skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, i entered my handle and it says I am not my handle!
From a non-American perspective, the Tenderloin and SF's poverty generally is baffling. As a caveat, I realise there are contributing factors to SF poverty (homeless from other states) - this is more about the personal experience.

I haven't traveled a lot (~18 countries) but I've not encountered any poverty in a first-world city that is comparable to SF. Sure there are homeless in other cities (e.g. Rome's beggars) but not with the same confronting mix of desperation and mental health issues that I encountered in SF (I've been told NYC is worse, but I haven't been).

What exaggerated this reaction was that SF was my first US exposure. From an outside perspective we're talking about a nation with the world's largest economy since the 20's that prides itself on being a bastion of success and freedom.

The social reaction was likewise confusing. Avoiding the center of a modern city because law and order cannot be upheld was an unfamiliar concept to me, but the fact no one (police or civilian) seemed bothered that there was effectively a "no-go zone" in the middle of their city was even more surprising.
Is there a means to inspect (and or modify) what apps are putting into my local storage?
something similar to cookie inspection?
The message is OK, but personally I have an issue with websites playing sound without my consent.
Very nice. I'm definitely weak on the typography front and this looks like something that I may actually use!
I feel bad too, but I instead give my money to local food banks. I know my money is actually feeding people. Plus, the food banks' economies of scale multiply the value of my donation; the SF Food Bank claims "every $1 you donate we'll distribute $6 worth of food".
iamwill, this is a really awesome post. I shared it on FB and Tweeted it. I wanted to add one thing:

My sister won the Miss Hong Kong Pageant a few years back and is one of the top celebrities in Asia. One thing I learned from her was that success is all about determination, focus, and a lot of work; talent is in fact overrated.

For her, there have been ups (winning the pageant she was at the top), and downs (a year after winning the pageant, she was given the standard actress contract and was basically at the bottom), then ups again (she had to work her way up to the 'acting' totem pole).

Success in my view is what you make of it as well. Dave Chappelle talked about it when his dad confronted him about wanting to be an entertainer. His response was if he could make a living comparable to a normal white collar job (I think he used the example of 50K a year), then he felt in his mind that he achieved success. It's probably why he went to Africa! (Unless you believe in the Oprah Conspiracy lol).

DHH and the guys at 37signals have it right in my mind too. There is a huge difference being -10K in debt and having 10K in savings. Another huge difference between 10K in savings and having 250K in savings. However, there really isn't much difference between 1 Million and 10 Million and above (First Class vs. private jet... one Mazeratti vs. 5 Mazeratti's). For the majority of us, success is hitting that 250K mark. At that point, you don't need to worry about rent, food, bills... etc.

Lastly, a piece of advice I learned from Derek Sivers was what do you want? He broke it down to Fame, Fortune, Freedom, excitement, quiet, comfort.. To some all they want is Fame. To others, all they want is the money. His advice was to choose only one and go for it. A nice little byproduct is that you might get the Fortune and end up getting the Freedom as well. But know what you want and set yourself to achieve that goal!
It's the seat of Westchester county, which has a million people in small cities jammed next to each other. I think a lot of that gets rounded to White Plains rather than explaining the geography. Also, it's rich, which doesn't guarantee but definitely helps with success.
In Chrome, you can go to Settings->Advanced Settings->Content Settings->Cookies->All Cookies and Site Data, and it will list sites using your localStorage.
Next time, perhaps talk to the guy?
I find it remarkable that we're still talking about "western" cities.
http://connect.microsoft.com/directory/non-feedback It's actually on the list of items not currently "receiving feedback" whatever that means.
Agreed. But while we're on the topic- what is that song?
Same. A homeless guy walked by an alley near my house once and asked for money for food. I walked inside and came out with a half-dozen cans of tuna for him, and he started swearing and saying he didn't want "that cat food". I just stared at him, said "I eat this stuff. If you don't want it, then nothing for you." The guy just flipped me off and walked away. Good deed averted.
Please don't use #444 for body copy. Anything lighter then about #222 (which typeplate has used throughout their own site) is just too low contrast on light backgrounds.
I worked for a startup a few years back where the CEO deleted the entire 1+TB database/website when the server was hacked and being used as a spam server because he 1. didn't know who to disable the site short of deleting and 2. could reach anyone that did know how.

The next morning he told us to restore the site from backups and fix the security hole. That's when we reminded him, again, that he had refused to pay for backup services for a site of that size.

We all ended up looking fro new jobs withing a couple days.
Of course not. I couldn't use USD to pay my taxes either, because I'm Canadian. I could earn money in any currency I choose, including BTC, and exchange them for any other currency I choose, including USD or CAD.

Why does the currency any given person pays their taxes in matter?
Did you know that men are capable of emotional attachment as well?
What's wrong with selling your patent? You dedicate x years or $xxxxx but can't see it to completion so you cash out?
As a non-lawyer, I read the bill and found it surprisingly very short. As usual the devil is in the details. Probably judges will be able to fill in the many details, go all the way to SCOTUS and then back to where we were.

The easiest way would be to fund USPTO so they stop issuing bogus patents.
So needed! Been talking to them and seeing about some quotes, great stuff is coming to health care over the next 4 years!
Not at all. I was addressing the fact that when a 3rd party site asks for links to be removed (and are un-willing to pay for 'time' it takes to take links down) and then threaten to turn you into the google police for link spam... you can defend your position and show that you indeed are not participating in link shenanigans.
True.

There are many great examples, but to take only one consider Larry Page and Sergey Brin who tried and failed to sell PageRank to Yahoo, Altavista etc.

The world does not remember them as two engineers who failed to sell their novel idea to BigCo and make a lot of money, but as the founders of a great company called Google.

You can fail as many times as you like. You only have to win once and the world will remember you for it. Only way to guarantee a defeat is to quit. If you can keep at it, you probably should.
OK, why does YouTube get a free pass on this? Nobody has ever given me a good reason.
I made it to 1.6GB. Leaving it there until I need the space. :)
Microsoft Inherits Sticky Data Collection Issues From Skype
That's because it's a not a no-go zone. Maybe if you are extremely sheltered, which it sounds like you may be?
It makes the upgrade process easier if you stick to only making changes in their variables.less file[0], or even better creating a copy of it and including that instead in bootstrap.less. Heck, you can even just create your own top-level myproject.less file and copy over the includes you need using bootstrap.less[1] as a template.

[0]: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/less/variab...

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/less/bootst...
Sure. I'm talking about "soup kitchens". They really are plentiful. I even know of one that only served vegetarian food, and always had a full loaf of bread you could take with you after your meal. There are four or five just in the TL. I found during my stint I would just walk from one to the other and sit for coffee and snack.
Well we need practice since you guys are starting up your Nazi parties again.

/ Your allies in the US =/
its ok for youtube as you know you are landing on sound world. you know it. however suppose u clicked a link abcxyz.com and u don't know much about the site as u wanted to read some article/news etc and all of sudden u hear music. what if music is strange and ur speaker is on in the office? :-)
Food isn't as fungible as change, but there's still opportunity cost. Each dollar they don't have to spend on food is a dollar that can be spent on drugs instead.
It's known as the "troll" or "trololo" song. Can't be bothered to remember it's real name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSA_sWGM44
By visiting a YouTube video, I am giving YouTube my consent to play me a video, including any sound it might contain. I completely expect YouTube videos to play sound and am prepared for it, unlike websites such as this.
I live in San Francisco too and I have to say it's OK to just buy the dude a sandwich if you feel bad or go ahead and help them up if they have fallen over instead of just walking by (I'm looking at you startup kids in south park and SOMA). And you know what, screw it, I even give them a five or a ten if I have some cash on me. It sucks being poor and it has to really suck being homeless, possibly drug addicted and maybe mentally ill and I may not be helping in the long run but you know what? They just care about the food or the a couple bucks for whatever and I care about not feeling like a tool walking by a destitute person and doing nothing for them when I know I can make their day a little better with money I'm just going to spend on overpriced coffee.
EU agrees to cap bankers' bonuses
More detail: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba3a37f6-80f0-11e2-9c5b-00144feabdc0.html
Vpns are a gray market? Does not wanting my car searched imply that I have illegal things in it?
Mr. Trololo himself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil
Thanks Rex. I appreciate your support. I've got many useful code snippets sitting in files ready to import into the db.

The main reason I created it is to have an organised place for snippets for myself and my coding friends and the idea grew from there.
Google can counter with: Google Glasses are unlikely cause cancer. Let us repeat it, Google Glasses are unlikely cause cancer.

;)

I for one, would not wear them regularly, even if they were useful and stylish. By the time research comes in, it might be too late for many.
(Mildly OT) Well, that's interesting. The link has been changed since it was posted - it originally pointed directly at the demo which began to fill your disk. Is this a mod thing, or can the original submitter do it?

Either way, it was a good call. Automatically playing music and filling my hard drive with no warning is a terrible idea.
While living in Japan, I've heard from numerous sources that Tokyo has gotten in trouble in the past for purchasing one-way bus tickets to Osaka for the homeless. (I'm having trouble finding citations, though.)
Agreed. Most of the time you end up with a smaller file as it's easier to comment out the various modules as you're going as opposed to downloading customized builds from the website as you work.

Also, if Sass/Compass is more your cup of tea, there's a well-maintained port of Bootstrap[0].

[0]: https://github.com/jlong/sass-twitter-bootstrap
The whole point is that cutting other people's benefits, salaries and jobs is not a talent at all. A robot built to mimic the average private-equity or management consulting firm could easily determine that brave, stringent cuts to employee compensation desperately need to be made, since that's what they always say.
In Webkit based browsers, the inspector will list localstorage use in the "storage" pane.

http://i.imgur.com/9fAjLQr.png
I've had the thought a few times while going for broke on my startup. The food was totally fine, and the shelters generally safe, but, well, the clientele was not generally people you'd wish to associate with.

Food, even healthy food, can be cheap if you're willing to spend a bit of time preparing. I'd cook a pot of beans before hitting up soup kitchens.
A similar "homeless experiment" is documented in Adam Shepard's book "Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream." After graduating from college, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina with just $25 and a sleeping bag. He had the systemic advantages of being an educated, white male, but he created a back story about leaving a broken home and did not use any particular skills or contacts from his education.

He started in a homeless shelter and worked as a day laborer. After 10 months, he had an apartment, bought a pickup truck, and saved $5000. His story is just one anecdote, but it is an interesting one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_Beginnings
Could you use the css file for epubs?
i liked that when i originally clicked the link it filled my harddrive and played music. satire, people.
Not ok either but you can at least mute the sound there.
Target specific variables do this job:

rule1 : FOO:=1
rule1 :
echo $(FOO)

rule2 : FOO:=2
rule2 :
echo $(FOO)
10 internets to you, good sir. I just saw the name in the source code on GitHub (facepalm). Thanks for the link to the video; highly entertaining!
There was an episode of South Park based on this. They specifically send all the homeless to California (because it's "super cool to the homeless"), too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Homeless
Wireless power struggle between competing industry standards
You're forgetting the guy who didn't speak up to say "Hey, maybe we shouldn't do this in prod?".

I feel for him, but at the same time there's a point at which you have to if testing guns by shooting them near (but not specifically at) your coworkers is actually a good idea.
Thanks, gave me a chance to peek at which sites/apps have been running experiments on my box (web db stuf,...).

The thing I still find disturbing is that unlike cookies, it seems not easy/direct to view the contents of a localstorage (other than its meta-data).
Lesson Learned: One Month Into the $5 Web App Challenge
HP joins Hadoop party with security plug-in for ArcSight
wow, i thought my experience is bad as a developer… man you guys on the other side got it way worse!
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Yes. The removals, just like additions are rampant and erratic. I see a lot of DO-UNDO-DO-UNDO for sections which actually deserve to be there.
Some shelters are associated with a parent (church etc.) that also provides food, but they're typically separate. Seriously, the only people who could possibly be hungry are invalids or children that can't get to the food banks. Any person that can walk around begging for change could easily walk a few blocks for a healthy hot meal. "Help, I'm hungry" is an outright lie---every time--plain and simple.
All it takes is a redirect.
As a general rule, if you don't know the answer to this question, you shouldn't invest. Unless you can come up with a solid reason for why a particular asset should provide a long-term return (net income, interest, or the correction of a current undervaluation) the best you can really do is speculate, and you mostly likely don't have a large enough asset base to make speculating worthwhile (since you should only use a small fraction of your investment holdings.) If you take a whole bunch of your net worth and put it in, then you're just gambling, not investing, the same as if you went into the FX or commodities market and bought a bunch of paper hoping it will rise.
More detail: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba3a37f6-80f0-11e2-9c5b-00144feabd...
"including its billions of encrypted, peer-to-peer Internet conversations."

And why on earth would Skype need to keep the conversations on a backup tape long after the conversation is over? Shouldn't they be erased from everywhere (Skype and peer-to-peer hosts) once the call is ended?
Yes, and it takes one click. Same number of clicks it takes to close the tab.
We're evaluating this - haven't announced either way yet. There are a few reason we wouldn't - namely power usage if we have to transmit that data over BT.
I'd be curious if USPS could acquire them (they still have resources), and then roll out this service much faster? I'd pay $5-10/month for this from USPS.
I've been to a couple of these: http://www.projecthomelessconnect.com/ They take place in San Francisco and seem pretty good. Next one is on March 20th.
With 200 RIM engineers we'll be sure to have delays and problems ;)

Joking, of course...
Bah, the old IBM Model M keyboards had holes in the bottom, specifically for coffee draining!
And that is why I am happy to be out of the twitterloin. It was generally deeply disturbing. I still do not know what to do.
I desperately hope we can find something to do - there is so much money and innovation yet here, yet so many are in unbelievable shape.
I did a write-up for MetaMed for my site:
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I'm the author. Looks like the mods changed the link and spoiled my fun ;)
I bet it would still work in Firefox but it would be more expensive, because you'd need to purchase a lot of top-level domains to pull it off.
Money is ultimately just a standardized indicator of wealth with no intrinsic value on its own, a definition shared by both USD and BTC. The downside of USD being that it can be counterfeited, illegally by unscrupulous individuals or legally by the Federal Reserve (see: QE Infinity).

Regrettably, it's still super common for people to turn up their noses in disgust, claiming "Bitcoin Boogey Man, oh noezzz"!

I'm sorry, does the USD somehow not come with a Boogey Man? Because last I checked HSBC was caught with their pants down directly funding terrorism through shady business practices, Bernie Madoff is still in prison for running a giant Ponzi, the illegal narcotics trade is done mostly in USD, plus you have money laundering, and just about every crime conceivable being carried out in USD.

But wait, the Bitcoin Boogeyman!!!

Everyone come to look!

The USD is dirtier than Bitcoin by several orders of magnitude. It's been taking a full out mudbath every day of its life for the past several decades. It's just that the USD is all people know, so they assume it's squeaky clean, because how could it not be squeaky clean??
I have an issue with websites playing sound without my consent. http://www.hqew.net
The programming skill that a CS major doesn't teach
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That's a completely false generalization. Brighter than #666 will lean into the danger zone for some readers, but #444 is safe for most type, although very slightly light in perception. In any case, the ideal type color is dependent on the weight of your text.
The homelessness has become a bad stigma to the beautiful city of San Francisco. I don't think there is any easy solution to this issue. Having lived there for 3 years, I, personally have seen strange sights around here. In this case however, I think you did the right thing.
I agree with all of the comments here. This is the perfect time for you to learn how to code, especially if you already have an idea/project you want to work on. It won't be easy, but stick with it and you'll get there sooner rather than never.

There are a lot of different resources (free and paid) that will teach you the basics/fundamentals of coding and more...here are a few of the well-known ones to get you started:

1- www.udacity.com
2- www.udemy.com
3- www.lynda.com
4- www.codecademy.com
5- www.teamtreehouse.com
You're 23. It's not too late to start doing anything. I was a sysadmin who started programming and building things around age 30. Last year I quit my senior dev position in S.F. to freelance and now I make more money working only 20 hours per week. So yeah, it's not too late.
And if the perceived value of Bitcoin fluctuated wildly due to market speculation, would it lose its make-believe value too?
When revenue growth can be bad for start-ups
I think a lot of beggars do it not just for the money, but because they like interacting with people. So it's good to acknowledge them. Nothing wrong with offering some food if it's done in a way that gives the person some good interaction. And, anyone could get tired of eating in the same places, so it can be a treat.

But money should absolutely never be given. My technique, instead of lying and saying "I don't have anything," is to simply say "I can't help you."
Hey Beyonce, wish my friend a happy birthday
That's where raises and bonuses come from.
As a regular visitor to SF, coming from Miami (whose homeless population has increased since 2008 real estate crash), what amazes me is that with such a crazy amount of wealth in the bay area and individuals with resources that no one tries to "solve" the homelessness and poverty issues in SF. You probably have more billionaires in the area than anywhere other than NYC. I know there is no easy solution, but it just strikes me as sad that such an in your face and wide spread issue is largely ignored.
It's not your fault.
it's the fault of the person who cancelled backups, the person who didn't check that backups are being created, the "senior" people who let you work on the production database.... etc.
One way to tell- if you asked them, would they say that they should have spent their time doing something else? What do you think they would say? (Or if you could just ask them, that would be even better!)
Bad analogy as bitcoins wouldn't stop your VPN host from being searched.

In fact, if we're completely honest, paying for a VPN with bitcoins doesn't mean your identity is hidden anyway. All it would take is one connection record in one log file and you're exposed.
In the spec, it's per domain. As implemented in Chrome/Safari/IE, it's per subdomain.
Ahhh.... I wrote a response wondering out loud why this doesn't work on my browser, then checked the source, and it's javascript. No wonder, I browse without it!

"Yeeaahhpp, with enough javascript one can blow up just about anything." ~Tyler Durden
Do you have any sources for this, or is it just anecdotal?

The W3C states a minimum of 4.5:1 contrast ratio[0] for body copy, or 7:1 for users with poor eyesight[1]. If Snook's calculator[2] can be relied upon, this makes #444/#fff a contrast of 9.74:1. Even a darker bg of #eee yields 8.39:1.

This also depends on the font weight, stroke, and size.

[0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#visual-audio-contrast-contrast

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contr...

[2]: http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html
And considering "ideas", especially in the games world, mean absolutely fucking nothing.
Thanks for sharing that. Do you think you could have better spent your time elsewhere outside of tech startups?
True, but it's not like they're eating at expensive restaurants. Anyone can get a full stomach with $2 or $3 at a McDonald's or Taco Bell. And just an hour of begging on a major pedestrian area will get you enough for that, a pack of smokes, and a bottle of whisky.
Do you know of any modern attempts at SketchPad?