skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the great California Exodus is the people leaving CA end up trying to re-create CA wherever they move. Just look at the Californication of Seattle, Hawaii and Denver.
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It seems like there are several additional ways one could spin the data in this report.

From a selfish standpoint, should I, as a Californian in a booming industry that looks like it will remain a central part of the economy for the forseeable future, be too broken up about a lot of people moving elsewhere for jobs? Should I want the metro area I live in to be seeing double-digit-percentages population growth over decades (I don't think that would make it any cheaper, or would make traffic any better)? And even then, the overall populations for the parts of California I'd want to live in are still rising, and jobs and new companies are still being created, and I'm meeting a ton of smart people who've moved here from all over the country.

I certainly have no intention to move back east any time soon. I've found a lot more interesting stuff being done out here, and the weather is worlds better, and the high population density allows a ton of things I like.
That reminds me of the sad story of CNet editor James Kim. He got caught in a snow storm with his family. He left the car and died trying to get help. His family was rescued in good condition. Had he stayed with them, they all would have survived.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1028_3-6141498.html
Am I the only parent who was surprised how easy raising kids is? All I've heard was how much of a sacrifice and struggle raising kids is. My experience is the complete opposite. You make larger portions of the same meals, run a full washing machine every day instead of a half full one. Play chutes and ladders instead of settlers of catan. Are there constraints on your life that didn't exist before? Yes, but nothing intolerable if you don't obsess about it.

The hard part for a lot of parents is the number of things you 'should do to be a better parent', stretches out into the infinite. No matter what good they do, all they see is an endless list of ways in which they've failed. Keep yourself out of that mental trap and parenting is a piece of cake.
I don't think this is relevant. The reason that people for the most are leaving is not politics or taxes, but high cost of living. The biggest expense for most people is housing. From 1930-2000, almost everyone who moved to CA made money on exploding real-estate values, eithe directy or indirectly. This extended massively peoples wealth, so they lived in houses and with a lifestyle they could never afford based on their "day jobs". Now that the elevator of home-equity is no longer subsidizing cost of living, most people realize that there are a lot more $1MM houses in CA than $300K/yr jobs. And where there are those kind of jobs, a $1M house doesn;t get you much beyond the basics (like in SF/palo alto etc).
After 10 years of perfect condom use, you have more than a 25% chance of getting pregnant.
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"In other words, the highest-income Californians were less likely to leave the state after the millionaire tax was passed."

http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/working_papers/Va...

By the way, the reason the state is "budgetfucked" as you eloquently put it is because of low taxes, not high taxes. You may be interested in reading about Proposition 13, a scheme under which people who are sitting on massively valuable assets are taxed at lower rates than those who actively acquire and dispose of much less valuable assets, and where assets held by corporations are taxed static amounts (in terms of absolute magnitude, not rates) in perpetuity.
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America is going to be destroyed by these ticks in government, these are the hyopthermia pains before the coming realization that we will not recover and be frozen to suffer death by slow freezing, this will take 20 years, but our great nation will fall.

As hackers we must prepare to plant the seed for a superior nation when we are overrun by communists, socialists, corruption in every layer of government and business, and bleed from so many ticks and parasites that the collective dies from an unexpected shock to our system.

this is our writing on the wall. you have been measured and found wanting.
Out of curiosity, what's your honest preference in the situation? Where do you come down?
From memory, if something has no caching headers PageSpeed Service will treat it as

Cache-Control: public, max-age=600

Combined with serving html as uncacheable, this is a pragmatic and functional way of dealing with the many sites that haven't put much (any) thought into caching.
I agree

Your comment started with a lie and didn't get any better.
Title is misleading. @Smalter's suggestion is far more accurate.
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The way the charts are set up, say charts 4 and 5, it looks like people are fleeing places like California and New York, and heading to places like Nevada and South Carolina.

Except the charts are subtracting out-migration from in-migration. California is the most populous state, about 38 million people. New York is the second most populous state, about 19 million people. Nevada went from having 1.2 million to having 2.7 million. South Carolina went from having 3.4 million to having 4.6 million.

Nevada never really had a population base that could have been subtracted in those charts. South Carolina also had a small population base.

What I've seen happen in New York City is large blue-collar families leaving ethnic neighborhoods, and those neighborhoods being replaced by young professionals. Williamsburg is an example - it was a working class ethnic neighborhood, now it is yuppies, hipsters, startups, art galleries, and the like. You can think what you want of it, but it is certainly not a sign of a lack of prosperity.

That's another assumption implicit in the article - that the Duggar family leaving a state, and two yuppie kids moving in is bad economically, because the population decreased. If small populations meant a bad economy then Norway, Denmark, Finland, Singapore, and Uruguay are bad, and Nigeria and Bangladesh are good. Prosperity does not equal population size.
"And of course, Krugman is right
-- Um, no. Its false."

Your evidence being? Your say-so?

"but hey, he's a Nobel-prize winning economist...
== This is not even worth responding to."

If you had actually read and comprehended what I wrote, I was comparing him to myself, not to you.

But if the shoe fits...speaking of which: since you have given zero evidence for your opinion, reputation actually is the only thing we can go on...oh wait...Krugman actually did provide evidence for what he wrote, how typical of him!
The "family gets lost, guy goes off to find help, gets even more lost and dies, and then the rest of the family is rescued" is a pretty standard story.
One could dryly observe that it would appear to be the capitalists, lenders, investors, and bankers that've caused this nation the most upset, one could.
have a 3 and a 5 year old. coincidentally, they came into my life when i was starting my own startup and i'd have to say it wasn't easy but doable. the time i get to work on my projects are limited for sure but the time you get to spend with your kids trumps any other activities. i can honestly say that you haven't found happiness until you've got kids. just my two cents.
Another thought about the "I regret having children" line: it is not a given that the people who would say so would not have regretted not having children, too.

Obviously all sorts of attitudes exist. There are even kids who regret having been born and who commit suicide.
I was kind of turned-off of TN due to Memphis, but maybe Nashville is enough better to be worth considering.
Well, it's not called "Hacker" News for nothing. CNet is over there.

Anyways, apart from AirPlay (AirPort Express), my RPi is performing XBMC / media center capabilities (Apple TV), streaming network backup (Time Capsule), motion-activated security camera, software-defined radio and X10 home automation. I will shortly be interfacing the GPIO to an SSR and thermocouple so I can use it as a PID for beer brewing and smoking fish. For $35 and 2w of power, that's pretty good.
FISA isn't even about increased surveillance. If the DHS thinks they need more surveillance to do their job, i trust them on that. FISA is about a lack of oversight and due process on the surveillance. In the litany of cases where FISA-backed surveillance saves lives, that same surveillance could have been performed with proper oversight and regulation, rather than what basically amounts to the whim of an investigator. The absence of regulation in this instance benefits nobody (except those who would abuse it).
I used to routinely go out in the bitter cold in Wyoming. Wearing lots of military-issue clothing. Dressed and behaving as the military recommended, I found -40 to be quite tolerable. Coming from Florida, without the military training, I'd have been dead.
This is an extremely important comment that I'm glad has been made in the midst of the other "kids are overrated" comments I see here. If you don't want kids, great. But if you are in your early 30s and don't have much of an opinion yet, start thinking about it right now. Fertility drops like a stone in the mid thirties, and due to our delays in this area my wife and I will probably remain childless despite an outlay of many tens of thousands of dollars over the course of seven years towards many failed fertility procedures. If writing a check for $20000 in exchange for absolutely nothing but yet another heartbreak in return doesn't appeal to you, please make sure you make thoughtful decisions about having kids sooner than you might usually think is warranted.
Demurrage's value is equal to miners' reward. This greatly limits Freicoin to not set a too high percentage. Imagine 50% of the existing money reserve going into bookkeeping of Freicoin transactions. To put 5% into perspective consider exchange rate changes between well established currencies. 5% per year is nothing.
I'm surprised by how negative a lot of people are here to new ideas.

A friend runs Menupad. You should check out the demo. Does some cool stuff such as allowing people to get wine recommendations for each dish, organized by the sommelier. That is a big value add for the customer.

Another point is that with health care reforms in the US, wages for waiters will increase, which may tip the balance for restaurants to go the technology option.
Ditto the answers that say prioritize. Since having my two girls (3 and 1.5) my hobbies and projects have dropped to just a couple, and I want to change one of them.

I also find waking early and going to bed later helps - you can get more done while everyone else is asleep. Exercising early in the morning helps me sleep more soundly at night too so I really only need 5 or 6 hours.
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There was a recent KQED forum podcast on the rise and fall of California:

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212271000
I have a hard time believing that transparency and documentation requirements pose a real threat to our national security and, while I believe that there probably is a good-faith concern that new documentation requirements could further slow down a system that is already hugely overtaxed, I generally say "fuck 'em, figure it out". Oversight good. Transparency good.

On the other hand, the message board response to FISA appears to be a blanket call for an end to spying period. I'd love to live in a world where nobody needed espionage or intelligence services, but I'm not interested in litigating whether we actually live in that world now. As long as FISA isn't perverted into a tool for bringing drug charges against Americans, I'm not very concerned about the underlying mechanism.

I think Rand Paul is just showboating.

I wish Leahy's amendment requiring warrants for domestic electronic mail older than 180 days had succeeded.
I think it obviously does matter. The conclusion of the paper was clearly written before the rest of it. Gems totally unsupported by the preceding evidence include "California has cut taxes in the past, most dramatically with 1978’s Proposition 13, and when it has done so, prosperity has followed. Ballot propositions this November aim to do the reverse, raising taxes on business owners while the state is still struggling to hold its own against more aggressive, confident rivals. The results will send a strong signal, whichever way they go: the state’s voters will be deciding to continue on the path of high taxes and high costs—or to make a break with the recent trend of decline" and other whoppers. Even the title is ridiculous unless you are willing to define "exodus" as "growing at the same pace as the nation as a whole".
I already had a good 4 day weekend with family for Christmas. For New Year, I have another long weekend starting now and planning to do extensive coding on one of my ideas/ project.
I just looked at the PageSpeed dash, if no cache headers are specified then it defaults to 1800 seconds.
Ah, fair enough. I suspected your position might be a bit more nuanced than a casual reading of posts would've suggested.

As long as FISA isn't perverted into a tool for bringing drug charges against Americans

You and I do both realize what will probably happen here, right?
I'm suspicious of bikes that sell for under $200 new, but you can get a great used bike in the $150-200 price range, which is what I've generally done. Add about $100 more for lock, lights, fenders, rack, and basket and you're good to go.
I don't understand how FISA doesn't constitute oversight over foreign surveillance, unless you're of the opinion that spies should be required to get warrants to spy on foreigners.

These arguments always seem to point out how FISA is nothing like a criminal court, as if that was a dispositive argument. FISA isn't supposed to be like a criminal court. The purpose of FISA is to ensure that our foreign intelligence services don't spy on our own citizens, and not much else.
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No, I don't think that's at all likely.
I want the truth about the topic, which sources are more accurate?

And what type of biases does Greenwald perpetuate?
There are also numbers that suggest the more conservative states, such as Texas, are becoming more liberal over time. I would almost wager that Texas, at it's current growth rate, could be a swing state by the 2020 Presidential Election.
weird. it should at least load the main title...
the 'action' really happens after pressing play.
It is a good book. Check out "Selfish Reason To Have More Kids" by Bryan Caplan (economist at George Mason U). He goes through all the research supporting the idea that you shouldn't worry about parenting too much. The biggest predictor of a kid's success is genetics, not private schooling and piano lessons.
My last two HTC Android phones had this functionality (the Desire and now the One S). Never used it, but this would be a situation where it could be handy. Although if you're in a car, the car radio probably has better reception.
This exodus is occurring in Illinois as well (shown). Both states share similar budget problems along with predictable leadership responses -- higher taxes and reduced services.

What Illinois needs is genuine growth and that doesn't happen overnight. In the meantime, people get fed up and leave -- unless they have to sell their home or business.
They have a real api:
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I think FAS is a pretty good source. I generally find ACLU's takes to be honest and well-studied.
While technically interesting, this project is riddled with fallacious economic ideas that undermines its credibility. I do appreciate it that new kinds of money are being developed though!

A few particularly ridiculous notions from the about page:

- that money-hoarding is the primary cause of wealth disparity

- that the role of money as both a savings instrument and a transactional instrument is problematic and leads to financial crises

- that demurrage would benefit working class people

If governments adopted a currency like this (or if it otherwise became forced upon us), banks or other institutions would issue alternatives and people would flock to them.

http://freico.in/about/
FISA Fail: Senate To Keep Spying On Citizens
>Also, I suspect dogs are actually a lot more work to maintain than kids.

Ha, lets see: a Dog can raise a litter of 6 puppies every year with no effort, but to correctly raise 2 or 3 humans you need the time and income of at least two adults, for a lifetime. Which looks more difficult to you?
Ubuntu software centre has always felt a bit lacklustre to me as a paid software place. Most of the stuff on the front page is either listed as free, have bad icons and screenshots (sometimes Unity,sometimes Gnome 2 or something else) or all 3.

Not to mention that the UI is kinda slow and clunky.

Basically gives the feeling of being in a neon lit discount store rather than a premier software showroom.

I think it might do better to get rid of it as an application altogether and just build an attractive webpage that gives a lot of space over to highlighting the best, most polished commercial apps with a handful of the higher quality open source desktop software. Use a browser plugin to trigger installation.

Installing open source libraries, dependencies and dev tools could be handled by a more utilitarian ncurses front end to apt or something.
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I find the first author's comment a bit funny. Not because of her decision to not have children, but because of the reasons.

- Diapers, Soccer Games, Braces, Tantrums. -

Those are pretty poor reasons to me.

A good reason to me is "I am fulfilled doing what I do and have no reason to want children" or even "I have never wanted to have kids"

But the way she writes, it sounds like she actually really wanted children, but was afraid that they would tie her down too much, ruin her life, and make her do icky things like change diapers, and make her feel uncomfortable when they threw tantrums. Her response to getting her tubes tied was "Freedom." as though there was this specter of child-rearing that she was so afraid of. Her followup states that she is afraid she would have been a bad mother anyways so it was probably for the best.

As someone else said, the decision should be to have kids, not deciding to not have kids. But the first author sounds more like she wanted kids but was afraid, regrets the decision and is spending her time trying to justify, to herself, that decision to get her tubes tied back at 30 now that she is getting to the point of no return.

Second author would have sounded a lot better if he had written it in the first person instead of second person. He's describing his experience, not mine. It's pretty presumptuous to tell me how I feel, or will feel.
It's actually GBP 16,000, the article is wrong.

http://www.fudgescyclestore.com/index.php?p=174107

This is the Alex Moulton New Series Double Pylon. It's an incredible bike, not a folder but a separable (take it apart and fit it in little bags).

It's perfect for confined living spaces (such as a boat or small downtown apartment), whilst still offering an ultra-stiff frame and the feel and position of a full frame.

The small wheels are there to support a faster ride and easier climbing, though that also counts against them on downhills as you have a tad less of a flywheel effect.

I rode a Moulton up Mont Ventoux and down/through the Nesque Gorges in Provence. I've also visited the Moulton factory down near Bradford on Avon. They have this great mini track around the estate for testing the bikes, and you can visit the room in which they are made. To this day they are hand-made, every weld, on custom jigs.

They're fairly special bikes, but you are paying for the labour in the frames more than anything.

Also, Alex Moulton Sr died on 9th December 2012 http://www.alexmoulton.co.uk/ . He was a hell of an industrial designer. His son Shaun Moulton runs the company now.

But yeah... GBP16k not USD16k.

And if you think that's expensive, go calculate how much you could configure a dream bike from Vanilla Cycles http://vanillabicycles.com/ , Robin Mather http://apracticalguide.wordpress.com/ , Richard Sachs http://www.richardsachs.com/ , etc would cost. It is very easy to pass GBP 7,500 without batting an eyelid, easy enough to get to GBP 10,000, and with some mildly demanding stuff and some very expensive components (Enve Composites I'm looking at you) you can easily be on your way to GBP 20,000 for what the untrained eye may assume is just a nice town bike.

Though... no-one is going to think a Moulton Double Pylon is a town bike!

Oh, and if you really want consumer demand for a basic bike at a luxury level... research what the Japanese will pay for a superlight Brompton http://www.brompton.co.uk/ folding bike in naked finish. The waiting list is lengthy, and the factory in Brentford, West London now runs 2 shifts a day, 7 days a week to fulfil orders.
The fundamental flaw with Chaumian token systems is that the trustworthiness of the currency is completely concentrated in the identity of the exchange. The kind of institutions which build up and delegate trustworthy identities (eg governments, banks) are inherently predisposed against anonymous transactions.
Samsung phones (at least SGS and SGS2) have FM radio functionality, but it only works with earphones plugged as they serve as the antenna.
I know a lot of Memphis residents who have relocated to Nashville. One guy described it as "life-changing." The cities are completely different. The problem with Nashville is the same as the problem with Austin - it's surrounded by rural hicks. On the other hand, I moved here because housing is cheap and it allows me to do the things I want to do (like travel) while keeping my overhead low.
Quite true. Prop 13 is an abomination. Instead of only homeowners paying reasonable real estate tax, they've essentially made everybody in california subsidize low-tax-locked real estate owners. Now you get to have the fun of paying virtual real estate tax without owning property.

It turns out, we have the ability to not live there!

It's not quite sane to take a multimillion dollar exit in California when Seattle has zero additional overhead. Though, it is an absolute dickhead move to build your company in California then "establish residency" in a zero-income/capital gains tax state solely to avoid California tax harassment.
Very true. At Per Se you order wine off a tablet, which works because a table tends to order 1 bottle at a time.
> After decades of studying & practicing computer animation in film

That is distributed through video. There are closs-platform ways of distributing video. I feel that does the job pretty good, and certainly better than "shit".

If I go to the cinema and watch a Pixar movie, I'm quite content that they pre-rendered the thing very expensively at Pixar and I'm watching something that is limited in resolution, but much cheaper to distribute and reproduce: I feel it's OK that the web manages to reproduce that same experience pretty well.