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What examples of policies do you feel are wasteful?
"San Francisco area" from the BBC's perspective could include the larger Bay area
I use a single speed bike at the moment. Not because I hate gears but because I’ve never had a geared bike that didn’t constantly click on the outside gears. It drove me crazy trying to tune them perfectly and never succeeding. Forget increased efficiency. If a new design emerges that accommodates gears and is simple to tune properly, then sign me up. No idea if the design being discussed could offer this.
I use Google Smartlock, and it functions across all my (android) devices quite well. It does sort of rely on your being all-in on the Google ecosystem. At work we use LastPass, but since I only use it on the desktop in a browser I can't speak to how it works across devices.
Yes you're right, it's unfair to lump elinks and lynx together. It's before Browsh I would use elinks all the time as it seemed the most modern.

Surely though just the sheer fact of CSS's `hidden` declaration has to be taken into account by any browser, text-based nor not? I've came to the conclusion that there just simply isn't a subset of modern web standards that you can adhere to and still use the web today. Our best option is just to piggy back off one of the major browsers that does all the hard work of keeping up with the rapidly changing technologies.
> SF is also a city of immigrants

Yet 34% of eligible voters turned out for June's primaries [1]. (A figure that is elevated relative surrounding counties.)

[1] http://abc7news.com/politics/june-primary-voter-turnout-upda...
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Yeah, but there's wiggle room there. $117k/yr in SF is equivalent to roughly $88k/yr in Houston, and it's arguable that $88k in Houston will buy you a far nicer quality of life than you could get for $117k in SF.
If viewed through risk-averse lenses, it is an excellent way to raise the earnings floor considerably.
You can manually add any of Firefox's extensions: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/45
Having a degree opens certain doors, namely careers in public sector, research or university. It also makes getting a visa for some countries much easier.

If your life plan includes any of these, go get a degree. If not, returning to school will be a waste of time.

Generally, the best way to make yourself marketable is to become ridiculously good at something.
I don't understand your point
In my experience, people generally go the other way: they say “we need spark/Hadoop/Cassandra because we have Big Data” when they have a 30GB dataset that is best handled on a beefy EC2 instance with boring tools.
Thanks for reading and the question :)

I'm inclined to agree that being able to recognize and recall information is a different (and often prerequisite) skill from applying the same information. Bloom's taxonomy https://bit.ly/1KRj4ZH is the way I think about it: recall/recognition, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of the same piece of knowledge are all distinct skills. You have to teach or seek to learn each separately... its not automatic that learning one gives you the other skills. (There's been some criticism of the taxonomy. But I'm not sure I've seen a better model.)

The latter part of your question, about academic v practical education in CS programs... I'm not familiar with the research about what improves retention in academic programs. That said, the more you can align and connect to someone's values and beliefs -- what gives them purpose -- they more motivated they are to learn.
You buy things via the internet. USB stick (or whatever, paper wallet even) is just cold storage for the private keys of ETH, QTUM, BTC, wallet, etc.
For those outside the bay, $117k a year is what a new college graduate could easily make in the bay area. The first rung of career ladder at any of the top tech companies makes ~$150k [1]. At that level it is very doable to be living in the bay renting an apartment in an OK area with a family.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/
What company is this? I'll make sure I never apply, this sounds like a huge waste of my time.
> Consider your example and then walk along the demand curve for water at your new supply curve (your scarcity scenario). There is still surplus value created.

It's not that there is exactly none, it's that there is relatively less.

Suppose it takes a unit of water to live and there are a thousand people and a million units. Then the price is near zero and the surplus is huge -- the value of not dying is maybe a million dollars for the average person and more for people with access to more money, and they all get it for free.

Now suppose there are still a thousand people but only a hundred units of water. The price of a unit rises to five million dollars. At the [new] margin the surplus has gone from five million dollars to zero. The surplus for the person willing to pay six million has fallen from six million to one million etc. Everyone has lost five million in surplus and everyone with less than five million in original surplus has been priced out of the market.

Now suppose you want a "minimum price" for water. If the market price is just under five million dollars and you set the minimum price to five million even, you aren't pricing many people out of the market who weren't already. But you also aren't doing much to raise the price.

On the other hand, if the market price is zero (or, say, $5) and you set the minimum price at five million, you're causing widespread economic harm and pricing lots of people out of the market.
"The Ecuadorian delegation, for instance, was expected to introduce the resolution but was weaned off the idea after the US threatened..."

Lol. Weaned.
I'm in my late 20s, no kids, with a wife that will shortly surpass me in terms of income. The math still didn't work for us in SF, unless we were willing to make big compromises in terms of living space and discretionary spending.
Well, you can see who leaked the password by checking for your password if it’s unique, right?
CS and engineering PhDs seem to fall into a kinda weird category of "industrial" PhDs where it seems more people go in from the get-go with no interest in staying in academia. I think some CS/engr programs actually have built-in expectations of doing internships with industry, which seems really backwards to me.
Of course a worthwhile question. Really, the same question can be asked of any party in any transaction in a company: employees, investors, customers, vendors, and so forth. Virtually anyone exchange or transacting with the business could ask (and be asked) this kind of question.
Can somebody here explain how interfaces with method bodies are different from abstract classes?
Did you flag my comments? It’s even not my site. I compared Kialo and other debate sites in the past. Linking is how we refer to things on the Internet. Don’t be so defensive. When people like your ideas, they’ll link you.
Go the opposite direction and think about: AMC gave HBO a run for their money despite having to deal with the influence of advertisers. And in some ways, Mad Men and Breaking Bad are both more transgressive than what HBO ran in the same time period. They did well despite a higher degree of difficulty.
It's pretty sad that people are so used to lifeless rivers and oceans so they are scared of the idea.
I’m mostly alluding to Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard, and drawing on Tending the Wild, M Kat Anderson.
I am myself somewhat formulating a view and I still think many of YC fundamentals still very much apply - so below thoughts may not be well-formed - please read at your own risk.

The backbone of years of manufacturing from shenzhen belt in itself is becoming a moat. For example - I was literally talking to a fast fashion seller with a few shops in seoul yesterday - historically - korea has had edge on design lines to adopt and produce fast fashion from NY/EU creative trends and then manufacture in vietnam/banglafdesh etc - he is just starting to shift some of his buying to China. Their work is now better quality and more so it is cheaper - in vietnam I also saw a fashion retailer going ga ga over quality of men belts he is sourcing from china and now cost is lower - earlier only luxury retailers types had access to such stuff from China - weak IP/copy/ better-trained workforce is making luxury produce more easy to produce may be. Cross border/brand less might be next frontier in ecom here.

The spending and capital power of giants such as Ali/Tencent is becoming a moat. These giants got huge with breaking out market but now they are something like a governopoly working closely with policy makers for china vision.

All of this is affecting SE asia and now even India. In nutshell - below might be different now for starting a company:

1) Being first and just being there might matter more - product-market fit can be weak? because you are dealing with a customer base that is just coming mobile and is much less sophisticated - they will still be ok with your service with some compromise - this is fundamentally against what I have known all my life! - in long term I bet good old best CX matters - but for immature markets not so much right now

2) Being first in small market / being market maker: great if you can do this but this is not needed in Asian context. There is enough size and potential growth coming that just building in the existing big market verticals is ok - you have an opportunity to differentiate by having stronger talent and actually improving existing experience if you can start with a smaller category or segment - ok to go head on with existing players - may be same thing YC says but I word differently

3) Talent is sparse - so you have lots of avg. stuff built and then iterated - this can be your secret advantage even more so here - you can do same thing but bit faster and at better quality

I have think more about this to be more constructive. These are some of my early thoughts and I again - I just hope to share and exchange what I know. I may be wrong and hey that is ok!
Lets agree that if the mining price goes up, it will be always cheaper than public cloud. Otherwise, you would have run mining on AWS/GCP and be profitable. In this scenario, we are still able to offer cheaper price to the customers and higher price to the miners even by just binary switching. Assuming the gap is not negligible.

If the price goes down, customers will be able to set lower price. As long as GPU holders profit margin is high enough given electricity and maintenance costs, they will do the compute.

If the marketplace matures, pricing of mining, deep learning, rendering and other tasks will be driven by the market. At Snark AI we are working on towards creating this marketplace that will provide optimal benefits to all parties.
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In downtown it's rare to find something under 4500 for an older beat up 2 bed.
And yet there she was making piece-meal as an uber driver for some reason.
Or this one: https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
Relax and enjoy the responsibilities. Your day will shift to doing mundane or obvious work that you're now in a position to make better. Listen and ask questions so you can make your position useful and everyone can enjoy and be inspired to keep doing great work!
MoarVM has had a JIT since 2014.
(MoarVM was announced in January 2014, got a type specializer in March of that year and got the beginnings of a JIT in August of that year)

What it just got recently is a pluggable specializer that allows more interesting optimizations to be written in a higher level language (NQP). Since this is closer to Perl 6 than the VM it has more information with which to decide how to optimize code.
(Note that it also means you can do the same with any other language that runs on MoarVM, even if it is very different from Perl 6)
Sonoma County and the greater Sonoma County are also saddled with an unbearable housing shortage caused by the 2017 fires - we wouldn't be of any help even with a better rail system. Rents are up 50%, construction bids on labor alone are up 30%... it may not last forever, but it will certainly have an impact for years to come.
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Previous HN discussion about the RFC for Minimal Ubuntu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292883
I must be missing something. The link you provided says ”The median income for a household in the city was $202,132, and the median income for a family was $227,425"

That's more than double the median income in SF.
I think if you follow this line of thinking you end up with a (economic) rent to labor ratio. Any kind of expensive piece of equipment could have been built by employees so by the same token that you count contractors you can include the labor component of those capital expenditures and so on and so forth.
Hey Andrei!
I don't have any clean code examples easily handy, but let me work on it for you. Shoot me an email (email is in my profile) and i'll share a gist with you.

The tl;dr is:
[0] Use single file components
[1] API endpoints return JSON. Nothing super fancy, just taking rails objects and return JSON.
[2] What would have been a rails "view" corresponds with a route in my vue-router config. Nothing special there either.
[3] A top level page (think /index or /item)
[4] Each top level page calls a private endpoint, which is just its own natural route in the browser, and pulls down data it cares about through the JSON request. Each json object corresponds with an ES6 class which wraps any object specific logic (usually end up having to dupe some code between ruby + js here).
[5] Each top level page is broken down into components (widgets, major sections of the page), for code clarity.
[6] Anytime I find myself doing a for-each loop, I usually look to see if whatever the sub element is should be its own component. Usually the answer is yes (just depends on whether it has its own independent logic).

Everything is passed top down as an object, but I do break the "cardinal sin" of mutating props on the object. Traditionally, props should be immutable in Vue, which requires use of Vuex or an event bus to change state. I haven't had a case yet where this has been an issue, likely because each page transition reloads whatever data it needs, and the same object isn't being mutated by multiple components in a way that would cause debugging nightmares.

A few patterns I use to keep myself sane are wrapping objects with their own save methods (so I can just .save() ) an object and persist it back to the server.

I dunno, probably a lot more there, but I haven't given this any deep thought. Reach out, and let's exchange thoughts!
It's not hard to live well on $117K in SF either. That's over $6K a month after tax. There are so many people living perfectly good lives on so much less. If you can't make $6k a month last easily without dependents you have really poor money management skills.
>For those outside the bay, $117k a year is what a new college graduate could easily make in the bay area.

Bullshit. That's what a college graduate with a CS, Finance or Accounting degree from a school targeted for recruiting by the biggest megacorps can make in the Bay Area. Those that didn't attend the right schools or programs aren't nearly so lucky. I can personally attest to that: my firm (still huge, but no unicorn) pays a good deal less than $117k/yr for fresh graduates with degrees in things like Finance, Accounting, Management, Information Systems, etc.
By tracking what people do in a place, and then pushing adds to them.
It is, but it's funny how quickly you get desensitized to it. A house in the most affordable cities in the US is the 150k range, in the Bay it's in the 1.5M range. Maybe 1.2M? 10x the difference for the same thing. Pretty mind-boggling.
It’s also technically wrong because the range for a six figure salary is $100,000 - $999,999 and only the lower range is being considered low, not all six figure salaries.
Interesting that the first case deals with an injunction to comply an EU company to collect information -- not to punish a company from collecting information. I'm actually very surprised that ICANN even tried to do this as it looks like a slam dunk defence. I'll be interested to see the result of the appeal.
Four or five, but I don't really follow what you mean. I sit through maybe 10 pilots on Netflix that don't motivate me to watch the entire season. The last time I tried and failed to get into an HBO show was with Succession (in my opinion that show is exceptionally bad). Before that I can't recall. But on Amazon I churned off of literally everything, and on Netflix it takes me at least five duds (that are apparently a strong match for me) to find something I'll commit to. The only thing I think Netflix has really nailed is comedy, and that's because their selection of comedy is actually diverse and comprehensive. Conversely, a lot of their selection for traditional drama is formulaic.
Googlers have side hustles too.

Anecdotally the per mile rates were much higher in Vegas than SF. Likely Uber algos know people are less price sensitive if they're in Vegas.
Agreed. These articles and their following comments all stink to me as boisterous reactionism...the bay area definitely has problems and housing costs are probably the number one problem of all of them, but this is statistical mangling, and if you think that for a second workers across the country - except in some of the least desirable places - aren't being squeezed on housing and other costs, you're mistaken.

For instance, my hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan is also experiencing a housing crisis. This is a place that 10 years ago I could've bought a decent house in a decent neighborhood for well under 100k provided that I weren't a recent high school grad and had money to do so with...this is also ignoring the bubbly job markets and quality of life improvements that come from living in a vibrant coastal city.
if you're a native Saudi citizen you pretty much are guaranteed a very cushy govt job plus tons of perks (free education, interest free loans for building a home etc). Many parts of the middle east work like this (relying on expats to do all the real work).

It will take generations for this mentality to change (if it ever can..) and by then the oil will have run out.
You are far from the only person who's saying this, but I don't understand how you can reach the conclusion that you would enjoy a lower standard of living in SF than Houston on a salary that is twice as high. The three things you say that you like to blow money on -- luxury cars, international vacations, and making investments -- are similarly expensive in both places. Care to share some of your math?

To elaborate, I looked through this guide: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou... and while a one-bedroom apartment in the centre of SF would cost around $41,000 a year in SF compared to $17,000 in Houston, that means that if your salary is Houston is around $100,000, you would still have around $70,000 more dollars a year in SF after rent has been taken care of, not accounting for taxes. How does the higher cost of living in SF manage to eat up all that money in just a year?
Short-term rentals on the border of southern Redwood City/Atherton & Menlo Park are going for $4-6k/mo for 1 bedrooms.

Edit: Removed a cynical remark.
Well stay chargin for it. Put a button and give a dedicated connection for people that pay?
$3500 is median asking price for a 1BR now.
More than double the median income and also (presumably) less than half the cost of living. So they still made the right decision when factoring everything in.
Thanks for picking up on it :) I wrote the long version first actually. I had a few people review before publishing. There were some concerns about the length (25 minutes). So I made the linked summary version as well. I posted both to Hacker News today. But the summary seems to be getting much more interest :)
Not to mention the relative cost of student loans, and relative worth of savings that you do manage (ie enough for a decent house elsewhere when you’re ready to gtfo).
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It all comes down to what 'living well' entails. 'Living well' on $6k in net income someplace like Houston, Chicago, Denver, etc. is far, far nicer than what you can manage in SF or the Bay Area in general.
Looking at the qual exam charts, and then looking at the qual requirements for stanford cs online, I just think: "some people have all the luck"
I grew up in CA and moved away just a few years ago, and I didn’t have an appreciation for the extraordinary corruption and wastefulness of state, county, and local policies. Only rarely did any single single policy seem particularly egregious or catastrophic.

Then I moved to Washington State. No state income tax, but comparable sales and property taxes. Much less regulation at every level of government.

The savings in income tax alone paid for my rent, until I bought a house. The house I bought is in an extremely high quality neighborhood. School ratings are almost maxed out. Professional or entrepreneurial neighbors. Responsive government services.

My home costs less than a condo in south San Jose. I pay about half the Bay Area rate for full time childcare. Gas is significantly cheaper. 5 dozen eggs at Costco cost $6-8.

Life is good. No one is dying in the streets. If anything, people are thriving and have hope to create a better future.

It is not until I experienced the totality of difference between Silicon Valley and another west coast city (in my case Tacoma and its suburbs, though I suspect Portland is similar) that I groked the suffering inflicted by CA politics.
Literally the most successful state in the nation but... k.

Care to get specific?
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Don't get me wrong. Appreciate the project and effort. Well done and amazing. But the only time I use a text based browser is when I have very very bad connection (which happened once or twice e.g. in an airplane).
But would be better for comparing links2 vs. mosh+remote browsh. Nevertheless I don't want to keep running some vm (even when it's small) just for my very seldom text browser sessions ;)

I will keep browsh in mind when I'm again on some remote island. Could be a no brainer to install adhoc on a remote vm then.
Grad school should be hard. Stanford is one of the richest schools in the world with the best facilities for their students. Stanford students also get awarded the largest number of NSF fellowships every year. With having so much privilege (which helps getting grants/awards/fellowships etc) their complaints seem rather tone deaf. Getting your PhD at a state school is much harder than what Stanford students have to face. Stanford is really the sad result of federal funding agencies letting research funding/talent concentrate at a few elite schools. Look at Europe for a much better funding model where the average school & education is much better than the average school in the US.
>That's more than double the median income in SF.

Irrelevant. I wasn't trying to optimize for % gain over median income in SF. I was trying to optimize for moderate improvement in overall quality of life compared to what I have now.
So no specifics then? Just hand waving generalizations with no content?
Agreed. I think many people just don't do very precise math. But the other part is the extra income tax in CA versus TX, which is about 10% of the income, so subtract 10K from that 70K.
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