skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty embarrassing piece; it reads like something you'd find on a conspiracy forum.

1. Keyboards don't beep.

2. There are lots of more reasonable explanations for text getting deleted than "state agency wanted to play a juvenile prank on me and be glaringly obvious about it". A stuck key, an intermittent short across some of the leads caused by the coffee he spilled all over his keyboard (conjecture on my part), a glitchy keyboard controller -- we've seen all of these in our shop.

3. In Rio, "a tall American" immediately meets a fellow Westerner and "accosts" him -- by suggesting they go out and see the city? He's a spook because he dressed neatly and was in good shape? Hell, that makes me a spook too.

4. Choose one of the two following explanations for the iPhone behavior: one, a well-funded and resourceful state agency is hiring people to track a journalist writing a book about the biggest intelligence leak in recent history, and the people they're hiring are juvenile enough to use methods straight out of Hollywood to play a prank on their target's iPhone when he sends a text with possibly the most milquetoast insult about their methods in the history of ever; or, two, the iPhone crashed. (Your answer might be used to gauge your sanity.)

5. The hotel safe -- if it weren't for everything else he'd written, I might be willing to buy that this was a botched job. But in the context of the rest of the article, I think the more reasonable explanation is that it was a crappy safe, it never did work correctly, and he only noticed that part way through his stay in the room.
"Life is not black and white."

Then I say the world isn't filled with classes of "players"
lol at your baseless wishful thinking

Cry me a river. The demand if from millionaires an billionaires both foreign and domestic. Whatsapp made each employee a millionaire many times over. Twitter IPO. Rich Chinese & Russians. What goes up will keep going up, lib.
Colbert has stated he's a Catholic because he doesn't believe there's any other reasonable explanation for the existence of joy.

I'm sure there's a little bit more to it - but perhaps not much more. His take on the Bible is literal enough that he believes in the existence of hell.
Funny to see this post pop up in a thread about how dysfunctional SF city government is. Myrtle Beach is effectively governed by an oligarchy of property development families.
These recent developments keep reminding me of the "dust" in Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky". Powered by microwave pulses.

Granted, that dust as described is more capable. But we know how that curve tends to go.

It seems that the science fiction writers are barely keeping ahead of "reality", these days. Kind of amazing.
The biggest problem is that the interesting part about this challenge (different precendence) is rather advanced to beginners and is _not even touched_ in the preceding parts.
Interesting, maybe we should port OpenSSL to Javascript...
Selling some pretty interesting domains
As you can probably tell from upthread, I agree with you. I'll point out a difference between #winprog and #w00w00 though: #w00w00 had the con scene --- #w00w00 people would see each other every year at DefCon and Pumpcon and, later, CanSec. Also, a lot of these people wound up working in the same city (say, Atlanta, or Columbia MD --- I get ISS, Monkey, and w00w00 mixed up).
From the title I was assuming it was going to be an article about Detroit or some other place where there really is no possibility of house prices falling because they are already at or near zero. In SF falling prices is definitely possible even if not likely in the short term.

If the acquisitions and other positive exits dry up (even for a couple of years) the prices may readjust quickly and once they start to fall the perception of inevitably rising prices will disappear taking further demand with it (people will prefer to wait for cheaper prices rather than buying urgently before prices rise further).

I am not predicting immediate falls by any stretch but when people start saying prices can't fall is when people buy on that basis and are shocked and damaged when they do (which at some point they will).
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>>That is not necessary. If prices get so high that no one wants to or can afford to live in SF, then the prices will naturally decline.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem.

For people outside the tech industry, this is already becoming the case. This is why entire neighborhoods are being gentrified: middle and lower-middle class can no longer afford to live there.

Tech workers though? Their companies have bottomless pockets. Google can afford to increase employee wages to keep up with increasing real estate prices. The issue is that Google employees need services like everyone else: police, firefighters, teachers, water, electricity, sewage, just to name a few. But if those service-providers can't afford to live in the city, then what will happen?

Probably this: http://imgur.com/CbyLy7O
The NSA is tasked with collecting information. If there was an operation, as it was described, this would be a PSYOP. Also, while the NSA might help, it'd be another agency with more HUMINT and clandestine experience who designed and executed the operation.
Security wasn't an industry before 2002? Huh? Security made millionaires out of half of #!r00t and (I assume) #w00w00 before 2000, mostly due to ISS. It professionalized in the mid-1990s.
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The irony of it is that many of the companies in the Bay area are actually building technologies that help people to work from anywhere effectively, such as email programs, messaging apps, project management tools, video-conferencing, etc.

So in theory the problem should solve itself. If their apps really work, the pressure on Bay area real estate should ease. In practice I'm not hopeful.
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Except others in w00w00 ended up working at Napster and one is practically a co-founder.
What will it do?

A pair of before-and-after screenshots would be helpful.
I would suggest you look at a Bay Trail (Atom) based W8 tablet instead of an ARM unit.

The battery life is fantastic (and comparable to ARM), and you'll be able to run traditional desktop apps in a pinch.
Okay, i will say this only once - there are NO nazis in ukraine.

Sasha Biliy is not the whole country or doesn't represent even a city. He is just a mad guy who walks city streets with empty machine gun. This video made a huge resonance in Ukraine, so even our Interior minister [secretary of state] (Arsen Avakov) reacted to this on his FB page saying that this is absolutely inappropriate. And i am sure, that this man will be in jain really soon.

I ask this question every person who speaks about nazis in ukraine. IF there are nazis, who hate russian people - WHY there was NOT A SINGLE attack on russian embassy in whole ukraine? Why not a single russian was killed by evil ukrainian nazis?
No, you cannot just add that to the top of a web page and have it magically transform into a mobile-friendly page. It may look fine on your particular device, but it will probably be completely hosed on everything else.

The viewport meta tag is essentially a switch which tells mobile browsers to not provide a default page width of 980px, auto zoomed out, but to instead use the device's CSS pixel dimensions, with a zoom you define with initial-scale. Note that this is not physical pixel dimensions. A mobile device's CSS pixels are the physical resolution divided by the device's devicePixelRatio, which currently can range from 1 to 3.

Examples:

On an iPhone 5s, which has a physical resolution of 1136x640 and a devicePixelRatio of 2, a viewport with "width=device-width" will create a page that only has 320px in portrait and 553px in landscape in CSS pixels.

On a HTC One, which has a physical resolution of 1920x1080 (1080p) and a devicePixelRatio of 3, the page will have only 360px in portrait and 640px in landscape.

On tablets, CSS pixel portrait width can range from 600px on a Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HDX, to 768px on an iPad mini non-retina, to 800px on a Nexus 10 or Kindle Fire HDX 8.9".

Using a viewport meta tag needs to be done in combination with CSS media queries (or a very flexible design that doesn't use px for sizes) to ensure that your web page design responds to the various screen sizes without breaking.

Hope that helps clarify things a bit - trust me, it's a common misunderstanding.
> private commercial/licensing agreements

And who do you think enforces commercial licensing agreements?
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I think you should work on your reading comprehension.

I said someone throwing you out of their house because of something you said was not a First Amendment issue, and it's not. I don't recall saying, or implying that a homeowner has the ability to jail someone or impose fines. If you are aware of that being the case, I'd certainly be interested in citations.
Farmers might be doing things other than abusing their animals.

Living in a country that went through bovine spongiform encephalopathy and a variety of other animal diseases I think it's a frightening idea to prevent secret filming.

People who want to film secretly will try to do so using legal means as far as possible. They'll get ployed as a worker on the farm, for example. But if secret filming is itself banned those people will turn to entirely criminal methods - breaking and entering. This means that secret filming moves from moderate groups to hardline activist groups.

That is sub-optimal.

And why are farmers scared of their animal conditions being shown? People should be aware of how their food is produced. See "kill it, cook it, eat it" as an example tv series.
An interesting observation.

When I lived in Menlo Park, I observed that local politics (definitely including zoning regulations) were controlled by wealthy homeowners, who had a strong vested interest in the status quo.

But absentee homeowners, whose principal residence is not in Manhattan, are presumably ineligible to vote there. So it seems plausible that zoning and other local laws might tilt in favor of the renters, middle class, and others who actually live in their neighborhoods.
Speaking three languages doesn't qualify him as a competent developer.
I wrote the article and, yes, I probably conflated TESO and ADM with w00w00 on one level, though I did a ton of research and those other hacker groups were routinely mentioned in comparison.

"Gotta disagree with you on this one. Lots of folks in w00w00 worked together. In that sense, they did invest in each other (with time and effort, if not cash)." -- that's correct and a good way of putting it.
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What a curious perspective. Lots of people like IntelliJ better than Eclipse, so they must be succumbing to "group-think?"

Why don't people try to defend and improve Pepsi?
I've puzzled over this and it seems like even though the european age of discovery spread out with a shockwave of death due to various factors, the world left in its wake was more homogenous and connected and so genocide came to be less frequent.

I'd love to have a link to that talk, by the way.
Windows beeps when you're pressing keys at the same time or just holding them down. I don't know the exact situations but I remember a "hot keys" notification popping up.

Let's consider the article is true and words were being deleted as he wrote them. How ridiculous is that? A. disconnect from the internet. B. The whole manuscript could be deleted with a few keystrokes if wanted. Why would someone sit there and delete out the "bad" parts while they know the writer is actually working and typing in the document? This makes absolutely no sense. PR stunt imo.
I would have no trouble finding a job in that area. But why live in a place where even a ridiculous salary is proportionately less than just about anywhere else? If you are competing with stockified millionaires no salary will ever compete. My 2000sf house here in Texas in worth $160,000. In SF it's probably ten or even twenty times that. Can I get paid ten times my salary here? Hell no.
Well, two of those are vulnerability research teams, and one of them is a social club, but sure, I guess you can use them all in the same sentence. ;)
"Don't underestimate the possibility, and the horror, of just muddling through."

Indeed, and I don't, for that's the worst case I'm likely to survive for medical reasons. I label it "Argentina".

I do think you obsess a bit too much on the costs of our 21st Century foreign adventures. To take FY 2007 as an example,simply because Wikipedia provides some details and the Iraq war was hot, that was famously the year of the "surge": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_federal_bud..., the total Defense and Iraq and Iran war costs were less than Social Security + Medicare ... which can't get "turned off" like these, and which are going to rise dramatically as the Baby Boomers continue to retire.

Near the end of that fiscal year the CBO "estimated that "war-related defense activities" in 2007 were "roughly $115 billion." (Or call it 230 Solyndras.) You have more than a passing familiarly with WWII and the Cold War, and their costs. We aren't talking about Maximum Efforts like the former where, I just randomly looked up yesterday, we peaked at building a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber every hour, 650 per month (curiously close the total number of all airplanes Imperial Japan could make in a month), and 18,482 total units ("it still holds the distinction as the most-produced American military aircraft.")

The "surge" itself wasn't that big in historical terms (although this is more expensive volunteer army), 18,400 troops in 5 Army brigades, 4,000 Marines had their stays extended, etc., evidently 28,000 "additional troops" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#O...).

Unless the CBO was smoking something powerful, this wasn't a budget buster; not a small cost, but I can't see how you can reasonably claim it's a proportionally bankrupting cost, unless everything I've heard from secondary or worse sources is wrong, plus what I just looked up.
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If it bothers you enough, get the ball rolling with contact forms, then start looking for email addresses via HN and linkedin. No harm in asking for your identity ranking back.
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For unpaid interns everywhere. A parody music video of "Irreplaceable", a double-platinum song by 17-times Grammy Award-winning singer Beyoncé which remained at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten consecutive weeks.

This was filmed in London without a budget in one day.

So no pressure then.
I idle in a few rooms on Freenode and am active in a few more. Some open source projects have excellent rooms, others have useless ones. Depending on your interests, your mileage will vary greatly.
I have immense respect for Shiller, but I think he got a few things wrong in this piece.

The Bitcoin phenomenon seems to fit the basic definition of a speculative
bubble — that is, a special kind of fad, a mania for holding an asset
in expectation of its appreciation.

Shiller correctly identified the housing bubble long before others did, so he has a lot of credibility here. But doesn't truly disruptive innovation exhibit a similar pattern? Whether it's Google, or Tesla, or Netflix, the "mania" to hold the asset proves to be justified as entire industries are transformed.

The central problem with Bitcoin in its present form, though,
is that it doesn’t really solve any sensible economic problem.

The current monetary system is unfree, just like communication systems before the internet were unfree. I cannot transmit value over space and time, across borders, to anyone, for arbitrarily small or large amounts, at nearly zero cost. That seems like a "sensible economic problem" that needs a solution.

Despite its flaws, Bitcoin does a pretty good job solving these problems today, and future generations of cryptocurrency will only get better.

I don't argue that cryptocurrencies can or should replace government currencies, but they clearly accomplish something valuable.

After all, if cryptocurrencies had zero utility, why would so much talent be devoted to stealing them?
This is one of the unique opportunities I see about Myrtle Beach: There are so many professional, successful, educated northerners - both young professionals and retirees, which are moving to the area, that they're bringing the mindset with them. They come here looking for the same like-minded folks; and they're finding it due to the # of transplants.

Yes, for now you'd be one of the few who are into startups. But that was also the case in Boston when I first moved there in 2006 (albeit not starting /as/ small), and I was able to watch the startup community grow and thrive over the next 6 years
To me it sounds like bullshit being invented by a reporter trying to spice up a story.
Cannot comment on his code. Or how he operates a business.

Just that he seems rather smart in general, or rather not stupid.

I wonder what the motivation to move to Japan was.
I've never lived in either city, but while I've certainly heard a fair bit about San Francisco's idiosyncrasies, I have basically no impression of Myrtle Beach at all. In your estimation, what aspects of MB are as bad as the complaints I see about SF, and how do those stem from the governance model you describe?
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I've used a Cintiq for years, and it has the exact same issue with tracking the pen near the edges. If anything, it's worse than the Surface. So it never occurred to me that there might be a solution. Thank you for the link!
> Not only workers, but also people with high-income jobs have started to be pushed out of the more sought after neighborhoods.

"People with high-income jobs" are still workers. The "job" bit gives it away.
It's easy to think that but it's not true. Regardless of population size, providing a sample is truly random, a sample size of 300 is enough to measure with an accuracy of + or - 3%. Increasing sample size much beyond this does not meaningfully increase accuracy.

An analogy I've found useful thinking about this is, if you have a pot of soup, tasting a teaspoon is enough to figure out whether the soup is oversalted or not, regardless of the size of the soup pot, providing the soup is well mixed.
What he doesn't say is that the keyboard stopped flashing and beeping after he threw a biscuit at his cat.

I saw this a couple days ago. I thought it was rather silly.
Thanks a lot. :-)
Yes I understand, but I wouldn't want that in a chrome extension personally. It could make styling harder. When you nuke rules without considering specificity it can cause unintended consequences. If everything just followed regular CSS rules as if all CSS was applied by the author there would be less of a chance of changing something you hadn't intended to change.
Reports of IBM's death are greatly exaggerated. People have been saying this for four decades when minicomputers rose, when the PC rose, when the server rose, when Linux rose.

IBM is a market maker and there is no other company quite like it. It always feels unintuitive when they shift, but I expect them to keep on chugging along and continuing to innovate.
The flip side of this is that technology has enabled more and more mediocre companies to stay in business. All companies will be mediocre at some point; tech enables latching at that state and coasting. Jack Welch codified the rules for living off the stored energy in a formerly-good company's flywheel and that's been the standard.

Not to be rude, but touting Apple's brilliance at design is a bit of buying PR-propaganda spiced with cynicism about leaving buttons off things. I saw the transition back to Jobs' leadership indirectly, through people I sort of knew online leaving Apple. It struck me then as Welch-ism writ large.
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean 'they' are not out to get you!!

If the events happened as described 'they' were trying to spook him or 'psych' him out.
"We don't want to assign one programmer for 3 weeks to work on a separate branch in a complete isolation from the rest of the team."

Do people really consider something that can be completed in three weeks of effort by a single person to be a "big feature"?
No company hires just because. They have a plan and need people to execute it. If those people do their jobs well and still the company fails, then logically, you would keep the workers and replace the management. But it never seems to work like that.
Somewhat related, I've noticed not just Chrome, but most mobile browsers apply some sort of font boosting, inflation or some such... Isn't this breaking standards flagrantly? I know all these clever developers mean well [1], but still...

[1] Though I can't help feeling total arbitrariness when skipping from one first-level HN comment to the next.
The Windows beep is usually from a speaker connected to your motherboard. There is no speaker located on the majority of keyboards, meaning no beeps.

It's not ridiculous to think words would begin to get deleted, but it is ridiculous to say some government organization would sit there and watch him type to remove some content. Why would any organization spying on him make it so obvious, and pointless. If he wanted to hide it from them he would just go to another computer.

I run into this self'deleting in words once a month. I have no idea how I activate it, but when i type it deletes what's in front of it. It's a frustrating feature that I haven't defeated, but I don't think the government is watching my computer, seeing what I type on Hacker News.