skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time SF housing prices come up, someone comes out of the woodwork to say how (Boston | Seattle | Austin) is just as expensive or even worse. They then compare some 1500 sq ft penthouse in the nicest, newest tower in their city to some slightly less expensive 19th century shithole of the same price in SF and say, "LOOK! Look! It's more expensive in my city! And MILK is 50% more here too, so it's way more expensive to live here obviously."

Every. Time.
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You can watch the talk where they announced it at HOPE here: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/hopeconf/videos/130717... I saw it live and it was a pretty fun talk (also helped that it was midnight and the alcohol was flowing freely). Definitely check it out!
Isn't that the whole point of the linked article?
Wow...will this not pretty much screw hotel room security ? An employee can go and open your lock in 30 seconds and relock your luggage after stealing. How do you prove that someone from the hotel stole it ("sir we obviously can't open locks that only the TSA can")
Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here.

Here's a long article on why this is a bad idea:

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/
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Could be a book, series, article, podcast, blog.. anything :)
From my perspective, my wife has even crazier ideas than I do :-). Not to be dismissive of anyone's beliefs, but she is quite religious and I am rather opposed to religion on principle. She introduced me to many wonderful people from her church and I really enjoy their company. I will never be religious myself, though.

In the same way, she thinks I am a complete crazy person with this stuff. She doesn't agree with all of my ideas, but she enjoys the ones that work out. She supports me in trying to find the ones that work, just as I support her in being involved in her church activities.

She's Japanese and I'm Canadian and when we met neither of us spoke their other's language particularly well. It's always been a relationship where we need to work hard to understand each other and where we are surprised by the other's view point once we finally understand it. It's part of the charm ;-)
Do you realize that your AWS account can be compromised without something like this?
“Bublé Sort”
Why rich neighbors are bad for you
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A lot of people who don't want to lie (which may not be illegal, but I wouldn't recommend it personally) will get a starter pistol. They're cheap, small, safe (don't fire rounds, just blanks) and legally have to be declared as a firearm to fly. So you buy a starter pistol and stick it with your nice camera when you fly. It will be locked with something only you can open and will probably be handled more carefully in transit
Thanks for pointing me to this, this is amazing.
Not sure why this has been posted but I will say that as someone who works in planning and development I wouldnt be surprised if we see a return to company towns soon.

For all their faults they can potentially be hugely beneficial to employers and employees in driving down the amount of money put towards housing, avoid poor planning and design outcomes caused by the interface between government and developers and also can be planned for strategic locations where governments have not shown initiative.

Public housing could do similar things (and as a case study was a major factor in the econmic success of hong kong - for all its faults) and isnt a million miles away in what it does although is often considered very differently, but most modern governments shy away from this.
You're my new favorite person on HN. I haven't heard anyone word this so well. It's refreshing to hear the voice of reason.
Your rebuttal to this extensively-documented Wikipedia article is the chorus to "Sixteen Tons"?
Randomly generate a password for every site. Store said passwords in a password manager protected with one master password which you remember (taking the number of passwords you would have to remember from hundreds (impossible) to one (very possible)). Even using the built-in password saving feature of your browser is fine for this if you can't be bothered to use anything else. Chrome even has an option to generate random passwords for you.
There's a saying "Locks are to keep out honest people". That's basically it with suitcase locks. To keep your kids from playing with your stuff or your friends who might accidentally open the wrong one.
"it's not that bad if your sponsor doesn't steal your passport"

Your employer stealing your passport is something that generally only happens in a hellhole?
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It's not that I'm not interested. It's just that I respect their time too much to interrupt their important work for the selfish purpose of satisfying my curiosity. I'll have a chance to ask them casually when the time is right, or if I am dying to know, I'll take a look at their check-in messages.

If part of my work depends on theirs, or requires specific coordination, I'll use whatever mutually agreeable medium to exchange the information that is needed.

I've never really felt like I didn't know what people on the team were working on, despite not having a daily meeting or weekly status.

I don't get the blockers thing either. If I'm blocked, you're getting an email or IM immediately. I'm not going to wait until the weekly status email, or even the next day, to tell you. And I'm not going to bother the people who can't do anything about it.
But the point of failure is not likely to be your database of unencrypted passwords. Also if an attacker can get their hands on a password database which is stored locally you probably have more problems than just that.

Simply using the browsers built-in password saving capability with random passwords is still better than nothing (Chrome can even generate random passwords for you). Changing the password for one compromised site is better than having to change it for every site because of password reuse.
> I might consider it, if they weren't so obnoxious with the paywall

"If they gave me all the content upfront for free without ads, I would then choose pay for it".

You expect us to believe this?
Indeed. It's surprising to me that the Atlantic chooses not to document the Bodo League massacre. Rhee was a butcher, and our support of him is one of the great moral failings of the Truman administration.
removing firewalls has effectively no benefit; a non-root user can trivially download and run an arbitrary distro or package manager (e.g. nix from nixos, portage from a gentoo prefix, etc) and effectively do a chroot + package management without root.
Very interesting. I always had this fear in the back of my mind that reading books about personal development is useless since I can't retain the information long enough to apply at the right time.

Your method might just be what I need to do to get better at this.
There are thousands of problems in the world, and you, like all of us, are almost certainly doing absolutely nothing about the vast majority of them, even if you've picked a few that you do care about and are actively engaged in. Does it make sense for someone who has picked a different set of things than you to care about, to denounce you as an ignorant douchebag because you aren't fighting their fight?

If not, does it really make sense for you to call others, at the drop of a hat, ignorant douchebags for not fighting the battle that you've chosen to fight?
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The author is cherry-picking data to fit the story he wanted. There is no rhyme or reason to the items/products he chose. Comparing all iphone iterations to singular items doesn't make sense.
They give me no piece of mind. In fact I hate flying in the United States because out of the 20 countries I've flow in and out of, the US is the only when where I still get molested.

Even as late as 2015, on returning to America after not having hands stuffed down my pants in any other airport in the world, America still doesn't disappoint.

Fuck the TSA. Airport security should be handed back over to the airlines and airports.
Oh wow, that's substantially less than I imagined. Thanks for the hard data!
It's been a long time since I read it, but wasn't it all kind of about souls and soul mates and stuff like that?
Your comment really surprises me.
Can you explain this a bit, please? What are PEX lines?
VPNs in the UAE are now prohibited and you could face fines of up to $545,000
> Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here.

Strictly, the answer is yes. There is any reason; not sufficient reason compared to the reasons not to.
I'm surprised to hear you mention NY in the same context as SF. Has it really come up so much? I'm willing to believe they've developed a respectable industry out there, but so far as I have heard it's mostly just financial and ad industry stuff, nothing terribly interesting.
The beep-beep could be a lot quieter in general, just needs to have something so it's adaptive to the current ambient noise level. At the moment it has to be loud enough for any situation.
And that's probably why JS isn't higher... even for internal applications a LOT of UIs are web based these days, which means JS is involved to some extent... and a lot of those frameworks and tool sets are all JS. These days, I'd go so far as to say, if you're doing web anything, you should have some node too, as a significant amount of web tooling is node/js based.
The question is who upgrades their hardware faster, attackers or big enterprises? :)
A relevant, albeit bullshit, maxim is: "Those who aren't progressive at age 20 have no hearts, those who aren't conservative at age 40 have no brains." Perhaps certain parochial minds might assume everyone has heard that maxim, or even that everyone believes it?

It isn't really "shitty" to be under 40 or conservative.
Do companies exaggerate about their “culture”?
Am I the only one that finds videos like the one here https://vimeo.com/140080082 way over the top and probably insulting at times? They say things like (01:18) "no one here dares to be average" and "we think differently". Has Silicon Valley really lost its mind, or have I lost mine?
The frequency at which it happens to you is still interesting information, isn't it?
Whether the Northeast corridor is entirely or primarily owned by Amtrak is inconsequential.

The MBTA is a transit line. It's also in the Northeast Corridor, which, as I've already established, is quite different than the majority of the country. I assume you are from the northeast, so I understand your confusion regarding the status of Amtrak in the rest of the nation. In the majority of the country, Amtrak travels on rails owned by the railroads, and the railroads are very much not fond of passenger rail. They are forced to provide access to Amtrak as part of the agreement that allowed them to discontinue revenue passenger service. The railroads were obligated to provide revenue passenger service as part of a bail out in teh early 20th century.

I read your link and it literally has no bearing on anything I just said, because of the aforementioned fact that it is in the Northeast Corridor. Furthermore the agreement was signed in 2003, which has nothing to do with anything I am talking about. Third, the Northeast sucks for rail freight because the loading gauge is so small compared to the rest of the country, and population density is higher, so passenger rail is comparatively better there than elsewhere.

Your superior knowledge on the subject is merely illusory. I suggest you do some research into the history of passenger rail in the United States. I'm sure you are intelligent, but your attitude sucks. Here's some stuff to get you going:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_railroads_eligible_to_...

http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-hiltonamtrack... (warning, pdf)

Railroads took Amtrak to court over passenger rail scheduling (this article also gives a bit of a rundown of the conflict):

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060008220
Microsoft makes Windows 10 hardware change for PC security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene
Google has "snippets". You basically write up what you did last week. They aren't mandatory, but encouraged. I have found them useful because I can then just go through them and pick the things I want to write in my performance review. Before I started keeping snippets, I had a hard time digging up a sufficiently meaty list of accomplishments, because I'd just forget most of them. And you can subscribe to other people's snippets as well.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11260552
All the time. The more mediocre the company/leadership is, the more they talk about their culture.
You missed the first paragraph.
Definitely.

I don't think of it as a better awk, just a drop-in to minimize my cognitive overhead. It's basically Python-flavored awk.
I watched the show entirely on the strength of the title song; Netflix was playing promos for the show in the weeks leading up to its release, and I loved the music so much. It references classic 80s themes like Terminator, as well as horror scores from the era, but is still modern and interesting. It isn't merely nostalgic, just like the intro video sequence isn't merely nostalgic. They use modern techniques to manipulate classic imagery and sounds to come up with a thing that is both nostalgic and novel. It's awesome.

The show isn't bad, either, but the intro really is a perfect thing. It gives me that weird creepy feeling I got from Stephen King movies on VHS when I was a kid. I feel like the composers and the folks behind the intro should be getting higher billing in the credits. It's so integral to the success of the show.
I am not sure that a company can retain control of the town once a lot of employees start living there. The employees would control the government on the next election and start collecting tax from the company. This is probably one of the main reasons disney doesn't allow general employees to live in its company town next to Orlando.

But universities run a nice little business with student dorms and graduate student housing. I don't see why companies can't build apartments...
You're welcome. I can't claim much credit for 15 seconds of Googling; it's very distressing how most discussions related to electric vehicles on HN are fact-free.
SHA512/256 is also secure against length extension, which SHA256 isn't.
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There are two possibilities:

1. Women write the same books as men. Then it doesn't matter what gender the author of a book has (from the perspective of the reader who only cares about a quality reading experience)

2. Women write different books than men. Then it is possible that certain groups of people simply like books written by men better than books written by women. It could be simply a matter of subject. For example, fewer women work in tech, so maybe also fewer women write about tech. A crowd overly interested in tech would end up reading fewer female authors.

Personally I find it very hard to find worthwhile books at all. So if you could recommend some female authors that are great, I would give them a try. Atm I can think of two living female novel writers that are on my "read everything by that author" list, Fred Vargas and JK Rowling. If you can provide me with another name for that list, I would be grateful.
> Or sometimes you just really don't care.

Agreed. Hearing about the minutiae about someone's task is tedious. To me the daily scrum is like getting home and asking your significant other "how was work today?". Boring question, boring answer.

I definitely prefer the asynchronous approach. That way if I don't care about what you're working on (or vice versa), we don't need to waste time standing in a room together.
The intro sews it up nicely. The word I like to describe the feeling of watching that title sequence is "frission".
Yes but a white hat like you would probably give at least some hints on how to fix it or what vulnerability you have discovered, not just a screenshot showing that you have/had access.

I think just the fact that they didn't do this points to malevolence. I would expect the ransom demands to follow shortly.
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Thanks, I will give her books a try!
Vue is actually quite a good choice as Vue can be used for both SPAs & multi page apps and Vue is easier to learn.

Compare to:

- angular 1: marked as deprecated

- angular 2: Built for SPAs only.

- aurelia: Built for SPAs only.

- React: quite hard to get around your head as it uses completely different (although very powerful) paradigm.

IMO, his choices were limited to react and vue, and he chose vue because he found vue is better than react.
> Curious where you're getting that hourly without also doing coding.

Both startups and enterprises.

> Henry Ford once balked at paying $10,000 to General Electric for work done troubleshooting a generator, and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer who performed the work, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: "Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999." Ford paid the bill.
The assumption is that in the hypothetical universe in which my admittedly silly example takes place, "looking like a serial killer" is weakly correlated with actually being a serial killer, and presumably other negative traits as well. Therefore, in the absence of other information, harbouring a negative bias is entirely rational. It doesn't follow that you should simply trust your first impression; definitely seek out more information, if you can. What I'm saying is further information can degrade the accuracy of your opinion as well as enhance it, particularly if it is cherry picked.

Incidentally, I'm not sure what else you can base your opinions on, other than some weighted average of your life experiences and the opinions of those around you. Whether a radical xenophobe is correct for the "right reasons" or not depends on whether they came to that perspective by rational observation, and for a functioning democracy we have to assume on good faith that's the case, as distasteful as it may seem. The alternative is declaring their opinions wrong and forbidding them from voting.
Probably, and to refocus attention on iPhone, since the source of that drop is probably reduced MBP sales.
Flaws in wireless keyboards let hackers snoop on everything you type
Of course there are downsides as well, but they can be managed. When properly managed, the pros (ability to hire from larger talent pool, increased employee flexibility and happiness, focus on results rather than facetime) can outweigh the cons.
>Unfortunately, this excludes Scotland, which runs a different scheme that provides only a pass-or-fail-type conclusion.

From TFA...
When something is missing, you have a better idea if you lost it yourself or the TSA lost it for you http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/13/us/airport-luggage-theft/
I presume most iPhone users have owned several.
For those who find this interesting, Fordlandia is a book about Henry Ford's attempt to create a utopia in Brazil for employees sourcing rubber from plantations. Spoiler: it's a bit of a disaster. That said, a lot of its failings are due to the specifics of the location and lack of local knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia
thx @alatkins
Even just what you suggest is going to raise a red flag for anyone in HR, without a doubt. A "team player" would eat the company-provided food (... or would just shut up about it ... <-- this really is how HR and managers tend to think).

They might be fine if you merely said you'll probably bring your own food due to a special diet. But any inkling that you don't personally love the fact that they provide food means you're not on board with their culture.

And, if you go any further at all and suggest that maybe they should not factor in the monetary value of the food benefit when they consider your base salary offer or something, they will have a huge problem with it.

This is sadly not hyperbole, although I'm sure it's not this bad at every company. But I can say from firsthand experience of being treated quite poorly for being a vegan (and having to sit through many lunch meetings at which I was told there would be a vegan option and then there wasn't, stomach gurgling ten PowerPoint slides in), that you can never tell, and a non-trivial number of companies will simply not like you if you ever express a preference.
And the fact that it's going to be a movie just makes no sense. Unless they make a major departure from the original story, I just don't see how it'll work.
Comments like that second to last paragraph are why people compare apple to cults. Could you be less self aware?
Nobody does. It's ripe for submission to a literary theory journal.
Pretty sure he didn't read it.
+1 for snow crash. RPO is like "Snow Crash For Dummies"...enjoyable, but not the same.
Go watch recent talks by Herb Sutter and Bjarne Stroustrup--they both lament the fact that C++ never developed as strong a standard library as Python, etc. With C++14 and beyond the C++ working committee is actively trying to make the language and libraries more complete and comparable to larger libraries out there.
The lesson is son, never try. -Homer Simpson
Poor Eve. Always the villain.
>They have a history of trying to explain away their security problems as not really their fault.

I feel like I'm reading some person's pet Wikipedia page. If they do then at least give some examples. You can't just say damning things and expect everyone to take it at face value.
I also loved the intro, but I think that Netflix spends a lot of time/money on them. Daredevil is a good example of a striking intro theme as well.

I feel slightly bad after the first 3-4 episodes, when I skip the intro though.
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I shot for 1 book per month last year and got through maybe 9.5. This year I've been more productive and have hit 12 already. Granted some of the reads I've done have been small (like the MIT essential knowledge series).
Google launches Family Library
Does this really matter? Your statement is true for nearly every electronic device.
So, to summarise the thread -

1) talk to them and reward them

2) don't talk to them or reward them

3) you're an idiot

4) hire somebody expensive

5) don't hire somebody, they're a rip off

Thanks, HN, that clears everything up.
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At which point they should include Excel formulas and VBA since ladder logic also made the cut. That would be the winner by far.
What the hell is Arduino doing on that list. It's C++ with the Arduino Library.
But coldtea confirmed I was right that he is a socialist.

The reason I was able to correctly infer he is a socialist is he was following a familiar socialist-marxist position. This is that democracy in capitalist countries is a shame, everything that happens is decided in secret by the rich people, who control the media to trick the population to go along. According to this view, true freedom of speech and democracy are possible only under socialism.