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> I have personally relocated for financial reasons three times in my life. I moved away from home for college, I moved to a new location for my first job, then I recently relocated to the Bay Area because this was the optimal place for me to be economically.

> I make enough to travel to visit family several times a year

are you serious, dude? leave the advice giving for people who have actually been poor and understand the logistic difficulties of poverty. "just move"? you have the freedom to move to the most economically optimal place for you, and you think THAT is equivalent to the situation of a family living hand to mouth in transitional housing or section 8?

YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
Which Chromebook if you don't mind me asking?

I've been using an old Thinkpad T61 but it just seems a little bit underpowered/dated/inefficient now - considering jumping to something new.
Its very possible the father of the child lives in SM, and she is obligated to live in a certain area. Lawyers cost money even if one person is not paying child support. W/o a good lawyer, people can lose things, like kids.
Also, if she had a technical career, her best way to find income again is to stay in the area -- shorter commute, more opportunities, higher income.

Speaking as a once single mom with an extensive technical resume, finding a job can be next to impossible. Regardless, living in the city increases the chance.
> In short, it is cheaper to build them houses and put them there, than to put them in prisons. Whether people get happy in places they like, or they get pissed at the system and live in prison, it's your tax dollars either way.

This solution makes me really uncomfortable.

You're completely disregarding the individual and saying that we are responsible for creating an environment for them and ultimately, we are responsible for their behavior.

These are independent, adult people who are perfectly capable of making their own decisions, good or bad, and living with the consequences of those decisions.

It shouldn't be the public's responsibility to remove them from neighborhoods or 'build them houses and put them there' as you said.

If low income people want to live in one of the most expensive areas in the world, they can. But they shouldn't expect to live well.
The problem isn't the new port in my opinion, the problem is you only get one of it, and its the only port that can be used for charging as well.

If it had another means of charging or another port (like, say, on the back) I wouldn't mind as much.
The price will increase no mater what you do so long as you rely on an uncontrolled free market in real-estate.

At some point prices will make employing people there impracticable due to wages and commercial rental. In the current system, that is the price point the market will reach no mater how many units are built.
Please append this to the headline:

... when that state is Rhode Island.
On OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 with Safari 7.1.3, it didn't do anything but show a beachball after hitting refresh, but I was able to close the tab without trouble or any detectable negative effect on my browser, etc.
Based on the prices I can see on OVH's website you're not going to be able to hit 1c/gigabyte with many nines of durability. And thats ignoring the cost of operating the service yourself.
I've seen a bull clear a 5 foot fence.
Abstractions are leaky. [1]

ORM systems are highly complicated abstractions.

Most of your developers will use them without understanding how they work. In many cases, the only way to understand how they work is to read the source code.

They have magic features that are advertised as convenient but when they inevitably do something you don't want them to do you'll tear your hair out trying to circumvent them.

They put lots of complicated weird stuff in your stack traces so when something goes wrong with "the database stuff," which is probably going to happen every day, you will feel confused and overwhelmed.

ORM was famously referred to as "the Vietnam war of computer science" by Ted Neward. [2]

There's a point that I think is even more important than the unruly and bewildering complexity of ORM, but I'm not sure I know how to formulate this point.

One way to formulate it would be to point out that your dichotomy of two choices is missing an alternative, so I present:

3) Code your data access in a separate module exposing query & save functions that make sense within your domain model.

In a reasonably complex system, this module might consist of fifty functions that concatenate SQL strings or whatever. In most cases, I'd bet money that rewriting this module to support some other data storage—especially if there are integration tests—would be easier and more pleasant than switching your ORM and then dealing with the random problems that will inevitably occur.

And when some query fails or is slow, the developer issued to fix it will just go into the file, find the query, and change it. It's simpler, there's less obscure technology to worry about, fewer things to get angry at.

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...

[2]: http://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-th...
First-ever human head transplant possible by 2017, says neuroscientist
$650 dollars is about 700 euro? Well now's the time to travel to Europe!

(I suppose there is some sort of tax or import cost...?)
This is called social engineering.
Than why not go to costco or walmart ? they have a decent enough selection probably.
It's a good point. Though I think people tend to run these on non-public machines. Even most of AWS is on VPC nowadays.
So I have to purchase and carry around peripherals just to use my machine in anything but the most basic scenario? Not a fan.

To be clear, I am a Mac laptop user and have been for years. I love them from a build perspective, but I don't agree with the one-port-to-rule-them-all decision.
It's much more flexible in terms of external drives, and deleted files.

You can also set multiple backup locations, by sharing space on your other computers.

They have a proprietary Java client, but it runs cross platform. It's completely painless to add your own encryption key to all backups.
Dnsdist: DNS, abuse- and DoS-aware query distribution for optimal performance
Don't? This is the wrong layer to apply the fix. Also, this method of spidering/cataloging would only prevent the most naively implemented worm from propagating.
Depends on the specifics of the patent.
Show HN: The excel file I use to manage side projects
Tech Training Non-Profit Coalition For Queens Raises $1.75M
To be fair, macs depreciate at a much slower pace than your typical Windows laptop. I just sold my 2009 Mac Pro for $650.
Bash: Print Your Top Most Used Commands
I just found this gem as part of the Command line one-liners[0]

history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

[0] http://arturoherrero.com/command-line-one-liners/
A Asus laptop with Windows 8.1.
Connecting similar items vertically and horizontally to form combos isn't novel at all. He could have easily come up with this. Who gives a shit?
> because $1299 is a fortune

Yes, for some people it is a serious investment.

You might win 500k or more a year, good for you, you are successful. But for people who have kids who will have to go to University ,even at 100k a year , $1300 isn't a small amount of money.

If you think people buy laptops like they buy candies well you're a privileged man, and again I wish you the best,but that's not the reality for most of us.
Sam Altman weighs in on men's role in the tech industry's diversity problem
Cell phones can transmit up to 50 miles depending on what it uses, CDMA is max at around 38 miles? That seems more then enough to reach 60kft - 90kft
But if I have external storage plugged in (I'm copying a large file), and I need to charge the laptop, then I need to disconnect the drive in order to charge the laptop?

There are countless examples where daisy-chaining these devices becomes very inconvenient.
Understanding check engine light using Connected Cars platform
It wouldn't be the web if it didn't have links.
The cost of one dinner out is prohibitive? Just testing a backup solution alone would cost more than that, much less rolling your own, unless your time is worth considerably less than $40/hour.
Early Retirement in the N.F.L. and at Google, and the Paradox of Success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX21nHv47ZY Nice! Here's my little cell phone blimp. Can't do a proper altitude test right now because of wind.
Neither Apple nor Google, when designing these ultrabooks, really seem to consider 'usability' a top priority in the way the typical HN user would define the term. They seem like fashion accessories first, brand adverts second, and general purpose computers... somewhere further down.

Of course i'm one of those cranky old dinosaurs who likes cords and ports and who doesn't particularly like 'the cloud' so obviously it's not for me anyway.
Easy there Ayn Rand.
Yes, I know. This is a thought experiment, as there is really no such thing as perfectly synchronized clocks.

Also despite the need for futuristic clocks the system lacks resistance to failure (no heartbeat from arbitrary node -> no transaction gets commited and no transaction gets aborted -> a deadlock). Maybe this is fixable with Paxos, I'm not sure.
> it won't actually matter in getting me my money back

You aren't answering my point. Your argument was that we need the threat of chargebacks to make merchants more likely to ensure customer satisfaction. I told you that other threats like legal action are sufficient to keep the pressure on merchants to remain honest. For example a merchant repeatedly taken to court will eventually be shut down, or maybe fined sufficiently that it will eat his profits so he will be enticed to be more honest.

> Without I am encouraged to trust my system

If customers threaten to go to court or report you to the FTC/BBB I can ensure you you will be encouraged to go investigate too.

> So then you say "Well only use trusted merchants like Amazon!"

I am not asking for change. People already do it. They already use trusted merchants (mostly). This was the central point stated at the beginnig of this thread: "most merchants are honest, most disputes are resolved without chargebacks. Therefore chargebacks aren't really that needed or that important for most transactions." So yeah for the 1% of cases where you think the merchant might be fraudulent use Bitcoin with escrow, or a credit card, or cash-on-delivery, or whatever. For the other 99% a standard non-escrowed Bitcoin transaction is acceptable.
Try adjusting the angle of the lenses with respect to each other, more -- instead of /\. A few that I got had a strong angle but were much better after I flattened them out. Of course it could be other things like getting astigmatism wrong but it's a quick thing to try out.
It seems debatable whether a man made island is allowed to be a country. However you don't get your own territorial waters with an artificial island, which would make things very difficult.

Given that, there is no benefit to leaving exclusion zone. You can just set up in international waters much closer to shore.
CoreOS Fest
Owner of a last-gen Pixel here. I don't see myself upgrading any time soon, but as far as refreshes go, this one seems to address most of my complaints, namely:

- More RAM

- Better battery life / charge time

- USB-C ports

Here's what I'm not sure if it will fix:
- Overheating (original Pixel gets HOT on the top-left corner where I'm guessing the CPU resides)

- OpenVPN support (ChromeOS does not support simply loading a .ovpn profile--I have to do some hacking from the command-line to get it to work)

- Longer warranty (1-year limited is all that is provided with the previous model--and since these are directly from Google, you can't get an extended warranty through the retailer)

- Weight (Love the metal slate look, could be lighter, however; based on the specs it seems like not so much)

And finally, the things that Google will never fix, and you should simply be aware of ChromeOS's limitations:

- Lack of apps

I will say, however, that in the past year, Crouton, which allows you to sideload a linux partition onto the device, has come a long way, to the point that you can actually have an Ubuntu chroot running in a tab inside ChromeOS as though it were just another window/app. It has proved incredibly useful for running things like Sublime or Eclipse without having to do the complete environment-shift that was required some time ago.

Price is still a little high, however. I feel like those looking for a high-quality Linux laptop could probably get an Acer Aspire for cheaper.
"Just Move?" I'd rather live out of my car (and have done so..briefly.)

Together with my cofounders over two years we have built an amazing company and product (and we still have a ways to go). This would not be possible outside of Silicon Valley, and our trajectory would look much different (worse) if we lived in, say, Montana.
"Any CEO not wearing a smartwatch by year-end is behind the curve"

Anyone who writes insipid fodder like this should be behind a fist that has passed through their brainpan at high velocity, Voltron-style.
A) We don't know she's single, only that she's living alone. Those are two different things.

B) She says in the video that she makes good money.

C) Our communities do better with more income/etc diversity (http://www.urban.org/publications/411955.html).
The gameplay is extremely simplistic and not novel in any way, it's entirely possible this was made without knowing what Dots is.
He is, it was a minor scare. But a scare nonetheless, and it was on a toy that had been recalled months ago. Its amazing, but there are a lot of toys and kids' furniture that have been recalled and yet are still available for purchase on amazon!
> I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find.

Not sure why you feel like you "suck" at music discovery. First of all, it's not exactly a skill...so you can't really suck at it. In other words, there's no "wrong" way to discover new music except not doing it at all. Second of all, the means of discovering music you described is the primary way that 96% of the world discovers new music. Few people hear an artist, then immediately look up their label and listen to a few other things the artist has done, as well as other songs from the label they're on. Most of the spread of music occurs via word-of-mouth, or people listening to whatever their friends are listening to.

Honestly there isn't anything better right now than getting music from your friends, or just going out all the time and hearing new tracks from DJs/bands/whatever.
You can install only the command line tools[1]. Does this work as a nice terminal window within ChromeOS? I can't find that kind of setup on Youtube.

[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton#i-dont-always-use-linux...
this article claims it's a 72 watt-hour battery:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2894970/hands-on-googles-new-...
What do you guys use to manage side projects? Is this somewhat useful??
That's probably why all the solutions mentioned by the article were nationwide and not local. If you improve quality of life everywhere, then you can avoid that problem.
Financial sense depends on how you price the benefits of living in this area vs other areas. For example, being near family is a a benefit...so is being near people who care about technology, if that matters to you. Consider being a programmer in several startups over 5 years vs being a programmer in a large bank.

There are many houses on the market that fail or pass "rent vs buy" calculators - savings can go into diverse sources instead of a property if you so choose.

I'm of the opinion that the overall package is "worth it" here, but each person should consider their own evaluation metrics - and yes, move if you don't think it's worth it.

Note: this is certainly off-topic from the troubles of extremely poor people in this area.
I Am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web
> Fully formed adults have confrontations all the time.

Sure. But without some HR codifications the line between "fully-formed" and "childish jerk nymph" becomes wholly subjective, and controlled by the majority. The end result is an organic uniformity.

Nobody gets along all the time. But how you define "fully-formed adult" can vary from one person to the next. Essentially you're defining "good and bad" or "right or wrong" by a feeling. I can understand the appeal of that, but it would worry me quite a bit as even a loose policy for behavior and interaction.
Oh wow, I didn't know that there was timing or scoring. Just suddenly it told me I had 61 points. It was very jarring and confusing.

Thumbs down.
Read the footnote.

NOTE: Data through 1990-91 are for institutions of higher education, while later data are for postsecondary institutions that participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs.

There's a definition change in there, and we can't be certain whether we can meaningfully compare the latest year of data with 1985--the curse of using government-published statistics.
Living in a garage while trying to look after an infant is likely to be a big drain on cognitive resources. It's easy for you and me to sit here and say what a bad idea this is - obviously we all enjoy enough economic freedom to sit here chit-chatting about economic policy for a few minutes in the middle of the daytime. When you don't have existential anxieties crowding in on you, such things seem so simple and obvious.

It would be a very different calculus if any of us were in that woman's situation. Maybe she made a bad decision. Maybe someone told her she'd be much more likely to get public assistance with two children than one, and she's ashamed to admit it. Maybe she was coerced into sex in exchange for money or because her personal safety was threatened. I very much doubt that she just decided it was a Friday, and a good time to get her sexy on.
They are planning on electrifying caltrain which makes running a larger number of smaller trains more feasible

They're also planning on extending caltrain to downtown and connect with BART there
I read this back in 2012. I thought some of the advice was suspect since it was faith based but overall a lot of the ideas are pretty good practices to undertake. They've served me well in the past few years. I think the idea of helping someone new everyday is a pretty good idea that is mutually beneficial to everyone involved.
FYI, with MongoDB, just because you can't and shouldn't index everything, doesn't mean you can't have any indexes... if your most common fields bring your queries down, they're still pretty helpful.

I actually really like where RethinkDB is headed, and within the year most of my issues should be resolved.

Another couple databases to consider, depending on your needs would be ElasticSearch and Cassandra... it reallly depends on your use case.
I hope you don't buy a toy that is already recalled. It is against the law in the US to sell a product that has been publicly recalled. http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-...
Hmm. When I read the headline, I thought this had some angle with a lawsuit type service. If "my kid choked on a toy" and was injured, I would use a lawyer. So perhaps, you could build some sort of class action feature for peoples kids who were injured to file together and split the compensation. And maybe the site takes a fee as a percentage.
Yeah. I definitely want to do this and have it on my very-near-term todo list; I just wanted to get this version out the door and start getting feedback from a broader audience (up till now I've just handed out invites to my network of parents and friends).

Thanks for the feedback!
Am I the only person who was interested in LTE?

Yes I have a phone, but I'd rather not tether, if only to save phone battery.
His point is that while you're waiting for the future, all of the people who report up to that executive have lost confidence in him. That confidence is impossible to regain. In the process, you will lose your best individual contributors and your best first-level managers.

Think of it from the perspective of a talented, savvy engineer at the company. If your CEO hires a bozo to manage engineering, do you stick around? Why should you? You are very good at what you do; you have plenty of options elsewhere, friends at other companies that are continually asking "Why don't you come work for Floogle?", and recruiters from Flare that are battering down your LinkedIn account. You're already aware that your VP makes a lot more money than you do; if it's clear that you are way more competent than he is, why should you stay?

Ben's guiding philosophy of management is "Always view all of your decisions from the perspective of everyone in the company." Trying to develop an executive for future potential may be what the CEO wants, it certainly is what the executive wants - but it's not fair to the individual contributors who work under that executive.
> Except that this display does not exist.

Yet. Neither does the laptop, by the way. By the time it launches, I expect it'll be surrounded by a fairly decent line of accessories.
San Francisco is not "The Valley"
That was one of my two bigger issues earlier on... the other one being geographic based searches (which is now implemented iirc).
I didn't either, but then I looked again and realized it was the Macbook, not the Air or the Pro.

The Macbook isn't exactly the choice of power-users. (Actually, seeing how underpowered it is, it's probably the choice of very patient users.)
To ghrifter (I couldn't reply to your thread): yes it's a tax thing, and also the cost associated with the EU mandated 2 year minimal warranty programs. Electronics are generally more expensive in euros than in dollars, even though the exchange rate of a dollar is still below 1.0 euro.
This seems like an awful long time to wait to backpedal on an issue that they strenuously claimed was true. Or maybe the headline is misleading.
Do you have data you would like to have an extra copy of, but it wouldn't kill you to lose that single copy?
Wait wait wait. Hacker culture is all about radical honesty and voicing your opinion without regard to hurting others feelings... Except when its a woman voicing an opinion about something she finds offensive.
> If progressive values are not hacker values, the hacker values will be, should be, and must be destroyed.

To presume that every aspect of your value system is superior to every aspect of everyone else's value systems is both astoundingly arrogant and also authoritarian. Improvement of societal values can't come about without minority groups being allowed to practice alternative value systems, as abhorrent as they might seem to the mainstream. As long as these groups aren't dramatically harming someone (ie: slavery, killing homosexuals etc) then I don't see what the problem is with this. The progressive values you espouse would have likely been popularly embraced much sooner had society not used it's force to clamp down on people practicing alternative values; yet now that your value system is gaining societal support, you are suggesting that society do the exact same thing to different people employing alternative values.

I would encourage you to be a bit more open minded. You might find that elements of hacker culture's or other cultures' values are superior to elements of your value system, and fuse those aspects into your existing values to make a superior system. At the very least, if progressive values are universally superior to hacker values then they will naturally win out over time. There is no need to to advocate the silencing of dissenting voices.