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This is a well-written piece, much more so than some of the many other articles on the subject I've read in the last couple of years. Still, it provides absolutely no solutions and is rather devoid of ideas. It also seems to ignore basic facts about humanity and society that play out the same regardless of where they take place. Of course a city like San Francisco is currently will be dominated by the rich. Of course the rich will displace the poor and not care about them. Of course they will change things to be closer to their own vision. None of this should be surprising to a seasoned writer like the author. It's human nature. Not only that, but it's so common that pretty much any city with any history of prosperity has gone through the same cycles. Why then, would San Francisco be an exception? Why would it not happen there? There is no reason to see this as anything but a typical progression.

Unfortunately, the author's answer is to make sure you get on the right bus. Let's take a moment to think about what this means. What he's suggesting is that technologists and engineers turn away from the lucrative profession they love and do something that doesn't interest them. What he's suggesting is that people turn down well-paying salaries to essentially be poor so they can be like the 99%. What he's suggesting is just so ludicrous and stupid, it'd be better if he made no suggestions at all. No one is going to do that.

Furthermore, the main reason San Francisco and all of the Valley are still relevant today is technology. I doubt I could find anyone who could claim with a straight face that technology is the reason for prosperity in the area, the influx of people, and general advancement in the area. Simply because the author doesn't understand the new things being built in the area, he decries them. This kind of drivel and banter I'd expect from much less accomplished idiots, not someone as well accomplished and respected as the author.

It almost seems at this point that the hate (and that is exactly what it is) of certain people in San Francisco against technologists is a fad, a wave of anger to be jumped upon because it is popular with the stupid masses. It is obviously uninformed, as for every technologist who actually cashed out stock options or in some way got truly rich, there are thousands who are working just as hard as the author and anyone else merely to stay afloat. When you need a $150k salary merely to afford a $2k / month studio or one bedroom apartment, you can hardly be said to be rich. Poor people have always been walked upon by those who are better off, even if slightly so. It's happening right now everywhere, yet I do not see these kinds of posts coming from other great cities. This is probably because the diversity (in terms of occupation) in other cities is greater and the idiot masses cannot cling to an idiotic idea of the source of their problems.

How about don't be a San Francisco asshole either?
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Comped at 50%? If I'm up until 3am because of fixing a critical production bug that is causing the operation to lose money, I'm taking the entire next day off. None of this 50% nonsense -- that might be less abusive, but it's still abusive.
If this can be iterated, then the good guys will win.
Ask HN: Ask HN: Should I learn Julia? (good investment now?)
I have some additional limited free time, would it be a good idea to invest in learning Julia (bullish on the future of the language), or not?

Julia has ~everything that made Python popular for general programming and data science, plus much more, without the flaws.

Some of these benefits include super low cost abstraction, beautiful syntax, multiple dispatch, coroutines, hygienic macros, almost c like speeds, dynamic type inference, high productivity etc

Coming in the next release is multithreading, package precompilation, Interactive C++ FFI, array and matrix views, Generational GC and more. After that there are plans for standalone binary/shared library creation and handling of distributed, streaming, and out of core data sets.

Facilities to call Python and R alleviate the package scarcity to an extent. There are the bugs though, but they should be ironed out.

Why wouldn't Julia become wildly popular with all this stuff , and thus would it be a good idea to get ahead of the curve? Or, is path dependence on go, python, r, node too strong?
I agree with you completely. However when they argue why AI are a threat, they do come with arguments which basically boil down to anthropomorphizing them.

I am convinced, that intelligence, as life is a gradient. I do not think that an AI with super-human intelligence would be necessarily kind to us, but I do think that even if we would be perceived by it as an obstacle for reaching its own goals, that does not mean that the only solution it would find is to eradicate us. What some people (Tusk, Gates) do not like about AI is that they do not want anything more powerful than themselves, that would take the level of control they have from them. And that's why they are preaching against it everywhere.
Information has value and power when it is scarce and loses value when shared. Honestly, I think more people should be open about how much they make, how much profit margins their businesses have, etc. because transparency in the long run deflects a lot of questions and problems.

Many/most people are basically rational and understand things in somewhat reasonable terms, even if greed is problematic. For example, Bill Gates is worth like $50 billion or whatever. I'm not rushing to take his money, company, or job.

Yet, if I know that I'm charging $85/hr. for developer consulting when my competition is charging $150/hr. perhaps I'd be better off adjusting my rates higher. Or, at $250/hr if I'm already top of market maybe I don't have as much room to raise my rates.

Knowing that I can make rational decisions about what to charge and so on and people won't freak out about that. The way people handle salary negotiations by and large is really bad simply because we are a nation of price takers, not price setters. Thus, the majority takes what they are offered and doesn't bat an eye.

The handful of people with professional negotiators or who are good negotiators themselves are making far more than everyone else.

If you tell your kids how much money you make and explain why, they have a better chance of making the same or more money than you do.
So let me get this straight: if you can't get VC funding and you're a woman it's not because of your gender, but because of your (perceived lack of) competency; however, if you can't get VC funding and you're an older man it's because of unfair ageism? You folks really don't see a double-standard here?

Please feel free to correct me if you think I'm wrong here.
The problem with that article - it's too long.

Are they creating new version of Grim Fandango? (The original game was really great!).
Awesome job, guys. I was just wondering recently if there's something like matplotlib but for Scala and there you go.

By the way, have you ever came across something similar to python's pandas but in Scala?
Specifically I'm looking for DataFrame functionality, where you can read a dataset where column might have different types and then slice and dice this data in a way you want. The closest I found is Breeze but it supports only numerical types .
And Saddle, but it supports only 3 columns as far as I understood. Anything else?
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That "paid actor" has a Strongman career. See his personal records:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafth%C3%B3r_J%C3%BAl%C3%ADus_...

If you think your "leg work" can save you from someone who can lift 400+ Kg, you live in fantasy land. Unless you mean you will run like hell.

There is a reason why contact sports like Box or MMA have weight categories. Size matters! And swords aren't such good weapons that they remove the strength factor. If we were talking about guns, or even bows, then sure, dexterity beats everything else. But in close combat you don't want to fight someone who can literally crush your body with his bare hands.

Edit: A picture with Arnold, for comparison:

http://www.dv.is/media/cache/0c/10/0c10973a39a53647327481c60...

And Arnold didn't focus on strength when he trained, but this man did. Imagine that.
I was reminiscing about Coherent today and, lo and behold, it had been open sourced just a few weeks ago! I always felt it was a cool little operating system, even if it was in essence just a clone.
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Good point, I look forward to seeing how this fits together. It would definitely add to the value of AWS for me.
I don't set up a "build pipeline" until I'm sure the app is going to deployed to a production environment. Why would I set up a build for what is essentially a fiddle, or if I'm just experimenting? The now-common workflow where people write build scripts at the start of a new project is just bizarre to me.
The choice of interview clips and editing subtly paints the tech folks as both weird perverts and also using their vocabulary to kind of remind the audience that they are an "other". Well played.

(Also, in my experience purposeful poly usually has all kinds of failure modes.)
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Then make the scheme 4 of 5, or 3 of 5. Besides, the company could keep a backup of the keys in physical locations, and secure them with traditional physical security.
> If it's coming directly from the NSA what makes you think it's trustworthy? They've lied under oath.

I love this assertion - it gets tossed around so much when someone just wants to shut an argument down. Because James Clapper (who is not part of the NSA) gave a statement on the NSA to Congress which turned out to be false, every subsequent piece of information on the NSA from a government official that disagrees with your opinion must therefore be a lie - no evidence necessary. Who needs to examine official testimony when we can just say the opposing argument is all lies and call it a day?

> Curious about your reading ability as well.

Classy.

> They seem to be talking about the exact same numbers you're citing as unassailable truth.

You're the one that introduced the numbers with your "party line" comment, not me. My point was that your cited article claims to show Gen Alexander caught in a lie over the '54' number, admitting finally that it was only one or two, when that was never his claim to begin with. For that matter, Sen Leahy isn't questioning the number, either - he released a rather long statement on the matter[1] in which he stated that his issue was that the number of successes for the Section 215 (bulk cell records) and the Section 702 (PRISM) programs were being lumped together. Gen Alexander gave public testimony in June stating that 53 of those 54 successes were from PRISM, but that fact wasn't being adequately conveyed to the public. You'll note that Sen Leahy states in that document that he did, in fact, have access to the complete classified list.

> Sorry this doesn't make sense.

Allow me to break it down for you: you have never been to any of the classified briefings given to either of the two congressional intelligence committees, so you don't know what was briefed to them. You have no idea how much access the congress has been given to classified information. When you say "Elected US officials don't have access to enough information to verify those claims," you have no way to back that statement up.

That's the nature of classified information - the government gets to keep secrets, too. That's why we have intelligence committees to oversee agencies like the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. If you don't like it, just be honest and make an argument against state secrecy or degrees of transparency instead of making up credibility claims that you can't back up.

[1] https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/senate-judiciary-committe...
Dude. Cherry picking data renders any discussion of validity meaningless. It is crime against science. It's means your study is worth less than paper it is written on and that your reputation is essentially right next to earth's molten core.
The rules of the economic system that we all live in say that these things are possible events, and maybe ones we should all be prepared for.

The author's point is that the community system is more important (to him) than the economic system.

It may surprise many who are mostly familiar with the economics-based system we all live with, but prior to the 1980's economics was usually a second-order concern when talking about city (and even country) development.

In some places you still see this - there was a recentish HN discussion which talked about some particular issue in Spain, and the cognitive misalignment between people who had lived in Spain and considered the society impact first and those who lived in the US and considered the economic impact was quite striking.

At some point unfortunately many will want a answer as to which way of thinking is right. Generally the economic view will win then, because it's easy to measure and reason about the economic impact of things, whilst alternative models of thought tend to be less based on metrics.

(I wish I knew if the downvotes were because I offended "economic-system thinkers" by pointing out other world-views or if I offended "non-economic-system thinkers" by pointing out that non-economic systems tend to be hard to measure)
Thank you for acknowledging here that women (in particular young women) are also undesirable to VCs for those same reasons.
That's how my parents were. When I was 18 or so my father walked me through his income and all his retirement accounts, wills, life insurance policies, etc. He wanted me to understand at least the basics of his finances in case anything happened to himself and my mother.

I knew where all the paperwork was kept in the house and had access to the safety deposit box where he kept copies.
Interesting point of view.

I like the opinion of a very famous creator of vaccines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13QiSV_lrDQ
Why do we need monads?
Eh, my Dad told me it was important not to tell other kids because it would hurt their feelings, so I didn't. I'm pretty sure none of them would have cared, either. Have more faith in your kids.
> Did you read the thread? Someone claimed that net income of an entity causing willful radio interference is irrelevant and that only marginal gains (as opposed to its "core business") made from its willful interference should be considered.

No, that's not what happened. Someone claimed that Marriott's net income was irrelevant to Marriott's internal decision-making process in this particular case. No one said it was irrelevant to their moral or criminal status, or to whether and how much they should be punished. You're arguing a point that no one was making.
> don't lord it over them and make their education a
> source of guilt to keep them in check

Why not?
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I've been using Hugo for a couple of months and I've been impressed with its speed and ease of use. Here's a short post with my initial impressions: http://www.threadhunter.com/2014/12/hugo-static-website-engi...
That statement to me reads like the canary has died.
What if you stuff the first amendment to the US constitution in there?

It's only one sentence, and very blunt:

>Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...
If this is a major concern, a corporation can go private like Dell has successfully shown to be possible.
Isn't your "communities cannot be destroyed, just changed" argument just a semantic point?

I'd imagine that few would describe "Redmond Ridge" as a "very woodsy, cowtown". It's fine to say that "woodsy, cowtown" community has just changed, but if you can no longer see that community it's pretty easy to argue it has gone (aka been destroyed).

I strongly agree that change isn't necessarily bad, and I think gentrification often gets a bad rep for what is often a significant improvement. But I don't see how you can argue that communities don't get destroyed by it.
>This is different from forcing the company to be silent—that is perhaps understandable.

How is this understandable? The US constitution prohibits it.
Congress can introduce bullshit faster than EFF can fix it, so no – this process does not converge to anything good.
An SSH key is equivalent to a (self-signed) SSL client certificate. I would love to see an easy way to use your SSH key as a client certificate - either an external tool or the browser itself could support this.
I thought it was meant to be ironic, the white and magenta text on black so repelled my eye. But no, some (not all) of the other pages on the site are like that.
> OCaml is a good language, but I would recommend against it. Like F#, it has some syntactic and semantic conveniences that Haskell lacks.

I haven't had a chance to use OCaml or F# yet, what syntactic and semantic conveniences are you talking about?
And very much in practice. Census reps -- all those temp workers that provide a reliable employment spike -- are instructed to pay multiple home visits to anyone who hasn't completed a questionnaire, extended survey or not. They are also instructed to remind holdouts of criminal liability for not responding. And they do!

Also census reps must take an oath to not disclose individual information:

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/about_the_survey/oath_nondiscl...

How this comports with Section 215 access to individual data will be interesting to see.
I was being partly-sarcastic. The point I'm trying to make here is that it's easy to find justification for bias. You can argue all you like that you're an exception but it really doesn't matter. My blanket reasons will always win over a crowd easier than your 'deviant' experience.

Ageism, racism, sexism, homophobia all belong in the same bucket. You can't argue for one and against the next -- either bias _in general_ is a problem that needs to be addressed or it's not. You can't cherry-pick. Attempting to do so just makes you look self-interested (and kind of a dick.)

Saying for example that adding a woman to a team might affect team cohesion negatively is the exact same as saying that adding an older man to a younger team might affect said cohesion, or a non-white to an all-white team. The problem that needs to be addressed here is a lack of diversity, not ageism, or sexism, or racism.
Why can't you answer any of my questions? You seem very evasive.

Every single criticism you just made could apply to your claims as well. Not that you seem particularly interested in examining your own opinions.
When you calculate the next pixel, do you use the updated value of the previous pixel or do you use the original?
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I haven't checked your work, except over Z/36Z, but you made me :)
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Yes, it's a shame that the US constitution doesn't prevent a Canadian intelligence agency from spying on kidnappers in Germany and Algeria who are uploading videos of their hostages, along with Kenyans downloading bomb-making videos from companies in Hong Kong (Megaupload), Switzerland (Rapidshare) and wherever sendspace.com is located (their terms of use just says 'not in the US').
We know for sure people with strong reputation are paid for Wikipedia edits... so I have to ask, have you ever been offered money to moderate favorably?
Nature has taken over the world - a number of time.

Broadly, human beings and nuclear waste are natural but as (possibly) reasoning creature, we might want to reason which phenomena we might want to encourage.

The evolution of life hasn't always been incremental. The oxygen catastrophe was quite a change for example[1]. If you had been Trilobite, you'd have reason for concern. From the point of view of what came before, Cyanobacteria were essentially "grey goo", destroying everything before them.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
Uhh, did it? Japan had its heyday back when Super Mario and Pokemon ruled the world, but it's in decline now. Top search keyword in Japan itself in 2014: "Frozen" (yup, the Disney flick). #2: "Yokai Watch" (heard of it? didn't think so).

I'd say Korea has a much better claim to that title these days, although aside from Gangnam Style, the hallyu hasn't made that much of a dent on the United States.

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21611039-how-re...
I wouldn't call this case much of a success just yet. It shouldn't take 4 years to get a legal opinion on currently enforceable laws.
Why weekly? Why not daily? Or hourly? I'll tell you why...

In big business, quarterly is often as close to "frequent" as one can get. Contracts take weeks if not months to negotiate, net 60 or 90 payment terms, hold backs, terms on goods in transit, etc. For some complex businesses, teams work on nothing but figuring out quarterly filings.
I'm being sarcastic. Many of those same older men who argue they're just as good as younger men "they just have different strengths" are the same ones who will argue that women don't do well in technical areas because they don't match a particular rigid set of qualities, ignoring that they also have different but equally useful aptitudes.

I'm trying to make the point that finding justifications for having a bias against older men are just as easy as finding biases against women. Neither are particularly useful.
> So I never really had a clue what a reasonable wage or salary was, or how much I would actually lose to taxes, or what a reasonable budget was... and of course, none of that stuff was taught in high school, either.

A few years ago in Guatemala I bumped into a bunch of American final-year dentistry students who were volunteering down there. They were all around 22-24 and extremely friendly, so we got to talking.

It eventually came out that they all knew they were going to make ~$120k a year when they started work, but they had no idea what that meant. One guy admitted he had no idea if he'd be driving a Porsche or a civic on that salary, and another wondered if he could buy a house outright, would have to get a mortgage, or wouldn't be able to afford a house at all and would rent in a share house his whole life.

I honestly believe their parents had done them a massive disservice.
But what about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM
Looks interesting and easy to use. Will give it a try tonight.
The original value. You're computing a new image as a function of the input, not modifying the input in place.
Same here, after I learned about "lexical scoping" in college I couldn't imagine using a language without it.
Iunno, I'm pretty sure most people know what Pokémon is and a large portion of those know it had a TV show. Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Cardcaptor Sakura all seem to be pretty well known among the younger generations and by extension the older generations who raise and take care of them.

And anime/manga is becoming more and more mainstream. Sure it's not like you'll walk in on your boss catching up on the latest episode of Attack on Titan but it's getting there.
They're very different ad platforms. Google is great for targeting purchase intent. I think of Google ads sort of like coupons.

But people spend way more time on Facebook. It's entertainment, whereas Google is a tool. So brand advertising works better on Facebook. It's more like TV advertising.