skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something a lot of us have instinctively felt for a long time, hence all job action in places like Austin, Denver, Raleigh, etc. And I've worked in SF, Denver and Raleigh, NC enough to know the differences. If I can make 6 figures in both SF and Raleigh, the cost of living and quality of life are insanely better in Raleigh. I own a condo, a car and have tons of discretionary income. For the same type of work in the bay area, I'd have to contend with ridiculous rents, ridiculous taxes, longish commutes and increased expenses on food/misc items. These increases are not commensurate with the increase in salary that usually goes along with moving to the bay area. My actual income when adjusted for these factors is better than friends who make ~200k in SF.
Not really: http://www.rd.go.th/publish/6045.0.html

Also there are many people who are permanent and pay Thai taxes.
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Ok I probably put that badly, I do have some sympathy really :)

But my point is that perhaps you cant afford to live there so go somewhere cheaper. I'm not in a position to live everywhere I want to so I live somewhere I can afford. There are places much cheaper than London.
Two quotes by Alan Moore about conspiracy theories which I think are apt:

"The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy
theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting.
The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is
not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot
reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more
frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless."

"Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of
conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those
conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.
If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing
to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody
on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead."
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Do you have any plans for a Windows Phone app? The SMS backup works well, but an app would be ideal; it's one of the few things I'm still missing after switching from Android.
London has a pretty decent infrastructure for commuting. Buses/tubes/trains/light railways etc. Perhaps they just don't want to get up an hour earlier?
This tweet indicates you're using TOTP, slightly modified from Google's implementation:

https://twitter.com/authy/status/498244613766139904

@benmcginnes Yes we are RFC 6238 TOTP compatible.
Same algorithm as GAuth but 7 digits, 256 bit keys and 10 seconds window.

So why do you still need my phone number? There's no network connection or SMS required to generate those TOTP codes. I'm not buying the story that you need to text me or call me unless you're storing the seed/token centrally and sending it to users upon request which I strongly disagree with. That should only be stored on the user's device.
Terasort handles this by taking a sum of md5sums for each value. The teravalidate program then checks that all the items are in order and that the checksum is the same.

It's so unlikely that could generate data that passes teravalidate but not really be correct that it would probably be an important work of computational science in it's own right.
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That's only a thing for people who live in NYC, Chicago, and maybe the Bay. The rest of us still need cars. I live pretty far away but my commute to Pittsburgh is ~2 hours each way.
A good partial solution to London's housing problem is to tax the thousands of empty houses being used as investments.

For example, there's a road in London called Bishops Avenue. The Saudi royal family owns about 1/3 of the houses on that road. ONE THIRD. Those houses are completely empty, they are just being used as investment by the Saudi elite (who can apparently amass as much money as they can because the US protects their kingdom against any democratic struggle). You can tax these houses (the Saudis have no objection paying property taxes in the US and they won't have an objection paying it in the UK) and use the tax money to build cheaper houses for people who need them.

Get these Arabs, Indians, Russians who are hoarding London property to pay a tidy sum for being allowed in London. What you've got left is enough of London that Londoners can share. It is about time society realizes that the right to life and shelter is more important than property rights for foreigners.
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Hi, very likely. We will be investing a lot more resources into Authy - Windows Phone App is very high at the top of things we are thinking of doing.
Jeff's Post

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/02/ahoy-authy-joins-twilio....
Where do you base these numbers on? If it still fits inside the L1 cache, I assume that increasing the comparisons will have a relatively bigger impact?
Unfair how? What would your idea of fair look like?
Call it confidence if you prefer; my original point goes through all the same.
Pretend you're the maintainer of OpenJDK. Do you want to go down that road or do you want to change to another algorithm? Remember that randomness can be difficult to find and that the malevolent has a copy of the JDK to use for experiments.

Is Quicksort that much better, or do you just change?
I'm from Norway, and for a couple of years I worked about 100m away from home. Awesome during summer. Problem was I lived at the top of a steep hill. Come my first winter there I realised the slight issue. It got "exciting" trying to make my way down on the pavement via the direct route, as it involved frantically trying to brake on ice, with the risk of a sudden stop when reaching the ice-free heavily trafficked road at the bottom.... The alternative was walking 5 times as long. I tried 3-4 times before I gave up and went for the "long" route for the rest of the winter.

But it's always amusing to watch people who aren't used to cold climates trying to walk on ice after having gotten practice in conditions like ours - the entire way they move is different.
Then why do they need an account or my phone number to do TOTP?
Yes, because if this woman in the article wasn't living on a barge she'd have spent £20m on a 10 bedroom mansion on Bishops Avenue.
Atlanta is only 50 road miles closer to Raleigh than New York City.
The life hack to actually come out ahead is to avoid these places and find a good opportunity in a cheaper place. I don't know a lot about Austin, but I'm familiar with NYC, and I think that example works too.

If you define the "cool" part of NYC as being in Manhattan, once you have a family it's irrelevant, because you can't live there... like 98% of everyone else, you end up in Jersey, the boroughs, or Long Island. Three hours north of NYC, a house costs 60-80% less, and you have the essentially the same access to NYC cool stuff without the hassle of NYC.

In my case, paying 7% of income for a mortgage on a nice big house that I will own in 15-20 years and banking savings is more appealing than some interest only loan on a $750k raised ranch in a big metro area. Barring building a successful business, a lottery-style liquidity event or selling your soul to some hedge fund, I don't see a reliable way to live in NYC, SFO, etc and coming out with any wealth.
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There is also http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8011944, where IIUC the suggested "fix" was to use a VM switch to enable the old (and slower) sorting...
Because Yubikey is very reasonably priced and they're very open about their design... and don't require you provide any identifying information to own one.
Subsidies originate with government. Prices, when allowed to move freely without state interference, organically induce rationing only when necessary, and inspire the development of alternatives.

This is completely natural, rational, and built in to how markets work. No need to pray.
We* have them all over the place. I'm not aware of any problems.

* former CO resident, current CA resident.
1300 samples? With JavaScript being the strongest skill across the board? I'm not sure I actually believe the word "senior" in any occurrence on this page.
Last time I asked there were some doubts regarding this technology (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7732821). Is the general consensus still that this is snake oil?
The experience of playing Mao is just the opposite: you start off as a foreigner, with no understanding of what's going on, and you accumulate large numbers of cards. Gradually you start to understand, become part of the group. In the end you're able to turn the system to your own ends (or, equivalently, you are captured by the system), becoming one of the ruling class yourself.

(I understand it's partly an allegory for the authoritarian Chinese regime: the rules are pointless, everyone knows they're pointless, but as you engage with the system you start to have an interest in the rules being followed, and in the end you use the rules to enhance your own status at the expense of naïve newcomers).
If you can do remote well the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. I have built and worked in / with remote teams (primarily US based) for 5 years in that time I have found the primary killer of productivity is isolation. A lot of developers are introverts and if allowed they will work alone with little collaboration.

We do a few things to help solve that issue, first and foremost we use tools. We use a collaboration platform called Sococo, to be honest I hated it at first it's kind of hokey with a virtual office map and rooms and everything, but it does a few things right the first of which is it makes it very easy to se voice communication, there is no dialing or ringing like a phone, you just pop into someones office and click the mic button. People can lock their office to avoid the popping in but the point is, it seems to jump the psychological barrier of making a phone call and emulates more naturally the "hey I just popped in for a quick chat".

The next one that we do, is we try to hire developers in common locations. While we will hire the best developers available in the market we do try to lean on our developers to build our network and hire in their locations. If we hit a critical mass of developers in a location we let them find a space they agree on and incentives them to move to an office culture in that area. So satellite locations grow organically and tend to follow the ebb and flow of market strengths.

Remote development has been proven, and if done right it works well. Personally I don't understand decisions like the one Yahoo made a while back as it seems short sighted to me to limit the market you can draw from for talent. Especially in a market that is so under staffed with truly talented people.

My contact info is in my profile if you want to chat about it, I have done remote for a long time. I can get you down the right path if you decide it is the route for you.
I am not saying start building projects on Bishops Avenue. I'm saying tax the people who hoard properties so that the money can be used to provide cheaper housing for people who need it.
Author here.

Just a silly app, but video in Android is not exactly an easy endeavour!

This is part of a suite of apps in the space of video effects that we hope to be releasing, and that hopefully gets me closer to transitioning from nights-and-weekends to full-time. Too optimistic, perhaps?
Thank you all for your answers. This was really insightful and I will incorporate some of your suggestion into our digital marketing efforts going forward.

I'm not sure about stack overflow ads. Hackerearth also helps developers find jobs and that might a conflict of interest for stack overflow careers.

I will personally reach out to some of you folks. This has been really useful!
I live in Ohio but work in Squirrel Hill. The city has transformed over the years and is a really nice place. The only downside is the weather. This time of year it's easier to complain about weather but we literally get some of the lowest amount of direct sunlight in the country. We basically have 2 seasons: 4 months of summer, 8 months of winter/grey. Other than that the area is ok. Where I live it's pretty depressing old industry towns with nothing left, but like I said I don't live in Pittsburgh.
Because anti-GMO is so often scaremongering. Nobody is terrified that every new app on your phone is skynet. Yet every new GMO food is poison. Its just silly.
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Lightweight goroutines depend on small stacks. General API design in Go depends on lightweight goroutines.

In particular, Go style is to never write asynchronous APIs. Always write synchronous blocking code, and when you need to work concurrently, create a goroutine.

You cannot do this in C with pthread, because OS threads are too heavyweight. So you end up in callback-based APIs that are harder to use and harder to debug (no useful stack traces).

This small feature has a surprisingly wide-ranging effect on the use of the language. It is a very big deal.

Go is very much about reinventing these low-level things.
I never understood people complaining about raising rents. If demand is bigger than supply prices will regulate the market, here: prices will increase.

This is market economy and is there any reason real-estate shouldn't follow this model in a market economy?
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Is there a demo to save downloading/building it?
What fields do you find having an academic "echo chamber"?
Not doubting the problems of american geography: though esp. the historical choices about how urbanization should proceed which have made most of the problems, rather than anything inherent about the size of the country - I can easily get across Europe on public transport at "american" distances.

The point was it was amusing to see someone suggest that private transport was the essential point of oil, so that if prices increased, it would just mean worse private transport. When of course, at those levels, it would mean the end of wide-spread private transportation as such (and the end of american urbanization as its currently known).
Ah, another picture:

http://www.vancouversun.com/crews+clear+snow+then+flood+Ride...
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Regulation and the enormous unnecessary costs it imposes are the problem. That is why in an era of radical and accelerating progress in biotechnology there is ever diminishing clinical translation via the traditional channels.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/fda_05.htm

Though the United States urgently needs new treatments for common illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, the nation’s system for drug approval discourages innovation and investment, especially for our most pressing public health challenges. In this paper, we find that the main culprit is the high cost of Phase III clinical trials, which are required for FDA approval of most drugs. We examined drug development in four major public health areas and discovered that for any given drug on the market, typically 90 percent or more of that drug’s development costs are incurred in Phase III trials. These costs have skyrocketed in recent years, exacerbating an already serious problem.

The enormous cost and risk of Phase III trials create incentives for researchers and investors to avoid work on medications for the chronic conditions and illnesses that pose the greatest threat to Americans, in terms of health spending and in terms of the number of people affected. This avoidance, in turn, harms overall U.S. health outcomes and drives up the cost of health care.

http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/28/17/2925.abstract

Increasing the regulatory rigidity of clinical trials (regulatory fundamentalism) augments trial complexity and costs while slowing progress without demonstrating meaningful safety benefits. Time from drug discovery to marketing increased from 8 years in 1960 to 12 to 15 years currently. Toxic death rates on phase I trials have decreased from 0.8% in 1979 to 0.5% by 2002, but the estimated cost per life-year gained by tighter regulations is $2,700,000 (far higher than costs of other health measures), and simulations suggest that regulatory delays in development of effective therapies result in tens to hundreds of thousands of life-years lost, whereas stringent regulations save extremely few.
Yes people don't want to sacrifice their time to account for the failed policies that led to a housing shortage. What a shocker.
I've worked with lots of great companies, both on-site and remotely, and I can that in my experience proximity is only directly correlated with productivity at the earliest stages. Once everyone understands their piece of the puzzle, sharing a physical space hasn't been important. Remote teams work best when everyone is actually dedicated to the same cause and working toward a common goal, however the same could be said of any team.

I've built three successful teams remotely and I wouldn't trade any of them for one in a shared space. Use Slack for real-time, text-based communication, Google Hangouts for face-to-face chats, ScreenHero for remote desktop sharing (e.g. for pair programming or quick demos), Pivotal Tracker (or similar) for task tracking and weekly check-ins with every employee. If someone seems to be dropping the ball or losing focus, bring it to their attention and ask what's going on.

TL;DR: Communication is key. Not everyone's suited to remote work, but neither is everyone suited to sharing space. With the right tools in place and a dedicated team, you're all set.
Most of the toolchain already existed. When Ken Thompson started writing the Go compiler he based it on his Plan 9 C compiler implementation.
It's not really exponential if the number keeps going down on each generation.
Funny thing is it jumped up to +3 karma really quickly before going negative. It was -4 before I went to bed and now it's at -2. It looks like the downvoters aren't trying to kill it, they just want it gray.

It's not like I expected to disagree with a template feminist story (X is sexist, if only X was a meritocracy women would be there) without facing the idea that disagreeing with them can only be the product of sexism.
It is not strongest skill we are communicating, but most popular/common. The seniority is something which the user themselves provide.

As for the sample size. 1373 profiles supplied job titles that fell into these buckets out of approximately 3500 at the time we generated the infographic.
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"In principle, government has the capability to be less stupid than the market."

It also has the capacity to be a great deal stupider, because it lacks the immediate feedback of the market spanking it.

It is not sufficient to just wave the word government at a problem. You need to do a full analysis of the incentives and demonstrate they are better. Just as raw capitalism has the obvious problems of a short-term focus, being driving by money above all else, and the issues of externalities being imposed on others, governments have the obvious problems of regulatory capture by interest groups, internal bureaucratic inefficiencies, creating high-level administrators who don't particularly care about the problem and just use the regulations as tokens in a war of turf-building, and being driven by politics above all else. And that's just the high-level table-of-contents of the problems both can have.

Governments are perfectly capable of deciding that up is down, blue is red, and don't you DARE question them or you're unpatriotic and we're going to lock you up, and they're amazingly capable of retaining these beliefs for far beyond their best-by dates because they have the power to just bull through whatever problems may arise (until they suddenly run out).

In the particular case of a supply problem it is not at all clear to me that letting the normal mechanisms of supply and demand handle it is that catastrophic... these issues happen all the time and you don't even notice. Again, let me emphasize, this happens daily. It's what the markets deal with. It's not like this is some bizarre scientific theory, it's to the level of engineering. We do it all the time.
For the sake of my curiosity, I am assuming structured data with aggregations like: min, max, average, sorting by another field, count, count unique, etc. I do a lot of work with structured data and predefined aggregation functions, but dynamic filtering.
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Wish they'd put that up on Github or Bitbucket. There are so many things to be learned from that. I don't want to just download things or just use a tool (although it's pretty awesome that they made the tool available.)
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Authy exists to make 2 factor easier for people implementing it. Some users will want methods other than TOTP, so they support methods other than TOTP.

If they don't have a phone number they can't do all that transparently, which is bad when you are aiming your service at a broad audience.
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In your node.js script, once you find the first ID number couldn't you just starting testing ID's less than and greater than the found ID since it's more than likely an incremented ID?
Got it. That definitely makes sense :-)
Try Croydon...
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Realm (YC S11) is hiring an Android Developer
Realm (http://realm.io) is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & higher-level frameworks like Core Data, greenDAO, OrmLite, etc.

Less than a year after our public launch, Realm is already used by tens of thousands of developers, and deployed on well over 100M devices around the world. Our users include big name startups, top-ranked app store successes, Fortune 500 companies, banks & more.

We have 20 employees around the world with headquarters in San Francisco, and an office in Copenhagen, Denmark. We have received funding from YCombinator, Khosla Ventures, Andreesen Horowitz, Greylock, DST Ventures, Crunchfund, SVAngel, Ignition, Redpoint & more.

We’d love to expand our team to include you!

You would be working alongside an international team of C++ & Android experts to build our open-source Realm Java project (https://github.com/realm/realm-java) — over 1,300 Github stars & counting. The position can be based in Copenhagen or San Francisco, with remote work or relocation assistance possible for the right candidate.

Here are some of the qualities we look for in our Android team:

- Expert in Java & Android

- Good command of the NDK and JNI.

- Experience building frameworks (as opposed to apps) in any language

- Solid experience with mobile app development and handling of data (SQLite, ORMLite, etc.)

- Experience with Dalvik & ART a plus

- Good understanding of low-level language and platform features and issues is a plus

- You keep up to date with development, tools and news in the community

To apply just send your resume and a quick note to jobs@realm.io — it will be read directly by our VP Engineering Brian & our VP Product Tim.
(If you have any questions, it’s OK to contact us via that email address too!)
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