skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, walking to work is definitely an option, a significant percentage of the population does exactly that, with biking being another very popular option for people that want to live in the suburbs. My commute to work in Seattle has always been walking, across multiple offices and companies.

Tech companies in Seattle are clustered in a few different neighborhoods, but most of them are walkable from their respective neighborhoods. That said, tech companies are slowly migrating toward the greater downtown area due to the gravitational pull of techies that want to live there. And everything in the greater downtown area is walkable if you don't mind walking (and people in Seattle don't). It isn't a small area.

Microsoft specifically, though, is still mostly on the "east side" (the metro area has a 88 square kilometer lake in the middle, Seattle proper is between the "west side" of the lake and the bay). Microsoft has offices in the major urban neighborhoods but still have a huge campus in Redmond (an east side suburb).
Link to the actual project's page: https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/public/
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New report shows rents falling in San Jose and San Francisco
He stepped down himself...
Not something that the average joe and jane can do.
>Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac ... do exactly that.

Actually, that's not exactly correct. What FNMA and FHLMC do is buy mortgages on a secondary market and securitize them into MBS securities, and provide loan guarantees. I'm sure you know that. I'm sure you also know that the goal here of those two is to make home loans more accessible to all of us. They are also GSE's, so I see the comparison to utility companies. OK, but if we think about it, are these enterprises necessary? What I mean is and what you have to understand is that the goal here is not: "let's lend people money for homes through heavily-regulated entities (banks) which do not then go and gamble with that money (what Glass-Steagall wants to prevent," which is what Krugman was discussing, but rather, "let's create a government sponsored bureaucracy that writes some contracts down on pieces of paper to manipulate market equilibrium in an effort improve home loan lending."

>They are abused by politicians

It is certainly true that politicians are prone to be corrupt, I can't argue with you there. You know everyone knows the expression, "as crooked as a politician." I think what we have to concede here is that there's no perfect solution here. Economics is, at its very foundation, not a natural science--it is about people, and people are never, and will never be, perfect. Some people are inspiring, but in fact, some people are awful. It's my belief that we should learn from history and not repeat the same mistakes, again, after we repealed Glass-Steagall and paid the price for it in 2008.
It's not Squeak/Pharo specific and it is about ten years old but I find "the art and science of smalltalk" one of the best (although it also covers a lot of OO basics)
This guy is hilarious
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Is geolocation still using Google Location Service or has that been replaced with a different provider?
At least that's the official story. Perhaps he was given a choice: resign or get fired.
Post from Brian Krebs about Google using Shield to get Krebs on Security back up and running:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/the-democratization-of-c...
It's already gg, man. Even if you don't use Google products, if the NSA or CIA want to know everything about you, they can. You have two choices:

1. Do unimportant things that don't intersect with the interests of the NSA/CIA/FBI

2. Do things that intersect with the interests of the NSA/CIA/FBI and expect to lose

Or, you could seek protection from other governments (read Russia), but that's essentially useless from a privacy standpoint because the US still knows almost everything about almost all foreign actors anyways.

Your best bet is to just do things deemed unimportant by the agencies that pull the strings.
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I noticed the other day that the AWS Lambda runtime environment has the sqlite3 binary already installed in $PATH.
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speak for yourself... my own ideal is about a half hour commute in mostly freeway traffic. I live pretty centrally in Phoenix, and my commute is usually against traffic both ways. I enjoy driving so much that most of my vacations the past few years have been road trips. Been up the Pacific Coast a few times, straight up through AZ-UT-WY-ID and back, etc.

I find driving relaxing, it's got just enough attention to be a distraction from the stray thoughts, and with music, enjoyable enough to work past any driving frustrations.
The average joe and jane will click on large "DOWNLOAD ME!" buttons and download torrents without an antivirus.
Chromium is free software too, but that does not justify any usage of Chrome. If you use Chrome, you can't justify it on Chromium being open source. As for Chromium itself, it is very obvious that it is not actually meant to be used by anyone: it has no stable releases, no binary downloads (except the nightlies published by the build system), and its website is hosted on nothing else than… Google Sites.
I was just about the recommend the same. This has done amazing things for me. See the book "Get out of your mind, and into you life".
Yes I know... I stopped reading Krugman. I don't know, it seemed like he used to give a shit and write informatively. Now he just tows the party line and even seems disingenuous at times to be honest.
No, he shouldn't have to learn to use them. When open source fails this type of thinking is often why. Firefox makes a product and therefore should improve that product so that more people want to use it.

Vendors in a market are rarely in a position to tell the customers in that market what they should and shouldn't do. We don't want them to be in that position either, even Mozilla. They have to improve their offering.

I for one also think that Chrome's dev tools are better and am 100% in the camp of wanting to see Firefox gain market share.
Here is the draft linked from the author's website:

http://incompleteideas.net/sutton/book/bookdraft2016sep.pdf
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Did Firefox fix their performance degradation over time yet?

Every time I try to switch back its fine for 2 weeks and then starts to get slower, like the internal database breaks or something. This is two weeks with 2-3 windows, with 5-20 tabs each, without restarts.

So far Vivaldi has been the best chrome replacement for me.
I guess this is where KrebsOnSecurity went to when moving to google cloud? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12574428
Yes it's still a major vector. The sheer size of the code base needed for a modern browser makes for a significant surface to attack.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/18/pwn2own-2016-chrome-edge-a...
Neither the article nor Hacker News are intended for the average Joe.
Mozilla is currently working on this: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/09/introducing-debugger-html/
You also need to enable them each time you connect.
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No. You DO need a good understanding of a computer language and of JIT compilers to understand the code base for any just-in-time compiler for that computer language.

LuaJIT is not a toy compiler from a textbook. There's a lot of inherent complexity in a production compiler that employs advanced optimizations and needs to work on various CPU architectures and operating systems. This reflects in the code.
The devtools were just overhauled recently, and Firefox is finally adopting a multiprocess architecture which will eventually lead to major performance and security improvements.
except the city and renters are paying their share to make your home jump from 300k to 900k and you still pay property tax over 300k.
When I read the title this is what came to my mind.

Lotus Improv on NeXTStep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbsfvdZXE7s
Presumably there is no attempt by the open source devs to trademark their work.
Interesting that this blog post is hosted on googles 'blogger' domain. Not that it means much, just that it's slightly ironic.
You must have missed recent HN news about google stripped build of Chromium - one that doesnt use binary blobs from Google.
Mint is a distribution for people who care more about actually using their computers than about ideological purity.
Entrepreneurship Is the New Politics
Thanks. I have quite a few services that only let me register one key. I always worry that if I lose my phone (or break it) I am going to be locked out.
This reads like: If you buy good real estate from someone who has a parking lot, you are encouraging people to buy good real estate. Better to buy a swamp an hour out of town and build your business there.
To point one - why would anyone buy or invest in real estate outside California which doesn't have prop 13 in that case?
Chrome has a process for each tab that's sandboxed so that most exploits would be trapped and unable to escalate out of the sandbox. Firefox has nothing like that yet, but it's coming eventually with the new multiprocess architecture that they're ramping up.
This part surprised me:

Many food shoppers have difficulty comprehending the scale and complexity facing modern farmers, especially those who compete in a global marketplace. For example, the median lettuce field is managed by a farmer who has 1,373 football fields of that plant to oversee.
A thousand times this. Ironically Firefox had this feature in the past ( I don't remember the exact version). My workaround is to start Firefox in anonymous mode always (Settings->Privacy->History->"Never remember history). But it's a workaround and I wish Firefox would be able to open links in an incognito window.
Chrome just feels considerably faster.

Page transitions, time to render, fast JS engine.
Firefox just feels clunky in comparison, sadly.
> Which people?

Reich and the guy from oculus who supported the trump group.

> Riddle me this

What is a "cake for a gay wedding" compared to any other kind of wedding cake? Is there same-sex marzipan I'm not aware of?

A baker refusing to bake a cake for someone because they're gay/Jewish is discrimination, and bigotry/racism (religious discrimination if you consider Judaism purely a religion and not an ethnicity/race)

Refusing to bake a cake for neonazis would also be discrimination. Refusing to bake a cake of a swastika isn't exactly the same thing - a swastika is imagery associated with one of the greatest war crimes of recorded history.

Also, you're in the wrong direction anyway. A business refusing service isn't the same as a consumer refusing to use a business.
Would your housing be tied to your employment? Most people probably prefer the option to change jobs without losing their home.
I don't want a world where "everyone with a controversial view" loses their job, but neither do I want one where no view is controversial enough to incur consequences.

If I had a coworker who habitually made racist statements, for example, and I liked my job, I'd want them to lose their job. That kind of work environment would be quite unpleasant for me and probably a lot of other people.

To generalize, I have no problem saying I want to live in a world where employers feel comfortable firing racists who openly air those kind of distasteful remarks. (I didn't say, "I think all racists should be unemployed," mind you.)

What constitutes "controversial enough to merit consequences" and what those consequences would be (i.e. the world as we now have it), that, I think, there'll never be a single set of rules. It'll always be up to contemporary society, the employer, etc.
This article convinced me personally to switch back to Firefox, but I'm disheartened by seeing a number of comments here which amount to "Firefox is fine," "Firefox is just as good," "The Foundation is fine," and so on.

That attitude is a recipe for shrinking market share. FF is competing against extremely well funded, extremely aggressive and competent competitors. You don't get to stop listening to the market in an environment like this. It will run you out.
Depends what you are building. Chrome seems to handle ionic and cordova better but I use Firefox for everything else
did you report it?

for regular users i don't give this kind of assine reply, but here on hacker news, i expect everyone used Firefox for a good decade before switching to chrome now, so i expect you did the minimum to the project and have at least abugzilla account to say "me too" on some bug.
.local will also cause massive delays if you have a mac on your network
but i like Chrome
A decent response here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5vJyI_HcU&t=45m30s
Firefox has sandboxing for tabs as well, and has had it before e10s.
What always strikes me about these pleas is how familiar they sound. They're reminiscent of all the things we "should" -- eat better, exercise more, lower our carbon footprint -- and I suspect they all see just about the same level of long term success.

Firefox did well when their only real competitor (MS) was actively trying to make their own browser bad in order to preserve the relevance of the desktop OS and their dominance in that area.

Now that they have a competitor (Google) which is actively trying to make their own browser good in order to increase the relevance of online services and their dominance in that area, Firefox hasn't fared so well.

I don't necessarily disagree with the author of this post, but it doesn't seem like moral high ground alone is going to make Firefox any more successful than the other things we "should."

What I wonder about is what larger systemic or structural shifts would have to occur for Firefox and the other "shoulds" of the world to have a chance.
It owes something to PostgreSQL but it's the syntax, not the source code. I quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#History

Hipp based the syntax and semantics on those of PostgreSQL 6.5. In August 2000, version 1.0 of SQLite was released, with storage based on gdbm (GNU Database Manager).
I can't take anyone serious who rants about google's marketplace dominion but can't seem to migrate from blogger to wordpress self-hosted. Sorry, it's just overly ironic, and it's also hard for me to take bloggers on blogger serious as there's a lot of crap blogs on there. Every dominant player eventually falls, Microsoft owned the browser, search, email, docs, and os back in 2000 -- now they're practically irrelevant.
one thing is that the influence on standards will be pretty strong if you have the "main" implementation. So it requires trusting Google to go the right direction.

You can contrast Google's "the web as apps" with, say, Apple + Safari's more "web as documents + prettiness" approaches.

With at least 2 major implementations, even if Google doesn't want to do something, if Apple + Moz + MSFT does something, it's still possible to get it into the standard.

You can try getting into the standard without a single implementation but that's probably difficult without a vote of confidence from stakeholders
I haven't seen a discussion with that many downvotes in a long, long time. Downvotes for no apparent reason.

Either there are a lot of Google employees here on HN, or a lot of Google fanboys. Or both.
Microservices, here I come
It's so interesting to see how workflows differ between different people. You say "a thousand times this", but I for one never have this issue because I never (have to) click on an external link to be opened in my browser.
>I could imagine it might make them (gay employees) uncomfortable,

Nobody likes being uncomfortable, perhaps having gay employees made Eich uncomfortable too. But I don't remember hearing about him forcing anyone out of the company or discriminating against anyone under any circumstance.

To prevent his employees from feeling uncomfortable should the government allow Eich to stop hiring gay employees?
If the open source tools are worse than the other ones, then sure, they should be improved. But I have no reason to believe this is the case here.
If I could reliably run a newer OS on an 8-year-old iMac, I would. But since I can't—and because the only thing I use the machine for is web browsing—the relevant question is which browser will be the safest.
I wasn't impressed until I messaged Google Assistant a photo of my tabby cat (no text, just the photo), to which the assistant responded with search suggestions about tabby cats. While not breaking new ground by any means (I mean this and more have been done before), it's very cool to have it in my pocket, as it were, and I'm going to keep Allo installed for now just to see where the Google Assistant goes.

Really wish I could handle SMS messaging from within Allo so I wouldn't have to switch between apps to talk to people. It's bad enough that my colleagues use WhatsApp and two groups of my friends use Slack and Facebook Messenger, respectively.

I really don't understand Duo though. It's a nice little app and also nice to have a cross-platform alternative to FaceTime (which I've never used precisely because the majority of my friends do not use Apple devices) but Hangouts did video already, why not just rebuild Hangouts from scratch as Duo and Allo in one app?

Yes, I realise this is the question that has been on everyone's lips and has been asked many times before and after the launch of these apps. I've still yet to see a sensible answer though.
I for one commend Eich, for putting on his big boy pants and owning the consequences of his actions.

He held an unpopular view, acted on it, and people weren't happy with him. Far better to step down and let the organization right itself, than to try and hold onto his position and his retrograde views simultaneously. Shows real class.
I still use .dev for the majority of sites, I'm pretty pissed that Google was allowed to appropriate it! It has so far bitten me on the ass once when a CDN was involved (the CDN resolved it to Googles servers so the failure wasn't detected - causing numerous invisible problems).

I think I will probably go along the route of assigning a domain to my local network
Yes! In 1948, Shannon proposed using a Markov chain to create a statistical model of the sequences of letters in a piece of English text and this model can be used to generate random text given some existing text. (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr05/cos126/ass...). Here is a GitHub implementation: https://github.com/jsvine/markovify Deep models like LSTM/RNN can probably produce better results.
If this is your only or main issue with FF, it can't be that bad.

I tried Chrome from time to time and the endless processes eating up an immense sum of RAM (I had to add together first to realize) as well as the missing addons drove me away.

I never considered myself a participant in the ideological browser war and whenever I have to fix a computer somewhere around my friends and family (besides my parents) I left Chrome on their computers. It somehow always is there. Installed through Avast or similar. This annoying and disgusting behavior and the fact that Chrome wasn't anywhere faster or better led me to the conclusion that there is no better browser for me then FF.
The article I read said the database of dangerous goods was not adequately maintained.

I can't find it now. The BBC item has more detail though: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37454587
I think you missed the point. I for one can't stand the chrome dev tools. I use Firefox largely because i prefer the dev tools there.

So, the point is, it's possible there is no real difference and it just comes down to personal preference or what you're used to. At least, that was the commenter's point which you didn't address.
Building efficient rail networks is one of the most interesting parts of the game. OpenTTD extends TTD with "presignals" and "path signals" which allow much better junctions and stations.

https://wiki.openttd.org/Signals

https://wiki.openttd.org/Building_railway_stations

https://wiki.openttd.org/Advanced_signalling_examples
It's not quality of Firefox.

On desktop it's google having (almost) monopoly on search and abusing it market its other products.

On mobile, it's Google abusing its power over the platform to make OEMs use Chrome in the same way MS pushes OEMs to ship Windows and Secure Boot and various other shit.

Firefox could be perfect (and it isn't, because what do you know, developing good software takes insane amount of money) and it wouldn't help.
Overall in agreement with you, but a few thoughts:

> And let's be clear: the property owners wind up with most of it. Those of us living in the Valley, and commanding salaries that sound positively royal to the rest of America, are not actually living much (or any) better than most Americans.

As long as you don't want to be living in a massively large house, living in the Bay Area is going to beat being in most other places for several factors.

a. Depending on your preferences, the Bay Area is one of the best, if not the best, places to live in the United States. It offers moderate weather, access to outdoors, excellent air quality, access to culture, a variety of job options, and a good tech ecosystem.

b. An average salary of $210k for a married couple is large even with the higher rents here. That's about $140k post-tax and after 2 bedroom rent in say San Francisco, you still walk away with $86,000 disposable a year.

> Most of the additional value we create by working for these high-tech companies is being siphoned off by property owners.

Some is, but not most. Per my note above, an SF resident might pay an average of $15k more per year for a 2 bedroom than they would in "average America", but that's not most of the added post-tax salary an engineer gets here.

> it still protects those on fixed incomes from being forced out of their homes by property taxes

Can someone actually get forced out of a home by property taxes due to value increases? A tax rate of 1.25% takes 80 years to consume the value of the property. If you just take a reverse mortgage against the additional value, wouldn't that protect you for life?
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Some businesses add significant value, and they're aware of it. Whenever Whole Foods, Costco or even Walmart moves into a commercial plaza, the business activity around that area gets a significant boost from all of the foot traffic and destination shopping. Restaurants, gas stations and other big-box stores try to locate nearby to capture a chunk of that activity.

If you penalize Costco or Wal-Mart by taxing them on the land value that they themselves appreciated and make them the victims of their own success, they will move to the next closest town that will guarantee some tax breaks, and perhaps you as a city official can then extract property tax from a parking lot with a bunch of "for lease" signs and a pop-up Halloween costumes store.
In other news we now know it at least ~700Gbps to shut down companies hiding behind Akamai.
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