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> If millennials really didn't like the urban lifestyle then wouldn't prices be dropping instead of staying high?

Some absurd percentage of the real estate in Atlanta is owned by investors. I don't think prices are an accurate indicator of millennial preference right now.

> I think more and more people are realizing they can keep the things they want from trendy metros and move to places like ... Atlanta ... in exchange for ... less traffic.

Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the nation; in the top five last I checked.
Yes, because it's better than the alternative (ruining the credit rating of your ten year old, something they'll have to fix 8+ years from now). A perfect solution doesn't always exist.

In this case it's very unlikely they would need to hire a lawyer anyway.
Hey! I actually have all of the things on your list. But with one catch: I work for a community nonprofit in a small town of 15,000 people in the deep south, and make probably a very small fraction of what you do.

I guess life is all about compromise :)
That's a distinction between corporate new media and independent new media, not new and old.

And plenty of independent new media has been compromised by political and ideological interests.
Ooh I hadn't heard of Flarum yet; I'm going to try that one out.

As a user, Discourse forums have always felt bloated and slow. As a developer, I was shocked when I went to their installation documentation and saw it required 1 GB of RAM and 10 GB of disk space.
The concept of "vaporware" seems relevant to this discussion. It's easy to talk big and hype a product that doesn't actually exist yet, but following through and getting the product shipped is a hell of a lot harder.
What focus is missing? It works great, only missing feature as GP says is paid upgrade (first 250GB is free 'and always will be').

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs
> (you guys who listen to music all the time, i don't get it, i can't do that)

While working, I can't listen to music that has any lyrics in it whatsoever, otherwise my mind is listening to the words instead of focusing on the work.

So, electronic music. I used to love being immersed in code while listening to house and progressive except that in the last decade or so most of the new stuff has shifted closer to mainstream pop in that most tracks now have divas or bros in the foreground. Blegh.

Anyway, clearly we're all wired differently because lots of the people I work with (and have worked with) can focus just fine while listening to lyric-laden pop, alternative, metal, whatever. It's interesting.
"working britons" is not the same thing as "the working class"

In fact, the Conservatives adopted a similar term in their campaigns of a few years ago "Working People". Apparently it didn't do them any good but it's worth pointing out.

I think Labour does understand working people and they understand working class people too - they just have lost touch their their working class roots and are middle class now.
I wouldn't call that an open office though, just a team room.

A shared space is fine with <5 people, can become problematic at 5-10 people and the frequently 20+ large floor spaces are just unworkable without noise cancelling headphones.
Very important parts of the web continue to use PHP. Forget WordPress, we're talking fast, scaleable, well engineered applications built by software engineers, being used by millions of people a day. Built using the same software engineering principles you would use in any other language. It's just a language after all, and both the language and it's community have matured a great deal.
Just to be clear, we're not asking you to refrain from commenting on divisive topics, just to not use HN primarily for arguing about them (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). That's the same thing we ask everybody.

Use of HN should be based in intellectual curiosity. That leaves room for discussing sensitive issues some of the time, just not all of the time. And of course the discussion should be thoughtful rather than flaming.
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I'd be curious to learn how many of these children actually decided to engage in activism themselves. If there's anything I learned while in competitive sports, it's that parents have no problem forcing their kids into things the kids don't care about because they want their kids to be famous professional athletes and I imagine this situation is similar.
> What about tracking students in high-school precludes your being able to attend university at the age of 28?

Because the "dumb" students are pushed into trades instead. And good luck going back to university when you don't have a long chain of prerequisite courses from age 14 onwards. In the states you can just get a GED and take the SAT (along with individual selection) to prove you belong in university.

Assigning a person a career based on a test they take at 14 seems awfully reductive and like it would segregate students based on the social standing of their parents. Wouldn't surprise me if the German system reduces social mobility.

Should students have their entire lives mapped out for them at 14? And if so, why at 14? Why not at 10, or 6, or at birth?
> You are aware of how a community driven site works? If its wrong, then go ahead and put your "right" implementation there.

It doesn't provide any indication of whether an entry has been vetted. At least with stackoverflow you can see discussion in the comments and guess whether an answer has been critiqued.

If you have sufficient expertise in an area and poke around SO long enough, you'll spot the problem with an egalitarian system soon enough: the blind leading the blind.
It's not the lactose that gets you as a baby, but the casein. If they fed cow's milk to babies, they would have to separate the whey from the curds, and feed the whey. Goat's milk could be fed straight.

From a modern eye, anyway. They might have given bovine milk straight, if it wasn't they baby's only food source.
Actually, a lot of people at the time had issues with slavery! At an absolute bare minimum, 3.9 million enslaved people in the United States probably had some strong critiques to level against the existing system of slavery and Lee's decision to commit treason in defense of that system. Of course, Robert Lee didn't consider those people to be humans, with full human rights. And similarly, when you ignore their humanity, and you ignore the historical record of abolitionists from the United States and all over the rest of the world, it becomes a lot easier to pretend that anger at the continued celebration of someone who committed treason in defense of slavery is somehow based on shifting modern mores.

The post-war stuff isn't being ignored; it just doesn't matter. The value of "painting him as a bad man" is that he was a bad man, who did horrible things, for horrible reasons, and people like your family still think he was actually a great hero. Even in the language you use, you imply that you don't actually think he was that bad, and you definitely are suggesting that opening a school later in life somehow mitigates leading the military arm of a rebellion in defense of slavery. It really, really doesn't!
My first thought is that it's like taking children to a strip club. Twitter and the online political world are just inherently unfit for children.

It would be one thing if the kids were doing original research and social media were the only way to distribute the research, but neither of those are true.
I don't think it's so much a privacy concern (it certainly is), but more with regards to accidental triggers by actions that are passive and flaky.

Location accuracy isn't always the greatest, particularly indoors; in-and-out connections to wifi/bluetooth are possible when you're on the fringe of its range.

These issues need to be addressed in some form before _true_ automation is given to them.
> If I am not consciously making an effort to understand the chat in the room, it is almost like white noise.

Heh, I also feel the same, as a non-hungarian working in Budapest, and what's funny is that historically Hungarian was (is?) used by movies as the "white noise background language" by some directors.
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I'm sure we can agree there is middle ground. I don't think instilling in them that they are just "waiting to die" unless they skip school and march in the streets counts as that middle ground.
Taxes may not drop instantly, but on average I'd expect extra money to delay budget increases, which has just about the same effect over time.

Especially when you're looking internal to the post office.
I'm 6'2" and it seems to have done nothing for me. I only have maybe 1-3 people to swipe on anyway. Once you get outside of densely populated cities, Tinder is all but useless.
But that would mean that one thing is unresponsive, not the entire app. The original comment even specified a frozen app.
The boundary of a class probably lies within the heads of every single person, right?

Are their interests at odds? If there is some objective idea of interests, e.g. some ideal like "the American dream", some sense of a decent life and prosperity for normal people, then no. Our interests are shared (save for a few contrarians).

However, most of us have our own moral principles that we believe should be used and not violated to achieve that interest. This is a real boundary that limits progress in one direction or another.
It's not right, either. The thread had barely started and there seemed to be some interesting, civil comments among the blatant bait. I hope the mods can catch it. You can 'vouch' for flagged comments, but not posts, which usually helps poorly-flagged items.
SCTP, DCCP are special case. Ideally those protocols supposed to be handled only by the endpoints, but over time the support of those protocols leaked to the network as well. Mainly because of wasteful allocation of IPv4 addresses we had to use NAT. A lot of that equipment makes other protocols impractical because they are not supporting them, even though initially they shouldn't have anything to do with them.

I suppose HTTPs equivalent of that would be various http proxies, but in that case barely anyone uses them.
Electricity no energy yes. It's 17% of the danish energy usage. Not sure what you want proof of.

Wind and solar are intermittent sources which makes them seasonally irregular and requires backup energy from other more stable sources such as coal, oil, gas and nuclear.

https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1490548/danish-wind...

http://cphpost.dk/news/scorching-summer-causes-electricity-p...
I think you have a good point on external input noise.

When you announce your plans to people close to you, such as family and friends and coworkers, you start getting input which is not necessarily useful even if their intentions are good.

Moreover, your announcement might make some people uncomfortable to the point where they try to sabotage you, either intentionally or subconsciously.
It's worth pointing out that the Match buyout made the entire experience significantly worse.
All of a sudden there was a lot of swiping ala-tinder and suddenly you can't actually see messages that've been sent unless you both match with each other...

OKC used to actually be a nice place to meet people (I'm still in contact with a number of friends I met on there) but it's turned into a cesspit. Off topic, but if anyone can suggest a non-awful replacement I'd be all ears. Ideally one where I can talk to people rather than having to make a yes/no decision based entirely on 3 photos.
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> We should just admit anyone who wants to to.

Well, the problem was not only that anyone could enroll in the higher-track classes but teachers and counselors pushed many to take courses they weren't prepared or willing to take. I myself was heavily pressured into taking higher-level Spanish courses than I was capable of, or even willing to take. I was explicitly told I had to because I wouldn't get into any universities without it. They really wouldn't take no for an answer, and I ended my senior year with a 40 / 100 grade, but thankfully had a high enough GPA and enough credits to take the hit without issue.

In almost every class one could expect the population to be bi-modal, you would have the flunkies with no desire or hope to succeed and you would have the students who wanted to be there. This resulted in the teachers often having to meet the lowest-common-denominator.

We had a programming course (Visual Basic) that after the first month they switched to one of those "learn-to-program" visual building-block languages, but then myself and a few others raised hell so they allowed everyone to choose which they wanted to do in the same class of 30 or so. The reality was the counselors pushed the students to take the course, and most figured they would get a free 90 minutes of fucking around on the internet, and the teacher ended up giving the lower-end of students low-but-passing grades.

As it were, I'd had that same teacher several years in a row and ended up as something of his assistant because I was already a competent programmer. They're not able to do anything, it's all a metrics / numbers game.

To be clear, my point isn't about the benefits of tracking as it is a rebuke of a broken system of metrics-appeasing administrators cloaked in the lie that everyone is equally capable of the same things.
I love it. You could call it x-functional hyper-agile.
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It doesn't help that people in cities have voted to make it illegal to build more city. The nice bits all existed before cars. The stuff built since then is mostly parking and roads. As a result, only the wealthiest can afford to live in the nice part built before we decided apartments needed as much room for parking as for people.

I'm on the older side of millenial (mid 30's). I love cities. I love walking and cycling everywhere and having a low carbon footprint and being near interesting people and great food and being able to go to museums, etc. I think having more people in cities is a requirement for stopping climate apocalypse.

But after we had a kid we thought "where can we live where our kid can ride a bike and not die" and "where can we live where we can afford a home for three"? And there was... nothing. Suburbia was full of high speed arterials and only slightly less expensive homes. The core city was too expensive for a 2 bed flat.

I got a remote job and we moved way out. I have cows on three sides. It's boring. The roads are still dangerous, sadly, but the house was so astonishingly cheap we can consider it effectively worthless and still come out ahead.

Maybe in time we'll be eligible to live in DK, NL, etc. but until then the rural middle of nowhere is the only option that makes sense financially (if remote work holds up).
The Tories brought their narrative of "hard working families" to implicitly stigmatise those not working. Such as those too sick to work, and receiving the benefits the Tories were busy cutting. Even though most benefit recipients are in work.
If you want good tea:

Forget about Lipton, Celestial Seasonings, anything that comes in tea bags, or has a name brand on it.

If there's a Chinatown or international market street in your area, go there. Ask around for where there's a tea shop.

A good tea shop will offer to make you some tea when you walk in. Accept and try whatever they give you. Buy what you like. There are hundreds of varieties of green tea alone, not to mention white, black, oolong, pu-erh, etc.

Tea is sold loose and by weight. When you make it, you can put water just off the boil in a tall glass with the tea leaves. They will sink to the bottom and you don't need to filter it. Later you can get more sophisticated about your brewing and buy a clay teapot, or a special glass flask with a pop-in stainless steel strainer at the mouth.
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A lot of people don't seem to be bothered by that.
The failure mode for full automation that's set up by consumers and controlled by a third party via the web can be really bad.
No, it wasn’t a virus; it was Chrome that stopped Macs from booting
What if any of this never happened and this story was the real hack?
All you need is some guy to talk loudly on the phone next to you all day and you'll soon come to abhor open offices. Not to mention the scrutiny of others - keeping an eye on how you work, how much you work, when you arrive, when you leave, what you eat etc. It can really be quite horrible at times, especially if your office is quite politically charged.

I run a small company in London, and we advertise our jobs with "closed" offices/remote as being a unique selling point! I think people prefer to work without being watched, and can really take ownership of their task without feeling conscious - they can get into that coveted state of "flow".

As a manager, I also don't want to watch over my staff all day. I'm not their owner, I'm just their manager. My aim is to let them do what they're good at, and being comfortable enough to let them get on with things is the best way to keep them productive.

And if someone isn't productive, it's obvious from their results. No open office/constant scrutiny required.
Are there any efforts to solve caching if encrypted counted? Currently all https traffic has to be handled by originating server directly. If there is a standard to verify document signature, clients could just cache the public key of originating website and use that to verify signature and decrypt the content.
This seems to be totally ignored and http2/3 seem to be solving the wrong problem.
No my saas is for courier company management, the co-ops are utilizing my software to run their company.

As far as gathering enough funds to create their own saas, they could but mine is cheaper! The real money is in that 30% slice of the sales of the food. The couriers aren't the marketers or the customer service staff, both are necessary to get the sale.
I think I took the ACT instead of the SAT, as the ACT was the more popular exam of my day.

The only people that took the SAT in addition to the ACT, were:

1. Applicants to "elite" schools that preferred the SAT.

2. Smart kids trying to get a leg up for large state schools.

3. Pretty smart kids trying to get a bump into a higher scholarship bracket.

If your were anything less than an 80th percentile student, it'd be extremely unusual for you to take both the ACT and SAT. This was also at a Catholic school - most parents pushed their kids to do well academically to make tuition worthwhile.
No blame. Just curiosity.
That's pretty sad. I used OkCupid pretty successfully 5+ years ago in Chicago. I did not notice a spam/fraud problem at all (maybe one or two obvious spam messages here or there). It worked almost too well, to be honest. Women initiated contact with me rather than the other way around, and I had enough flow in that direction that I only initiated contact once. I ended up marrying a woman I met on OKCupid. I assume that as online dating has grown in popularity, the spam and fraud problems have increased. It probably also depends on location, age, and a bunch of other factors.
As far as i am concerned she is the one smearing and the organization around her largely guilty of that. And talk about smearing. And I'm not right wing. So pot calling the kettle
"Our", as in, "our government" or "our military". Is that not obvious?
Why should governments have monopoly over the medium of exchange that its people use? Why should that power belong to them?
Did they build a football/soccer field next to it so that we can realize how gigantic it is by looking at the pictures?
"Consulting: If you can't be part of the solution, there's a lot of money to be made prolonging the problem."
I want a traditional cube farm.

I actually work in one right now. I love my company, and pretty much the only thing that could get me to quit would be if they dropped the cube farm and switched to an open office.
My brother-in-law is a tenure-track professor (though not tenured yet) in cancer research, I'm working on getting a startup funded. I would agree with that impression. There are more fundable startup markets than there are tenured positions available in academia, and you have more flexibility to pursue new ones that open up than you do to change your line of research if it doesn't pan out. Both professions require an enormous amount of work, but you have more control as a startup founder, and are less subject to the whims of politics, grants, and scientific reality. Hard science involves an amazing amount of risk and hard work to manage that risk, moreso than startups do.

The rewards for a successful startup are about 2 orders of magnitude higher than the rewards for tenure, too. The latter means that you have a job for life; the former means you don't need a job for life.
I've considered getting a WeWork space...but haven't yet for myself.

But I totally wonder how it will affect all those startups and independent people.
This article treats all types of announcements as being equal. Not so!

A hazy announcement like "I'll be doing more to fight climate change" may indeed be empty virtue signaling that leads to nothing.

But what about a more precise announcement like: "I'll be writing a book on Topic X, which I plan to publish 15 months from now, and I'll be completing one chapter on the 25th of every month until then"? Now we've got intermediate deadlines, and deliverables, and at least the first stirrings of a coherent plan.

Announcements can work quite well, as long as you're willing to commit with enough clarity that your friends and rivals will keep you honest.
Totally agree. Does anyone know of any good language tutorials (for any language) targeted at people who are already familiar with programming that introduce a language through its idioms? I've always thought that would be a really good way to get up to speed on a new language really efficiently.

Just that little snippet of Python there could be used to quickly and effectively introduce an experienced non-Python programmer to three or four important ideas in Python.
Weird. Don’t have any issues like that in my setup, but I can see not having a working demo to judge a product by makes it hard to commit.

Works for me, though, for what it’s worth.
Reminds me of Captain Vime’s theory from Pratchett’s Men at Arms:

“But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness”
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But if you don't make the financial payout, you don't pay for your education or hold obligation to pay or take a hit to your credit. With our tuition model, downside protection is baked into the contract, unlike at the UC system.

I understand your gut reaction, most new colleges have not optimized for student welfare. But it's not fair to bucket us into those when the whole point of creating this college was to build a systemic solutions to exactly those problems.
> If you are fazed by some comments of random people on the internet then you are neither "mature" nor "confident". You either got to grow up or you will have a hard time.

Not sure if you're trying to troll here, but being fazed by negativity is a perfectly normal human response. Framing it as a matter of maturity or confidence seems disingenuous to me. One can be trained to handle it better and turn it around or into something productive (i.e. conflict training for health care professionals) but the response remains.
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