skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: Tennessee is very religious and also backwards as hell[1], and if you aren’t white you will have a difficult time fitting in.

[1]Just one recent example: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tennessee-lawmakers-pass-...
Clean code: takeaways of a love story – Alberto Giunta – Medium
When you allow an app to access your contacts, they grab all of them and upload them to their servers. It's less severe in iOS because they can't access SMS and call logs.
I have an empty Facebook account with a pseudonym--the name of a fictional character, so it's actually obvious--and gmail address I don't use for anything. I set this up specifically to use with sites that use 'social' login. I've had it for a few years now, and as far as I can tell FB does not care.
What's so bad about downtown San Francisco?
I'll spare you the effort of going through this because I went through the methodology behind it:

Qualify of life is based on 7 factors:

Natural Environment (50%):

- Drinking Water Quality (13th)

- Low Industrial Toxins (20th)

- Low Pollution Health Risk (45th)

- Urban Air Quality (50th)

Social Involvement (50%):

- Community Engagement (44th)

- Social Support (38th)

- Voter participation (49th)

The whole Social Involvement section, which is 50% of QOL, is basically completely bunk. The first two are based off surveys that I'm sure have methodology issues, and who cares about voter participation? My quality of life isn't affected by whether or not my neighbor votes in the presidential election of which your vote in California has no impact. I also have no doubt if voter participation was adjusted for demographics, named age and race, California wouldn't do so badly.

The air quality stuff is fair game, but California is a big state and there are lots of places with better air, in addition to the fact that I can think of 50 things which impact my "qualify of life" more than the things listed: Traffic, Parks, Restaurants, Walkability, Bikability, etc.
> Hate speech has no upside and causes much harm.

You're begging the question here, assuming that what is called hate speech is necessarily harmful. I am quite certain that in the US political climate much of Palestinian political speech would easily be considered anti-semitic hate speech. Whether you consider this speech the valid outcry of the oppressed, or hateful bigotry of terrorist sympathizers, depends on your political perspective.

There is no definition of hate speech that is simultaneously objective and useful. If you can use it against your enemies today it can be used against you tomorrow.
Are you objecting to the high amount held by the developers? Why wouldn’t you want to incentivize development? An actual bad ICO split would be where they sell 100% of the token and have no more incentive to build the app.
Kansas is awful - don’t move there. Governor Brownback’s insane low-tax plan has starved government services and thoroughly ruined the state over the past decade.
Get the real Thor's Hammer
This is fairly standard practice (although I don’t know if ImageMagick is specifically used).
But the downsides are concentrated in the population centers where most people need to live.
Any app developer will tell you that Android is much more invasive...you can suck so much location/device data with no (or very standard) permissions. Apple was bad too until a few years ago.
> Yes. Britain is far ahead of everyone at this moment. I'm sure china and the rest are desperate to catch up.

What makes you say that? Last I checked, the UK was still a democracy, still had freedom of speech laws, and still doesn't ban VPNs, Tor, or other anonymity tools.

> As an american, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't lump us in with the EU. EU is a lot closer to china than you think in terms of political system, censorship and mentality.

And yet the US is ranked 43rd in the Press Freedom Index, behind all EU members except Romania, Italy and Poland.

> After all, the EU heavily censors parodies and "hate" speech and is at the forefront of internet censorship.

China is clearly at the forefront of Internet censorship. I don't see how that's even debatable.
I have a poster that says:

"Don't break things. We have millions of partners moving together."
Counter-counter point: the valley is filled with over inflated egos and developers whose sole business model is stealing people’s private data to sell ads. They tend to think tech wouldn’t exist without them when in reality their only contribution to the world is a few crappy web frameworks.

Edit: looks like I struck a nerve with the valley script kiddies. Keep on downvoting. You’re the reason n-gate.com was created.
I can't remember how the flyouts worked. They might have shared a window, or they might not have been HTML windows (but I think they were). What I know for sure is that the one main dropdown was IE.
You're exactly right. The unexplained question in Star Trek isn't why they don't have uncontrollable population growth, it's how do they get enough people to have babies to maintain a stable population on Earth and still have some people leftover to start colonies.
Backwards is relative. Being religious, anti-globalization, or conservative doesn't make you a horrible person. The bay area is probably the most intolerant place I've ever been. I've personally seen people unfriend friends because of politics without even being able to have a thoughtful and educated discussion about the issues. The bay area is group thinking "madness of crowds" at its worse.

I encourage watching Peter Thiel explain why he left San Francisco (albeit for LA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5V8YXmkBHok...
>Have you ever heard someone say:

Public perception has jack to do with actual happiness. A bunch of college students wanting to go somewhere does not give it a good quality of life.
Because you gave it to them. The alternative goes right to rules that prevent everyone (not just FB) from remembering things, and ultimately more censorship.

Is it just me or has a whole generation lost the concept of personal responsibility? I don't use FB because it's been obvious for a long time this was happening, and it's an awful platform, designed to socially engineer their flock of product people.

Use products that you control. LineageOS + FDriod is a great start.
those things can both be true
They don’t scale well, but you don’t want to over engineer a solution until you really need it.
There is actually. They sell at least the following three email clients:
1. Incredimail
2. The Bat
3. Outlook
I’m an Independent. I find it harder and harder to stay in the middle because the views of everyone else - on both sides - are so extreme. It would be wonderful to get rid of divisiveness and polarization. But in the imperfect world in which we live, it seems that the only way to even try to bring a little sanity back to things is to point out hypocrisy wherever I see it, and hope those that are practicing it feel ridiculous enough when they are exposed that they change their ways.
It is also something that seems to me to be so very, very often used to prevent discussion about ideologies per se.

Most ideologies have, shall we say, "bad parts". And they may have a history that is somewhere between sordid and outright evil.

And of course "crack down on hate speech" is these days most often levied against criticism of islam. We have yet to see even basic discussion on things like the role of islam in slavery, historically and contemporary. Additionally the blatantly racist laws of Saudi Arabia that are defended as just islam's laws, racist where it pertains to faith, sex, and the blatant exploitation/slavery imposed on Asians there, all justified through islam. But of course censorship doesn't just stop there. It is now defending things like Erdogan's support of islamic state (including the massacres), and of course the Chinese state's many sordid actions in Nepal, Xinjang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and even just generally within China. The massive corruption.

And then of course there is the many ways in which sex, corruption, labor exploitation, criticism of power figures like Xinnie the Pooh and so on is getting censored.

We should just not do this. We should not let the idea that people might get the wrong idea, or personally care hinder criticism of ideologies, including of course in areas where there may be minorities criticized and especially not in cases where the majority or an oppressive government is getting criticized.

We should be allowed to openly discuss things like China's destruction of Nepal. We should be able to ask a muslim why they follow a prophet that, according to muslim tradition, killed over 10000 people, including having women and children massacred. We should be bringing up Erdogan's dealings every chance we get. And so on and so forth. We should be able to bring up San Francisco's treatment of the people getting forced out of that area.
Systematic oppression makes ignoring ToS the default. Businesses choose not to cater to sex workers and such workers find themselves in the situation where there's no option but to ignore the ToS. You find that when services you take for granted aren't available, things get... harder. So you do what everyone else does to the best of your ability even if you are an "undesirable" that has been asked to stay outside the group, even when that's illegal. So yeah, sex workers are going to do what they need to do to survive and make ends meet, the terms of service for websites is the very least of their concerns when they don't know if they'll make rent this month.
Opinions contrary to the hackernews bubble are met with the same intolerance.
I prefer not to distinguish weekends from weekdays. So every day is a mix of work, hobbies, and play.
Lodowski v. Facebook, Inc. et al
I left California last September. Moving someplace cheaper allowed me to get back into housing. That was all I expected to get out of it. Other than getting off the street, I didn't expect significant improvement in quality of life. I moved to a small town that did not have all the stuff I wanted. I expected to kind of put up with it in order to be able to afford housing.

But after getting here, our mantra has become "Thank god we have moved to civilization." There is no bag ban here. The library system here is better than anything I saw in California. Public transit is better. There are multiple things open 24 hours a day within a short walk from my rental.

Unemployment is high and there is a homeless problem, things I would like to try do something about. But homelessness was high all over California and I was one of the homeless there.

I really love the place I moved to and I am just jazzed to be here. At this point, I can't imagine going back to California.

The problems here look solvable to me. The problems in California look entrenched and like they can't be solved without some things changing in terms of state policies. That seems unlikely and it seems to me that even if someone can figure out how to fix it and somehow pull it off, the transition would be painful.

I really liked California for a lot of years. It saddens me to feel this way about the state.
More like - will get a seven figure payday if you join now and they go public.
whose sole business model is stealing people’s private data to sell ads

Well, a few actually do make things or provide identifiable services. They just don't get much press.
Was it just too much work for the Android team to add more granular permissions? Did they not have enough time? Enough resources?
I am also curious about a chemical deterrent in this situation. What about bear spray? It’s basically a fire extinguisher that shoots mace/pepper spray.
I'm 33. Literally no one my age or younger I know owns a home unless they live in a smaller city somewhere in mid-america.

I'm a senior engineer at a large tech company. I cannot afford a home where I live unless I want to live in a shitty condo, which I do not. I cannot work remotely, so moving is not an option unless I want to find another job, which I'm considering.

Once baby boomers start retiring and moving to assisted living homes, a large supply of houses will enter the market. This should hopefully alleviate some of the cost issues. But millennials are a ticking time bomb. So many millennials have no hope for lucrative careers, unless they're engineers or in finance, which is a small percent.
I just searched for "privacy" and Google sent me to address:
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=privacy&oq=privacy

Note, that URL (and search term as GET parameter) is visible to your ISP.
This is for speaking/writing/doing, which is to say it's for thinking/being.

A core set of principles and language hacks came from nonviolent communication.
I practically started with it and added a practice of acknowledging both words and their opposites (Maybe I mean adjectives with opposites, but maybe try it with whatever opposite-having words you catch?).

Here's a great free resource for NVC: https://youtu.be/O4tUVqsjQ2I

The nonjudgment practice went something like this:

1. Hear/read a word I detected as having an opposite.

2. Say "eh...<first word>...<its opposite>...eh" while shrugging and mentally considering the opposite within the same context.

3 weeks after having adopted the practice every day, I started enjoying foods I'd historically hated. Then I began enjoying everything in the world more, including people, country music, and watching sports.

Let's connect off-site and keep this convo going.
To be clear, it's absolutely not terrible or backward by any stretch. Please visit and see for yourself.

Expensive, sure. But there's a reason (another word for price in a decent market is 'value'). And not every city in California is San Francisco in terms of cost of living.
I don't get any spam on Protonmail, they already have strong filters.

I don't use any automatic filters, but I could use their "Bridge" tools and install Bat on my Laptop and setup filters this way. Way more advance features in Bat than in Gmail.

Protonmail is subscription service, true. But just like I can afford $5 per day for a good coffee, I can afford $1 per day for a secure, encrypted email; although I can believe for someone living in third world country, $30 seem a fortune, and I don't blame you for your country's economical situation.

And if you prefer gmail for free and be their product that they analyze, dissect it and categorize you based on the content of your email then that's fine with me; I really don't care. You are simply their product, but with your HN username, I doubt I had to tell you that :)
Where did you move to? I do agree that many of the problems in California will not be easily solved.
Has anyone seen the permissions being asked for recently, games want access to contacts and to make calls. wtf?
I removed my phone number from Facebook profile months ago.
Now and then, Facebook still asks me if "XXXXXX" is my number?
Once I unintentionally linked my Facebook account with my insta account. And then I started getting follow suggestions from people in my Facebook friend list.
I tried many thing to de-link the accounts. Ultimately, I created a fake Facebook account and linked it to my insta.

Once you give something to Facebook; it's never truly erased.
I'm curious. What kind of work are you doing at this rate?
I think here perhaps not capitalism per se is intended, but something like corporatism?
I've worked at a place with a very similar hack before, but it was for a bunch of windows servers. The issue was a process was trying to scan various Office files, and even though no actual Word/Excel/etc app was running warning dialogs could suddenly appear blocking the scan process. The problem was "solved" by some frustrated ops guy that wrote a service that scanned for dialog boxes and closed them.
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

Pillars (I should have said columns) is slang for the management from back when JFK took on the CIA. The president's first visit after his election was to the CIA, he made that reference, obviously people unaware of these things thought he was talking about the columns in the room;)
I'm not sure what all this entails, but if I were you, I'd raise your rates.
Does it matter? Just post your list. Worst case, none of them get implemented.
It would be interesting to see the correlation between overall ranking (or economy) and quality-of-life ranking. Looks like many comments point out that they're often opposite.
I don't think Diaspora* and Mastodon will, just to clarify what other people are saying. But Mastodon <-> Mastodon should (and maybe even ones based off the same protocol).

Also note that email is federated, yet the majority of users have congregated around Gmail.

I predict that the same thing will happen with Mastodon, and that is not the type of future we should have.

Instead, I urge everybody to use P2P/decentralized networking, where even though there might be strong/reliable federated hosts, YOU fundamentally control your identity and it does NOT belong to a federated host.

With latest WebCrypto, this is perfectly possible now: http://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wit... !
MUDs: The Original MMORPGs
I've been working out on and off for 10 years, had a climbing gym membership for six months, and run with a dog most weeks. I have never ever stopped absolutely dreading every moment of exercise and I have never looked forward to it ever. I fucking hate it and I have always fucking hated it, and if the current trend continues, I will continue to fucking hate it. I now run 4 miles, 4 times a week and I fucking hate it. How many decades before it becomes enjoyable?
There is gmic, http://gmic.eu

It is quite powerful though somewhat eccentric.

I once developed some scripts to use it to "develop" jpg from raw images, see https://github.com/claes/gmic-extensions
This is a bit weird...

"Quality of Life" is, in my understanding, a synonym for happiness. But just asking people to rate their happiness doesn't really count as research.

So this appears to be a two-step process: Find certain objective factors, such as time spent with family or environmental factors that are good determinants of peoples' reported levels of happiness.

Next, rank areas according to these factors.

The first part is obviously useful, because it sets specific goals to inform policy that otherwise doesn't really know how to make people happy.

But the reverse step seems unnecessary complicated. And while I wouldn't dismiss the results completely just because they are counter-intuitive, I do believe people tend to do well on judging their own happiness. And there'd be a lot of people moving from California to North Dakota if the results are completely true.
$150/hr. for Chef development.
Exploring Iceland’s Beautiful, Desolate Westfjords
If you're mentally healthy, and the government is genuinely beaming voices in your ears, what happens if you take antipsychotics?
One of the consequences of the liberal tendenancies in California is visible homeless people.

Californians just don’t want their cops regularly as policy beating homeless people and arresting them for existing.

That’s why other downtowns don’t have homeless, they’re swept aside.
Good story. And I bet you there are lawyers in Europe sharpening their teeth right now waiting for GDPR to kick in to send Facebook discovery letters just a minute after April 1st pass. Need popcorn and comfortable chair, as the stock is down 10%, and we've just started!!

Edit: May 25, of course.
Digression: Terry Tao wrote a book on analysis? That's awesome!

Recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Analysis-Dover-Books-Mat...
Specifically?

The thing that I like about California is that it’s warmer than the rest of the country in the winter and cooler in the summer, generally expressed by the locals as “if the temperature is below 60 or above 80, everyone complains.”

Even inland California is too damn hot.
Maybe not on its own, but if you went out of your way to psychologically fuck with somebody until their mental state started to deteriorate enough, something like this could definitely cause a breakdown.

Imagine being kept awake for days because the voices in your head won't stop.
From what I've read about Backpage, prostitution actually moved back to the street, where it happens to be much easier to police.
Indeed. To put it more bluntly: the social criteria seem almost purpose-designed to punish immigrants specifically. Put more mexicans in a state and virtually every one of those measurables is going to drop. This is a measure of whiteness.

Now, sure, you could make an "objective" case that these immigrant communities are less involved in traditional community and employment structures, pull down voter turnout numbers, and just generally don't fit in well with the, ahem, Normal Americans.

But that would be vile, so USN doesn't go there. Instead they cook the books to make Stuff Done By White People the metric for "quality of life".
> a survey of the happiness

It's not possible to measure happiness by asking people.

I remember reading a study about, maybe someone can find it.

The only thing you can measure (or ask about) are proxies to happiness.
When you take the cost of living in to account, the QOL on the peninsula sucks. I live in Gilroy, which is ~40 miles south of SV, and like it a lot. But I also almost never have to drive north.
> The thing about AI enhanced propaganda is that it will learn exactly what to say to push your buttons and drive you further down a road away from reality towards something people want you to believe.

Nonsense, is just the AI enhanced propaganda that is making you think that.
graphicsmagick is a fork that’s been going for a while
The "Says who?" addendum is only on the one version they put on the web (they use varying headlines on their 10+ member papers). The original print title is right in the URL:

california-has-the-worst-quality-of-life-study-says/

I added "US News" to clarify the source of the study.

Please, admins, consider the possibility that some of us use honest forethought in entering a title. (The most recent change of adding a question mark is the most editorializing choice of all.)

[Update]: the Mercury News archive edition title for this article (Page 1A) is

CALIFORNIA’S NO. 50!

In quality of life, study calls us Worst Coast

I was erroneous in calling the original web posting title the "original print title".
There are no other states that have mostly Mediterranean hot/warm summer climates (Csa/Csb) - Oregon being the exception if you enjoy a colder/wetter Csb than what you find in the Bay Area:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/US_50_st...
The ag of California sure Nevada for doing exactly this. Nevada settled:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposa...
Yes, that line struck me too. I wouldn't have balked so much at something like "This situation can’t endure for long – decades, perhaps, but not centuries."
Pure comedy.

Being homeless in coastal California confers a better quality of life than having an apartment in most other states in USA.
That says more about you than about the study.

Have you ever lived in a place like that? With real community? Neighbors that care about you? Who know who you are? Who notice if you are having an issue? Who go out of their way to help you if you need it?

Could you, right now, walk over to a neighbor and say "I need to go to xxx for reason xxx, could you watch my kids for 2 days?", and expect them to either say yes, or help you find someone who can?
What does this even mean? Your comment is vague and nonspecific. California chose its path at the polls.