skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did you move to in Austin with 1,100 square foot for $1,150 / month?

I am in downtown Austin. My rent is just shy of double that and I only have a 500 or so square foot apartment. I have a hard time believing you moved to something comparable to SOMA.

I'm going to guess you live either more North or South of downtown and have to commute if you work or want to get downtown. Which I think many would agree is not even close to comparable of living in SOMA. Also, if memory serves BART is far superior and actually a legitimate means of transportation. Our transportation situation here in Austin is a bit of a joke unless you live directly downtown.
Violating the site guidelines (by calling names) then heading straight for Mengele is definitely not what makes for a good comment here. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11434103 and marked it off-topic.
BART really doesn't run late enough (Caltrain to the South Bay as well) to support suburbanites coming into SF to drink at night.
How free it is depends on the times. In 2000, the dot-com bubble collapsed. This spilled over a little into Fortune 500 companies, but not as much as it affected startups and tech companies. I left my dot-com in New York and went to work at an investment bank. A lot of people I know in the Bay area were in tougher straits - some who had moved there left. Sometimes there are advantages to a city being dependent on one industry, sometimes there are disadvantages.
Yes, but how many cars do you know that sell for $300?

This sort of logic is enshrined in consumer law as well - the courts idea of a reasonable lifetime for a product is tied to the amount you pay.

If you buy a $50,000 car new, sure, a reasonable person could expect it to last 5-10 years.

You buy a $200 webcam? I somehow doubt you'll be able to argue that it must work 3 years later - if it does, great. If it doesn't, well, what's a reasonable lifetime?

And a lot of armchair commentators seems to underplay the amount of sheer engineering effort or cost involved in these sorts of things - it's not a case of spinning up some AWS instances, and hacking together some PHP on your weekend and deploying.

To get a reliable service, with some decent SLA, which handles changing load and tolerates failures probably takes significant infrastructure (cloud or bare-metal), as well as a team of software engineers and site reliability engineers. Not to mention support teams.
As programmers, keepers of the dark arts -- like the monks of the mountains -- we're expected to lead a celibate life.

</sarcasm>
"We appreciate and value you as one of Joyent's lifetime Shared Hosting customers. As this service is one of our earliest offerings, and has now run its course, your lifetime service will end on October 31, 2012."

"Lifetime..." "has now run its course..."

/me smh
Again, sorry about that. Feel free to ping directly if you have other questions. We've had such a huge response after releasing N1 that we definitely haven't figured out the ideal way to communicate with users.

Relatedly, if anyone reading is interested in a full time developer relations/evangelist role at a small startup, please send me a note! :)
I completely agree re: long commutes. But I also don't care for the suburbs, which is why I used to commute from Berkeley to my first job in the bay, in Newark.

Remember that commute mode can make a HUGE difference. Crawling along asphalt is probably about the least fun method.

I rode Bart counter-commute to Fremont and then a bicycle the last 4 miles. I will say, if you want to stick out as an oddball in that part of the bay taking Bart and riding a recumbent to work will do the trick. It wasn't a good culture fit, to say the least.

After that, I worked in El Segundo and lived in Santa Monica. My commute was 26 miles (round trip) of gorgeous beach bike riding, which took around 90-100 minutes a day door to door (recumbents are quick!) I was in the best shape of my life, and always loved seeing bonfires, beach goers, drum circles, and once a pod of dolphins jumping out of the water alongside me as I rode down a 12 foot wide strip of land by the Marina.

Anyway, just trying to point out that the calculation is complex and depends on the person.
Software is ever-changing. A camshaft within some tolerance will work even if it's been in the warehouse for N years.

Almost a million ford F-150 trucks were sold in 2006 and most haven't been 'rewritten' in the intervening years. Also, each repair event comes with new money. Neither of these conditions is true for server software.
There are numerous ways they could have transitioned customers... open sourcing the server or providing an upgrade path to newer path to newer devices or even providing a date in the future to transition by.

The path they chose is the one with the least fore thought for their brand and customer relationship.
Have you got any evidence that they are destroying hardware?

I know it sells headlines, but I've seen zero evidence at all to back up these claims.

From what I can tell, they're simply pulling the plug on the service.

They already stopped all sales of the units nearly two years ago - in fact, that's one of the first things they did when they bought out the failing Revolv company.

So they've basically paid to keep it running for two years - and this is just speculation, but maybe they decided, this is enough, it's just bleeding money, we have zero revenue to show for it all (since we haven't sold any units in two years), we need to pull the pin on it eventually.
Automated analysis of malware is where speed matters to me. You have hundreds of thousands of samples per day and you want to do some automated analysis on them for categorization. No wonder all the AV companies just check the hash.
This is why I tell everybody who talks about internet of things that I like my devices like I like my women: small and dumb.
It actually does bother me, and I wish I had the time to fix it, but fixing it involves much more than the comically large amount of work you're asking of me: it means convincing this PhD student that he made a genuine mistake that betrays his sexism, and getting him to acknowledge that mistake by fixing his own slides.

I wish the instructor was more aware of his own sexism when he created this material, so that neither he nor I nor anyone would have to fix this problem now. He chose this careless example, and so it's his responsibility to fix it, no matter how busy he may be as a PhD student. We're all busy, but these slides have his name on them, and demonstrating that he knows better now is something only he can do.
The BOM has to be one of the stupidest things they've done. Such a terrible idea. Yes, I know they wanted an easy way to detect encoding, but corrupting data is just beyond bad.
If you're sued, I believe it would have to be for unauthorized distribution (as with BitTorrent), not just downloading a pirated copy. So you would have to somehow argue that your distribution was fair use, which probably won't fly.
Curious description of Mint's security practices
Any finite element/volume problem. Anything integrated.
Uber releases cash payments in Singapore
Probably better than the typical sensationalized crap, that's for sure.
Wait, Tinder has a public API? Damn it, whenever I have to teach students what a public API is, I use Tinder as an example of a service that does not provide an API and the resulting hoops a programmer has to jump through in order to programmatically use the service:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgnxb-O-CBQ
Supernatural Sound: Science and Shamanism in the Arctic (2013)
>can you tell cpu from browser finger printing?

In the context they're talking about, yes! 32 on 64 bit (on firefox at least) will have WOW64 on the header name, whereas 32 on 32 bit won't, and 64bit on 64 bit will have Win64.
Please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments here.
Ok, I was thinking about buying a Nest, definitely avoiding it like the plague now! My home is a long term investment!
> And thus, the sad decline of our media.

Isn't Hilde's example exactly the opposite? That motivated individuals can do the basics as a hobby?

Two observations:

1. The barriers to entry have been dramatically lowered. i.e. Cost of distribution is slightly about $0.

2. For basic stories most people only care about the tldr: some drunk driver killed a man on ...; Or about aggregations of tldrs: i.e. 5 people we killed last week due to gun violence in ...

Regardless of the talents of Hilde or her more experienced competitors. When I'm only reading tldr, I really doubt I can tell a 9 year old, from a 90 year old, from some software.

Given the above: With enough motivated hobbyists, all we need is better software news summarizers/aggregators and you can have great aggregations at the local, regional, and global levels.

If your concern is the lack of substance, I would ask, what percentage of the time do you actually care? I'm willing to bet, its a small percentage of the time. I'd also be willing to bet that you only really care about substance for stories that hit the top of news aggregators (i.e. "viral" stories)!

Given that: It should be relatively easy for "real journalists" to pick and bring substance to this small number of stories deserving substance.

Actually, there could even be a BugBounty type exchange. How much do you care about this story? $10, $20? If we collectively reach $1000 a Bloomberg journalist will spend a day on it and so forth.
Perhaps I am, but the problem of accidentally embedding stereotypes in machine learning models is all too real:

https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/post...

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-06/are-algorithms-racist-...
It would be great to get data from other players in the startup community to test this "10% weekly growth". How correlated is this 10% growth rate to the success of a startup? What about 7%? 8%? What about other data points like working on startup 24/7 compare to those who take breaks? How much break? etc.

The more data point, the less we have to guess. That's what YC is trying to achieve right? Bring sanity to chaos of choosing and incubating startups. This idea of sharing data is a great start!
Quoting here for posterity:

> First, Mint has bank-level data security. That means we have the same level of encryption your bank does, along with outside third-party verification through Verisign and Hackersafe. We also have routine security audits where so-called “white knight hackers” try to break into our system — they’ve never been successful. We also have bank-level physical security. Our servers are located in an unmarked secure building which requires a palm scan to gain entry. After making it past guards, you have to go through a “man-trap” where one door will not open until the other closes and you again have biometric access. Once you get inside, our servers are in a locked cage monitored with 24/7 video surveillance. Get inside, and the racks themselves are locked. Break those open, and our hard drives are encrypted. It’s seven layers of protection. All that’s missing are the electrified floors…

All of this is provided as justification that 2FA with banks is not supported (original topic of the linked thread).
Yes, by javascript (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPl...). They somewhat fixed it by preventing you from enumerating through all the plugins, and requiring you to know the exact name, but that doesn't stop you from trying a list of all the common plugins.
Building a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange using zero-knowledge proofs
Never tells you the "why" directly, it is easier to extract money out of you on ink/toner in small increments than it is to get you to put out up front.

Now that a majority of the ink jet patents have expired I hope that someone can come up with a reasonably durable open source inkjet printer where anyone can make the proper ink for it.
Environmentalism and Technological Denialism
Agreed.

Car and Driver had a bit of a problem with their long-term Z51 (the one i would option out - no one needs 650hp) http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2014-chevrolet-corvette-...

I'm not sure I would get a used one, but hopefully they've got the bugs worked out by now.

(Full disclosure: I'd spend my 50k on a gently-used Evora S)
Not a troll. I'm playing a little bit of devil's advocate, but I also think this talk of dogs and dinner bowls is rediculous.

There's a line here. I've had "busybody" team members who make life difficult for everyone else no matter what you tell them. And my patience quickly wears thin if I have to tell you more than once.

But conversely, someone who's going to twiddle their thumbs and not help because "it's not in my job description"... I don't have time for that attitude either, and I won't stand for my team making it the cultural norm.

As a senior member of a team, one of your jobs is to develop the more junior people. It is a teaching position: always. If you can't do that, or you think snapping at them "teaches a lesson", it's time to have a conversation about the "senior" in your title.

At the end of the day, we're talking about a hypothetical situation. There are exceptions to every rule, but my starting point is, "How can we make this person better?"
As someone who routinely worked quite late in NYC, that's just not accurate.

I routinely had good meals at 10pm or 11pm at night. Never once did I eat at a diner.

Lots of restaurants stay open later in NYC, and then there are plenty of gastropubs serving great food even later.
Hey thanks! And I hope you find a cure for your miopia!
> increase in sprawl

Deregulation within an urban growth boundary. I don't like sprawl either. Houston or LA are not my ideas of "the answer", although Houston does - apparently - get some deregulation right within the city as well.
It's not easy to buy up entire blocks of houses. You get hold-outs, either people who understand that they're in a position to block a potentially lucrative deal and get a big payout, or just people who have a sentimental attachment to their homes or whatever.

The idea that there's a lot of elasticity to the construction trade is also naïve. Construction workers from "all over the world" can't move here -- we have an immigration process, and it's not one that's favorable to construction workers. We are also in an area that is itself not very conducive to living on a construction worker's salary.

And also, who are these developers who are so eager to build high-rise housing in a market that is stipulated to have affordable rents? It's a big capital investment to build a modern skyscraper, especially if there's a construction crunch, especially if you have to do things like buy out large areas without the benefit of government coercion, especially if there are similar projects going up across the city to compete with you. Housing is not typically a highly profitable use of real estate to begin with, and San Francisco is also a city that is not very landlord friendly.

This dream of in-fill development being a simple cure-all to San Francisco's housing ills like most "one simple trick to fix all your problems" -- click bait, not a real solution.

None of this is to say that SF shouldn't have in-fill (it should), or that SF shouldn't reduce barriers to development (it should). But be realistic. Unless you rewrite everything about SF back 50 years, it's not going to dramatically change everything about this city overnight.
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I think you need deregulation of housing stock and increased public transit.

One of the reasons rents are getting up there is fewer people driving and not a ton of options on where to live if you don't.
I'm in Boston and simple little stuff like an extension of the subway can't get off the ground due to mismanagement and lack of funding.
But is that adventageous to us? Inversions are mostly a paperwork related change from what I understand. So it wouldn't add any significant number of jobs, it won't increase tax revenues, and it could possibly increase the burden on our courts.
Intentionally or not, you seem to have done a solid job of describing existing AML/KYC legal requirements.

Example - http://www.acamstoday.org/domestic-high-risk-geographies-eme...

https://www.fincen.gov/law_enforcement/hifca/
> I would posit that all news companies (some legal definition) should be required to be non-profit entities.

That's not really compatible with a free press. In terms of regulating the broadcast spectrum you have more latitude because its a scare public good. But I think you'll have a hard time getting Pinch Sulzberger and Rupert Murdoch to stop publishing.
If they don't give a fuck, then why are they going out of their way to disable their devices? Wouldn't not giving a fuck entail just dropping support?
Bigger guys like Stripe have huge anti-fraud departments, using a variety of techniques, including but not limited to machine learning, allowing them to derive results like this themselves, in near-real-time.
>Companies are going to stop incorporating in the US

No they won't. We should still abolish corporate income tax though.
yikes indeed
What is meant by referrer "history"? As far as I know, referrer in http headers can refer only to the one most recently visited resource.

Edit: And what's with this?

> There is another feature in browsers which is “Do Not Track” (http://donottrack.us/). For organic/real users the possible options are “Yes”, “No”, “Unspecified”;

The DNT http header has 2 values. "0" and "1".
Moxie on GPG:

> The protocol reflects layers of cruft built up over the 20 years that it took for cryptography (and software engineering) to really come of age, and the fundamental architecture of PGP also leaves no room for now critical concepts like forward secrecy. [0]

> We could try to slap a GUI on top of it, but I don't believe great products are made that way. Good UX requires thinking about interactions all the way down to the protocol. [1]

[0] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104562
Man, I work about a block from there and would've registered in a heartbeat had I known about the conference. The talk sounds fantastic. Any idea if they sell day-of tickets? I don't see them anywhere but figured I may as well ask.
NYC adds more capacity in a year than SF adds in a decade.

You don't need eminent domain to build high rises. Developers can easily make very compelling offers to those currently in small houses to get them to move.
Apparently I had the same issue... I specified the key ID when exporting, instead of the email address, and it worked!
> Increasingly, the choice not to locate your company in SF is a sign of competitive intelligence.

Sorry, but this is flawed logic.

Tech, more than seemingly any other industry I can think of, has a winner-takes-all model of success. Given this, starting a tech company anywhere other than where the overwhelming majority of the most capable employees live is virtually suicide. And this seems to pan out in the data as well — Twitter, Square, Uber, Google, Facebook, Reddit, AirBnB, Apple, Oracle, Box, Palantir, Pinterest, Lyft, Stripe, CloudFlare… not that these are all of tech, but finding even a fraction of these anywhere (other than perhaps New York) is a stretch.

Given that, it's patently worth it to pay the extra cost per employee, when the relative value of each employee to the company ends up being so high compared to other industries.

This is not to say you can't build a strong tech company in other parts of the US, but you're stacking the odds against you by doing so.
A golang framework for Amazon Alexa skills
Comments in TFA also links to an official source https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/06/24/wh...
Great reason to use a throwaway fb account with tinder.
Manhattan also has a lot more demand and benefits than SF.

NYC also offers plenty of compelling options in other boroughs that are simultaneously cheaper and more convenient than their SF equivalents.
Politicians, or the one's that care about their constituents,
need to nip this in the bud.

Something like the Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative.

The inititative would have to go deeper, and include all the issues brought up in this article.

I am so tired of throwing away perfectly good items I bought
because I can fix it, can't get parts, can't afford the Authorized Repair Center, not agreeing to one sided TOS, not having access to their sacred propriatiatry systems, etc.

Obviously, the initiative will need a lot of thought put into it, but it's time. I'm still on the fence when it comes to original propriatiatry information, but most of it is not original, or inventive. It's just information they don't want us to have!

My biggest gripe is not this Nest product Google bought.

It's not having access to my cars electricial system, schematics to electronic devices (the one's the company technicians use--they are like cartons. Company technicians have wonderful repair information.), appliance repair information, all electronic devices, and even the factory oiling diagram of that Rolex on your wrist.

Right to buy parts if available from the company would be tacked onto the bill. Oh yea, the intentional bricking of any devise would become illegial, or only warrantied in special cases--that would be decided by a judge.

I just want information, and parts, and some protection from sneaky ways to brick a product. The initiative won't be perfect, but it will give a company second thought when they decide to get Cute/Slick. Not having access to the repair of your product is sneaky way to keep you spending.

The time has come. The average consumer could care less. They seem to buy whatever looks shiny. You people will have to push for some protection.
Although it's great to have everything gathered in one place (and what's everything, eh?), the json output is clearly not human readable. A 3am debugging will be difficult with that. A curse interface is a requirement IMHO.
> Windows a first-class POSIX development setup.

http://midipix.org/

Coming soon :)
Facebook’s automatic alt-text for images
I'll take it a step farther. How many of those 1B+ people even know the difference between a slash and backslash.

I hear people identify the characters incorrectly ALL the time.
Next up: cars!
Its not just about the stuff in your neighborhood.

In NYC at 4am, I could Seemless any meal/quantity I wanted!

In Seattle, I can only get pizza past 2am.
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Taxes are roughly 50% for someone making 120k. Maybe closer to 45% when its all said and done. There's state income taxes, federal income, Medicare and social security, sales tax, property tax, real estate taxes, and then special taxes on stuff like gas, guns, phone bills, hotels and car rentals, airplane tickets, etc.

For all our complaints about how evil taxes are we sure have a whole lot of them!

If you are normal. If you're particularly rich then it'll be different because the majority of your assets aren't from income and there's all kinds of loopholes. If you're particularly poor taxes will be significantly lower but the threshold is pretty low... The poverty line for a family of 4 is shockingly low.
Hey, I just sent you a message on Orkut.
More eletronic devices, more broken devices.

More smart devices, more devices infected by viruses.

More IoT devices, chaos.

The only people who are able to use smart devices are the ones who projected them. There's no point in trying to sell to the large public a lot of things they will not understand, this will only make them dependent.