skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of gross salary, absolutely. In terms of net earnings after paying for the cost of living in London, probably not. I'm quite sure I could double or even triple my salary by moving to London, but my quality of life would very likely go down. For a start, where I live I can afford to buy a house. On a multiple of my income in London I don't think I could do that.

I see no value in earning more just to pass the money directly to my landlord.
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That's because "democracy" includes more than "direct democracy".

1) "Several variants of democracy exist, but there are two basic forms, both of which concern how the whole body of all eligible citizens executes its will. One form of democracy is direct democracy, in which all eligible citizens have active participation in the political decision making, for example voting on policy initiatives directly. In most modern democracies, the whole body of eligible citizens remain the sovereign power but political power is exercised indirectly through elected representatives; this is called a representative democracy." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#Types_of_democracies

2) "The pure form of direct democracy only exists in the Swiss cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus.[16] The Swiss confederation is a semi-direct democracy (representative democracy with strong instruments of direct democracy). The nature of direct democracy in Switzerland is fundamentally complemented by its profound federal governmental structures (in German also called the Subsidiaritätsprinzip).

Most western countries have representative systems. Switzerland is a rare example of a country with instruments of direct democracy (at the levels of the municipalities, cantons, and federal state)." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy#Switzerland

You may of course regard this as not sufficiently significant. Personally, I include some of the things of Norse/Germanic law as examples of direct democracy. Eg, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_of_all_Swedes :

> All free men living in the realm and who were able to wield a weapon had the right to participate, and the assembly was led by the lawspeaker.

3) Voting eligibility then was not based only on citizenship. "Participation was not open to all residents: to vote one had to be an adult, male citizen who owned land and wasn't a slave, and the number of these "varied between 30,000 and 50,000 out of a total population of around 250,000 to 300,000." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy .

Thus, the women citizens couldn't vote, so it wasn't "citizen majority" in our post-Suffragette understanding. Of course, the concept of "citizen" is tricky. If you define 'citizen' as 'the people with the right to vote' then the women of Athens were clearly not citizens. Then again, under that definition, felons in the US who have their right to vote taken away would not be citizens either. You might look to the government at the time to use their definition, but letting the lawmakers decide what 'citizen' means is suspect. An absolute monarchy, dictatorship, or other autocracy could count as a democracy if the ruler declares "I am the only Citizen". Or, quoting Terry Pratchett:

> Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.
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You do not have zero control over the perception others have of you. Our culture is not so heterogeneous that you can't predict what the majority will think of a given outfit you might wear, for example.

Granted, the control is indirect: You have zero control over what people would think of you if you were to wear corduroys and a Hawaiian shirt, but you can control if you wear corduroys and a Hawaiian shirt.
London? Manchester is equally viable for business, Bristol has better quality of life and Edinburgh is top for arts. Each for 1/3 - 1/2 of the cost. Even cheaper is Birmingham, and strategically located in the West Midlands. Who needs the rat race in London if you work with computers?
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That's not what I said. I was talking about the "congress should change the law" argument specifically. The FBI order wouldn't suddenly be ok just because congress passed a law but it sure would make it all more convenient for Apple since it would remove their "choice" in the matter and thus sidestepping a protracted legal battle with the government. All of us would be screwed though.

I say this as someone that admire Cook's leadership on this issue but let's not be confused: at the end of the day he doesn't answer to you or me but to Apple's shareholders. I understand he needs to seem reasonable to the average American that may not understand Apple's argument as well as most people on HN but we can't let him sell us out in the process.
The Magical Benefits of the 'Quitter's Mindset'
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Summers can be very hot and dry (not guaranteed!) - 30-35c is not unheard of - with crisp blue skies, 15-16 hours of sunlight etc. There are a lot parks and green spaces in London so its easy to find space - there is a LOT of green/coast/sea etc near London as well so very easy to get out. The jet stream means although we're fairly north we get mild weather considering.

The statistics are probably misleading - it is not raining every other day (although sometimes it is). Its not constantly soggy, but certainly damper than California. Winters can get dark really early though which is a bit annoying.

The main problem is that people don't have air conditioning, so although it sometimes gets hotter than Egypt etc in the summer, you cant cool down apart form sit in your car or go and hang out in the supermarket in the chiller sections!
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And that toolkit is what We know now as Gimp ToolKit aka GTK
London buses are really not something you want to try to use. I spent a couple of years working in Chelsea, which was deliberately omitted from the tube system (the rich inhabitants did not want the great unwashed to have an easy way to get there, I suspect). So walking or bus, or if you had more money than I had at the time, taxi was the only option. Walking was far faster than any bus.
Paideia – Know more about your surroundings
The soggyness and lack of sunlight is common in Europe, even as far South as Northern Spain: My hometown averages 130+ days of rain, and everyone lives in a condo: Backyards just don't exist. I currently live in the middle of the US, and have done so for almost two decades. I have over half an acre of yard, a house that would be considered a small palace in Spain, and average precipitation days is under 100, and a good 10 of those are snow.

And yet, if the job market was even remotely close, I'd move to northern Spain in a millisecond, because quality of living is more about low stress and making what you want to do convenient, rather than about rain and backyards.
> The thing about JIT languages is that there's no such thing as overall speed of a particular operation

Except for the ASM.js subset of operations perhaps.
I checked out the services I use and most of them are OK. I was surprised to find Namecheap [0] did not pass, however. Kind of ironic given they sell SSL certs...

[0] https://test.drownattack.com/?site=namecheap.com
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The IRA knew what they were doing. They were dangerous. They'd been practicing and honing for generations.

ISIS and Al Quaida are a bunch of clueless fuckwits and are not commiting a mainland bombing every 3-6 months like the IRA tried to.

Which group resulted in major restrictions to UK freedoms?

Meh, this is a depressing thread.
Sure the design is outdated, but it's so QUICK!
The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst
"Imagine if your employees had a good amount of savings and could easily afford the $10-20k it costs to pre-exercise their options in your infant stage startup."

Although, one trope about startups is that they usually pay crappy, so the likelihood of any given employee having significant savings is low.
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I don't think Google even cares about these things. Its kind of like the usual Google fail of "allowing" spammy link farms to rise in their search results. The problem is algorithmic solutions suck compared to basic human judgement on a lot of things. This happens to be one of those things.
Author here. This is fascinating to read! I (naively) assumed that things were better across the board prior to any of the tech booms. I lived in SF and commuted to San Mateo which was a non-trivial trip (coming from the tiny UK) and the BART/Caltrain combination was horrendous for different reasons (Caltrain was unreliable, BART was dirty). I did notice that a lot of the Caltrains were old Japanese trains from the 80s. Also, my rent here in London isn't that much different to my rent in SF, but I'm told I got very, very lucky there. Thanks for reading!
> Why can't the cost be a dollar value? What if it was? How much do you estimate it would be? Would you pay it?

I live out this sentiment in my donations to Wikimedia whenever they start bugging us for donations.

I do have a tangible "value added" from going to their site and using Wikis, and thus I'm more than happy to shell out some sheckels for what they offer.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people are simply not aware of the implications of these "free" services they use (picture me doing the double quote hand gesture when I say "free" here). I don't want to call them ignorant, as many have a general understanding that they are being data mined, but they are unaware of the _implications_ of such, compared to your average HN reader who often has been around big data, or handled it themselves. (Read: "Nothing to hide" argument)

> Right now, and forever more. Because there is only one "proper" way to do things, and that's how they're being done now. Those are safe assumptions, yes?

THe bright side is that they are safe assumptions until people start waking up and learning of ways to minimize (not completely remove) their "data footprint" - NoScript, Ghostery, uBlock, Disconnect, etc. etc.

Businesses will have to react, whether that's getting into the trenches (ie: FuckAdBlock.js, force javascript), or considering a different monetization approach.

And perhaps there is a niche market for a Non-Internet-Required "MapQuest" style iOS/Android App, waiting to be struck ;).
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Dovecot also supports disabling SSLv2 directly:

ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
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No; if you add a random delay, your adversary can just repeat the attack multiple times and the timing data will average out to the real value, removing your added noise. It might increase the time/number of observed messages needed to perform the attack, but it won't defeat it.
Er...so if you didn't tell them it was malware, then what DID you tell them?
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Why is "identical" in green and "faster" in a slightly darker green? Is es6 a library or is it the browser's implementation of ES6?
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What is Cryptonomicon's tombstone? I haven't read the book
I'm wondering why there were enough sandbags around a storm drain to warrant the vehicle moving back into the left lane and not any indication before hand. The autonomous vehicle would know when a lane is blocked because of cones, right?
Oh wow, a rare unicorn seen in the wild. I always wanted to ask someone like you some questions.

The "trick" in question can be easily summarized in 4 words and would make for an even more compelling title:

Man pretends to be a bot to find out what users really thought of his app

It is laudable that you actually explain this in the first paragraph instead of waffling on for 3/4 of the paragraph before "revealing the trick" (collecting time for the ad scripts to register impressions). However:

Why did you still choose such a click bait title, and even a particularly horrifying one as that?

Are you aware of how horrible and manipulative your title is?

How do you feel about yourself when writing such titles?
As a freelancer, the cost to cover my taxes/social security will be calculated into any offer i give. I am in effect employing myself and you are contracting out an employee of my company. The rate given will need to cover the costs of my employees taxes and social security. True i can contract out myself to multiple clients per month and lower my rate by splitting the SS taxes between them. but, in Greece, you run a high risk of work being canceled/delayed and exposing yourself to tax liabilities. Don't get me started on companies that want you to cut an invoice then pay you months later. Putting yourself into a situation where you have income on the books, but not in the hand is a bad idea.
In that case, active attacks against Weierstrass field arithmetic isn't part of your threat model and ECDSA/ECDH over the NIST curves is fine.
Pay needs to be compared not at nominal exchange rates but at purchasing-power-parity, including real estate.
Security Flaws Induced by CBC Padding Applications to SSL, IPSEC, WTLS [pdf]
Oh wow. This has to be a ploy to get people to buy filters more often. We regularly use filters much longer than the window specified because they still work!

Also, days until someone finds a huge security hole and triggers a purchase of 1000 filters for someone...
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> Has anyone made an animated depiction of the crash

Was this a test-vehicle of Google? In that case, it probably had lots of cameras on board.
Why should I care more about the company and "turnover" than the people whom the current system gives an incentive to fire so they get screwed under current equity regulations?
How PBS and NASA's Amy Mainzer Are Getting More Girls into Science
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interesting. contact details?