skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$140k could be competitive if it were possible somewhere in the Bay Area to rent a house (or get a mortgage) with space for two kids in a good school district for

$140k * 0.33 / 12 months = $3850 a month

But you can't find such a bargain today. Another 20%-30% drop in real estate prices would make $140k a living wage salary.

I remember we worked out that my ex-wife's $42k salary in flyover America was actually more money than Google's prospect of paying me $125k in Mountain View several years ago.

Real estate prices are like that in the Bay Area because of the disaster of failed housing and education policy in the region and the state. It doesn't have to be that expensive, but voters and politicos aren't going to fix it so you either live with it or move.
Where is the evidence that HFT is affecting anything? History had plenty of bad market crashes long before computers were a twinkle in anyone's eyes. (South Sea bubble, anyone?) And HFT didn't corrupt Enron and Worldcom's leadership, or robo-sign a bunch of bad mortgages.

Also worth noting is that equity markets are a tip of the iceberg: there are also foreign exchange and bond markets. If anything, charging transaction fees will suck up liquidity in the secondary markets, causing bond issuers to have to raise rates to compensate for the illiquid secondary market. (And in the case of treasuries, guess who pays the extra interest? Not Wall Street: you.)
I started learning Ember a few days ago, and this has been my experience. There's a serious lack of up-to-date guides and resources for support out there.

The official guide was decent. It does an amazing job covering everything it attempts to cover. My problem is with the things it doesn't cover. Specifically, I'd like it to be more practical by answering the question: "How do I get started immediately?" That means going into more detail about things like Ember Data, the ember-rails gem and other language/framework-specific details, etc.

Personally, I'd love to see an up-to-date tutorial for setting up a very simple Ember app with Rails or whatever. I find guides like that to be the most effective at getting people up to speed with the necessary basics.
>I’m not 100% sure on it, but I can easily envision a world where you fix bugs in your website by opening it up in a browser, reading a stack trace, fixing the JS in that same browser and persisting your changes back to the server.

Where does version control fit in this vision?
Facebook making you sad?

It's a radical solution : stop using it.

Ultimately, if you want to take umbrage at someone, somewhere enjoying themselves, then you will get depressed, because there is always someone having a better time than you.

What is more important is developing a balanced feeling of self, and knowing and taking full responsibility for wherever you are in life. This means releasing feelings of envy and regret.
After you graduate it's a lot harder to get student loans, though. This also initiates the theoretical paying them back phase of your life.
As a fellow designer who spends a lot of designing these guidelines, I've thought about how to include these but it does hurt the idea of making it automated.

If this proposal is to remain in it's simplest form, it would require the default logo selected to be one that is as flexible as possible and would require the design to possibly build in the space required, background color, etc.

There may also be room for additional tags that would describe the usage i.e. rel="logo grayscale" or rel="grayscale knockout"
Oh, I honestly didn't know the train was that cheap when you book in advance. I've only ever booked the week of.

Still, it's like an hour longer of a trip than the bus. (I guess I haven't had bad experiences with traffic--on my last trip to Boston, we arrived early.)
Accessing content and having a voice are not the same. As sams99 points out, some users still won't be able to communicate without JS.
A normal job will kill you. Source: I have a normal job, and it's killing me.

It's not really fun in the way that hobby programming is fun. What I really live for tho is composing music. So I'm considering either working part time (because I can't compose any more at all, due to tiredness from my job, so maybe I'd relax enough to do it), or switching career entirely and eking out a living doing composition for movies/games/whatever. But then that would turn it into a job, which would probably ruin it for me.
Herb - I totally agree.

First draft of the post I kept saying "all because I went to school in Boston and bought a guy a pizza." Very thankful that I had the random luck to grow up in the U.S, to afford tuition at Berklee (though it was only $2500/semester back then.)

But as the article developed into saying how NOW the physical location is less important, I removed the "I was in Boston" part to de-emphasize that part of my past story & emphasize the current stuff that anyone can apply.

Now I think it doesn't need to begin with physical proximity. A well-written succinct email is the best introduction to almost anyone, and then you can strengthen that friendship by phone & email, then eventually meet in person if circumstances allow.

Also, thanks for therecordco.org tip. I'll check it out.
> 1) Comfort is relatively speaking entirely irrelevant to the short air trips within the US.

It's not. There is a reason Amtrak is absolutely destroying air travel in the Northeast corridor, especially among business travelers. I can get work done on a NYC to DC train trip. I can't get any work done on the corresponding airplane trip, between the tight spaces, the cabin pressure changes, etc.

> 2) As a practical matter, you don't need to. It takes you 30 extra minutes to get from the outskirts of cities to the centers, versus an extra 8 hours for train travel to get you to the city center. Perspective.

But not all trips are NYC to LA. The shorter the distance, the more time spent getting from an airport into the city impacts the overall travel time. HSR would get you from downtown NYC to downtown DC in 95 minutes. Getting from downtown to LaGuardia is 30 minutes and from Reagan to downtown is another 15 minutes best case, possibly a lot more with weekday traffic. More importantly to a business traveler, that's 45-60 minutes they're probably not getting any work done, while the train traveler is getting work done the extra 25 minutes the train is actually traveling versus the flight.

HSR is supposed to do Boston to DC in 3 hours, versus 90 minutes for a plane trip. Add in airport time and time spent in the airport, the total travel time is probably a wash, but again much of the travel time for air travel is cabbing and waiting in line at the airport during which you can't get any work done. So the HSR still wins.

DC to Boston is about 450 miles. There are a lot of major North American cities within ~500 miles of each other. E.g. Chicago to Toronto, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Milwaukee, etc. There's tens of millions of people in a ~500 mile radius of Chicago, and HSR would beat air travel for those trips.
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I can see how it happens:

You start off trying to solve a specific problem. You then spot all these related problems, that you could solve by generalising your solution. You tell yourself that if you build a tool to solve the general problem, the solution to your original problem is "free", since it is only a single button push or function call away. It seems wasteful to make your code specific, when it can be general.

Before you know it, you are completely bogged down trying to write a general purpose tool and never get to the point where you can push that button, to generate the originally required solution. You are stuck producing tools.

An alternative is to tell yourself, and continually remind yourself, that you don't know enough about the problem space to write a tool. You must solve the original problem, in order to teach yourself about the problem, by example. The solution is a prerequisite to writing the tool. Once you have your solution, you can either a) use the experience gained to generalise your achieved solution, to form a tool, or b) decide that the general solution is not important and move on to the next project.

It seems so easy when written down...
Sounds like a case of 'I don't agree with him, therefore he must be crazy.'
growing too fast and leading to a bubble that eventually pop would do more to shatter the confidence in this currency than the good it would do short term...
Interesting that you quoted an outspoken racist and anti-semite

-- Have your read the history of 20th Century Warfare?
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This has definitely changed. In the pre-1.0 phase, Ember was supposed to move quickly, to iterate and figure out what the right abstractions were. Since the pre.4 release and the PeepCode (https://peepcode.com/products/emberjs), the core team has committed to keeping the APIs stable.

From this point forward, master is committed to having all the examples in the PeepCode working until 1.0. It's been a long and wild ride mck, but the turbulence has stepped down a notch for sure.
Maybe consider donating to Mark Kelly & Gabrielle Giffords' PAC. I've heard that that Mark is actually a moderate republican, even thought he is married to a now-retired democratic congresswoman. The PAC is somewhat bipartisan http://americansforresponsiblesolutions.org/

Before her shooting in 2011, Rep. Giffords did blog regularly, Although she didn't give vote-by-vote explanations herself.
It seems you assume that existing rail lines would be put to use for a high-speed train. I doubt that would be the case. Amtrak shares lines with freight but it's also limited to the speed of freight. I suspect the logistics of jostling trains to passing lines would eliminate the usefulness of a high-speed train.

Also, there's not a logistical or technical problem with punching through hills and mountains when needed. Definitely a financial problem, but if you're gonna spend trillions building this thing, what's an extra few million to bore holes in rock? ;-)
Knowing Cook's general "Be Nice" attitude, it isn't hard to believe him as the Good Cop. Of course, you can argue this is why Apple PR would run with this story...to which I'd say Apple PR would't risk the possibility of a leak showing the opposite: that Cook agreed with Jobs. They ran with this angle probably because it is true.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually encouraged such a disagreement to hedge their bets. If shit got real bad for Apple, Cook could always walk over to Samsung and try to rescue the relationship.
" By the time I had gotten enough money to "pursue my dreams", I would have gotten married and be tied down by kids."

Dear God, I hope this person never has children; or before he/she does that they have a serious change of heart.
Running Chrome 24.0.1312.57 (stable channel) on OS X.

The files in Sources tab become editable if I turn "pretty print" option on and then immediately off. But afterwards, whatever changes I make have no effect on what's displayed. Even if I right click and "save" my changes, the original unmodified source is saved (despite there being something edited in the Sources tab)...

So strange.
sumproduct rules my world when it comes to this.
That's great except the rape warrant was dropped. Then it was re-issued. Here's the timeline:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341

Does that seem like normal behaviour to you, that the authorities keeping hitting "retry" on legal proceedings until they get the result they want?

Oh I forgot, to point out basic facts is to be a "conspiracy theorist".

I guess if you grew up in Iran, you'd find it perfectly plausible when the Islamic Republic claim that the Green Movement are foreign spies. And you'd call anyone who distrusted the authorities on that point a "conspiracy theorist".
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"A lot of Tmux guides include telling you how to convert it to use ctrl-a as well. Don’t do this."

I do this, simply ctrl-b is just a pain combination to input constantly compared to cntrl-a.
I meant it relative to writing them.
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I was there that day, sitting near several of the people deeply involved. I'm not really a security guy, so I was mostly a morbidly curious bystander. Early on, I saw a bunch of SeriouslyScary(tm) stuff in chat, and decided to see what was up. I was shoulder-surfing while they were looking at the url/endpoint, and when we found the code, and then the diff that put it into the codebase, the collective "oh shit" was something I won't soon forget.
Berklee is special -- and I don't know how Derek found himself there -- but I do know a dozen other people who also went to Berklee, but never bought the metaphorical pizza.
So do you want to know the people "who know everybody and everybody knows" or be them?
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I see this idea as more of a positive feedback loop than a one way street. Knowing an Exec at BMI wouldn't be nearly as awesome if it was because he served him his daily latte at the corner coffee shop. Being good at what you do amplifies the utility of your connections.
Chrome, Windows, same deal.

Also, couldn't figure out WTF I was looking at. Bad UX for sure.
You could say the same thing about externally directed violence, but I don't think anyone wants to hear that.
Actually driverless cars experience much different physics... Driverless cars can squeeze together much tighter drastically reducing wind resistance. Even the lead car will experience less drag because of vacuum effect. 250 MPH cars also need much straighter roads and allow for greater traffic flow which changes the economic modelling for highways leading to shorter journeys. Driverless cars also allow for greater degrees of sharing meaning that you'd only need a few 250 MPH cars shared amongst many individuals.

Of course you don't have to link NY and SF but that's what the map shows, well to be fair the map shows, NY to LA.
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I once ordered pizza for a guest, he didnt want one with those toppings. End of Story.
> Yes, that's called taxes. There's nothing wrong with that.

Of course there is.

> It's really hard to take you seriously when you pretend that taxes are theft, and that the IRS is stealing.

It's hard to take me seriously because I assert that its theft when one group of people threatens another with violence unless they give them their money?

What gives governments the right to take whatever they want from anybody?
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For those of us following along from home: Care to point out the strawman?
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The BMI record executive anecdote highlights that Derek had the situational awareness to see a problem and react in the right way because he knew there was a potential upside.

Situational awareness also applies to recognizing current trends in the world and reacting to them. Think about what Derek did with CD Baby: He realized that the internet had a lot of potential for selling music, so he sold music on the internet.
There are many more hurdles than price, energy density, and recharge-cycle limit for batteries.

It's fantastic that 3 of the following 10 items are improving by leaps and bounds. But if all 10 of them don't get better together, the Internal combustion engine will still be making the Tesla Model S look like a rich person's toy.

1. How much does it weigh? If it weighs too much, maxing out on all the other attributes doesn't matter.

2. Does it harm anyone if a person is in close proximity when the battery is crushed, shot, or wrecked in any way?

3. Does the lifespan decrease with prolonged usage in -40F or 150F weather? Does vibration break it?

4. How long does it take to fill up assuming unlimited power resources?

5. How long does it take to charge given roadside assistance resources?

6. How many charge-discharge cycles?

7. If you leave the car in a garage for 6 months is the battery bricked? What is the discharge rate when left unattended?

8. Cost of replacing the battery.

9. Toxic chemicals or rare metals to make disposing the battery expensive or bad for landfills?

10. How quickly can you discharge the battery without it melting or exploding?

The success of battery powered cars doesn't have to hinge on any of these items if Gasoline prices were to triple while the cost of batteries stay the same. Then battery powered cars will immediately dominate, and solar power charging stations in your roof will be the only economical choice.
This sounds fun and absolutely terrifying at the exact same time.
1. Make it short
2. Add a link to your domain
3. Add getClicky to your domain

A large number of readers will click on your link. As a recipient of some of these emails, I almost always click on a company name just to get more info on the company. So, if you keep the message tight, you can usually see if they read the email because there's a hit on your website.
MailChimp does something similar, too. We found that a surprising number of recipients display images by default in email.
I'm not arguing that it's a bad language. I was happy to pay up. It perfectly suits my needs.

I'm just saying that it'd be a ridiculous "general-purpose" language because anyone who wants to use it must shell out nearly a third of a grand.

I think it fills a fantastic niche for math and science, where its powerful capabilities really come in handy. But general purpose scripting? Silly.
This guy needs to build something with the tools he's making. How does he know his tools are going to work well if he doesn't ever use them? I've built many tools in my day, but never in a vacuum.
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After reading your article, my friend recommended a pertinent Venkatesh Rao column, which you seem to personify to an extreme:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/03/18/the-turpentine-effect/
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> Engage with the world, find the place where you can apply positive good with your skills and do that for a while.

Isn't that called getting a job?
Actually, those are the old Carbon Emacs settings. The new Cocoa ones are like this:

(setq ns-alternate-modifier 'meta)
(setq ns-command-modifier 'super)
(setq ns-control-modifier 'control)

Better yet, use the customization interface to configure them: "M-x customize-group RET ns RET"
I find it so comforting that AppleInsider is able to sway your opinion, lest your opinion be based on facts rather than conjecture.
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I'm against piracy, but I can none-the-less see a clear distinction between copyright infringement and theft.

> For the developer/distributor/publisher/artist or whomever is expecting a cut from sales the result is the same: they lost a part of their wage.

I take issue with this particular argument. By that logic, not consuming is morally equivalent to theft.

I'm sure some people would love that to be a common belief.
Huh. I'm not a giant fan of his votes... but I really like reading why he is voting on each issue. I hope he is truly transparent and honest; the cynic in me believes he'll probably only share politically polite reasoning for his votes.

I also hope that this level of sharing grows. It's a pretty small thing for a member of a representative government to do, yet so obviously important. "I represent you. I voted X on issue Y, because Z."
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Do you then think that these people of disreputable character regularly steal from their local grocery stores? Or at least, that they have no moral qualms about doing that, as it's the same as copyright infringement, and the only reason they don't is the increased risk?
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in politics is nothing.
Oh, I'm not suggesting it's a bad idea pragmatically.

It's just a little sad that you are more like to be lauded for buying pizza for somebody who could probably afford an entire houseful of pizza, vs doing something to really help somebody.
It isn't that I assume they'd use existing lines, it is just that most of the good mountain passes are already taken. Furthermore, the existing alignments show how difficult it is to cross those mountains in the first place. Hell, there are many places in the US where even the Interstate network couldn't find a better route - like along the Colorado River east of Grand Junction.

A lot of politicians and advocacy groups like to point to existing lines as a solution to crossing mountains and getting through cities. This is rather short-sighted as rail lines in the US are designed for slower moving heavy-tonnage and don't take advantage of the differences HSR alignments have.

When you want to run an HSR line, your requirements are quite different. Regular (read: freight) lines require easier grades and can take sharper curves due to their slower speeds and heavier tonnage. The busiest mountain passes typically have no more than 2-2.5% ruling grades, using curves to lessen the steepness. HSR can use much steeper grades (5%) but requires extremely gentle curves, which then demands a lot of expensive tunnel and bridge work.

When you want to take an HSR rail line across a series of mountains like the Tehachapi range, you run into a major problem. The change in elevation is extremely sudden and drainages are short, curvy and have steep walls. The end result is that you have to do many cuts, fills, bridges and tunnels to get up the grade. The expense is astronomical compared to a regular highway, yet most proposals don't actually take that into account.

However, the man who designed the map is at least a bit more realistic about the cost (several trillion). I do firmly believe that HSR is actually quite viable in the US in many places, it just isn't something we can draw on a map and say "here we go!"

We have to solve the problem of topography vs. budget. If we want a truly national network like shown in the map, we have to accept that the cost will be enormous - likely many times that of the interstate system (in today's dollars). If the people are willing to take that cost, then it should be built, but we should be careful what we propose to make sure it is truly viable.