skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This response just shows you are unfamiliar with these types of encounters or at the very least accepted behavior in such situations.

In one area I used to live in the general "proper" behavior when you are approached by street vendors or beggars was essentially 3 phase.

1) Ignore unless you intend to buy or give. This means you do not reply to anything they say or even make eye contact.

2) Engage verbally or even just visually. This means you intend to buy or give. Now you will be pressured and given an aggressive sell/ask.

3) If it was a mistaken engagement or you don't reach an agreement you MUST aggressively exit. This often means yelling, possibly swearing, and in some cases even putting your hands on someone and even verbally threatening in bad situations.

I spent a significant enough amount of my childhood growing up in this type of culture. My wife was always from a small city. When we later moved I explained to her that this was a big cultural difference than she was used to and the expected way to behave in these situations.

Being from a small city she thought this was disrespectful and continually made things, putting it lightly, more difficult for us.

Eventually it actually put us in a situation that escalated to being dangerous. A seller that she responded to with small talk became very angry that she had wasted his time. He then got in her face, put a hand on her shoulder and started screaming at her.

At that point I ran over, pushed the man off of her and said, "She doesn't fucking want anything. Now get the fuck out of our faces before I have to kick your ass."

After that happened she finally took my advice.
Do you see a lot of connections in TIME_WAIT? If so I'd just bump up the ephemeral port range via:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range (or sysctl -w)

But if you're not getting recycling of TIME_WAIT, you can start to change the reuse/recycle attributes (caveat emptor) with:
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse
or
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle

I know I have been benchmarking a servant app by throwing 2048 concurrent connections at it and just bumping up the ephemeral range has been enough for my needs.

I tend to run out of socket FD's or just FD issues a lot quicker than ports.

Just a thought, but 50-100requests/second doesn't sound like too big of a deal. I did a quick bench of what i have setup and I get this:

# wrk --latency -c 128 -t6 http://10.0.2.15:8080/foo/bar/
Running 10s test @ http://10.0.2.15:8080/foo/bar/
6 threads and 128 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 3.46ms 5.25ms 137.42ms 90.23%
Req/Sec 9.84k 2.13k 19.67k 69.50%
Latency Distribution
50% 1.65ms
75% 4.40ms
90% 8.59ms
99% 22.17ms
589624 requests in 10.07s, 476.28MB read
Requests/sec: 58560.86
Transfer/sec: 47.30MB

Note, this is a static end point so take all these figures with blocks of salt. But by tuning what I said I can have wrk do 2048 concurrent connections reasonably with just a fair increase in overall latency. YMMV
To convince yourself that you live in a perfect meritocracy where anyone who fails does so solely because of moral deficiency or laziness is the most dangerous delusion you could inflict upon yourself. The story of millennials playing video games in mom's basement conveniently fits that narrative of moral outrage.

In fact there is a growing group of people who, being force to work in sectors where they compete with overseas workers who are brutal exploited by ruthless dictatorships or, to a much lesser degree, have their work obsoleted by technology, realize they have no hope of a 'normal' life. No hope of home ownership, of giving their kids a better life via college and who look at an old age of likely homeless or at best extreme poverty.

If we continue to disregard the problem of lack of mobility and the inequalities the current economy is producing, it will be forcibly fixed for us in catastrophic ways and we will end up with political extremism that dwarfs the current election cycle.
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> Now people start asking hard stuff - but engineers (I intentionally do not say developers) who know answers on these questions are not interested in answering.

I can't speak for others, but in my case it is not for lack of interest. I don't have enough 'reputation' to be allowed to answer questions and am too busy to find earning it a good use of my time.
This is really a much smaller problem if you stick to languages outside the churn'n'burn whizzbang web world. A lot of answers from the Java 1.6 era, or about .Net 3.5, or Python 2.7 are still largely relevant. Best practices in C/C++ have been even more static, aside from a few additions in recent modern standards that few seem to actually use.
I'm not sure what you mean by "killing a post with one word", but (a) users flagged that post (that's what "[flagged]" means), and (b) the problem with it ran all the way through it. I just quoted a sample.
For me in Texas, I am kicking myself for paying $800 rent a month for 4 years now (so I've "given" $40k to my landlord). That 40k I've given away would be really nice to help me do a down payment on a house I'd like to buy (or anything I'd like to buy). But if I was "giving" away $7k a month, I'd be really kicking myself...
The danger of leaving a kid in the car is heat if it's warm outside. That may or may not have been a reasonable concern based on the circumstances.
I think it has more to do with the fact that we've all wasted countless hours cycling through domain names only to encounter landing pages from squatters like park.io.
I toured an open house in Sunnyvale yesterday to have a look at what $1.7M buys you these days. 1900 sq ft, four bedrooms, two and a half baths, a nicely remodeled kitchen and a small patch of yard. And I asked the realtors if they expected to get any offers. They already had offers but they are waiting until Monday to sit down and sift through them. And then the big question, could they describe the type of people buying these houses?

The answer was couples where both parents worked in the tech industry with a combined income of over $300,000. Usually one child and often one on the way, many have houses already further away (Livermore, Gilroy, Morgan Hill) that they are selling.

Now that is unscientific, it is the experience of one broker who is sitting in one open house, showing the house to prospective buyers and gently quizzing them on their financials in order to understand if they are good prospects or not. But I can see other evidence that its probably accurate, the folks moving into my neighborhood fit that profile. A lot of people looking for "good schools" because if you don't pay private school tuition that saves you $15,000 per kid per year you can put into house payments.

My point being that the houses are being listed and sold in a short time frame. That suggests that the housing market is pricing appropriately for the buyers. That there are more buyers than houses pushes up the price and pushes out the buyers who do not earn as much. However, unlike San Francisco, there is a lot of residential building being put up on the peninsula and south toward San Jose. Across a wide spectrum from apartments to condos to single family attached, and single family detached. Sunnyvale has a ballot measure (https://sunnyvalepubliclandsact.com/) that is seeking to limit how the city can transfer park land to developers to turn into houses (or hotels, or office parks). That measure is an artifact of all the building that is going on.
Not having native scrolling to read an article on the phone is incredibly annoying...
That's clever price manipulation. Detect when someone wants something ... triple the price.

Some aspects are different, but reminds me of a similar tactic Network Solutions pulled back in 2008 wrt to listening to domain name searches then raising their price: https://techcrunch.com/2008/01/10/network-solutions-using-qu...
I am not dismissing anything, and I am, instead quite worried. I am sorry that you had the wrong impression.

What I meant to say is that handling such a large site is like playing whack-a-mole. Seeing problems popping up is not a symptom of decline. Is a symptom of size.
"Probably because it's true in most cases. Most people don't have a deep understanding of even a single issue, let alone multiple.
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What evidence do you have of this?

As far as i'm aware, research studies basically show that providing more facts one way or the other only makes people's convictions stronger. It doesn't change their minds that often. It's actually incredibly hard to change people's minds.

Now, you are free to argue this is completely irrational, and i'd 100% agree.
But it does mean that people know what you know and understand what you understand and still disagree. Whether that makes sense to do so or not.

See, e.g., http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/37/11/2098/ and pretty much every study since.

Another example: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n10/full/nclimate1...

"Members of the public with the highest degrees of science literacy and technical reasoning capacity were not the most concerned about climate change. Rather, they were the ones among whom cultural polarization was greatest. This result suggests that public divisions over climate change stem not from the public’s incomprehension of science but from a distinctive conflict of interest"

Like I said, i'd strongly argue comprehension is not the problem.
Until people realize that is the case, and stop just dismissing anyone who disagrees as ignorant, nothing will change.
You are asking an unreasonable question; could the Luddites have predicted the economy of 1900, 1950, or 2000? If we have never been capable of making an accurate forecast, it would be unreasonable to expect that today.
As a young(late 20's) Software Developer and San Francisco resident who loves the weather(who doesn't love yearly temp range of 50-70) and the city feeling(being able to walk/muni everywhere), what are some alternatives?

My wife and I are DINK's, so the suburbs are too sleepy for us, and we've done the driving life style in the South, which we hated.
I am extremely socially oriented. I think there is way the hell too much cult of personality on HN as is. I thought the addition of the date was an elegant response and I was impressed that my comment was quickly responded to by Dan Gackle, the lead moderator, because I was in no way critising titling practices on HN when I made the observation. I was critising The Paris Review.
Why do you state your opinions as if they were facts? I moved out of state 5 times as a child. It wasn't that bad. It is actually normal if your parents are in the military or work in the oil and gas sector.

Also, it is incredibly hard to evict tenants in SF or Oakland. People routinely live in the same apartment for 20+ years.
My pre-SO experience was similar to yours, but things change, and alternative forums improved a lot.

I'm not saying there's any generic forum better than SO out there. But they are not that far behind anymore.
You have all typical problems of Lua non-user.
First of all, if someone wants to answer that, more power to them.

I'm talking about stuff like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378959/is-there-a-static-...

Good work closing that one!

> Side note: don't pass judgement on stuff or people you don't know. It's quite insulting.

You don't know who I am so I'm not sure why you think I wouldn't know about community management or content generation. I'm simply telling you that calling your users names is insulting. It's good advice not a reason to attack me.
To put it bluntly, you want to "sell an idea" that has no validation, no product, no customers, no reputation, no branding. No one is going to pay for that Idea. That is the honest truth and you know it already.

If you do want to validate the idea, you have to put something together. If you can write code, build a working prototype. Show it a few people.

I will tell you a secret. Ideas are worthless but a working prototype can be worth something. I know a close friend who built a tool and had no clue how to market it BUT he was able to find a buyer for a good amount. Not an actual business yet but he has offered 6 figures for that tool.
>> (the pigeon hole principle, actually).

IE if there are 10 houses for rent and 11 people want to rent, there will be one house in which will have two people trying to rent it.. lol
Everyone's motivations are different, but seeing as though domains are always going to become available, it seems like a cash cow that requires minimal upkeep.
> moderation system that cares about how it makes people feel

Definitely something that's very much needed. But I don't think anyone knows what it would look like and what the distribution of emotional labour would be.
Yes, SO search is average quality. Therefore I add site:stackoverflow.com to all my google searches.
> * You are isolating them in a relatively small space with one another. * You have uncontrolled population growth. * You are using a species that naturally trends towards "clan wars" for territory. * They are rats, and thus have nothing productive to do with their time in the absence of survival.

Are we talking about rats or humans now? Only your fourth assertion is rat specific. All the other observations are true of the human condition. We now have 7.4 billion human beings in the world right now, and it's the developing countries, you know with clan warfare and living in relatively small spaces that have uncontrolled population growth.

> Also, it is incredibly nihilistic to think that human beings need to toil to survive or else life is without meaning or we will collapse society.

Just because it's nihilistic doesn't mean it doesn't hold truth. It seems that your objections are rooted more in your worldview and philosophy rather than objective arguments you're bringing up. They even bring up this point in the experiment, where he mentioned the "beautiful ones", who forgot how to breed and spent all day grooming themselves.

> We already know that in first world countries people reproduce less. That isn't even a function of economic well being directly but a function of education, which relates precisely back to how humans aren't just animals acting on instinct.

I don't think it's a function of education. Do you have a citation? You could easily read this as saying, people in the first world are incented not to have children, as they have seen how children generally make parents unhappier and would prefer against that.

> It is the same mind that elevated mankind above all other animals that can stop us from destroying ourselves as we eliminate survival as a daily concern.

I think that's where the difference lies between our points of view. I think that most people are creatures of instinct, and our conscious mind is constantly trying to justify our actions after the fact with logic. If we really have elevated minds, how come many intelligent and educated people have differing opinions on things? Why are we still debating global warming, and having wars over religion?
Domestic labor for highly productive individuals. If you are a high productivity software engineer, trader or doctor, there is no reason any of your time should be devoted to driving, doing laundry or cleaning your bathroom.

Also, I'm not sure where your "160-250 million people" comes from. That's exactly how many workers there are today, many of whom are in no danger of having their jobs automated.
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Or maybe the pinning isn't for IE, but for Windows sending MS hidden information it doesn't want you to know about.
You know what's scarier than anything else happening these days? The fact that showing even the slightest hint that one holds the wrong opinions can cost you your job.

Note that I'm not endorsing any side or candidate in my argument here (I take issue with both of them.) What I don't understand is how people can contribute to this situation and still think we live in a free country.
Is Mike Pall independent? I assume many companies have tried to hire him.
Yeah, he has a whole rant about referral sites generating traffic but not interest. It's actually a good read, if a bit sour. However, I don't think that should color the opinion of the book, as it still is one of the best modern, freely available typography resources around (in my opinion).
Why the .io domains for everything?
How to survive life
Step One: Don't get too close to anyone
You didn't raise any problems; you postured above others. I don't know if the bottom of the thread counts as 'under the rug', but it's a reasonable place for that sort of comment, since it's so off-topic, common, and generic. (I'm talking about just the second paragraph btw.) Snark is also deprecated.

I understand how frustrating HN can sometimes be, and how easy it is to get stuck on a picture of the community as a super-annoying arch-enemy, but it's incongruent to use HN to comment that way, since if you're commenting here, you're as much a part of the community as anyone else is.
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Similar situation and I like some of the same things, I went for Amsterdam. It's nice.
CloudFlare is saying all the right things in this relevant blog post:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-free-speech/

I'm fairly optimistic that they mean it -- and that if they don't, playing censor would be way more trouble for them than it could ever be worth.
> "driving, doing laundry or cleaning your bathroom."

All of which can be automated.

Furthermore...

> "highly productive individuals. If you are a high productivity software engineer, trader or doctor"

None of those jobs are safe from automation either. Your personal productivity means diddly squat compared to fast automated interconnected machines that can teach themselves. Engineers and traders are just as expendable as the rest of us.
>> My point being that the houses are being listed and sold in a short time frame. That suggests that the housing market is pricing appropriately for the buyers.

I'd call that a seller's market. Houses may be selling quickly because of a lack of supply and elite buyers are moving asap. A buyer's market would be one where buyers are not in a hurry, one where houses stay on the market for a while, negating any need to bid high and fast.

I'm currently in the ultimate seller's market (Vancouver, north shore) with a <1% rental vacancy rate and houses selling within hours. I laugh a little at the prices in the OP. 1.7m won't get you much in my neck of the woods. Some 35 new apartments (2Br 2Bath) in west van just pre-sold for 7.5m each. And they haven't even broken ground on the building. The city/province is starting to take drastic steps as the young flee and shops close. The market is in a bit of a panic, but that is what drastic steps were meant to do.
Hey I'm not trying to be snarky, but I'm trying to understand your point of view.

You didn't "give" 40k to your landlord. You paid him for the use of his property, which presumably gave you shelter, kept you warm, gave you a place to park your car and keep your stuff, and he would fix anything that went wrong.

That, to me, would like be me kicking myself for "giving" a hotel a couple hundred dollars for a room for a couple of days.

A house provides you with shelter and warmth, and presumably provides these things to your family. You're paying money to take advantage of these things. Why is renting so much different from buying?
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The interview mentions parked domains as the major lead generator... are those domain names owned by park.io or by its clients?
i think that censorship had an element of arbitrariness; for example it is strange that they let this one through. (also i guess 1968 was bad timing because of a clampdown that followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDtxGnYPTQ

Also they had some quite surrealist animations during the seventies, like this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAWPgwSWEco

or this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVtJudhNXiY
Less than a quarter of SF tenants have kept their apartments for 10 years. We may have different definitions of "routine".
Correct way to validate email adresses
Just buy (and read) a book :-)
> I don't know how you solve that problem.

Not replacing it with a single site, with a single community and centralized moderation can help a lot.
What I really want is a good microscope that I can hook up to my DSLR. It would be really cool to get one that can resolve around 20 megapixels.
Owning a home and raising a family without killing yourself commuting is basically the American dream.
Oh that would be awesome, maintain a list of previous spammer emails then generate the responses from a random one of those.
Really? You think that's more realistic than just taking it from the top 0.1%? There was a time in this country for nearly 40 years where the top tax bracket was above 75%, and for quite a while it was 91%, and for a short while it was 94%. Basically it was a policy of not letting a small number of people take all of the marbles. There is, in fact, a way to avoid that tax, it's called start a new business or expand one - those costs are tax deductible. The problem is tax policy at the top end is basically saying some tiny number of people can be hoarders, not innovate, and then aristocratically hand it off to their kids in the form of trusts that don't pay inheritance tax.

Very possibly some kind of basic income would help people be more mobile, move from expensive cities to less expensive cities. But I also think as likely is higher taxes would incentivize the very rich to invest. Rich investors = good. Rich savers = bad.
nyc is significantly cheaper. Three minutes on trulia found multiple yorkville/ues 1bed doorman units under 6 minutes from the 86th st express stop for under $650k. Add in not needing a car and it's a lot cheaper than living in sf/peninsula.
Could you please expand on what went wrong? :-) Thanks.
Its crazy that SO isn't able to spoon fed devs answers to their specific need based on solutions to other people's specific needs. If people would put it in these terms they would realize they should have to read a bit and have to earn their solution to their problem. Frankly, even if the most upvoted answer looks correct I still take the time to read all other answers, comments and perhaps a few other similarly related questions. Perhaps I am unique in this but I also find myself rarely relying on SO first and usually as a last ditch resort for odd scenarios.

SO has consolidated a massive amount of information and is a great resource. People expect too much of words though and should have to do some work themselves.
Old shipping containers will be turned into small apartments for the homeless
They are well-intentioned but misguided about the true causes of housing shortage, which are more related to statewide factors like Prop 13 than local ones.
I'm not sure what the right answer is but I agree duplicate answers allow me to garner different perspectives or approaches to the same problem. This can be very helpful as you might be missing a simple parameter that makes the checked answer not correct in your situation.
Ah, thanks for the clarification.

The site itself may not be in decline, but I am worried it may head the same direction as Wikipedia (successful, but losing active contributors.)
It's not exactly a reply, but in nearby Fremont, there's more going on than Californians relocating from nearby commuting communities. There is a non-trivial amount of money coming in from other countries to bid up property as well. Offering my own anecdote, I received a flyer in the mail about a year ago from a local realtor who is well known and has a sizable business (I don't want to promote him by naming him here). He explicitly stated in his flyer that sellers should dress their homes specifically to market to Indian buyers, because Indians made up 90% of his buyers at the time.