skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This suggests the potential demand for a high-quality English-to-Chinese-English plugin for Twitter? If only it were possible to effectively build 3rd party Twitter clients anymore.
It demonstrates a lack of concern/acknowledgement of the diversity of its user base. Especially if they are going to be promoting this on the front page of their website and in my dashboard upon login, which presents me with the broadcast:

"GitHub Desktop is now available
The new GitHub Desktop is now available"

And then I click on it to install it, I feel marginalized and hence a little insulted, when discovering I can't.

In this day, there are a great variety of cross-platform gui toolkits (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_G...), that could have been used. It is embarrassing for such a large organisation with all sorts of users using all sorts of machines to not release cross-platform tools. It if was just someone's personal project, or if it was a company's specialized toolkit for their specific customer base, the lack of cross-platform tools is excusable.
if it is so smaller inside the big case, why not pack twice the caps and have double the running time/service life?
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One thing that this article kind of glosses over is that there are a ton of different form factors for the ESP8266 (ESP-01 is the original, also the ESP-03, -07 and -12 are common).

Most of them are rather inconvenient to work with directly though, not least because they aren't breadboard friendly. There are a bunch of breakouts made though that help this and integrate a voltage regulator, power jack, pin breakouts etc. The NodeMCU dev board mentioned is one- Adafruit, Olimex, Sparkfun and RaysHobby also make them and they are much easier to use for hobby projects. I've had to use an ESP-12 directly for a project before due to space constraints and it was a hassle.
What about reverse search? I want to find a work close to home. :)
Hunters Point (part of Bayview) is also a superfund site. That might be a bit of a turnoff as well...
Here's as close to an official response that I've seen publicly: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-GitHub-for-Mac-not-open-sourced/...
fwiw, Wikipedia says
"The lifetime of supercapacitors depends mainly on the capacitor temperature and the voltage applied." [ 1 ]

This picture shows a 10x decrease in life when the temp varies from 25C to 65C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EDLC-Life_time_curves.png

[ 1 ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor

EDIT: I'm not trying to inject bad feelings here or contradict Ohm. I'm just clarifying the effect of temperature on supercap life. There is some effect on cap lifetime at high temps. I hope the product succeeds. I know sailors have using lithium batteries for a while now, but as mentioned elsewhere, they are shockingly expensive (like $6k).
Battery relocation to the trunk is a standard mod for the gen3 rx-7, assuming you're speaking of that one.
I'd also be curious about how often you see obfuscated application code in either app store.
> [Philips Hue Bulb] A $50 light bulb that requires a $60 base station, proving my point entirely

I'm not sure what this has to do with the article. Philips Hue uses ZigBee Light Link, not WiFi, and I'm pretty sure the steep price tag has nothing to do with hardware costs.

As for WiFi, it is exciting to see hardware like ESP8266 open up previously cost-prohibitive possibilities for hackers. My biggest complaint about using WiFi for IoT-related projects is the fact that every marketable WiFi-enabled device has it's own (often cumbersome) association/inclusion process. Perhaps that's a feature - enabling more options for wireless network security, but when it comes to user experience, the standard bluetooth pairing process makes WiFi association feel like pulling teeth for the average consumer. Maybe we just need a good WPS replacement.
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
While the data is from the Bay Area I find it's correct for my situation working in SoCal for a startup. It is at least a decent gauge to see if you are way below or above the salary ranges. Unfortunately, it won't help someone in a rural area.
We're focused on applying our engine to solve problems in the app stores, so no plans to make it a standalone software product.

Yes, we track JNI links from Java -> native. Yes, we do data flow analysis as well, but it's targeted via control flow analysis.

In other words, first we identify a code path of interest and then target the data values/types that appear on that path. This way we're not wasting time analyzing data that is unimportant.

We're not a static code analyzer, we're a service for helping developers improve mobile apps. We'll never tell you "Here are 8488 potential integer overflows to investigate." Instead, we've pre-processed the issues to give targeted recommendations that any dev can understand. Quality over volume, in other words.
I suspect the limiting factor is cost.
About CPU microcode update (from ArchWiki)
I think illegal is the correct word there. I won't comment on the statutes (IANAL).

It was just a hypothetical though. AppHub has plenty of legit use cases under Apple rules, and it's probably not all that dangerous even if you "mis-use" it slightly. AppHub would have to explicitly encourage people to break the rule to run afoul, or Apple would have to organically notice a bunch of apps doing a bunch of outlandish feature flipping.
In all seriousness, copy & paste in iOS is way more useful than this!
The average commute in the US is something like 23 min, so the average commute in LA or SF should theoretically be a bit higher. I agree that 10 min seems incredibly low.
It's more like boredom and stupidity, but that's probably universal between countries.
Do you know who the money is going to? Is the market heavily fragmented or consolidated?

It'd be interesting to know the economics for the owners and then the city as well (with taxes).
No, SF isn't the only serious place for start-ups.

NY, Seattle, Boston, Northern Virginia / DC, Los Angeles - are all excellent start-up destinations depending on your needs.

There are second tier start-up locations as well that can be quite nice, such as the research triangle in North Carolina or Dallas - Fort Worth. If you're in energy, perhaps Houston (it continues to boom); if you're in biotech / pharma, perhaps San Diego. Denver and Portland can be nice for lifestyle purposes. And so on.
For years and years, I kept medical appointments for me and both my sons (and probably the husband) in my head a year or more in advance. I never used a calendar. I couldn't comprehend why anyone did. I still don't much use a calendar, but mostly because my life doesn't have a lot of appointments. But I don't have that kind of memory anymore and I at least understand why people would if they have busy lives.

A lot of times, people wanting to make a Thing to sell, like software, aren't really addressing a problem these people really have. If you thought I needed a calendar when I was young, you were flat out wrong. I didn't need it. I kept it all in my head. A calendar was not going to add value to my life. It was just going to bleed me for time, energy, money, space in my crowded apartment. It was all downside, no upside.

What value are you adding to these folks lives that will be worth the dollar cost and time and effort of learning a new methodology? How does it positively impact their bottom line?

I think a lot of software solutions are like calendars were once to me: Something that will line the pockets of the person selling it if you bother to buy it, but not necessarily adding anything of value to my life. What problem are you solving? How are you communicating to these people about the solution you are offering and what it can mean for them?

If you want property managers to adopt some kind of software you are developing/selling, you might try answering some of those questions.
I'm not talking about their overall world view I'm talking about their "Coffee growing in Guatamala" or "Cement production in the far east" articles - the ones where they are providing information on a relatively obscure subject. The articles present very matter of fact tones when in reality they are often reporting on one side of genuinely contraversial issues.
1. put this into a modern car

2. do not drive for a month

3. car's slow but steady draw drains battery to where it self shuts off

4. attempt to enter car

5. realize that it is a modern car, and without electricity from the battery you cannot even open the door

6. ...

7. profit?
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But that's just rent. The apartments 2.4x mine appeared to be in worse neighborhoods with higher crime, worse schools, etc. than my current neighborhood.

And commuting is expensive. I have a 10 minute bike ride right now, there's no way I could afford to live close enough to SV to bike to work. It's almost enough to erase the rest of the cost difference. http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2006/03/silicon-valley-comm...
Austin is probably the only place that's considered "the south" to the previous commenter's point.
Long commutes are of course a problem.

However, I am not sure the analysis method used in this article is really the way to look at this issue. The fact that lots of people spend 15 minutes sitting on their rear is not a serious problem, despite the fact that you can multiply that 15 minutes by millions of people to get a large number.

The problem is that some people have very long commutes. 30 minutes or more is a problem. An hour or more is a serious problem. 90 minutes or more is, for most jobs, ridiculous.

Actually, I see rather more good news than bad news in the referenced statistics. According to the source ([1], see the table on page 2) only 2.3% of Americans have a one-way commute of 90 or more minutes. Only 7.5% have an hour or more. But 33.5% -- more than a third -- have 30 minutes or more; that is troubling.

By the way, the statistics in the source[1] strike me as a little suspect. In particular, the big bump at "30 to 34 minutes" suggests that a lot of people were thinking, "Oh, about 30 minutes." That kind of estimation is not mentioned among the possible sources of error. Someone was not thinking clearly enough when that Census Bureau report was written.

[1] https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acs-15.pdf
The chord graphs on the app pages are new since the last time I saw Searchlight. What do they mean? (Maybe Modern War's is just not clear).
Sportbike owners are already buying cheap LiFePO4 batteries sans capacitors in droves, so there'd have to be some kind of strong differentiation for Ohm.
Does a limo service as a startup idea sound cool to you? What about just another online file storage service when there are hundreds of others out there already without any significant traction?
For those complaining about The Economist for content and bias, I've found Current History to be an excellent substitute.
Seconding this. I love my etymotics. You can get a pair these days for about 70 bucks (or less). Take the time to try out different tips to find ones that are most comfortable.
Bingo! This is the real reason rents are bananas. The question is: when will investors stop this?

Anyone with some brains can figure out Oakland, or heck, American Canyon is just as good a place to start-up. At these rents, even Portland is looking good. The 'community' of other entrepreneurs that SF expounds as the reason to start-up there has it's price and its possible all the smart money is leaving it behind. Let the other investors pay the landlords while you sell the next big widget.
Give less weight to relative hours of previous service in the safety assessment. The reason crap old designs are still built today is because they score higher on the risk assessment than safer designs due to the accumulated hours of service.
Could Kodak have held a monopoly in digital cameras? Kodak had a monopoly on film. A virtual monopoly, Agfa and Fuji also made film but they did not pose much a threat to Kodak profits. And Kodak's monopoly profits were incredibly high!
You're right. Pure lithium-ion batteries definitely are available. Besides price, one of the reasons they haven't been adopted is they don't have great performance over temperature. By using supercapacitors, we are able to make it a lot more immune to temperature.

We really approached the problem from the opposite direction. We started with supercapacitors and asked ourselves how we could make a reliable system around them. Huge current surges at the levels needed for starting a car are hugely destructive for batteries. It's almost as bad as just shorting them with a wrench. We decided that capacitors were fundamentally better suited for what a car battery does.
Good catch, I'll fact check that number.
List of Intel processors potentially updatable cited in the document:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24290#prodos
Some of my favorite points:

- Free plans often make business leads feel uncomfortable

- Engagement is a leading indicator for revenue

- Business development can do wonders for revenue, if done right

- Customer development != growth

- If you’re a SaaS product, read this post over and over again
I hear Nashville is good these days too.
They don't pay taxes in Bay Area?

$100K/year - 35% - $1K/month = $53K/year
$100K/year - 35% - $2.4K/month = $36.2K/year
$130K/year - 35% - $2.4K/month = $55.7K/year
NYC, as an example, is becoming more and more a strong place to start a company, but it isn't on equal footing yet.

The thing with starting a company is its very rarely just you that is involved in the enterprise; you need developers, you need designers, you need bd people. People that do these things for startups tend to have a slightly different slant or skill-set than people that do them for large companies. As a result, it is a distinct advantage to be near large population centers that have a wealth of this talent.

One of the contributing factors to this is the organization that spawned the very website this is posted to; YCombinator based in SV and companies doing a class move to the bay area for it. The gravity is strong here.

Can you start a company outside the valley? Yes. Is it going to make things much more difficult for yourself doing so? Probably.

Another contributing factor to the dispersion of startups that hasn't been mentioned is remote work. It is possible to have an office in SF and keep yourself and your family elsewhere.
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Don't forget the required car(s). Start pricing those in at $500/mo ea (payment, insurance, gas, maintenance, traffic tickets/driving tax, parking) and it's not clear you save much money.
Yeah, necessarily: a $1k rent on $8,333 a month ($100k a year) is 12% of gross income. A $2.4k rent on $10,833 a month ($130k a year) is 22% of gross.

The guy living in the $1k apartment land has a better financial life. (Also, good luck finding a place for $2,400 in SF right now that matches what you can get for $1k in most other parts of the country.)
this is pretty terrible compensation for such high impact work in such a high cost of living area. 150k is less than many Bart workers make a by the time they are senior level (http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area/2014). Many of these companies are making billions, further increasing the wealth gap of the founders vs. the ones who create their fortunes on the ground level.

The companies have even been proven to collude to suppress wages. Software engineers are in desperate need of unions
Yeah, but since the casus belli was ALWAYS OBVIOUSLY bogus, that's on them. Saddam held the world dicatatorship record for "number of times deterred as a rational actor after a little brinksmanship". He could have had the keys to the Russian arsenal and still not nuked anybody. Someone can say, with integrity, that they thought Iraq was a good strategic decision aside from the WMD nonsense, and can even say with integrity that they still think it was. Saying "Oh, I believed the intelligence and thought he was an imminent threat" is admitting up front that you can't read past the first 5 words of a headline.
It really depends on what you are looking for. I live in Seattle and I can tell you that the quality and quantity is much greater in the Bay Area.
This paragraph is basically the whole point of the post:

When you’re working on a project, you can experiment with ideas for a long time. When you have a company, the clock is ticking and people expect results. This gets to the danger with projects—a lot of people use them as an excuse to not work very hard. If you don’t have the self-discipline to work hard without external pressure, projects can be a license to slack off.

The idea that people were calling his startup a project instead of a company irked him because he perceived that, in their minds, they were putting his startup in the category of things people pursue without any intent of completing or being accountable for. That's how most people regard their projects: as hobbies.

That's at least what I was thinking to myself. The reaction I had when reading this essay was to think to myself "well, how do you expect to be taken seriously if it's not something you intend to deliver and be responsible for," but then he delivered this gem above.

The company doesn't deliver that level of intention, you have to generate it. Once you have it, the company is just a legal entity, and if you don't have it then no amount of incorporation, schedules, meetings etc is going to compensate for that.
San Francisco Bay is at the top of the startup scene. There is nowhere else were you will find the number of investors or resources (meetups, groups, talent, funding circuits, etc.)

I'm from Chicago and while the startup scene there is pretty solid (cheap rent, large city, big financial center for funding) SF Bay is in a league of its own (maybe NYC also).

That doesn't mean you won't find investors, resources, etc in other cities. Is basically the same as asking whether you should go to a top 10 school or go to a top 50 school. You can have the same amount of success at both opportunities its just how much effort you put into it.

Moving to silicon valley won't make your business successful, but it will give you access to the tools and connections you need to help yourself. These same tools exist elsewhere but you might have to search a bit harder.
Startups know how to remove CO2 from the air. Will anyone pay them to do it?
Awesome resources. Loving the Linux videos so far. Great instructor.
You'd think so, but in Brooklyn they have a Whole Foods built right above a superfund site (the Gowanus Canal). Sufficiently hot real estate markets can make for some strange situations.

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2013/1...
Chatanooga has that sweet gigabit fiber though.
What large cities have mass transit that is not astonishingly bad, stupid, and/or short sighted, in your opinion? Maybe it's actually just a really hard problem?
Yes. Many of the comments here speak of a growing disconnect between the elite engineer class and the regular people. This can be dangerous to our profession over time.

$250k / year will only support a "decent single-guy lifestyle"? That's just insane anywhere in the world (except maybe if your last name happens to be Al Saud).

For comparison, that is significantly above the average salary of a European prime minister. German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes slightly more than $250k / year.
That's due to a combination of crime, local businesses (e.g. fancy coffee shops and bars), and access to commuter shuttles. You can see some of these in heat map form here:

http://www.trulia.com/local/san-francisco-ca/
I live in the Excelsior. I live just off Mission Street, and 10 mins on foot from BART, so it isn't all the public transit (the 44 and 52 go to Glen Park BART from where all trains are 10 mins up to Montgomery, the 14 is a slow alternative downtown). My personal theory is that it's because most of the places to hang out here aren't the kind that's popular in the Mission.

I also walk down these streets frequently late at night to buy stuff from the Safeway. I don't think it's very dangerous.
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"Well-commented" doesn't mean explaining how the language works, what the syntax means, what the standard library does, etc. That's what you'd find in the language documentation, textbooks, and tutorials.

Just pick up an introductory book on each language and be sure it has lots of examples.

Honestly, though, I don't think there's any point in becoming familiar with those languages. If you know how to program, you're probably familiar enough to read what's going on...
While not to the exact same scale, rents in NYC and Boston have been doing similar. In Somerville, apartments are roughly double what they were 10 years ago by my estimates. Salaries for the average person haven't kept up. My partner and I clear 160k/year, and affording a 2-3BR apartment is still not easy given student loans, saving for a 20% home down payment, etc. We are currently in a 1BR to make that happen, but the lack of space is killing us. The only way I can see ever owning property is if my options at some company end up being worth something.

My question is not if things are going up (they are), but what can we do about them. We are going to destroy our neighborhoods, culture and opportunities (yes, even for us software developers) if these things keep going up like this. Unless none of us ever want to have more than a 150 sq/ft bedroom that we rent (no kids, room for hobbies, etc), we need to find a solution.

I'm really sad for my friends who aren't developers, because its impossible to keep up. I don't want everyone to be a developer. I don't think that is culturally good, or a solution. I want artists, academics, electricians, caregivers, medical professionals, and people of all walks of life in my city.

Look, we've got some incredibly bright minds on here. What is a realistic, forward looking and innovative way we can work on this? We're aiming for the moon, hyperloops and self driving cars... but maybe a few people can try to figure out how to make it so that cities aren't absolutely terrible cost-wise to live in?

NEW THOUGHT: Yes, it is supply and demand. I wonder if someone can start a company whose mission is to quickly create scalable affordable housing in major cities? Something involving tricks for greater density, new building techniques, focus on efficiency but also quality of life... and doing it fast. We need this in 2 years, not 20. How can we build 20,000 units of housing within reach of someone in their 20's in the middle of the income range in each Boston, NYC and SF?
I'm reminded of the Chandler project, funded and directed by Mitch Kapor. The intention was Lotus Agenda, reimagined for the 21st century. But that didn't work out. See Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg. It's a very sad story. I loved Agenda, and Chandler had so much damn potential! So it goes.
Portland already has a massive tech scene and is experiencing the same (percentage-wise) rapidly-rising rents.
Firefox/Mozilla now has a new location on the Embarcadero facing the Bay Bridge. They must be really profitable.[1] (Go to the Google Maps link below, and take a look around.) Those deals with Hello and Pocket must be paying off big-time!

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7895641,-122.3885496,3a,19y,...
Yes, Glassdoor says the average for a software developer in San Francisco is $94,000, senior software developer $116,000.