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When I read this article, I was expecting to hear about people were leaving the SF / Silicon Valley Bay Area. But they're not really leaving, they're just choosing relatively lower rent districts in the same overall economy.

The other commenters, while right about dismissing your cartoonish remark, miss your point - Baltimore rocks from many perspectives (yes, crime is a problem, but not in the cartoonish way people portray Baltimore). If you want a real exodus with a significant change of economic area, move to Baltimore or Detroit or Philadelphia or Austin. I just don't see an 'exodus' when people are changing zipcodes but keeping their basic business landscape intact.
Sorry, the Stats tell you otherwise: http://www.london.gov.uk/shaping-london/london-plan/facts/

London is adding more people. It's just the OP and his friends who left.
Don't forget fish kills from fertilizer runoff. Depending on what part of the country you live in. Locally runoff fish kills means vegetarians are in the running with fish eaters in terms of total dead fish per year.
> To subsidize affordable homes for 100,000 people would cost $25 billion. So yes, we should build as much subsidized affordable housing as we can.

What?! Why on earth would I want my tax dollars subsidizing your rent? I mean, charity to the poor, homeless, etc. is one thing (it's good), but subsidizing your rent so you can be closer to boutique coffee shops? Instead of, you know, helping the truly needy get health care? Or investing in education? Gimme a break.

> If we want to actually make the city affordable for most people—a place where a young person or an immigrant can move to pursue their dreams

Why does San Fran specifically have to be that place? The Bay Area's a big place.

By the end of the article, the author's right about needing a more integrated metropolitan policy, but this attitude that "everyone deserves to live in San Francisco, even people with no money" gets tiring after a while. Neighborhoods and cities gentrify. People move elsewhere, to the new-and-upcoming-and-more-interesting neighborhoods/cities. Places change. That's just how it is.
Just installed it and I'm trying to edit my views in PlayFramework that contain scala code as well as javascript in script tags.

It seems to be getting confused with the braces in the scala bits and the javascript code.
You have a long uphill battle, although in most cases, having a PhD and papers you can point out can be useful. For example if I see your application, I'm gonna ignore most of your resume and what you said you did in grad school, find your first first author paper (and all subsequent ones), pull them up and skim them, and decide if you have a clue.

cultivate friends who work in the software industry. listen to how they differ from academia. Many people in academia are the world expert in some specific problem, but have trouble transferring that knowledge outside the sphere. Especially bad is people who are stuck in a long-term "this is how it's done" attitude. I find a lot of people in life sciences to be terrible at big data because they embedded poor learning/knowledge and can't unlearn it.

understand what industry does, why, and how. Industry exists to make money. Period. You need to learn how to work in that kind of environment.

spend a lot of time learning to distinguish between "feeder" job positions and "bespoke" job positions, and identifying the latter. Ex-scientists do best with bespoke job positions that match their interests, rather than feeder jobs that dump you in whatever "fungible" SWE position the company thinks you belong in.

you should learn politics and how hiring works. There is no easy way to do this, but your prof probably hires people and has some opinions. I had one prof who had everybody in the group evaluate every resume in detail then rank people by score. if the score was above a threshold, they were invited in for interviews, and scored again (several times). This has been my experience in industry as well. If you understand the metric, and can tailor your application for it, you're in good shape.
I had somewhat of a Tiger Mom. She forced me to do multiplication tables while my friends were still onaddition, learn guitar while my peers were learning basketball, play chess while the other kids were playing video games, watch Bill Nye while everyone else was watching Nickelodeon. And I hated it, to some degree I hated my parents for it.

Until I realized all these SKILLS made me really fucking successful compared to everybody else my age. And all of a sudden I had passion. Passion for math, passion for learning, passion for science and technology and programming and computers. Ultimately, those skills instilled within me the passion that leads to me writing this post on Hacker News today.

And I thank my Tiger Mom for that every chance I get.
Using "nick" as username gives me: "invalid e-mail".
The vast majority of what drug companies spend isn't on advertising to patients but advertising to doctors, having people on staff devoted to answering doctor's questions, and sending free samples to doctors.

It's sort of screwed up that drug companies are expected to educate doctors about their drugs since there's a huge conflict of interest there. But nobody else is paying to train doctors in this.

EDIT: From the article that mikeyouse linked, pharma companies spent $20B on R&D, $16B on free samples for doctors, $20B on doctor education, and $4B on consumer advertising.
Maybe this is why he thinks they're cartoonish?

http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/1958-moving-to-san-fra...

http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/2138-moving-to-san-fra...
Paris pricing out all but the One Percent
That is bad if true but if the alternative is for those investors to buy some other units elsewhere it's still useful to build this to prevent them from doing that.
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It certainly doesn't work for everyone, I know people who own successful companies and still they're not that happy about having to run them.
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Has anyone created a phone-swap/share?
Is denial of service from an attacker who has your source something you actually consider when building a product?

I can see trying to prevent data breaches and such, but going so far as to be wary of denial of service attacks from people who have your source code might be wasted effort.
If you're curious how other countries fare in books published per capita, I took some data and made a sortable table here: http://lukezapart.com/books_adjusted.html

Sources:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per...

[2] http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm
ah - nstinemates@gmail.com is the login then. I'll edit.
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Why do you have to fix it in the apps? Iirc you just could specify a different order on the server side and enable "honor cipher order", so the servers preference is used? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslhon...

Not sure there, though.
Hackers wanted at Keypr. Los Angeles startup redefining the hotel experience.
Ghost got launched to the public, but how come I didn't get an email after signing up on there list. Seems like that would be an important place to make an announcement.
No, not really, because whatever their current "motive" is they are using a dark pattern for their tracking opt-out.
I like the concept, but there's so much intangible benefit to being in a center of gravity. There seems to be some tipping point where the random possibilities you encounter hit an exponential curve due to so many people doing so many interesting things in close proximity. Unfortunately, it also coincides with expense, crime, and high levels of general inconvenience.
Nor does Google. Twitter, however, does. That being said, Twitter is default public and they've been really open about it since day one.

Note: I have no special knowledge of Google, so maybe they do. Given that it would be really dumb to do so and lie about it, I believe that they do not.
Thanks for your insightful comments and representing the paradox of the internet: Alarmist tones are required to generate interest in a story, but taking the time to explain the cognitively challenging details is instantly off-putting in an article. The average internet users is becoming so stupid, even the simplified versions are TL;DR. I've come to rely on Hacker News comments in ways I used to rely on Slashdot stories. The SNR at Reddit is overwhelming.
I'm not saying I would have stopped, because I don't often, but I could tell. I have neighbors who are very into this sort of thing and from the few hours of exposure I've gotten through them, I would have known immediately that this was no average performance.

Also a violin as expensive as the one he was playing sounds pretty great in any environment.
I am always baffled at how other people are baffled that desirable places to live are more expensive than less desirable places.
I don't understand how any of this is useful.

- he samples only his own writing

- he has a far bigger sample of "medium-length" articles (how big are his samples of 100 word posts? 2000 word posts?)

- the title seems intentionally misleading, making it seem like it was actually a scientific analysis, and that a positive result was actually found

- content isn't controlled for. How are retweets a useful metric for measuring optimum length? Wouldn't that have far more to do with content?

- doesn't take into account the presentation of information

- doesn't take into account his audience

- etc, etc.
I'm not sure that is in the US, but I'd wager the very British notion of the "housing ladder" has much to do with the skyrocketing prices in London. The idea, in essence, is that you buy a house (ideally under market value, but that won't happen, so you buy at value). However, since everything spins around moving up (wherever that may lead you), you now need to move into a better property (or, at least, a property/area that is perceived to be better). Thus, in order to be able to afford that, everybody now tries to "add value" to their places.

This leads to a number of things:

1) The very British sport of "extending" and, really, slapping extensions on absolutely everything.

2) Avoidance of any actual, structural work. Completely modernising a flat (or, worse even, a house) is expensive, i.e. you risk spending a lot of money without the certainty that you will get all of it (and, ideally, more) back.

3) In connection with the point above, this means "adding value" usually really means painting things over, plastering things over and superficially "fixing" (i.e. covering up) the most obvious flaws.

All of the above leads to an upward spiral, where everybody tries to sell essentially the same places for more and more money. Give it two or three rounds on the spiral, and a house that used to be, say, £300,000 is now £400,000, with nicer visible features but the same rotten core.

The other problem with London property prices is that they influence the prices of most of the South-East of England, with certain places (within commutable distance) experiencing the same price-hikes.
I'm sort of confused, because TLS 1.1/1.2 support across browsers looks to be quite poor at the moment. Especially when given a large number of IE visitors that will likely upgrade to IE11 (first version that will have TLS 1.1/1.2 enabled by default) sometime around the year 2016.

With that said, I was under the impression that sites will need to support TLS 1.0 for a good long while, and if that is indeed the case, would they not be better off using RC4? From my understanding, the RC4 attacks seemed less practical than attacks against the implementation of CBC mode in SSL 3.0 / TLS 1.0?
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On the contrary, "It has not been broken" is exactly what I would expect a programmer to say.

If the security of an algorithm is weakened, then it's important to evaluate the use of the algorithm and make efforts to implement stronger security now. You should feel fortunate that you even get the time to move to something better before all hell breaks loose.

This is the same kind of thinking I hear daily when people say things like, "Just use bcrypt" without thinking about the consequences.

The tendency for programmers to think of security in a nihilistic way continues to boggle my mind. I don't think the article suffers from an alarmist tone. I think it's correct to look at something shitty and call it shit.
That's a lot, where do you buy it?

Also all I brands I've seen are higher on EPA over DHA. (The one in front of my is 780mg EPA and only 260 DHA)

Does that still help you or do you need a certain ratio?
This article makes an interesting comparison between San Francisco and Seattle.

"San Francisco has produced an average of 1,500 new housing units per year. Compare this with Seattle (another 19th century industrial city that now has a tech economy), which has produced about 3,000 units per year over the same time period (and remember it's starting from a smaller overall population base). While Seattle decided to embrace infill development as a way to save open space at the edge of its region and put more people in neighborhoods where they could walk, San Francisco decided to push regional population growth somewhere else."

Interesting point, but are we comparing apples-to-apples? Here's the wikipedia page for Seattle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle

land area is 142 sq miles, current population density is 7,402/sq mi .

For San Francisco, we get:

https://www.google.com/#q=wikipedia+san+francisco

land area is 46.87 sq mi, population density is 17,620/sq mi.

Now, the article did mention "infill" which sounds more urban, so maybe there's a difference in the city and county of Seattle? I don't really know how that works up there. San Francisco is a very rare case where the city and county are the same. The article doesn't seem clear about this - how are we defining "Seattle" for the purposes of this article? If we cherry picked a 142 square mile area around SF, I think we could probably substantial construction and growth. In some ways, the article even goes on to mention this by talking about how SF and Oakland aren't part of the same city, but that this is where the growth is starting to happen.

SF is at the point where there isn't much left to be infilled. There certainly is some, but by and large, you'd have to tear something down to build something up - at least to a much larger extent than cities that get to be defined as a 150 square mile area or more.

I don't think there's much to be done here... but I think people are coming down pretty hard on SF. My guess is that you could easily circle 48 square miles of most major cities with comparable population density that haven't allowed much construction in the last 50 years or so, and you could easily circle 150 square miles around SF that make it look like it has pursued rapid growth policies. The difference is that because of the way borders work in the bay area, SF appears to be hostile to development because the new growth happens elsewhere.
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perhaps my previous post was too polite. People that never actually _care_ to learn linux go from Redhat to Ubuntu (or stay right where they are!). People with an interest in the OS itself move to Gentoo/Funtoo/LFS.

I still use CentOS to this day (Asterisk), it's painful.
It's great to see this.

The D front page doesn't really do a good job of giving you a feel for the language. Even worse, the important-looking "D Book" link is actually just a teaser to buy the product.

To see what I'm talking about with "fresh eyes", imagine that today you overheard your coworkers talking about two great new languages: one called "D" and another called "Elixir". You decide you want to learn a new language but you only have time to learn one.

First you visit http://dlang.org/ and then you visit http://elixir-lang.org/. Staying within a small "link radius" of the main page, which one are you more likely to get a feel for and get excited about?

My guess is Elixir, and I have no dog in this fight whatsoever.
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My parents pretty much left me to my own devices, and I'm still posting on hacker news. Also, i know people who were forced to learn piano as kids etc. and they are pretty much nowhere as adults. I'd say it's more genetics than anything.
Even better than that is pressure to keep addons/plugins/whatever up to date.

I think there's some good precedence for that with Firefox who (still?) deliberately broke all their extension compatibilities on every release, and contrary to that Wordpress who've led to a fully automated exploit ecosystem.
Ah, special material, got it!

Reminds me of the material Brando wore in Superman, to make them glow white.
This would be amusing if I were Commander Data, and so could actually see my score in the brief moment it shows the results before switching to taunting me for losing my privacy.
Be warned...this is from BBC News Magazine, which IIRC, is BBC-Lite, and sometimes publishes some fluffy but boneheaded things. Case in point, not a single statistic or data source is cited here...it's just "One in 10 Icelanders will publish one." in one of the early paragraphs...I guess since that's the title, that makes it a fact?

I found a 2008 Guardian story that cites this statistic and sources it to "Recent research":

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/oct/03/1

Doing some more Googling, I found this NPR story from Dec 2012:

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167537939/literary-iceland-rev...

No source cited, but I assume it comes from the "Iceland Publishers Association", who is quoted in the lead. And the statistic is different:

> Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world, with five titles published for every 1,000 Icelanders.

So, more like 1 in 200, according to NPR, which likely got that number from a publishers' association, a group that has an incentive to promote such a statistic.
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What if yuo could go hiking or a safari or travel around the ocean from your computer/tablet using a drone. Would you pay $10-$100?
"Neuromarketeer" uses fMRI brainscan to find ideal price for Starbucks coffee
> It's sort of screwed up that drug companies are expected to educate doctors about their drugs since there's a huge conflict of interest there. But nobody else is paying to train doctors in this.

The medical profession has continuing education requirements, much like other regulated professions, and a lot of that is about keeping up with new developments in each practitioner's area of practice. To the extent that continuing education isn't directly subsidized by employers, the need to do it is part of what justifies the high salaries doctors receive. So, yes, people -- other than pharmaceutical vendors -- are paying to train doctors to keep up with relevant developments in their field.

Pharma companies aren't spending vast sums of money marketing to doctors because there is an education gap, they are doing it because the sales of prescription drugs aren't at the sole discretion of the consumer -- that's the whole point of the prescription requirement -- so doctors are the key decisionmakers that they need to sell to.
I've been made to seem like crazy person more than once for suggesting that people in the bay area live in intolerably crime-ridden/filthy conditions.
I appreciate that I didn't give much context to my comments, and what I was thinking. To elaborate, I was amazed and in awe of Stanford and Ovshinsky, whom I hadn't previously heard of, and I assumed that anyone would feel a great indebtedness to him. I was particularly struck by not only what he invented, but the way he lived his life, and his determination to subvert injustice and inequality in a number of ways.

The point of my comment (in my own thinking) was not cynicism, nor even a disbelief of the impact his inventions would have on poverty, but an interest in the mechanics of the relationship between his inventiveness and his commitment to fight inequality and poverty. Perhaps he was incredibly far-sighted and visionary in being able to see how his inventions would have a significant impact on poverty in the long run, and it would be fascinating to see the intermediate steps he saw that would lead to that. Or maybe he thought his inventions would impact poverty in a trickle down way. Or maybe he simply had a sense of faith that if he invented as best he could, it would one day have an impact that even he couldn't imagine.

I would love to understand how best to join up inventive ideas with a commitment to end poverty and injustice. And I imagine Stanford Ovshinsky is a great model in that, but I felt like that one little statement from the original article left me hanging a little bit, and wanting more. I had hoped that the HN community could fill in with a few more ideas, or even details from Ovshinsky's life that would be further enlightening.

My apologies if I came across as disrespectful to a man who is clearly a hero and an inspiration - that was never my intention.
They have a clip-on to the glasses that convert from AR to VR mode. So you wouldn't need a reflective surface portal as you say. I believe switching between the two headsets would just be a matter of software. I'm wondering if that support exists or is easy to make, or whether there would be difficult challenges to it.

Basically, I'd prefer to buy one system that could be both AR and VR than two separate systems, one for VR and one for AR. So that would make CastAR beat out Oculus Rift unless the Oculus Rift was just so much better or the software was incompatible.
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you don't need the source of the electricity and the storage to be in the same location though.
While there may be divergent goals between stock holders and employees I think it's incorrect to call all but the worst of them "Conflicts of Interest" (pump and dump situations maybe?). Both the employees and the stockholders rely on their business being successful.

as I posted in another comment:

"I think it's important to consider the rights of the owner as well. If I am a captain on a fishing boat, and I built/paid for the boat, I can then hire fishermen to work on my boat. There are more fishermen than captains, if there is a disagreement between the fishermen and the captain regarding where they should be fishing and it was up to a vote, the fishermen would win.

What incentive does the captain have to invest in his own boat if he has no control over where it goes or how it is run?

Why don't the fisherman go build their own boat if they don't like where the captain is fishing?

The majority in this example microdemocracy is effectively stealing the boat from the owner by using the force of the 'state' to reallocate his resources to themselves."

In this situation it's in everyone's interest to catch more fish. The conflicts will come down to how much of a cut each person gets, who gets the more comfortable cabin etc but these competing goals aren't really conflicts of interest.
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I think you're missing part of the point - are the people moving into SF buying houses/condos or are they renting? I think the point of the article was that housing prices are so high that people can't buy, thus it's going to become a city of renters where properties are only owned by the very wealthy. From a city culture standpoint, I think we would all be in agreement that a city where people own their own homes results in a better environment (more people would be politically active within their district, kids go from K-12 at the same school district thus grow up with a stronger sense of community, etc). I also think we would be in agreement that it's a stronger country when the citizens can afford to buy their own homes rather than rent them from the 0.0005% who can afford to own in SF.