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I'm raising my family in NYC, I disagree that it's one of the worst imaginable places to try and raise a family. There are a lot of activities for children, from the parks, to indoor play areas, to the libraries, etc. You can just about anything you need by walking. The public schools have been improving - you can try for one of the elite gifted and talented schools but even if that doesn't work out, there are many more good school options than there have been in the past. It's certainly not a cheap place to live, but I actually can't imagine a better place to raise a family.
I don't know if there's any more pollution than any other major city. There's no major manufacturing that happens in NYC, so the pollution would mostly be from cars. In general, the city is becoming less and less car friendly - they are seriously considering a congestion pricing program - so I would expect whatever pollution there may be to actually improve. Nevertheless, pollution has never been one of the major complaints of most NYC folk.
Yes, taxes can run high. You can always live outside the city if this is an issue but despite this, people prefer to live in the city as long as they can.
High stress is really more a virtue of your job, not the city.
There are many people who live here and don't want to live anywhere else. As they say, your bedroom is where you sleep - your living room is the entire city.
We're in NY and looking for full stack engineers w/experience in Python, and remote is an option
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What an interesting essay. I've lived in Atlanta for 12 years and I can't really figure out a message it's trying to send. One of the most up and coming industries here is film, and I know people in that industry and have spent time marinating in it, but it's not the siren call that riches is in NYC.

Atlanta seems to still be finding its identity. All the industries are nascent, it always seems just on the cusp of a big transformation. I have a theory about cities, that property values are largely constrained by geography as the first and practically only factor, and Atlanta has no geographical limitations that jack up prices. As a result, property has always been comparatively cheap.

Atlanta seems to be a big sponge, not even close to hitting scaling limits. I feel like you could almost pour the same amount of wealth that NYC has into the area and it still won't look like even Chicago. It'll just sprawl outwards into adjacent metro areas like Alpharetta or Decatur. Even the city centers here, Downtown, Midtown, and increasingly Buckhead, feel like three distinct cities rather than part of a whole.

As a result it simply won't ever come to have a more coherent identity and message than it did in the nineties with rap and the music industry.
This could a fun way to learn ML using just your browser. I'm still skeptic about the performance but for prototyping it could be viable.

One thing bothering me about reading the API is the inconsistent way of adding semicolons. Not an important thing I'm sure and as my personal opinion I'd much rather have the examples without them. To me they are just waste of time. Also it makes the code look more like Python.

Anyway, looks great!
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Damn, those are some sexy credentials.
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Low-level factory jobs really aren't that complicated.

You can take a person off the street and have them pressing the "go" button on an injection molder within minutes.
Your posts always break my heart because, as you know, we share similar problems and needs and both cling to the same fraying thread. I am going to make my "hail mary" AskHN post today or tomorrow (keep editing and editing) and hope you might find something to cling to as well if people respond.
No I know how you feel, completely.

I'm in the middle of transitioning back to my hometown of Indianapolis. Worse roads, less of a music scene, but the cost of living is much more tolerable...and it's my home. It's where I want to be right now.

Funnily enough, I agree 200% with what you said about Houston and Dallas. Austinites LOVE to hate on those two cities, but...at least it seems like they've figured out how to actually be cities.
I've lost track of the number of times that I've gone to a question that actually deals with what I'm looking for just to find that it's locked and marked duplicate of a completely different question. Complete pain in the ass.
One would think if the talent pool were limited they’d be more responsive to those outside the area
I see that you're receiving a bit of flak (which, given the audience, isn't unsurprising). But I wanted to let you know that I found this comment pretty insightful.
It seems there's a wave of silly Wolfenstein implementations, about a week ago we had the Microsoft Excel one.

Keep them coming, I'm always amazed by the creativity some people have :)
https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases

All ads and tracking can be blocked if you want them to. Its a arms race.
If you want to use spanner but don't have a large data workload I would recommend looking into firestore as it is built on top of spanner.

http://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/10/cloud-firestore-for-r...
No I am thinking about my family and I and our experiences living there.

When I say Pollution, I am not just saying air pollution. I physically felt dirty the minute I stepped out into the street after getting ready for work. I would wash my hair and it would streak of dirt. The subway is absolutely filthy. Bathrooms anywhere but expensive restaurants are filthy. Sidewalks were filthy. Streets are filthy. The water that pools up at the sides of crosswalks was everywhere -- and was filthy. It's the definition of a big dirty city.

As far as taxes and regulation goes, yes California is getting crazy too, but no I am thinking about New York. The contrast was stark, especially when you move anywhere south of NY, which I did land in D.C. for a bit, and even that was better.
I'm astonished at how much fishing is going on around Europe. I expected that around China/Japan/SE Asia, but Europe? I've lived all over the US and in my experience hardly anyone eats seafood (we certainly never ate it growing up in California, Florida, Texas, Oregon and Puerto Rico and I've never met anyone who mentioned that they have recently eaten seafood). So I assumed Europe would be the same (since a lot of our culture comes from Europe). Maybe people are secretly eating more seafood in the USA than my experience would assume, or Europeans just eat way more seafood that I would have guessed.
That is really, really funny.
More likely it is watching Netflix and reading HN...let's not pretend we're all out there saving the world and volunteering our free time for selfless causes...
Why are you interviewing if you're working your dream non-profit job?
I've heard someone say that Putin is at the same time the ruler and prisoner of Kremlin for exactly this reason.
Dropbox keeps getting compared to atlassian, which confuses me. I portend it's VCs lying to themselves about Dropbox's price-to-earnings ratio to justify their $10B fantasy as pricing Dropbox with box's P/E would value it around $7B, a whole 30% lesser than they'd like
Having the ‘social media talk’ with a 7-year-old
I am sure that worked for you and I do not want to undermine the importance of simplicity. However my question was drawn from my previous experience where it was one hell of a task to keep the spam bots out.

Therefore, just to offer a counterpoint, I would like to register my experience here. A random name surely did not do the trick for us. Simple tricks like creating a random hidden field would be broken by spambots in less than 48 hours. It took a great deal of expensive WAFs like Barracuda and a lot of Lua scripting combined with cookie analysis (and overall request header analysis) to detect spambots with only a 90%-95% accuracy and keep them out.
I look at it as a loan. You're borrowing a little of tomorrow's (good mood, productivity, energy, etc. etc. depending on which drug it is) to use today, but you'll eventually have to pay it back with interest.
Interesting. Do you think the drug use is due to pressure to succeed / survive, or because you get more out of your time? Having more productive time is appealing but the idea of working 24/7 makes hanging myself appealing by comparison.
Oh wow I didn't know about that limitation. Doing `find . -type f | wc -l` I have ~270000 so I am about to hit it. It would be great if they can implement a .dropboxignore so I can get it to stop syncing node_modules folders.

I really wish I could agree with the others saying "It just works" for dropbox sync. I have ran into many other issues around filename casing, file permissions, symlinks, etc in the past.
It should be pointed out that this "security flaw" is the only way these cloud file storage platforms are cost effective. Since it allows the same anonymous blob stored by several dozen users to only take up one unit of space instead of one unit per user.

This is particularly space saving if a particular file type was chunked cleverly so that static parts of the file's structure were stored away from dynamic parts (Microsoft's Office XML formats for example could definitely be split this way).
Your last paragraph is important. Open-access data is a critical piece to good research. Too often its used to gatekeep (As you mention).

Good luck with getting a group of scientist to agree on "high-quality" data collection methods--lol. Not to say we shouldn't standardize things more than they are. To your point about research being presented at conferences--true. But very few people are actually present at these conferences. I actually keep up with lab webpages to stay informed--usually people are good about updating these, but sometimes people dont even have one :/
And an effective manager given engineers who can't write a for loop will produce $0 worth of value (or worse). I don't find this line of thought convincing.

A better answer is "that's the market clearing price for good managers".
Until you try to raise your children somewhere elsewhere, I will take your comment with a huge grain of salt. Compared to where I am now, it just simply doesn't compare. I don't care about the city being my living room. My backyard is mountains, and trees, and fresh air, and creeks and streams, and endless opportunities for my children to go outside, get dirty, and explore.
Engineers aren't in the room when they decide who is doing the most critical work.
Sure, that's not ideal. And the more that I read about HackerRank specifically the more I'm convinced it's a step back from boring old phone screens. We do the latter with a Google doc, and while it's technologically primitive in comparison it gives us complete flexibility and ensures the candidate can always ask any questions they have, either about the problem or about the company/job/etc.

The problems should be chosen such that external research and libraries are not needed. For our phone screens, we don't even require the code to compile or successfully run. For instance, we explicitly tell candidates to just make something up that sounds reasonable if they need a standard library function that they know exists but they can't remember its exact name or type signature.

We've never used HackerRank, so I don't really know how customizable it is. From the comments here, it sounds like it's designed to be fully automated with no participation from any developers at the hiring company. I don't like that at all. When I wrote my original comment, I'll admit I was thinking of it as a more advanced Google doc for programming, not as a fully automated platform. That's my bad, and I should have done my research a bit more.
In my experience the NYC tech scene is far more grounded in reality. Far far less hype, uber for lawn gnomes nonsense and a lot more companies focused on real solutions and, often, with real customers. Silicon Valley has become, well, Silicon Valley while NYC is and feels much more like a true business hub.

Seems to be a lot of B2B stuff that’s driven by the overall diversity of NYC’s economy, which is far more diverse than SF/SV.
I have heard Brooklyn is gentrifying at a rapid pace, but back when I was there, Brooklyn just wasn't an option.
I'm assuming that the linker exits before the program it linked is executed. I'd hope so! If so then this is clearly an OS bug.
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Sure, but you don't need to worry about conversion cost there.

I was faced with keyword combinations that had "natural" costs that were very low (and appropriately so, since I was the only person "bidding" on them). But then a few days later, "low quality score" and they ratcheted up the price 10x.

If you get a job out of it, the penalty doesn't really matter ... I was trying to convert $5/mo IaaS customers.
CRTs in general are complex pieces of machinery which do odd, hard-to-emulate things to graphics.

Here's an interesting post on the topic:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3786

And one with more detail:

http://bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator/
The original GitHub post offers pretty reasonable solutions.
Maybe yours, but I remember big bulky pixels at anything below 800x600 back then.
Every study I've seen of Adderall (and amphetamine analogues like bupropion) says that it really does improve focus and productivity, even in non-ADHD users.

There are two big hurdles, granted (apart from side effects). One is how long-term toleration works - users report continued efficacy, while objective tests seem to suggest decreased sensitivity. Two is how amphetamines mix with intelligence; normal-IQ users appear to have unchanged or worsened performance on intelligence tests despite 'feeling smarter'. (The same goes for Modafinil.)

But neither of those things really challenge the core observation: in the short term, Adderall and similar substances improve attentiveness, focus/willpower, and probably memory.

They often aren't worth it, and non-medicinal use is often unsustainable. But if someone is showing up with "brain fog" and underperforming while feeling skilled, that really sounds like something else is up. Either a paradoxical reaction to the drug, or some substance other than core focus/'smart' drugs.

edit: I just looked, and paradoxical drowsiness is a known response some people have to amphetamines. I'd bet that the person you're describing has an atypical response to amphetamines.
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> .. worthy insights ..

I'm curious how you would define that. As far as I understand, Newton's life was definitely colored and shaped by his theological pursuits-questioning their 'worthy'ness is raising the more fundamental argument of faith.
I live in NYC and the main difference I noticed about food in CA is how produce-centric it is. NYC food is incredible, but eating out usually means meat, cheese, and bread.
What message does your city send?
My Japanese aunt does this while gardening, and I can confirm that it's much easier on the back--although I barely have the balance to pull it off myself. Photo of the squat below.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjimlipschu...
Ok, but for files, it does happen

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/encoding/byte...
Or you could hide an Arduino Due and a couple of batteries between two of the system boards and say you restored it, would save a lot of work... :)

More seriously, how about using wood for the enclosure top (if RFI is a problem, a layer of tinfoil on the inner side may be enough)? It'd be a lot cheaper: I build most of the cases I make for Spectrum's Hands On projects using basswood because it's cheap, strong, and usually a faster process than e.g. 3D printing an enclosure.
Could say the same thing about athletes and coaches but who makes more in pro sports?
With the increasing use of AI in law, there will be an incentive to make the texts more tractable for AI. Perhaps this may lead to the changes in the law language, eliminating the remaining ambiguities.
I really try hard not to sound cynical or jaded as that puts people off even more, but it's so difficult as I have had similar experiences with "offers of help" of all sorts. Nobody ever actually follows through. Twice in the last 2 years people have dragged my hope for work out over many months or years with no intention of ever doing anything. It always follows the same script and has made me quite hopeless.

More importantly, people like us need sustainable situations, not a wad of cash that will be gone with next month's expenses and leave us right back where we were. We need to be helped get a base under our feet to grow from as the muddy pit we live in just keeps collapsing, we also need to "learn how to fish" as the saying goes and be reintegrated into the whole. Not have scraps of fish thrown at us, no matter how well meaning the thrower is.
Yeah, but I had heard it called "the Asian squat"
I grew up in NJ and still have family there and I agree.
It also an incredibly diverse state and, as of now, that diversity is reflected in the state government - more so, I think, than any state government in the country.
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Most media companies seem to do automated headline testing. It would be awesome if someone made a crawler that somehow tracked this, and could determine what the 'winning' headlines were.
Not always. About 50% of the time I need to mess with bluetooth settings on my car because it paired to the wrong device. That involves navigating through at least three menus and hitting small-size buttons on the far side of the screen from the driver.
That's the perception, and you're likely to find that perception in this thread, but I don't believe it.

Work smart or go home.
Happy to help. When I was a full-time programmer I also thought writing ten paragraph e-mails with footnotes is smart but turns out it isn't (I learned this the hard way).
That would require more speculation than I’m willing to engage in. I can comment on the various pressures to perform that apply to older and younger tech folks, and why I personally don’t feel the need to go the Adderall route (essentially I don’t think the results of merely more output are worth it). To put the two together I’d encourage you to find people currently going down that route for their perspective. Given the discussion here it shouldn’t be hard to find a few! Good luck.
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Making of Triple Piano [video]
Pretty much every modern version control system treats binary files as undiffable and simply stores the whole thing as a hunk. The issue with Git affects pretty much all distributed version control since it requires keeping the entire history locally, so binaries with lots of changes vastly bloats the local repository. Stuff like Git LFS exists to work around that, by storing binaries in a central location instead, but that of course means that your system is no longer really distributed...
Could you please add "Nano" there?
Athletes collectively bargain. Either way, coaching still matters in sports.
Or, we have too many people for the jobs that are hiring Americans. That pretty well explains both.

Trump would be right to constrict access to H1B1 visas for foreign workers in the US, in this case.

But we also have a problem of access to those coding bootcamps - everyone has a smartphone, not everyone has a modern desktop/laptop. As far as coding bootcamps, there's also this: https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/who-killed-the-junior-deve...

The same in the field of law: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/opinion/too-many-law-stud...

Here's what employers are saying: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/28/surveys-find...

But a realistic explanation? Monopsony: too few employers competing for workers with any given skill set. https://slate.com/business/2018/01/after-all-the-talk-about-...

Monopsony is getting some attention: https://www.thenation.com/article/does-monopoly-power-explai...

And here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/ask-the-headhunter/ask-...
Sure. grep could take the file. I knew that when I wrote the above line. We could have a nice debate about readability and maintainability, compositional design over compact expression, etc. But that's kind of over-kill for a joke, eh?
> Fishing is both gigantic and unprofitable (roughly $44B/year in the hole with subsidies, as of 2014)[1].

This is a misunderstanding of economics. To determine whether an industry would be profitable if subsidies were removed, you can't just subtract numbers on a balance sheet; you need to know the demand elasticity of their product.
Jails are different than prisons. Jail is where someone is held pending a hearing on their case. Prison is where someone is sent once it has been decided they are violating the law. Although other countries use different terminology, most have the same distinction between the two.

What happens in these cases is that someone doesn't show up to court. A bench warrant is issued, and they get arrested months later when they get pulled over for speeding or something unrelated, and the police find the warrant. At that point, the court can't immediately drop everything and hear the case. They get put in jail for a day or two until a bail hearing, at which point the court will set a new court date, and decide whether to require the person is required to post bail as a guarantee that they'll show up this time, or whether they'll be held in jail pending the court date. At this point, the judge can't order the person to do community service--they've done nothing wrong other than fail to show up to court, and the only reason they're in jail is the risk that they won't show up for the new court date. Many people can't post the bail, so they sit in jail waiting for their new court date.

No matter how lenient you are with debtors, at the end of the day the court needs some way to force someone to participate in the process of deciding what to do. Even if you say "we'll forgive small debts if the debtor is poor," how do you decide that if the debtor won't show up to court?
It sure is on its way to become capitalist. It's just that capitalism works a lot better without democracy.
Yep, I understand you can't easily get stats on this. I just didn't want you to hear exclusively from one side.
Needs (2014) tag.

Kinda important because some people like me read it when it was first published and it would be nice to know whether it's a new article or a different one adding new information.

Previous discussion can be found through the 'past' link.
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And here is the link to the original video, "Peace for Triple Piano" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRW3FMuttY
Once again it seems to me that Ai Wei Wei's quote about China is pertinent:

“Can China be a global power? I don’t think so. It can gain an advantage, that’s true. But it doesn’t have soul. It doesn’t have heart. It doesn’t trust its own people. So it has no self-identity in the sense that it has never accepted human rights as common values. No freedom of speech, no independent judicial system. If those don’t exist, how can you have creativity? How can you be a country? So forget about China. China is an illusion. It’s there, it’s large. But nobody can tell you what it is.”

We live so much with representational democracy - so close to it - that we take it entirely for granted. We imagine that our situation would be somehow replicable with other forms of government. That we could have a benign autocracy and everything could be the same. People talk about China as if they're just a slightly different version of us. But instead of a mirror or an aspiration they ought to be a warning.
I can do it, but it's not that comfortable.
Just a friendly reminder that correlation != causation. Personally, I would bet that what's happening here is that healthier individuals choose to have more children, rather than that having more children increases life span.
Could this lead to a ‘spreadsheet moment’ for lawyers? Something that does the rote work that lawyers used to have to do by hand?