skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have an alternative link to a Hacker News RSS feed that works correctly?
This one seems to be generating URLs incorrectly when referencing this site (for example, the comments link shows up as http://news.ycombinator.comitem/?id=102876). Just one that has the comments issue fixed would be fine.
"sometimes you have to waste time to save time" -Joe, RescueTime
The concept of happiness at work is alien to most American workplaces.
That's what keeps sites like this so busy.
Hello Scientology. We are Anonymous. [video]
someone recently said wars create wealth. i think the statistic of 40,000 allied planes destroyed in WWII, while the present day commercial fleet is only 15,000 planes, is a pretty good refutation. it gives a sense of the scale of how much was destroyed.
Interview with the founders of 23andMe
Regarding housing... Daly City is foggy and very multicultural, South San Francisco has easy access to Bart Stations, family neighborhoods, sunshine, here's a link to the area... keep around Chestnut / follow Grand Ave..small little main street town. http://tinyurl.com/2l6oww
While this is great for free speech etc, how can something that is out of legal jurisdictions be defended? What if RIAA decides to point a high power laser at it?
I think the potential for growth is still huge.

Apple laptops are nowhere near saturated. The downsides of owning a non pc have greatly been reduced if not eliminated lately. I think apple laptops could really take off.

The iphone is also nowhere near saturated. Many people are waiting for the next release or waiting until their current contracts are over to get one.

Also, the apple tv if done right, especially with the movie rental service could become the next ipod.
Yeah, it's terrible. I started an app in Ruby last year, had to switch to Erlang, and now Scala...
Where are you going to be working? If you are working in or near san francisco, berkeley is fine. If you are working in the valley, the commute is going to suck.
wunderground.com, cnn.com, engadget, consumerist, and TechCrunch?

Just curious how many other people visit the same sites I do.
You might check out cilk:
http://www.cilk.com
Mostly silly Java things like classpath issues. Also, to get importPackage() you need to do:

Scriptable scope = new ImporterTopLevel(context);

instead of:

Scriptable scope = context.initStandardObjects();

But now I'm having problems getting John Resig's env.js (a browser environment emulator) working because it uses getters and setters, which are new to Rhino 1.6R7. I thought I was using the latest version (it's the one in both JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/js.jar and TOMCAT_HOME/shared/lib/js.jar)
The RIAA has high powered lasers? I somehow doubt that line item would be approved by the member companies.
If there is some interest in this and it doesn't violate any agreements, I'm sure writing a quick lookup app would be incredibly easy :)

I just installed it today finally, I am interested to see how many hours a day I actually am writing code.
If an attacker requesting hundred of these image can bring the system to it's knees, it's a denial of service attack.
Of all those, Palo Alto is my favorite. But like you said, it's pretty expensive in the downtown area.

Oakland always feels dirty to me, and most of Berkeley isn't that great, either.
The problem with the lower, middle, upper hierarchy is that it doesn't correspond to anything meaningful about one's lifestyle, or at least hasn't since it still meant serf, merchant, and nobility. How about a more meaningful set of labels?

Welfare class: Those unwilling or unable to sustain themselves without government or family (other than spouse) support.

Working class: Those dependent on employment to maintain their chosen standard of living.

Independent class: Those able to earn their income directly in order to achieve their chosen standard of living. Freelance consultants, entrepreneurs, etc.

Investment class: Those who can achieve their chosen standard of living entirely from investment income.
I think what you outline is the steps that would maximize one's chances of continuing to be in the situation that you're in. Your actual "success" would depend on how fast you get out of this situation. It seems in general it would be really heavy on one to deal with all three at at time and would prevent him from focusing on any of them.
In San Francisco, the Sunset and Richmond districts might suit you. They're (relatively) affordable, popular with middle-class families, and a nice blend of residential and commercial.
I second Berkeley - Quick access to Bart from the Telegraph / Ashby areas - The neighborhoods can change rather quickly from block to block though - I recommend somewhere near the gourmet ghetto
I am 28, married, and live in the Park Merced complex in the south-west corner of SF. It is about as suburbs as you get in SF, but also is right next to SF State so there is a young vibe if you want. I pay ~1300 for a 1br, parking included, lots of street parking too...walking distance to Muni and the mall, lots of green space around.

The schools in SF Unified are terrible. Your best best for public school is to send your kid to Chinatown--they will be in with the academically oriented Chinese crowd, and as a bonus learn Mandarin. Sounds weird but lots of people do it. Then for high school you send your kid to Lowell, a top public school, or maybe Washington, or else you go private.
A statistically significant portion would. If nothing else, it changes the perceived value that a given career has to know that it's what your parents aspire to.
As far as I am concerned, there is no middle class anymore. It left when America stopped manufacturing. There are three official classes now, with as many subdivisions as you want.

Working class -- People who don't have an education and have to work shitty jobs.

Professional class -- People with college degrees, especially professional degrees demanded by the market.

Ruling class -- the elite, media owning class.

I prefer to call these classes lower, upper, and uber-capitalist, respectively.
What does this mean for future web-based (e.g. gmail) versions of Xobni?
I see a trend that indicates flattening of revenue + growth

Net Sales | Profit

1996 $ 9.8B | -$0.8B

1997 $ 7.1B | -$1.0B

1998 $ 5.9B | $0.31B

1999 $ 6.1B | $0.60B

2000 $ 8.0B | $0.79B

2001 $ 5.4B | -$0.03B

2002 $ 5.7B | $0.07B

2003 $ 6.2B | $0.06B

2004 $ 8.3B | $0.27B

2005 $13.9B | $1.33B

2006 $19.3B | $1.99B

2007 $24.0B | $3.50B

*Data from SEC database:
Magazines-- there's a business looking for a reboot. (That said, my wife works at a major magazine, so not too soon, please!)
You are taking my example rather literally :-) My original question stands: How do you defend something that is not protected by governments?
Sunset is good, you just have to get a place next to Muni so you can get around without having to drive all the time.
A 'hacker' could request the same image hundreds of time right now even with this layer of obscurity!

They are two separate issues.
Would love to see more samples.. See my userinfo for what I'm working on...
It really depends on how much money you have. The Burlingame, San Carlos, San Mateo corridor is nice; consider renting (in this market, at least). Access to the stores you're talking about but about 15-20 mins from The City and with enough culture to tide you over. Within reach of 280, which is a better way to go south than 101.

A few other FYI tips, just for fun:

- people up here don't use 'the' in front of freeway names the way you do in LA. It's not "the 101", it's just "101". No harm in using "the" but you'll tag yourself as an ex-LA guy immediately.

- it's pronounced "sanno-ZAY", despite the proper spanish pronunciation.

- you say "Santa Cruz" the way you say "Santa Claus". Emphasis on the Santa.

- "Concord" rhymes with "conquered", rather than "con-CHORD".

- If you don't want to sound like a newb, don't call San Francisco "Frisco" or "San Fran". Locals routinely call it "The City", or sometimes "SF". No one will think you're talking about San Jose or Oakland.

It's more outdoorsy up here (despite LA's surfing/skating reputation). Marin and the East Bay (hey, that's Pig Latin for "beast"!) have huge regional parks. Mountain biking was invented here (in Marin, north of the GG bridge). So was cafe culture (in SF).

Go to Pier 39 once. Locals don't go there. (Hell, I've never been to Alcatraz, and I've lived in NorCal my whole life.) Cool, insider neighborhoods in The City are Potrero Hill, Noe Valley, Cole Valley, among others. SOMA is still dicey, however hip its reputation.
Well, it depends on how much individual work the site takes. If you can get it to go on auto-pilot then keep it around. You might consider finding ways to put it closer to auto-pilot and work on something else.
Two words: buying opportunity.
Great analyst quote:

"The company is lowballing the Street on the March quarter, but this is not a good environment to lowball the market"

...given how pretty much the whole sector is taking a dive today on recession fears.
When is Usability More Important than Search Engine Optimization?
Oh, blogga PLEASE. AAPL is no more due a correction than most of the rest of the market. Less, I'd say, considering the company's stellar performance.
Replace Prototype with JQuery on Rails
wunderground.com 2.4 days,
cnn.com 35.4 days,
engadget.com 34 days,
consumerist.com 9.5 days,
techcrunch.com 37.8 days
This looks suspiciously like an outbreak of common sense amongst the record labels: royalty payments directly to the artists? Free full-length playback of sample tracks, with opt-in for unlimited numbers of plays? Tight integration with iTunes and other music players to track real-time listener data?

On the other hand, this could only come about after the labels had basically neutered independent Internet radio streams with their insane royalty structures. Funneling everything through Last.fm gives them a single entity with whom they can negotiate and from whom they can extort^M^M^M^M^M^M collect payment.
I denote classes (in South Florida) by household income as follows:

Lower <80k

Middle > 80k but < 225k

Upper > 225k
Why reddit took so long to provide user subreddits.
My guess is that these user subreddits are a threat to the main reddit. If they were provided too early, then there would have been a danger of significant traffic loss overall.
What's the State of Automated Software Development?
On the surface, it seems that automated software development is a difficult, but solvable problem. What I mean specifically is that you have a bunch of inputs and data, the desired or associated outputs, and then formulate a black box with predictive capabilities using new inputs.

So for instance, if you feed the program a bunch of stock market information (quotes, news, P/E, etc), it can create algorithms and software for creating a stock portfolio that can give a return of i% in 6 months, and a 95% confidence interval of +-5%.

Is something like this possible?
Are there impossible problems in developing such software?
Are there research institutions or private corporations that already have similar technologies/programs?
I used feedity.com, inserted news.ycombinator.com and edited it to only display titles. This can probably be done with any RSS feed generator.
http://www.feedity.com/?xccH2xIG%252bIhCywXfu149J8ltp3V3aMhk...
Will the Listeners Become Buyers?
LOL! Agreed. In fact I was just having a conversation 20 min ago with a colleague about making work fun. I am from cubicle land, and wonder what is with the battleship gray cubicles. Why can't there be more color, more light? A little goes a long way. Just looking at endless cubicles, one after the other makes me depressed.

Even the internal applications that are developed by most orgs are depressing. The focus is on the "business" end, but if you ask me, it takes a little more effort to make any application pleasing to the eyes. I am not asking for a usability team ala Apple to kick in and tell us what makes a nice, easy to use application, just think of how you would respond to it. Most people go home and see sites like Gmail or Yahoo Maps, and wonder, why can't we have apps like these at work?

And don't get me started on the dress code...
Quite simply, you can't. You only get the benefits of no law and government alongside the downsides of no infrastructure and protection.

I guess with your laser example other satellite owners, including governments would be peeved due to the debris. This would likely lead to stricter rules about space being drawn up.
I've never done acid, but the more I look at these, the more I think that the entire story is bullshit.
That's a joke, right?
Please.

I bought appl shares at $130 just 6 months ago. 6 months of gain is lost, not 3 years.
Conformity is important for company cohesiveness. It's part of the DNA. It's just that most companies have boring DNA. A minority, some companies like startups have a more radical DNA. When a boring company buys a startup-type interesting company, usually the DNA gets a little mixed (maybe color cubes, even).
Are you familiar with undecidability?
Web App For Creating Cartoons
"Banking industry" is an insult to those who actually produce goods. Banks should be known as "facilitators", when doing their job properly, and all sorts of bad words when they don't -which is frequently, unfortunately.
Thanks. I don't know Java. So will using Rhino require me to learn at least some?
That wasn't the reason. The real problem was that they weren't sure how user-defined subreddits should work. Steve Huffman is the kind of guy who won't do something till he's pretty sure he's figured out how to do it properly.
I recently moved to Silicon Valley from Los Angeles after living there for 5 years for college + grad school. The thing that frustrated me most was that even though I lived in the heart of downtown LA, the nightlife was pretty pathetic. So I know what you mean.

I also grew up right between the Emeryville/Berkeley/Oakland area and the Walnut Creek area... Orinda. We sometimes called it Borinda. I suppose it's a nice place to raise a family, and they have excellent public schools, but if you "hate when place is going sleep at 9pm" don't live there.

Emeryville and Walnut Creek are probably somewhat better. Both are about an hour from Silicon Valley (Walnut Creek is not any further) and an hour from SF.

And yeah, ff you're going to live in Silicon Valley I'd go for Palo Alto or Mountain View... that seems to be where all the young people are.

The one place in the Bay Area I haven't lived in is SF, which I think would be awesome, but pretty expensive.
I would hardly consider someone who drives a Lexus as upper class.

Porsche, BMW, Mercedes.
The world economy is in the toilet but here is a button that takes you to random websites
My girlfriend works 90+ hour weeks in the hospital, when she's limited by law to 80 per week.

I don't get to complain.
Hey Mr. DJ: A Wi-Fi Playlist Tailored to You
KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support
Nerdiness
No. The expensive part is dynamically generating the image. Once the image is generated it is cached and served up statically like any other plain html or image file.
Two Thoughts on Computer Science Courses
In the original sense of the term, nearly all of us are in the middle class: town-dwelling people who can choose where they work. The alternatives were the ruling class and the peasant class they held in thrall.
Can Sun make MySQL pay?
Add link to YC comments in RSS feed, right now RSS entry contains just a single link.
No... but I can imagine them shutting down the earthside receiving station...
Yeah it helps to know a little Java to get it up and running, but you just need a little glue to get Rhino talking to the servlet and vice versa.

Plus if you want to use the Java libraries from JavaScript you at least need to be familiar with the APIs (or know how to look them up in the javadocs)

Take a look at Helma if you don't want to deal with all that, it uses Rhino: http://helma.org/
Lower Class = bottom 20% of incomes

Middle Class = 20%ile-80%ile of incomes

Upper Class = top 20% of incomes

Rich = top 5% of incomes

All the terms are inherently relative to each other. Of course the actual (rather meaningless) values of those incomes varies with location and time. Lower class Americans transported to India or even back to 1930s America start to look very much like Upper class.
which one is Sergey Brin wife?
Maybe. I'm not really sure about that one.
That was my thought.
I thought that too re: laptops until I bought an Apple. The major downside of owning one is the price, and that's the worst downside you can have. There is also the support (I'm sure I'll blog about our company's experiences with that eventually) and the fact that virtualization is expensive (requires windows + parallels) and still imperfect.

iPhone isn't saturated, but I'm still bearish on that. And extremely on the TV. Cable VOD has a box in everyone's home already.
rescuetime.com ?

This REALLY needs to be indexed by the number of users who have touched those sites. Scatter plot time!
Their P/E ratio, after the drop, is near 30. You have to grow far above industry rates to justify that.

The drop may be caused partially by irrational behavior, but in poker we say that even the blind squirrel finds an acorn eventually. In this case, irrational behavior partially corrected opposing irrational behavior.
Hope to see you here tomorrow Fred. Maybe you'll give us a talk some time?
Your list is in terms of overall expense, but people will splurge more on entertainment than the rest. There are plenty of poor people with 42" LCD TVs.
I love what happens when anyone presents any sort of anti-Apple sentiment mentality here. The herd stampedes.
Yes, there are impossible problems in developing such software. Fully specifying what a program needs to do is no less complicated than writing the program.
I agree with you entirely. a is a small factor, b is a huge one, and c (image) is another. Many people don't want to be seen in a WalMart. It's silly, I admit, but it's most definitely true, and the way Target has taken advantage of those is perhaps the greatest untold story in the history of capitalism.
<80k household income as lower class? That's insane. Maybe in the upscale districts of the biggest cities, but everywhere else 60k/year is solidly middle class. In the rural areas of Florida, 60k/year might even be considered Upper Class.
I tend to think in terms of EV. Your hours would probably be better spent working at Wal-Mart. And there are much better ways to attack the problem, such as saving enough to not have to work, then starting up.
Nothing worse than people who drive for a few feets.
I moved away from LA 3-4 years ago to Silicon Valley, with a horrid little stint in Fresno that I really rather not talk about.

We chose San Jose to live in, just because it was cheaper than most places further up the peninsula. We live in a villag-y part of San Jose, but that' on purpose. I've done the "big city" thing after living in Chicago for 7 years, but I'm all done with that. We go up to the City from time to time, just to remember what it was like--the smell of urine and vomit on public transportation, the fear... Yeah. I'm all done with that. But then, I'm married now and in my 30's. YMMV.

In the South Bay cities: Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Jose. Crime is usually higher north of the 101, and goes down the further south and west (towards the mountains) you get. But then again, it's Silicon Valley. Crime really isn't that big of an issue unless you're in East San Jose, Oakland or East Palo Alto. There really isn't an area like South Central up here, so I wouldn't worry about it that much. It generally feels a lot safer than So. Cal up here.

Regarding your question: Most cities on the Peninsula are village like, and most of them close down around 9pm. It's a commuter town, and pretty much everybody works 9-5. But, each one usually has a downtown area that gets some foot traffic, but not much. Rents are usually highest in Palo Alto and San Fran, and go down the further away you get from those areas. The cities that have colleges tend to stay open later than the other one's so your options for late night eateries are a bit better there. Those cities are: Palo Alto, San Fran, Berkeley and (downtown) San Jose.

Palo Alto has been getting quite a bit more expensive from what I hear because Facebook is there and is subsidizing rent for people who live close and walk to work. So, the "hip" part of Palo Alto is pretty pricey.

I actually like downtown San Jose, and even though it's less sexy than San Fransisco, it's got a lot going for it. It has a bar scene that stays open late. A couple of tall buildings, so you feel like you're in a downtown. It's rather multi-cult-y so that's nice. And, there's a large condo building or two downtown, so you're seeing a bit more foot traffic after hours. And, there's a couple of neighborhoods around down-town that have some beautiful old craftsman homes that can be rented for pretty reasonable considering the area. San Jose has the light rail, which is surprisingly convenient. You can carry a bike on the light rail, so that helps make up for the lack of coverage. It's not like the public transportation that I was used to in Chicago, but it's actually passable.

Over all, I love the Bay Area. I really think that you'll be happier here; it's really all about the people. They just seem genuinely happier here than they were in LA. So... welcome to the Bay Area.
It's interesting how much more captivating this is compared to anything NASA is doing currently. The rovers are cool, the fly-bys neat, hubble upgrades, etc. But this (and similar ventures) put real, albeit rich and crazy, people into space and that's so... cool. It's tangible.
Just to follow up, from this document: http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr151.pdf in Table 1 on Page 3

Lower Class = Under $23,700/yr

Middle Class = $23,700 to $99,502/yr

Upper Class = Above $99,502/yr

This is a national average in America. Obviously places like the bay area and the Mississippi delta are going to vary a lot.

For another look at it, check out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

(Note that my guess at rich being the top 5% means $157,176/yr and up according to that wiki article.)
If you're looking in the Valley, you're going to have to go to Palo Alto or Mountain View by Castro Street, where there are some nice apartments
http://www.prometheusreg.com/residential/ppl/pplDesc.html
though I can't remember what the rent was. I want to say it was $2kish for a 2br, but it's been a while so I could be wrong.

Walnut Creek is nice (was just looking at houses there this past weekend) but very suburban.
"But it looks like underpromise/overdeliver has bitten the stock.

Time to buy!"

--Not really. It just sound that the market is saying: "in time a recession, people have hard time to justify spending 1,700 in a useless laptop, or more money on expensive stuff." Since apple represents the medium and higher end spectrum on personal computers, people will be much much more price sensitive to pricing.

The cheapest usable windows laptop, about $400. The cheapest Mac, about $800, making it almost a luxury good. In hard times, it is the luxury stocks that gett the beatings. Apple will have to either sell less laptops and gadgets (fewer people will be able to afford or justify the extra $$), or drop the prices (and margins) to the current products.
Startup Strategy: How Mature Is Your SaaS Architecture?
It's $1000 dollars for a kit? Seriously?

Wow. Up until that it looked kinda interesting.
I dont live there, but I was just there and Burlingame/Millbrae seems good.
The Truman Show: NYC Startup Edition
At least virtually.
I suppose there is another side of the coin where people work a lot and then you want to complain they work too much too :)