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> Update: Brendan Gallagher, Beale's SVP of development, said in a statement: “We are disappointed in the decision not to pursue this opportunity for Tucson. [...] We see it as a missed opportunity for the city, as this project potentially represents tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue, hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure to serve the community, and thousands of high-paying local and union jobs.”

and I'm "potentially" the next president of the U.S.


They would have to build a road to datacenter, datacenters themselves, all GPUs etc put together. That requires "thousands of high-paying local and union jobs" for short time. "hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure". Then a dozen of armed guards with dogs.


Datacenters do not employ thousands of jobs. They employ about 5.


Long term yes. Short term thousands.


and those definitely aren't union jobs.


One thing I have started doing is using a VPN with the location set to my home location 100% of the time when home. Then, when logging in abroad I use the VPN to my home location.

It seems that using the VPN 100% of the time has trained many of these smart services to fingerprint that as my default fingerprint.

Of course, this doesn't help when interacting with services that detect/block VPNs. Or the even more annoying situation where VPNs are blocked and also all traffic from the country you are in is also blocked (occurs occasionally when trying to access US sites from SE Asia)

edit: WRT comments mentioning that you can call your bank or set a travel notice: that is how things used to work. Chase, for example, no longer lets you set a travel notice as they use a "smart" automated system. That said, my Chase travel card used via apple/android pay has never given me trouble so their system does seem better than most


I also use this extension. It works on firefox as well.

Code is also on github if you want to learn from it: https://github.com/lunu-bounir/allow-right-click

if you go back to the first few commits you see it started similar to some of the small JS snippets people have suggested here. It is interesting to see how it has evolved


conservative andrew sullivan writes typical conservative opinion piece that falls in line with his party's political line

HN treats it like it is some sort of objective, academic study

some commenters even use this opinion piece to complain that the NYT runs opinion pieces


screenhero


It was such a well engineered piece of software. It worked so effortlessly and without any issues. It was so good that I had it installed on my family members’ laptops as well and used it instead of FaceTime for simple calls


Groupon just did a round of layoffs in engineering across the US offices


Mostly in Chicago, a few in Bay area. They just let the remaining LivingSocial staff in Feb.


This job listing seems low for the experience they want, the small-ish (I assume) pool of Lisp programmers and the fact their website states:

> We are home to over 1500 engineers, architects, chief architects and engineering managers who work on projects from Fortune 1000 clients.

Typo maybe?


From the job listing:

"we have more than 800 people working for us in over 50 countries"

They're not looking to hire a US developer for this job.



I'm getting hung-up on the word "need".


In what way? Either there is a need for variants, or there is no need for variants but it is perfectly okay to make them, or there is no need and it's not okay to make them.


If there is a need, then they should be made. If there is no need, then they can still be made (maybe even revealing a new need in the process).

I guess it seems like a non-issue to me.

Then again, applying my own reasoning:

There is no need to ask this question, but it's fine to ask it anyways.


These post titles are really good!

some of my favorite so far:

> Debunking Myths About Growth Hacking Goes Bad (infoq.com)

> First Firefox OS developer to come (businessmandi.com)

> Modern science and art go to jail? The law is dead in cinema (techcrunch.com)


Pussy Riot members jailed for posting photos to raise your hourly freelance rate (arabcrunch.com)

Hahahaha!


This is my new favourite!


This wins


> Truly elastic clouds with Zerg: OS-less Erlang on the cusp of becoming a permanent 3G connection to a billion dollars worth of online advertising


Mine are

> A Browser Package Manager Command Line Client Written in Lua

> TweetDeck taken offline after bug allows malicious code execution on Android - eBook

> True hacker resume: CV as Python objects to/from Amazon S3 price cut for all your OK Google searches predict market moves


My favorite is

> Show HN: nnmm – A feed of your print or paper books

Isn't this just a pile of books?


Think of all those poor, decommissioned teletypes we could put back into service. Then watch The Brave Little Toaster (while trying to ignore the truly-WTF moments). Then weep that this isn't a rely future.


> Facebook bug report on using TrueCrypt safetly (yana.com)

> You don’t need any HTML theme/template into your murder trial (ft.com)


> Google wins the Book Search settlement gives Google 15 days in orbit (bostonglobe.com)

Google wins 15 days in orbit! Whee!

The comments are pretty great, too.

> Hang in there, say "Pizza" and it certainly has a lot of leverage because they're frustrated. Worst case: Someone sees your duck and you've got a new revenue model was (otherwise it was something I loved it, and they LIVE here.

Just hang in there, say "pizza", and make sure no one sees your duck.


> Mercurial Ate Our Breakfast [with Revsets], But We Can Fix Internal Communication Before It Breaks (staralliance.com)

> Ask HN: Optimal number of sets with high IQ users?

> TweetDeck taken offline after bug allows malicious code execution on Android - eBook (spinejs.com)

> Docker Swarm on Raspberry Pi Units Available In GNOME 3 Released (spectrum.ieee.org)


> Google's Grand Plan to Split Sentences (2014) [pdf] (techcrunch.com)


A lot of these are indistinguishable from regular HN babble:

> Protesting with a python port of ZFS on Linux

> Ten Rules for Web 2.0 sites and URL obfuscation

> From 0 to 8-figure revenue in spite of flat UI design and email

> How can I get asked how I thought we were wrong.

And the most HN one I've seen so far:

> Entrepreneur crowdsources decision to quit Silicon Valley


>Watching the Growth Is Harder Than It Sounds

>Small Utah ISP firm stands up to the Faces of Facebook popularity, I quit.

>UI7Kit: Add one-line to enable AirPlay video for your startup on Product Hunt

lol.


My favorite: > Samsung vows counter-action over Apple Maps flaw results in anti-depressant-like behavior in mice


> AWS to AWS APIs without a helmet (daringfireball.net)

I just ..


One really stood out for me:

> A&E's 'Duck Dynasty' Stunt is a user is Steve Jobs’ Unfortunate Contribution to Computing


Some of the golden comments on this one:

> You're trying to solve bugs or problems. >> It's like chess, or gymnastics, or baseball, or anything, just that it vanished overnight. > I've also seen discussions of how your data structures without hunting down some raster graphics, I fire up Uber first. > Your love of Pete, don't just repeat it with your keystrokes. FWIW I had never thought those 30 servers would be classified as unlawful combatants, removing their legal protections then go for them.


> I had a different webbrowser, that IS more or less a visionary and more agile by being antimicrobial.


> Why I design software, I want to want to live in it > Show HN: Solving the problem of what you read the Web > Think Apple Would Dare To Be Upset About Aaron Swartz's life


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