skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're lucky enough to work close to a BART stop, you're going to save yourself about $1000/month.

Rent a room in a house close to any BART station. Berkeley is nice and cheap (it's all relative), as is the peninsula Redwood City and up, until you get to SF. The peninsula isn't actually connected to BART, it only runs south to Millbrae. You can, however, use Caltrain, which runs from san jose to sf, with BART connections in Millbrae.

The Bay Area's public transit is pretty bad, but if you're lucky enough to live and work near BART or Caltrain, you'll be fine and it'll actually work quite well.

Great tips for affordable, sane living:
-Use BART/Caltrain whenever possible
-Know Caltrains somewhat limited schedule (dont get stuck in Millbrae at 9pm)
-GO TO THE FARMER'S MARKET. The food is a bit more expensive, but is lightyears above local markets (Safeway, etc) in quality.
--The Bay is very close to one of the world's largest and best agricultural systems, and the only way to benefit from that relationship is the Farmer's Market. Safeway's food is nasty in comparison. Every town has a market at least once a week.
--And it's not just produce. They have a lot of local meats, eggs, and restaurant booths too. All sorts of great stuff. It is marginally more expensive, but just do yourself a favor and buy a tomato when they are in season and compare to Safeway. Yes, they are $1/lb more, but, it doesn't matter and you'll see why.
-Use Yelp to find good cheap restaurants. If you like ethnic food (asian, indian, etc) you'll eat for cheap and love every second of it. There is never, ever, a reason to eat at place like the Olive Garden or Chevy's. EVER. EVVVERRRR. Between the Farmer's Market and cheap foreign food, you'll eat food better than almost anywhere in the US.
Sort of. It used to be $0.10 per 1000 messages. Now it's $0.01 per 10000 requests. Just how much cheaper this turns out to be depends on your ratio of messages to requests.
Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture
as far as i can tell, yes
While it sucks that the transit systems are disconnected, it is still most definitely cheaper to take public transit than to drive.

To connect them all, use google transit. The bummer about Bay Area transit isn't the cost, it is inexpensive in relation to driving. The bummer is coverage. If you want to get somewhere in San Jose from Berkeley, it'll take you 3 hours, as opposed to 1.5 hours driving.

But yea, I don't own a car, and Google Transit has changed my life. It's soooo much easier to get around now!
I've made 6 of these.

Anyone else care to 'fess up?
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What a coincidence this article shows up. As of today, I've been researching why I should drop Rails in favor of Django (or any other Pythonic framework) for an upcoming project. Can anybody help shed some light on this for me?
general rule of thumb: any place in a foreign country where most speak English will be expensive.
I must admit that Ruby was the reason I started looking at Python as well as other web frameworks. I've ultimately decided on Python/Django as my start point.
From the comments: I guess he failed his saving throw.
Your poll is missing an option: this poll and the link are not really worthwhile.
Ask YC:  Are merit-based ads a good idea?  Appearance probability proportional to karma/score/etc.
I've added this feature to Numbrosia:

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=puzzle_p
At least some people here are interested in what is trolling, or not, and what should be allowed or encouraged here, or not.
I don't mean to be curt, but what's the point of this?
The 1 year US grace period on patents is something a lot of people don't realize. I was glad to see it mentioned. Once you release something ("commercialize") the clock starts ticking. If you don't file then your own work essentially become prior art to be used against you and you're legally obligated to disclose it in your filing.
I've been thinking you could make a cheap twitter clone rather easily.

Each active client that checks for short messages every 10 seconds will cost you about one cent per day if there are no messages.

If there are messages, it will cost you 18 cents per gigabyte. Assuming your messages average 128 bytes, every 500k or so messages will cost you another penny.

Of course, you'll probably need at least a few EC2 instances to move messages around between the queues. Not counting your development time, that would probably end up being the largest expense.
I reread what I wrote, and I guess it seems a little harsh. I didn't really mean it that way. What I mean is something along the lines of "it's obviously a troll, our attention wasn't needed to figure that out".
Americans living in the city don't need a car. They have health care (Check it: http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dma/basicmedelig.pdf if you make <$12000 per year, you're in Medicaid on top of Medicare. Furthermore emergency medicine is always free.) Their kids have a chance for a subsidized education (public school is always free, many colleges offer ridiculous amounts of aid as well as work opportunities to students from very poor families. I know mine was very good with this.)

(Not that I'm saying our medicare/medicaid/emergency system isn't somewhat broken. For example, many people who qualify have not filled out the necessary paperwork to join. The problem with lack of medical coverage, though, is much less with the indigent than it is with those just over the poverty line.)
Interesting idea. It's something fairly cheap to give people with whatever kind of points, and probably also makes sense in terms of habitual users being the ones most likely to have points and ignore ads.
Sorry, I meant to put a ;) after my !. Don't worry, most people aren't as [secretive | paranoid | aware] as I am.
So, what was the problem? The rock stars, the dinosaurs, the DIBOL technology, the .NET technology, the sales people, the customers, or the PHBs?

I've seen the exact same thing happen more times than I'd care to admit. In every case, my vote goes to the PHBs. Idiots.
Please, quote properly. Don't hack sentences in half without even an elipsis to denote that you're altering the context.

> So today it is the turn of the United States to hold this place [#1 economic power], but tommorow it might be China (who knows) and [you see that AND it means CARRYING ON] I don't think you'll appreciate what Chinese reporters have to say about your lifestyle [They have state controlled communist media, that was a blatent fault on your part not the authors] (like not living as an ants colony wich is prejudiciable to your economy)[< those braketed comments, they're the writers side remarks, saying simply communism = bad].

Now that that is out the way; no France was never the worlds #1 economic power in the world. It's a country that has been habitually invaded repeatedly and its only point of success in the Napoleon Era crippled its economy through conscription and a complete halt in technological advances.

> Err, no. He sounds like he's describing instances of school curricula which are neo-Marxist. Credible criticism, as far as I can tell.

You obviously agree with the articles author, but its patently poor writing. It's barely above tabloid journalism and merely written to inflame. It's poor, it's biased and it's written like utter capitalist garbage and not credible criticism. Simply put: It's the same shit I've heard for years about socialism, the only thing is that Europe is a bigger faster growing economy than the US. Uhh that means socialism WINS and capitalism LOSES, the market is the ultimate truth and that is capitalist doctrine #1.

EU 3% growth, US 2.2% growth.
EU $16.37 trillion GDP(OER), US $13.79 trillion GDP(OER)
US inflation is also .9% higher, which means the US GDP(OER) is going to get worse every year.

The US currently beats the EU on poverty line by about 3%, however the EU keeps bringing in countries with unemployment and poverty lines well above acceptable levels, and hey go figure the EU is still growing better than the US.

I'm sorry, but all 'evidence' of a benefit to capitalism is bull. It's already been proven that people in the US spend on average twice as much on health care as people in the UK(with the worlds largest nationalised health survice) and the poor in the UK are as healthy as the US' rich. That means there's a proportionally larger, healthier and more productive work force in the UK than the US.

So EU has the #1 economy in the world, it has several of the best health care systems in the world (competing for #1 between UK and Germany really) that are slowly spreading throughout Europe... and the US has what now? The #1 country for citizens behind bars?
I don't know if you're a writer, but it's the exact same thing as when you're writing an essay or blog post.

You have an idea, you start writing about it, and then as you write, more ideas that you hadn't originally thought of start flowing, and you write them down as they come. So in that sense, you don't know what you're going to write until you actually write it. The act of writing one thing triggers new thoughts and ideas, which you immediately write down, which triggers more ideas.

To me, that's the only fun kind of writing. It's the kind of writing I do to analyze or explain something to myself. The kind where I'm breaking new ground. Thus, exploring.

P.S. I think this is a perfect opportunity to inject a link to a blog post of mine "Programming Is Writing" http://plpatterns.blogspot.com/2007/09/programming-is-writin...
there's an open argument currently going on about what trolling is at c.l.l. where the S/N ratio is (just a little) greater:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thr...
I liked the comments and I'm glad they exist. How can that be trolling?
I would wonder what the hell was going and why they were messing around with font sizes and diffent shades of grey on my black and white print out.

Its a nice concept but in practice it does not work. Props for trying it out.
I upvoted "yes" but it didn't count
We used to use a picture of a monkey.

Worked great as well.
Even Yahoo seems somewhat schizophrenic these days. I don't know exactly how they got my contact info but I've been politely turning away an average of one recruiter from them a month for a few years now, recent layoffs notwithstanding.
That's what you get for helping others. ;-)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128746

Hope you get your votes back soon, I like your style.
Although I'm certain that Django lets you be agile, does it let you be more agile than with Rails (in terms of both team and solo development)?

Answers to that may change the game somewhat (both can be made to work, but which one lets you work better?)
I actually remember this user from Reddit - after having seen the "let's go shopping" thing a few times in comments I just had to see who it was. And even though it is an obvious troll I thought it was OK. I think it was funny as hell. As long as it doesn't spread.
Tim Bray on OOXML
wow that's really terrible. second on the leaderboard, and in trouble for being a negative influence on the site?

when your rules interfere with top users you have a problem.
While the comments might be individually amusing, the fact that they are a) sock-puppeting, and b) off topic degrades quality of the discussion overall.

I suppose it depends on your definition of trolling. I think the intent here is to be amusing, and I was under the impression that trolling is supposed to be malicious. I know pg had a recent essay about it, maybe it would give us a definition to go by. I haven't read it yet.
I'm currently working with TurboGears. I evaluated pylons, django and web.py a year ago and made my decision. Here is a summary of my opinions (note from a year ago).

pylons: didn't really like the lack of decorators, didn't seem to be an ORM of choice, docs looked weak although the wiki was well stocked with recipies

django: really well documented. Seemed to be HUGE and I felt intimidated by it. It wasn't clear to me I could strip it down to what I needed. Didn't seem very modular, you can only use the Django ORM and templating engine.

web.py: Far to simple for my needs, you need to build nearly everything from scratch, simple to learn because there is nothing there!

I chose Turbo Gears because it seemed easier to chose the components you want to use. The idea that the TurboGears community picks best of breed python components and integrated them really appealed to me. This is both good and bad but in general I think it's been good for the project.

A year later and I haven't been disappointed. The TG community is really friendly as well :) TG is working with the pylons team for the next version of TurboGears and I know there has been a lot of code sharing between the groups.

That's my 2p, good luck.
An interesting hypothesis, but the article is sadly lacking even the most minimal data necessary to validate the comparisons.
what about TurboGears? I like the idea of having a larger unifying framework based on smaller independent projects.

Btw, I should add that I'm asking from the perspective of somebody moving towards a Pythonic framework. I've spent the better part of today learning Python, and so far I love it!
This is not a great idea. There are many people out there googling your name, and they will think that you choose that avatar.
"Many venture capitalists say that they often rate the judgment of entrepreneurs by their choice of legal counsel."

Really?

Perhaps we should start rating the judgment of venture capitalists by the things they choose to emphasize.
I don't oppose "sock-puppetting". We should judge posts based on their content, not who we think wrote them. Sometimes it communicates better to post different perspectives under different names.

It seems to me that posting under multiple names, if you want, is a natural extension of anonymity and privacy.

(Note I do not "sock-puppet" here. I asked PG and he disapproves.)
Codepad.org, a pastebin that executes code
I get incensed when I see incenting used this way.
Are Routers the Next Big Target for Hackers?
iPhone software wishlist
I prefer Pylons. I've built all sorts of things with it:

* A RSS-rewriting, caching "proxy" for the News.YC feed

* A search engine for 2 gigs of email, going back to 1995

* A customized CMS-like app

* And now, my blog, which I'm almost done writing; I keep making changes to the architecture.

TurboGears 2, which some have recommended, is being built on top of Pylons.
CSS: The Definitive Guide (O' Reily)
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
I stopped using web.py after I had to correct Aaron when he recommended a 'session' implementation that had a massive gaping security hole.

http://groups.google.com/group/webpy/browse_thread/thread/2f...

If he couldn't spot that when he posted, I don't trust him to spot any other problems with web.py
You've ruled out all other Ruby options?
Jerks of the Web
The Legacy of the Self-Made Man
Not that I disagree that this is an example of good customer service. But even if they had sold you a 2-user license for $400, it could've wound up a wash for them if you called support for help setting it up. And given that they clearly considered both of your hosting options suboptimal, they probably saw that as a good possibility.
incenting is a word? i always thought it was incentivizing. in any case, both are ugly words.
gitsum - partial interactive commits from emacs
The wiki site was actually originally meant to provide space for many Python projects, not just Pylons, which is why ToscaWidgets is there, for instance.

Generally we roll our own authentication using the session object. It's just as good as AuthKit, and a whole lot simpler.

http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Authenticati...
I guess I should have been more specific in my comment, I was primarily addressing the commenters to your posts that kept arguing for why new lispers should be pointed to Eclipse/CUSP instead of Emacs.
Creative Play Makes for Kids in Control
Poll: Where in the world are you?
But I would like the monkey!
Does this mean RoR is a gateway drug?
North America
Adrian Holovaty: A Data Point on Every Block
Well if it uses MRI (although miniturised) should be pretty easy to detect/mess with strong magnetic fields around your head (a tin foil hat wouldn't do - but something ferrous may !).

Perhaps we should stop saying tin-foil hat and say "ferrous material hat" ;)
South America
Funny a couple times, really annoying after maybe the 5th time. (although I have to admit, they are well written).
hi how can i reach u?
Changing the rules to make saving the rainforest profitable
I would wonder why someone who is a claimed expert (fancy color, large text and all) in copywriting has an extra 't' in Adobe Audition. :)
I'm not asking for Karma, but isn't it a problem to have a thread that no one will see soon (because it's only on 2 points) which has 14 comments and 17 votes which people might find interesting?

A lot of comments in the thread have more points than the thread itself. Maybe for getting on the front page threads should count as their own score or the score of the highest comment they contain, whichever is higher?
I haven't seen anyone mention taxes in the equation, and if you're from a state with low state income tax and sales tax, that can really add up. Granted sales take may be already in people estimates prices, but income tax is progressive and gets as high as 9.3% past 43k of income.
Neat but non-technical HR reps who filter resume piles won't get it.

In general its best to write the resume to match the job description. Rather than listing all of your skills list only the skills that job requires plus a few extra closely related.

Listing too many skills can get your resume tossed because the resume reader will see a lot of Adobe products listed and think you're more of a graphic designer than a developer. Concentrate on what the job opening asked for.
I'm open to anything. Rails is still the framework of choice; I need a good reason to move to anything else.
Dodge sales tax by buying everything from Amazon.
Well, considering that these day's your VC's law firm probably also represents South American drug dealers and Eastern European arms dealers, not to mention many law firms are in a fit of M&A, so it doesn't really who you've been picking because they'll wind up integrated into some other firm, what is the point of judging somebody by their law firm?
Some people think it's not worth the trouble of learning Emacs, at least not while they're tasting Lisp. If more people had a positive experience while using Lisp, maybe more people would use it. When weighing the costs and benefits of using Lisp, I've never heard anyone say the benefit wasn't great, just that the cost was too high. Costs could include anything from lacking libraries, having to look for libraries, having to use Emacs, no standard implementation, etc. Some people might prefer Eclipse, who knows.

I think they made enough good points that my new policy will be to recommend Emacs, but mention Cusp as an alternative.
I highly recommend Pylons for Python web development. It's not a "how to build an app in 10 minutes" framework.

I don't see frameworks as tools that novices should use to build applications quickly. I see frameworks as tools that experienced developers can use to eliminate grunt work. I actually like Pylons for not doing too much and giving me choices every step of the way. I can use the bits I need and customize everything else.

But it depends on what you're looking for.
I've purposely made a lot of my real life information easy to get by anyone who actually knows me. If you knew the right url, you could have my address and phone in a second, which is exactly what I want. However, I generally avoid leaving anything around online that text technology alone could use to connect my comments back to me and I change my online identifiers every year or so. I'm sure someone who got access to all my personal DSL records for a few years could connect the dots but that doesn't worry me much.

Hmm.. this account is about 257 days old now. Thanks for reminding me to abandon it in about 3 months.
Well I don't think that karmabombing another user is a good idea, no matter whether the guy doing it is on the leaderboard or not. I perfectly understand the reasons though, and could easily have done it myself. I'm sure he'll get his voting rights back soon.
You forgot Antarctica. :-)
I think this a pretty manufactured example. Does anyone list their skills as an randomly ordered, unformatted wall of text?

All that precious formatting gets lost and the meaning changed if it's copied into a plaintext email (you're back to a randomly ordered list) or printed (color text becomes light gray).

And how does one maintain that cloud? If you get better at something you have to increase its type size, alter its color, and probably change others since items in the cloud are supposed to be sized relative to everything else.

Rather than use a hard to maintain format that you have to explain (is everyone familiar with cloudmaps?), just use words and say I'm not so good at this yet.

Like henning says, the solution is just some simple organization:

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
CSS
Javascript
Some experience with SQL

SOFTWARE
Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
Basecamp
Final Cut Studio

OPERATING SYSTEMS
Mac OS X and Linux
Some experience with Windows

Etc.
Antarctica
Added ;)
Well, they could have said;

"Sorry, you don't meet the minimum requirements";
403 response codes: good point. We now send 403s if there's an error. However, even then the response-text is sent encoded as

{ response: { status: "Error: ... " } }

Hope this works for you.

Regarding the POST/PUT for contacts, your use case is reasonable enough (and very good for us :) Also, the whole point of an API is to enable new use cases which we can't think of! We will open up modifications of tags / contacts / groups / etc. in our next update.
I suspect this poll will be negatively biased towards Europe since it is posted 23.00 GMT - just around when Europeans go to bed.

Oh well, now at least there's one point for Europe :-)
I wish we could manage to save things like this for reddit; this guy wasn't even tangentially involved in SEOing anyones websites and he hardly had any thoughts on improving click-through.
With netnewswire available for free (with a lot more features, I might add), this was only inevitable.

Now, if only DW will rethink his stance on xtorrent being shareware given that many other bittorrent clients are vastly better and also free (rtorrent, utorrent, azureus, transmission, ...). Maybe some people are into paying for shiny interfaces but I don't see how he can be that profitable selling things where there are better and free alternatives.

Plus, while he might be some UI genius, his customer support skills are unimaginably awful.
Nah. That would make too much sense. Plus it would take away the top brass's options to censor stuff that users like to talk about because they find interesting, but, say, top people running this don't want to talk about. Or have others talking about.

Like over the summer there was this guy called "Y@mada" who weaved a boring tale of caution and tempering PGs unabashed optimism with some feet on the ground practicality as the economy was going to crash in a major way any second now. Obviously he was wrong because everything is smooth sailing, but PG didn't like this pessimistic world view so despite forums with like, 50-60-70+ posts, eventually the posts would just be deleted / marked "dead", etc.

But try something else. Put up a post like, "Ask YC: Do you sleep on your stomach or on your back, and which do you think is better for an aspiring programmer" and I GUARANTEE YOU that post will be up forever, sparking countless debate.
It's not really a word, but it basically is. Just like irregardless.

Language moves on, no matter how much it annoys us.
lol, i don't think that was the reason, because the gay men would have been smiling too.