skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We needed Teddy Roosevelt trust busting like that 7 years ago, preferably from someone without a lot of money in competitors of Time Warner (although Teddy wasn't the poorest chap).
Housing of all sorts is plain expensive. A regular house in a decent family-friendly neighborhood in San Francisco costs millions of dollars.

Just an apartment is already over a million.

http://www.zillow.com/noe-valley-san-francisco-ca/
I wouldn't say so:

PS D:\> (resolve-dnsname -name netflix.com -type ns).NameHost

ns-1372.awsdns-43.org

ns-1984.awsdns-56.co.uk

ns-659.awsdns-18.net

ns-81.awsdns-10.com
'Unprecedented' cyberattack involved tens of millions of IP addresses
How do you get to enlistment age in modern western society, where every second movie and video game is about military guys blowing things up and massacring wave after wave of lemming-enemy, without thinking that the army is there to kill people? If you're in a non-combat role, you're still there explicitly to support those in a combat role.
The problem here is there's nearly zero incentive to do it right. I mean, ok, let's say the worst - somebody breaks in the box. For a regular person, worst thing somebody would get access to their DVR. As long as it keeps working as DVR, they couldn't care less. Yes, this DVR would also serve as botnet bot, but the owner doesn't care. It doesn't hurt them - except when Twitter goes down but they don't make the link between them not configuring the DVR properly and Twitter going down. Until we find a way to make the incentives work in right direction, nothing really would change...
https://web.archive.org/web/20161022220033/http://hub.dyn.co...
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A) Depends on how cheap you can get a new or re-manufactured cartridge...

B) How easy is it to install drivers for the new printer on your existing hardware? (which can be a big factor if some of your hardware is multiple OS generations old)
That's because Toronto has no problem allowing lots and lots of new skyscraper condos to increase supply.
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This mirrors my experience. And for public companies, the Board of Directors are not attuned to these outcomes. For the most part B2B customers are in the same boat so everybody feigns an uncomfortable laugh, some moderate outrage or displeasure, put out a silly postmortem without intent to rectify the culture that enabled it, and continue collecting an outsized salary. I adore computers, but I really wish I could lateral into some career like construction management where the layman is much more aware of success and failure, who is good and who is bad at their profession.
It is in SF and in LA.
This "quote" is probably bogus. When I was at lunch with Knuth once (brag, brag), someone asked him where he said that. Knuth said he couldn't recall saying it and he doubted that he ever said it, because he would not attempt to prove code without also testing it. Then he said it might be a paraphrase (not a quote) from an analysis he made of an assembly language program where he did not have hardware with that instruction set available to him.
Switching to TTY2 is probably a better idea. I haven't used Linux in a while, but IIRC modern distributions use TTY1 for the graphical session due to some sort of limitation with systemd.
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They eat bacteria. The one thing that one can count on outsurviving tardigrades is bacteria.
I thought i was posting the other article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769819 for which these are the slides. Cut and paste error, but it seems one or two people find it useful. Happy to have it deleted if too redundant.
Isn't taking a student loan in itself an IQ test (testing for low IQ)?
Your logic is spot on.When a natural monopoly arises, it becomes essential regulate but sadly we are too much blinded by regulation free market that obvious is ignored.

Even Adam Smith advocated regulations when its appropriate.
It sounds like this was not at all limited to California, just that there were more cases there due to various reasons (population, individuals, policies/incentives).

I'll be writing to my representative (Duckworth), both candidates to replace her, and her Senate opponent (Kirk). I expect responses at least from the two named since both are former military.
That's for Asians in general. But it's creeping into US with the Smile-or-die push everywhere.
This smells like recruiters gaming the system while under pressure from the top to fill quotas. In the same vein as Wells Fargo.

Hit this impossible target or you're fired. We can't tell you to lie/cheat people to hit the numbers but we will promote the people who do and PIP the ones who don't. Meanwhile we will go through the motions of legal compliance.

Everyone gets what they want and the higher ups can come back later and act like it is a huge surprise to them that the people they hired and trained were gaming the system.
Where are you getting all this? I have a thought - perhaps it's not that everyone but you and your favourite organization is automatically incompetent! Perhaps there are reasons people do things! Perhaps there is more to something than what you can immediately glean! You could wait to learn more to pass judgement, but it seems you don't feel like doing that.

> they were eliminating FreeBSD and had a brain drain a few years ago. Overall pretty unsurprising outcome.

Thus they must be incompetent, because in their narrow minded foolishness, they don't understand that it is the Superior Operating System. There could be no other reason to do what they did. It couldn't have made sense for some other reason. Right? I also appreciate the BSDs for what they are, but this is so condescending. This whole post is so condescending.

> Internet reliability no more complex and certainly much cheaper than analogous critical infrastructure like electrical generation for a region

Not if you're trying to also make it cost effective? Electrical generation has well understood usage patterns, hasn't grown that much in the last few decades and doesn't have the kind of demand spikes that happen on the internet. Plus, power companies are mostly monopolies and charge whatever they want. It's an apples and oranges comparison. Also, electrical grids fail from time to time too! See the northeast blackout of 2003.

Verisign has a similar monopoly to power companies and charges a huge tax margin on domains for all the services it provides. Without arguing about whether this is good or bad, we can say that Verisign is in effect pre-subsidized to provide however complex / redundant / reliable a service they want to provide.

edit: Here's Krebs' breakdown of the attack: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twit...

Looks like OVH, the latest mirai attack, was around 1.2tbps. That's nothing to scoff at.
Yeah, but not in America, which is what we are talking about. I used to live in San Diego and took buses that ran once an hour. A high frequency bus was one that ran every 30 minutes.
Good. I found the only way to play Diablo on a modern system is WinXP in virtualbox and with certain compatibility setting enabled. Was painful to get working.
So, just to be clear, your cynicism in no way represents some universal truth. And having your candidate in the White House has real value otherwise people wouldn't spend $1B+ to get there. The fact is, had Bernie won, it would have meant significant progress for the issues his supporters care about. I really don't understand your comment. No one expects it to be easy. Every change has only come in increments. Your derision for people engaged in the political process is wholly unjustified and reflects poorly on your thought process.
So.. Trump is a lying criminal and then what?
The comment is relevant to what is being discussed, and not a tangent - he is a candidate for the Presidency, which is an office that has influence on whether this deal will go through, and he did say that. Saying Trump is human garbage would be a tangent.
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Ask HN: Languages in Interview Questions?
So I'm interested to see how common this experience is and how others deal with it when it does occur.

You are interviewing for a job where you don't know the hiring company's stack (in my case, I don't know Java yet), and the recruiter/hiring manager says "No worries, use $FAVLANG for the code quiz". You sit down at your computer and log onto the site they're using for technical interviews, and the language choices are locked down to Java 7/8, with $FAVLANG being conspicuously absent. Oh and the 2 hour timer just started.

This has happened to me twice now at two separate companies (both Java curiously enough). The first time I tried to cram the docs (reading Java is easy enough, how hard can it be to crank out an interview question?), but between syntax errors/not knowing the APIs and fine grained semantics (ex is it destructive or not?) it turns out to be really hard to crank out even a relatively simple program in a language you've never used in anger. The second time I just shot them an email giving them a heads up and made an answer in a language they had verbally confirmed as OK.
Oil and Money are definitely on the minds' of the higher ups regarding the wars in the Middle East. So much so, private groups with oil interests hold tight court with governments officials and do not hesitate to strongly suggest foreign policy strategy.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26083
Maybe I just need to leave California, then.
Dealing with stolen goods is something that's specially handled by the law (e.g. fencing is a separate crime).

All these are situations where due to actions of person A a situation has occurred where either person B or person C must be harmed. The general principle is that the solution should harm that one of them who was more negligent to allow such a situation to occur.
I don't think that mutation rate correlates with evolution speed. Of course, never having mutations altogether would, but if you have some mutations they'll be more than enough given the time frame.
Anti-Spoofing, BCP 38, and the Tragedy of the Commons
I don't think that's true. Under my NixOS distribution the display manager tty is configurable and defaults to Ctrl+Alt+F7 (with systemd).
30 years ago the Army wasn't quite so concentrated in the states of the former Confederacy.
We needed Bill Clinton not to deregulate telecommunications. One of the many things we needed him not to deregulate.
> But if the dealer was known he would have to reimburse me, no?

Yes, but even if you've caused a judgement against him to be passed there'd likely be nothing to collect from (because you're not the only person in such a situation and he's likely had used the money).
Thanks! I know this is slightly different from what Flynn is trying to do, but what I was looking out was a way to use standard cloud provided PaaS rather than using cloud as IaaS. This approach may work fine in the short-term but cloud native services provide a lot of extra functionality (monitoring, security, sandboxing, eventing, logging, encryption, etc.,) that would be hard to replicate for something like this. An abstraction to those cloud native service, OTOH, may be useful against lock in. I believe it should be possible given that most of the cloud native services across different clouds provide similar set of features.
Always always keep your paperwork..
If your follow on question is, "and I wonder what happens if you transcribe that gene into higher plants and animals" then the answer to that question becomes quite interesting.
1971, meet 2016
My First Virtual Reality Groping
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The cash dropped from tourists is probably worth the annoyance.
I have no idea if or how much this factors in, or even if it's true, but the story I've heard is that several years back, there was a plan for a pipeline that would go from Qatar and Saudi Arabia through Jordan, Syria, and Turkey to Europe. This would be a significant economic threat to Russia, since gas exports are about $25 billion/yr, about 2% of Russia's GDP, and a big source of hard currency, but also important is Russia's use of its gas pipelines to Europe to threaten to cut off supplies to countries in Eastern and Central Europe, which would not be possible if there were a gulf source of gas available. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have a lot of gas that is going to waste or is staying in the ground, so they could easily supply the European market. Supposedly, Assad turned down the deal, and the civil war started shortly after.
Quite a detailed post. I wonder if these kinds of issues helped push MS into making their own hardware.
My first virtual reality groping
This is pretty silly.

Someone has gone to extreme lengths to build these things and people pay lots of money for them. And yet your first instinct is to declare it useless.

When you can't see the point of something, maybe it is because you are cleverer than all the other fools, or maybe it is because you don't know as much as you think you do. It is very telling when people automatically assume they are the smartest.
And how does the title (now changed) help us understand that?
I don't think you'll have a problem finding a poker room in the US that allows phones on the table, but finding one that didn't realize you were lighting up the cards with IR light would be pretty impossible.
That actually makes more sense.
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but a water bear.
Posted 2 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12771188
How we built a Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi
I re-read your initial comment and apparently I misinterpreted what you wrote, so thanks for the high-quality answer despite this. (You didn't explicitly call out Dyn for not double-sourcing, but their customers, and only used it as an example for good practices in the Verisign example. Since you mentioned it lot, I gave it to much weight and read it as "Dyn failed because they didn't double-source", for which I see no evidence.)
Those are valid concerns. For the emergency scenario I have to wonder if it is possible to never trust another car to the point where it can induce a less optimal solution than an independent estimate could produce. For instance if the OtherCar says "Don't worry, I'll swerve into the ditch, just keep driving" and both MyCar and OtherCar keeps driving, we both die, so maybe MyCar says "he said he'd swerve, but I'm going to hard brake instead of driving" because impacting a ditch at speed x is roughly similar to getting hit while stopped at speed x and that's the worst case scenario for braking, whereas the both cars moving at speed x at each other is worse.

Not as tight an example as yours I'm afraid, but humans make cooperative decisions all the time where we use information and continue to be suspicious of it and hedge against lies. I think any realistic cooperative tech system where there are untrusted components needs to stay skeptical as well.
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> Elsewhere it's all about "support our troops".

It's also all about "lower our taxes. Cut public spending."
Oh good. I feel better now.
Off the top of my head I'd recommend this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/2vlug2/what_is_a_fuck...

The Army combines the worst aspects of civilian life back stabbing politics with the most stereotypical portrayals of inefficient and uncaring government bureaucracy. To top it off, what really does set it apart from both the civilian world and normal government is of course a hierarchical rank structure, which shit freely flows downhill towards those who can't stand up to it.
He's absolutely a stock picker, not a businessman. That's the definition of value investing, which is his self proclaimed mode of investment. He looks for undervalued (by the stockmarket) companies with good cash flow, competent management, room to grow, etc. and waits until the market price catches up to his expectations. Meanwhile, he leaves the management alone to do their best work while reinvesting the cash flow (from dividends) into other undervalued companies. Most financial institutions were probably undervalued after the 2008 collapse so if Buffet saw an undervalued cash flow positive business, that's why he invested.
And yet we can afford to bail out Wall Street firms that pay their executives millions in bonuses for driving their companies into the ground.
I call bullshit on this :)

This makes no sense at all for two reasons.

Firstly, Apple would need to be sitting on a tech that shrinks the internals by 5X to be able to fit them into the top and bottom of the phone and keep the middle clear. Unlikely that they could shrink every component by 5X in a year. They ship the best thing they can and if they could shrink components they would have done so already.

Secondly, the proportions of the iPhone are wrong to sit on your face. It's the wrong size and heavy. Apple don't reuse devices for different tasks. If Apple do this then they will produce a separate device that it optimised for the task of sitting on your face. Sure, it'll connect to your iPhone, but it won't be your iPhone.
True enough, building crappy over engineered frameworks in big projects is inevitable ;-)
Arch defaults to tty1 on my machine at least
You'd think, but the H-street line (which is what the earlier poster was referring to) doesn't have its own dedicated space (the rails run over areas also used by cars) and often has collisions with traffic. As a non-driver who recently moved back to the DC area, I applaud the idea of new transit options, but the DC streetcar wasn't thought out well and has probably discredited the idea here.
The great thing about eliminating HFCs is that their atmospheric lifetime is fairly short, within 10-20 years their effect will be gone giving us some breathing room in avoiding >2°C this century. That is unlike CO2 where every ton we emit now affects the atmosphere for thousands of years to come.
Most poker rooms don't like it when you talk on the phone if you're in a hand, or if you speak a different language, especially if it's a big game.

Otherwise, people don't care that much, as long as the conversations are pretty short. "Hey man, I'll be done in half an hour" wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
Why API Gateway is mot yet ready for production and how it could be fixed
Essentially, this says a lot of companies are betting big on AR/VR and this is also what the next iPhone will be about. Not a very convincing argument though - I can imagine it will play a role, but such a significant role, next year? Wouldn't really fit with anything else in the iOS ecosystem.

> Microsoft’s execs already told me they are betting 100% on mixed reality (with its Microsoft HoloLens product). The strategy at Microsoft is “Cloud + Hololens.” That’s it. The entirety of a $455 billion company is betting on mixed reality

Again, really? No more Office or Windows? Also from next year, or at a later stage...?
Good to see in a DIY-solution:

> The light control set up is fail-safe. If something with the RPi goes terribly wrong, we could still operate the lights in the “classic” analog way.

(I wish they'd explained how they do it, but I assume they use latching relays to switch the actual lights, so RPis and light switches can work in parallel)

Using the chrome debugging protocol for the remote screens is also quite clever.
They get the same returns as the market, minus fees.

Since equities have seen great returns post-08, broad-market equity index funds have also seen great returns.
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For those of you living in the bay area what's your take on the future of this situation?

I'm genuinely curious because I think in a few years from now Denver will be in the exact same boat.
I can't believe the manufacturer agreed to send them the device! Pretty amazing technology.
China wants to rate everyone
I was wondering what would happen if Intel bought Compaq back in 1991 (when Rod Canion and Jim Harris was still at Compaq) for a while now. You will notice that Intel fixed the issue quite quickly.
I would say it has been a bear market in social trust for quite a bit longer than Mr. Reich thinks, and for many more reasons than the one that Mr. Reich focuses on.
So the system has a function, that function might be invoked, undermining the integrity of the system? Why is the function part of the system?
You can watch their bgp history from that day

https://stat.ripe.net/widget/bgplay#w.resource=208.78.70.16
Even angular 2 uses some sort of virtual dom under the hood. My point remains though, as all the developer manipulates are strings. I think manipulating objects (virtual dom nodes) is a more powerful and versatile way to do it.
Bletchley Park is great for its own exhibition, plus it has the UK's national museum of computing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Museum_of_Compu...

There's a fine guidebook called the Geek Atlas, which should be what you're looking for. Bit US centric though: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596523213.do
Let virtual reality show you how corals stand to die
The vast majority of the money made from war (or the entirety of the money, depending on the war) comes from supplying war materiel. If some actors can figure out how to make money from the subject of the war, fine, but the money is being made from feeding, clothing, and arming the belligerents - so the important thing is their respective bankrolls. US military aid, for example, is not given to Egypt or Israel or the Saudis or Bahrain as dollars, it's given as dollars to US companies to send goods to those countries (to suppress their own populations.) US corporate lobbyists have a multi-billion dollar interest in Bahrain using full military force on peaceful protesters.

edit: There are versions of the theory of "imperial overstretch" that say that empires are forced to expand by the influence of internal elements that are enriched by the process of making war, thus increasing the influence of those elements, forcing more expansion, requiring more taxation and privation from the citizens of the empire, until eventually the entire empire collapses from the strain.
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and your fridge probably uses less than the 4 ozs (~114 grams) that this commercial one does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc08R8Z7oBs&feature=youtu.be...
It's pretty much a drop in replacement for R134a and according to unnamed rock crawlers (jeep folks) it just may work better
Functions are one kind of arrow. There are other arrows besides functions.

Renaming "arrow" to "function" is like replacing "number" with "1".
I don't see why it would change, this requires a special rigged deck of cards. IIRC card decks are a tightly controlled affair in major casinos.
Rent control is going to happen. What it will do is set the price level where it is currently at. It will only be for apartments and those built before 1995 and it will become hard to get into those apartments. Condos, SFH, duplexes etc.. won't be affected but maybe those rents won't rise "as much".