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This sort of stuff rubs me the wrong way.

I live about 20 minutes outside of Pittsburgh. When I graduated college 6 years ago, I held down a restaurant job while doing an internship that would eventually lead to my first full-time job in my field. I had a roommate who worked at a hotel. We found a two-bedroom apartment (a house split into 3 units) that was going for $425/month plus utilities. Because we split, I had to pay about $300/month to keep a roof over my head. I think I was making $8/hr, so the first week of the month mostly covered my living expenses (not including taxes and the like of course). Very different than the 78 hours that shows for PA.

Anecdotal, I know, but the point being that if you're willing to make tradeoffs, you can find a way to live. My friend in Manhattan takes on two roommates to make his rent affordable. After my spouse and I got a house, we rented out our spare bedroom for a time to help pay down school loans and provide an affordable space for friends. I always remind myself that my grandmother was one of 13 children in a 3-bedroom home, and that many immigrant families of her generation had a boarder to help cover costs.

There are always edge cases that need to be dealt with compassionately - the single, unskilled mom with a few kids, etc. But the underlying assumption of articles like this seems to be that minimum wage should get you a 2BR apartment, and that's a premise that I don't agree with.
Thanks Mark. I was thinking that because I would like the whole point to be that you can deploy it anywhere and if you would like to enable the federation (when we get round to writing it). Is their a license you would suggest?
You do realize that this is a very easy to pull off attack? http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/

Do you also think people who use screenlocks are tinfoil hatters?
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Am I the only one that doesn't see the value of assessing this at the state level? Given the drastic variability of rents within states, this seems like a useless (not to mention misleading) unit of analysis.

Even worse, this kind of sensationalism around rising rents seems to be bringing the rent control zombie back to life in a number of cities. What a disaster that would be.
Yes, "by state" seems like a terrible way to do this. By county, or some division around that size, would make a lot more sense.
Keep in mind that in NYC there are very high priced apartments, but there are also a LOT of low income housing/slums/projects where rent is dirt cheap, it's just that people live in terrible conditions compared to what that same rent could get you elsewhere.
Scott Adams would find this useful I think.
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Oh, that's not creepy at all.

Could you imagine such a thing in the United States? I envision big posters in medical buildings saying "Uncle Sam Wants YOU (to get knocked up)!" The target birth month would be hell for parents, as well: nonstop shuttling of your kids to birthday party after birthday party.
That was one of the things that was checked in this post
Works impressively well. Generates premium quality corporate-site-ready bullshit and throws in small gems of pure absurd like "Efficiencies will come from intelligently offshoring our low hanging fruit"
Is there any land in this world where the situation is reversed?
My external non-expert impression (which could be totally off-base; I don’t have inside sources) is that folks making devices like phones and tablets were jealous of the reversibility, faster battery charging, and size advantage Apple could obtain with Lightning jacks, compared to the ridiculous extended USB 3.1 Micro-B jack, and started clamoring for a better connector sometime in ~2012. Once Apple realized such a new connector would be coming with or without them, they decided to throw their weight behind it and make sure that the connector met all of their own needs.

Apple certainly isn’t the only party (or even the main party) responsible for the new connector, but from what I’ve read they do deserve some applause for putting their resources in and making sure the new connector is the best it can be.
This chart wouldn't take into account the various subsidies you would get if you were actually making $13/hr as a single parent -- housing assistance, food stamps, medicaid, welfare itself, etc. The effective income -- after all assistance is accounted for -- is going be far higher than the quoted hourly wage.
I am also from Arkansas! I am planning on moving back in the next few years as my remote work jobs solidify. Information like this really hammers that point home. If you have family/friends in Arkansas, it's a cheap way to live with a fairly reasonable quality of life - at least the NW corner where I grew up.
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A single parent would also be getting child support, making it a double income.
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Can anyone tell me what is fundamentally different between array and table processing ie. For data science?
Well said, I was trying to find a way to say this without sounding like a dick, you did a very good job!
There's a plugin for intellij, but I suspect most folks just use a text editor.
That article is awful, and made wholly unaccurate predictions (that's not to say that H1B is bad):

"the American software developer will become extinct within the next few years"

"the Impact Innovations Group even estimates a
precise date at which the “extinction” of the American programmer will occur—2006"

I understand that American developers can feel that H1B's depresses their salaries (it probably does, if I went to the U.S. I'd probably accept a lower rate than I would have were I a native born American).

I also see that H1B is not a good place to be as an inmigrant (and that's why I chose not to accept it and I'm not going to the U.S.)
Excellent. When you put these buzzwords together like this, you realise how ludicrous and inflated they sound (and often meaningless too). And let's face it, the tech world is as guilty as any other when it comes to inflated language over plain speaking. Related article on corporate guff (from 2014)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25652101
Seems to be a bug where it will only show paragraphs not words. Maybe that's part of the buzzword joke?
There is this article about Notch sharing $3M with employees previously - can't imagine there being that many employees, and don't know how equal the sharing was.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-03-02-notch-share...

Which strikes me as pretty awesome, because with that much money you don't really know what to do with it -- except maybe outbid Beyonce for a very very expensive house (which strikes me as excessive and better used elsewhere).
Edit:

In response to your #1:

Picking a password is all on the user too. But magically GitHub is competent enough to stop users from picking the password "ilovecake". Most users of GitHub are not security professionals. Just like most people opening a bank account are not bank vault security professionals.

Original:

They are downvoting me because they love / work at GitHub or don't understand how critical software security is. If you think about the physical life equivalent here (say a bank leaving keys out in the open for safe deposit boxes) there is no way to rationalize it. But all of a sudden it's our favorite social coding startup we can't actually call them out on a huge security fuck up. If this were Microsoft we'd be laughing.
how much safe are we, with a 2048 bits key?

is this something we should be upgrading (like to 4096) in the near future?
That's actually another good question - does NYCHA and other low-income housing push the average down as well? I'm not sure what it takes to qualify to get rent assistance; seems like it's unreasonable to compare a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side to my apartment in Hamilton Heights to a low-income housing project.
No, the Chinese are no less intelligent than any other group of people. Their leaders, on the other hand, could be incredibly stupid. Case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#Great_Leap_Forward
A distant family friend has been on Ipillimumab for about 8 years, and is still going strong.

Amazing stuff.
Previous discussion from the WSJ article on the acquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9640404
"National Security" to me screams "control". Control = security. And I'm sorry, but total control is (and should be) out of the question.

If you don't control, then you'll be forced to gasp negotiate! There will be gasp unexpected risks (and possibly unexpected gains)!
If someone do the same analysis for european and asian cities then it will be apparent how affordable (relative to wage) US still is!
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> Volodin installed in his office a custom-designed computer terminal loaded with a system called Prism, which monitored public sentiment online using 60 million sources

Oh look, they've got prism too!

> According to the website of its manufacturer, Prism “actively tracks the social media activities that result in increased social tension, disorderly conduct, protest sentiments and extremism.”

Well that's comforting.

This is obviously still in it's infancy, but they're only going to get better at this. Obvious leads and dead giveaways will be replaced with more subtly and variance, and detecting whats bullshit and whats real will become even more difficult, if not impossible.

This is russia's answer to people rioting over corruption in the government. Not transparency, not change; social manipulation of information and spreading lies.

And they aren't the only ones doing this. They're just the only ones we know about. No doubt other countries, companies and criminal organizations are operating similar tactics already.

Certainly puts a new spin on the term "don't talk to strangers"
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Without central planning though, the entire situation would be an unintended consequence. Centralization has both benefits and drawbacks just like an unregulated situation.

In california we're trying to build a high speed train across the state. It's taking years for this happen with no end in sight. It's largely due to lack of funding and a lot of decentralized opposition.

In china, thanks to centralized planning, they can build the same public project in two years.
This is a useful tool to view the assembly of code in the browser.

http://gcc.godbolt.org/
There is quite a difference between the security issues of MITM HTTPS and installing a control console. The first is a potential security issue that might lead to something bad, the seconds is already one of those bad things that might happen. Given that this console is as exploitable as it sounds.
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This is completely unrelated to the article.
I'd also suggest looking at the rsa public exponents. PuTTY and OpenSSH (at least used to) use their own values when generating keys, so you can somewhat reliably identify which keys were generated by these tools
Universal Serial Bus. With optional universalness.

I think Roritharr is right, this is the beginning of the end for the great era of standardization that USB brought. If there was a port and a cable, you pretty much knew it would work for everything the port should do.

DisplayPort and HDMI port/cable versioning have been a colossal pain for me. GPU spec lists on shopping sites don't even list what version they support, so you have to constantly cross reference things to manufacturer datasheets.

http://i.imgur.com/ffMR5gj.png

What's sad is that we had the same sorts of differentiations in the past, like with DVI-I (digital and analog) and DVI-D (digital only) and Dual-link DVI (for big screens). So what did we do? We called them different things and then actually advertised what it was capable of.

But apparently saying "DisplayPort 1.2" is too complicated now or something? Maybe there are too many different optional features that may or may not be supported by a GPU or the cable or the display, so they just assume none of them will work? I don't even know.

That screenshot isn't an old graphics card either, it's a GTX 970.

Not looking forward to USB turning into the same mess.

EDIT: This isn't all new, I recall seeing some laptops with strange things like yellow USB ports that were still powered for charging when the computer is sleeping. But that's a minor feature that most people wouldn't even notice. Major capabilities missing from some ports is different, and can get more confusing than "the blue ports are faster but all of them will work".
Or you could all chip in together and have one big party for all the kids where everyone gets a present? It'd probably end up being cheaper for each parent but overall be a better party.
Interesting. I don't see how a board could be convinced by arguments a consulting company hired by management; how could it work more than once? If you found they were doing stupid things you wouldn't report them, would you?
Do you have a link? I'm genuinely interested.
Given the demographic here on HN, we probably all dream of being in this situation. But I honestly have no idea how I'd react. I'd probably take the money and run, too.

I worry about these things sometimes. I have a few subcontractors working part time for me. I'd prefer to make them employees, have our own office together. But I also wonder how that would change our rapport.

I started out on my own specifically because I was dissatisfied with the way business was operated at all the places I had been before. But when reading stuff like this, or about O'Rielly Press, or Valve, it makes me wonder if it's possible to maintain ones ideals. The me that exists right now would hate to be the person that was the cause in another person of the same sort of anti-jumbo-corp feelings I harbor.
The NW corner is where my apartment was (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas).

Central Arkansas is more expensive, but still extremely affordable compared to the rest of the country. My sister just bought a 3 bedroom house in a good neighborhood in Little Rock for < $150K. It would easily cost $600K+ here in Seattle.
So, you regularly use vim without any plugins then?

Marks doesn't even have a visual indicator. So, somehow I doubt you're just using marks for bookmarking and vanilla syntax highlighting is pretty weak.

Let's see your list of plugins. I bet you have at least 30 of them.
Accelerando by Charles Stross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando). I'm mostly enjoying his look into humanity's near and not so near future and his views on business, economics and technology. It's interesting and I like his writing style but sometimes it doesn't feel like much is going on story-wise.
That all agrees with how I understand the situation as a fellow external non-expert. I just got really frustrated a while back by all the 'Apple invented USB-C' and even the 'Apple basically invented USB-C' headlines. So wanted to applaud someone for choosing the phrasing 'much of the work' which I believe to be a correct statement, and if incorrect only errors slightly on the side of too much credit.
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In additional most of these lower wage job should be for younger high school age or college students. A grown adult(lets say 25) shouldn't be working the entry level position at MickeyD's. That should be an outlying case and policy shouldn't be decided on corner cases.

Youth unemployment is significantly higher than the national average and if wages are mandated even higher then no one will take the chance on a 15 year old.
Especially the guy with commit access to PyCrypto should reconsider his position in the project..
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Trust me. Population limiting was intended but gender imbalance was Definitely NOT intended.
>That is badly formulated from the articles POV, but it is entirely possible for everybody to have the exact same income and still be poor: any sufficiently severe pandemic, war or natural disaster would do the trick.

I don't think a disaster like that would actually flatten income.

>I general I think most people who considered it closely would realize that you don't get rich by your neighbor becoming poorer.

It's not about getting rich, it's about getting non-poor. Taxing a third of the money from the rich could greatly improve the lives of the entire bottom 80%. If you assume the economy won't suddenly implode for no reason at all, it becomes largely (not entirely) about relative wealth. If you don't assume that, you're making a strawman.

It's possible to have a situation with so much money that despite similar levels of income disparity to today everyone can get food easily and afford a doctor, and the rich become stupendously rich, but that seems least likely of all. We should be tackling the problem of inequality in addition to working to raise total GDP.
thanks. yes you are right. it is market segmentation. you move more units for a lower weighted average margin. just seems silly your actually modify the product to make it fail early just because someone paid less for it. i get it for software, you leave features off or put them on and charge less or more. but for an actual physical product, you are playing with operating hours as a feature, just seems new to me. if i was to do it, i would put some money into picking cheaper parts for the lower lifetime pump. then i could perhaps build it for $7 and get more margin for these sales. but i guess it depends on how much money you put into integrating cheaper parts. but even making it fail early by programming cost some money.
They should expect to live somewhere decent. They should also expect to be responsible for making sure they have marketable skills and enough money to afford it.
A most bodacious of comments! And spot on - education is a better solution than rules. We see the same changes in the US across class divides; poorer people are less educated and rear more children.
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All trade deals are about national security. That is why they are negotiated by governments.

Rich trading nations are secure. They can afford a great military, and nations that trade heavily with each other are less likely to attack one another.

Trade relationships are major components of spheres of influence. Look at what's happening in Ukraine--that whole thing started with a disagreement over trade relationships. Will the Ukraine's economy grow closer with western Europe, or with Russia? That question fractured that nation. This illustrates the strategic importance of trade deals.
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No evidence, not even anecdotal ("I have a friend, he and his family love being poor....")

Lack of ability to imagine another's experience.

Naivete regarding power relationships, especially ones you participate in without knowing it.

Basic fallacy of assuming people are different than you when convenient.

No attempt, however lame, to support your off-the-cuff remark with anything.

Lack of introspection and self evaluation.

Stupid post, downvoted.
> Can you clarify what you mean with your comment?

For several years Apple has been the one phone company using a non-standard connector on their phones. I mean, if they switch to USB-C then great - but it's worth saying that Apple is already the one problem company in this area. Everyone else has switched to standard USB and got on with it.
It's a sad kind of funny we'll finally get a port I can plug anything in either way up but now have to look even harder at the icons to make sure it's the correct identical port. Can't even feel for the USB embossed logo side up for that one.

And yes the lightning bolt will charge things without powering your laptop on. Very handy.
It's very tightly integrated with V8. The UI/non JS part of it can be easily replaced with what ever,
Among other things, what I found interesting was that Barr was giving expert testimony on engineering and "engineering certainty", when as far as I can tell he doesn't have a PE license (if he does, he's the first engineer I've ever heard of that doesn't conspicuously advertise it). I was under the impression that wasn't permitted in any state.

edit: Toyota did plenty wrong. Chiefly, I'd say that ignoring their own documented processes should be at the top. Having a system utilization of >70% would be another, as is using recursion. All are things that, at the time, were no-nos. I don't however think that one can fairly argue that it's practical or sensible to implement emerging standards during the multi-year car development process, which many seem to be arguing. I also remain skeptical that the unintended acceleration events are software related. It seems that for one to buy the bit flip argument from the trial, one also has to assume that the drivers depleted the service break vacuum, and that combination doesn't seem probable to me.
>They have also been able to get him banned from Twitch via his IP.

This sounds like they have access to his computer (with a RAT or something). You shouldn't be getting IP banned unless you actually break Twitch rules from that IP.
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I'm really worried about the course Russia is taking under Putin, but people like Ludmila Savchuk make me hope there is still some hope... I wish her well.
> perhaps the acquisition by Microsoft may be the best thing that happened to the game.

I can't believe I'm saying this - as a previously long time avowed Microsoft hater (I used to be an Amiga user - it's in my blood...) - but I agree. My 6 year old son plays a lot of Minecraft, both the PC version, mobile version and Xbox version, and it's just amazing how stagnant the official versions are compared to the thousands of mods my son watches reviews of.

It also boggles my mind how little has been done to enable extra paid content, given how incredibly excited he is about texture packs and skins and mods. For the PC version there's a thriving eco-system that Mojang was not part of. For the other versions there's a very limited set of extra content for the Xbox version (which we now have all of...) unless you want to go through the hassle of storing maps on an external storage device and modding it on a PC.

Who knows yet if Microsoft will do much more with it, but they can hardly do less.
I agree, but this normally correct theory is less valid in societies that have simultaneously decided that median housing costs should be be 3,40,50%+ of the median salary.

Sorry, just a little bitter that I lived below my means and actually saved, unlike those who stretched dangerously to buy as much house as possible, and essentially won the lottery in the process.
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