skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heroku enforces a 512 MB memory limit (or 1024 MB on the 2X dynos), so that limits the practical number of processes running in the same dyno... especially if those are (heavy) full-stack web applications. Additionally, processes share the same CPU, so you'll not get the same performance as two processes in their own dynos.

See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/process-model and https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails-unicorn. Unicorn forks multiple OS processes within each dyno to allow a Rails app to support multiple concurrent requests. Generally no more than 3-4 processes will fit in one dyno.
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But consider how you tap a cable though: you need to be able to analyse it offline to work out what the hell is going on, sift the data you need a warrant for (UK stuff) and whether a warrant applies.
Even if that could be done in real time it would still be "storing" all the data.

Even Snowden's allegations put the maximum length at 30 days which makes it sound much less like a database of everyone's activity online.
It would be great if profiles could be searchable through the three hashtags one can use on the profile. That way one would not necessarily only rely on sending an email, but would always be available to the pool of hiremyfriend users who are looking for growth hackers or ruby devs, etc.
And all for nothing - none of my Android devices have ever restored my wifi passwords, it is always a mission to find and input my password on a fresh phone.
>Massive national PR/exposure. This is going to get a LOT of attention, and I’m famous for maximizing impact

The only thing Tim Ferriss is good at is making a name for himself. Rest assured this would be the only purpose in his investment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057363
I guess it would be fairly difficult to make this truly secure without making it too difficult to use. Simply encrypting the data with your Google account password does not do much good, since you are going to provide that password to Google and they could obviously use that to decrypt the data (should the government request it).

One option would be to use separate password for protecting the data, but that would not be very convenient for the user. Very easy to forget such password since you are not going to need it very often.
You just need a bigger fan. Downside would be noise of the fan and wind of a constant mini-hurricane :)
This probably varies a bit by area, but you might be surprised at how many minimum wage employees will remain in minimum wage positions.

You can certainly think of McDonalds jobs as internships, but that's not how many in the workforce view them.
Any idea what the equivalent 'riskScore' would be? If we are starting using minfraud it doesn't make sense to use 'score'.

Thanks
That free-market capitalism sometimes produces unjust results, I assume?
If they are smart that's exactly how you should be able to get the OLPC software suite. Nearly all elements of all the "skinned" Androids could be repackaged as a software suite and don't need to be baked in to the Android system, probably this one included. $150 isn't an exceptionally low price for an Android tablet, so there's nothing magical about the hardware.
Well, the threat of a dirty bomb or actual nuclear payload being smuggled into a U.S. city by a terrorist group really is something the NSA is watching for. It's just not the only thing they're watching for.
Pwned? Really?
It seems like McDonald's was providing an additional service for its low pay workers, so it seems a bit rude for the Atlantic to jump on them. Clearly it is difficult to live on $1K/m but I'm sure its possible -- I've done it myself ($300/rent $60/utils $180/food $150/books). Eventually I saved up and bought a car for $700.

The real question is why someone making only $1K post-tax had an apartment that costs $600 a month.
The problem with this is that a very large number of jobs become 'not a career.' Eventually there just aren't jobs to move on to. There are only so many managers needed, only so many stores.

Why is it ok that minimum wage is unlivable?
Funny how the ISC report is hosted on Google Sites and so if you download it while logged in your Google account is likely associated with it.

In fact, the entire ISC site is on Google Sites: https://sites.google.com/a/independent.gov.uk/isc/home
Encryption, maybe. But I wouldn't count on fragile media remaining beyond the next 20 years. Some crystal based storage mediums have silly things done to them, like being heated to 1,000 degrees for two hours, to demonstrate their durability.
Thanks, I didn't know that! What does the activated carbon do?
There was an article on Hacker News a few months back about somebody who visited hardware manufacturers in China,and apparently you can buy a fully functional Android tablet for as low as $39 there. At that price I imagine it's not necessary to have a super-rugged device for 10x the price if you can just replace it so cheaply.
This shouldn't be on HN, because it will inevitably devolve into a fact-free flame-filled discussion which would be better served by DonkeyVsElephantDeathmatch.com or any of the other 200,000,000 sites on the Internet where one can debate politics/capitalism/living wage/etc to death. It particularly shouldn't be on HN because the core claim isn't even a little bit true, as The Atlantic would know if... bah I hate all the ways to end this sentence because they murder the HN tone, which is one reason why we should not post or upvote things like this.

Why the core claim is wrong:

McDonalds explains that this is not a projection of the typical McDonald's worker's financial situation (which would be useless unless it was particularized to e.g. "Do you have children?", "Do you have a spouse? Do they work?", "Do you own? Rent? Live with parents?", etc -- all answers which vary quite consequentially across the McD's workforce). Rather, it is a simple example of "This is what a budget looks like. You add income together on the top, then subtract expenses. Here's an example filled with fake data:"

From the horse's mouth:

In an effort to provide free, comprehensive money management tools, McDonald’s first used the Wealth Watchers International budgeting journal when this financial literacy program launched in 2008.

As part of this program, several resources were developed including a sample budgeting guide, an instructional video and a web resource center that had additional tools and information.

The samples that are on this site are generic examples and are intended to help provide a general outline of what an individual budget may look like.
Maybe I missed something. I thought this project was supposed to be all open source. That way kids could learn about the tablet itself, all the way down to the source code and hardware specification level.
Do's: forget about it.
Don't: actually go through with it.

Running a co-working office is not just leasing an apartment, giving 5 people a key to it and ping them once a month to deposit 200$ in your account or the cookie jar on the kitchen table. I've watched this happen from fairly close twice now, and here is a selection of what is involved:

- Internet/telephony. One residential internet point with a wireless router isn't that big a deal, granted, especially when the people working there are tech-savvy. But you very quickly get to the point where somebody needs a fax (government contracts yay!), a reliable line to Skype while that other guy is pulling in a new Redhat iso ('DD-WRT can do that!' sure, if your time is free), needs a way to have phone calls go to an answering machine, or if you need to decide on a system who will answer whose phone when people have varying work schedules. Everybody cell phone only, no-guarantee internet - it probably works in some circumstances, sure, but you hit the limit sooner than you think.

- Rent is not the only cost - you need to divide electricity, water, municipal taxes, garbage costs. Can easily add a double-digit percentage to the base rent.

- Who's going to do the cleaning? Put out the garbage? Call the land lord when the toilet is clogged? Answer the door for that client that you thought was coming at 9h30 but came at 9h (happened to me this morning)? You can pay somebody for all of this, but it'll add to the cost. Some people will want to do it themselves, others will want to pay somebody - now what? Resentment creeps in easily.

- One person decides to get a regular job, or to go on holidays for 3 months, or doesn't make enough to pay rent. Now you have to scramble to fill that spot, or jack up the price of the rest. If you're connected enough that sending out one email will provide you with enough reliable candidates, great - otherwise enjoy spending an afternoon posting ads online, showing people around, interviewing them to at least have the impression that they won't rob you or leave you high and dry with the bill after 3 months.

- Or somebody wants to hire a secretary or other staff. Now what? Labor law rules, higher and more insurance, parking issues, and no more 'I can just leave my wallet and 2000$ laptop here cause I know and trust everybody', that's what.

All in all, what you can save over a commercial co-working arrangement (which, yes, are expensive) is in using hobby-level equipment (no Cisco switches and IP phones, only the cheapest from Newegg, and Ikea over Aeron); and the profit they make. That profit isn't all that huge, although in a small team you do have the advantage of being at full capacity as long as you have tight arrangements. Co-working spaces go bust all the time, not because they're so expensive, but because doing enough business for economies of scale to kick in is hard in a space that doesn't require much except capital to get into. So in my experience, you can bring the cost down from 500-700/month to 300-400/month plus depreciation of the chair and desk.
Sure, we spy on our people and your people, and so do you. Our relationship is just fine.
The replies to my comment might have been some of the points in such an article. :)
If there isn't already, it might be an idea to setup a sub-reddit or such for this.
> When did people stop working so hard, but rather coveting their neighbors house?

When did people not covet their neighbors house? This sounds like canned tea party rhetoric.

The facts will certainly support a widening gap between the wealthy and poor in our (US) society. Will they also support this alleged paradigm shift in working class mentality?
I disagree. "fucking" (and directly-censored variants like "f*%$ing") suggest anger on the part of the speaker. "freaking" much less so.
What would you give them instead? $150 is certainly better than an iPad and even better than an iTouch, even at used prices.
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75 hours a week isn't hard work ?
iirc, one of the original ideas for OLPC was a "Buy two, get one" deal; you bought one for $100, which was, especially at the time, still considered cheap for a laptop, but it was enough to actually buy two devices, one which would be handed out for free to schools in poorer countries.
This is the typical BS.

[Edit] Are you expecting Zhukov, the top Russian commander, to drink vodka where it is not appropriate?

I couldn't stop be amused at how much Westerners' image of the world is distorted.
Who is making minimum wage?

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.htm

Raise the cost of McDonald's to hire unskilled workers, and make it more likely that they will invest in things like the automatic hamburger maker.[1] Then there will be fewer jobs overall.

1: http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/
> You can certainly think of McDonalds jobs as internships, but that's not how many in the workforce view them.

Very few people view them as permanent, that's for sure.

Many of my friends started out in fast food as teenagers. None still work there. Among my family, one went to fast food and moved up to management quickly.

Turnover is the name of the game with McD's, that's the assumption for most (and staying at the same minimum wage job is the exception for most).
It's more than "unlikely", it's ridiculous. It's the longest way around and possibly the stupidest route to get onto someone's Wifi network.
In that case I agree that it would never be used as it was written, and suggest that the author must have jumbled the parameters. Calling the method as preg_replace($exif['Make'], '', $exif['Model']) would correct the behavior to something useful, while keeping the vulnerability in place.
I also enjoyed that book. Tom Standage (@tomstandage) is an interesting guy. He's the editor of the 'back half' of the Economist, the non-news part.
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FWIW, it has always worked for me. After remembering one WiFi password, so that I can get on a network and bootstrap...
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Sorry, I should have said that it was a version of Scorched Earth that you could play in school.
Brainwashed by the American Dream. You too can have all this one day! Just work hard and keep your nose to the grindstone!

Unfortunately that's increasingly no longer the case.
But how exactly can you "earn some money" if such a job can barely cover half the costs of living, in a trivially-false contrived example?

McDonalds only even functions under your assumption if we assume that the employee has another support system that makes the job more a 'character building exercise' than an actual job.

Which is to say that you seem to be suggesting McDonalds cashiers are more similar to kids volunteering with a non-profit; helping a massive corporation sell hamburgers at an otherwise-unsustainable price, rather than ladling soup, clearing lots or rebuilding homes for the needy.
For Chrome Sync data, you can specify a pass phrase that is not your Google Account password, nor is it tied to a specific device. It would be nice if you could specify a pass phrase to use when sending Android backup data.

Of course, many people would set the pass phrase when they set up their phone and promptly forget it, making their backup useless. (I've done forgotten enough crypto keys myself to know...)

Like you say, it's a tradeoff, but the Chrome team has been able to make it work with Chrome Sync. Of course, you only need to set up Sync once, and if you forget your Sync pass phrase you're not losing much. Perhaps the Android team decided that pass-phrase-encrypting the backups would cause more problems than it might solve.

nb: I am a Google employee, but I have no inside knowledge of any of these products nor the decision making processes of their teams.
I've always thought the same thing.

I have no idea what McDonalds pays locally (DC metro), but I can think of several local jobs that are available to young/unskilled workers that beat the minimum wage ($7.25 in VA).

Even the dog walkers at the local doggy day care start at $10+. Doesn't get much more unskilled than that.

Or, find a way into a union job, like UPS driver. It won't make you rich, but it's steady work. Usually takes starting part-time, or working the Christmas rush, but the jobs are there. Only real requirement is a mostly clean driving record.
Weirdly the pamphlet anticipates slightly lower heating costs for their Spanish language employees? [1] It's a $30 line item vs. a $50 line item on the English spending plan.

[1] http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/mcdonalds/documents/McD_...
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I've always had great experiences upgrading Android devices. Once I log in for the first time they sync wifi and applications pretty seamlessly.

My wife recently picked up an S4 and none of her things synchronized. I was pretty surprised at the time but thinking about it later I realized the AT&T clerk skipped the initial sign-in process. It looks like the option to sync old apps/passwords is only available upon launching a fresh device (which being a Nexus user no clerk ever bypasses setup on my devices).

Anyway, this might be why your phone isn't syncing? I'd be interested in seeing some option to force sync Android devices with backed up data at any time.
What happens when there aren't any supervisor positions to move into, and there aren't any jobs that pay better?
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Do you say this for any reason outside of not agreeing with him politically?

Looking at the man's resume, combined with the fact that he has run multiple political campaigns - including one for POTUS, which is no cake-walk - tells me the guy is a pretty hard worker.

I'm not going to comment on the "fairness" of the relative wages, but implying that a McDonald's employee and Mitt Romney are equally productive, or work equally hard, is nonsense regardless of your political stance.
Slightly OT when Tim says "US-based investable entities (which is easy)" how easy it really is?

Even if one incorporates in say Delaware, according to (say UK rules) a company is resident where the heart of the company is. And if I, as a director, am physically out of US (or Delaware), how can you claim your company is resident there? Nominee directors?
We, in Indian subcontinent, have been using fans to disperse mosquitoes as long as I can remember. I have never tried it outdoors but it works like a charm for indoors.
Very much 'Snow Crash'.
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The whole slant against "the business intelligence community" is just uninformed IMO. I think that there's another side to this that the author neglected to mention: self-service BI. The people who the author claims need a "SQL education" might be better served by a well designed OLAP structure that has a solid, easy-to-use front-end that allows users to find out what they want without having to resort to SQL at all. Microsoft has made great investments and strides in Excel, Excel-based tools (like PowerPivot), Report Builder, and SharePoint (to name a few) that really make it quite easy to browse relational, tabular, and multidimensional data. Does it help to learn SQL? Probably. Is it a barrier to entry? Sure, at some places. However with tools like PowerPivot it's becoming less about "learning a new language" and more about "just getting to the data".

These tools are "magic beans" or other marketing BS - they're very real tools that work great.
Yeah but he doesn't have the password, unless somehow he hacked Google's servers for that specific one. It's the combination of both that makes it unlikely, there are far easier/better/more practical/likely ways of penetrating wifi networks.
Yeah the touch-screen has been a problem - especially when trying to give something out to the general unwashed public. No amount of protective cover would have helped us when some guy or gal decided to punch one of the screens in a few months back. Meh.

By 2" thick I was talking more about a box with the touch-screen in the front with a simple plastic protective layer and a hinge you can flip open to reveal the internals. That way replacing the screen is just a dispatch-call. Or something to that effect.

Basically something that can be mounted semi-permanently, the same way as a television screen, and with the most common parts (the screen) accessible by a technician so they can be replaced when broken.
Emmigration is difficult, especially if you're in the middle class.

What would need to happen for you to abandon your job/business, home, extended family and friends and home to move to another country? I don't know what the answer is, but I think in a similar circumstance my first instinct would be to hunker down and wait for things to blow over.

If you're poor and striving, I think these decisions are a bit easier. My grandparents all immigrated to the US from Ireland between 1929-1946. For them, the complete lack of opportunity made it the only decision that made sense.
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I purchased one of these devices that clips onto a box fan and traps the mosquitos. It works ok, but the best results are from having the fan blow away from you, which isn't all that cooling: http://skeeterbag.com/
>It's not even close to trying to respect the spirit of the law or of the constitution, or human rights.

To be fair, our (unwritten but otherwise formalised) constitution basically says Parliament can do whatever the hell it wants (except when limited by EU, but that's debatable and anyway we're digressing), so as long as the current crop of MPs are fine with a surveillance state, then it's all constitutionally acceptable.

>I would avoid stories on this from BBC. From what I've noticed they tend be on their side

I agree that the BBC is far from impartial. It's always been pro-government, to a variable degree depending on who is in charge at the moment. Ever since Greg Dyke was booted by Blair for not supporting the Iraq invasion enough, and even more so after the various rounds of cuts from the Con-Dem coalition, BBC reporters have mostly stuck to the line that one doesn't bite the hand that feeds one.
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I'd like to give this a go, but I don't have a twitter account. How do you see this working for those developers without a social media presence?
The most interesting part of the article was almost an after thought:

> "Of course, minimum wage workers aren't really entirely on their own, especially if they have children. There are programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and the earned income tax credit to help them along. But that's sort of the point. When large companies make profits by paying their workers unlivable wages, we end up subsidizing their bottom lines."
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Now imagine if we tried to solve the problem of unemployment the way libertarians want: by abolishing minimum wage restrictions altogether. If minimum-wage jobs dropped in wages by as little as 25%, their employees would have to work for 100 hours a week in order to survive - as the price of labour at the bottom of the market goes down, the demand has to go up as people are forced to work longer. The libertarian proposal makes no sense and yet they carry on making it.
I believe the intent is that the business was founded in the US.
it's nothing to do with government pressure, it's simply an issue of resources.

The BBC has huge traffic and is required by law to moderate its comment pages. Some subjects (like this one, or anything to do with Paedophiles, Religion, War etc) will trigger an enormous volume of comments. It's simply not possible for the BBC to moderate them all, so they have to make the difficult decision to turn the comments off.
Why couldn't Google just have a shared key stored on each of the user's devices ?

The shared key could be backed up to Google's servers and encrypted using the user's password so in the event of a new device/flashing the shared key could be re-downloaded.

Then you only ask the user once for their password.
> ...it's based on a mistaken premise.

Disagree. The article is clearly of the opinion that McDonalds was forced to assume a 2nd income in order for any sample budget to be feasible.

Sure, you could always squeeze a few dollars out of rent & cable, but balancing any monthly budget on an income of $1,105 is quite difficult - particularly for those who have never earned higher and had the chance to accrue property, goods and appliances.
I would say he's just been waiting for Russian public support for Snowden to cool down a bit, but then I forget that it seems from the outside that he pretty much doesn't need to consider Russian public opinion.
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