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I've never been a very big fan of the Bay Guardian or Tim Redmond's sanctimonious tone, and I admit I had a good laugh when they finally went out of business.

However, although this article is flawed it has two things going for it; pointing out that Prop 13 in California is essentially rent control fro property taxes and that All new construction, since 1979, is exempt from rent control in San Francisco a detail overlooked in most discussions of the subject.
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Right - it's like all modern news reporting - it's incredibly distorted in favour of the dramatic and attention grabbing parts which are usually exaggerated beyond belief. The other 95-99% just doesn't get any attention because it's not news-worthy.
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>In the case of TV news and newspapers - lets say 6 hours a week glued to the talking heads and 4 hours a week in the paper = 500 hours a year - 12 24hr days in total, or 24 12hr days. All so they can sell your eyeballs to the highest bidder. Who wouldn't like 24 extra days time to do as they please with?

So, exactly like Twitter and FB.
I think last year I read about an experimental setup that uses lidars to measure incoming wind allowing angle to be adjusted, ideally before the gusts hit. No conclusion at that time though.

(The offshore ones are huge and I guess changing the angle can't be done anywhere near fast atm.)
Useful tip. Made me realise ctrl-s works to go to start of line and ctrl-e to end of line. This is probably common knowledge for any Linux user but for me as a Mac user it's a revelation.
So suppose they had done the study, and found no improved performance for women. Would they have published it? I guess the chance to get a result was roughly 50% (since stocks tend to go up or down, and the sample set of women-ceo-companies is probably small).

As to your explanation 3: that's just the kind of thing people want to believe who cherish such studies. At the same time there were also women who failed as CEOs (as the article said). Sure, it's a valid hypothesis, but there would be many ways to test it. For starters, there must already be studies correlating IQ to CEO success. What do they say?
I used to get these marks like this on the screen when I jammed laptop into my backpack real tight. screen bends inwards touches keyboard. nothing good can come out of it.
I see the future of GitHub as a new type of operating system. Git as the file system for an OS isn't too surprising but starting with an open, highly collaborative network of users with many forks and interdependent repos at the file-system level makes for an OS that could barely have been imagined on paper.

If they integrate Atom online like Cloud9 then with automatic build\hosting its basically the full stack for developing and using the web where the current GitHub repo viewers are the equivalent of Finder/Explorer. The Google/MS capitulation to GitHub will be seen as a catastrophic handover of power if they can build a moat around this. Maybe the distributed and open nature of both git and the web will prevent any moat? Interesting times.
I'd imagine that from the point of view of a Unicode consortium member, the question as to whether to include a particular Bengali glyph some argued to be obsolete looks more like "should we lower the threshold for what characters in a language are considered deserving of a separate codepoint, potentially exposing ourselves to a deluge of O(#codepoints/#characters per language) requests for obscure variant characters until we actually run out of them", whereas the question as to whether to include a sign for poop in the end boils down to "can we spare O(1) codepoints to prove to the world that we are not humourless fascists". The particular decision in this case might well be ill-informed, but I think any judgement that the Unicode Consortium is engaging in cultural supremacism (as opposed to doing the usual thing of wanting anglo-american capitalist money) is somewhat far-fetched.

The right solution, I think, would be to replace Unicode with a truly intrinsically variable-length standard such as an unbounded UTF-8 - many of the arguments that were fielded in favour of having the option of fixed-width encodings seem to have melted away now that almost everything that interfaces with users has a layer of high-level glue code, naive implementations of strings have been deemed harmful to security and even ostensibly "embedded" platforms can get away with Java. Rather than having an overwhelmed committee of American industrialists decide over the faith of every single codepoint, then, they could simply allocate a prefix to every catalogued writing system and defer the rest to non-technical authorities whose suggested lists would only require basic rubber-stamp sanity-checking.

> "You can't write your name in your native language, but at least you can tweet your frustration with an emoji face that's the same shade of brown as yours!"

This seems fairly characteristic of the apparent belief of social justice activists - and I can't imagine that Unicode's inclusion of skin colours would be a result of anything other than pressure by the same - that they can improve the whole world with remedies conceived against the background of US American race/identity politics.
Looks like it might have been patched already. FTA:

>Further research suggests this could be the issue detailed in CVE-2014-4451 but this has yet to be confirmed. We plan to test the same attack on an 8.2 device and will update with our progress.
Linus is a technical genius with a very abrasive personality. People tolerate the abrasive personality because he is an excellent programmer and steward for the kernel.

What's intolerable is when untalented people cargo-cult Jobs or Linus and pretend that their personality is what caused them to succeed. There is nothing more scary than an untalented manager reading one of the many 'inspirational' leadership books about Steve Jobs - they are likely to pick up every single wrong lesson.

Has anyone ever complained that Terence Tao is apparently a genuinely really nice person? People would still work with Tao if he was a misanthropic asshole because he is probably the smartest person in the world, but it's not like being a kind and generous human being detracts from his genius.
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or pasted into MS Paint and then emailed as a 4Mb bitmap.
Or maybe you could start writing using a normal alphabet.
I've used OzForex for $20k. Deeply satisfied.
This looks really nice. Subscribed!

So, how many new subscriptions have you got so far after HN caught this?

Edit: That wasn't an accusation of cynicism, just curious.
i had rust patches under palms when i had old Al Powerbook G4 something to do with my blood acidity, no one else had them. Better figure out what causes this. I think there might be a limited number of wipe downs you can do with these and perhaps if there is something else present that might be accelerating damage, environmental and the like.
I think that is exactly the motivation: avoiding the random shifts in volume between videos. Pushing back against the loudness war was probably just a bonus.

It's like watching a series on TV and then getting blasted with EXTREMELY LOUD COMMERCIAL BREAKS (and they do that shit on purpose too).
It's not that simple. Capturing people's attention is now a well studied science. The addiction is engineered. The people who are addicted(or "engaged") to their media streams whether social or main stream need the same sort of help any addict needs to kick the habit.

Since the addiction thus far hasn't caused lung cancer, driving accidents, violent behavior etc we can all continue to

1. make money of it and

2. tell the addicts to figure it out for themselves
That definitely makes it more meaningful since it provides a tangible benefit to low-income graduates (also latino, black, and those whose parents did not graduate college), which was not made clear by the original article. That's the distinction not made in common discussion.
> Honestly, just about anything is going to be faster, productivity-wise, than C++.

I can only assume you have not seen 300+ deep stack traces in lasagna java programs. Or GWT.
Stuff like that bugs me too, and is one of the reasons I have no compunction about pirating content.

VLC supports a dynamic range audio compressor, meaning you can configure it to make the quiet parts loud, and the loud parts quiet.

If they want to play those bullshit games with the volume of commercials, then I'll play dirty too by using pirated content that has every single commercial removed, and will employ the dynamic range compressor as well to make sure the quiet parts of shows are audible and the loud parts aren't irritating. I just feel sorry for the poor saps who have to tolerate these bullshit shenanigans when even the regulators have been calling out inexplicably loud commercials.

Then again with how cheap Raspberry Pis are, maybe we're closer to everyone using pirated content than we are to get Hollywood and producers of commercials to stop the BS.

Balls in your court Hollywood.
>Git as the file system
I've been using angular 1 for some time now, but Aurelia looks so clean
It is a similar thing here at Princeton. It wasn't until recently that low income issues were discussed in the USG and groups like the Hidden Minority Council got attention. Even then, there is strong backlash.
Guilt can certainly be an unfortunate consequence. Much like how a blind person must feel every day as they're reminded how difficult life is for those who can't see.

Empowering people with information about ways they can improve the chances their offspring will have in life is definitely the most important message I got from the article.
Fixed relative to what's in build 10036, undoubtedly, but I'm struggling to see how it will end up being an improvement over the Windows Vista/7-era version as far as desktop users are concerned. That said, it is an improvement over the Windows 8/8.1 Start Screen.
Ask HN: Local developer scene in Hong Kong – get in touch?
I'm thinking about moving from Europe to some other country and work there as a developer. Hong Kong might be one of the options. So this summer I plan on taking a vacation in Hong Kong and see if I would like it there in general.

Ideally I wanted to meet some other developers working in Hong Kong, talk to them, see what kind of jobs are in demand, what salaries are paid etc. I browsed the usual job websites but talking to people seems like the best.

However, I didn't find anything on any usergroups/meetups/developer communities in Hong Kong. So I ask HN: how do I get in touch with the local developer community?

I'm mainly interested in PHP/webdevelopment but in general I would like to talk to any devs that make a living in HK.
With YouTube pushing auto-advancing to additional content, and heavily pushing playlists, this is even more important now.
All this is out of context and has nothing to do with what OP talks about.

About what you are talking about, it is a fact that India was the richest countries in the world before British colonised it, and after British left it was one of poorest.
Re the commercials, over here in NL they (finally!) introduced a law that prohibits that behaviour.
From what I hear it could be heat related. Do you use it all day, let it get very warm and then just close the lid to put it in standby?

I am wondering if this is because of a hot unibody case coming very close to the screen when it is closed. So, someone who uses his MacBook very lightly so it doesn't get very hot and then powering it down completely and then waiting a bit before closing the lid might not have this issue as his MacBook is already rather cold when the lid gets closed.
Why repeat myself? If the indentation contains the information, why can't I just use that?
> Does this have to do with how you perceive men and women?

In the past compared to boys, girls simply aren't exposed enough to anything technical for them to discover it before their minds can get potentially tainted by popular perception compared to other fields. Is this changing? Yes. I feel that this will be much less of a problem for our children given the advent of toys like Goldiblox and even Lego sets aimed for girls. However I feel that this doesn't change the present situation for adults.

> Does it have to do with how you perceive these various vocations?

Yes because I've lived outside of places like Silicon Valley, in metros with a more conventional and old mindset.

> Is this feeling rooted in personal experience(s) and memories?

Yes outside of Silicon Valley it is strongly encouraged that engineers transition to management. It just isn't as respected outside of tech hubs and it's pretty recent. Is this changing for the better? It depends on the metro and the rate of change in perception varies.

> Be open to the likelihood that your experiences don't generalize to others.

I am definitely open to my generalizations being incorrect in many different places and times. I'm just stating what I feel is the general mass trend.

> I posted this elsewhere in the thread--I don't know if you saw it, but the Harris poll actually released some numbers not too long ago on the notion of prestige in various occupations

Looking that this poll and several other similar studies over the decades, my hypothesis has been proven wrong. Thanks for posting quantitative data. Yeah polls are subject to a lot of errors. Still, they're better than guesses based on personal experience. Logically I'm thinking that I've been proven wrong. However what's annoying though is that even in light of data, I still feel that I'm 'correct'. My gut still tells me that engineering is still seen by the masses as low prestige (outside of tech hubs like Silicon Valley). If I were to rationalize it, I would say that popular media is the main driving force behind my opinion. It's hard to ignore annoying shows like The Big Bang Theory. Ugh, I really hate that show. Another reason is that I feel the polls are measuring prestige incorrectly. imo A political office is very prestigious, yet in these polls they score so low. Why? Because the way the researchers measure prestige includes perception of ethics and generalized likability.
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Definitely. It allows people to discover more videos without creating the annoyance of having to change volume for every video.
Today I received another letter for a site that has a separate mobile page. It appears that the Google bot is unable to find the mobile version.

I highly doubt Google check CSS to find colors - they probably just check for <font> tags. Google and other search engines are incredibly easy to hack.
Do you seriously think they render every site they crawl!?

That said, Google is still the best search engine. They have just become Too greedy, forcing Webmasters into design paradigms. Just because they saw an increase in ad revenue doing so. Witch probably had nothing to do with the design change - people probably just spent a bit more on adwords after receiving the warning.
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What about the people who live in a city but regularly need access to a rural area to visit relatives. At least in the UK mobility in the rural areas is effectively impossible without a car. If one has a life entirely in the city there is no option but to own a car in the city, say London, and use it to traverse the city to get out.

In London at least, during a normal working day 95%+ of traffic is commercial in nature. You can't stop that kind of traffic without stopping the ability of the city from functioning.
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While it has a degree of intent, it is also because music is louder than dialogue.
Oakland isn't the only place with access to bart. Plus if you live further from bart, you can bike to bart as well.
You must have a lot of faith in Microsoft when you consider giving up your stable Windows7 in favor a dot zero release of an Operating System that in a lot of way still looks like Windows8.
Unless I can see any kind of track record that it is indeed stable, all the cloud crap can be disabled and they actually put back Themes so I can get rid of everything "modern" or metro or whatever they call this nonsense, I am very happy sticking with 7 for at least the next 5 years.
Works perfectly here. Firefox 36.0.1.
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...or the device was built wrong.
SOME UBER APP IDEAS:

* An app that allows people to search up the products of small local businesses near by, pay for them via mobile, and then have it delivered to them via a trusted Uber driver. Good for small businesses since they wouldn't be able to afford a fleet of cars. Uber delivery will increase business since they will no longer be limited by their location.

* Tinder integration would be perfect. Users can agree upon a location via a google map in the app, and then schedule Uber drivers to pick them both up (option to share ride too). No need for either person to reveal their address to the other. Will make participants feel more safe.

* Vacation package integration. Not sure if this is already being done, but vacation packages can now include a dedicated Uber driver, along with the standard hotel + plane package. Will make vacations even smoother.

* Office lunch app uber integration. An app that lets co-workers pool money together to order lunch from local restaurants, and then have it delivered via Uber. Business for restaurant is increased since they are no longer limited by seating capacity (esp during high volume times - business plaza at 12pm for example).

* This idea is a combination of some of the others. Pizza Hut, Domionos, Chinese restaurants all do delivery... why not all of the other restaurants? Imagine an app that aggregates a bunch of restaurants and allows users to place orders. As the food is being prepared the app calculates all the nearby Uber drivers, the delivery locations, etc. It then finds the most efficient 'load' for a single Uber driver to carry. For example, pickup food from restaurants A B R since the drop off locations are all near to each other. This allows an Uber driver to take food from more than 1 restaurant to more than 1 customer, maximizing the amount of $$ they can make and decreasing cost for the end customer.
> When you total up the amount of land that we dedicate to cars, it's absolutely staggering.

What a narrow minded blinkered and oblique view of reality. Without the invention of the internal combustion engine and our ability to efficiently do as we please whenever we please we wouldn't have almost any of the economic freedom we enjoy today. If you wish to be a luddite and which a rural localised way of life on everyone that's another matter
While they are blunt and I don't disagree about "him being a dick" written communication is very different from spoken ones, I can imagine someone using such words in a certain context and they sound less harsh.

But in the written medium it really come across is the most harsh way.

But while maintaining the kernel sometimes he needs to get the point across and saying "this is unacceptable, I am disappointed" will not work.

For those examples, when reading the context I (usually) agree with Linus (and with his attitude), and this usually happens when the situation has been building up and people keep repeating those mistakes.

Also, there are people much worse than Linus on the LKML (and subsystem lists), also some people are very polite and helpful.
And that is all most users really care about.
>Apple has been more than willing to extend warranties and repair issues once they're sure the problem is a defect.

You mean once enough customers complain about it and the impact of the negative publicity outweights the cost of fucking over the customers.
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That's just common knowledge. I mean, anyone who has worked for about a year on linux would know.
>Maybe but it certainly is linked to epic levels of smugness and superiority complexes on the part of the parents and healthcare system. At least here in the UK.

Not sure the UK has a "smugness and superiority complex" problem. It sure has a "let's not allow anybody be different/at a higher level" problem though. Everybody is labelled "smug", "pretentious git" etc.

I mean, complaining about people breast-feeding being smug?
That's because they need to raise money before starting on building their game. Hip startup people have similar traits, and inflate their idea in order to get more funding. That's how marketing works, basically.
"Europeans"? Grumble. There is no "European" culture.

Also, Linus isn't representative of Finnish or Swedish culture (none of which put a lot of stock in assholishness) as much as he is representative of early 90's hacker culture and he never had to grow out of it. It doesn't work as well for a guy with a lot of power though, it isn't cool when he kicks downwards.
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Wrong. It probes without announcing any networks, and compares the list it gets to the list you have saved. If it finds a match, it then probes specifically for that network without announcing any others it knows.

The main drawback is that it doesn't work on Windows (wpa_supplicant on Linux already does this by default); on my laptops I just remove all networks when I am finished with them - entering a 15-20 char password every couple of months isn't so bad, especially as I only really use my laptop when travelling.
oh look—a provocative headline with poor science, practicing poor prudence. Clearly, no one's trying to make money, especially not fortune.com /s
Eventually I guess it would just probe around for some bluetooth device and show the car key app when connected.
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It's also a mass communication strategy. Concise and harsh. No time wasted.
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With text all you need is a name and a list of ingredients. The customer's imagination does the rest. In his mind, he will see the perfect dish, especially if he is hungry.

If you use photos, you need a professional photographer with a studio. You can't just snap pictures in the kitchen because the food won't look appetizing. In the end, it's all about effort vs gain. And a text menu takes the least effort and provides the most gain.
What you're talking about works for unencrypted networks, but you can just grab that data off the air anyway. It won't work for WPA2.

>spoof ssl

Only if either they blindly accept invalid certs, or you somehow already installed a root CA on their boxen.

Sounds to me like you found an all-in-one tool, which doesn't make you understand how the process works or its limitations. I would agree that many wireless networks are hideously insecure (why I SSH tunnel my traffic when I'm on one), but it isn't that bad unless you're either running unauthenticated or using WEP.
> 28.35g per ounce

No, it's 31.10g per ounce. The price of gold is always quoted as troy ounces[1]. You used the figure for the avoirdupois ounce which is used for anything that isn't a precious metal[2].

Though it doesn't really affect the argument you're making since 28.35g and 31.10g are pretty close, but how do you not know about troy ounces as a "former jeweler" (as it says in your profile)?

That's like a doctor saying body temperature is 105F or 40C.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_ounce

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoirdupois