skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, Dallas Texas, and San Francisco as well as Silicon Valley and I can honestly say living in SF or Silicon Valley is way more expensive. Rent probably averages about $1700-$2300 for a decent one bedroom apartment and more for two bedroom per month.

Utilities are about the same everywhere you live. Public transportation is a bit spendier than every other city I've lived in (Caltrain and BART costs). Unsure about the Bus, it's probably comparable.

Sales Tax is ridiculously higher here than anywhere I've been. If you live in the city and eat out, expect an addition 3-4% health tax charged at most restaurants.

Parking sucks in the city. Street cleaning tickets of $53 to $103 dollars are VERY common. Expect to bankroll a ton of parking meters whether you live downtown or not or pay a lot in parking garages if you plan on using your car to get around the city.

Entertainment costs are also higher than most other places I've lived. A standard movie ticket here is like $11 or so up to $17 with IMAX per ticket per showing. That should give you a rough idea of cost.

Groceries and Household Shopping. I've compared cost of stuff like shampoo and what not to cost I use to pay outside of California and noticed that for the same size bottle or smaller, I am paying possible a couple dollars more even from the same store. So cost of goods is slightly more expensive here base on a few comparisons I've done.

That should give you a ROUGH estimate on how much things cost around here and what it would be like.
When you say you eat whole grains, does that just mean rice like grains? Whole grain bread still has plenty of gluten in it so I'm interested what your whole grains look like. I'm in the process of converting to a completely grain free diet and it's made a big difference in my sleep as well as my body fat percentages.
Going for a run and I'll have one up. For now, you can contact me directly: omar.bohsali@gmail.com. Thanks.
If your startup works than it's good no matter what. I still consider Twitter stupid, but what do I know. Tons of people think Farmville is stupid, but Zynga is doing extremely well.

It might not help that you think your own idea is stupid, though.
I'd be interested to also see a study comparing a regular diet with one that's only whole grains as well as one that is completely grain free. I know that processed grains are definitely starting to show up as really bad for us but I think removing grains entirely is likely to be even better than just going with whole grains.
I agree; they sound like interesting English courses. They're very David Foster Wallace-y. They also look like good examples of "courses liberal arts students take to evade math requirements".
If it makes money, then it is smart! If you think you have a money maker, then go for it. You can always iterate as you move forward.
they are better for getting through snow. off road tires do much better in the snow. studded ones are even better. rain isnt going to be much of an issue with off road or street tires, snow and ice are. studded tires are best but seriously overkill for most people. off road tires are a nice compromise unless you live someplace that gets tons of snow- which i suspect the op isnt because of the combo of snow and wet rather than just snow.
"This is why Asia is winning, by the way." Winning at what, exactly? What a loaded statement... with absolutely no substance. Also, I'm not all that familiar with the U.S. college system, but if you were highly interested in math and science wouldn't you go to a different kind of university than a liberal arts college (i.e.one with a bigger focus on math, science, engineering)? So what is the relevance of comparing U.S. liberal colleges with 'Asia'?
This is because someone else comes up and proclaims that it's the year of the linux desktop every year. This should be taken about as seriously as "x is dead" posts until it's the consensus of the majority of the industry.
http://rubyinside.com http://railscasts.com http://ruby-toolbox.com http://railstutorial.org
Sorry, only just got back to comments today. I'm in academia, so yes, not big on branding. The only attachments I like to receive are papers, calls for papers, agendas, student work, stuff like that. These tend to be important and can get lost in the pile if every email comes with an attachment.

Mail.app handles any attachments as attachments (even inline ones). If images are linked to as part of HTML email it will display them (but not by default due to spam tracking -- you have to click a button to display them), and not count them as attachments though.
ICANN has been a big drag on the world wide web for far too long. Perhaps stupid politics like this will be the straw the breaks the camel's back.

And attempting to censor the internet could well be the straw that breaks the US federal government's back. As if there isn't enough anti-federalist / libertarian sentiment bubbling up lately, they want to start following after China's Great Firewall? Smart move...
We prefer to just let somebody else manage it: ServerDensity is the best we have found. You can also use PagerDuty in tandem with ServerDensity.
its actually very interesting about what @colinsidoti said about twitter, its stupid but yet it kind of solves a problem, although twitter is very celebrity orianted!! thats why i don't like it!!!
Another way to look at it is "a math class they'll be able to use, rather than a math class they won't use".
FWIW, I write code on my 13" MacBook all the time.
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What's the minimum you'd use for iPad development?
http://www.google.ca/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&so...

I am eager to find out which one.
Hello, I have no doubt that this tool is really usefull. But as a non techie I dont understand the purpose. Can somebody explain me or refer me to an article that can explain why test HTTP caches and what is it?
Very nice stuff!
If you don't mind me asking, what do you use as an SMS gateway?
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I have this planned actually. It's viable technically, and probably interesting, depending on how you execute the idea :)

As I programmer, it offers me the possibility to keep working from my coding environment instead of switching to Photoshop etc; that's a selling point.
The key is "Rest of your life" might be 5 years. You don't know. The next 5 years is every bit as important as the next 50. Looking back 50 years from now, regardless the outcome, will you be proud about what you're currently doing? It sounds like you already know a few things you'll be proud of trying which is a good start, just make sure they're prioritized in the order that matters most to you.
This isn't credible at all. Two-bedroom in Mountain View for $1200? Please name the apartment complex you are living in. A one-bedroom in Mountain View is already on the extremely ghetto side. Decent places start at about $1400 for a one-bedroom.
Maximum's 10 seconds?
I couldn't agree more with the middle paragraph.

But 'no classes' and 'no functions'?

class NewClass:
def NewFunction(arg0, arg1):
print("Hello, World")

Python has both.

Pointers wise, I think you can learn them fairly late. I certainly didn't struggle to pick them up after years of using pointer-free languages.

(edit fixed my formatting)
I'd like to know too. I'm building an SMS project and the best I can get is around $0.03 per SMS (moonshado through heroku) and I'm not sure how I'll be able to make any profit at that price.
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what are the advantages over having your yahoo or gmail calendar text you?

will remembering my goals better actually help me reach them, as is stated? why might that be?

do you vary the frequency of the reminders at all?

Would this be enhanced if you had human mentors that saw the interactions? I find messages computers are dismissed pretty easily, while people a need to respond or show progress to humans.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but ideas people are generally useless.

I'm not 'undervaluing' the skill I'm simply weighing them and engineers win.

'the mark of someone with little real-world battle scars....'

The opposite is more true with engineers, we hate it when we are shown products by people without the 'battle' scars to properly gauge the value of a project.

Like I said, I can more easily learn those lessons than they can learn to program.

I, as a 'technical' person find absolutely no value on someone who doesn't understand the deep technical implications of any project. As a team we'll learn the marketing. In the end, we can outmaneuver any silly person with just ideas that delegates them.

BTW, this is my opinion. Not to say it won't work, that's just how we 'technical' people see ideas people.
Nagios is probably the best free option, although configuration can be pretty complicated. I like AppFirst, it does most of the stuff you want out of the box, and you can use any Nagios plugin to add specific functionality for whatever else you want.
Doesn't the iPad only fit on the 17" MacBook Pro? I don't think there is any other MacBook that can hold the iPad simulator.
This is my question, too! I want one...

Wil Shipley blogged a couple years ago here:
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/01/macbook-air-haters-suck-m...

about developing his Delicious Library app on his Air. The post itself is a bit much, but there's an addendum at the bottom with some compile stats. Namely, the Air (because he got an SSD) compiled Delicious Library faster than his Macbook Pro.

But I would love to hear others' experience developing on an Air, since that's what I'm considering now, too. This Stack Overflow post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549008/macbook-air-for-ip...

mentions that Xcode can't autocomplete well on an old air, but I think it might be because it has a balls-slow 4200 rpm hard drive.

The only thing that concerns me is the processor. What things tax the CPU?
Yes, there are a limited number of thin processes running on the server and they block (making them non-blocking is work for another day). The code's on github, if you need a longer delay feel free to fork: http://github.com/rconradharris/reallyslowsite.com
Agree to the first idea.
Second one - this is a recent launch outta Rails Rumble:
http://desksnear.me/
So my main development machine is a cluster of servers behind a firewall. Therefore, it doesn't matter what my thin client's specs are: I typically develop from a 15" MBP, but since all it's running locally is ssh / sshfs / sftp and a browser, it totally doesn't matter. A future of living and working in the cloud? The machine is literally named the "Air".
will remembering my goals better actually help me reach them

I think quite the opposite. What makes you reach goals is never forgetting them to begin with.

I can't speak for others, but I have very few goals, and they haunt me, awake or asleep. The rest of the "self dev" stuff I off-load to my fiancee :-P
Awesome. I also like the way State Farm stepped up and paid for the damage incurred by rescuing this guy.
It neither logs me in with my password (just registered and a) I didnt forget the password I typed and b) it was saved to LastPass) nor restores it to my email (I checked Spam, yes)

And, something like a random time (like, some random moment from 17pm to 20pm) will be a cool option
Great thing you are using Django, by the way!
The high res 15" screen is suitable for every resolution/orientation of iOS devices currently available.
That's awesome, I'll be checking it out for my project. I thought I was going to have to write my own iPhone app, but I see you've already done that.
At my previous job we were using msgme.com
Not sure what their rates are.
It's probably hard to get critical mass, I'm looking for a flatshare in London at the moment and I've posted on my twitter to see if their were any startup folks with a spare room, and despite getting retweeted by some fairly prominent london startup people I didn't get much of a response.

If you can't pull a good response from twitter I'm not sure a dedicated site has any chance.
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Craigslist has RSS feeds that respect categories/search terms: http://www.craigslist.org/about/rss :) You're technically not supposed to use them for search engines specific to housing, but Craigslist doesn't seem very serious about enforcement.
I am not a Twittery type of person either, I would rather have people tweet about me and what I am doing than do it myself. Although a lot of people do find it fun and fascinating.

If what you have in mind for your startup solves a problem for people, that seems like something that may be on the right track to make some good money.
That is NOT the New Yorker.
Not so math-y? Topology? Models of life? The Mathematics of Chance?

For someone not knowing mathematics, topology would probably sound rather weird. But people should know that mathematics is used to model real-life events: How would Models of life be a bad math-class?

The Mathematics of Chance? Probability and statistics has usually been pretty damn important, and it still is.
Recommended for those looking for helpful reading material: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Art-Great-Speech-One-How/dp/08144...
No, a single room at the Hacker House is ~$600. Still a hell of a good deal.
Munin for stats, nagios for reports / actions, monit for keeping things running in general. I don't use monit for resource management, since it's just not complex enough for some of the stuff I need to check.

I tried cacti once and god it's bad... It works, but the lack of a simple overview of how it works / how it's supposed to be configured is just too clear.

I'm keeping an eye on http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/ - might be worth checking out in the future if I ever get into large-scale-nagios problems.
My fave is the swimming pool and spa on the roof of Singapore Changi terminal 1. Pack your bathers - they provide a towel, lockers and showers.
You're right, I should have read the OP more carefully.
Ask HN: Twitter analytics dashboard vs Radian6,Scoutlabs et al.?
With the confirmation around launch of free analytics dashboard by Twitter towards the end of this year, I wonder what's going to be the future steps for companies like Radian6, Scoutlabs, techrigy and many more which are built and monetized around the same concept. There is no doubt that what Twitter can do with its own data, no body else can do.

People can also argue that some of these companies give an integrated platform for analysis of Twitter, FB, Youtube etc but the current impact of Twitter in marketing arena is far more greater than others and so people are mostly interested in seeing results coming only out of Twitter
I tend to agree with the guy from the TED talk posted a few weeks ago who believes that right now, all our basic maths courses build towards calculus, and that's a waste since most people never use it, and the right fix is to refocus on statistics.
Despite the fact that (a) people often do sleep on them, mostly by taking up 3-4 adjoining seats, and (b) sleeping in airports is a common and reasonable goal.
If it was as simple as working hard at it or being determined then everyone would be doing it.

Ummm, no. Most people seem to be determined, but only to do as little as possible to get by.

We clearly just disagree, but I reject your premise that most people are not physically capable of greatness. I don't know you but you're on HN and you express yourself well in writing, which already puts you ahead of 99% of people. The main thing holding you back is that you're determined to not succeed.
A while back I made a choice to lose some weight and eat healthier. I cut out anything with lots of sugar or refined starches - and deep-fried food. So, I switched from white rice to brown, white bread to whole wheat, and white tortillas to corn. Other than that I ate just about what ever I wanted and ate until I was full, but not over-full.

One of the things I found was that the temptation for sugar went away as long as I cut it out completely. Whenever I had a little, it started to creep back in.

I steadily lost about 3 pounds a week until I'd lost about 40. I was even able to stop taking high blood-pressure meds. That was about a year ago I've kept the weight off. Actually I'm still losing weight, but much slower.
For alerts i am using nagios as it has all kind of checks for most services integrated. Besides services i also monitor security updates (any security upgrades available which are not installed) for debian hosts and resource shortage of openvz containers.

I am also using monit for immediate actions like restarting web server or checking some programs.

I manage both via puppet, that means I deploy a new host and the nagios configuration gets adjusted automatically with the corresponding services.

For performance data there are several tools like cacti, munin or collectd.

- Munin has iirc the problem thats it gets slowish as it polls all data from hosts then generate the carts for all hosts. Only a problem if you have many hosts...

- Collectd is a quite nice and fast monitoring solution (supports updates every second) and has advanced features like sending the data to multicast addresses. The only imho major drawback is that there comes no good webui bundled with collectd though many external uis exists.

EDIT: I forgot to mention icigna http://www.icinga.org/ a fork of nagios after some trademark problems iirc.

Monit and nagios are integrated with the ticketing system, e.g. recovery message closes automatically the corresponding ticket.
"...and Managers"
How to start a company
I think whole grains are great. They provide fiber, lots of vitamins, and they fill you up with less calories, so you eat less of the other bad stuff.
> I hate those, at least the "Unix layout" ones.

Don't say that. Those keyboards are great. I am thinking of buying a couple in case Larry decides to ax the whole line just because its sheer coolness makes their RDBMS look so meh...

Now, seriously, the added keys are useful (if you can make them do something), like the 122-key I also mentioned. And there is also an element of nostalgia for the golden age of the Sun workstation.
Beware of moonshado unless you're sending marketing messages - their support pages state that all texts sent from them have this footer: "Msg&Data rate may apply txt STOP to opt-out". Not something I'd want if your users are paying to be sent messages (like with this service).

I'm looking at using CDYNE for texts. At volume they also charge 3c, but there's no distinction between networks with their price so you pay the same to text Nepal as you do San Francisco.
Uh no. The hi-res screen is 1050 high. Which is not enough for the iPad simulator in portrait mode at 100%. It works because the simulator simply gets scrollbars, but I find that very annoying.

The 17" is 1200 high. Which is is good for any iOS device in the emulator.
I use Todoist, and love it. But the one feature I desperately want added is the ability to have start dates so that Gantt charts can be created for my week/month/year.

If you had this, I would give Mr. Goal a try and if it was any good, I'd probably pay for it. It'd be nice to have a service that told me how hellish some school weeks would be in advance.
I meant needing classes. You can program in python without ever looking at them; where as in C#, they're required to do anything. Not needing that extra boiler plate code is just one more hurtle a new programmer won't need to learn before getting into the real meat of development, if they chose to use Python as their first language. I should have been more clear about that.
I guess it depends. I worked on a 13 inch MB screen for three years before getting a 15 inch MBP. I am much happier with the 15 inch. This is mostly because I use vim with 4 to 6 split screens at the same time.
As long as the airines/airports have no incentive to improve things, nothing will be done. Real competition is needed, but I don't see where it might come from - maybe people deciding to stop traveling by plane.
"I've lived in New York and Seattle, and SF is nowhere near as expensive as New York and nowhere near as affordable as Seattle"

Whoa really? With SF I have generally paid more for food, more for public transit (BART doesn't have an unlimited option plus MUNI and BART are two seperate entities while the MTA is one), and about the same in rent.

Granted, I live(d) in Brooklyn so the rent is definitely more affordable than Manhattan but the accessibility of public transit makes it far easier to live on the outskirts than my experience so far in SF.
I use a 13" 2006 MacBook + a 22" screen for development of my toy iPhone apps, and I'm looking to upgrade to the Air. Developing just on the 13" screen works, but I like to have the simulator and the console on the 13" and keep the code on the 22". It's tricky to fit the iPad simulator on either screen though.
It won't show as an upvote to the other story if the URL is different, for example:

domain.com/nameofarticle

vs

domain.com/nameofarticle?view=singlepage
Thats really useful, especially for someone like me who has no idea of the parts of San Fransisco.
Here's a list of some ideas that were entertained despite already existing, and ended up wildly successful. Any of them sound familiar?

- Google ("Nah, who needs another search engine")

- Facebook (MySpace)

- Zappos (selling shoes, idea copied from a guy in 800BC)

In an exerpt from Felix Dennis' book 'How to Get Rich', he describes how ideas can't be patented, it's the execution behind it that matters.

Personally, none of my ideas are original. My only hope is to execute existing ideas better.
You can scale the simulator down to 50%.

And if you don't need the window chrome, you can fit almost all of the iPad simulator onto a 1440x900 display. Enough so that its definitely usable.
At least for me, Xcode has got a lot more bloated since 2008. Even both my iMac and my MBP seem underpowered - I hate to think what an air would be like. And if Xcode 4 is anything to go by, this isn't going to improve.

My guess is that it's not going to be any fun if you want to run an IDE. But regular text editors shouldn't cause a problem.
are thier a lot of english(uk) people in silcon valley?
On the contrary, the environment play a strong role in intelligence.

Few, if any, poor families taught their children to be an autodidact. Once people are autodidact, I would expect a rise in socioeconomic status.

Let face it, it's going to be hard to rise up when you're stuck in a poor neighborhood with gangsters and bad influences.
Yes it is. I am using my x301 as primary development machine. The x301 as well as the MB Air have 1440x900 which is enough for me.
My grandfather worked until 84 simply because he loved his job & co-workers. Had he not been mugged he would likely have worked up until his death. He was not wealthy but was a very happy man.

What he taught by example was that whether you are an entrepreneur or a cog in a machine, if you love what you do, retirement just sounds boring.

Do what you love, if you're one of the persistent & fortunate ones you may even become rich from it. In any case, better to live life doing what you enjoy than look back on your last 40 years and think, "my god where did it all go."
Ask HN: What's the deal with Steve Ballmer?
I guess I'm the last person to see all the Steve Ballmer videos on YouTube. I don't have a specific question I'm just at a loss as to why a person, especially the CEO of Microsoft, would act like that in public... repeatedly..

So, what's his deal?
As a college student myself, I think this list is rather ridiculous and hope that the person who made it doesn't take it seriously.