skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt very strongly that we as a nation, or as a society get any benefits from classifying anything.

"Statistically, real threats are rare, but ambition and corruption are common. Overwhelmingly, the purpose of censorship is not the protection of national security, but the protection of individual careers. That's not ideology, but mathematics. Because there are very, very, few true national secrets, but a huge amounts of information that someone would like to bury for one reason or another."

I got this from a Seth Finkelstein interview, http://grep.law.harvard.edu/articles/03/12/16/0526234.shtml

As far as "oh, we can't reveal sources or methods! Spies will be killed!" - really!?!! Do you really think that the Russians or the Iranians or whoever haven't thought of some method of spying or other, and we have? Doubt it. Spying is all about craftsmanship, workmanship and tenacity, it would seem. As Goethe once wrote, "Everything has been thought of once, the problem is to think of it again."
How do you arrive at that conclusion? Where does this assumption that your company should be paying you enough to rent a 1BR in one of the most competitive markets in the country come from? This is as baseless as the complaining from the people who claim that tech workers are displacing them (from SF) by paying market rents. They don't have an unlimited right to rent in whichever neighborhood they want, and neither do tech workers.

If you work for a tech company in SF and want to save money, live in the suburbs: that compromise has always existed. Or if living in SF isn't your thing, go live in Minnesota and take a $90k job, but spend $1,000 on rent. Nobody's saying living in SF is unilaterally better here, but I really don't understand why it's considered inadequate for a company not to peg its compensation to the price of a 1BR rental, regardless of market conditions!
Micropayment solutions don't work, won't work, and will never work.

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html
Been an engineer in and out of SF for the last 6 years.

SF/Bay Area is truly head and shoulders above anywhere else for startups. Like Shaquille O'neal's head and shoulders.

That said, it doesn't make it impossible elsewhere.
Yes, I said you could do a little better. But rents over there are going up faster than the city, and the places that are convenient to BART are the most expensive.

Add in the cost of a car (which you need if you're living over there) and a daily BART commute, and you've easily added on $500-$1000 a month in transportation expenses. Again, housing around here is an efficient market, modulo the cost of commuting.
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1. A Lamborghini Gallardo might cost less than an Aventador but that doesn't mean it's "cheap." Nothing is "cheap" for a startup that's spending nearly three-quarters of a million dollars a month but bringing in well under half that.

2. Rent to revenue is even more important for unprofitable startups. Investor-funded startups are at high risk of failure because it's far easier to spend money in anticipation of growth than it is to actually grow revenues. What's more, your investors are likely going to encourage this because they're playing a game in which a few big winners will hopefully make up for a lot of losers.

Just Google "Zirtual" for a recent, ugly example of what happens when you spend too much and investors refuse to bail you out.
To what extent did the old Picdar solution influence the design of Grid?
I gather that VPN services are already quite popular in Russia.
Clickable links:

http://checkintext.appspot.com/ for the app

http://www.ousbey.com/blog/check-in-app for the blog post about it
I wonder what Joyent and/or @bcantrill would say about that? It'd be super-cool to be able to run nix deployments in a Triton (instance|container|whateveritis)!
"30 minutes or more is a problem"

I live 4 miles from midtown Manhattan. That's about a 30 minute bus ride during rush hour. An hour commute is probably the average commute from the suburbs to NYC.
This is exactly what I was coming here to say. All this tells me is that San Francisco engineers are woefully underpaid.

Whenever a recruiter calls and I (accidentally) answer and they proposition me with a job in SF I tell them I would need to be paid twice as much as I'm earning now (in Seattle) to consider it. And I'm compensated well. It's true, and as a side benefit it usually ends the conversation quickly.
Kind of ironic, that one of the most degenerate and backwards-looking of the first worlds cities when it comes to urban planning and transport, happens to be the location the most forward-looking people in web tech and startups.
I lived with this Mark Cerny rule for a few decades, and it was mostly true. But finally after I'm over 50 I came to proper and good estimates now. Mostly because I'm a much more experienced now.
2d == 1.5d, 1w == 5d and so on.

But game programming is like architecture. There's so much more to do.
The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments (1996)
Kodak could have had a monopoly on consumer cameras, they might be in trouble now, but would have been good for a long time.
That's a fair point. Thanks for the explanation. I think it's cool that Firefox has become mainstream enough to have so many non-tech-savvy users that Mozilla has to save them from themselves. I wish there was another approach, but I understand your viewpoint.
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Yes, absolutely. There are hundreds of LiFePO4 sportbike, ATV, and race car batteries on the market already (for example, http://www.batterystuff.com/powersports-batteries/LFX14L2-BS... ).

I've also used one to run my Elise (2ZZ 1.8L 4-cylinder) for a few years now without issue.

The three major issues I've heard about are are longevity, price, and reserve capacity. Cold weather is a bit of an issue, but strangely it's actually made better by more load as the battery's internal resistance eventually heats it up to the point that it works fine.

I really don't get this product yet. Unless the supercapacitor provides an incredible enhancement in longevity (maybe it does, but my understanding and experience is that temperature and poor manufacturing are the main enemies to these batteries, not instantaneous load), I'm not sold on buying one instead of one of the inexpensive existing alternatives.
Gitg (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gitg/) looks decent, although it's Linux-only. It's like git-gui and gitk merged into a GTK3 interface.

It would be cool if Atlassian would open-source their client (SourceTree). They make money off of Bitbucket/Stash and provide SourceTree as freeware, so it seems like a no-brainer to open-source it and let the community port it to Linux.
> (1) Create compelling reasons for someone to not want to live in a city. For instance, allow one to work remotely.

A lot of folks who work remotely prefer the city since it gives them all the amenities that an office usually would like food (restaurants), gyms, cafes and an environment with a lot of people.
Transit improvement is catastrophically stalled. Improved rapid transit options could plausibly expand the area where Boston-area workers can live and have a reasonable commute by 100 to 300%. But these require approval from (especially in MA) dozens of towns. Plus we can barely keep the subways operational.
Please file bug reports for your issues - it'd be much appreciated by the rest of us.
Like him, I also do not sympathize with wasps, and thus take unhealthy amounts of pleasure from watching videos of his wasp-sucking machines.
Well, the basic functionality is already trivial to implement yourself: you just point React Native at your https URL and use HTML5 Application Cache. We're doing it just because it's the easiest way to develop with React Native.
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Well that's a driver for golang for sure. Additionally, while we're complaining about golang not measuring up to our programming sensibilities, the people who write us checks want 1) correct, 2) on time, and 3)in budget. If golang helps us do that better than other languages in spite of the fact that it doesn't have generics or whatever (anecdotally seems to be the case), no need to apologize for it.
And there are thousands of cities in the world in which they can enjoy all those amenities.

(I edited the above quote now to reflect this.)
The chord graphs show the linkage relationships amongst all the native libraries in Android apps. Each library has an edge to the other libraries it depends on. To keep it clear, we don't show platform libraries that are too common, like libc.

We think it might help devs understand how dependencies are dragged in, especially from code that's not theirs. I'd appreciate feedback on if it actually is helpful or what other things we could make more clear.
Wouldn't this need to get DOT approval? Also looking at the replies from the founder, it looks like there hasn't been much actual safety testing done yet.
That's why it's smart that millennials are living with their parents longer, using the saved $ to eventually buy a home instead of making the landlord rich. It's not immaturity - it's adaptation.
So for practical purposes isn't that even less? The cost of living is a bit higher in the UK as I recall.
You might have a house with a kitchen next to the living room and no door in between, and if you've got everything closed up in winter you can kill a bird in a nearby room with Teflon toxicity. Overheating oil will not kill a small bird, and even some quick smoke inhalation won't necessarily kill a bird.

Smoke inhalation and Teflon toxicity are really different death mechanisms -- if you're interested, a quick read of the abstracts of articles on mass bird deaths from PTFE toxicity at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10879927 or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276392/ is illuminating.
I've been really interested in Joyent's Triton implementation of the docker protocol and lx containers under SmartOS ... It actually seems like a much cleaner and more secure abstraction ironically enough (running linux under solaris, effectively). The network latency vs VM + Docker seems to be a lot better as well working better than other options like kubernetes/fabric etc.

I think my only complaint about Joyent is their storage and services seem to be quite a bit more expensive than with Azure or AWS.
Thanks for the recommendation charliepark, squarespace looks good... but doesn't appear to support YouTube-embedded carousels nor membership accounts/privileges.
Trucks have recently started having capacitors for starting.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/03/20150325-maxwell.htm...
Not necessarily. Many big-ticket costs do not depend on location. Student loan payments, car payments, health care, etc. tend to cost the same whether you make 3X or 5X your rent. You're going to pay them off faster in a high-cost, high-salary area than in a low-cost, low-salary area.
I recently got an offer from a Series B company in San Francisco that claimed their compensation was calculated to be the median offered by "Bay area startups funded by top-tier VCs" I turned them down because it was about 2/3 of what I would have needed to keep the same quality of life that I have living and working in Los Angeles.
> god knows what serves most of Bayview.

Well, the T train runs down the edge of Bayview as far as the Bayshore Caltrain station. But it's reasonably slow and kind of awkwardly routed for the time being (it goes past the ballpark and along the Embarcadero before reversing down Market). Maybe that will change when they open the central subway in the future.
> when will investors stop this?

when they stop making $$ from it.
Yes, nuclear power does have a safety problem, but not a imminent one. The real problem does not come from operations, but from the waste these operations leave behind.

Minimizing and storing nuclear waste are the far greater challenges than just running the plants.

Another problem is the question, who is going to pay for all that waste in the end? Well first off, most likely future generations and when we look at the current time frame, that's actually not as clear as one might think. For example, the German government has long struggled - and still is - to actually get the power plant operators to pay for the waste disposal. Before that is was pretty much "We get to make the money basically for free, and you pay for the waste." Which of course is also an issue with the argument that nuclear power is cheap, because in most cases the cost of waste disposal and final storage are not included in the calculation, because these things can just "happen later".

Waste disposal was way too long under the radar, so there was no pressure to develop new, better alternatives to the current reactor technologies for a very long time, since "state of the art" was just good enough, and cheap.
I moved to Cupertino in 1989 from the east coast, to work at Apple. I was shocked that houses in Cupertino cost $400,000 (yes the same ones that cost $2M today). The pay wasn't nearly in proportion to the relative costs.

A friend pointed out that the high costs reflect the opportunity and that it was all worthwhile. And he was absolutely right.

It's true that the long work hours and high costs in the Bay Area can mean delaying a family and other such things. And that's a tradeoff that should be made carefully, whichever direction you choose. It's important to acknowledge that both choices are perfectly legitimate and a matter of personal preference.
Thanks, high praise indeed. I am super curious too what anyone would want to know if you could see inside any apps in the app stores?
No it did not. Read the WHO report. Any reference to chernobyl being "Uninhabitable" is more nuclear politics than scientific reality.
I've been just running a full on Ubuntu VM, then installing SAMBA for sharing the necessary paths... so I can edit in my host OS, but run via SSH into the VM.
Don't let soap and teflon touch. That's one of my rules. Wash with hot water and not too hard scrubbing. This and the heat from cooking take care of hygiene. My cheap ass Ikea teflon pan has lasted years in good condition.

Also no metal utensils and don't heat it up like crazy especially without anything on it. Easy rules.
According to the US census bureau, 11.9 percent of county commuters had a drive of 60 minutes or more, compared with 8.1 percent nationally. The average commute time for Los Angeles County residents in 2011 was 29.4 minutes, above the national average of 25.5 minutes.
yeah but i don't think any old chump can run a mail server. it was hard to set it up the first time man.
Do you prefer videos to well-written prose with examples? If so, why?
That is great advice.

Whenever I'm about to build something big, I first start thinking about things that would be hard to do, or perhaps that I even don't know how to do yet. Then I build prototypes of those to make sure I can to it and do it efficiently.

Once all pieces are ready, it's just a matter of putting them together which is straightforward and you have some chance to actually estimate the time.
The article is incredibly pessimistic from the start, to the point of being FUD. The fact is, BN-800 is trying to get further than "other nuclear heavyweights" could go. Why not just cheer up together instead of whining?
Before I switched careers and started having an actual income, I was able to count on about half of $15k of income.

Dave Ramsey says, "Live like no one else, so you can live like no one else." He means, save aggressively and retire comfortably. I was already living like no one else: no car, no concerts, rarely seeing movies or eating out, no fancy clothes, avoiding doctors, less than $15 cell phone plan. And my expenses still exceeded my income. It is not so simple and easy for everyone to have savings.
Yeah, the supercaps are our most expensive BOM item.
thanks, but the context was how to create a new pull request to github from commandline, which I don't believe git request-pull can do. Another comment mentions https://github.com/github/hub#git-pull-request which seems to be what I am looking for.
so another inaccurate and unscientific claims that investors love throwing their money at because it's a startup. Techcrunch is like the tabloids for questionable startups and it's really hurt the perceived quality. I've built a filter mechanism for TC since a few years ago when they just became a dvertising platform rather than a serious journalism
Recently my wife's car batter died, end of life. When a new battery was put in it the car ran poorly. Apparently when the battery dies something in the car resets and the car "figures" out the settings again and runs rough at idle. We called a repair shop and they said to just wait a few days and it will fix itself. Which was true, runs fine now. The moral of the story is that with a new car if the battery dies, weird things happen.
Obviously, but the OP was doing exactly this with:

> "Perhaps they do not make others seem quaint in comparison."

All I was saying is that there's a pretty high bar for awful behavior by world leaders.
True, "dickheads" invading subreddits and upvoting each other, or more generally new people coming in whose preferences may differ from the existing community, is one way the voting algorithm can fail to naturally enforce quality, but it's not the only one. As I see it, most (existing) users of a given subreddit appreciate the improvement in quality that results from moderation, yet when some of the lazier instincts of those same people are pooled by mass low-effort voting, funny or memetic or clickbait or flamebait but ultimately low-quality posts tend to rise. For example, on this site, posts whose titles contain "NSA" and some other keyboards are or were penalized in the ranking, because people here, including many of the most famous users on the site, just love to read and talk about the NSA - which isn't itself bad, but since it's so easy and compelling to instinctively hit the upvote arrow on such posts, it tends to get too common and repetitive, so the algorithm taps (tapped?) the brakes. (At least, that's my interpretation of the reason.) As another example, /r/smashbros is a big subreddit for the Super Smash Bros. competitive community, and it's often happened that the moderators banned X type of posts (comics, non-competitive gifs) because a lot of people were complaining about it and there seemed to be consensus against - but that didn't mean the posts didn't get upvotes. You could chalk that up to a difference between the vocal minority and the many lurkers, but I don't think that's the full story.

Admittedly, I've strayed pretty far from the sort of things that can happen on Twitter. After all, it's not like any feature of the site would discourage me from following 100 people who all constantly post about the NSA, and voting is different from posting. But I think there's a similar general principle when it comes to length, the one important form of "moderation" the site actually has: a user might get annoyed at the overall phenomenon of the length of the posts in their timeline, but it's difficult to exert social pressure on everyone to keep length down, and really easy to feel like one cannot say what one wants in 140 characters, whether or not this is true, if one is not actually forced to make it fit.

Also, the aforementioned general case of splits in the community does apply to Twitter. You can unfollow dickheads, but if lots of popular users are in the subgroup that actually prefers long posts, those users who prefer short ones will have a hard time keeping their streams "clean" without feeling like they're missing out. Of course, if one considers the Internet as a whole, one could say that following long-post users is the equivalent of participating in social websites that allow long posts, but unlike the discrete universes of different sites, or even of different subreddits (in the sense that a given post or comment goes only to a single subreddit), Twitter's network allows, and indeed is designed for, cliques to partially overlap and mix, making it harder to establish different "spaces" with different rules, social customs, culture.
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San Francisco is not the only city in existence.
How to live on $7k/year - don't have a pre-existing medical condition.
Sometimes. With the new ultra-frequent release cycle, as a volunteer maintainer I don't always have the time. And sometimes it breaks in ways that are not visible to me (I run Linux, for example, so bugs that show up on OSX or Windows only are going to be caught by users. These are few and far between, but have happened.)
Co-founder here. Do the cars you're talking about use a distributor? The battery of a car works as a low pass filter for the alternator, and removing it entirely can cause huge spikes in the voltage it puts out. That can be destructive to just about any electronics it would be running. I've personally seen an accidental battery disconnect blow an ECU.
> If you don’t have the self-discipline to work hard without external pressure, projects can be a license to slack off.

I agree with this, with one caveat. Some of my most productive bursts of output or problem solving have occurred right after a self-imposed, brief period of slacking off. There can be a tremendous benefit from the mental break that goes with 'controlled slacking off,' so long as it's intentional rather than an indication of something more serious (like not wanting to work on the project).
(Guix is based on Nix, by the way.)
72k seems pretty decent for a jr developer without a graduate degree. I started around 65k fresh out of school with a BS as did most of my friends.
250000 a year gets you just under 12k per month after tax.

Even paying 4k for a decent home still gives you 8k a month for other things. Thats fantastic.
I currently live in the Outer Mission and previously lived in Excelsior, and I second all this.

Basically, these are the last places in SF that are:

1. Relatively affordable.

2. Relatively close to BART.

I live a five minute walk from Balboa Park BART and my mortgage is $3,000 a month for a 2BR1BA house with garage that I bought two years ago. Previously I lived a 10 minute walk from Glenn Park BART and my rent was $2,000 a month for a 2BR1BA house with garage (albeit now a few years old, so I'm sure the rent is higher now).

The area is pretty safe. It's not like a rural small town or like what I kind of assume Pac Heights is like, but it's probably safer than Inner Mission or SOMA, and both I and my wife (a small woman) feel safe wandering around singly after dark.

So why is it relatively cheap? Well, first, inertia from a point when it was less safe -- you can see some of the progression of the neighborhood by looking at the houses. Recently remodeled ones do not have metal security gates on their doors or bars on their windows, but ones that haven't been touched in 15 or 20 years definitely do.

But also, it's just not a very hip neighborhood and doesn't have the density of bars/coffee shops/bicycle stores that other neighborhoods do. It's a little farther from the nightlife centers of the city.

Ultimately, I think these areas are rapidly gentrifying as well, but they're behind the curve of the rest of the city.
Unfortunately, where I'm at, four or five months out of the year, it's below freezing and even if you could brave the cold, you'd be taking your life in your hands with the narrowed roads, drivers that cannot navigate snowy/icy conditions, and snowplows.
I also interpreted your post in the way that davelnewton did. I guess the thing to remember is that even the slowest systems can have both "high performance" and "low performance" ways of using them.
In case the original post [1] gets deleted, I did an archive.is: https://archive.is/jdtOC

[1] http://redd.it/1derq9