skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why there's such a concentration on San Francisco: it's a much smaller place than London (10m inhabitants).

As a Londoner, I've visited tech companies in San Francisco, but also in San Jose, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and various other places. They're not all the same.

However, in the UK, a lot of tech companies are similarly spread out around the M4 corridor. Wikipedia says: "this part of the M4 Corridor is sometimes described as England's Silicon Valley" and includes "Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead, Reading, Bracknell and Newbury".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_corridor

That seems to me to be a more useful comparison....
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Mailchimp has a made a terrible mistake.

Firstly:

Before, you could get "up to 12k emails per month" for free.

Now, you get 2k free sends once (for dev), and then have to pay $9.95/mo.

This all sounds actually great, so far (although, I think $4.95/mo would have been a better bottom-tier plan - the goal is to get rid of users that don't pay anything but send 12k emails per month). $9.95/mo is affordable to any startup, and it's sustainable (vs paying accounts having to cover the cost for the hundreds of thousands of users sending millions of emails for free).

The mistake they made was in doing anything else besides this. If they had simply changed the pricing like this, but left everything else alone, they would double their profit in 5 minutes while only pissing off the customers that aren't ever going to pay anyway.

Instead, they did what they did, and now they're no better than TWTR.
Keep in mind that the land value would be the factor determining your proportion of the the overall tax income. If tax receipts go down, then the amount of tax charged per unit of land value would go up. At some point you will be unable to use less land without incurring far higher costs - e.g. tacking on ten floors on that skyscraper will require complex enough construction methods to not be cost effective. That's before considering any kind of planning consent.
This is why complexity is so terribly evil in secure protocols. All these features, feature flags, upgrades, downgrades, state transitions... it's all surface area for bugs. A complete state diagram for a modern SSL/TLS stack would be huge and contains edge cases that are probably undocumented and poorly understood.

Do boring crypto: https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.10.05/slides-djb-20151005-a4.pdf

Boring crypto means minimal state, minimal code (and therefore easy to audit), a minimal set of algorithms with new algorithms and encodings and such being added only when absolutely necessary, etc. Crypto "flexibility" means edge case bugs and lots of code where bugs can hide.

There is in general an exponential relationship between LOC and complexity and bugs. In crypto and security code this is really bad.
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With vague enough definitions, you can make all sort of statements, without worrying of them being falsified. /sarcasm.
> avoided democracy, as strictly defined

Only a pedant insists that every else restrict themselves to the strictest of definitions.

Definition change over 200 years. Madison in Federalist #10, made a distinction between "pure democracy" - "by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person" - and a "republic" - "by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place".

You'll notice that only says a republic isn't a "pure democracy". It doesn't say that a republic isn't a form of democracy.
>>A corporation doesn't have access to weaponized drones (at least not yet;). A corporation doesn't want to kill its customers. It wants them happy and spending. On the other hand, governments often want and do kill. A government does not necessarily want its people happy. Therefore, data in the hands of corporations is a very different scenario than data in the hand of government. They should not be equated.

On the flip side, corporations exist for one purpose: to make money. They're only expected to do as much "good" as they feel like doing without hurting the bottom line. They can't be impeached nor do we vote for their policies (except maybe indirectly by voting with wallets when that's even an option).

Power and influence, whether wielded by public or private organizations can be incredibly dangerous or incredibly beneficial. In some cases I'm more comfortable with certain powers in the hands of the private sector where they'll likely only use it to try to sell me stuff and don't have the power to imprison or kill me. At the same time, I don't believe the embodiment of self-interest (private business) is the ideal solution in a lot of situations where my well-being and future prosperity are on the line.

A public servant at his/her least effective fails to serve our interests. A business at its most effective only cares about its own.
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Gtk is now effectively the GNOME Toolkit, and whatever crack they're smoking at the GNOME Foundation is having an effect on Gtk's evolution.
We do manage to spend a quarter billion dollars a year on homelessness in San Francisco, amounting to tens of thousands per homeless person. And that doesn't even count costs that hospitals and medical centers have to spend on ODs, various stabbings, etc. So finances aren't the issue.

If I had to identify the issue, it's that there's a lot of status quo players who comfortably exist in the current state of things (after all, that's a lot of money floating around). The people who suffer worst from the state of affairs (the homeless themselves) pretty much have no political pull or people looking out for their well-being, and the rest of us get shouted down if we complain about having to step over used syringes and human shit as we open the door to our apartments every day ("you think you have it bad? Think how bad they have it!")

Last month, I was walking through SoMa with my boyfriend, and a homeless guy literally came up and punched him in the back of the head for absolutely no reason at all. He walked off, we called the police, an officer came, and his response was basically.. "well, what do you want me to do about it? There's no point in arresting him." Even though the perp was standing on the corner like half a block away.

As a city, we need to decide whether the homeless are autonomous people who can be held responsible for their actions, or whether they are desperate souls who really can't be expected to care or look out for themselves and really don't have any "rights" beyond being treated humanely and compassionately. Only the latter really makes sense in my view, but this in between place of "they can do whatever they want no matter the ill effects on the community, but we're morally required to continue to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at their self-described champions every year with no improvement in the situation" is ridiculous.
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Well, yeah, but if they can't even make one single sample image for me, I'd rather not give them money. It's been more than a day and the image is still not done. It'd be faster for me to just install caffe and one of the open source solutions and do it myself. For free, as many as I want.
Technically I cite him once, I copy&pasted the same thing twice. Anyway, suppose everything you say is correct; are he and the studies he cites factually wrong?

This reflexive denial of any possibility of group differences by the left is quite dangerous. In the short run denying reality and socially punishing those who acknowledge it works. But in the longer run you alienate people who don't like being lied to. Witness Trumpkins and the rise of the anti-Muslim right in Europe.

Why not just acknowledge reality and make a moral case that isn't based on incorrect facts? E.g.: "we should help refugees who need our help, and ISIS will try and bomb us because of that. We'll bomb them back if they try, but we won't give them what they want and stop helping people who need it."

Also, the research doesn't even support any white superiority claims. On most dimensions - intelligence, criminal propensity, conscientiousness - it suggests that Ashkenazi Jews, Chinese and Indians are superior to white people. Whoops, looks like your attempt to conflate human intelligence research with Nazis kind of backfired in a comical way.
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Do you really believe any use of a tool in a way that wasn't intended is a "bad practice"? Is there no more subtlety or thought to it than that? This adherence to an ultra-simplistic black-and-white rule is absolutely a form of conservatism.

If you think this particular use of make is a "bad practice", then argue why it is! If there's no better reason than "This use isn't as intended!" then your opinion won't have much weight with people.
Right, in 2008 when the entire economy tanked they also tanked. You can't really out-diversify the entire economy tanking. What happened in the years after that? Oh right that paper has no idea because it was last updated in 2010.
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And we've seen that it is a terrible solution which is rife for abuse on the side of the startup.
I would agree about Bristol (not that I disagree with the others, I just don't know them that well). I studied there and it is a good compromise between active industry and the laid-back West Country attitude. Working self-employed from London allows me to sidestep the rat-race to some extent however, whilst enjoying a great tech scene and good transport connections.
>You could just (maybe) use a little more discretion with a tool that you apparently know, understand and accept, can siphon any information in its vicinity.

I don't see any need to. My smartphone is a valuable source of real-time and archived information, time-saving automation, and provides great social utility.

> why can't we collectively adapt our consumption to the tools available

I have, in a way that suits my needs and lifestyle.

>stop expecting all tools to have our best interests in mind

I never expected this, and still don't. I also don't expect my government to have my personal best interests in mind, which is why I'm quite interested in limiting its ability to seize and search my personal effects, including my smartphone.
That's most of human nature you're describing there.
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We’re currently in the process of switching to RFID-cards as tickets, and allowing people with RFID credit cards to also pay via those.

But yes, all these issues are solveable – but "how close does the bus operate to the schedule" usually is not related to who drives it, but to how these issues are solved.
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There aren't too may startups in the Square Mile as it's defined. Just a couple of fintech ones in Canada square.

My point is still the same, not many people live in SF or in London but most of the people there during the day there, commute there.
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So it's good to undermine that marketing bullshit, right?
An encryption scheme should not be weakenable after the physical medium has been compromised. An encryption scheme is purely a feature of the data, not of the device. An encryption scheme should only be susceptible to brute force attacks and Apple is not being asked to perform a brute force attack, but rather, to deactivate their kill switch.

If you read the order, the software to deactivate the kill switch is only supposed to work with one particular iPhone and Apple is under no obligation to deliver that software to anyone; they are only required to provide access to the device without fear of the kill switch.
> The only way that could possibly be attempted would be to build massive condos everywhere

But that's exactly what they've done in the past, look at the rows and rows of houses that people live in now and are part of "the character" of SF
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Wow! That's just awesome.
Put it down and back away from the phone. There are some of us old enough to remember the days when phone+internet was a thing. Work got done, very good work.

Law enforcement still physically follow people. They can get a location, but a phone in a pocket cannot understand what a person is doing at a location, or even who they talk to. And phones are subject to massive disinformation. (ie plant phone on someone else/leave on bus). So it is impossible for a cop at any terminal to replicate the quality of information gained by a physical tail.
So this is something that can't be done en masse? Okay, thanks.
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That's not an excuse for dishonesty on the part of startups.
What are the arguments against RSA OAEP?
Interesting resume from a comment on the article

>There are basically two types of polling on the block side. One takes care of interrupt mitigation, so that we can reduce the IRQ load in high IOPS scenarios. That is governed by block/blk-iopoll.c, and is very much like NAPI on the networking side, we've had that since 2009 roughly. It still relies on an initial IRQ trigger, and from there we poll for more completions, and finally re-enable interrupts once we think it's sane to do so. This is driver managed, and opt-in.

>The new block poll support is a bit different. We don't rely on an initial IRQ to trigger, since we never put the application to sleep. We can poll for a specific piece of IO, not just for "any IO". It's all about reducing latencies, as opposed to just reducing the overhead of an IRQ storm.
I recall seeing a cryptographic side channel attack based on radio frequency interference from the victim computer. I don't have a source for this but I'm sure someone will find a link soon enough.
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Coordination through the market is far from perfect.

The market has myopia and rarely makes huge long-term investments, and sometimes it leads people off a cliff like a band of lemmings.

For example, it's given the United States a plethora of entertainment but decaying infrastructure, and the housing and dot-com bubbles.

The best system seems to be a mix of both central planning and private markets.
Have to say this was a good write up. Having lived in London for 25 years of my life I am now living in Toronto on a holiday working visa for a development company. Never visited SF but the things I've heard about SF seems quite true. This is an Apples and Oranges topic, but being a former Londoner I have to say you will never be short of a job in the tech scene. To some degree I feel in the climate we live in Finance and Technology is what is running the heart of London right now.
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As a counterexample: Military logistics tends to be centrally planned/standardized, not market based, and while it's rarely efficient, part of that has to do with the environment (where P(success) > unit price; it's perfectly ok to have ammunition which is marked up 100x at the front line vs. manufacturer's door if you're certain to have enough at the right time/place).
It's something that has already changed. This is only happening because the iPhone in question is a 5C, which doesn't have a Secure Enclave.