skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a well-governed San Francisco could have positioned itself as the next NYC. The hub where all of tech gathers, the same way all of finance gathered in Wall St. Replace the 70 year old 2-storey homes with Manhattan style apartment buildings, and rent in San Francisco would have remained very reasonable, despite the rapid economic growth. This would have prevented exactly this problem where tech workers are forced to disperse to other mini-hubs, due to lack of capacity in San Francisco."

...or we could move to a sensible model, where software delivers on its promise and allows people to work anywhere. The cost of living here is the invisible hand of the market showing you that you're making a mistake by locating your company in the bay area. Yet the dominant techno-nerd narrative continues to be that the bay area has somehow made a mistake in not anticipating the bizarre fetish that global wealth has developed for local real estate since the early 1990s.

It's insane that an industry of otherwise-intelligent people insists on cramming itself onto a tiny peninsula with seismic development challenges, and I chuckle every time someone draws the comparison to New York, which has seven times the land area, a capable and efficient transit system that has been developed over more than a century...and one of the highest costs of living in the world. Development is not a panacea.

I live in SF, but I wouldn't make the choice to move here today. It simply isn't worth Manhattan prices to live in a city full of tech bros, where you can't get a good meal after 9:30. Increasingly, the choice not to locate your company in SF is a sign of competitive intelligence.
Mainstream cryptography is the new snake oil elixir.

Just replace cure-all-diseases secret ingredient from mysterious land with unbreakable secure algorithm that takes trillions of years to crack.

The algorithm is only secure under specific circumstances. The implementation might be not secure, the hardware it runs on can be tampered, the advertised security could only be the best case scenario but some protocols degrade encryption during handshakes... and you can start simplifying the thing by several orders of magnitude.
Wow, yeah that's definitely crossing the line. Personal equipment is just that. The company should have no say over how you use it or what it contains, only whether or not its allowed on the network. If there was a security issue with the laptop, it should simply have been blocked from network access (or never given access to begin with). Taking someones's personal laptop and holding it hostage falls on the wrong side of the line for 'theft', I would say.
Ah, half-floats. That explains it. Still pretty high but realistic at least.
As a software developer already living in Portland, I'm loving this. I have no quantitative proof, but it feels like, even as recent as 10 years ago, the high tech in the Portland area was very hardware oriented. These days it seems like there are more software startups, and more high profile software companies (Amazon, Google, Ebay) with offices in the area.
My hope is that the next step for WhatsApp is to add editing of arbitrary received messages in the client app. While the protocol provides plausible deniability of messages in the cryptographic sense, it's hard for someone who sent an incrimination message to argue that their layperson recipient someone modified the message when the app doesn't allow this to happen easily
I thought this was about people still misreading URLs more than 20 years since the popularization of the web as "example-dot-com-backslash-tour"

I've never understood that. The only way I could explain it in the 90s was because "computers use backslashes" due to the ubiquitousness of DOS and Windows paths. Now, who types a path on their local machine besides developers using a command line?
Is this what's been causing the very poor availability of GitHub today?

https://status.github.com/messages
It's not that I think their AWG isn't good enough, it's that I think a AWG isn't the answer to the problem they're addressing.
I just did exactly that on Windows 10 and it worked just fine.
And then there's the breweries!
GP was probably referring to turbo lag.

I love my 2014 Mazda 3's Sport Mode. When I hit that button, the engine goes from being more than adequate to chomping at the bit. It just flies. Love that thing. Paddle shifters so I can downshift without even moving my hands.

Test drive one someday, Mazda isn't kidding around with the "zoom zoom".
"Publishers in the beta may create sponsored content on behalf of or in association with brands. For some publishers, Medium will provide paid opportunities to execute high-quality native campaigns on behalf of brands."

I guess this is what happens when we all block ads.
Would that involve also adding smb://HOSTNAME as opposed to \\HOSTNAME?
Sounds awesome ... Good luck moderating that stream though.
Something more like openbsd's signify[1] tool seems like it would be a nice signing tool for git commits. Signatures and keys are small, due to use of ed25519[2].

[1]: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html

[2]: https://ed25519.cr.yp.to
Akthough this does work

dir "c:/*.txt" /w/o/s/p
You'd have to go REALLY back to basics... a lot of chipsets have backdoors themselves.. some of which the FBI ironically pushed for. So no matter how securely you make your own OS if you don't also make your own hardware it's all for naught.

Also if the government started making its own computers then private suppliers would raise a fuss about "big government" and hurting private enterprise. Also can you imagine the shitstorm ensuing from: "Government insists every tech company bakes in backdoors. Government then has to create its own computers because consumer models are too insecure."
> "in Silicon Valley, tech is the scene. If you go out for coffee, nearly everybody in the coffeeshop will be working on some tech startup. If you sit down at a restaurant, there's a good chance that the table next to you will have a group of engineers from some large tech company, or an investor being pitched by an entrepreneur, or a group of friends planning a startup. If you go to a random party - even ones thrown by non-techies - half the people there will work in tech."

Half sounds like an underestimate, probably more like 80%.

All of the above is why I left the Bay Area. I love tech, but geez. It's like loving chocolate and living in a chocolate house eating chocolate for every meal. I got about 6 months into that before a switch flipped and it became the most aggravating, insufferable thing ever.
Gotta love New Hampshire. Also no sales tax, too. Property taxes are high, but not outrageously more so than in neighboring areas of Maine and Massachusetts - which additionally have sizable income taxes and sales taxes.

I saved nearly $500 a month in taxes moving from Maine to New Hampshire, staying in the same job.
Plus if it's a taser, where the probes are shot out, you can potentially be "stunning" a small area of the body, depending on how far away they were shot from. The video in the article shows a dude impaled on a fence for 30 minutes high on this stuff. If that doesn't show you the kind of pain tolerance you get...
Generation loss: FLIF vs. WebP vs. BPG vs. JPEG
> There's no meaningful line you can draw between "I don't sell cake to gay people" and "I don't sell cake to black people". Both are explicitly illegal in most places and morally reprehensible in all.

I agree that both are morally reprehensible.

Can you see the difference between refusing to bake a cake for a gay customer and refusing to bake a cake with the message, 'congratulations to Tim & Steve on their wedding'? The first is about people; the second is about speech. I can live with protecting people; I cannot tolerate compelling speech.
Lambdaconf and Curtis Yarvin
Allow anything that passes basic validity checks, then send a nice email a few days later asking for updated payment info. This is easiest if you're a subscription service as you'll want to have a process for recovering customers with expired CCs anyway. This is assuming you're in the usual case where the paywall is to stop free riders and not to reduce your costs.
Achieving Team Buy-In in Product Management
I recently had to deal with this for writing a file format that mandates CR LF line endings regardless of platform. Thankfully, Python 3 makes it painless to deal with, once you track down how. For anyone who's been spared so far:

file = open(path, "w", newline="\r\n")
I am looking forward to OpenCL catching up with CUDA in maturity and adoption, so that NVidia's monopoly in Silicon for deep learning will come to an end.
The Race to Turn Gassy Hydrogen into Solid Metal
> Is there any advantage to allowing both Filename.ext and filename.ext?

Sorting by ascii order put capitalized files to the top of the list. Exactly where you should look for important stuff like README and Makefile.

Case preservation without case sensitivity is just dumb. Why bother, because it's pretty? Also, what's up with spaces in filenames? And furthermore, what are all these kids doing on my lawn?
You seem to be unaware of exactly how much weird stuff is in the advanced car brands (think Mercedes and Volvo). An alumni of my university line made a program for Mercedes that would compensate for side winds (such as when you meet a truck or drive over a bridge) so that the driver wouldn't notice. That's pure and delicious overengineering.
Between HipChat and Github failing constantly its become extremely disruptive to a lot of organizations. This is getting ridiculous.

$ git push
fatal: remote error:
GitHub is offline for maintenance. See http://status.github.com for more info.
>"There's simply little advantage to living right in the heart of a major city."

Depends on the city and what you're after.

Living in the centre of a city can bring lifestyle benefits, especially with fast and reliable public transport. Major cities with metro/subway networks can offer a massive playground of activities all without relying on cars. It might sound bizarre, but there's a certain freedom from moving through a city without using a car. In my experience cars rely on a fair amount of responsibility and effort, whereas public transport offers better opportunities to enjoy the journey.

In addition to that there's the social aspect. If you live close to where you work it's far easier to be social with your work colleagues after work. This can lead to a better sense if camaraderie with those you work with, especially if they live close to where you work too. Seeing as it's often the case that people work in the heart of a city rather than the suburbs, these are perks you're far more likely to get by living in the heart of a city.

There are certainly advantages to living further afield as well, but I hope you can agree the choice isn't one sided.
They're not. All that was mentioned in the talk was that this chip is coming soon.
I've just come back from two weeks in the Bay area to see a bunch of friends and they all do that. Even though I find it insane as much you do, I understand. There are a few good reasons though, from our very European and biased point of view:

* No need to own car, or at least no need to drive everyday.

* For a spouse on a H-4 visa and who thus cannot work, living in the city makes things easier and a lot less boring.

* Mountain View / Sunnyvale / Palo Alto / ... have pretty sad downtown areas, they aren't bike/pedestrian friendly, and they make you live in purely residential areas.

So they end up spending $3~4000 on rent to live in SoMa and be close to their company shuttle lines or the Caltrain station. Some can work during the commute, some can't.

My friends in Berkeley have it better (much nicer residential areas, you can bike to your Bart station). But then of course you need a job in the city or in Oakland (and even though things have supposedly improved a lot, it still looked pretty sketchy to me).
The CLK430 has a 275 HP V8 and the car weighs nearly 4,000lbs. That's not a lot of power for a vehicle of that size and non-AMG models aren't geared for acceleration. The surge you experience is probably the transmission down-shifting. On typical city driving the Mercedes transmissions seem to select gears 2 higher than what would be optimal for acceleration. In the AMG models they don't even use 1st gear unless the transmission is in Sport mode.

Glib solution: Buy an AMG and smile when you put your right foot down, but cry when you go to the bank...
I'm not super well versed in legal issues, but can conflict of interest be a true concern in two privately-held companies? (I'm not challenging your sentiment as much as I am genuinely asking out of curiosity/lack of knowledge.)
We ran a fairly prominent online store for two years, and had huge amounts of fraud from the countries you mention.

We essentially stamped it out overnight by giving false positives. If we detected and order as fraudulent (and you can do it in a number of ways, that you seem to be doing) - we'd show a 'Successful Order' page and send them a success email.

The guys that were pre-testing cards had bad data, and the guys trying to fraud would have to wait .. weeks to find out nothing came in the mail, and then try again, unsure what got them caught in the first place.

Personally, I'd avoid trying to interract with their card. Authing / voiding is going to cost you money, and if it slips through, you'll get a chargeback.

We only ever had one 'false positive' (or false-negative..?) - the guy emailed us inquiring about his order, we took some extra steps to check his card, and the problem was solved.
122-year-old company that makes sure our electronics don’t blow up
but is it a good thing? even if you're an engineer.
That's odd, I've browsed dozens of sites today and didn't get any notification permission dialogs. Perhaps you're exaggerating slightly?
The comments on the AVC blog are full of an unbelievable amount of ass kissing.

That being said, the content is solid and I read pretty much whatever Fred writes even though my focus is not on B2C.
Because an attack will need both your signing key/certificate and a plausible collision text.
Or a thousand seeds will be scattered to bloom in "out of the way places," creating employment and value for towns and cities all over the world.

Of course, that might not be in the Bay Area's interest but they seem to be voting firmly against it already.
fair point, not withstanding what these bots can know/learn about you and your preferences.

More importantly though, the general bot would have to connect to all those APIs...however, if each theater has their own bot, than perhaps the general bot can query those bots without integrating with them. So, I guess the question becomes, are bots useful to other bots..if so, than everyone will need their own bot to be found by general bots.
Summary of research http://www.forbes.com/sites/ekaterinawalter/2014/01/14/reapi...
Most people don't. Most people are annoyed by their browser bugging them to make decisions for things they don't care about or need. Notifications from browsers or web pages is clearly a poor fit, UX wise.
Twitter Gets NFL Thursday Night Games for a Bargain Price
Yeah. Tbh, at this point, I think sponsored content is here to stay as a serious funding model for publishers. I just hope its well marked.

People have shown they aren't willing [for whatever reason] to buy content with cash directly so the alternative is for it to push an agenda that is paid for with cash.
Me too. I really want to see some benchmarks between cuda code and opencl code generated from cuda with AMDs compiler.
Actually if anyone has a geforce/tesla get on this!
> If people didn't want web notifications, they wouldn't have been explicitly added in to the specs.

Which people? The developers or the end users? It's a cliché but I can't see my non-techie mom or dad, or cousins, aunts, uncles ever wanting website notifications on their laptop, not even for gmail.

So now everybody gets alerts to accept notifications so those 0.001% techies/devs who want them can use them? they could enable it themselves.

The _very few_ sites include also techcrunch and others. I see people thinking they got a virus because they're getting notifications on their OS by a website they've accepted by mistake.
I bet that a lot of cases will be prescribted yet (after 4 or 10 years) and that this information is known since many years so, the most interesting question here is... why now?
As a six pot aspirated driver, screw turbos, automatic gearbox and mileage. I'd either drive this car till it dies or until a volta makes landfall in my country at a reasonable markup.
>I appreciate that you have your own preference on this matter, but do you really think that most people don't like notifications? Most people want them.

A source for that?

What's a fact is that all people didn't had them for the first 15+ years of the web, and I've never heard people complaining about that lack -- whereas people always asked for faster loading websites, less popups, no auto-play for sound and videos, ability to turn off ads, etc.
99% is rediculous. Thats 7 hours per month.

with the amount of money they have raised, achieving 99% uptime should not be even close to a stretch for them.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/03/24/a-handy-uptime-and-downt...
> do you think that a person running a lunch counter should be able to refuse to do business with someone because of, let's say, their skin color?

I think such a person would be wrong, but that neither you nor I have the right to beat him for refusing to serve; indeed, if we use violence to compel him to work, then we have reduced him to a state of involuntary servitude — i.e., slavery.

So, let me understand: do you think people should be beaten and killed because they refuse to do business with someone?
Looking forward to hearing from you - my contact information is listed in my profile.
SO: FTP server has corrected files after an upload
> Any company considered a "defense contractor" will probably offer tools along these lines. They are in high demand.

Can someone show me the Seattle PD budget that has in it those kinds of purchases?

Can you show me where they'd at least hide it in the budget somehow? This isn't DOD black ops slush funds, after all.

Maybe these defense contractors do it for free, out of the goodness of their hearts?

I don't make the mistake of thinking that the government or its agencies are the good guys who would never do anything underhanded. But I feel pretty safe believing that they're A) incompetent and B) piss-poor strategists and C) not interested in anything but the current investigation.

The idea that they've Jason Bourned his computer is absurd paranoid blather.
> Also, what's up with spaces in filenames?

What's_up_with_spaces_at_all? Let's_just_join_sentences_with_underscores_for_clarity.
Having lived in London for a number of years before moving to NY in Jan, I have an intense, burning hatred of cab companies (whether it's the London black cab or New York's yellow cab). I will always, always use Lyft/Uber wherever possible. My reasons for hatred include:

- After arriving into JFK, I'd used up all my battery on the flight so decided, rather than wait to charge my phone at the airport, I'd get a local cab instead. The cab driver took me to Brooklyn.

We passed La Guardia.

After a heated argument, it still cost over 3x what it would've cost with Uber.

- Since I have a British accent, NY cabbies often assume I'm a tourist and will try and take the long way round (seriously, La Guardia?). I've had to correct them on more than one occasion about which route to take and they are always shocked when I start telling them which bridge to cross into the city or what street they should use.

- In London, I was out with some friends and one woman had missed the last tube home. Night buses from where we were wasn't an option, so we tried to hail a cab. After telling the driver where she needed to go, he told us to "fk off" and drove away. I requested an Uber for her and within 45 minutes, she was safely at home.

These are just highlights in the many terrible experiences of cabs, and my experience has been better with any ride sharing service. Why? Because customer ratings affect their ability to offer rides. Cab drivers have no such incentive, even if you call to complain with their medallion number. Unless the cab driver has done something illegal, I doubt anything happens.
Costs $129,000 and needs 3.2 kilowatts to run.
Long story short. Native advertising.
> Unfortunately now those 250K people who reserved a Model 3 could be driving a EV right now and making an impact instead of waiting for 3 more years.

This is a false dichotomy. As an anecdote, I started a 3 year lease on an EV two weeks before the Model 3 was announced and still put in a reservation.

Who cares if I can get a Volt for 33k right now? It still burns dinosaurs and has a terrible electric range.

Tesla is the press "darling" because it's doing something that the other manufactures aren't: Good looking, All Electric, High Range, Affordable Price. These are things people clearly want.

Every other vehicle sacrifices at least one of those.
Yes vipe is indeed useful for editors which do not support it by themselves. Personally I find a solution solely based on pipes without temporary files more elegant.

I should probably let dvtm fall back to vipe if it is installed. Also I will have to check whether there is an easy fix to make vipe+vis work.
the x86_64 psabi also requires eh_frame but it's actually not used for much except exceptions, stack unwinding, etc thus is mostly useless. Of course all of this is sort of moot with rust as rust requires eh_frame.. and the resulting bloat.
You don't need a Tesla, it's the same even on the low end EVs (and probably many of hybrids). Not having a wax pedal feels amazing.
For what it's worth, if anyone wants to open an MDN account to contribute (whether to fix a typo or document a new API), you can ping any of the admin types in irc.mozilla.org #mdn, and we can help you get an account set up.
> It's pretty clear the OP is a troll

I certainly don't believe I'm a troll; I think that I've posted reasonably compelling (if brief) arguments in favour of tolerance and against using the violence of the State against dissenters, and have decried PayPal's advocacy for intolerance and State violence.
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I'm not sure whether we've seriously considered Swift, but high bandwidth is important to improving our performance, one area in which Ceph seems to be the better choice [0].

[0]: http://www.sparkmycloud.com/blog/a-performance-review-of-swi...
So use a VPN, buddy.
Do you have a source on "vast majority of people ... believe backslashes are the way to go"?

And if you do, do you have a source on why?

Also, yeah, can anyone clarify what the deal with the max path length is? And why it's possible to create a path above the max length but not to simply delete it from the filesystem?
If you don't put up a login for your content on the site then it's free for anyone to read with or without Ads.
Two Types of Leaders at Work
If you are taking preorders, you've got mine!
Cant really stand fiesta interiors
I've thought about that, but as far as I can tell, it means about $10-$15k of equipment and a dedicated work room. I need a mobile-connected "smart" whiteboard for every team member, a good microphone, webcam, speakers, a separate computer + monitor devoted to video conferencing, and a team that is geographically dispersed rather than partially-colocated.

...and hopefully, everyone has first class redundant internet, something not guaranteed across the nation.
Funny you mentioned not being able to get a good meal after 9:30pm. That was the most frustrating thing about being in San Francisco for me. I hated that the whole bay seemed to shut down @10pm - almost as if everybody has to wake up the next morning to work another 12 hour day to pay the insane rent.....