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I don't live in SF. I visited a few times and it's not my cup of tea. I prefer LA and plan to stay here forever.

LA is expensive as well, but there are places that you can rent on the cheap, or at least a reasonable amount of money, and be safe. If this wasn't the case, LA as a city would break down. We need music, artists, actors, people pouring coffee, and serving tables to keep this city alive. We need a poor person living in the same building as an executive. On top of that, we need places where poor people can afford to eat, so there is a McDonalds anywhere you go.

I bring up McD's because I was "over-fooded" in SF and went on a desperate search for something trashy to eat, almost to no avail.

I'm just wondering how SF is able to sustain itself and how it plans to sustain itself in the future if they push all the poor people to such a distance that they can't even take the BART or bus to work anymore.

The other difference is that LA is very much a gig economy. There are a LOT of people out here that either don't have a job and live just fine, or they have a day job and do random gigs during their off-hours. As someone once told me, you don't sleep in LA, you just rest. Others have pointed out that this is a work area, and so on. But even so, there are so many different industries down here that you can, with time, talent, and luck, have sustainable life and your own place, well outside tech, movies, music, art, and so on.

My impression is that the bay area is an area with a few viable ways to make a living. Is it just that the lower class has to live in the dangerous areas of Oakland (and elsewhere) to just have a roof over their head?
Won't the compiler just ignore the "builder.String()" line unless the return value is actually used?
It's just his usual troll. They've been blowing that note for ten years and will never change. Sing the third, just sing the third: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTzT3FmxhI.

Amusing how he talks about "the Twitter mob" and "their" pitchforks as if "they" were someone else, though.
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Do you know who's the perfect example for the post? These guys:

>“Asana’s mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly.“

Underline:

>help humanity thrive

Let that sink in. This post has long been coming. Someone had to write this.

On an unrelated note, If you start your own company, please, PLEASE don't write BS for your mission statements, vision, etc. They're supposed to mean something. It will otherwise contribute to a lot of negative things, including trust issues and poor employee morale. Write something you truly believe in.
> Doesn't get much more "changing the world"
> language than that.

Actually it does. If he said "We want to change the world" that would be much more like it. What he says there is "be the change you want to see".
I think rebalancing with Coinbase's selection of coins is pretty easy. When you have a more complex basket (for context, I work at Bitwise Investments, which runs the Bitwise HOLD10 Index), it is more difficult to decide what goes into the basket.

For example, several coins (like Neo and Ripple) have supplies that grow and are centrally controlled, but many coins have planned inflation schedules. We know that the supply of many of the large-cap coins is going to grow over the next couple of years, and that needs to be taken into consideration when valuing them.

To explain why that is important: if people buy a coin at a certain price _knowing_ that a certain amount of inflation is going to happen, that means investors think that the market cap of the coin is actually much more (think of this like Discounted Cash Flow). Restated, if people buy these coins knowing that the supply is actually going up, that means that they think that the value of the coin is actually much higher than the current market cap.

If you want to learn more about indexing methodologies for cryptocurrencies, you should check out our website: https://www.bitwiseinvestments.com/index
My mom made the best pie crust anybody who ate it ever tasted. Her recipe came from a Crisco label.

One of the steps specifically said to slowly stir a liquid into the mix with a fork. Everybody else who attempted the recipe used a spoon and didn't get anywhere near the proper texture. So her difference was simply that others wouldn't follow the directions exactly.
I haven't read through the T&Cs at 23andMe, but can this data be cross referred to (bought by) by insurance companies to quote me an insurance price depending on the outcome of 23andMe analysis ?

Or even by mortgage providers for that matter ? Or potential employers ?
I understand the motivation to leave a field if the practices are dishonest. I've been there, too.

However, did you note whether or not these efforts may have been positive contributions to the healthcare of humans? I would imagine gathering health data from a large population has the potential to yield remarkable results.
He isn't saying you shouldn't try to make an impact, just to acknowledge that what your doing is only going to really effect a subset of people. DHH himself has made a huge impact, by virtue of RoR, but this only changed the world for some thousands of developers. Maybe you can make the argument that this "trickles down" to the rest of the world, but all in all, your best chance at making impact comes from vastly improving the lives of what turns out to be a very small part of humanity rather than aiming for it all.
Co-founder of Uber now wants to create a cryptocurrency
Why not solve it with national single payer, so no one can be denied under any circumstances?
Come on, a "much lower salary" compared to a Google or Facebook salary is still a pretty good salary compared to a lot of other jobs. I don't make Google money (I also don't live in the Bay Area) and I need maybe a quarter of the money I'm making. If I had a family I might need half.
While I agree that throwing babies or bath water out is wasteful...

The primary goal of business is to make money. Or, in other words, to isolate us and make us feel inadequate so we buy more things with money we don’t have to impress friends we don’t have.

I mean, if I was being cynical. I’m not, but if I was...
> I don't trust it right now to provide me things that aren't counterfit

That might be true for a small percent of HackerNews readers that are also Daringfireball readers - but the world at large still trusts Amazon; that's the whole point of the article, really.

As anecdotal evidence, an Amazon Investment might be the only way to convince me to become a Prime member (if that'd be a required precondition). I'd almost certainly use it, if allowed.
There's plenty of surveys on this[1]. In this one driver wages and benefits make up around 40% of total cost per mile. That's why self-driving trucks are so lucrative.

[1] PDF warning, see page 23 http://atri-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ATRI-Opera...
I see so many people that create sites using React (and the like) because it's the cool new framework that offers all the glitter, but they totally ignore the fact of SEO and accessibility.
This is the sort of experiment I'd like to take part in. "Here's a hundred bottles of gin. All you need to do is drink the gin, fill in the form and the log, put the form in the bottle, seal it, and throw the bottle overboard. On second thought, fill in the paperwork before you drink the gin."
I think required parking spaces is a minor factor in why building is so hard in California. The biggest problem is that if you have plans for a building that meets all the existing zoning and building regulations for the lot, it can still take many years (sometime decades) before one will be able to start construction. One has to deal with lawsuits by people who don't want it built, planning commissions that have to put their own stamp on the building, and public meeting after public meeting that resolve nothing.

I have heard of a few different laws floated in Sacramento to help try and help with this problem, but I think it is more of a cultural value in many parts of California (like prop 13) where people feel a place should not change from how they found it when they moved to California. This is probably not something that can be legislated away.
To be fair to them, flying does cause a lot of time waste and hassles.

The curious thing is that expansion to places within reasonable driving distance like East Bay has been slow as well. Is the cost saving from East Bay locations not large enough or is it some other factors?
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What exactly is the problem with Asana having that as a mission statement?

I'm not arguing that it's good or bad, but I don't quite see how it "contribute[s] to a lot of negative things, including trust issues and poor employee morale"

I think the argument you're making is that the Asana statement was written cynically and they don't really believe that. I think it's impossible to truly know, but I know a lot of founders who really do believe in their mission statements.
Quadrupling Ansible performance with Mitogen
Disclaimer: I compete in this space and may compete with your internal team, your cloud vendor, or something you are interested in.

FWIW: Production is an overloaded term. CI may not even be applicable here. Say you're doing batch inference where you need to run jobs every 24 hours on a large amount of data: That might be tied to some cron job.

That being said you could use a CI system for that in theory.

There are also other factors here: What other kind of things do you want to track? Experiments results? Wrong results by your machine learning algorithm?

Concisely: What kind of deployment requirements do you have and what are your goals?

If you are edoing real time, what does "deployment" even mean? Are you serving in real time via a rest api? Are you doing streaming? What are your throughput requirements? What about latency? Is that even hooked up to a CI system?

Something that is vaguely related: How do you test the accuracy of different models across your cluster? Say you want to do a self deployment, what if you want to tie that to say: a workspace where you produced the results?

Is that hooked up to a CI system? If so, what's your use case?

Then there's that common hand off from data scientist to production, what does that look like? A sibling thread mentioned some of these things.

If anyone else is curious about this stuff, we deploy deep learning models in locked down environments both on kubernetes as well as touching hadoop clusters.
Happy to answer questions.
Google Employees “Outraged” Their Tech is Used to Build Better Killing Machines
It sounds more to me like you know a bunch of really lucky people who were in exactly the right place at the right time. Now, maybe their parents worked hard to procure these opportunities, and I agree that structure and direction at the highschool and university levels are very important, but I don't think we need to extend that to 6-month-olds.
I doubt it. They now have the time and money to explore their interests as they see fit as adults.
Webfinger, which the activitypub standard builds on, gives you something like this, but ultimately the provider has to actually support webfinger. This was a neat hack though:

https://github.com/bradfitz/webfist

But it never really went anywhere afaik.
European Commission releasing a Blockchain framework for regulation
I've been a serial "solo founder" since I was 12 years old or so (now 33), and I don't really identify with this. Working solo means there's nothing on the line should one of my ideas not pan out; all I'll have lost is some of my own time.
This might be biased because a "secret recipe" doesn't hold very much of its secret in the ingredients or instructions (all chocolate chip cookie recipes are quite similar) but the little tricks.

Adding a bit of something, or the timings of certain steps might be undocumented and make the secret recipe better than the famous one.
The recipe is the easy part. The execution and getting the right ingredients is all important.

Granma X was awesome not because of the recipe but because she practiced her whole life making it.
acknowledge that what your doing is only going to really effect a subset of people.

That's a self fulfilling prophecy though, is it not? If you aren't somewhat delusional (aka optimistic) about the scale of what you set out to do, then the probability of major outcome - is going to be reduced.

Basically, if you set small local goals then the chances that you'll even desire a global goal - let alone reach them - are likely an order of magnitude smaller than possible.

Using his example, had Zuckerburg followed this advice he would have sold to yahoo having optimized locally. Instead he said, no I want to change the world (aka literally connect the world) so I am going to try and do that.
Ask HN: What are your productivity tips to get things done?
Share your productivity tips, how you plan your tasks, how you estimate the time it takes etc.. for a single person project
Indeed, my mother (unsurprisingly) uses exactly the same recipe as my grandmother did for chocolate chip cookies (I suspect it also came from the side of a chocolate chip bag). The cookies turned out very differently, however, depending on who made them.
Ars is one of those sites that many of us visit enough to be worthy of a subscribtion, at least at such a reasonable price as USD 25.

(For most other news outlets etc I suggest you join Blendle. I'm happy to pay for journalism, I just don't want every newspaper and magazine that I ever read to charge me monthly.)
I also notice that they do focus on the most extremes. I'm not going to claim that things are remotely cheap anywhere in the Bay Area, but if you're not dead set on being in The City (tm), the prices drop substantially. Again: yes, still expensive. Yes, if I lived somewhere else, my rent share for a 2BR place in Santa Clara would be less than I'm paying. But so would my salary, and in my experience -- and a little contrary to my expectations -- the salary often does make up for it on an absolute dollar basis.

There are few other places you can experience so much of life's variety within a 3 hr drive.

This, more than anything else, is what makes me reticent to move.
What's interesting is that on their front page, they have a far more reasonable proposition which should actually be their mission:

> "Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work—and get results."

Whoever wrote that is great with words and has a grip on reality.

However then they have as their real mission:

> “Asana’s mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly.“

which is just laughable, and that's considering that I'm the type of person who's likely to give people benefit of the doubt on things like this.
vanguard and fidelity offer approximately 0 cost S&P500 funds already today.

you're talking .03% in fees. On a $1Mil investment that's $300 a year.
He speaks a little bit about RoHS compliance... If you plan to make a real product, make sure you work with somebody that has done that before. Having certification can be tricky as soon as you start having high-frequency components, and it's always the case today...
GitHub is pretty awesome :)
Oddly enough, the toll house recipe was our secret family recipe. It was traded for a lifetime supply of chocolate (and the publicity of inventing a beloved staple).
The policy I got was with a good company (I mean, once you actually had a policy), for a reasonable rate. They then exited the individual market in my state. I ended up being shunted to a lower benefit, higher cost policy with a "second tier" company (if that). My premium costs about tripled in the span of a couple of years.

The Affordable Care Act's full enactment came just in time, for me.

Unfortunately, all legislation consists of two essential components: 1) The law, itself; and 2) funding (the budget process).

Republicans baldly stated, after Obama's election, that their primary, number one objective was to make him a one-term president. Before all else.

Despite its coming out of what was essentially a Republican design, then Governor Romney's health care insurance program in Massachusetts, Republican's went after the Affordable Care Act -- after labeling it "Obamacare" -- with a vengeance.

A primary way they crippled it, was by not providing the funding that was written into the law.

Insurers were given a 2 year time frame in which they could recoup their losses, until new participants' "deferred care" was taken care of and the companies had better demographics and cost projections (actuarial studies) upon which to carry forward.

When they went to the government to be made whole, under this provision, they were paid about 15 cents on the dollar.

So of course, premium costs increased dramatically, plan options became more limited, and companies started to exit the ACA marketplace.

Meanwhile, the Republicans made endless attempts to "repeal" the ACA in one fashion or another. Claiming they had a "better plan", that would provide better coverage at lower cost.

Now, they've had both houses of Congress and the executive for over a year. Still no sign of an actual "plan". Just continuing efforts to destroy the ACA.

So, going forward? No, I don't think this problem of pre-conditions can be considered solved. The party in power keeps trying to reintroduce it.

And I, for one, have no more trust in our society. Maybe I'll find another position that includes an employer-provided group insurance plan. Or a group plan through a professional organization.

If I didn't have various things tying me here right now, including elderly parents, and I had the opportunity, I'd leave the country.

I've always lived modestly. And it seems that is even part of my problem. The U.S., always somewhat hypocritical, is becoming more and more a land of "winners" and "losers".

Just look at our "fearless" leader, using the "L" word -- quite derogatorily -- left and right. If we're supposed to take our cue from our leadership, well then, f-ck this place.
TLDR:

Facebook have started giving ad explanations to improve transparency. The key finding is that explanations are often incomplete, and sometimes misleading.

I found that the article is also interesting as a good intro to how advertising in Facebook works.

The authors provide a tool, AdAnalyst, that gives improved explanations and that they hope will allow users to detect malicious and deceptive advertising.
Are you confusing RoHS (reduction of hazardous substances) and EMI/EMC (part of CE certification)?
I assumed shops would report it all anyways since services show up on carfax.
It starts somewhere. Starting earlier is the only way to ensure generational upward mobility.
Given that the original game predated those sorts of systems hitting consumer desktops by years, it shouldn't be surprising at all. This is what early 3d games & software rendering did before accelerators came along, and as CPUs got faster in that interim there were plenty of fully polygonal software rendered engines as well.
I don't mind that my friends have access. Controlling that would be Orwellian.

I mind that Google and Facebook have access. They are already Orwellian, and figuring out how to control that would be anti-Orwellian.
The people choosing which coins to include and how to weight them have tremendous power. They, and their buddies, will be tempted to (a) re-constitute the index to favour assets they own or (b) buy and sell ahead of re-constitution using insider information. “Painting the tape” is a problem with proper indices; here, someone on the GDAX side could conceivably just mess with the records.
The HN guidelines recommend not changing the title unless it is misleading or linkbait.

It sounds like you think that leaving out the "illegal" part is misleading, rather than a simplification used to make a shorter headline.

If that's so, why did you clarify it as "illegal immigrant" rather than "undocumented immigrant"? That is the term used several times in the text, and it follows the AP Stylebook recommendation, described at https://blog.ap.org/announcements/illegal-immigrant-no-more .

As you wish people to have a respectful manner appropriate to HN, surely you must agree that the clarification "undocumented immigrant" would be more respectful of the source material, yes?

Given your view that "illegal immigration is bad" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16009093 ), I cannot help but interpret your choice of inserting "illegal" here instead of "undocumented" as editorializing.
"WeWork, a startup that rents out shared workspaces, branched into co-living in 2016. Their "dorms for grown-ups" are intended for people moving to a city and looking for fast friends.The company, which has a $20 billion valuation, has two locations: one in New York and one in Crystal City, Virginia, outside DC. The average apartment is just 450 square feet."

How does a company running glorified dormitories have a $20 billion valuation with only two locations?
I agree in general, but that's not the case with these guys. Pick your platform--first UI interaction--and the prices are right there.
> we don't see large scale wars with 10s millions of casualties for 70 years.

The long amorphous war(s) in Indochina alone seems to likely be on that order of magnitude.
Vatican hosts first hackathon to tackle global issues
It is by far their biggest problem. Personally, I find 'ships and sold by amazon' to be a brand I trust; outside that? yeah, it's like buying from a shady ebay seller.

Personally, I think amazon needs to distance themselves from those third party sellers; if it's hard to tell the difference between amazon and joe rando, the amazon brand is going to become worth significantly less, and they will not be able to charge the premium that I'm sure their investors are expecting.
Given the level of counterfeiting and gamed reviews this seems like a quick route to financial dystopia.
What a ridiculous rigamarole instead of simply requiring that policy holders check in once per year at a registered dealership or mechanic shop.
The range is fine for single-driver operations, as the driver still has to stop and take rest breaks equal to or longer than the stated time to recharge on a 'megacharger'.

I suspect that there will be deals done (if not already in progress) between Tesla and/or Fleet companies with truck stops across the country to install (paid) megacharger stalls at appropriate distances.

Even if charging time is slightly longer, it might still work out equal if the power of the truck lives up to expectations, and the truck no longer needs to slow down when going up hills.
Happily using KDE neon for a couple of years already.

Nice desktop customized by KDE people on top of a stable Ubuntu base.
How many hours away by drone flight do you think that town is from an Amazon distribution center?
You misread it. WeWork is a huge, international network of co-working office spaces that also happens to be experimenting with two co-living locations.

See https://www.wework.com/locations
The Design Theory Behind Amazon’s $5.6B Success
There are ways of doing this that aren't trivially parallelizable for an attacker: https://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting-files. (Of course, the criticism still applies if the adversary is faster at whatever single-threaded operation you build the timelock on.)
I think you may not have ever lived in a small town. The town I grew up in is 3 times the size of my current town, and I walked all over it by 4th grade. Another town we visit frequently is almost 6 times the size of my current town, and is very easy to walk all over.
It's only enforced when police receive a complaint. File a complaint if you want them to do something about your local nuisance vehicles.
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