skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A salary that qualifies for and requires public assistance is not a liveable salary.
Awesome! Anything to get rid of paper from my workflow. Not so much about the environment (though, that's good too). But dealing with paper is such a productivity killer.
I live just over the Washington border in the eastern part of the state and go to Oregon frequently. Same situation as you've found compared to California - Oregon is normally $0.10 or so cheaper per gallon. Often the attendants will wipe your windshield, check your wipers, tell you the sports score and weather, etc. It's rather charming really. Even when I was in Portland on business, I don't think I ever viewed it as taking any longer for the attendant to do it over what it would have taken me. If you really want to do it yourself, you can get a commercial fuel membership and pump away at those stations.
Have a look at this infographic from dangrover posted here a couple months ago: http://dangrover.github.io/sf-ellis-evictions/

Note that both Ellis Act and other kinds of evictions seem to be disproportionately lower than what the median house prices would lead one to expect.

I'm not making an argument in favor of the evictions. But articles like these and recent activism imply that this is a worrying new trend rather than a slow return to previous levels.
> Feinstein "accused the Central Intelligence Agency of improperly removing documents from computers that committee staff members had been using to complete a report on the agency’s detention program, saying the move was part of an effort to intimidate the committee."

This sounds like an elderly person that does not understand computers. A staffer probably misplaced a file and cried "CIA". Although I revel in the fact that ubiquitous spying bothers her when she is the target I'm not convinced she knows what she is talking about.

Also note this happened in 2010 so it just sounds like an excuse for her to make a political about face in the face of pressure about the NSA.
>I don't have much faith that the other major candidate was any more honest, so what really is the general public to do?

Not wait until there is a candidate President to be presented to them, but join the parties they are interested in, and push and vote themselves for the kind of candidate they want to have?

If people only vote at the last minute (just who will be president from 2 ready made choices by the Republican or the Democratic party) then it's not really a democracy, it's merely a popularity contest about two people put in front of you.

There's no "representative democracy" without mass active participation. Voting every 4 years and the ocassional "letter to your Senator" doesn't count at all.

>Yeah yeah, technically we vote for people, not for platforms...

Well, in a democracy you're supposed to vote for the platform, not for the people. It's not about chosing a random leader that seems nice, it's about picking the representative to best move forward the kind of policy change (platform) you'd like to see.

Making elections about individual people and their character (and even personal morals or looks) is, to my European eyes, a regression to non political attitudes.
It does seem bizarre they don't make any ACL on external storage. I am sure this is not a strange isolated report. This problem must have been known for years both externally and internally.

On the side note, from old news I remember Google is indeed pushing forward with Chrome-brand, specifically Chrome OS.
I think you have it. 11:45PM sounds suspiciously like the batch job kicks off at midnight and should be done by opening of business the next day. I figure if it looks like it will go over 8AM then they have to kill it because the office staff is going to change data regardless of what IT wants.
Britain: A great place to be a spy
Can you go into more detail? What kind of numbers are we talking about?

My goal here isn't to hurt Twitter, so by limiting any sort of automtation and choosing selectively, I think this is a win for them.

Not to mention I want to avoid getting people in any sort of trouble at all. If spaced out properly, this bot should, theoretically, be nearly impossible to detect.
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Big batteries threaten big power stations–and utilities’ profits
Beware! It went down while I was making a gist. After trying to save the gist, this happened:

http://i.imgur.com/LcKgzGE.png

Edit: already got fixed from support
They don't allow late march filing on the site, some genius thought that instead of showing a pop-up or error message he just freezes the page. Same behavior noticed when we tried filing during off hours.
Couldn't you do something like this for a hack?

http://i.imgur.com/G5U43ZU.png

Calculate the edge points of the circle, draw a line between them, and then your shadow is simply a rectangle. Overlay the circle over the shadow to hide the line.

This will work with circles and ovals, but not more complex curves.
Hahaha. Yea this isn't my ode-to-joy... just a small side project ^_^
Way to totally miss the article's point.

Yes, as I write this, people are getting stabbed, shot, raped, killed by cancer, and mangled in car wrecks. And that's way worse than having to hassle with a broken web site.

But there are people reading this board who can actually build functional web sites, and who are appalled that the government managed to mess up so badly. That's the point.
Then why is this Mr. "Stretch" citing virtue ethics as justification? He should just come out and admit that he's invoking Might Makes Right.
> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.”

I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog.

The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover).

The only other business I've seen do this was my previous landlord[1]. They used to let me pay my rent online. However, their system only let you pay during "standard business hours", completely negating (for me) the convenience of an online payment - I like to take care of my bills after-hours at home, not at work, thank you very much.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H

[1] Unlike B&H, the management company was not run by Hasidim.
If the business is incorporated (not sure if that applies to C corps or S-corp also), you have to hire a licensed accountant. You can't do it yourself, even if you can fill out the forms correctly. (and you still probably should check the work of whoever you hire)

That's one advantage of not incorporating until your revenue is greater than a certain amount. If your business is not incorporated, you can do a Schedule C yourself.
Especially given that she was speeding the day of reckoning with "Fuck you" notes. I am 100% with the property owner here.
"build": "npm run build-js && npm run build-css"

Ok I see. That's sort of a poor man's dependency checker.
The weather in California is rarely, if ever, inclement enough to make it a bother to get out of the car to pump gas. Most of the time it's quite pleasant, as you get 45 seconds to take in the clear blue sky, starry night, or gorgeous sunset.
So it turns out you CAN earn money on non-copyrighted work. $40,000 is not a small amount for most people. Well-deserved for the developer, hats off for the idea, implementation, and Bitcoin as a payment option.
Ask HN: Any good tech, developer, startup expos in the Chicago area?
I recently moved to Chicago and was wondering if there's any good tech, developer or startup expos and events going on in the Chicago area that can be attended.

Thanks.
That's what the group think tells us, but in ones personal reality it's not that easy to shrug off.

The Internet not only has increased the range of hateful groupthink, it has made a large number of people believe that it is somehow noble and elevated. It almost seems like there's an anti-intelligentsia of forum manipulators who see the creation of new and pointless forms of prejudice as a kind of sport.

I have the growing impression that there's a growing segment of people online who see their outrage and any acts motivated by it as the expression of some kind of enlightened vigilante justice. It just so happens that the worst crimes against humanity were motivated by people who thought just like that. Unfortunately, it's the single best way to blind yourself against your own evil deeds while making it likely you'll get trapped into irrevocable courses of action.
One of these days there's going to be a really big one. And the lawsuits will last for decades, and fracking will go the way of nukes.
Which works great until you want to run two dependent services, one that requires no greater than v1.5 and the other which requires no less than v3.0.
So they just forgot their "Optimized for Internet Explorer" badge.
This logic is precisely what enables the problem.

But declaring that any candidate fielded by the opposing party must by definition be bad, you give your own team license to be bad. As long as they're just slightly less evil then the opposition, you'll be willing to continue voting for them.

Since we've seen ample evidence that continuing to play this game leads to the very problems we're seeing today, consider changing your strategy. Perhaps a better approach would be to place a higher value on the observed bad behavior of the incumbent and throw the bum out, rather than obsess over the speechifying of the challenger, since that's likely just hypocrisy and pandering anyway.
Another way to think about it is if you were to deliver the application to someone else. They shouldn't need Grunt to run your app. Providing an easy way to run the app with npm start is nice to have. Maybe add the npm install part to the process so they can just run one command to do two things. Going further you could set environment variables so production and development variables can be enabled easily. Just like you I'm still fairly new to the node way of doing things and just do whatever makes sense to me.
So finally, I as a "Internet Gueto" citzen can finally watch all the content that I really want to pay for but can't???

This is AMAZING news!!!
and they owned the place (and let her live there) for 10 years before they had had enough of her. 10 weeks is a pretty long flip.... 10 years is not a flip at all.
> There are far more surgical options for defending against cyberattacks

We still can't even get our coders to stop using C for security-critical code, and you could effectively throw C++ in that complaint bin too. We can't get people to implement crypto appropriately. The list goes on and on. And with cybersecurity you only have to get one thing wrong, especially on an open Internet, while the attacker gets effectively unlimited time and numbers of attempts (although they don't even need that so far, as long as 0-days can be bought off the shelf).

And all the stuff we can't do in the civilian sector, it's even harder to do right in government and military (and apparently critical industry). There's a whole host of things we can do to be better, but half the reason walls will go up is because they are so much better at dealing with novel threats than the idea of "just design and implement everything perfectly, geez".

But either way, Germany's complaint wasn't just cyberattacks. There was also data privacy, and that complaint is centered entirely around the fact that they can't control whether a German's data gets routed to France, UK, etc. even in the course of entirely .de <-> .de Internet traffic.

But the roots are already here, it's not simply a prediction. After the 2007 Russian cyberattack on Estonia, Estonia was able to adapt and recover very effectively... but they still now have a national cyberborder in place, and are just waiting to hit the button (a useful button to have right now, given the crises in the Crimea).

Ironically things like open source will only make this trend easier I think. It's not hard to imagine governments setting up things like ownCloud with a federated model, with replication channels open to friendly nations' instances of ownCloud and closed otherwise.
And this is where git is awesome.

You can still keep committing locally.

You can add another remote (e.g. BitBucket, a shared directory, or just a USB stick) and keep collaborating.

You can even share patches by email if you want.

And when GitHub is back up, you can just push your commits to GitHub and it will be like the outage never happened.

I often wonder how collaboration was ever possible before git.
The difference isn't just in taxes. California has an artificially restricted supply of gasoline because it requires a specific formula (ostensibly to reduce emissions) and only six or seven refineries are equipped to meet that regulation.

Oregon's standards allow it to buy from a far larger market.
Is there a reason that, when using the Windows github client, you have to open the shell in order to get error messages? It would be very convenient if the client could display them natively.
Government sites in the UK have been known to do this as well.
Why am I allowed to access protected Windows files when I boot Ubuntu from USB?
Seems like their website wasn't suppose to be served over a secure connection, just use http://corp.delaware.gov/paytaxes.shtml and all is fine.
While everyone focuses on the main problem, I'd say the moral of the story here for home buyers is to avoid buying any problematic homes. When my parents recently purchased a new home they made it damn sure the home has no existing warrants/tickets/legal issue to handle and they ensure no one lives in the house. They visited several homes before they could settle one that was nice, cheap and problem-free. Sometimes it's better to take less risk than having to scratch your hair for years.
Diving Deep with Dependency Injection in AngularJS
if they come knocking... ;)
Chewing The Fat With Big And Beefy with BIG BROTHER Bacon Lover Adam Poch
In an SF rent control unit, if the tenant signs a 1 year lease, are they able to decide if they stay or not after the 1 year initial lease term is over?
Saying that if you change the details of a story, then the details are different doesn't actually mean anything and doesn't have any bearing on the story as it happened.
The Canada Revenue Agency's web apps are closed overnight too (albeit only for 3 hours). My understanding from talking to one of their sysadmins is that they use this time to perform backups and software upgrades because it's less error-prone than trying to do those "live".
Show HN: Web-based SQL Server Query Plan Viewer
I've been working with SQL Server for many years. In many cases the only way to get an idea why query is slow is to use Query plan viewer in SSMS.

And it somewhat, limited. Also, it didn't change much for the last ~8 years, and no longer adequate.

Granted, there are several alternatives on a market, but they either not free, or require installation.

My goal was to find a tool I can use on a target machine, where I can't install anything.

Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but anyway one day i decided to build one:

http://supratimas.com

You can just drop *.sqlplan file into the page, open file or copy paste SQL plan XML there.

Also, I built a SSMS plug-in in case you want it to always on hand.

Please take a look!

Thanks,
Crytek uses libGCM on PS3, not PSGL.
Try that in Oregon, and you'll be treated like a level 3 sex offender.
I'm pretty sure the ordinances against housing construction in SF have very little to do with socialism or the USSR...
Exactly.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Is this the franchise tax that depends on the assets of the company? The one where the registered agents routinely send estimated payments invoices with assumptions far in excess of the actual taxes?

Excuse my tinfoil hattery, but I have to wonder whether the accuracy of payments has something to do with the lack of website usability.
Would he be able to pay that in long term? And if not, what happens when he runs out of money? Relationships and livestyle he has now would be gone forever and he would not be able to pay new one.

Plus, he would be lucky if people protecting him would simply left. Those are probably people you do not want to mess with at all. It is entirely possible they would get dangerous and demanding.
And what are those problems?

That I can choose at which 'location' I incorporate for something that is immaterial?
A sample can be unrepresentative of the mean/median/mode of a distribution without being maximal or minimal.
I think what he's saying is that Congress is tasked with overseeing these guys and ensuring that they comply with the law. So, to the extent that Feinstein actually believed the garbage she previously spewed in support of the NSA's activity--including that appropriate oversight would protect the rights of Americans--then it takes on a different meaning when these agencies attempt to circumvent their oversight.

Of course, it's a flawed premise from the start, even if Feinstein were earnest. When she effectively shat all over the Fourth and bade Congress take on the role of a secret judiciary in interpreting the Constitution, she opened the door to exactly this type of behavior.

It's pretty amazing to watch someone play with snakes then complain so loudly once bitten.
Techweek has a pretty nice expo in June (http://techweek.com/chicago/)
It happened to my family. We're definitely not a wealthy or well-connected family. We lost our home in the recession, my dad's business went from doing great to completely closed. We moved to a tiny house in a cheap neighborhood. Started a new business and worked and saved and now we're almost back to where we were before the recession.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help these people, but if you are complaining about not being able to get by in the most expensive city in the country, I really don't have any sympathy for you.
That's incorrect according to your own link:

Illegal Units are covered by rent control. Illegal units, such as in-law apartments, are covered by rent control.

Tenants can only be evicted for one of 15 "just causes." Most of these deal with allegations the tenant can dispute (e.g., tenant is violating the lease) but some are "no-fault" like owner move in or Ellis.
I agree that all approaches are approximations, and which would actually perform best in this game is an empirical question.
It'd take some work to really explore and tune either minimax or MC approach, so I wouldn't throw either out due to one failed attempt.

I accept the argument that "minimax is conservative, and conservative is good" might be correct.
But I don't think its likely, and, without the time to code my own solution, all I can do is give arguments to that end.

I gave one intuitive argument here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381382

Another argument is to remember that minimax, and AB-pruning, is a really strong way of reducing your search space - because of how unfavourable adversary moves are propagated up the tree - which could result in drastic pruning if the minimax assumption is wrong.

One 'bad' state, 6 or 8 ply deep through your branching factor ~10 tree, can result in you pruning entire lines of enquiry using minimax AB; surely that can't be right if the chance of the bad state happening is tiny, and especially if an alternative is chosen which isn't much better.

So I still think that if you want to tune the search algorithm to be risk adverse, then, yes, do so; but minimax is a drastic way to achieve that. But yes, how big of an effect that decision has in practice depends on complicated things, such as correlations in the search tree. (i.e. If you find a bad state in a section of the game tree, maybe there are likely to be other bad states nearby, so its not such a big deal to prune that whole section using minimax).
This would make a great opening statement.
That was my first thought, too, but here's how my exchange went:

1. Contact fortigate, they put a sales guy in touch with you. Ask him some tech questions, turns out he doesn't know anything. He gets a tech manager in the loop. Ask him, he doesn't know shit either, he gets one of his subordinates in the loop. Now there's 3 cc's on the email thread, and maybe they can tell you some details about the product.

2. They put you in touch with a reseller. A "relationship manager" at the reseller puts you in touch with a sales guy at the reseller. That sales guy tells you that you need a higher-end product than the one you expected, for twice as much money. You start questioning that, turns out he doesn't know much about the product and says "let me get fortigate back in on this" and pulls the 3 people from step 1 back into the email thread.

3. Now there's 5 people in the loop, with several of them arguing about what you need. Eventually it gets sorted, and the reseller ships you the thing you told them you needed a week ago.

.. all of this was to sell me about $4000 worth of hardware, total.

Now I'd understand their thinking if the reseller would just handle the customer relationship, but they had to pull fortigate back into it every time I asked a non-trivial pre-sales question, the kind any sysadmin would ask. Makes me wonder what all those "relationship managers" and sales guys are for.
It's quite common in Japan for ATMs to only operate during business hours. The Japanese are world-class experts at implementing technology in ways that completely negate its core value.
Replying from mobile, but look up events at 1871 in the Merchandise Mart as well as Chicago Startup Weekend and Chicago Meetups for any tech you are interested in.
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almost? this is precisely the case.
> hence my absolutely minimal sympathy for everyone involved, except perhaps the cat.

My sympathy rests entirely with the cat. Pets live more or less at the whim of their owner, no matter how unfortunate, and have little choice in the matter (well, I suppose they could escape...). The poor thing likely has no idea what's going on, and it certainly does not look happy. Breaks my heart.

But then, I'm a softy with animals. Cats in particular.

The people? Meh. I'm inclined to agree with the posters here (yourself included) suggesting that she has a choice. I feel bad for her, don't get me wrong, but considering how many people are often forced by economic reasons to move from one area to another and do so without any public sympathy lends me to feel the same in this circumstance. What she's making on SSI a month isn't very much, but I'd imagine her medications are probably paid for in full or in part by her plan, and there are cheaper and safer areas to live in the country than SF. Many retirement communities out here in NM are populated with people who make about what she does a month, but the cost of living is lower.

As someone pointed out (maybe it was you, I'm not sure), if she were of working age, she'd probably have fewer safety nets to fall back on.

It certainly isn't a good situation for anyone involved (except maybe the lawyers), but imagine if this were a story about some programmer/retired programmer who was having to leave his home of 35 years for greener pastures. I'd imagine most of the comments would be along the lines of "suck it up and move."

Either way, the story is still gut wrenching because it's so uncomfortable.