolt readers and remind them to think in the bigger picture.
https://youtu.be/fCd6B5HRaZ8 is the best visualization of how the most popular type of DNA sequencer works (that I've found).

Imagine you have a string of length 3 billion made by randomly choosing from 4 characters. Like this

dna = ''.join(random.choices('atgc', weights=[30.9, 29.4, 19.9, 19.8], k=3_234_830_000))

you get to randomly sample 1 billion[3, page 7] overlapping substrings of length 200[3, page 7] with .1% of the characters randomly changed[3, page 8]. Trying to find the original string from this is technically an undecidable problem. If there's a sequence 400 characters long that repeats multiple times, how could you know if it repeats 5 times or 50 times? (this would be unlikely to happen with random.choices() but DNA isn't random). This is called sequence alignment and it's one of the hard problems in bioinformatics[4].

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html random.choices() was added in Python 3.6

[1] http://www.biology-pages.info/B/BasePairing.html source for `weights`

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome source for 3_234_830_000 (python ignores underscores in numbers)

[3] http://sci-hub.io/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03024.x illumina is the most popular producer of genome sequencers

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5123377
pay a ton of money to deal with idiots and illegals? no thanks LOL.
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I've only visited SF. From what I've seen, there are far better cities such as Seattle, San Diego, ect, ect. I live in Dallas and couldn't be happier. I've been able to start a family as a Postdoc!

http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/03-29-17-us-cens...
Why aren't tech companies buying or building massive apartment complexes, making them appealing with a few amenities, and renting them out for cheap to their employees? I know building development in San Francisco proper is limited, but in the general bay area or South is not. Now you have a very attractive package: a relatively big salary and somewhat affordable housing. Talent would be much more willing to relocate, even if your tech lab is outside San Francisco proper.
They need to keep the capital flowing in order to fund the police/military that prop up the authoritarian regime.
No unusual timeout issues - our "fat function" has only marginal overhead, just the WSGI layer and method dispatching code to route the request to the appropriate view/controller. This should be single digit millisecond overhead.

For health, there's certainly more noise now: we can look at overall invocation error rates (a metric lambda gives us), but they're across several endpoints within the lambda function. This is still an open question for us, but solvable.
The was flag killed. I vouched for this because I had the same question. What does it mean to have sequenced the human genome? If different individuals have a different genome, what is the human genome?
Reminds me of good old Johannesburg where the maids, nannies and cooks had to get up at 4 in the morning for the long bus journey to their work place.
Yeah I think I made it when iGoogle and google reader died, I’ll not kill it off like they did
Time and time variance on travel. I know a contractor that has moved out of Seattle because he naturally needed to go to a lot of different locations and the really long and unpredictable travel times made his work very difficult. The pay and availability of jobs will be less at his new place, but lower housing costs and little traffic made the move worth trying in his case.
Show HN: Ruby's Exceptional Creatures
Hi HN, I want to share a little Ruby documentation+art project that I'm working on with my wife (she's an artist) for my company, Honeybadger.io:

https://www.exceptionalcreatures.com/

The introduction explains what it is, but here are some highlights:

- Each Ruby exception is a sneaky creature which could pop up in your Ruby apps.

- The documentation (which is in-progress) is supplemented by docs from Ruby core and standard lib.

- The errors on the Bestiary page are ordered by attack scores which are calculated from Honeybadger data (so these are the errors which are occurring the most in your apps).

- We've finished 3 characters so far, and will be adding more in the coming weeks/months.

We hope you like it!
Could somebody please explain why in a region with just about more millionaires and billionaires than anywhere else, there is almost[1] no serious muscle for residential development?

Perhaps I am naive, but it is my understanding that many of the wealthy people of the Bay Area made the majority of their money through commerce and technology, not by purchasing a house a few years or decades ago and quashing any attempt at increasing the housing stock.

Would it not be in the self interest of all tech corporations, executives, venture capitalists and angel investors in Silicon Valley to ensure the development of housing for their future tech employees - and thus spur their future profits - and the greater economy's service workers?

Even if one buys the insane argument that service workers perhaps ought not to live in the expensive Bay Area, one still must acknowledge that these line chefs, janitors, security guards, hairdressers and many others must live and commute in from somewhere, which affects everybody in the Bay Area, regardless of their wealth.

Everything about Silicon Valley makes sense to me but this.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/02/rise-of-the-y...
A fourth category: people who have lived here for a long time, and were able to buy property back before it became unaffordable. These are typically the managers or senior employees.

It makes me wonder that as the young rockstars and H1B recipients age, where will they go? They certainly can't afford to buy a house. I imagine as time goes on, companies in the Bay Area will be awash with young junior talent but will struggle to attract more senior folks.
Mainline, sure, but there are other kernel forks that do, such as the ck kernel.
One of the biggest YouTube production companies is also in Missoula.

https://complexly.com/
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> It makes me wonder that as the young rockstars and H1B recipients age, where will they go? They certainly can't afford to buy a house. I imagine as time goes on, companies in the Bay Area will be awash with young junior talent but will struggle to attract more senior folks.

They leave for more affordable cities or head back home to be close to family when they decide to have kids.

EDIT: May I offer up Tampa as a yet-to-get-expensive locale? I'm making SFBA wages in security, but bought a 4 bed 2.5 bath house with a pool on a quarter acre lot twenty minutes from my company's office for ~$200k (and I have fiber to the home for $45/month).

The highest rated beach in the country is in Clearwater, ~30-45 minutes away, we have an amazing craft beer scene, lots of parks, beach/water recreation, very nice international airport (30 min away, $5/day (!!!) for parking), etc.
It's definitely good for your resume.
Both fingers since I can’t upgrade to the 30 kWh because ... because of very complicated reasons that you can’t understand but trust us they’re good reasons.
99% of these bootcamps are run by scumbags, i'm a grad from one run by "trilogy education services" and it was absolute crap. i had to teach myself while they inflated their employment numbers by making kids that just graduate teaches and TAs. absolutely deplorable and these camps are borderline ponzi at this point.
Thinking now of releasing the front end code, as the php is a little ... amateur
> - Recent vim in terminal (and vim in a GUI container like gvim or MacVim) supports mouse interactions.

...if by "recent" you mean a decade old version.
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I'm from Singapore, what about it?
If you don't mind having it separate from your main editor, Meld is great.
I don't do much climbing anymore, but I figured it'd be nice to send them a few bucks. So, that's done.

If anyone else wants to help keep people safe while they climb, even if you're not a climber, here is the donation link:

http://www.safeclimbing.org/help.htm

They even give you stuff, if you donate more than $25. Somehow, donations sometimes 'feel' more meaningful when you know you're not really going to benefit from it.
Is there some text to read explaining what this is? Assuming that the visitor to the site prefers “hands on” learning is tantamount to assuming they have the intellect of a toddler in my book.
Maybe? A lot of people convince themselves that pretty much every place else is a backwater not worthy of their skills. There are certainly more options in the Bay Area for a certain subset of tech. And maybe certain big companies that offer Unique opportunities (although for a smaller subset of hires than used to be the case). But there are plenty of good opportunities in other areas as well.
Yes, I think it’s a great place to be for a while at least. I’m 33, have been here over ten years (grew up nearby) and am still chugging along. The mindless commute through unending traffic to get to the same office day in and day out is slowly driving me a little mad (not really... I think) but I’m beginning to question if I want to stay here long term.

Still, I’ve had amazing experiences here and this is a place of magic in many ways. It’s defi worth experiencing in my opinion.
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Same with skim milk, which has always been used to fatten pigs. But some prefer it today thinking less fat and cholesterol is healthier and would make them lose weight over whole milk. If only the most complex system in the universe (the human body) was that simple! People and, unfortunately, scientists completely ignored the complexity of hormones, gene expressions, and many other factors when suggesting "healthier" alternatives!
Well, one might reasonably ask whether "reading your mail" (as in, running an algorithm on it to try to classify phishing vs non) is a security cost or benefit.

Spearphishing is a huge source of compromise at the moment; antiphishing filters might, in that view, be considered a security feature rather than a security fault.

On the other hand, I have, frankly, never understood these privacy arguments. Is it a privacy violation if someone checks a checksum of my incoming mail against a blacklist? What if they compute a hash of my mail to check the DKIM signature? And if those are OK, why is an ML model more of a problem?