skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are actually a lot of kids, and people with average jobs in SF. They just aren't white so tech people don't notice them.

Regarding old people, retired people are actually the fastest growing demographic in the city.
So you still don´t know AngularJS?
We can kiss the global environment goodbye now. Why are we even trying to save it?
I doubt there is a reference platform, but if there is one it's really with intel graphics. Only this, from a laptop point of view, has the kind of support that is needed from a thermals point of view. AMD is apparently nearly there with new power managment code, so this may change in the future.

Obviously if you want to use binary drivers, you can, but one would hardly call that reference, inofficial or not.
I wish I could upvote this a million times. And yet, I repeatedly inflict this problem on myself.. I'll look at some high-level framework for X, and I'll think "oh cool, look how easy it makes everything, let me just use that for my next project". So I set up everything in 2 hours, then spend the next two days tripping over some ridiculous issue with authentication, or ORM, or some other bug.

The best success I've had for my modest web projects has been when I've used Flask and accompanying tools for server-side (I'm guessing Sinatra would work just as well), and Backbone for client-side apps. It takes a while to set up, but I understand everything that is going on, so I can easily fix problems as they occur.
SCO v. IBM, aka "The Thing That Wouldn't Die"
Your math is reasonably fair, IMO. That being said, the type of work being done in DC and SF is vastly different. I attended an iOS conference in DC a few months ago (I'm based out of NYC) and was shocked at how few "tech company" people were present. Nearly everyone was working for a government agency, a government contractor, or freelancing with a primarily government client-base.

Personally I don't think I can do it. Nearly everyone I talked to came from gigantic, monstrous organizations (either private or public) with huge, massive layers of management. I might just die in that environment.

At the end of the day, the spiraling cost of living in SF is a serious problem, and one that threatens the well-being of our industry if we can't curb it. Unfortunately, in the city being pro-development is almost as bad as pushing your grandma down the stairs.
Using phrases like 'the enemy' doesn't really help raise the level of debate.
Are you kidding me? Cities are far more eco-friendly than the same number of people living in the countryside.
And just before anyone points it out, I know that Node JS, Backbone, Coffee Script and Angular have little to do with each another.

I did the comparison with them just to put in perspective what is the popularity and growth of Angular, in comparison to other Javascript related things you might know better.
Somewhat disingenuous to suggest swapping sim cards to avoid being tracked. This myth is one that law enforcement love. They just track phones with IMEI numbers.
This is true. As someone who speaks English as a second language living in London, I can understand both "standard" American English and "BBC" British English very well.

The problem is that in a London alone you are exposed to all kinds of accents, including Queen's English, Cockney, Scottish English, and Irish.

This video is a good example of how a Cockney accents sounds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w
This seems highly unlikely given that just about every EU country engages in foreign surveillance. What do you think is the primary purpose of agencies such as the GHCQ or BND?
Stay away from legal definitions. But if you really need them...
It was never closed at all SCO managed to get it frozen while they were in bankruptcy.
Even though Xbox (Entertainment) is now making a small profit, they've got a long, long way to go before it recoups the vast investment/losses of the early days:

http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-h...
Additionally, at least several of those just seem to be known hardware bugs or failure modes.
I have seen this site a few times, but they don't have rankings for some of the most popular services/sites such as Google, Facebook, etc.

If this is supposed to be helpful, is there a reason why they still don't have classes for popular services yet?
Sit on your porch with a shotgun more.
> Google, the internet giant, is to create a global database of child abuse images

So they're going to hoard all the child porn in the world.

Brilliant idea.

Today is not a good day to be someone who effectively lives on the internet. It's for the children.

LOOK AFTER YOUR OWN DAMN KIDS. Only by being a responsible parent can you stop child abuse. None of this Draconian bullshit that affects other people, it takes you, looking after your kids to solve these problems.

LEAVE THE INTERNET ALONE.
If you can say this then you are not a power user. If only by one MASSIVE measure and that is the row limit increase between these two versions, but there are plenty others.
I quite like the writing style, and I'm thankful that the author took the time to write this all down!

Hopefully this isn't taken as offensive, but I wanted to read this in a less plain-text way, so I've mirrored the article here with full attribution: http://xwl.me/md/3o6oo6u52127g68

It's just a bit easier on my eyes, I hope that's alright.
The person in your link had a room in SF for $575 per month. She also does not have student loans, and the spreadsheet has no list item for health insurance. It's a nice story but not really an option for many/most people living here.
Does content modification in legal speak really have the same strict meaning as we tend to imply? I just checked Instagram's Terms for example, and they have no mention of modification—though they obviously do compress and resize submitted images.

This makes me wonder if altering a sequence of bytes (for example, after conversion to a different format) is really a ‘modification’ if it still represents the same work.
>Yes, I do. Ads are a cheap way to make something profitable that would otherwise not be. You should be thankful we even have theaters these days.

Nonsense. If I wanted to watch ads I'd be home watching television, not paying ten bucks a head in the theater.
If we're going with a cost/benefit analysis, it should be noted that the NSA accessing data that AT&T, Google, Facebook, etc, already collect is just about the cheapest sort of counter-measure you could have to terrorism. The "good old fashioned police work" that people keep suggesting would be far more expensive and invasive.
The real takeaway from this article is that O(n^2) and O(n!) algorithms are fine when your input size is 52 and 4.
Yup, an account of this incident was also published in "Starman" by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony, published in 1998 -- a biography of Yuri Gagarin. Only they pointed the finger at a low-flying Su-11, based on reports that surfaced in public in 1995 ...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Starman-Truth-Behind-Legend-Gagarin/...
Anywhere except the UK, UK airlines or connecting flights through UK - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/14/dont-fly-edward-...
And then who will trust the US company abroad, if they can't guarantee a certain level of privacy?

It's so hard to gain trust and so easy to lose it.

As a Swiss I admit that I'm quite frustrated by the "it's only for the foreigner" attitude.

Should I consider to only using local services if I care about my privacy?
I don't know what you mean. The microclimates there are just a fact of life. The sunset is going to be cooler and foggier than the Mission simply because of the topography. Berkeley and Oakland are actually 10 degrees warmer with only occasional fog all year round. The whole area gets like 300 days of sun per year. I just wonder where people are from when they say that the bay areas weather is "terrible." It seems highly relative. For reference, I've lived in Minneapolis, Tokyo, Tucson, Atlanta, Boston and NYC and thought SF's weather was better than all of those places. They all had at least one season where it was miserable to be outside.
Martin Luther King didn't live in a world where we imprison innocent men in legal limbo without trial or habeas corpus, or where we officially sanctioned torture and the oubliette. He could trust that he would be vindicated by the justice system.

The whole point of the Snowden story is that the government is not trustworthy in this era. I would not trust the US government to give him justice any more than they did Aaron Swartz.

I think Snowden knew exactly what to expect if he "faced the music" and exactly how much attention he could keep on his story in exile.
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And a third, where "auteurs" like Baz Lhurmann try and join the two. Results vary.
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As someone who lives in Portland, I would love to have SF's weather.
Did Daniel Ellsberg bolt for a communist nation, sympathetic to his views after releasing the Pentagon papers?

No, he turned himself in.

Snowden wants all the glory and none of the bruises.

If that doesn't demonstrate a lack of selflessness, what does?

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Trial_and_mistr...
I didn't mean spitx - the comment didn't make clear that this was his position. I doubt Bob Schieffer will read this. You're right though.
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The allegation was that they are hacking everyone. And Obama is meeting someone from everywhere every other week.
San Francisco is this kind of weird bubble where everyone has to have money to be there, so "regular people" don't exist

I've dropped this link many times before, but it's still relevant here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... . There's not really a "weird bubble" so much as basic economics at work: SF is a desirable place to live in many respects, but it's virtually impossible to build new housing there for reasons discussed at the link. In the face of exploding demand and constant supply, prices rise.

Regular people move to the sunbelt, where development is easy and real estate prices more reasonable, and the people who have the money and/or need to be in SF stay/move there.
My understanding is that if the phone is linked with a self-hosted Enterprise Server (BES, not hosted by RIM) then RIM don't actually have the keys to hand over.

I would have assumed that a government would have enough cash (and sense) to purchase and run its own BES software, keeping the keys out of RIMs hands.
There is always pkgsrc. pkgsrc works, well, everywhere.
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Apparently INTERPOL can issue red notices that are not public. So its possible if he tried to leave Hong Kong under his own ID he'd get arrested.

I assume he doesn't have a real forged passport. But how hard do they check for leaving Hong Kong? Could he get to Iceland and instead of trying to fool Icelandic passport control, just request asylum?
I'm trying hard to be rational here and not jump to conclusions.
Yes, I guess.
OSX 10.8, latest Chrome:
http://i.imgur.com/aOIjxsA.png
As a senator, Obama voted for TARP in 2008 (as did fellow candidate McCain). So in some sense, he did do something. It would also be naive to believe that he didn't spend a lot of time planning his future actions during that year. But you are correct that his main role in solving the 2008 financial crisis came in 2009 after he was sworn in.
I have a soft spot for Radix Sort. Not for any good reason but the fact that it is counter-intuitive, and that, more than anything, expresses how different perspectives can be used to gain insight into interesting problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort
any intrapreneurship ideas for PHM?
Because nobody sells phone for cash, right?
“Maybe they want to store it in a compressed form” is not a clear answer, and subsequent unfair attack at the poster for me personally discredits the whole comment anyway. Having been a long-time Bitbucket user and welcoming their latest UI improvements, I begin wondering about these terms, too.
As an American I admit being disappointed that Switzerland doesn't tend to fight as hard for my privacy as it does its own citizens'.

But props to .ch anyway :-)
To provide some more context, here are previous questions from this poster

Ask HN: What workloads would this VPS config be good for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5592790

Ask HN: How do you keep your servers/sites safe from hackers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5739713

Ask HN: Would any web devs like to co-found this startup with me?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5764168

Ask HN: What are the specs on the dedicated servers/VPS' you rent for dev work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5772439

Ask HN: Help me price my product. What's the most you would pay for this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5776554
You don't like being spied on? I don't blame you. But that doesn't make it unconstitutional. One time, we invaded a whole country, dropped bombs all over populated urban centers, took over for about 5 minutes, dissolved the army, and then stood back and let the whole place turn to hell. That sucked a lot. Also: not unconstitutional.
all part of the propaganda war hollywood is waging in the media as part of their effort to get congress and the public on their side so they can get more laws passed to keep the public from using the internet to get entertainment.
> How can anyone pretend that this law is constitutional???

The whole premise of FISA was to add an additional layer of protections in situations where no Article III warrant was necessary in the first place. Before FISA, to the extent that the target had no 4th amendment rights (foreign intelligence agent) or the monitoring in question was not a "search", then the government could do whatever the hell it wanted. FISA created an additional layer where the government had to get a FISA warrant to engage in that activity. Because the 4th amendment wasn't implicated, it was unnecessary for FISA warrants to meet the particularity requirements of Article III warrants.

The argument, thus, is "what is a search?" Is collecting AT&T's call data records a "search" that requires a Article III warrant? If not, then a "give us everything" FISA warrant is not unconstitutional. I imagine that's the interpretation the NSA is operating on.
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Yes, the mainstream media is full of morons. I'm not sure how this is relevant to this article, though, so I've downvoted your comment.
I agree that it's below average for a one bedroom in DC, but apartments do exist at that price. I've lived in DC for 9 years and I've never paid more than that. (Granted, my wife is a wizard-level Craigslist user.)

I think the tricky part is that there really aren't many apartment buildings in DC to begin with, aside from the recently built and very overpriced luxury condo conversions, so the supply of one bedroom apartments is low. If you can stand to have roommates, you're much better off with a 2 bedroom English basement or a 3-4 bedroom little rowhouse.
Anyone else getting troll vibes here?

This is all so bad it's like a parody of the companies we've all seen or heard about.
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I was at a tech Meet Up in DC a couple of years ago and there was an investor there who said he was from In-Q-Tel.
> which will eventually be upgraded to a much faster 6GB/s storage subsystem once there are enough earnings that we can reinvest revenue in hardware upgrades.

You may have customers who are evaluating your service because you offer SSD RAIDs. They know what the alternatives cost. They know what it costs to build it themselves. You've just told them exactly how little money your business has.

You're letting it show that you're just some guy with some servers in a colocation somewhere, hoping to rent them out. Why should any customer choose you, instead of the competition?
"Snowden's Junket"? Interesting choice of words there. Does that classify as a slight or a smear?

"he would help his cause by voluntarily coming home to face the consequences" - I think that quote suggests who's smarter out of Schieffer and Snowden.
I think Snowden did the best he could do under the circumstances. Expose the truth, run to a safe place, and then identify himself publicly. He's not running, he just prefers freedom to a jail cell. Who doesn't? MLK and Rosa Parks weren't facing 100 years in jail or the death penalty, were they?
> "The people who ran the civil-rights movement were willing to break the law and suffer the consequences."

That's correct, and I agree that participating in civil disobedience, by nature, requires being willing to "do the time" as part of making a point.

Whistleblowers, however, are a different story. I don't believe that Snowden was trying to be a martyr for Americans' right to privacy; I think he saw something that he wanted to be revealed (or that he thought needed to be, if you're arguing his side of the story) and leaked it.
Cities -can- be more environmentally friendly than the equivalent population living in a more rural setting -IF- you're comparing roughly equivalent standards of living.

And there lies the rub. A) It is entirely possible that China will screw up something in their planning resulting in poorer environmental outcomes. B) This demographic shift will almost certainly come matched with an economic uplifting, and regardless of efficiencies of scale and density (which is what a city gives you), the increase in standard of living (and therefore energy and other related 'products') can result in increased environmental damage.

It really comes down to a question of execution.
- If the country he moves to doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US, that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. If the country is small enough politically, then they will either be pressured into giving him up, or the US will just send in a strike team to kill/capture him. Heck, the US had no qualms about sending a strike team into Pakistan to assassinate Osama bin Laden, do you think that some country a lot less political pull is going to matter to them?

- The idea that he can stay hidden for long seems doubtful. He is now a high enough value target that he would have to have money and connections like Osama bin Laden or go off to live in a cave in the middle of nowhere with little (or preferably no) human contact to escape detection.

- There probably are plenty of people that escape international man-hunts, but they aren't people that have pissed off the entire US government, in addition to embarrassing powerful people on the international stage.
One important observation is that the interconnect out of the Phi cards is note very good. While the interconnect inside Phi is pretty good the bandwidth to communicate with other computing facilities is through the PCIe bus. This places the Phi cards close to GPU's very good at graphics and a few specialized problems like protein folding but not supercomputers that can tackle hard problems like sparse matrix solving.
What problems did you encounter with dirty checking?
Which point of which author? Also, what did you think I was arguing?
Since you have such faith in Daniel Ellsberg's moral stature, you might want to refer to his comments on this particular case.
Only martyrs should try to improve things?
Yeah, no. That doesn't work like that. The times now and 40 years ago were different.

CIA, NSA and the whole gamut are now much more efficient than they were 40 years ago (no need for due process etc.) If you try to play fair, they'll fuck you over big time.

Look how much good the legal system was to Aaron Schwartz for a minor misdemeanor. You'd never hear from Edward Snowden, until he just came out and admitted he was Chinese spy and that he loves Big Brother, I mean Big Government.

PS. He isn't in China btw, he is in Hong Kong. Which isn't a communist country as comment before me noted.
Wanted to upvote until I got to the racist comment. You make a much better point without it.
And since there are intelligence-sharing agreements between the countries, countries are spying on their own citizens with deniability by doing it through third parties. If they even care enough to maintain the ruse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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Maybe if that communist country was neutral and non-aligned with either the West or the Warsaw Pact, like Yugoslavia. Then the metaphor would work.
Indeed, the demand from some that dissidents should all throw themselves upon a pyre is peculiar to say the least. I feel safe in asserting that anyone who demands it is either foolish or has ulterior motives for demanding it.

I hope we are not forgetting that civil disobedience is not the only legitimate form of resistance. Particularly, when the prerequisites for successful civil disobedience are not precisely met, attempting it is not being noble but rather just being foolish. There is nothing admirable about taking yourself out of the fight for no reason other than to satisfy those who demand strict adherence to the principles of civil disobedience.
This is really the only reasonable dig I've heard against D.C.

I guess I was lucky enough to land a public sector job at a software shop that runs much like the hip ones out west. They are here, just not well represented.
This is just awesome. They blame the lack of DVD revenues yet refuse to license content such that full service stream services can set up in other markets (like my own New Zealand). Well, believe it or not, we've got brains and technology here too. As someone else said in this thread: Fuck 'em.

Just for a comparison, I've pirated one album since I subscribed to spotify (yeezus to check it out when it leaked).
> I believe it's unlikely that "not even close" is at all accurate.

Especially since the opening argument of the author is that AngularJS is gaining momentum because "it is simpler".

My personal experience is that when I ported my application from Ember to Angular, my code base (~5,000 lines) get simplified considerably. Based on what I've been reading, I'm not the only one making these observations.

My main beef with Ember was not about complexity or simplicity, just that it's not as powerful as AngularJS and it also covers only a small part of what AngularJS gives me out of the box (especially server side includes).
I generally agree with your main point (that knowing about reference hardware is burdensome).

However, your specific example (printers) is outdated. Both Linux and OSX use CUPS, which was acquired by Apple in 2007. Linux printer support is pretty spectacular these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS#History
MLK was protected by his fame. Rosa Park's act was entirely symbolic. Ellsberg was protected by the fact that he had given the information to a number of extremely influential Senators; something I'm sure Snowden would have loved to have done, if he was lucky enough to have that kind of access, and if there were still such thing as a senator who is honest and cares about the constitution.

(Or if "journalists" still believed their job was to serve as a check on, rather than an apologist for, the powerful)
>By the time Netflix came along, we finally gave up even trying DVDs from the video store...

I think this is a bigger deal than efforts to curtail piracy. If nothing else it's just more convenient to stream a video than to go to the store and buy/rent it.

In theory they could make up the difference by charging the streaming services enough to make up the difference, but I don't think the market supports a higher price.
A few months ago I went to the Apple store in Covent Garden (London) to repair my Macbook Air charger and the "genius" guy told me they would only cover one year warranty. This page would have been very useful back then.
Hi guys, author of the blog post here. I put up the code from the blog post at

https://github.com/arnabdotorg/Playing-Card-Recognition

if anyone wants to play with it.
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