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I'm curious to see if there will be changes. You can't rewrite a privacy policy in 7 days.

I actually appreciate that the journalists in the Times can call out other parts of the Times (this was a part of their Public Editor) but it doesn't mean that some journalist (or the entire newsroom) can change what the legal, ad or executive team think/do.

And that's not a bad thing. Because if they could, it can go the other way too and that's really bad.

Just a nit - calling the NYT a "regional publication" is like calling Google a "california search engine." It's one of the largest global news organizations in the world with active newsrooms in NYC, London, Hong Kong and Paris. It has 6 news bureaus in the NY area, 14 news bureaus in the US outside of the NY area and 23 international news bureaus employing over 1300 news staff. (For reference the BBC has 50, CNN has 32 and the Times' has 46). Its California coverage is as robust as the LATimes and more robust than the SF Chronicle.

Of course, when you have multiple full newsrooms, you care about location capabilities. I get a customized California feed (California Today) when I go to it.

I think one of the frustrating things about this comment and the thread is this article is about Google's privacy policy specifically and how it reflects the change in Internet businesses. It's not a generic privacy policy article.

The Times DID publish a generic privacy policy article a week ago and it did call itself out as one of the worst ones [1].

It wasn't an explicit "at the Times we do this", but there's an infographic/chart in the article that places the NYT in a pretty damning spot[2]. They also called out a rival news organization (the BBC) which does a great job relatively speaking.

I think the Times has a huge point here in general and I find this article's narrative compelling and well done. Instead of making it about "why didn't we make this about themselves" I would rather focus on what it's trying to say. (Also, Google is probably the trailblazer here with this stuff and sets the tone/trend).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/12/opinion/faceb...

[2] https://imgur.com/Ct3YHiU

To be fair, the New York Times' privacy policy actually is represented as one of those dots in the image (and it's not in a particularly good spot ... it's pretty close to the top):

https://imgur.com/a/wTHkk4O

Except good luck building a cell phone without android or various chipsets from Qualcomm, etc...

I find it so interesting that whenever there is a HN post about VS Code nobody mentions Atom but it's guaranteed that the top post for any Atom HN post references how Microsoft own s both.

It really shows how far VS Code has come in terms of developer mindshare.

NYS != NYC.

I imagine it's hard to get a 100 person business to move to Syracuse or Rochester nowadays.

Is this process for new college grads or senior engineers? I can't imagine principals go through this process, do they?

The components referenced in that quote are literally from the 1940s. We're talking vacuum tubes.

Comparing 80 year old parts to a project that is barely two years is not really fair.

That's not true. The L line is by far the most advanced line in the system because of the reasons you said. When I lived in Williamsburg, I remember coping with weekend shutdowns all the time for upgrades.

But the L now is (I believe) only one of 2 lines with modern signaling and CBTC (computer based train control), it was the first to have countdown clocks, and it runs with the least gap time (headway spacing) of any trains in the system.

That being said, it still is extremely overcrowded because of waterfront highrise development and the general shift to Brooklyn. This is why you're starting to see conversations about extending platforms (which for the underground stations is incredibly expensive).

And yes, I'm aware of the Sandy tunnel remediation work shutting it down for a year or so.

Still, the L is already upgraded (so is the 7 which also doesn't share much track). It's getting CBTC on the other lines with modern signaling that will be the hard jobs because of shared track.

I don't understand what you mean there. I think you underestimate the administrative costs alone of the US' hodgepodge system (an entire floor at UCSF is devoted to insurance processing, how many floors does UBC have for billing?)

The US health care system even for the middle class is a disaster. Deductibles are often nearly 8k or higher alone! And nearly ALL plans have "networks" so you can't go to whatever doctor you want anyway. (One of my canadian friends doesnt even know what a deductible is!)

You realize there are nearly as many Americans without any insurance as there are people in Canada (27M vs 34M)? And this was AFTER the ACA expansion.

I get trying to post an alternative view, but it's so out of wack. Have you experienced the US health care system for an extended period of time personally? It sounds like you haven't.

I remember these arguments made when Jerry Brown first proposed the newer upper income tax bands in 2009.

Considering, for a very long time, California's taxes have been the highest in the country (to be fair, definitely not "much much higher" than NYC,) last I checked it was adding jobs at a higher percentage rate than any other state.

Do you really think there's been an entrepreneur exodus from the Bay Area and LA since 2009?

How many Americans do you think get to go and get their cancer treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering?

The US private health care system doesn't mean everyone who gets cancer goes to MD Anderson. And, you'd still be very hard pressed to have many private insurance plans cover truly experimental treatments. If I had to choose who gets advanced treatments between those who can pay the most vs those who need it the most I'd go with the latter.

It's funny, many of my Canadian friends talk about the "you can't get the best treatment in the world" problem with their system which, to me, shows how they really don't understand the dire nature of US health care. Wait a year for a surgery? Millions of Americans can only go to emergency rooms.

Really? Most of the graphic designers I know are, at best, not deeply offended by the touch bar. I can't say a single one I've talked to was excited about it.

You know what all my graphic designer friends are losing their shit over? The new Microsoft Surface Studio.

The excitement my visual artist and graphic artist friends have for the Studio and Dial should terrify Apple. But Apple seems to have forgotten who their influencers are.

With their new focus on California (like their daily "California Today" section), the Times seems to be doing a better job covering California news than either the LATimes or the Chronicle.

As opposed to now where presidential elections are decided by three-four fairly unimportant states?

But you literally discounted his post about NPM because of his other posts and what he has in his bio.

The other stuff might annoy you, but it doesn't take away from the fact that he is a thought leader on NPM. When he says something about NPM desktop usage, it is probably worth listening to, even if he happens to put his preferred pronoun in his bio.

You can have other opinions and still be a thought leader in tech. The HN cliche I was referring to is: All that matters is the code, all we should care or talk about is compilers and startups, and we should ignore anything else involving society (but at the same time preach about "DISRUPTING EVERYTHING.")

That's what you did. Hence, cliche.

Congrats on the cliche HN post. Stopped caring about what you said after reading your post.

He also runs NPM, btw.

Pretty much nothing in Mountain View goes for "asking price". I strongly bet that place will go for near $1M. The Zestimate (http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1945-Mount-Vernon-Ct-APT-1...) is $800k, and zillow estimates for that area are notoriously low.

Yes... China is about as unregulated w.r.t. to industry as you can get. Have you ever seen the air quality in Beijing? Do you remember the air quality in LA in the 80s before stricter CARB standards? (Or are you too young to?)

I'm confused by the time frame of the 4.1B.

Does it mean this year's operating cost assuming Uber's current state of operation (number of drivers, etc)? Does it assume backpay for drivers who are being reclassified?

I didn't notice how old this article was until I saw the mention of KrakenJS being open sourced soon.

It's been open sourced for awhile (http://krakenjs.com/) and is a nice way to get some conventions when you are working across teams on a nodejs project.

From the article: "But even a significant drop in residential water use will not move the consumption needle nearly as much as even a small reduction by farmers. Of all the surface water consumed in the state, roughly 80 percent is earmarked for the agricultural sector."

This looks great! The Chrome plug-in is much nicer/more modern and the autofill is very nice.

Only thing I noticed so far (and its a bit of a 'nit') is that the icons are not retina/high-res so they look really pixelated on my Macbook Pro Retina...

Why do you say the Volt is a piece of crap? You ever drove in one? I actually really enjoyed it when I had one on loan for three days.

Oh, it's even better than that. If you look at the cloudemailapp source code, the client testimonials list from the mailgun source is there, just commented out:

Line 188:

  <!--<h2>
  Customers 
    <a href="customers/index.html" class="btn">case studies</a>
  </h2>

  <div class="paper customers">
    <div class="stage1">
      <img src="static/img/logos/yc.png" alt="YC" />
      <img src="static/img/logos/uservoice.png" alt="Uservoice" />
      <img src="static/img/logos/colourlovers.png" alt="Colorlovers" />
      <img src="static/img/logos/ft.png" alt="FT" />
      <img src="static/img/logos/everyblock.png" alt="everyblock" />
    </div>
  </div>-->

They also are using the exact same generated Optimizely JS file on line 9.

What's really shocking is this doesn't seem like just a copy of the site -- it's like a copy of the entire product, which is really amazing. I have to wonder if it even works...

Every company i've ever worked is usually "extra busy" after a long weekend because they're catching up with email/calls/etc that have gathered during it (and also support issues, etc.)

Coming into work right after a few days off and having this thrown on your plate with no notice just adds to this. (But ultimately, it's really about the complete lack of notice more than anything else.)

Classy move - especially w.r.t it being a long weekend in the US.

Honestly, I don't know so I'm going to speculate based on experiences. I think it's a generational thing. The younger generations seem to want density, to be around things, to not own a car. I think growing up in large suburban homes, there's been a genuine desire by younger people to move to cities and away from that lifestyle.

You can see this happen in many ways aside from city's becoming safer: Real estate cost increases in cities, The whole bike-movement is an element of it, NYU getting 44k applications, the growth of the Brooklyn "brand".

I think, generally, there's a real desire for an urban community with culture and shared experiences. I know I don't have anything more 'concrete' to back this up, but this is the general sentiment of my friends (in their late 20s to early 30s.)

You have to understand that nearly all cities were shitholes in 1989 until the Urban Revitalization of the late 90s. This wasn't an SF specific thing. NYC, for example, had over 1200 murders in 1992 (!!!) compared to last year's 414.

SF's revitalization has more to do with that than with "tech" jobs. I know in the Hacker News echo-chamber its hard to think there's anything but Internet Tech in SF but it's got ALOT more business than that -- It's the largest banking center on the west coast, got a massive bio-tech footprint, has some major apparel companies (Levi and Gap and a bunch of smaller ones), etc, etc. It's pretty diversified.