skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500k isn't cheap, but of course vastly better than a mil (it sounds like fairfax is a fairly nice place, so you'd probably be comparing it to parts of SF that are more like 1.5mil). Any idea what daycare costs over there, typically? Though at 500k for housing, you have the option of one spouse scaling back on work, and if not, the lower mortgage cushions the extra cost of childcare.

This is an aside, but when silicon valley companies say there is a desperate shortage of software engineers, Obama[1] nods gravely in agreement. Why doesn't he at least ask why they don't let people work from places like Fairfax? I understand that there are benefits to being in the valley, but if the shortage is that desperate, wouldn't they at least try?

As for the original point, even if things get easier outside SF, I'd still say that you'd need to be taking some pretty serious shopping trips for kids clothes to approach the chunk of the budget that goes to health care, housing, and child care/education, even in a less brutal housing market like Fairfax. As for good public schools, well of course that's a relief once they get out of day care age, but you still shell out - I have two kids in public school, and just paying for the local YMCA run after care (so my wife or I can pick them up after work) is $6k per kid per year (so $12k total for me). We cancelled cable, which saved us about $1k a year.

[1] not to pick on Obama, this is common reaction from politicians.
Sounds like you're talking about motorcycle helmets instead of bicycle helmets.
I wonder if the price for the mandated vaccinations will go up in California if this bill becomes law.
from personal experience I can tell you there are no limits to how unfair and disgusting some people will be if they can make money out of it.
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Erik Naggum even answererd the question about ambiguity himself in the same thread:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/8eUxiibm_zA/i...
But doesn't a civil society benefit from discussion on topics rather than ignorance of them?

Because as far as I'm concerned safe spaces only promote ignorance, one sided narratives, and echo chambers.

America, during the red scare, was a "safe space" for capitalism. Even so much as agreeing with a socialist or communist idea would get you publicly denounced at the least, and jailed at the most.

Safe spaces are private communities for people who can't handle alternative views.

A site-wide harassment ban is one thing. A site-wide "safe space" is entirely different.
Offshoring is no panacea, it's become a fairly efficient market, and whatever free lunch was there is no longer. Companies that were trying to outsource to save on wages or capitalize on increased productivity are not getting those results: "We find no significant change in average wages or in total factor productivity measures for offshoring firms." (http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/ifdp/2014/files/if...)

It's increasingly obvious there are no gains from offshoring unless you have other more compelling reasons (e.g. 24 hour/global support, shortage of local talent pool, global availability, etc...)
But there is no "best language", that's the problem. Compiling down to JS/asm.js is about as good as we'll get, realistically.
Reddit discussion, with some criticism of specific points & replies by the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/361niw/decoding_th...
They are desirable places for high earners to live. Basic market forces at work. Now rent control would be "artificial".
I wouldn't go that far. More like a party house for posers who refuse to admit that they're a party crowd because they outgrew drugs (should we applaud them?) and bike. In 5 years they'll be golfing and hiring social tutors to help them with the hard questions, like whether it's "trying too hard" in 2015 to use "summer" as a verb.

Oddly enough, I love biking, work out every day, avoid car commutes, and don't use drugs. I can't stand self-righteous assholes who think their choices make them superior, though, so that might be a problem.
I have learnt that if I click a javascript post and see a title and author slash screen and nothing else apparently I must start using my right arrow button.
That's exactly how some vaccines work. See: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/faq.asp

"Most people experience normal, usually mild reactions that include a sore arm, fever, and body aches."
Oh, I don't fully defend the BBC. It's terrible that they have a profit-making focus.

Great, niche programs such as Open University have made way for the same commercial stuff that every other television network already provides.
I wonder how things will go with Icahn and Andreessen on the same board?

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-04/the-icahn-vs...
Carl Icahn's shenanigans were part of what drove Marvel Comics to bankruptcy in the mid-90s. I hope the same thing doesn't happen to Lyft.
Anecdotal, but I use Lyft as much as I do Uber. I like being able to tip in-app with Lyft, and I want to see them both survive so we can options.
Hawthorne effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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It's also important to note that SF is already a destination for homeless people from other cities in the US. In some cases that's by choice; in others it's because the local authorities send them there simply to get rid of them (several noteworthy stories have come up just within the past few years). So it's quite likely that such a system would serve primarily to foist the cost of homelessness in other cities onto the citizens of SF, where, ironically, it's most expensive to address. If I were a citizen of SF, this would be my primary objection to such a plan. It's not clear how to prevent this kind of abuse in a fair manner.

This aspect was not mentioned in the article. Perhaps Medicine Hat is viewed as a less desirable place to live than, say, Vancouver, and therefore this hasn't been an issue. It's also possible that the Canadian legal system is more effective at preventing this kind of inter-provincial abuse.
This is the first time a webpage has ever triggered a reboot on my iPad. Ironic.
One of his most memorable verses:

"And everybody wanna know
Why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long time
Mm, I've really paid my dues"

Full lyrics: http://www.vagalume.com.br/bb-king/why-i-sing-the-blues.html

RIP
I like the problem of "you are travelling at 0.75c and you turn on your headlights, how fast do you see the photons travelling and how fast does a stationary observer see the photons travelling?" better.

Then the answer is just the speed of light in both cases, and that's really the crux of the problem of special relativity and that the speed of light is constant in all references frames. Then you work backwards to see that the observer that is moving must have time dilation effects.

I also liked the geometrical approach to Minkowski space-time a lot better than just chewing through formulas -- like Taylor and Wheeler's Space-Time Physics book. Drawing light cones and various grids and curves of constant space or time measurements relative to different observers made it all a lot more concrete to me.
That fact that he claimed on his blog to have a degree from GMU, and said that he was going to get one "soon" in 2006 (see https://web.archive.org/web/20060329122426/http://unenumerat...) implies that it was him, and presuming you can't get into college with a fake name, then that's his real name.
> I even said some dumb things like, 'Why should they have granite countertops when I don't.' However, I've come around.

Why do they get granite countertops (assuming they do)? Is it impossible to build a house with linoleum countertops?
In development, I am always in favor of clear, concise, and active language. These are fantastic points with great justifications attached. I really like the tricky words near the end.
The driver would be inconvenienced.
That's not honest debate.

Who says they have to have an honest debate? Why can't they just have a conversation with each other? That's the problem with battling attitudes - there isn't any reason why the two of them must come to blows about their opposing beliefs. They can simply respect each other and move beyond it.

As a white male I am often told that I'm not allowed to participate in discussions because of my race and gender due to the discussion taking place in "safe space."

Interesting, because as a white male myself I have never been told that. I have been told that my opinion in a conversation is not an important one, which is often (not always!) a valid point. But I have never been told I am cannot participate in a discussion solely because it is a "safe space". Where are you having these conversations?
According to that cypherpunks post, it is in fact a pseudonym.
What really blows my mind about it all is we didn't even have the math to figure that out until 100 years ago (Einstein 1905)
JavaScript is further from an ideal language than many out there.
"sorry British Broadcasting Corporation worldwide, cannot be accessed from Britain because this part isn't supported by the license fee"

pretty arrogant of them to assume someone from Britain is paying a TV license.
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A lot of people think of lungs as if they are big bags, but in reality they are more like a sponge. So if you could imagine what the accumulation would be like in a kitchen sponge, that is kind of what it is like in the lungs.
Just criticizing someone in a post shouldn't get you hellbanned.

But we have no idea if it was "just criticism", or if it was worse.
The direct lineage matters because my point was that it's hard to convince people that a new currency is worth something. It's easy if you promise to redeem it for something people already value.
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I think that's the wrong thing to worry about. Buggy whip craftsman, whalers, lamplighters, and millions of defunct roles shouldn't be something we worry about. Progress shouldn't be stunted to give people jobs. Those people, often of low skill, need to either adapt and create their own innovations, or take equally dire positions of low skill. It sounds harsh, but your career is your responsibility, not someone else's problem. If you're doing something that can be automated, assume it will be.
What's this? A self-study list that includes real analysis?!

Halleluja.
The online tool which tells you how much money you should be making
I'd imagine it's because nobody will want to use the 32-bit version for anything commercial, so there's no worry about it. If some company wants to use the 64-bit version commercially, then the team is going to want to have some say there in case the project picks up steam and really goes somewhere.
From the description: "Best Viewed in Chrome Browser"

Using Chrome, it works as intended for me.
Carl Icahn is a contrarian. There's no question Uber is ahead, but Lyft has material market share. I don't see this as an activist investor issue. In Silicon Valley, people fight, and they get over it and move on. I'd be surprised if Marc and Carl can't, and don't, do the same.
He ruined TWA airlines before that. Argue as you want about his success as a businessman, he is bad bad news for employees, board members, and usually (other) stockholders.
It isn't, because there is no ideal language.

Seriously. Even if there was the goalposts would keep moving anyway as things like functional programming get more popular.

My ideal language is one that I can use as often as possible in as many different contexts as possible. JavaScript is alright for that.
I expect that it makes networking and work experience a lot more important. A friend of mine who taught himself programming tells me that his interviews tend to start with either "A literature degree?" or "It looks like you're a self-taught programmer." So you at least get a predictable icebreaker out of it.

The part that it makes tough is getting that interview. If it's a company that bothers to click your resume's Github link and see some work samples, you're probably OK. If it's a big company with a crappy HR filter on incoming applicants, you might have to find another way to get a foot in the door.

I know Google has a pretty good chunk of people without CS degrees. I'm curious if any self-taught people manage to get in there as a first job in the industry, like grads hired fresh out of college.
Is the "right hook zone" referring to making a right turn into someone crossing an intersection?

Just curious, have you seen any research on the efficacy (and cost efficiency) of those features you say should be required?
I'm pretty sure the largest predictor of your wealth during your life is whether you were born wealthy, regardless of how strategic you are.
the degree you're 'slogging' through is almost certainly a safer route to your destination

I'm pretty sure its a mistake to think the free online CS education won't require alot of 'slogging' to have any value

the benefit you have is that you have real life humans, who hold office hours, and will answer question in real time, when your slog gets tough

ultimately though, you'll be judged on what you know, not where you learned it
Ohh! Thank you. :)
Is it possible to change the link to the Google one, so people don't find themselves firewalled

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
It is really big. Notice how the people shown wearing it in still shots, also wear bulky or winter clothing. I don't see how could you wear the helmet in the summer along with a t-shirt and shorts and not look ridiculous. A backpack variant, even if larger, would be better for social acceptance.
Ask HN: Best Format for a Developer Job Post Headline?
I'm a developer and I recently saw a developer job posting with a headline I thought was fairly meaningless. I wrote a quick post recommending using a "job title, primary tech" format for headlines. A friend, who has been a professor of computing, disagreed and said that presenting the problem the job needs to solve rather than the tech used to solve it would make the headline more clickable for him. I understand that, but think it's really hard to describe many tech problems succinctly enough for a headline. Is the title and tech approach too boring? Is the "state the problem in 15 words or less" approach too difficult? What is the best way to write a headline for a job posting that will inspire devs to read it?
This makes sense. Another thing I noticed is that once an app is installed on your phone, it acts like an always present advert. In other words, apps are now the equivalent of having an "icon on the desktop" in the old world. I really suspect that the reason they're doing this is not because discovery through the app is great, but because repeat purchases through the app is great. That would be a good reason to throw marketing money at "install our app and get this coupon" schemes.
It is not. This is why US is not ranked high on any corruption list, while maintaining the highest level if private financial influence not only in the lawmaking but also in national security. These are very dangerous, and as the Princeton study points out it threatens democracy in the long run very much.

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...
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BBC's standards of journalism are going much the same way I'm afraid.
So good to see String.prototype.startsWith and String.prototype.endsWith in ES6. I've ended up implementing these in too many projects. I look forward to using these in 2020 or 5 years after that, when IE 8 finally sunsets. (I joke of course, since you can use ES6 to 5 with IE 8 caveats with the modern taskrunners).

EDIT: Blockscope... what? More than a few of these changes point to JS being a functional version of PHP, but doesn't blockscope just fundamentally change the language?
Ask HN: What project and resource management tools do you use?
We're currently in the stage of growing a company to 20+ people and are finding that out standard todo-list (asana) and feature management (jira) tools are insufficient. What those tools are lacking for us in particular are detailed resource and time management when a project spans over multiple departments (software / electrical / mechanical engineering).

What tools or combination of tools do you use for achieving this? And does anyone know what the Tesla/Apples/Pears of the world use?
The TL does not have only SROs, and SROs do exist elsewhere. SROs are also not especially cheap; for example, the Adrian Hotel rents SROs for $700 a week (http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Adrian_Hotel). Of course many SRO residents also receive subsidies of various kinds.
> The only well-known contemporary languages that get this (somewhat) right are...

and Ceylon.
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> A large part of the complexity of HTML is simply quirks and compatibility.

Actually, the HTML spec already addresses those (that's why it is incredibly complex; unlike HMTL4 and previous, the WHATWG HTML Living Spec -- and possibly the W3C HTML5 spec, though I can never keep straight what that was in the WHATWG spec at the time W3C kept and what it didn't -- contains a complete specification of how compliant user agents should parse anything purporting to be HTML even if it actually isn't valid HTML (IIRC, a compliant parser may throw an error on invalid HTML, but if it is tolerant of errors, the spec specifies how it is to be tolerant, specifically to avoid the pre-HTML5 issue of different browsers parsing the same thing different ways. Modern browser either have converged or are converging -- some might still be lagging -- on that consistent model.)
Is there a meaningful and substantial difference between those two things? Both amount to "your input is not welcome here", both amount to classifying one's identity more important than the content of their speech, and the entire concept of a "safe space" is one in which mere disagreement is explicitly disallowed.
I'm not too surprised - automotive airbags contain explosives.
More like "there is pretty ambiguous wording in the relevant rules". They list Software "as such" as non-patentable, but that doesn't necessarily covers the principle by which the software operates. Different european and national organizations have varying interpretations of where the boundaries exactly are.

Once the objection period for a patent has passed it is up to the national courts of the issuing country to decide about them. It's going to be interesting to see if the German courts hold that patent up or not (I'd guess they won't, but I haven't followed it o closely)
I think there are many unknowns that will be revealed through implementation. Yes, it is better and more cost effective when you only consider the homeless individuals. The net impact on greater society could be more positive or negative and is particularly sensitive to implementation details and the specific type of homelessness occurring.

Britain is in the middle of a jobs miracle, attaining their highest employment levels in history. Cutting taxes on low income earners has increased the upside of joining the workforce. [1]

In my city we have youth who refuse to work the available entry-level roles and prefer to beg downtown with signs requesting beer and weed. I imagine the lifestyle would become more popular if it came with free, opulent housing further reducing the incentive to work.

[1]http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9475222/the-coalitions-j... (third paragraph contains figures)
Yes, it's unfair to single out these cops. But the standard they've met here, and the training and capabilities behind that standard, are a problem.

Once the attacker misses on his first swing, I doubt the officer attacked is in grave danger. I think it is reasonable to expect a police officer to fend off a guy with a hammer, certainly long enough for her partner to get behind the guy and grab him. Someone who can't do that isn't qualified for the job.

And isn't clear to me that either of these officers made the right tactical choices in the first place. The shooter was very lucky that the attacker ended up in a position where he could take a clean shot.
I agree. What if you're applying for a Network Admin job? Are they supposed to have a github repo for admin scripts?
If you say it like it is the ONLY thing women want but saying part of most women's life plan is to find a man to marry and have kids, very few people will disagree.
the email my boss feature is a nice touch
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"Always bet on JS" is complete nonsense: http://brendaneich.github.io/ModernWeb.tw-2015/#74

It does those things poorly, and at great expense.

Eich did one thing, in 10 days, that was market positioned such that it became ubiquitous, and he's been banging that drum ever since -- to everyone's detriment, given how much power over technical direction he wielded at Mozilla, and how much impact Mozilla had on the web pre-Chrome.
I wish JavaScript "committed a teenager suicide" and we finally got a more sane language for the web. It's startling how much energy is spent to work around its bad design every day and it's not getting any better, people are just getting used to it (which is akin to voluntarily agree with having most of one's brain blown off). Even seeing Brendan showing off that he hacked the language in 10 days makes me sick to the stomach...
Anecdote, but I've got 30 tabs open in Chrome and I'm using a Macbook Pro that's over 7 years old and it loads in less than 3 seconds.

Also, I can open it in Lynx. The un-alt'd images mean there's a bit of inaccessible content, but it's actually more or less coherent, which might be useful to those whose machines are struggling with the content or even (potentially) to those rendering opinions on whether the web just sucks.
Doesn't Uber need Lyft to be around so they won't get called a monopoly?
This is an awesome tool - I am so underpaid - off to hunt for a new job straight away
Like Korean teenagers won't immediately develop a code words to evade this. I'm not sure if there's already an equivalent to l33tsp34k in Korean, but if not, there is now.
I nearly died from an MMR shot. I didn't read the linked doc but I can assure you people can die or have very serious complications from the MMR shot.
Depending on the type of biking you do, bicycle helmets have face protection: https://www.google.com/search?q=downhill+bike+helmet&espv=2&...

They look like motocross helmets, but are much thinner and lighter.
It is rare that an employee is unique enough to be worth the cost of bringing lawyers to the table.
I've been around here close to 5 years and I still can't downvote. I wouldn't say that it is a bad thing -- it just causes me to use HN very differently than Reddit (which seems to be the point).
wheres the fucking rift version
It's the control freaks, the people who stay late everyday and never go on vacation that are most likely to be robbing you blind. Each mod should have mandatory off time or be banned for a few weeks out of every year, at least so they don't get too comfortable with their position.

It's how we caught which manager was stealing from us and got the evidence that our accountant was funneling money out to herself (although it was noticing when she bought that new car and put her children into an expensive private school that created the suspicion).
I was sceptical about the possibility of a tool like this to be accurate but I gave it a try and it nailed it! You should try it all! :)