skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the author is right in his assertion that collusion requires a monopoly. A collusion to fix prices and exclude competition is a per se violation of the Sherman Act regardless of the market power of the participants or the actual effect on competition, I believe.
Rent.com is good, plus they send you $100 if you sign a lease you found through their site. I left the Bay Area for Indiana and was pleasantly surprised when I got a check in the mail from them. shrug That's a big plus IMO.

Also Redwood City is on the south end of "the peninsula," touching "the south bay." It's not a bad place to live, you're iirc 7 or 8 bart stops from the city. But yeah if you're gonna be there for the summer I would definitely consider living in the city and commuting to work. It would be a really awesome experience.

You can find inexpensive places to live and mass transit is EVERYWHERE, plus a lot of great night life in walking distance. Bring a bike. It's definitely possible to commute to Redwood City every day. Get a kindle.

tl;dr: I miss the Bay Area so bad, and I'm jealous of you. TAKE ME WITH YOU. I don't eat much, I promise.
NFC Data Dump: Part I
NFC technology and concepts sprang from RFID (a family of technology itself, operating across 4 very different frequencies) technology. RFID emerged originally as a replacement for barcodes in the supply chain. The metrics of focus within the supply chain were on read range and tag_reads/ second. NFC operates at 13.56MHz. In RFID, you had the reader that was powered, and the tag which was a powerless inductor with a EEPROM chip attached. The reader is the transceiver, the tag is a transponder. NFC turned this paradigm on its head-> the transceiver/ transponder were one. In ISO RFID standards, you had ISO 15693 and ISO 18000-3 that focused on the supply chain; and, ISO 14443A and 14443B which focused on security/ data rate ->payment->passport. Sony purposed a 14443C standard for the FeliCa chip, but that failed. NFC technology only works within a range of 4 inches (10cm) by standard, but 2 inches in reality.

I've got a ton more knowledge about NFC, but I don't want to spam HN if there is no interest. If there is interest, I can go into silicon mfgs and device mfgs (like VIVOtech, about to go IPO)
This is a straw man. Interpolated tweening frames are not the same as actual frames with new content.

It may look like trash, but--then again--so do upscaled images.
I honestly don't see what the problem is with what chap wrote - it's more than 20 years since I graduated and I felt pretty much as he does about Unix, and to a certain extent I still do (even though I don't have any problem using Windows).

I've hired a lot of people over the years, for my own company and for others, and if someone wrote this to me I'd thank them for their feedback and wish them the best luck with their career.
Does Silicon Valley Have an Insider Trading Problem?
I got confused with the title. Why is "IT" or "IN" Rocket....?
Monads in Python (another approach)
If it is that blatant then follow up with the relevant professional association that licenses lawyers wherever you are - if there was misconduct then you may well be due some money in recompense.
Some rules kids won't learn in school (1996)
Yes I totally agree why craigslist dominates the industry because of simplicity and ease of use for users. Craigslist has always been the place where i go first to look for used products especially cars. But there are two things i dislike about craigslist. One is sometimes you'll receive fishing emails asking you to reset password where you later noticed your computer is contain with viruses. Second, buying stuff on craigslist can be very time consuming especially with cars. You'll definitely have to travel multi times to different sellers before finding your ideal item. Plus the photos on craigslist are so low quality, you barely can see any scratches or damages. One time i had to traveled 2 hours to check out a car posted on craigslist then realized the seller lied to me which wasted 4 hrs of my time driving back and forth. So i started a website to help people buy and sell used stuff via videos instead of photos. I believe video is the best way to showcase something second hand online. It can save people so much time traveling to many places when they can instead watch it online without leaving the comfort of their homes. Although there are some disadvantages of using video to advertise your products but it can go a long way in the future as technologies increasingly advance. What do you think about the video concept? Can video replace photos for second hand market sometime in the near future?

Leon-
http://www.123exchanges.com
When are we getting those RFID microtags which you can eat with the food in restaurant, and have your stomach scanned when it's time to pay?
I spent close to 8 hours a day for almost two years in front of one of these when I was first starting out:

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/univac1710.html

Which is why I emphasized "stream-of-consciousness". When you're doing that much data entry (U.S. Navy, destroyer tender, circa 1975, btw) you quickly learn to let muscle memory take over while your mind is elsewhere. Hell, I was one of the slower typists in the shop -- there were guys around me that could consistently cruise through work orders at 200WPM or more!
Silicon providers that make tag ICs (transponders):

NXP Semi- (formerly Phillips semiconductor)
- most prominent being Mifare (14443A)
Texas Instruments- (15693/ 14443B)
Broadcom- through Innovision acquisition (14443B)
Infineon- (1443B) they got the contract for US passports (I read and have a 500 page spec; NDA required)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/compete-on-compete/

http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/07/hey-what-happened-to-scribd...

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/usatoday-relaunch-as-social...

et cetera
Who cares about 'advanced' users? There's so many less of them than normal users.

Do normal users actually pick devices based on being able to side-load apps? If yes, then I'd eventually expect to see it in iOS. If no, then I'd not expect to see it.

For what little it's worth, I think the answer is 'no', but that's based purely on my personal experience and could well be wrong.
This is my attempt at being serious because NFC can enable a_lot of companies and I want the smart folks that read HN to be as informed as possible.
padmapper.com is quite good
Main dev machine is an old MacPro, with 2 x 3GHz quad core xeons and 8 GB ram (and dual 30" cinema displays :)
The laptop is an even older MacBookPro, first gen 1.83Ghz Core Duo, with 2GB ram. Still works like a champ.
Windows 7 and Debian Squeeze run in vmware fusion VMs. Debian is also what runs on my deployment servers.
No, this isn't about hacking or startups, but in response to some of the comments being made elsewhere about curmudgeons and "entitled new grads" I thought it worth trotting out this rather elderly piece.

It looks and feels trite - I know - but there are lessons here that are worth taking on board. In particular, many of the comments are reflected in the more recent advice often given to entrepreneurs and hackers.

Make of it what you will.
> When I write a letter to somebody, nobody has the right to intercept the letter in transit, break its seal and examine its contents unless I am under formal, individual and prior suspicion of a specific crime. In that case, law enforcement (and only them) may do this. Of course, I am never under any obligation to help anybody open and interpret my letters. It is perfectly reasonable to demand that this applies online as well.

I would be willing to bet that 90% of the readership of TorrentFreak have run wireshark at one time or another.
Ask HN: Freelance Matchmaker
I am curious about whether or not there is a freelancer-to-freelance matchmaking service, sort of like odesk or elance, but instead matches freelancers looking for subcontractors/help on projects with other freelancers.

If you're a freelancer, under what circumstances -- if any -- would you be interested in taking on a subcontractor/developer under the auspices of an experience or skill exchange? (i.e. You have skills with technology "x", and you'd take on a developer who was seeking to develop a skill set with "x") Sort of like a remote mentorship. Would there ever be a case where you'd do this with a stranger?
Your best bet is HackerHouse IMO. If you're really looking for an apartment, go with http://padmapper.com, really easy way to browse for apartments
When I was living in the Bay Area I found my place in craigslist, don't know if it's still good. But yes, you should go live in San Francisco and comute to work.
Henry Royce - Woz of the early 1900's
You can auth up to 100 devices for testing, and use TestFlight (http://testflightapp.com/) or similar to distribute them over the air.

Yes, adhoc distribution doesn't scale out, but if you've got 100 eager users you can probably get them to convince management to sign the forms.
I know you were joking, but actually, why not? If the color scheme is easier on someone's eyes, wouldn't it make sense to use it everywhere? Personally I've often found using dark themes in my editor a bit jarring when switching to other tools like a file browser or terminal if the settings are drastically different.
I am very interested. Especially about mass production costs, information about contract manufacturers/design firms for NFC components/designs friendly to startups, tech challenges in noisy (as in EM noise) and crowded (as in dozens/hundreds/thousands of NFC devices in a small area) environments, regulatory environments around the world (as applicable), adoption stories and results, security concerns.

Thanks!
ISO 18092 has two parts, and part 2, where your phone is just a passive tag, is not currently possible, This technology has been stagnant for 4 years because Visa/ mastercard/ amex have been fighting att/verzon/tmobile over who gets the fees.
Stop Lying About What You Do
Padmapper.com puts listings on a map, and includes a lot of useful features like remembering listings you've already viewed.
Pivot Now is Less Painful Than Turnaround Later
Consider if a Windows user said he didn't want to work at a Unix shop because Windows is a better-designed operating system. Would you not consider this a judgement of Unix?

Judgment of a platform and judgment of its users are separate issues.
I would argue that unencrypted communication is the equivalent of sending a postcard. There's no envelope or anything protecting the contents, so it's hardly a crime if someone happens to see the contents while it's in transit.

If you don't want someone to see what you wrote, encrypt it. And yes, this will take a massive amount of user reeducation.
How to learn programming
steps to take to be somewhere in the field of programming
...the fact that on a macro scale cost of labour is related at least as much to geography than productivity is pretty fundamental to left wing arguments that the rich are having it too easy and many US citizens without access to capital wouldn't be able to afford to eat without welfare and some protectionism.

If only Tino (the author of the blog post) thought of that. Then he might have written this:

"There is so little demand in the labor market for unskilled people that the poor in industrialized countries increasingly don't even work full time.

The fact that the rich don't exploit the [same country] poor doesn't mean the rich shouldn't help the poor. But it's one thing to claim you are rich because you are stealing from poor people, and another to believe you have an obligation to help all members of society due to randomly having being granted more valued skills."

Oh wait, he did think of it and wrote exactly that (minus the words in brackets, which I added).

The point he is making is that if you want to argue for intra-country welfare, the argument that the rich owe the (same country) poor because they exploit them is fallacious. And implicitly, I believe he is assuming "same western country, particularly the US", since all his data is from the US.

As you note, it's the people without jobs who need welfare and it's hard to exploit someone who isn't working (only 15% of poor adults work, or even seek work). So clearly, the US poor are not being exploited.
I've been working in this industry for a while, and I've never regretted my decision to pretty much be a Linux-only guy. You can't do everything, and I like working with tools that are pleasing to me. I felt that way when I started working and I feel that way now.

Sure, I probably lose out on some jobs because I'm not a Windows guy, but I'm also not an Oracle guy or a SAP guy or a Cobol guy or a Fortran guy either. It's a big field, and there's lots of room. As of late, I've found that even here in Italy there are plenty of Rails jobs, so, despite knowing it, I've also made a decision to not be a "PHP guy" either.

So I don't think that sort of choice is merely lack of experience.

I think the only reason for worry is if someone decides they're an XYZ guy, and that's all they do. I've used many languages professionally, and find learning new ones fun. I have more time for that if I spend less screwing around with things I don't like.
I like the Fridge, it seems fairly solid, simple to use, and fun. But there are two main problems with it:

1) Getting friends etc. to buy in. Until I do, I'm suffering from the ghost town problem.

2) There isn't a compelling use-case for me. Sure I'd like to get my family using it, except more and more of them are on Facebook and are fine using it. I don't have a compelling argument to get us to switch to Fridge (or some other smaller social network.)

I would try to get my workplace on it, but even then we're all friends on Facebook so what's the point?

I want to use it, I like it, I like the control it gives me, but I am struggling with the why and how.
Writing this in an apartment surrounded with digital clutter - discarded netbooks and such - it may feel hyporitical. But I really feel convergence is killing the need for separate devices.

Macbook Air is my "work computer". It is small and highly portable, and still has great battery life. Since I mostly write software and don't use an IDE, there is little in computing power that I need.

Then I have the N900, a hacker-friendly Linux phone with a great camera. I read stuff on it while traveling, and listen to music or podcasts during flights. It has good enough camera that I rarely take the "superzoom" with me, and when I have it, the Maemo phone takes more pictures.

GPS navigators I never liked. I'm more in favor of clock, compass and paper map, with the vastly better "big picture" that provides.

Books I have gotten rid of. At home I read them on the Kindle iPad application, and on the road from either the phone or the laptop.

On top of this stuff, good speakers at home, and nice-cancelling headphones for travel complete the kit.

But I wonder how long until the laptop-smartphone-tablet combo will converge?
>On the flip side, I personally don't know where this attitude comes from that the younger generations should have to toil and sweat and bleed before they get that opportunity engage in something that clicks with them.

It's that whole "paying your dues" mentality, isn't it? Which might be fine, if we weren't all participating in an industry where a well executed idea can turn things upside down.
tar xzvf Django-1.3.tar.gz
This seems quite MS-centric, but if you're the Tom Bell I think you are (UK, North- West?), then I know you're an MS guy, so all is forgiven ;-)

One note; pip isn't really a deployment system for Python, it's more of a package installation system. Fabric is probably a better option here.
Simplify complicated eBay fees with eBay Calculator.
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Just like any other publication it has an audience. That is how I see TechCrunch. There isn't a publication I know of that can be all things to all people, less be correct about everything. Even the editors at Wikipedia fight over content... Thus I accept the 80/20 rule on TC and basically any Internet site.
The one you can't afford to miss:

Command-`	Activate the next open window in the frontmost application
In India, bribe is considered as a tip that we give to waiter/waitress in US. http://truthaboutindiacorruption.org/
Definitely check out the Rails Tutorial. There is a book (paper or bits), and really nice screencasts. The thing I like about Michael Hartl is he is really down to earth, fun, and acknowledges in the video if he doesn't know something. I bought the PDF and screencasts and am working through it right now--I'm on chapter 5.

Then, you and a friend should go build something!
Warm congratulations to her.
Which Linux?
But remaining republics of USSR are relatively free from corruption https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Republics_of_...
Python or Ruby for fresh startup
Which one to choose? Both have great MVC frameworks. But I've heard that python has a bad mysql provider. Ruby is difficult to deploy... Is it easier to find rubypeople or pythoners?
It's part of the "solve everything by making it someone else's fault" mentality - politicians, and others who seek power through capitalization of others' pain, are masters of it.
I would also add the Pragmatic Programmer's _Agile Web Development with Rails, 4e_.
To be honest, I think your question should be "how to convey to YC that your TEAM is worth funding"
On 64-bit Ubuntu you will only get 0.2.6

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So? What is the point you are trying to make?
Because exchange of information over the internet fits more existing models than mail delivery, that's why it's a hard question to answer. It's a bit like mail delivery, but also shares characteristics with radio and television broadcasting, manufacturing, and distribution.
Alexa shows something similar, but it's pretty noisy: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/techcrunch.com#

I don't think the content has changed much, and TC is still my preferred "big tech blog". But FB comments decreased my visiting quite a bit. I used to comment with Disqus quite frequently. Trolling is down, but the comments are less interesting.

Think about what would happen to HN if we used FB profiles.

Comments are valuable content. They aren't just a widget. FB comments are bland.
Show HN: CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms
I remember seeing the Dragon Labs Dragonfish Glowing Form Demo[1] when it first came out, and it always stuck in my head. They implement the effect by using a rather large background image and a mask image and move the background image around via Javascript. I was inspired and wanted to see how close I could get with CSS3.

I recommend using a Webkit browser [and you can see an alternate version of the animation on Firefox 4].

[1] http://labs.dragoninteractive.com/panel/demo/
I'm not sure what to make of this ramble. I eat meat; I'm nowhere close to vegetarian. I'm pretty ok with that. I have 2 TVs. Both are connected to DVD players, and have no antenna or cable connections. I read a lot, and finish books. I try not to lie to myself, and when I catch myself doing it I try to come clean. So...
Ask HN: Programming Problems for Plane Rides
When I have been on flights recently without Wifi, I've been passing the time by doing programming problems I find online before the flight.

A few times now I've found myself scrambling before a flight to download some random CS course PDF or digging around recruiting sites for hiring challenges that don't assume I have an Internet connection.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a big page or site full of interesting problems that I could download locally? Generally problems that take from 30min - 2hrs to complete?
Seconding this, I've been reading this off and on for the past week and found that it was perfect to get me started.
Silicon providers that make reader ICs
(transceivers):

1) NXP semi
2) Sony Felica- very guarded, about everything
3) Melexis- they allow TI to repackage, but their IC can be used to call commands of all kinds; it isn't clear their Ip rights beyond 14443B. French Telecom has IP rights here.

Oops, I forgot:
4) Inside Contactless - French company (Visa is one strategic investor)
I think the single-object constraint here is an artifact of the UI rather than a limitation of the algorithm.
I just started learning RoR recently. As mentioned in the other comments, Michael Hartl's "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book) and the Rails Guides (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/) are all you need.

The Railscasts are a great resource as well - http://railscasts.com/episodes/archive

And a good starting resource for Ruby is the pickaxe book - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-1-9-Pragmatic-Program...
"I only took basic stats courses in college, but I know enough to know that's nowhere close to a big enough sample size to be statistically significant."

I am not a statistician, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that.

The real problem isn't the small sample size (2 million is really large), it's probably that they're not representative.
Going After Google
http://padmapper.com/ and co are great for finding apartment rentals, but I suggest you consider something like http://airbnb.com/ too.

It's very difficult finding a rental with less than a 12 month lease in SF. The best part of Airbnb or similar is, if you travel light, you can spend some time in different neighbourhoods which vary significantly in SF.

End of the day, you might even save some money compared to renting.
Finding Ruby and Python people is the least of the considerations. There are tons of people for both, including a huge swath of them who can do both well.

I'd recommend reading the discussion here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/91846/rails-or-django-or-...

Some great back-and-forth that may help illuminate your decision.

(I assume you're talking about Rails vs. Django, but Python has some lighter-weight frameworks that can speed up development. Ruby may too, but I'm not as familiar.)
I must say that you have great interviewing skills. It feels like a conversation is happening rather than firing questions at them. This something that I feel most other amateur interviewers typically miss. Great interview! :)
As an American, I can tell you that we find the practice of tacking on fees just as obnoxious as everyone else does. If you're a business extending the 'courtesy' of posting actual prices to other countries, we'd appreciate it if you'd also do it for us.
here's how my brother and I rolled. Packed up the car with a few belongings, left everything else behind. Drive across I-80 from PA to CA and then into San Fran. Met some people found an apt and made the deal. Lived in a hotel for a week until the room was ready.
Thanks for the suggestion. Padmapper indeed is pretty great, but the one problem I'm having is that most of the listings are for 12 month leases (or similar). Is there anyway to narrow the results to just sublets or listings just over the summer?