skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I came to the same conclusion you did after reading those 2 articles. While you say the lawsuit "isn't exactly hostile", I think it isn't exactly "friendly" either, and it's not like ICANN is neutral and just looking to the courts for guidance. I don't think ICANN is pleased with this ruling, at all.

ICANN clearly wants to preserve the requirement around personal details in Whois data, while Tucows pretty much thinks that requirement goes against the spirit of GDPR. From your second link:

> ICANN’s goal, since discussions about the impact of the GDPR on domain registration began, has been to preserve as much of the status quo as possible. This has led ICANN to attempt to achieve GDPR-compliant domain registration via ‘process reduction’, as opposed to Tucows’ approach of starting with the GDPR and rebuilding from the ground up.
Well he wants a city populated by hipster close to a trade route and also to use it as a way to normalize relationship with Israel and "experiment" a non-sharia area in KSA.

Such a project will require being careful about who gets there.
Your math is worth little unless you plug the right values into the equation.

He said his salary would be twice as high in SF, so for a 100k salary in Houston, we're talking about 200k - 41k vs 100k - 17k, which is roughly a 70k difference (actually closer to 80k, but I wanted to make a conservative guess).
Yeah Vancouver island is beautiful!

Oh wait I misread that as some people find great weather in the pacific northwest.
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It depends on the data and the workload. I did some work on GPU accelerating viewshed calculations - basically, line of sight from a point where cells are marked visible or not visible. It's really useful in radio mast planning.

In this case, the result of any given cell doesn't rely on the result of any other cell. This leads to the neat case where every single cell can be, in theory, calculated at once. In this case, you essentially get n-times speedup for n-time increase in processing power.

The other, often overlooked, bonus is that the GPU simply isn't the CPU. As long as you're waiting on stuff to finish there, your CPU is free to do what it pleases. In my case, whenever I started, I immediately triggered the intialisation of the GPU, and then started reading command line switches, reading in the data from disk, etc. Likewise, when the GPU was doing the heavy lifting, I could start on the slow IO involved in preparing the output, creating files, writing out metadata about the shape and limits of the output that's trivially calculated.

In the end, the speedup varied, but at peak it was turning an 8-hour CPU bound workload into one that taken 2 minutes. What was once a full days cycle where you set up your simulation, did busywork for the day, and then collected results and thought about the result overnight at home can now be done while getting a coffee, and allowed people to make mistakes and play around.
A lot of those > 1TB data sources are very standardized, they can be mapped to a schema, in which case indexing the data supports interactive queries and analytics. Hadoop seems well suited for data that needs to be processed in very different and changing ways.
Yeah I fear like Greece with the aversion to paying taxes, they may have a fundamental behavioral issue that will just snowball...

Granted I get why people do what they do, but as a whole, it could be disastrous. Much like your expat story, I recall a blog post by someone who went to SA for work. They enjoyed it, but they didn't get why they were even there doing the work as the people they reported to seemed to do little to nothing and could have ... just done their job, but at the same time they weren't sure those people could do that job, or much at all :(
You misunderstand me. I'm not calling them idiots, the average person is probably fully aware that all of this environmental damage turned the sky yellow and made it hotter.

The people making the foam 100% know it's illegal (as they demonstrated) and why it's illegal - yet they still do it. The money is more important to them than the ethics.

Besides, if the Chinese government and the Chinese people didn't think differently, all of this censoring and covering up wouldn't be needed.
Socketsite pre-emptively debunks the article[0]

0: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2018/06/a-six-figure-sala...
I don't even own any ICO tokens let alone shill them : D

The emotional response here is fantastic, it reminds me of this essay

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
I'm pretty sure he knows. Hence "My superpower: Taking things literally."

Incidentally I'm pretty sure water snake oil is not actually a cure-all anymore than rattlesnake oil is.
Why doesn't Uber just provide their own scooters?
In general, food costs slightly more in WA. However, I use eggs as an example because it is a staple food in my family. I was in a CA Costco last week, and noted that a comparable quantity of eggs would cost 3-4x the WA price.
> Lets agree that if the mining price goes up, it will be always cheaper than public cloud

I am confused. Let's say your price is $x while public cloud is $x+y. When cryptocurrency price rise the incentive is to increase your price to $x+y, if that is the profit point. In which case you will no longer be cheaper than public cloud. Any differences will be negligible. So, I am not sure you can claim to be always cheaper than public cloud.
*not accounting for taxes. Or gas prices. On a day I paid, $4.10 in South San Francisco, that same day it was $2.60 in San Antonio. Even if you took public transit, that costs money too. Sales tax in Berkeley is 9.25%.

I live in Mountain View and little things definitely cost more. At a restaurant the other day, I paid 5% “to account for increased labor costs.”

I am happy living in Mountain View now (I grew up in Houston,) but if it weren’t for a substantial salary and stock, I could see how anyone with a family would run for cheaper pastures.

Housing isn’t the only thing more expensive in the Bay Area. When you ran those housing cost numbers, that automatically took into account property taxes, now add 5-9% for California income taxes, and it starts to become a significant amount of money on just that basis alone. Add in every other California and local tax and the difference becomes even more pronounced. Texas is ranked 33 on overall tax burden while California is 10. Additionally higher Bay Area salaries also often kick people into a higher federal bracket as well. There is no cost of living adjustment for federal taxes — or state taxes for that matter.
At the peak of the fracking boom, Williston, North Dakota had the highest rents in the country:

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/community-divide...
I shared my personal experience based on living in the bay area for 30 years. YMMV.
I didn’t go to a target school (at least according to some of the companies I got offers from) and all of my offers eclipsed that number.
You can tell the ordering of transactions in the absence of a trusted third party. There's an entire body of research dedicated to ordering transactions called Byzantine fault tolerance, but all of them require trusted parties to maintain consensus.

Cryptocurrency is the first time we could really escape that.

As for infrastructure, things like the lightning network will provide scalability, things like starks and bulletproofs can help both privacy and scalability, decentralized exchanges help accessibility.
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>The heat and hurricane weather alone are enough to make Houston a non-option for many people

A factor in my favor: I'm a native, so it doesn't bother me. Same goes for most others that have lived in swamplands during the summer (even places like DC and Chicago have nearly identical summer weather compared to Houston).
Pretty decent introduction if you have some physics background with some basic optical/E&M theory (PhD won’t help otherwise) is Silicon Photonics Design by Chrostowski.
Ok, I'll bite.

Care to name a hardware company that doesn't use parts from Foxconn?
Iron age hill forts and stone age burials can be very prominent features of the landscape. It's not just latent, occasional traces like the ones that have become visible in the last few weeks which survive.

They could build to last in the stone age, and there's no reason to believe that they would be surprised that their monuments are still standing today...

When it comes to the latent evidence of human occupation, I guess it's a bit more unexpected for it to become so visible to us. But even stone age cooking fires leave very permanent traces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulacht_fiadh
Trump’s SCOTUS nominee decided against net neutrality, for NSA surveillance
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I'm sorry but I currently live in Venezuela and what you are saying is wrong. Very few places in Caracas or hotels will actually take USD for payment since it is considered illegal unless you go through the regular channels with the idiotic govt exchange rate.

Bitcoin not only thrives here and allows you to bypass the whole craziness with the economy by using exchanges like localbitcoins.com where somebody would deposit the amount of bitcoin you sold to your local bank account. This way you just keep your money in bitcoins if you want. This is specially true with miners.
Thank you for the clarification. The conclusion that I'm getting out of this is that it still makes sense to move to SF if you're willing to live frugally for some years, save some money, and then move elsewhere. It probably makes less sense if you have a partner and children and you are used to a higher standard of living.
My may says $100,000 - $41,000 + $17,000 = $76,000
The claim was an SD apartment is 41k while an equivalent Texan apartment was 17k. Presumably you are already paying the 17k.
Remove the oil companies and you mostly have a list of rent seekers ready for massive disruption.
Most of those are junk after the first or second season, In my opinion. Completely unwatchable considering the great stuff out there.
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>Even if they are 2.5x higher, do you really feel good? I guess a part of me feels like life should be easier and more comfortable. I'm not looking for fancy shirts and yearly expensive laptops. I'm looking for the comfort of knowing that if something goes medically wrong, my cost of living isn't so high that I'm very quickly on the bubble. I'm looking for the ability to be able to choose different life priorities in my future if I desire.

Yep - this is something I hear a lot from my colleagues in the Bay. "Can I afford to keep my kids here if my wife gets hit by a bus?" ; "If home values dip, will I ever be able to pay off my mortgage and move elsewhere?", etc.
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I'm not sure I follow. I'm not sure (obviously) what "cultural elites" are to you, but I certainly wouldn't have thought that urban planners were an example.
They have a national registry that you need to subscribe to if you are a miner. That and you also need to keep in handy your customs paperwork to prove that you paid entry duties for the equipment. Otherwise you open yourself to police extortion.
SF ban in 2010 on Happy Meal toys, the overall pension crisis, the continuing debacle of the high-speed rail project there...

One that seems to have actually worked was the ban on plastic bags.
Different strokes for different folks. The place you linked, to me, has comparatively few conveniences. Specifically, walking and bicycling are viable modes of transport in SF.
Public companies don’t offer options anymore. It’s all RSU which is yours yearly/quarterly etc.

Even mature startups (like Airbnb and Uber) don’t offer options.
valet parking or catering
Also, ~10% sales tax on many things that you actually spend money on.
What about high speed bus rapid transit? The cost of new lanes/separate lanes can’t be more than the equivalent high speed rail, right?
That's not how tax brackets work.

> Because the U.S. tax system is a progressive one, as income rises, increasingly higher taxes are imposed. But those in the highest bracket don’t pay the highest rate on all their income. For example, for 2017 taxes, single individuals pay 39.6% only on income above $418,401 (above $470,001 for married filing jointly); the lower tax rates are levied at the income brackets below that amount, as shown in the table below.

https://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/tax-brackets.aspx
Does it come with uninstallsble copies of candy crush?
Well the thing is that cash is nowhere to be found so you just go around with your debit card and you are fine.

The other part is that we Venezuelans never walk anywhere. Going somewhere without a car feels dangerous. Oh and in big cities, if the car is armored the better. Plenty of shops now to convert your SUVs.
Please don't break the site guidelines by introducing extraneous flamebait into conversations.

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Yeah, but some of us don't actually want to struggle through several years of frugality in SF for the sake of buying a $400k home in Texas in cash. Why not have a much better quality of life in Texas, take out a mortgage on the $400k home, and consider the relatively reasonable interest rate as a payment towards positive aspects of life such as "reasonable commute times" and "not worrying about the kids stepping on needles on the sidewalk".
I'm not sure TBH. I've heard that startups and comanies in the UK generally don't offer large stock packages to employees. That could just be anecdata, but that's what I've heard.

A 6-7 figure stock-based retention package would seem normal for the 3 acquisitions I've been through. Vesting length is all over though (short as 1 year, long as 4).
California is the 5th largest economy in the world. It also has 40mn people, so of course it will have a lower per capita
The function that gives AI value is the ability to make predictions
You can use localbitcoins.com or localethereum.com and somebody will buy your cripto and give you bolivares in your local bank account. That way you save a trip to the US to open an account, which most people can't afford anyway
> If GPS satellites were to cryptographically sign their signals, would that be sufficient to prevent spoofing of GPS signals (assuming the receiver of the signals treated the signing appropriately)?

Nope, classic replay attack case (just record the GPS signal and replay to the device at the desired location). You'd need a true time signal within the device, e.g. and atomic clock to make it work (so you'd authenticate the signed time against true time).

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There is another way, however. If we assume the hardware is tamper-proof (unless drastically different methods are needed), then with strict timings we can device a challenge-response system that's immune to replay attacks due to relativity: simply transmit a signal A, have a known 3rd party (e.g. US government servers in cellphone towers) sign your signal Sig(A) and retransmit, and check that the delay matches the propagation delay you'd expect from the cellphone tower distance, plus the fixed (and immutable since it would be gov-controlled) processing delay. Your tamper-proof crypto-camera would record its location and whether it trusts the location. Using cellular signals is also better because GPS doesn't work indoors and is sensitive to interference.

Since we're adding a cellular connection to our device, it would also be a good idea to log its position on the state-controlled servers (again can be done with cryptographic safety assuming non-tampered device), along with some kind of intrusion detection system. As soon as it'd detect an attempt at tampering, it would relay this attempt to the servers, storing the intrusion and invalidating the authenticity subsequent recordings; a self-destruction attempt of the key would probably be also wise.

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And now that I think about it, you'd probably want to put several keys/auths in the device, from different organizations -- not only governments. That way if the government authentication is positive but NGO's mismatch, you can suspect a government-backed forgery attempt (analogously vice-versa).
Actually, it does, and that's why folks are arguing for comparing profit instead of revenue per employee.

As others in this thread have pointed out, if you utilize tons of contractors, your revenue per employee may look huge, but your profit per employee will go down because you still have to pay all those people. Whether you use contractors or employees, it still comes out of your bottom line.

Now, I assume what you are really arguing is that loads of Foxconn contractors should increase the denominator in the "per employee" part of the equation. But that's why profit is a better metric, because if you look at profit per employee of Foxconn, you'd see it is much, much lower than Apple.
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I'm afraid you're mistaken about Chicago summers being nearly identical to those of Houston. Chicago has experienced summers without a 90˚ day and quite a few people there have no AC.
Google, Amazon, and Facebook all have offices in New York, where an entire state of suburbs is a PATH train or Suburban shuttle away.

If not, they also all have offices in Seattle, where the suburbs are even closer and all have access via company buses.
We've asked you so many times to stop being uncivil on HN that I have to conclude that you don't want to use this site as intended, and have banned this account. It doesn't matter how right you are, or how wrong someone else is; it's not ok to be a jerk here.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Maybe because it's less accessible? The hills make it a pain unless you own a car.
Yes, that’s common use case for kdb+
This was a big part of my decision to move to SF after college, but it turned out not to be true. A down-payment-sized savings goal is insatiable. Even if a fancy car or vacation or whatever is cheap as a percentage of income, you can't justify it, because the money could be inching you closer to homeownership instead. You're in no danger of ever actually reaching "enough" savings, so the excuse for luxury consumption never arrives.

"Equivalent quality of life outcome" is also tricky. Growing up, my parents drove ~7 miles from our sleepy, affordable suburb to the city center in 20 minutes. 7 miles in 20 minutes! Could you imagine such a thing? When I first moved here, I chose a similarly-distant unsexy suburban location; the transit commute worked out to 80 minutes door to door. To get a 20-minute commute here, I had to move to one of the most central, premium locations.
Can you add the high-level version of that explanation here so other HN users have an idea what it is about, and decide whether to check out the book?
I heard that usually the lowest-paid employees are fired first.
The OP is correct. The addition income you’d earn in SF is taxed at the higher marginal rate.

What he is saying is that if you make $100k in Houston and $250k in SF, the extra $150k is tax entirely at the higher rate.
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With an exchange that transfers money to your local bank account? I know at least two that do that for Venezuela.
This is literally profit.

If you do not create enough value you dont get paid.
The quote from the press release in my edit section.

Edit: Specifically the part where they say they aren't using any trusted hardware. If Dawn et al have some sick zero knowledge proof breakthrough, that would be a big deal, but it's hard to know what they're up to :). I wish them all the best, designing trust networks of any kind is super hard.
Being rude like that will get you banned on HN, so please don't do that again, regardless of how right you are or wrong someone else may be.

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I found it hard to believe too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I also built a model that put a lot of guesses about intangibles into numbers. It passed sanity checks when reviewed by several peers, but I could just have a bad model. Who knows.
street parking is often time-limited and/or costs money. I wouldn't mind the VC-backed e-scooter detritus on the sidewalk so much if they paid the city for the space they take up, much like the way a film crew pays the city for a permit to offset their disruption to the neighborhood, or the way a beach boardwalk performer pays for their space.
Awesome work! Great stuff! Love from an terminal nerd here. Hope you succeed with this project.

Question: how will it work with CAPTCHAs?
I suppose that's an entirely valid way to think about it, especially if you have a family.
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weird, that link doesn't work on localhost /s
This endless interview question is really stupid. If you’re in an interview saying “OK, NOW!” then you’re a huge waste of time.

Ask specific, probing questions to assess knowledge in your ideal areas, in some combination with an open ended problem solving question.
I'm very confident it would not be very good at optimizing Perl 6 code.

On the first page of the documentation for libjit is this:

“Only a very small proportion of the work is concerned with language specifics.”

The thing is that Perl 6 tends to break more of the established rules than it follows.

For example, most normal operators in Perl 6 are just subroutines with a special name:

a + b == &infix:«+»(a,b)

put &infix:«+».candidates.elems; # 26

There is currently 26 multi subs with the same name for handling the numeric infix addition operator.
(27 if you count the proto sub)

That is among the easiest of things to optimize in Perl 6.

I would also like to know if it is a JIT that profiles and compiles the optimized code on another thread like MoarVM does. Is there a plugin system that allows high level code to influence what code gets JIT compiled like MoarVM recently received?

I'm sure that for just about every other dynamic language libjit would be very suitable. It's just that I imagine it would quickly strain under the weight that is Perl 6.

(Perl 6 brings in many varied features from many languages, and combines them in a way that it feel like they have always belonged together.)
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Tom, RE that Kubernetes Slack artifacts in the video (4:45), this doesn't look like Browsh bug - it's just a new weird trend that happens on Slack/Discord, of people spamming with emoji reactions, often making them spell out something obscene. Browsh handled this very well, IMO (to be honest, it looked better than on a normal browser, because the actual spam content was pixelized).
If Google disappeared tomorrow nothing would be tragically different after a year or so of adjustment.

Without the energy companies we'd be in Mad Max mode for decades...
I think it is a good example because cryptocurrencies solve the confidence issue people have in the local currency and takes away control of a single government to impose controls and depreciate the currency. You also get to bypass the notoriously bad banking system and since bank transfers cannot be reversed here, it's actually safer to trade bitcoins to bolivares than it is to trade bitcoin to USD using Zelle or PayPal.
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Not to contradict you, but everything is stable until it's not. A three legged stool is stable until one leg breaks.
I'm sure I do own some index funds that own big oil. I can still dislike the practices of a company that I own some of. I don't always have the possibility of constructing my own index funds separate from the opportunities that my company 401k offers.