skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
West LA / Santa Monica, which is similar in size and population to SF, is significantly safer than San Francisco. I've lived for extended periods in both locations.

For example, you don't have to take all the change out of your ashtrays and hide your phone charger/other electronics every time you park your car on the street, or see drug deals going on in broad daylight, walk past brothels on your way to get coffee, or see drunk people get into extremely violent fights at night outside the bars. Frequent murders occur in the city.

Anyway, my point is that SF is really unsafe when it comes to property crime and vice. Like, to the point that it's really obvious that the police just aren't enforcing laws at ALL in most neighborhoods. For what it's worth, I lived in one of the nicest neighborhoods, Pacific Heights (Fillmore & California), and saw most of that stuff within 2-3 blocks from my front door. Japantown and Divisadero were where most of it happened, but my friends' cars got broken into EVERY time they parked on the street near my place.
Or passwords, or medical records, or anything confidential or of value?
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Indeed. Well-designed money storage systems aren't vulnerable no matter who has console access.
I'm interning in SF this summer. Any tips where the "certain areas" to avoid are?
"Doing so will allow you to blend, and when it comes to dress, this is a good thing."

Why would one want to blend? Sticking out and being different is a great thing. Displaying self-expression and individualism is important to who each of us are. I have found this to be true in my profession and I would encourage people to spend more time on what they wear. It can drastically impact ones success. Simply put, don't look sloppy.
All Bitcoin transactions are publicly logged, but they aren't reversible. So you can see who stole your money but you can't do anything about it.
You'll know them immediately, and getting back out is easy once your spidey sense tingles. Mostly, stay out of the Tenderloin.
PHP always seemed to have something weird in the parser about subscripts/array indexes. It's been there since I started using it during PHP3. Another similar fix they performed is making func()[0] work - before you had to do $tmp = func(); $tmp[0]. An old, old bug finally fixed.
Hmm their crime data must not be easily accessible...
That wasn't fixed in 4.6.1, I filed the issue against 4.6.1 :)
> To even suggest that this is technically possible for an employee to do is a serious allegation

It is technically possible for an employee to do it because it seems (from the linked pastebin above) that is how it was compromised, an elevated account for linode manage was compromised.

As for an employee being the one that did it, that is probably the least likely cause.
Which just happened to work well for the closest thing email has to a replacement. Text Messages. Think about this for a second, just about anyone can send you a text at any time using your public phone number yet it's not a problem.
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The best part of short array syntax is that now you don't need named parameters to be supported by the language.

function foo($opts) {
echo $opts['source'] . $opts['destination'];
}

// just one extra pair of [] needed instead of new array()
foo(['source' => '/123', 'destination' => '/abc']);
It's not just the jet stream, the rotation of the earth plays a big role, too. If you're flying against it, your trip will take less time than if you were flying in the same direction.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. How soon until the second layer of meta-startups come along? Sounds like a business opportunity!

Who wants to be my co-founder at a startup that helps startups that help startups?
It does however mean you have to spend two days per password, rather than two days for the entire user base, or ten minutes with a pre-existing lookup table.
That's a Google domain, and the numbers represent a specific Chrome extension... in this case, Streak.
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The first attempt to climb it was by Dick Smith (who is somewhat famous in Australia - initally for starting our version of Radio Shack)

(There had been an earlier attempt in 1964 by another Sydney team, which included adventurer Dick Smith and other members of the Scouting movement. They were forced to turn back on their fifth day, running short of food and water. In 1979, Smith returned to the pyramid, together with climbers John Worrall and Hugh Ward. They successfully reached the summit and unfurled a flag of New South Wales provided to them by Premier Neville Wran, declaring the island Australian territory (a formality which it seems had not previously been done).)
>Also, was the nature of the attack just that the were able to login to your linode admin panel and from their root the machines and then loot your wallets?

The way I understand it the attackers were able to get access to the admin panel and invoked some kind of 'change root password' emergency stuff. The machines were rebooted it seems, which makes sense: The interface of Linode has probably/hopefully no access to the root password. Maybe this 'Reset my root' feature (now I'm guessing) reboots the machine in single user mode or passes init=/bin/sh to the kernel to reset the password once and reboots again afterwards.

Only THEN the attacker had access. But yes, he had root. The good (if you want to call it that) part of it is that this procedure rings every alarm possible. The real owner doesn't have the password anymore, as he'll soon figure out. It's everything but sneaky.

I DO wonder why root is allowed to log in at all, though..
This latency is not a pb inherent to Bitcoin. It happens whenever you hold currency X and need currency Y, for any value of X != Y. You are going to waste time exchanging one for the other. This is one of the reason why I expect Bitcoin's adoption to take off for international trade where the 2 parties of a transaction use different currencies to begin with.

Also I doubt you can sell stocks on Etrade and withdraw dollars to your bank in minutes. When I do this with my stockbroker (TD ameritrade) it takes at least 2-3 days because the transfer is made by ACH which takes a while to clear.

This latency is perfectly acceptable for stock market investors, therefore I see no reason why it would not be acceptable for Bitcoin investors...
The letters of intent idea is the best suggestion I saw in this post. That's about as good as you can get in terms of validating the idea before the product is even made!
I like the ruby syntax and I played a bit with Erlang in the past. This looks just like the perfect mix of both worlds.
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San Francisco is somewhere in the middle of the pack for US Cities by rate of violent crime. It has about half the number of violent crimes per capita of Philadelphia, for example.

As a side node, San Jose has shockingly little crime. It had the sixth least violent crime per capita of US cities in 2010, at about half the rate of San Francisco.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...

I always take stats like crime with a grain of salt, though, as everyone in the community has an incentive to juice them. Crimes have a tendency to get "lost" or downgraded in the stats, and that happens at different rates in different places.
Our local McDonalds do this after about 10:00pm. They turn away so many customers that I'm convinced the late shift employees just don't want to do any work.
Actually, I used to really enjoy clothing. At a certain point, though, I realized how much time and money I put into it. I then asked whether it was really worth all the effort.

I do keep art on the walls (in fact, I used to be a painter). I eat many varied things, and find a great deal of pleasure in doing so. I read a wide variety of books, watch a great many films, and make lots of different things.

If you love clothing, indulge that passion. There are a number of other forms of self-expression, though, and many that are much more gratifying/useful.
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Oh, no doubt. LA is a big place, and some bits are clearly nicer than others, but I guess I was just trying to point out that crime can happen anywhere for any number of reasons. You're more likely to get robbed in South LA than in Santa Monica, absolutely, but you can stay reasonably safe in both places by just doing a few simple things, like keeping valuables, especially smartphones out of sight at all times, walking with a bit of purpose, and making sure to straight up avoid places at certain hours.

Interesting line about SFPD though. I wasn't aware they were so inept.
We're in a culture filled with people wanting to stick out and be noticed. That's part of our collective problem.
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That stopped being the case years ago.
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I think you might actually be able to make some money with a program that searched expired computer-related patents for ideas which could be repatented for mobile devices instead of computers in general.
what's the problem exactly?
Well selected clothing can bring certain benefits, but listen to what you're saying: Do you really believe that they "make the man"?

We keep hearing these things in advertising, and then we start to actually think they're real. We've been led to believe that the underwear we buy will somehow make us better, or more desirable people. This is pure bullshit.

If you like buying nice clothes, fine. Just don't overestimate their value.
Agreed. The docs should be more comprehensive, and there should be at least one contrib package with useful CBV.s
I just spent a couple of hours reading the Dart site.

Dart is a web friendly optimized SmallTalk with a Javascript like syntax.

It looks like Javascript but feels like SmallTalk.

If that marketing trick works, it will be ironic because Scheme inspired Javascript looked like Java for the same marketing reason...

CoffeeScript might be Javascript's swan song.
It is not planned. I don't care if they make decisions out of malice or out of good intentions. The reality is that AT&T did not do their capacity planning and are still not doing it. The other point is that when anyone offers anything "unlimited" that you know is scarce, you should ask for hard contractual limits. Imagine saying "OK AT&T, so you tell me this data plan is unlimited. Can I stream 500GBs of movies over this connection? Yes? Can I get that in writing?"

"Unlimited" gives the seller an unfair advantage over the buyer, at least the way it has been used. My advice is to avoid anything "unlimited". Simply mentally substitute "variably limited" and see how you like the sound of what you are about to sign.
So is this Google inside the State Department, or the State Department inside Google?
>Well back to my premise, could you not sort of figure that out by the access patterns?

You "could", but you could be wrong and cheese off your users. Who's to say that an indie label isn't using your service for cheap file hosting? Just because $file is getting a lot of hits (and "lot" needs to be defined here) doesn't mean that those uses are necessarily infringing.

And then we're back to the links + deduping problem anyways. Let's say you've determined that 3 of the 9 non-DMCA'd links are coming from CoolHotWarez.ru (first remembering that the law doesn't require you to do this research, and second remembering that any warez site worth a crap uses an anonymizer to strip referrer URLs ANYWAYS...) - You take them down.

The 6 left don't have much traffic, so your metric kind of falls apart. And all this would result in would result in warez kiddies uploading two copies of each file, keeping one secret and sharing the other.
Interesting article, but the title is click-bait; a more appropriate title would be Design Considerations for Auto Completion Systems. I was sadly expecting more development & code-design information. Does anyone have any recommendations along the lines of development?
I think it's more the point that places where IE has remained due to policy, may be coming around to realize that the security and performance of Chrome is worth the lessened ability to control every aspect of their users' browsing experience.

If the State Department is comfortable with their employees using Chrome, why not [insert random business/organization still clinging to IE out of tradition/"security"].
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We use Yammer at our two-person company. It's not like Lotus Notes or other groupware I've used in the past, but there are similarities to Facebook and document-sharing tools.

We find utility in the ability to have asynchronous discussions among a restricted group of people and share links (like Facebook) and also to share documents and other files. A typical use case is someone posts a file, a link, or groups of files or links, and then we discuss them.

We could use email for the asynchronous discussions, or Dropbox or Google Docs for document sharing (and we do, sometimes, for some scenarios). But having all of these resources in a single, searchable, discussable location is very useful for us.
where do you keep the key to the crypto fs?
This reminds me of a situation when I first signed up for linode... my password on my account inexplicably changed one day(I use lastpass so no I did not type the randomly generated password wrong). I contacted support and they fixed it, but I still remember questioning why or how...
I can assure you Google and any sane Internet company never truly deletes anything, such that it is unrecoverable. They just mark it as deleted so that, it doesn't get served up but nothing is invalidated.
I'm sorry, but you just said the same thing again that I was arguing against. 'Money' is not as clear cut as you'd like it to be.

Bitcoins are no real recognized currency. So you can trade them for USD -> Don't store it?

What about this great project I'm working on? All my stuff on the VPS, because that's convenient and accessible from everywhere. I spent a double digit number of days on it. I have a daily rate for working as a programmer. Don't store it?

You totally ignored (so hard, that I think you didn't read it fully) my post about issues that are harder to value even. Access to your mail can be devastating. Even if you don't store 'money' on that VPS. Putting a dent into your online reputation by messing with your life on the net is hard to value, but certainly damaging. Again, no 'money' stored.

Bottom line: You ignored my point or didn't read my post at all. You picked a line out of context and refuted it with a pointer to the argument _I explicitly tried to prove wrong_.
They were coins of a mining pool (slush pool - mining.bitcoin.cz - one of the largest three). And they were only the 'hot coins' left on-line for user withdrawals. The majority of the coins are kept offline/cold, as a common security measure for any bitcoin service.
I'm confused. I'm looking around at a few accounts and I see a LOT of them starting with @whatever where I do not follow the other person. Is this a setting somewhere? Did I completely misunderstand? And they show up whether or not I am logged in, whether or not I am following the person using @whatever.

Are you sure this tweet-hiding applies when not using the Reply button?
One part of the world uses up most of the (rapidly diminishing) resources, because everyone wants to be special.
It hardly seems fair to consider them an invasive species without considering all humans one as well.
"The real owner doesn't have the password anymore, as he'll soon figure out."

He won't figure it out until he tries to login though.
For the lazy, that works out to $120,000 per employee if split equally. Anyone know what kind of taxes this is subject to?
There's nothing stopping you from using, say, remi or webtatic repos on CentOS.
Do you have any working examples? Would love to see this working in practice.
What is wrong with wanting/encouraging someone to be special?
As a former crime reporter, I just have to chime in and say that not all crime statistics are created equal. For example, when I was building a crime map for my region, some large departments provided no data, which made their areas look rather safe in comparison.

There is no universal standard for granularity. Or even classification (even if jurisdictions are within the same state).

This is less of a problem if you are only focusing on SF as I think there is only one jurisdiction there (SF police), but something to keep in mind when trying to make comparisons with SF to anywhere else in the Bay Area.

Also, in any urban area, extremely violent crime is most heavily centered on drug-related incidents (a drug dealer collecting, for example). Not all (or even most) of these crimes happen across a random distribution of the population.
Easy: live out where I live in the Inner Richmond.
This is obviously an unacceptable incident. I don't understand how the author can write:

Especially upsetting is that I went to great pains to keep everything as secure as possible.

When that's plainly not true. Surely having a wallet stored on a VPS is a really bad idea, what with admins potentially having full access to hard drive contents? Wouldn't a PGP'd local copy be a better solution, or am I missing a trick?
It's good to hear a differing viewpoint - thank you.
Insurance won't insure for what they don't understand and build a risk model for. I can assure they won't understand something like this for a very long time.
Stay humble my friend.
are we running out of denim, cotton wool and polyester?

btw 'the west' is not the only part of the world where clothes have a meaning.
Sweden has high taxes, depends on how he does it. If the money is first given to him and then he redistributes it then he'll most likely lose $1.5m on tax (50%). Otherwise, no idea.
I disabled root login when I was setting up the server. Could my server be affected too?

Also admins that only log with ssh keys and don't use root won't be able to notice that, will they?
"In the long run we are all dead." --John Maynard Keynes

Second what dkasper said, but I would add that I love the culture of San Francisco. There is so much energy, so much excitement, such a mixture of people pushing their limits, doing exciting things, and doing them damn well. To live in the city is to be in the center of it.

I actually worked at Stanford (until recently, when work took me away from California), thirty miles south, and I loved San Francisco too much not to live there.
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It hasn't really worked though, when it comes to reducing piracy. It appears to have just shook up who the players are and where they are located.
http://www.itworld.com/security/247998/megaupload-takedown-d...
I stayed at a hostel in the Tenderloin when I was in town for a conference last year. Walked to/from Moscone with my $2k MBP in a Timbuk2 bag every day. Never had any trouble, not even when I was walking back at 1AM and fairly intoxicated.

Am I just a lucky idiot?
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Bad comparison in my opinion, BitCoins can be stolen (taken away and become unrecoverable) whilst your project you've been working on is recoverable.

Also the value something is worth is what someone else will pay for it. You can't value a project you're working on as your hourly rate * hours worked, it doesn't really work like that.
Lock your bike up! And the tires! Avoid drunks. You'll survive.

Moving here from Boston, I was actually pretty taken aback by the amount of property crime. More than anything, it was the way that people here think "Oh, that's just how things are here. Your stuff gets stolen."

Californians are too mellow for their own good!
If you look directly at someones profile you will see all of their tweets regardless of who they are too. The reply behavior only applies to the tweets you see in your home timeline.
The idea is very different from the work you'll be doing to implement it. So this #8("Expected Long-term Passion") is a REAL requirement.

For example: you love adventure sports and want to create a marketplace for adventure sprots. The truth is you WILL NOT be doing any adventure sports during the next 3 years. You'll be doing marketing, getting partners to give discounts, sales etc ... On top of that you might have to pivot to doing something only slightly related.

OR for another example: you want to create a nutritional tool that will help people lose weight. You think it will be getting together great nutrtional content and showing it to users is a meaningful way but instead it could involve creating better image recognition of foods.

Also as soon as you take money, your locked into the idea and need to see it through or your never going to work in this town again. Investors hate one thing more than anything else - low effort.

I've just been through all this so I've finally reazlied that "passion" is VERY VERY VERY necessary.

So in addition to all of the above requirements for an idea, it should also satisfy the following :

"If I do this and it fails - I'll still be VERY HAPPY that I spent the last 2 years of my life doing this."
"Being special" is an ego need. While it may feel good, we need form our lives around considerations other than our base desires.

There are really practical concerns that arise from this, as I noted with the global inequities that surface. By only thinking of ourselves, others live crummier lives.

In principle, this is a dismal notion. Meanwhile, such imbalances will come back to haunt us.

As the "haves" we need to start asking what our responsibilities are to the "have nots." If not because it's the right thing to do, from a perspective of self preservation.