skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manhattan (and parts of Brooklyn) != NY. I wouldn't call it "cheap", but there are plenty of places in NYC where one can rent a bedroom for under $1,000 a month easily (and maybe closer to $500/m in some places). That, coupled with not having a car, actually makes quality of life very good if you're someone who seeks out city living.

I know plenty of people that make $30k-$40k/y in NYC and can afford to live in Bushwick with a few roommates and live nice lives. Single train commute into Manhattan, plenty of things to do that don't cost a lot of money, no need to worry about a car, etc.

Edit: a lot of people are replying that having roommates isn't tenable for $x or long-term. I agree, and I don't think we disagree.

Solving a housing affordability problem for people making $15/h starting their careers is part of the overall picture - housing available for people at every income level. An experienced worker with a family won't be looking to live in a 3br apartment with two roommates, but that same 3br apartment that was affordable can also house a family of 4 with two wage-earning parents.

NYC is _filled_ with people in all sorts of jobs who, because there is housing stock available in many levels, can afford to live alone, with a family in an apartment in Queens, or in a house in NJ.

It's not panacea - transit is not as reliable as I wish it was, goods are expensive, but it works for a lot of people
It's always funny to read these stories because I also got tired of the cheap android phones that filled up instantly. Bought a 400€ Nokia and everything just works meanwhile all my friends iphones have all kinds of problems with the hardware
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AFAIK (have a friends who are Kaiser docs), they are employees, and eventually partners, of the Kaiser Medical Group (a distinct business entity from Kaiser Permanente the nonprofit health system, that contracts exclusively with it), which comes with excellent benefits - including large home loans that are forgiven after several years of service and a generous pension. Perhaps they contract out some hyperspecialist roles.

But neither of those scenarios is really comparable to the ones low wage contract workers find themselves in.
The only responsible and correct thing to do is to fork it! That's what open source licenses allows as a built in mechanism for these kinds of situations.
Ask HN: What's your top 5 questions to ask your prospective new employer?
As a software developer (or generally ) what 5 questions would you ask your prospective employer during the interview stage, in order to test your fit inside that company, good/bad practices, company ethics and so on?
JSON-LD is a significant cognitive leap to reason about [1], and its descriptive power goes beyond what you could do with XML. A JSON-LD document is effectively an RDF document coupled with a JSON document, in a seemingly human-friendly form, although lots of people will recognize the letters but have no clue what they're reading.

For that matter, link relations too are a cognitive leap, and no one writes 'smart REST clients' anyway: these days, to consume a "REST API" you use the first-party official library, or something you found on github, or something you wrote in 3 hours where all the URLs are formed by string concatenation. Within one vendor's one particular REST API, the benefits of HATEOAS are typically minimal, which is why it's so frequently omitted and no one complains except REST pedants.

It also doesn't help that the field still hasn't settled down in ~10 years: JSON Schema, widely used for JSON schemas due to the lack of an official mechanism, recently decided they wanna get into hypermedia too [2], and there's also the enticingly named JSON API, which offers a similar data model too. And let's not forget about stuff ~2011-2013 like HAL [3], which didn't really become big, but never fully went away.

Swagger is absolutely much the new WSDL/SOAP ecosystem, complete with first-party code generators. In the WSDL days, all of your code generators were third-party, and due to enough knobs in WSDL and enough accumulated design baggage, it wasn't always interoperable [4]. But when it was, it was pretty magical for ~2003.

Swagger had clout and name recognition to kill the other schemes that are largely the same, but then they renamed it OpenAPI to play up the consensus against competing codegen/specs like RAML. Now that Mulesoft has agreed to bring RAML under the OpenAPI umbrella, there's less integrated competition, but then OpenAPI's uptake will be limited by those put off by serious tooling who opt for simpler description languages instead. It's a mess.

[1] https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/RDF_AND_JSON-LD_UseCases [2] http://json-schema.org/specification.html [3] http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html [4] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetinterop/2005/01/17/ne...
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The point of a payday loan is they DON'T report to credit bureaus... I'm sorry but this is complete malarky. Payday loans are terrible terrible financial instruments and should never be used as credit...

but I have used a payday loan in the past for an emergency when my wife needed to extend her job hunt by 3 weeks and we had credit that was about to go to collections and my guaranteed annual bonus was a month out.

There are some cases where a payday loan can be used effectively to PREVENT damage to your credit history.
To make switching more enticing, it should have a killer feature that users care about.

Feature parity isn't enough.
Nah. The primary functions for reading a book are turning a page. A kindle isn't a web browser or a tablet, it's meant to be a book. This is why the primary interactions are turning the page. This is what you do 99% of the time.
We had a tanker truck full of the stuff overturn a couple weeks ago in a remote area and I got a call from the hazmat guys about running a calcium gluconate line if the stuff escaped containment. (I work for the health department.) They usually use oral tape, but they were worried it wouldn't work fast enough and they couldn't get medical aid fast enough since the nearest hospital to the truck was about 80 miles away.

Fortunately they were able to right the truck without any spilling.

That one you probably _do_ want a Prop 65 notification for ...
It’s not easy to develop for large communities, and even tougher to speak frankly about oneself.

Keep up the good work.
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There are millions of companies waiting for WhatsApp to have a B2C API to spam users.

Every company I've worked for wanted this.
I hope the PM is ok. But if they haven’t suffered some kind of severe illness how do they even apply for a job in the future if this becomes well known?

If it’s some kind of pissing contest could they potentially have legal exposure?
Yeah obviously he is doing it wrong, that is the point of the story. GET methods should not have side effects. But wouldn't you have the same problem if you sent a JSON RPC request using GET?

Clearly this is not a REST architecture, they are just using raw HTTP requests as RPC's. I just don't see how the JSON RPC standard would help anything, it just seem like an additional wrapper.
> Apple keeps trying to shove Apple Maps down my throat when I navigate, annoying.

I hate this so much. I just want to use Google maps with Apple auto but it won't let you. This is alone is making me consider the switch.
It won't be easy to sail in anything resembling a straight line through the Drake Passage unless your ship is very big.

Speaking of big ships, you might also want to avoid icebergs.
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26 years and 100% in Shanghai https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/08/26-years-of-growth...
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/contempt-witn...
I got an iPhone X after having a 6+ (and several others back to the second-gen iPhone, the 3G). I immediately turned off Force Touch.

I find the cognitive load of having three unknown things happen at any time (touch, long touch, force touch, plus who knows whatever else kind of touch they may have) way, way too high, and the value non-existent.

It was also nearly impossible for me to know what did what, or how to get a long-touch separated from a force-touch.

I would be 100% content if Force Touch entirely disappeared. I don't see the problem it addresses and experienced first hand problems it causes. Example: I could hardly figure out how to move apps around in springboard (or whatever the home screen is called these days) or cancel apps in the task switcher with it on.

Maybe I'm a luddite, but I would really have preferred an iPhone 6+ "v2" with the same CPU and camera as the iPhone X - but none of the other stuff it brought (like color-changing OLED screen, nigh unusable Face ID, lack of a 3.5mm audio port). But, when your boss generously gives you an iPhone X it would be disrespectful not to use it.
Given that you are already using degrees, arc-minutes, and arc-seconds in your specifications of latitude and longitude, it makes sense to use a unit of distances that meshes with them. Using meters makes less sense because it doesn't work well with the size of the Earth.

Difficulties with measurements and conversions are like a dead cat under the carpet - no matter how you push it about there's always an inconvenient lump and a bad smell. The Earth is inconveniently shaped, and you simply have to deal with it. The existing system of measurements may offend your sense of taste, but it has evolved over time to be useful to those who have to use it. Attempts to devise systems a priori and without taking into account the extensive experience of those who actually use them have always failed.

There's probably a reason for that.
[Proof by contradiction doesn't have anything to do with the converse of a statement as andrewaylett incorrectly stated and EGreg is being a little bit difficult here.]
You can if you don't want to keep track of a single adapter. I personally have two, one for the car and one for everywhere else.

You can blame Apple for using lightning if you have problems with non universal, non proprietary standards. USB C is both universal and non proprietary. It's even capable of sending analog audio exactly like the 3.5mm port does so you don't need an adapter with a DAC in it, just a USB C -> whatever you want to plug your phone into cable.

That said, most phones (including my Pixel 2) don't support that feature and require an external DAC in the adapter. I only bring it up because many people don't seem to realize that USB C is capable of doing anything the 3.5mm port can do.

>Headphone jacks work. They work really well. There's nothing wrong with them, and they don’t need replacement.

The PS/2 ports worked for your mouse and keyboard. They did have some issues but I would be okay with saying that they worked really well. They didn't need to be replaced with USB. They were replaced with USB anyways. That's the whole point of USB. It's universal. As long as USB is capable of transmitting audio then there is no reason to keep the 3.5mm port around. It's redundant.
Totally understand where the author is coming from, but the notion that text should be a 'first class' object to interact with does not match the reality of how people interact with long form text. Very few people interact with the text on a page, and 100% of people reading a book very frequently scroll/paginate [0]. People are used to swiping on content to see more of it, I don't know that it's as confusing as you might think.

Likewise, it also wouldn't make any sense to have a single tap within a mobile browser bring up the dictionary definition of the word you tapped on. Does it save time? Sure, for one power user use case. But it pollutes your otherwise simple navigation paradigm with stuff popping up all over the place promoting text interaction. People hate stuff popping up all over the place unnecessarily. Better to build your navigation paradigm out of the way that 100% of people interact with the content; it's OK to have a few things buried one layer deeper, power users will find them anyways.

[0] I worked on these products at Amazon.
Yeah there is of course. Your right we could do a better job of explaining the exact features, ill see if we can get some screenshots or maybe a demo added.

In a nutshell the admin allows you to customise the widget, manage the content for each of the pages and view stats related to users (on which pages users click the widget more than often, what messages they have sent to you etc)

On the user side though it is just a little js widget, the aim is to force simplicity on that front.
Full ACK. However, I'm optimistic, kids can be educated and evventually some of them will be interested in understanding how tech works, digging deeper and deeper and getting used to the hacker culture.

These families where luxurious old IPhones are available plentifully are probably a bit odd, but for the purpose of hacking, IPhones are not too bad. They can be rooted, they have good hardware on board and batteries which last a decade. When I was young, I only had old lame personal computers from the household trash. I whish I had portable devices to play with! :-)
This reminds me of like 10 years ago when you couldn't go online for 5 minutes without seeing another design student offering up an unsolicited redesign of an airline's boarding passes.

Kind of an interesting exercise but overlooks the important fact that one person can't change an incredibly complicated system they're not remotely familiar with.
If the project can reach said person, why would Github/Freenode be able to?
Sometimes, I translate the English word/phrase describing the product into a foreign language. I usually try a bunch of languages (Latin is generally excellent) before deciding on what I like best.
>I know plenty of people that make $30k-$40k/y in NYC and can afford to live in Bushwick with a few roommates and live nice lives.

Being an adult who needs to have "a few roommates" to afford rent is not compatible with my idea of a nice life.
This is the paper linked from the article being discussed over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16965650
I personally believe SF is just f'ed. Its not a problem of choosing a solution, its a political problem. It would require politically unfeasble solutions. Removing rent control, changing sales taxes to land value taxes, reducing superfluous city government spending, etc.

San francisco will not change without a back-breaking situation: tech companies moving away, homelessness getting to untenable levels, median workers leaving the city, etc. Its already happening, but not hard enough to curb the expected profits of the last generation of landowners.
You have to enter a value in the tax allowance field ("Jährl. Steuerfreibetrag"). The first 9000 € (if not married) a year are not taxed.
Well, you could remove the headphones from the adapter and plug them into your laptops 3.5mm port.

If Apple was using USB C like they should be, then you could just plug them straight into that port.
I use the single-user free version of NoMachine (which I thought was also closed source). I agree it's better than VNC but that's not hard. I'm not trying to play media, just type etc. What I want is something as good as Windows Remote Desktop where you almost can't tell you are remote - I would happily pay for that.
I feel like this is more of a human problem than a tech problem. Tools like github should allow org owners to declare a "will" of sorts when they go missing, including conditions to meet, who has access and contact methods. But maybe that puts an unacceptable burden on services like this.
Can you clarify this comment, how is circumnavigation relevant to this considerably different journey / path?
I'm not knowlegable in Githubs licences and TOS, but perhaps a judge may order transfer of ownership of all the data because of valid reasons.
One of the labs where I first had those (also chip fabs have them) attached to a high flow water supply - normally triggered by standing inside them.

Our top H&S guy decided that as he was responsible he should be the one to test it he did cheat a bit by wearing swimming goggles to protect his eyes. He commented it was like being sand blasted with small ball bearings and "fracking hurt"
hey homie!!! you know when I said, "hardly experimental," I meant non-controversial, right? I mean, you're not some risky, crazy quack, just a regular dude reviewing the well-known stuff that we should all know!

I hope you find a new venture in your Ikegai!!!!
I made the switch from Android (always used Samsung or Nexus devices) to iOS two years ago.

My two issues with iOS:
- Siri is absolute trash. I've given up on using it for text messages. Even when just using it for timers it fucks up. It's basically a 50/50 chance it will interpret things like "3 and a half minutes" as "3 to a half minutes". Whenever it does this it then says something like "I don't understand what time you want". I literally never had Google mess up a timer.
- Apple insistence on making you use their apps has gotten better, but it's still annoying. I still run into cases where it tries to open links in Safari (my default browser is chrome) or open directions in Maps ( I use Google maps).

Outside of those things I really love iOS.

My biggest reasons for switching was horrid privacy controls on Android(which have improved since I left) and device degrading rates. Every Android phone or tablet I owned would slow down terribly and have a noticeable dip in battery quality within 1 1/2 years. It was like clockwork. Luckily this hasn't been the case for me on iOS. I will hit the two year mark with this phone in the summer and it's still running and holding a charge like the day I got it. I used to get a new phone every two year religiously but this is the first time I am going wait it out.
As an iPhone user, I'm holding out for the rumors I've heard about another revamped iPhone SE that will include a headphone jack.
This stuff is also why you should be afraid of any libraries/ frameworks/ tooling that says it's going to automatically offer TLS 1.3's "Zero round trip" (0RTT) feature for code as opposed to trivial stuff like resource downloads.

Normally, TLS ensures you can't replay somebody else's conversations. So even if I know Barry, who is authorised to toggle the door, just sent a "toggle the door" command, if I try playing it back that won't work, the setup will be different each connection and I can't respond.

But for 0RTT there is no setup - there can't be, no time to do it, and so if I replay Barry's "toggle the door" it would work.

The specification is very clear that the right thing here will be to never allow 0RTT for such features. But the moment that's hidden behind some library API you can bet _somebody_ is going to screw up badly. Alas our industry doesn't exactly have a "safety first" mentality.
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> I know plenty of people that make $30k-$40k/y in NYC and can afford to live in Bushwick with a few roommates

This sounds fun for a bit and then you grow up. If the Bay Area wants experienced workers filling non-tech/finance/medical jobs, they’ll need to better than this.
Employees can be terminated easily though, at will employment means any employee can be dismissed at any time with zero notice without cause.
So say we all. I'll never be able to return to Appalachia.
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But what if the whole reason I enjoy a Kindle is because I am exhausted by interactive media?

I just want to read a book, except not have it be so heavy, have a built in bookstore, and not need a reading lamp.

The Kindle accomplishes all that quite admirably. More ability to interact with the text or graphical elements would make the experience significantly worse.
Nope. Romanian is not a great fit for puns. I think English is a special case, since the "word density" is so high, due to a huge (largest actually) vocabulary, and the propensity to use short words, usually with multiple meanings. Also it's such a foreign thing to do that it'd be really weird to try, although there are some (very silly) examples (corcodus -> cur cu dus, furculita -> fur cu lita, etc.).

I'm curious whether there are any other languages that are naturally "punny".
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Yeah I was thinking about how hard it would be to stay “true” to the path as possible if a race or challenge was by wind power only. Also in competition, points could be given or taken based on the amount of deviation from the line etc.
> Makes sense: normally, these apps (and other “bloatware”) are pre-installed on phones when you buy them from a carrier.

However the iOS one "just works". Disclaimer: I hate voice mail with a passion. Not using it unless I really think it might be something important.

> There’s a super-easy clear all link which is fantastic

Force touch the first close icon to close all on iOS. Which is absolutely terrible in terms of UX.

> Universal back function: It’s great having a global “affordance” for the super-common thing that people want to do. It works well, too: its meaning subtly changing in the right way, depending what you’re going back from.

However you're guessing what you're actually going back to since there's no visual indicator. The location is super perfect at the bottom row. Missed opportunity for the iPhone X which has screen real-estate on the bottom.
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There's a problem when "The authority must ensure...", i.e. when there's a lot of discretion granted to "The authority", that's because "The authority" will use any law available to try to silence or harm dangerous individuals when there are "hidden" political reason to do so.

Example: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39973864

An antidote to this potential abuse is to make laws scarce and highly specific and make judges apply laws in the most textual form possible.
The iMessage thing sucks, I can see similar issues happening in other contexts however (like people getting bullied into using Facebook for example).

To be honest, I mostly see Android users trying to defining people by which phone they use. Talking about walled gardens and gullible people willing to pay the “Apple tax”. Particularly in the tech community there seems to be a subset of people that think using an iPhone is “stupid”.

To me Android and iOS both seem to have issues. Which you use is up to you. We’re in a sucky situation where you either get a phone designed by an advertising company or a phone that is entirely closed source (and limited to a single vendor).
Well, my immediate thoughts in response to that reply were:

"Why is some extra law specific to Germany relevant to my comment? This is a discussion about the GDPR, not about national data protection laws."
This may have been a problem in the past but I had multiple trips to London last year and paid for cabs exclusively by card.
You don't think they would have been even more excited to both see and hear their ancestors?
> The United States is on something called Common Law [1], in which courts are generally supposed to follow precedent and not make up new stuff or function as de facto legislatures.

Even while linking to Wikipedia articles, you manage to get the common law / civil law distinction almost completely backwards: the common law is a body of judge-made law resulting from judges acting as “de facto legislatures” (which is the source of the respect for precedent, as the prior decisions are themselves incorporated into law), whereas civil law is a system in which the law is strictly created by legislative bodies, and thus courts are expected to look exclusively to the acts of the legislature, and not prior court decisions.
Why not publish a retraction and list the reasons why you no longer think the post is correct instead of trying to hide from it? Maybe someone will learn something that way...