skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYC cuts across race, class, and country of origin in its diversity -- in a way SF doesn't. The neighborhoods are also much more integrated largely because of the density of the city. For example, it's not uncommon to find public housing units embedded between luxury condos. The kids of both communities attend the same local school (usually up until high school), a few blocks away. That means, integrated social gathering and hang out. You can see this at local parks where everyone gets together to play sports. This impacts how you grow up and experience/understand/become sensitive to race and class differences.

The introduction to this article really captures this well: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05jackson.html
I haven't seen it in action yet.
You should come to Brussels. Barroso used to run the communist party. (no joke).
that's also the fault of the NIMBYs, who should be squashed with extreme prejudice

I don't have a dog in the fight, but I respect the right of people to help determine the kind of city they want to have. Enough people who already live in SF are saying that they don't want to be New York. What's wrong with that?
> I'd just read some crazy business book that said people shouldn't have stock in companies because you can't really influence the outcome of the whole company.

Oh man, if only you'd have read about Standard Oil.

Back in Rockefeller's day, there was this event that was later called the "Cleveland Massacre". John was borrowing enormous sums of cash and buying out local refiners.

He had this routine. You'd get invited to sit down with him at his office, he'd have his checkbook with him. Very cool and refined-like, he told you you'd have no chance remaining in business and you had two choices, sell to him or get crushed. You could choose a check or stock in Standard Oil. "I suggest you take the stock."

Anyone who took stock at that time and held onto it would have gotten wildly rich. Most of them didn't. John had to scramble to ensure he kept enough cash on hand to continue his shopping spree. He had an unusual relationship with banks, they trusted him and were willing to extend credit to him that they wouldn't to anyone else. It wound up being his biggest trump card in those early days.
It is not criminal law, but you should see the vagueness in the Unruh (anti-discrimination) Act.

California is the only state I know of where the ACLU has been successfully sued for discrimination.
Nope, I'm "msmuenchen" on Github - are you maybe referring to another drama of them?
I haven't experimented with a standing desk, but it seems like you can develop a tolerance overtime, so that eventually, you'll stop thinking about the discomfort when you're trying to concentrate. I can see where the author is coming from though. I tried to read a book when I was cycling in the gym, but it didn't go so well because I ended up spliting my concentration with the book and exercise. No gains in either activity unless I sacrificed the other. However, standing is a low-intensity physical activity, more similar to walking, so I think that overtime you'd just get used to it. It becomes a healthy active habit like taking the stairs everyday.
It also drastically increases a recruiter/hiring manager's time spent looking at résumés if they can't skim them.
It's clickbait, I mistaked it for "Free Software Foundation" when skimming over "newest".
Although the idea of investing because of indirect benefits is interesting, I think the investment thesis is much simpler: You can build profitable business around open source, even if you make money by selling consulting.

Redhat has $10B market cap, MySQL was sold for $1B back in the days. nginx inc. received a substantial investment. Can you build profitable business around package manager? Sure, there is a big community of developers that are using npm on daily basis for mission critical work. It's really hard to build that kind of community of professionals in any field. I don't see why you couldn't build business around that.
HaTTiP 1.0 released, an HTTP client for the Mac
Here is my advice: go somewhere else than Paris, one of the 15 biggest cities in France (look at the TGV, and tram, bike life, weather). Your quality of life will just skyrocket.
Feminist do not make sense. If you want to see German Feminazis live in action then just read http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=addeacc3 ...
Point to a single place where the policy even implies that uncomfortable truths are not endorsable?

Like I said, I'm sarcastic - but I definitely have seen HN go downhill since I've been here over the last couple of years. I look at the need to say things more constructively as a learning and growth opportunity.
What is going on with that Wikipedia article. The first two sentences are written badly to the point of being incomprehensible.
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This was also in (I think) a Neal Stephenson book. Possibly Cryptonomicon.
Thanks for compiling these ideas @vladmk. However, I wonder if there's a web application that functions similarly (i.e. provide startup ideas and enable the users to vote for the most popular ones).
Privilege Escalation through Mobile OS Updating
> Rule of law is hard, genuinely.

Rule of law is impossibly hard. The idea is that we are a government of laws, not a government of men, but someone has to decide what to prosecute and so in the end at most it is a plausible fiction and rule of law ends up reducing to "rule by prosecutor."

This is one of the insidious aspects of mandatory sentencing guidelines for example is that they shift power from judges to prosecutors.
Once you find a bug in certain critical paths, you can write to flash at will, no signatures required. AFAICS some Samsung and Lenovo users ran into one of those when installing Linux.

As for the management engine (the CPU that drives the vPro stuff), it exists in _all_ Intel chipsets since Series 5, vPro is just a certain configuration of its firmware. It also has full access to RAM, some access to USB, network and graphics.
Not all Intel chipsets have vPro/ME.

E.g. this one doesn't:

http://ark.intel.com/products/64015/Intel-BD82X79-PCH

(Whether they actually do have the silicon and are just disabled somehow and could be enabled/not is a different issue, however...)
Can a Malicious User Get Your App Banned From Facebook?
Relevant map of botched paramilitary police raids: http://www.cato.org/raidmap
Assuming the developers had half a clue, they don't. They run Windows XP Embedded which can be stripped back to just the kernel and a serial terminal if necessary. It's not like they take a retail XP CDROM and installed it (of course, in the absence of clue this works too...)
Thanks for clarifying; I can understand why now. Also, the link should be removed, like suggested by mjgoins.
Xhe and xhem are real words in that real people use them in the real world.

Gender neutral pronouns are important to some people. Everything so far for English will either be made up, or have some problem.

I'm not sure why you think xhe makes less sense than either he or she.
XP Embedded != XP Retail
There have always been concerns about the security of "the cloud"...but always in the sense of hackers breaking into the data. None of us ever considered that providers would simply give themselves permission to review our data.

After a story like this, how on earth could any corporation blindly trust a cloud provider with their data?

I know many people simply do not care about their rights and freedoms, but I find this latest development incredibly disturbing.

However, I see this as a great opportunity for a company of good character to make a name for itself by promoting services with the assurance that their databases are encrypted in such a way that even they can't access our data.
I wouldn't call it clickbait. Satire is closer to the truth.
Prices of text books go up when people rip off the authors, editors and publishers by downloading PDFs.
It is statistically diverse, but like most other places, each ethnic group lives in a bubble separate from the other, mostly. The density of NYC forces deep interaction between communities -- much deeper than simply judging diversity based on the different restaurants you see or the languages you might hear at the mall everyone goes to. Here's a good article about the kind of thing that's common in NYC and nowhere else: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/nyregion/05jackson.html
Definitely! I've seen people use them in spite before so I just wanted to add on that it's not an absolute protection.
I tried hosting an exit relay, even with limited outbound ports, and my VPS provider immediately received about 9 DMCA requested within 24 hours. I was able to email them the Tor boilerplate response and it went away, but I won't be trying that again.
This article is about pre-rendering a webpage to png, so anyone using a text-based browser would actually find the result even less useful than the original page.
When I worked at GAME we didn't even take a deposit. Managers are pushed to get as many preorders as they can, and as a store it directly affects how many units of a game you get in so there's a big incentive there. It got to the point when we'd ask people if they wanted to preorder anything just in case they wanted it later; there was no obligation to buy it so no harm to the customer and the store would benefit by getting more stock.

It was always fun looking at the preorder list.. there were quite a few vapourware titles on it.
Range-Checks and Recklessness
Previous poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7447055 (128 points by kunai 1 day ago, 147 comments)

Add 3rd option: "Wait to see what it's like (suggested by PG)"

I personaly agree with mooism2: "I haven't seen it in action yet."
If people keep pushing it with VPNs and censorship avoidance they'll just push Turkey to switch to a whitelisted Turkey-approved Internet and block everything else by default. It's much easier to maintain a whitelist of approved sites when you're censoring people than try to play whack-a-mole and block things that you don't like.
Will the Nokia X series be able to save the aging company from doom?
Not yet. I'll probably display something when a whole thread is.
Lessons I learned from playing Dota 2
The PR changes "the" to "xhe" and "they" to "xhey".

Regardless of what you might think of the gender inflexibility of "he" and "she", it's pretty clear that words like "the" and "they" are not candidates for progressive change regardless of your position on feminism.

The PR is satire, and judging by many of the comments on this thread, quite good satire!
Not necessarily rednecks, just low intelligence people that live in a fantasy world.
And he works 70-80hrs a week, which explains parts of the successful implementation of his ideas.
Is Erdogan going to start a war?
"Turkey downs Syria military jet 'in airspace violation'"

(BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26706417)

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A quick summary from IMDB of the movie "Wag The Dog":

"Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal."

(IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/)

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"Everyone, it seems, is waiting for compromising sex tapes to emerge, a tawdry phenomenon with a history in Turkish politics, especially at election time. Already, sex tapes supposedly involving high-level officials have been delivered to some news organizations, which, for now, have shown restraint. It is probably only a matter of time before they begin showing up on social media."

(NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/world/europe/turks-are-glued-to-a-sensational-drama-this-one-political.html)
Classic NYT with a stereotypical and ideological article.

Concerning expatriation, I think many people want to live abroad just to experience a different lifestyle. It's not always about taxes.
They exercise privilege that they haven't paid into but simply possess on being there first, nor do they have economic incentive to see development that is beneficial for others. NIMBYs are the economic version of "finders keepers" together with not caring about anyone's well-being. This is suboptimal, even in lassiez-faire, to say nothing of an actual egalitarian society.

Then there's the additional problem of the most ornery and stubborn NIMBYs commanding the greatest political influence. This is also suboptimal in any economic model.
AMD has a bunch of coprocessors in the chipset as well, but from the analysis that happened in our (coreboot) community, they're much less capable: fan control, one of them gets some firmware uploaded on boot to handle pcie hotplug (or something to that effect).

The system doesn't reserve memory for any of them, and they don't have official connections to the outside world (and are located in places that make such connections unlikely). Firmware is generally rather small, too.

None of them come with up to 5MB of firmware, tons of private RAM and official paths to network, graphics, system RAM and USB, like Intel chips.

Some more details on Intel and AMD at http://www.coreboot.org/Binary_situation
A fire extinguisher can't murder 15 civilians in half a minute. I know that "power" makes you feel like a big man, but there are people who care about public safety and don't have weird inferiority/paranoia complexes.
Interesting, the per-ride fair on the subway is cheaper but the monthly pass is actually more expensive at (I think, I don't have one) $130/mo. However, the subway does truly feel like transportation for everyone, and it makes the city feel many times more accessible than SF.
Many of these exploits "we're just learning about now", have been discussed at CCC, Defcon and Blackhat conferences in the past few years. It's just that most people weren't aware of them. NSA, on the other hand, has paid much attention to them.

Here's another one about hardware backdooring from 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV0YqJa-0OA

But when we discover a backdoor on Intel chips (not necessarily put there by Intel) in 5 years, everyone will probably act in shock and awe that it was possible.
I had similar experience but with much easier solution to my troubles. I've bought bar-stool, in fact i have 2 of them - one actual bar stool and another one more like adjustable bar chair with nice leather finish.
So I have 3 options to switch between - staying in front of my standing table, sit on hard stool or better to say lean on it a little bit, sitting on the edge, or sitting on comfy leather chair. This way if I am in a flow I can work however long I need, switchig chairs.
I was thinking of setting up a site similar to yours.
I even got a domain and set up a launchrock page [1].

But after a couple of months (still haven't started it), I'm finding that putting up a google doc/hackpad/blog post is a lot less friction. The nice thing about having a centralized place like yours (and the one I intended to build), is that the ideas wouldn't be fragmented into different sites/docs.

If anyone's interested in using the domain (unused.me) for an idea site, let me know, I'd gladly give it up :)

[1] http://signup.unused.me/
I've been doing the 135-degree thing for many years, much like the picture there, but without the foot rest. I make sure to squirm around on occasion, and I get up and stretch and walk with the dog regularly. So far so good.
Your dad is probably exactly the kind of person Zimmerman was thinking about in 1991. Somebody with one PC that they do everything on. He also has a specific motivation for learning about and putting up with public key crypto.

I don't know what UIs you've used, but the ones I've used dating back to the early 90s are nothing like what you're describing. Typical public key crypto UIs are very clear and unambiguous, and I've had no trouble teaching intelligent people how to use them.

The problem is twofold: First, half the population is necessarily below average.

Second, even getting the intelligent people to keep using it is a completely different matter. I've had an engineer-CEO mandate PGP usage for the company. Later, when sending him encrypted documents, he couldn't read them. Why? Because he'd gotten a new laptop. Where were his keys? Who knows.

Ditto one of the best and most security-minded engineers I know. Tried to send an encrypted file to him, "I haven't really used PGP in years, I'm not sure where my keys are".

I've kept a keychain[0] intact for the better part of a decade. I don't personally know a single other person who has, including the person who originally asked me to generate a public key.

[0] In fact, one of my still-used SSH keys is also about that old, as is my known_hosts file. These are, again, singular accomplishments in my professional and social circles.
How can you call things unsupported by the majority of players in the market "defacto standards"?
Tarnished Silver
Where's your portfolio?
So let's go back to the pre-electrified area.

You send a letter to a friend with sensible information. The letter is transported by the post office from door to door. While in transit, the post office recognizes, from a 3rd party, that a letter exists, that contains sensible information about the post-office's business. Therefore the CEO of that company demands a internal investigation, which searches for a letter with the given senders/recipients address and then opens it.

IANAL, but at least where I come from, there exist laws that acknowledge the intimacy and privacy of these letters and would sentence this behavior.

So why on earth is everyone talking about policy, terms of service, the lack of alternatives a.s.o? Nobody sees the desperate need of legislation here?
This interesting thing is that, besides the feminist trolling, the Feminist Software Foundation Github account actually has some legitimate code repos/pull requests.
The Geography of Fame
FYI: BART doesn't have monthly passes outside of SF city limits, which actually makes your argument stronger.
> "Sometimes I do ask myself if I'm making the right choice," he acknowledged. "But if you don't take risks, there will be no reward."

This is true, but one of the most important things I learned in my 20s was knowing when to take risks. It takes money to make money, and if you're a starving founder waiting for an investor to cut you a check or trying to bootstrap your business with insufficient savings, you increase your risk of failure substantially.

Patience is a virtue, as is focused and consistent saving, but in a lot of professions, like finance and technology, you won't have to work until you're 60 to build up meaningful savings that you can invest in yourself. If you've trapped yourself in the startup bubble, it's easy to convince yourself that your best opportunities are behind you by the time you hit 30, but the reality is that most businesses are not founded by 20-somethings. The Kauffman Foundation did a study called The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur a few years back and found the average entrepreneur was about 40 years old when he started his first company.

Beyond being in a position to capitalize your own venture, one of the great advantages of starting a business in your 30s, 40s or later is that you're far more likely to have the domain expertise so many young founders lack. There are literally countless untapped, unsexy million-dollar opportunities that 20-somethings running around Silicon Valley will never pursue because they don't even know that certain industries and problems exist.
This post is an excellent demonstration of why [pending] is a great idea and why discussing guns on HN is doomed to failure.

I'm in the UK and I find the US obsession with owning guns weird yet I find your post inflamatory and unconstructive.

Why not skip the pseudo-politeness and just leap the "compensating for small penis" attacks?
Hamas sends SMS threats to Israeli Minister of Defense and many others
Also, the age of the tweet or gist would be a red flag. If the signed gist is 2 years old and hasn't even modified since, you can pretty safely assume that if the keybase public key matches the signed message in the gist, nothing nefarious has happened recently.
It's $112, which works out to roughly 45 rides or 1.5 rides a day. If you're someone working a M-F job and taking the subway there every day, a monthly pass is almost certainly cheaper than pay-per-ride.

If you can bike (which I do), though, the calculus quickly changes.
That's it. That is way cooler for a French to go in London than Paris. Especially, if it does not work out for him he will just come back with a solid resume that will get him a comfortable position easily.

Like he decided to live in Kengsinton. Sure he share, like most singles in London, but he tries to live the life and was not too successful (yet, hopefully for him).
> FREE BEER is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense of free beer.

Now that is confusing!
It's more that it's in California, which means easy, quick access to fresh produce all year round.
because the current government has not changed any law about creating a company

You don't necessarily have to change any law for the weight of decades of laws and regulations to finally catch up with the previous decent momentum of the private sector -- especially in a global market where the actions of other countries negatively impacts your lack of adjustments. Add to that a generally poor global economy, and new businesses will flee an anti-business climate.
Not found innocent. All the jury said is that the state did not prove its claims to their liking.
Google thought of this. Their Chrome browser probes for WebP server-side support through content negotiation. So you can still serve JPEGs to browsers, but those which are modern can get WebP images.
It is good satire! Or good trolling. I am enjoying it.

I didn't realise the search and replace for "he" was done poorly and includes "the". That possibly weaking the satire but increases the trolling.
why hasn't firefox implemented this yet?
I think the situation is reversed when considering Asian food. SF easily ranks behind other west coast cities I know extensively (Honolulu, LA, Seattle) when it comes to Chinese and Japanese food.

The Asian food situation is much better in south bay, but that's an hour from the city and thus limited to weekend excursions.
Having lived through this winter in the Northeast, I can promise you that SF is beautifully warm all year round. Case in point: it is a place where people use the word "freezing" to describe temperatures 10-20 degrees above the melting point of water.
It's terribly ironic, considering the video they "leaked" a couple years ago lambasting Gmail for reading your email. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4_dozWkq0
San Francisco has terrific weather, but you have to seek it out.
And yet the Intel product pages say

"Prevent attacks below the operating system

Intel vPro technology protects against difficult-to-detect, penetrating rootkits and malware that threaten users working in cloud or virtual environments. It combines several hardware-based features, including Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT)3 and Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)4 for centralized image management and administration, secure network storage, and out-of-band protection—all beyond the firewall."

Irony? Or hopefully the current version of vPro as built-in to some Xeon processors is a bit more hardened...
The steps Italy has taken in order to become the next Startup Nation
Rainmaker
The guy you're talking about is Thomas Ptacek, he's been known to comment here from time to time. He's also interested in crossword puzzles.
The New York Times as the jilted ex.
I'm just glad to see he can't draw circles well either.
Oh wow! This is awesome! Yours looks so much better. I went with the simplicity approach. I had the same belief, having them in one place allows people to go to ONE hub of ideas.

Thanks!