skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might depend on the particular metro area. The cost difference between where I live, in the bumblefuck outer suburbs of the Bay Area, vs. a comparable (yet smaller) place closer to most usual tech businesses (either in SF or the Peninsula), is about $3-4K monthly. I've got cost/mile and cost/month records for my car(s) going back 15 years, including purchase price, insurance, fuel, and all maintenance, and it's not even close to $3K/month.
I say he's trying to tell you that like I know; I should have said I presume that's what he was getting at. On a first reading, that was my interpretation. A very common argument criticising free software is that, since most users can't code, they cannot benefit from the 4 freedoms. This probably prejudiced my interpretation of your comment. Reading it back now I can see what you meant.
Yeah sure. The real story is that the younger kids have lousier paying jobs and items like cars are prohibitively expensive.

My dad had a loaded up Mustang that cost like $2500 in the late 60s, at 19 or 20, paid for by bartending. The equivalent car today is probably 2x-2.5x more in real terms.

The city is coming back because it's the undervalued and people are priced out of the newer suburbs. People end up reproducing, so the permanent underclass and garbage schools will probably send most of these folks to the older suburbs.
> Your scenario is too simplistic to use.

Yes. Both of our scenarios were simplistic. You came up with a simplistic scenario in which adding money to the supply did cause price inflation and I came up with a simplistic scenario in which adding money to the supply did not cause price inflation.

Printing money and handing it to consumers is not "the very definition of inflation." There's more to it than that. Price inflation happens when the rate of spending outstrips the rate at which real value is being traded. Money supply is a factor, to be sure, but so is monetary velocity, and productive capacity.

> A better example of your idea is - college education. By giving out free money to people, the government increases supply of buyers (students) - and the sellers (colleges) keep rising prices (cost of college is through the roof - quadrupled/quintupled over 20 years). Because they have a stream of buyers they otherwise would not have.

Agreed. It's free money in the sense that much of it won't be paid back. But it's not free in the sense that those students have to spend it on college, which leads to market distortions. People will pay whatever it takes to get the best college education possible even if they have to spend money they don't have, especially if the only way to access that money is to spend it on college.

> Yes, I said "giving free money to people", because even though they are formally student loans, many of them will never be repaid.

Yes.

> It is really a transfer of wealth from US taxpayers to the higher education complex, who can charge tuition multiple times what it was years ago (accounting for inflation included).

Yes.

Traditional college doesn't scale well. The market is saturated and we're flooding it with consumers who have access to more and more money.

But education can scale. MOOCs scale. You can get a really good education without paying very much. Such an education might not lead to a job, but is that necessarily a problem?

In my mind, it's a waste of money for the government to pay for students to go to school (either through loans or grants).
You can use laser printer toners to get same effect! They are magnetic as well and might be easier to get.

It's also easy to get better contrast - apply transparent tape to magnetic strip, remove the tape and put it on top of white paper. You can clearly see strips.
I am family of a psychologist. This comes from latest research.

Usually skipped but most critical, is simple trace minerals and vitamins.

Our food is entirely missing so much in the current day, because the same plots of land are farmed over and over (think 25-50 years for the same land).

Himalayan Sea Salt has the trace minerals, and supplementation with Vitamin D, Magnesium, and B-12 have specifically helped mood and energy.

You can get blood tests for these levels, but even in cases where levels are normal supplements have been shown to help.
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He quotes Patton. It's worth remembering that Patton was not in overall charge of the war in Europe. Eisenhower was. Eisenhower, who was a logistics officer by training and background, had a basic plan for winning in Europe - build up a mountain of resources so large that the Allies could roll over any possible opposition. Which is what happened.

Eisenhower put Patton into play when a part of the operation needed speed and violent execution. Eisenhower took Patton out of play when it didn't.
Truth be told, I'm forever 2 weeks of inactivity away from a depressive episode.

I have to keep moving (exercise; running 2 or 3 times a week) AND keep my mind occupied by not concentrating on myself too much, otherwise I begin to shut down.

This is my trick, YMMV. I do believe you can do this without medication, and it does get easier to control as you get older. Good luck.
> But even your article admits that these people exist in the opening paragraphs.

No, it does not "admit", or even indicate, or even hint, that there are people arguing that parents should not read to their children because it creates an unfair advantage.

> but my point stands: people are making these arguments.

Well, there's 7-ish billion people on the planet, so perhaps somewhere you can find one making the argument you refer to, but when you do, I think its going to be hard to support your claim that the group making that argument is, even approximately, coextensive with the group proposing open salaries.
I love reading about how language evolves - I've heard of similar isolated dialects of Spanish in very rural New Mexico.
i'm not a big alcohol person and had been paleo for many years. one day i get a gift from a friend, some special coffee. i don't drink coffe but i gave it a try. wow! it was great, i had a cup a day for a few days and then bam!

i was in bed with a rage-depression ten times worse than a normal bout. i couldn't work for three days. i can't describe my thoughts because they are still so embarrassing. on the forth day, i figured out, well, the whole time i was depressed i thought the 'trigger' was a text from a friend. i re-read the text. it didn't even say what i thought it said.

the next day i had another coffee followed immediately by a panic attack. then i put it together and tossed the coffee. i stopped all caffeine, which for me meant no chocolate, for two weeks. i was dieing for some chocolate. so i had some with the kids on a sunday. two days later i was depressed and on a very short fuse.

now i've gone about two months with no chocolate. i sleep much better. i don't snap at people. i don't get angry. in a sense, i miss the highs very much but not enough to want to go back. i've just accepted that my brain doesn't react to caffeine like most people.
Origins of conflict
Woe betide anyone who believes assault is a proper response to words. If there is only a vocal response, the woe comes only in invisible amounts, even from old Italians.
>Sadly, a lot of smaller companies migrated out to the suburbs because the CEO could simply make a call to move the business closer to his house.

Perhaps. But it's probably also where most of the employees lived. If you're talking the 80s, for example, very few of my co-workers lived in Boston/Cambridge and commuted out to our offices on 495 about an hour away. I'm quite confident that, had there been a vote to move the company offices into the city, the answer would have been a resounding no.
Is the average sinuosity of the world's rivers equal to pi?
I'm going to start with a fact that you likely won't want to hear: There is no magic bullet. Non-situational depression is something you will wrestle with your entire life. There is no cure, only treatments. That said, you can do a lot to alleviate the symptoms. Ranked in order of importance:

1. Sleep

Get good sleep. Research circadian rhythms, and try to understand your own 'sleep physiology'. Within the constraints of your work, try and sleep at optimal times for YOU. For me, going to bed late, waking up late, is best. I feel more rejuvenated on 4 hours of sleep within my 'sleep window' than I do of 8 hours of sleep outside of it. Find what works for you.

2. Intense, social, exercise.

Other's have mentioned cross fit, but boxing is great too. It has to be INTENSE and there needs to be a SOCIAL component to keep you motivated. You should leave your workout feeling completely destroyed. In my opinion, just going to the gym doesn't work. You need to be part of a fitness community. The social aspect, combined with the intense workout, can work wonders. Go regularly.

3. Diet.

Avoid junk food. Cut out hard drugs, obviously. Cook for yourself, if you can.

4. Purpose.

Find something in life that excites you, and pursue it. Find a community of people that are also interested in that and join that community. Contribute to that community, whenever you can. Form relationships with others in that community, as you pursue your passion.

----

Discipline, and regularity, are vital to success. If you do these 4 things, you'll find with time, that your depression weakens it's grip on you. Be patient with point number 4. Don't be discouraged, if right now, you don't have a calling, or a purpose. Let life happen, and go where the wind blows.
And that's what got us into the mess we're in, because by now there are 754 friendly UIs, and choosing which one you like better is draining your soul.

You. Don't. Want. Infinitely. Configurable.

What you do want is lots of simple, friendly tools with limited configurability that you can connect to solve larger issues.

To compare it to language, you don't want to have two great novels that are paths through "choose your own adventure". You want words that work together, that are composable according to well-understood, simple rules.

Whenever a system like that comes along (unix pipes, REST APIs), people can build amazing things on top of that. The infinitely configurable hypercomplex thing idea gives you XSL:FO, XSLT, the W3C, C++, and assorted fun.
See how you can create a production-ready, predictive API in under an hour
Rather than taking medication, you may want to take some supplements with 5-HTP, a precursor of serotonin. IE: Griffonia Simplicifolia.. It does have far less side-effects, no dependency.. Far less popular with the pharma industry because not patentable..
The "movement" is not the same as one for cancer or attacks, etc. Its a movement about information where publicity (transparency) is the goal. It achieves what people want, salary information to be transparent. From there, people can make their own judgements on how to act given that information. But without it, they have nothing.

Honestly, I don't see how this is clickbaity at all.
Awesome, I'm very (very) interested.
No, I think notifying the police, who then notify the IRB is how normal people would deal with this. I don't expect the normal person knows about the IRB (I'm not surprised it exists, but I was unaware of it).

In a similar vein, if you notified your local police about a kidnapping they would notify the FBI, because kidnapping is the FBI's jurisdiction.
> Your comment made me realize i can't remember seeing promising medium or small size companies merge and make this kind of announcement.

Small and medium sized companies merge all the time (but its rarely big news, because small companies), but "promising" ones in the Silicon Valley swing-for-the-fences startup sense probably don't as much, probably because that kind of merger doesn't provide the kind of exit startup investors are looking for or increase the perceived likely size of the eventual exit enough to warrant the dilution.
> Today the culprit is an amicable looking Indian girl I’ve seen from class.

Student not recognizing another student? A minority in the space trying to help another minority in the space? I wouldn't be able to draw too many useful conclusions from that.

>Being a woman of color who has graduated CS107 is almost like being a unicorn, and that’s pretty f'd up.

Yes, but it's also entirely consistent with the last 200 years of western history.

In the end, yes, I can entirely imagine this happening, and understand why it's happening, and see that it's not going to change any time soon. That said, I hope it changes sooner than later and lovely little slice-of-life articles will help that happen.

edit: It also makes me kinda sad too.
There's nothing in the iTunes license that gives you permission to do this. The terms vary depending on who has the publishing rights for the music. If you upload it to YouTube, then one of these things will happen, depending on YouTube's agreement with the publisher:

1. Nothing

2. You get a copyright notification from YouTube and they will show ads on your video, with the revenue going to the music publisher

3. You get a copyright violation notification from YouTube and your audio will be removed from your video.

It could have an effect on your account as well if you are a YouTube partner - where part of the agreement is that you only post content that you created or own the rights.
The fact that UIs aren't generally scriptable doesn't mean that the dev tools I'm referring to aren't scriptable or otherwise able to be automated.

There are a lot of trade-offs that I think Unix-centric devs don't realize, for the simple fact that they don't venture outside of their own ecosystem for various reasons. One of those trade-offs in my opinion is a certain lack of polish that seems to pervade the Unix-dev-tools landscape. There are thousands of instances of this, but one that I recently encountered was that Vim just can't do code folding very well. You can make it fold on syntax or on markers, but not both. AutoFold tries to remedy this, but as you add plugins to make Vim do things that Visual Studio does well, performance goes down.

Another things that annoys me when I'm working on nix systems is that I feel like I always have to cobble together my kit before I can begin any real work. I'll take a well thought out, professional dev-kit from a big name company any day over a disparate set of single-purpose bins and libs that I have to string together.
Has IE11 added new features since release, or has it only been security/bugfixes?
>Most of them thought spending their life in a car was great -- certainly way better than having to take the bus or the train. It was a sign of success.

You're overstating that quite a bit. Sure, driving for twenty minutes beats taking public transportation. But sitting in stop and go traffic for a couple hours every day is awful and people always realized it.
Completely agreed. I would add that 105k seems high as a starting salary for a software engineer at a sustainable startup, so either you have unique capabilities, or the startup is super well-funded, or the startup is burning cash at an unsustainable rate. It might be interesting to discover what the story is (diplomatically!) before you commit.
Drone pilots warned after close call with passenger jet
If he was actually concerned, and not just outraged, he would have called the police and reported Chrysler for endangering thousands of people's lives.
For most companies, the amount of money represented by the difference in salary of 2 employees is negligible. (Definitely not negligible for the employees!) It's not even a blip on the cash flow statement. This is especially true of venture-backed startups whose operating model is going-for-broke.

What this means is that a person has a price that he or she can command and it's based less on their work experience/abilities and more on their experience of getting paid: they get used to a certain standard of living. If a company wants to hire a person, it will need to meet or beat that standard.

So yeah, the longer a person has been in the workforce, the more they are probably getting paid. But even this can vary from person to person, depending on how the person has been managing his or her salary and what companies he or she has worked at.

"Experience" is a proxy for technical ability and expected standard of living.

Usually a company will decide if it wants to hire a person, first. If yes, they start to negotiate pay based on a bunch of factors. Really, it's two parties trying to find each others' comfort zone; there isn't a formula. Sometimes there is no middle ground and no hire happens. Sometimes, to save time, recruiters will probe you to find your comfort zone before they even interview. Most of the time, if a company decides it wants to hire you, it will do what it can to make that happen. It's the desire to win.

If the candidate is a no-hire, there is no negotiation, he can't say "what if I work for less!"

Other factors that bear on salary:

* What are the current market conditions? When you were hired?
* What is the rate of job churn?
* Salary versus equity
* Location
* Employee demand: well known companies and probably pay less because more people want to work there.
* What does your boss make? Can't make more than her
* Name recognition on your resume. Did you go to Stanford? Did you work at Google?
* Signing bonus?

When I was younger this used to upset me. I guess I got over it as started to get paid more. But I realize that getting paid a personal and psychological endeavor, not a simple mathematical formula.

I caveat all this by saying I'm an engineer in SF in 2015: shit's crazy.
Is it just me, or is this a terribly written article? It's filled with hyperbole and void of anything really substantial. I read the whole thing and can't think of more than one or two interesting points.
Here's a great video that Google did back in 2009 that illustrates this pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
I am a big believer in the prion-like spread hypothesis which seems to be a common thread for neurodegenerative disease, and led a study (in press) that supports this idea in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Once there is a critical mass, I think it would be challenging to slow the progression of the disease, which may speak to the importance of early treatment. However, given the proven genetic risk factors for these diseases (Mendelian forms, GWAS hits) - which are related to things like UPR, microglia activation, etc - I think that there is a possibility to slow the progression of disease. We also feel the same way you do about the repositioning angle, but it is a nice way to try to get something safe to patients that can potentially be proven quickly and cheaply in a small Phase 2 trial.

In terms of the expression data for diseases, we are doing a systemic review and re-analysis of publically available raw micoarray data from GEO, as well as RNA-sequencing and microarray data that we will publish soon and make publically available. That part is what I mentioned in the video; rather than just looking for differentially expressed genes (which is what most of the associated studies have done), we use network methods we developed to identify what we think are the key drivers of disease. Also, by combining data we get more power to find signal. To match these with drugs, we use a combination of proprietary gene expression data as well as data from large public projects.

Thanks for your comments and wishes!
That's hard to believe. Can you give us an example? Also mouseleave is an event IE invented and is non standard. How would it not work on IE?
Jet.com CEO: My startup's business model won't work until we do $20B in sales
I prefer not to have to second guess whether you meant it one way or another.

Yes. Communication is hard enough as it is, without having to second guess more things.

But it opened my eyes to the complexity of even attempting to define what the word means to different groups of people.

I don't know in italian, but in spanish we don't have a word for n-er, we just have a word for the color black.
That word (negro) is syntactically similar to n-er in english, which produces lots of misunderstandings with english speakers. So again, communication is really hard.
> Why should money be distributed based on engineering results? Business results are what matter and a startling number of engineers are bad at assessing business results.

Well, for engineering staff, it makes sense that compensation is based on engineering results to the extent that that is what those employees have control over.

(If your staff are given broader responsibility, the results that figure into their compensation should be broader.)
I'm not perpetuating this supposed fallacy. Software developers fail with their products for various different reasons, there just seems to be very little evidence that the choice of GPL has impacted economic viability. At least I can say that there is very little evidence of that in the WordPress ecosystem.

If you complain about the lack of an example of how a GPL based economy can work, you simply ignore existing markets. The WordPress ecosystem (worth billions) is almost exclusively GPL and developers are succeeding with successful products and services, operating businesses in all kinds of revenue ranges. Many small teams and even solo developers are regularly netting 6-7 figures a year. They are doing so utilizing a variety of business models, proving that almost any kind of solution can be made to work in some format, provided it's something people will pay for.

There has always been some push back for the GPL, especially by designers, in the WordPress space. Despite that things are working. We have an entire commercial themes market that is selling GPL based themes, with many successful authors raking in money. Some people thought it was crazy, but theme sales are sky high.

The only reason some developers aren't making money there isn't because GPL, it's because the competition is strong and the work is hard and some people can't or won't adapt.
Yes this occurred to me too. Very interesting. At what layer is the economy at naturally?
Interesting point about the virtualization. MANY companies are scared of GPL, for certain.

Thinking about Clang, its better design didn't evolve in a vacuum. Clang was primarily developed by Apple [1] so that they would have (with LLVM) a full compiler toolchain that didn't include GPL code (and as others have mentioned, Clang is designed to integrate with editors for parsing, while GCC is explicitly designed to be HARD to integrate that way so that it can't be snuck into a proprietary project).

YOUR choice to change to Clang may not have been about licensing, but licensing and design choices in support of that license philosophy are what caused Clang to exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang
Agree 100%. While it might be interesting as an academic study it shouldn't be used on any system with actual users.

It is just the kind of thing I would expect dumb IT mgmt to require so they can ban swear words from passwords.
Blockchain meetup
s/fuck/goodness/g # for goodness' sake, this is HN, not /.
Greetings,

Guys, I'm hosting the blockchain meetup - FREE to attend, food, drinks and fun

Right next to caltrain, Soma

Would love to chat about that, feel free to RSVP if interested
The E1 is a tiny 4K camera that lets you change lenses
Who owns copyright to Deep Dream images?
I work in tech and a larger office needs fiber these days, it is a cost consideration when looking for new offices. Many of these older buildings are not wired correctly and would require expensive renovation to get them where they need to be.
Neat stuff. It's worth noting that shadow rays don't entirely avoid precision issues either. You still need to handle self-intersections. One option is to add a bias epsilon (which introduces other artifacts, depending on the scale); another is to reject local self-shadowing (which means you can't get finely shadowed surface cracks); another is to give artists explicit control over which sets of objects shadow which others (which adds artist time). Offline rendered movies use all of these.