skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startups in the bay area don't really provide the highest salaries, they compensate employees with potential future equity. The established tech leaders (FANG) and high growth mid-size tech companies are where the large salaries are found (base salary + bonus + RSU's). If you get into one of these companies and are a high performer, it is not difficult to begin making $200-300K per year after a few years once multiple RSU grants begin to kick in.

The issue is that this type of compensation is highly dependent on the stock market. Both the bull market in general and companies getting rewarded by the market for growth rather than earnings. You should be thinking about other types of investments (e.g. real estate, etc) that are not as tech/stock market dependent to funnel some of this cash flow into. Nobody knows how long this level of compensation will last.
Thanks for your concern. Everything on https://monitor.gitlab.net is for public consumption. We're very transparent :)
So it's time to move on, is gitlab up for the job? or bitbucket? or everyone should run a gitea/gogs container on their $5 vps?

While I use vscode sometimes for web hacking, I use geany/vim for anything else, other than that, I have nothing to do with Microsoft whatsoever, and yes, I run linux as my desktop for the last 15+ years.

Money talks, Microsoft is embracing OSS because it's defeated by OSS, it never liked OSS, and it does all these moves just because it has no better options.

And, who knows,it might be the modern Trojan to ruin us all when time comes, I have no doubts on this when I recall how hostile MS has been to OSS.
I'm not sure how well you understand functional programming either if you think it needs dynamic typing. The king of functional programming languages (Haskell) is statically typed.
The last time it had discussion here was two years ago[1]. Perhaps its time for those who haven't seen it before to take a look?

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Linus%20Torvalds%20on%20C%2B%2...
Google has done a lot of shit before, but I sure as hell trust them more than Microsoft at the moment when it comes to acquisitions.
You could block all domains that are not part of the Majestic Millions[1] (the million most common domains)

[1] https://majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
I don't want to sound dismissive but you've linked to a blog post from 2016, which in its entirety only mentions how much they make from the entire patent portfolio and a wild guess on how much they could be making from "Linux patent racket" and no other details on who they're pursuing or what the demands are/were.
IBM has a big presence there; most of IBM cloud engineering team is based out of RTP. Most of the companies will be branches of major corporations.
Even if the probe was not contaminated the planets already are. We are likely to find that there is life on Mars (underground) and it looks just like life on Earth.

One interesting theory is that life originated outside the Earth (say on Mars) and was transported to Earth at a later time. This theory would explain why LUCA [0] is so complex and why life appears almost as soon the Earth had liquid water [1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms
They chose their words carefully.
Show HN: Billbird – Accounts Receivables as a service for saas startups
> Meanwhile, I'd really like for people to stop hating Microsoft just because "Microsoft"

OK, I respect the call for keeping an open mind. Always a good approach. But let's not forget all of the moves toward a friendlier Microsoft/Linux world looks suspiciously like "Embrace"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I for one am willing to keep an open mind, but will be following these types of developments closely.

I hope to be proven wrong.
What about the people who hate Apple just because `Apple`?

(or any other form of "brand envy" against other companies, for that matter.)
How Blockchain is changing the face of the business?
> This city is not on the radar of most tech folks, and it's way under-rated

On the contrary I don't believe its under-rated at all. It gets just the kind of people that like the lifestyle it offers.
Yeah, no kidding!! Literally every single person I know rented growing up and the streets were filled with kids. In fact, since apartments are smaller, it's more incentive to get outside.
XBox One will reportedly soon support Alexa and Google Assistant
Salt levels in food are largely guided by palate. If the amount of salt embedded in the harvested rice is significant relative to the overall sodium load of a typical meal, then its use will be limited to dishes that already contain added salt. In which case salt embedded in the rice will be largely offset by reduced amounts of added salt, keeping the overall dish in balance.

Also it should be noted that the link between high salt intake and negative cardiovascular health outcomes is disputed and is likely less significant than the current mainstream medical advice claims. (Like everything related to dietary science, the evidence on both sides of any argument is poor at best. So take it with a grain of salt. Ha.)
This comment comes off a little too shamelessly self-promotional for the HN crowd.

If the content of your post(s) is relevant to the thread at hand, it's better to just inline the important parts than make people jump through links. It's not a great look here that each of your comments is mostly just links back to your own blog.
I have two toddlers and I've signed (or plan to sign) them up for two things: swim lessons & tumbling.

* I don't care/want them to be Olympic swimmers but if they fall in a pool or river, I want them to be able to tread water and get out without panicking.

* Despite everything I say and do, they're going to get on the roof. I know, I did. ;) So when they fall, I want them to fall the best way possible.

As a parent, I don't see my job to protect them from all consequences but to prevent and/or prepare them for the worst.
There is a perfectly feasible train connection to Silicon Valley (at least the western part of it). Trains are standing-room-only daily.

The area around almost every Caltrain stop has already seen significant appreciation, of course.
MS heavily respects privacy and mandates that every employee go through privacy and GDPR training every year. And remember, MS’s business is not rooted in exploiting user data to sell them ads. Replacing “they” in your sentence with Google or Facebook would be much more appropriate.
And he/she is wrong to complain, we are all lead intolerant.
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I’m in this boat - 6 years in sf and my rent already seems so cheap by comparison. Any move I make now is. Move out the Bay Area. It is a pretty nasty choice. We have a nice house, but we either have to upend our life or stay put. Our rent is not cheap, but with the way rents have gone up, we can’t even downsize to a 2 bedroom unit to save money. So, we have 2 tenants in 3 bedrooms and rent control.
Cathode ray tubes were also used as RAM in early computers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

One of these computers was the machine at Manchester that Alan Turing worked on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby
Moved to NYC after nearly a decade in SF (partially overlapping with the OP). I feel like it's unfair to call SF the "new New York": New York definitely cares about money, but it allows room for lots of different things. It's a far more functional city in every possible dimension, because it accepts (in fact, adores) what it is.

IMO, SF stopped being fun not because of the "finance bros", per se, but because the place just never wanted to be a big city. Fundamentally, San Francisco is a gorgeous little seaside town on a too-small peninsula, which valued counterculture and artistic expression. So it was fun to be here for a while when the "startup industry" was a few crazy people doing things against the grain, but it's a different story when those crazy people turned into armies of bland corporate CEOs, hiring armies of rich yuppies to "disrupt" the world in identical ways.
You can try talking to Gitlab support. I've found Github to release squatted usernames, so that might be the case with Gitlab too.

Remember, however, all that their activity need not public. They could have a massive organisation with tons of active private repos.

Still, doesn't hurt to ask.
I make way more money in the US but my quality of life was much better in Netherlands
RMS on GitHub (2015)
It should be quite possible.

In addition, there's the idea of using pressurized underground aquifers as an energy store (basically, using bending and lifting of the overlying rocks to store the energy when pressurized water is pumped underground). The pressure can be transfered to a clean seawater stream by a device called a pressure exchanger, which can then be fed into a reverse osmosis plant.
Personally, I'd rather hold the money and maintain financial independence and lifestyle optionality than have the luxury car or anything else.
Well, there's nothing wrong with using PHP, and the performance is often better than with other comparable options. Personally I really enjoy PHP 7.

If you're way out of the loop then all you need to know is that PHP 7 is quite awesome.
Facebook will not be the same without the masterminds (Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and others). Practically, the business there is all about finding monetary value of the user data.

Whether very few of us like that or not, we keep going back to using Facebook anyway, how (long) can we avoid the platform where our family and friends (and billions of other mindless users) are?
Very nice, with solid rationale and everything.
How Checkers was Solved
That book seems to be entirely about Romans vs Carthaginians, not Romans vs Celts...
There's plenty of ad blocking, spyware blocking, ransomware blocking, etc. software that absolutely uses the hosts file to blackhole requests. Much of it is free and intended for home computer use.
The I think “maybe I should rent one on vacation sometime.” And after three days with a BMW Z4 convertible, I get that out of my system for well under $1k. I also resolved my interest in Jeep Wranglers this way.
I’d be more inclined to say that understanding expected value and variance at a baseline level is like fizzbuzz of statistics.

Basic regression at least requires understanding sampling standard error of estimators, distinguishing p-values from the posterior probability a hypothesis is true, transformation of random variables (like for understanding why classical 95% confidence interval bounds are +/- 1.96 * standard error) and some linear algebra.

But I agree the methods discussed, with the exception maybe of support vector machines, are all elementary statistical methods.

What’s sad is that if these represent the fizzbuzz of statistics, it means most jobs in statistics only require you to do tasks easier than fizzbuzz (cursory data cleaning & summary stats). Because in most jobs, dimensionality reduction, SVMs, clustering and boosting would be seen as incredibly advanced, scarce work projects for people to fight over who gets to work on them.
I don't believe there is much synergies between FB and Instead anyway, and even less so with WhatsApp which seemed to be have been bought out strictly to stop it from growing into its own social network.

But I don't see the US ever breaking up FB in the coming decade, as the agenda is clearly not to fight monopolies and trusts.
Anyway, my point is that centralisation isn't bad if it's painless to decentralise again.

I'd love to see GitHub (and GitLab) offer a custom domain name option which would proxy HTTPS and SSH clones via a company's custom domain (e.g. code.example.com) to GitHub's hosting. That way, if a company needs to move away from GitHub (or GitHub goes away), developer's references to some company's code is not stuck pointing to some stale github.com domain.

Hosting such a proxy (and the repos) takes infrastructure, time, and experience to secure and make available, so from a user's perspective it's great if a company does this as a service as long as you provide the domain.
Nobody gives hardware for free.
Your kids don’t have health insurance?
But mental illness is skyrocketing.
If your argument is that there's no way to predict the future value of a patent, does it really have any value at all? If the patent game is basically a slot machine, investing in it shouldn't carry any expectation of return.
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Why would you “bash” someone for that?
When I see a rich car, I always think "heh I guess this guy likes to rub in our faces that he has more money than us... this is why I could never buy a nice car."

I'll probably drive a used corolla for my whole life just out of unwillingness to make people feel like I'm better than they are.

I have similar troubles flying business class. At least let business class be a separate plane >.>
Don't forget how evil Github is!
I hope that guy follows through his bet.
I've never heard of Ruby Facets but it looks interesting. Just as a heads up, the api document links on http://rubyworks.github.io/facets/learn.html don't work.
I completely agree. I don't think there's any need for legislation. I think people should just realize the simple adage, "if a product is free, you're the product" or whatever.

Our society needs to wise up.
@asernik I was referring to the idea of them doing a "Direct Public Listing" ("DPO") as opposed to an IPO (similar to what Spotify recently did...) http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/spotify-ipo/
https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-difference-between-ip...

> "a DPO is attractive to small companies and companies with an established and loyal client base. A DPO is also known as direct placement."

GitHub has the "established and loyal client base" with many millions in recurring revenue.

GitHub's principal VCs, Sequoia and A16z can both afford to wait for a return. everyone could sell in the "DPO" so VCs could liquidate if they needed cash ...
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/github
Meanwhile, their (questionable) strategy seems to work, as a pike in project import is happening

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223116

Good ? Bad ? I don’t know neither judging. Just saying.
...and you can do it a lot and have a profitable hobby of buying and selling cars, unless you'd rather spend your time on other things.
> Few who have talent/luck/x-factor get money and fame, the rest wash out.

This is an important point, most of the people who have the talent have spent their lives in their fields of talent and have little idea how to make money off of it and neither have the contacts to such people who can help them do it.
That link says March 2014. LinkedIn was a public independent company for all of 2014.
You can't even leave your elementary school aged kids in the car while you run into a convenience store for 90 seconds without risking being arrested for child endangerment.
Cracking the code of the Rohonc Codex
And what market share do they have? None of my non-techie relatives or friends who've asked me to look at their machines run that kind of software.
Totally. The kids I see these days are obnoxious, arrogant and irritating compared to kids of my generation, and I’m born in 1985. It’s disturing to see how some of these kids behave and how their parents exercise zero authority as adults. Adults, it seems, exist to serve them. Kids with no humility will grow up to be terrifying adults.
Sadly deforestation to make more farmland is still going strong, especially in tropical rainforests.

A simple thing that everyone can do to help is reducing/stopping meat and dairy consumption, because the additional farmland is used to produce livestock feed.
Any ethics professor who teaches 'this is ethical and this isn't ethical' is doing it wrong.
Except parents actually spend MORE time parenting now then they ever did in the past.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/30/pa...

I hardly ever spent any time with my parents growing up, I spent the vast majority of the time playing either alone or with friends or siblings either outside or in another room. Same with my peers, I never even met half my friend's parents, ever. Parents today seem absolutely obsessed with spending massive amounts of time with their children, something I simply cannot understand. Just doesn't seem healthy to me.
What is your point?

Yes, like likes to be around like, and systems that allow people to find people who are like them or who meet some of their needs are really useful, and you can call that phenomenon of "bringing people who want to interact together" "centralization". But noone ever argued aganst that.

When people talk about "centralization" in this context, they speak about power structures. A centralized power structure is when power is concentrated in the hands of a few. The fact that there are other forms of "centralization" is completely besides the point. If anything, the point is that you can often have those other forms of (useful) centralization without the centralization of power. Newsgroups, for example, obviously centralize discussion, in that they bring people who share an interest together in one (virtual) place. But they don't centralize power, because the technical implementation makes it so that no one party can easily control the communication on all of usenet.

Noone argues that we shouldn't have systems that allow us to interface with the world in a central location. This is all about avoiding concentration of power.

Your original argument is like saying that we should put all websites on the platform of a new company, say WebHub, because you want to have one place to search for websites. It's ultimately a non-sequitur: Millions of companies independently host websites on this planet, but obviously you don't visit millions of websites and ask the search function on each one of them your question of the day. You simply use one of a number of search engines, whichever one you prefer for your own needs, and no matter which search engine you choose to use, you will be searching pretty much the exact same set of websites. There is simply no need to centralize the power to control what can be published on the web or how the web works with one hosting company in order to have one central location that you can use to navtigate it all.

You don't need centralization of power in order to have centralization of access.
I wanted this feature.
It seems especially unfair given that it's my understanding that the EU went to great lengths to make this one particularly readable and free of "legalese".
"Hate when companies not doing well try to dodge by blasting 'traditional accounting rules' when these rules have been crafted over the years to accurately reflect the value of said company."

I agree that criticism of traditional accounting methods often points to inherent risks and even corruption, see Enron.

However, as I understand it, measuring firm value is not the primary goal of accounting. The way depreciation is calculated, for instance, may be convenient for other reasons, but it doesn't say much about real values at all. Accounting numbers are quite artificial.

When analysts calculate firm values, through methods like DCF, they use accounting numbers from the financial statements as their inputs to calculate cash flow etc., but that's just for lack of a better alternative. In fact the numbers don't make sense by themselves and many of the accounting rules just make the estimation of firm values more difficult.
It passed the committee, but I think it still needs to go to the Senate for a vote, unless I'm not understanding California politics.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xh...
There is no better place to grow apricots. This is a tragedy: people can go anywhere, but you can't do that with plants.
My understanding is that this is more or less how Gary Vaynerchuk sky-rocketed to the center of media through a similar(ish) comment about Facebook. Best of luck!
I think the popular opinion (and my own) is that VS Code has been the better editor for a long time now. Performance, features, and reliability have all been drastically better, its one weak spot might be the slightly more limited interface for extensions.
Even if Japan has done stupid things w the yen, I don't think all fiat currencies are doomed :-)

For context, I'm a proponent of cryptocurrencies, yet I do not think they can take over for fiat anytime soon.
In certain states, the number of permits to perform state inspections is capped. New entrants who want to perform inspections (which a used car dealer will typically need to do) have to either wait in line indefinitely or buy up an existing permit-holder.

State inspections may improve vehicle safety at the margin. However, when state inspection permits are treated like taxi cab medallions, the cost-benefit comparison becomes a bit skewed.
> I am very, very tired of the homeless tents everywhere

Let's be careful about confusing our frustrations with something that is wrong or illegal. Frustrating me isn't wrong and it isn't illegal; my frustrations aren't evidence of either - they are, in fact, irrelevant to those questions.

More importantly, many people and groups frustrate me, sometimes to a great extent. Political leaders stand out, as do many in tech; comments on HN sometimes frustrate me. Bigots frustrate me and cause great harm, IMO. I sometimes frustrate others. Why doesn't the state act against those people? Why doesn't it act against me? The state shouldn't act because we all have rights; it doesn't act because the people in this paragraph have political power. As a result, we all have to accommodate each other

Homeless people do not have power. They don't have political representatives who can insist on their priorities - who in fact must insist to keep their jobs - even when others don't like them, which is perhaps the only important meaning of power. If law enforcement acts illegally or excessively toward them, they can't protect themselves. And in the courts, they have no lawyers, and judges and juries give them no credibility and don't take their pleas seriously.

The great sin of government is the powerful abusing the powerless, the strong abusing the weak. It's long been a problem in the U.S. too; minorities, for example, could be publicly murdered or lynched and nobody would act; laws clearly abusing the minority, such as voting rights laws, can be implemented and they are powerless to stop it. I think we should be very careful to not let our frustrations drive us and repeat that grave error.