skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was slightly offput by this comment "the financial costs of moving (which are high - I've definitely spent hundreds on new drinking glasses alone!)"

Who spends hundreds on drinking glasses when they're financially strapped? That mindset percolates outward.

I think a good part of this outlook comes from kids who came from upper middle class backgrounds, went to good schools, and expect to repeat the success of their parents and live accordingly without much sacrifice.

Full disclosure: I fit that description. And like you I was laid off in 2001 and looked for other programming jobs to no avail for months... I remember my mindset well, strongly that of the victim. I was paralyzed to do anything other than cold call companies/recruiters, spruce up the resume on monster/dice, and feel sorry for myself over and over again on a daily basis. It only happened that a friend was working at a company I had an offer from in '99 and they were happy to give me a job. "Yes, dodged a bullet, got lucky!" And that's all it was, luck. I certainly didn't make it happer for myself. I've been working at that company for 11 years and for the most part it's been a ho-hum experience; I am actively working to move on to something better by doing freelance work on the side for cheap to build up a portfolio. I wonder how my life would have turned out if that safety net hadn't been there.
I tried to look at the ESTA form, but at the point where I read and agreed to the disclaimer, after I clicked on the Next button it wouldn't go any further.

Not a good start!
Interesting article, but isn't $75,000 a year pretty much slave wages in Manhattan? You could barely afford a small studio apartment for that much, and most likely need to live outside of downtown and commute in every day.
Python IDE for iOS gets 1.3.1 update, jumping on native development bandwagon
Google flushes heat from data center with toilet water
Another aspect of this that I noticed among many of my own friends when we were in our 20s and poor is that most people from a middle-class background have no idea how to live inexpensively. Many other problems follow from this chronic overspending when they cannot afford it. The thing is, they thought they were being "frugal" but the reality is that they were not even close. If you look, for example, how most immigrants bootstrap from nothing their spending patterns and priorities look very different and they usually manage to save quite a bit of money over time.

Savings plays a huge role in flexibility. When you are in your 20s without family, it is eminently possible to bootstrap enough savings from a really crappy jobs and even temp jobs to have the flexibility to move if you need to and still live an okay lifestyle even in a new city. Been there, done that. Very modest but comfortable. You would not want to live this way forever but it is only a bootstrap. It also instills good habits toward not buying a lot of "stuff" once you have a good paying job.

I will add that this same pattern applies to people with very good jobs too. I know people making six-figures that swear they are just getting by, paycheck to paycheck, with no savings. Their definition of "absolute necessity" gets stretched to the breaking point but they literally do not know how to live on less money. I do not have much sympathy in cases like this but it is also part of a larger pattern of people militantly refusing to live below their means.
Xbox 360 (mostly for Netflix and YouTube)
If your average American knew how little firearms training an average cop actually has they _would_ be afraid.
Regulate the Internet (but not like this)
Wages have gone up a lot since then, I would be very surprised if Fog Creek offered less $90,000 these days - that's about what most software companies offers start at. Heck, I hear that Facebook is offering $100,000 base salary for kids right out of school, so by all means they could be paying more. Also of note - the transition from $75,000 to $90,000 just means a wage increase of just shy of 4% per year, which seems expected.
You've obviously never worked for a government agency if you think anything could 'just happen' one day.
It's hard enough to get things done that you ARE legally allowed to do, let alone anything remotely questionable.
The Consumerization of IT brings many opportunities for startups that have to seduce the consumers in order to get access the businesses. It's "Saas 2.0".
Your identity ≠ Your code
It's also likely that they've got more efficient attacks than the public researchers have, since they have access not only to the public research but also to a set of well-paid brilliant minds who work on these problems every day, and have been for quite some time.

In case people aren't aware, this isn't just hyperbole.

The story of the DES S-Boxes[1] indicates the NSA (actually IBM working with NSA, but still) was roughly 15-20 years ahead of publicly known attack techniques in 1990. I'd imagine the public state of the art is a bit closer now, but there is little doubt they have a big lead.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.27...
How to be Paul Graham
That's not true at all. Maybe for the given shape of the pixels on these displays, but as a general statement, this is false.

If you have red, green, and blue subpixels that have exactly a 3:1 height-to-width ratio -- thus forming a perfect 1:1 square -- then you could have zero black space on all sides, and the pixels would appear perfectly square.
Ah yes I remember that now. Thanks for the reminder!
As for what I heard, writing books (especially on the IT-area) are not so profitable.
So my guess is that the authors are okey with donation for a good cause.
Which is annoying as fuck when you link to it, because then it causes the print dialog to pop up on my computer.
I don't buy into this logic. I'm sure it has an effect, but I don't see how a Baby Boomer working a job is worse for the economy than a Baby Boomer suckling on the government teat on retirement. It's not a zero sum game, if someone is doing productive work I think that's a net win for the economy.
I'd recommend Puzzle Palace by James Bamford.
If you have not watched the talk (http://vimeo.com/36579366), I highly,
highly recommend it. It's a very worthwhile and inspiring hour. In it
Bret Victor (http://worrydream.com) discusses living life according to an
overriding principle. For him, that principle is that creative tools
should offer immediate feedback. He demonstrated a number of software
tools to that effect: creating computer art, games, algorithms,
electrical circuits and animations by seeing the effects in real-time
as you code them. The link is an implementation of one of his demos.

But more important than his particular example is the general theme.
Having a principle, which is a specific, actionable thing wrong with
the world (other examples from the talk: Larry Tesler and modal computing,
Richard Stallman and non-free software) is what allows you to have the
biggest impact. It's being able to look at something in the world and ask
yourself: does this match my principle, and if not, how can I fix it?
Pricing: Why you're doing it wrong
It's not really that easy to just "teach yourself some cool shit and hit the road".

We seem to have this attitude here because you can just read a "ruby in 10 days" type guide online and start hacking away.

This just isn't true in many other industries or professions where you would need to either incur significant costs or have completed an apprenticeship in order to practice.
Spring into St. Patrick’s Day with HTML5
Doing what you like is a luxury. Most people need to just do what pays.
Even if that was the case, I'll bet both of the authors would have been happy to see their books go into a library. Neither of them are currently available in Carnegie Library (our largest in Pittsburgh).
Joy of Clojure - The Movie
As a startup guy, this seems totally relevant to me. The extent to which foreign clients, partners, and potential employees can deal with America is important for a lot of businesses. It's embarrassing to have them feel like they're entering a third-world dictatorship every time they come to the US.
Another way to get to TED (via Apple TV) is through the Podcast app.

I really like TED and think this is a good move for Netflix.
Rapidly growing demand for online videographers
I'll have you know I'm a Marine with ambitions of cheerleading, you insensitive clod!

I'm sorry, but a cheerleader with a bazooka is most decidedly dangerous.
Unprinter
Combining XAML and DirectX
Asynchronous programming in JavaScript using promises
The east coast is pretty dry in contrast to the rest of the country. Galway, for instance, gets 1156mm of rain per year.
Nokia’s 1 billion opportunity: A China Lumia launch
It seems like your confusing bad management with having a business model you don't like.
Battery life key to smartphone customer loyalty
Neo4j 1.7 "Bastuträsk Bänk" M01 released
I'd be surprised if young people wanted to live downtown anyways, not much happens there.

I live in Williamsburg and ride the subway for about 20 minutes. Not really a big deal, and much better than any commute involving owning a car.
It's sad how we managed to reduce the concept of Politics to the bickering between parties. Politics is so much more than that.

This is politics, and there's nothing wrong with that.
If you want to keep it private what the heck would you push it to Dropbox ?!
The article is from 2007, when typical starting salaries in Manhattan were in the $55-$65K range (since increased to at least ~80K).
Barebone AMD E-350-based HTPC connected via HDMI. Smaller than a Mac Mini and a third of the price. HD playback, streaming, etc.
Analysis: Analysts worry that something's amiss at Oracle
I assume you are aware that software is currently a booming industry, unlike most of the rest of the economy (other notable exceptions being finance and medicine).
Any busines decision is a gamble. Porting to Android is a gamble because you've got an investment in a new platform which you don't have experience in to know if it'll pay off. Not porting to Android is a gamble because, frankly, Android phones are becoming more common in the wild than iOS phones. Tablets, it's still iOS at the moment but who knows what'll happen when Win8 launches?

No decision is risk-free, but if it were me I'd be putting a toe into Andriod's bathwater.
Definitely makes some sense. I don't know that this is actually a bad thing though. I personally care more about quality (read: relevant) search results than the details of how they are created. If Google is able to use a social network like Google+ to legitimately improve their search offering so that I have an easier time finding something relevant and interesting using their search engine when I need it, then I'm ok with that.

Of course, this is predicated on the assumption that google is able to effectively use Google + to tweak their main algorithms. I don't want to be barraged with direct G+ links in my search results - I want the relevant websites themselves. Furthermore, there should be a way to opt-out if people are uncomfortable with the lack of privacy, even if the default is their current privacy policy.
Yeah, but settling in Chile when Buenos Aires is right there is like setting up shop in Yonkers or Jersey City, the lights of NYC taunting you from across the river. :-)
This. There is a large segment of the American population that cannot fathom living a life not based on gross consumerism. It is a crippling behavior when you have little income and are just starting out because it prevents you from accumulating the savings required for economic flexibility.

When I was in my 20s and poor, I think the most I ever spent on drinking glasses in total was a few dollars, and I moved many times. I managed to actually save a modest amount of money making terrible wages in an expensive city without a particularly poor lifestyle but I only occasionally spent money on toys that I did not genuinely need. It made it possible for me to bootstrap myself to a very good job and to develop good saving and spending habits.
SF != Silicon Valley
The last time I printed out code was about a year ago, and was for the purpose of a code review.

About two weeks ago I decided I'm not going to use paper unless absolutely necessary. That means no taking notes in a journal, no printing things out for my own reading, etc. This has forced me to be a lot more creative in using electronic solutions and has been absolutely worth it.
Arguably, they both specialized in blowing up stuff in Germany.
As an American, I also prefer the British border security folks. They're polite and they have a sense of humor, but are still thorough.

Last time I went to London for work I explained that I was coming over to set up a network. What followed was an extended comedic interaction about how I was pulling the cable, the size of the spool needed, and whether I had flushed one end down the airplane toilet to let it unspool as we went.
Nope its civil service (you dont get big pay rises) this is for entry level grads and 25k is low discounting the fact that ML and Crypto is worth more as a specialisation than bog standard Java by the numbers graduates.(and GCHQ you would have to go through the DV process and work in the middle of nowhere)

Oh and for the past few years there have been pay freezes in the civil service which will be continuing for the life of this parliament.
We should. The government shouldn't be in the business of regulating agreements between employers and employees. It has no real authority to do so in the first place, and nobody ever seems to consider the unintended consequences of even nominally well-meaning regulations.

For example, as somebody pointed out above, minimum wage laws don't make sure everybody makes a living wage, they just make sure that some people are essentially prohibited from working. I mean, if I wanted to work for, say, $3.75 / hour, compared to the alternative of $0.00/ hour, why should the government prohibit me from making that deal with an employer?
For a single coder, I see no problems.
their web app doesn't support Mac

What millennium is this? There's no excuse for a web app needing a specific OS these days, and hasn't been for quite some time.
I had a similar experience with Amazon, they refunded me the extra bluray remote for the PS3 and told me to donate it and even said that maybe my local library would want it (???).
yes I feel that alot, as an engineer it's really hard to concentrate on your project after work.. But I realize something for me, maybe it's also for others but if i manage to start it somehow, i can go further more than i expected actually.. hardest thing is for me is beginnig..To figure out beginning I just check my checkouts on plastic source control and realise that we already done alot, is just fix everything and it's your fuel now you can go :)
Also of note, if you're going to push your private repo to the cloud anyway, Bitbucket has free private Git repos. It's not as featureful as Github, but it has more than just the simple file storage you'd get through Dropbox.
I know some people that try to build kind of YC for emerging markets so maybe time for Hong Kong will come.
The UK thing is gently surprising. It's only reletively recently that they've started openly carrying guns.

Metropolitan Police were first permanently stationed at Heathrow in 1974. Boundary and operational conditions meant that most airport police could not carry arms; a law change in 1974 made it possible for them to do so.

But they openly started carrying machine guns in 1986.[1]

The UK had domestic terrorism for a long time before that happened. (Also, after.[3])

(http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-09/news/mn-14156_1_machi...)

(http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19860109&...)

[3] (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ira-bombs-on-runway-as-jet...)

As an off-topic aside, my recent web searches include things like [heathrow mortars] and [machine guns heathrow] and so on. It says something that my totally innocent searching for information has left me with some anxiety.
Anatomy of a Zero Day Attack
A pointer doesn't necessarily have an address - think of the semantics of the register storage class ;) Or perhaps more commonly in C, when a pointer to a variable is passed by value as an argument to a function in a register.

Of course, trying to take the address of a variable declared to be in the register storage class is an error, and taking the address of a variable in the normal automatic storage class typically forces it to live on the stack.
> You can get from pretty much anywhere in the US to anywhere else for under $500.

Unless you need to break the lease on your apartment, which is typically two months' rent - which typically tacks on another $1000, minimum.
I think you're being overly reductionist here. Has every rude service interaction you've had come from a union worker? Has all good service come from non-union workers?

That's certainly not the case for me.
In roughly equal and opposite directions. You'd just need something between the two weapons to withstand the compressive force.
The latter. I'm sorry for being sensitive about it -- maybe it's an overreaction -- but over the years, it really wears down the patience to see the name of the place I grew in dragged through the mud repeatedly.

You might say it's our own damn fault, you might say my parents' generation and mine are to blame, I won't argue about that.

You may criticize the communism, the backwater mentality, the ingrained sense of entitlement and lots of other things about (ex-)Yugoslavia. A lot of that stuff is the reason why I left.

But please, keep it civil, for the sake of us poor schmucks that loved growing up in that place and then left it, disappointed.
Show HN: my gamification of YouTube
http://playtubequiz.com

I watch a lot of music videos and wanted to know how well I can identify them. So I decided to create this simple multiple choice quiz game using music videos from YouTube. Videos are muted (but there are short sound hints to jog your memory). I plan on adding more categories and videos over the weekend.

Also check the SOPA inspired blackout mode that requires you to move the flashlight over the videos to identify them.
give also a try to Stanza :)
The article mentions Google's developers. I don't think Google's developers are worth much now to Google, because they have no hunger. A friend at Google says most of the engineers are just waiting to vest. Look at the poor quality of the speech recognition coming out of Google Voice for an example of the result of engineers simply not caring. To me Google is the new Yahoo!
Another lesson is to not rely on the opinion of the opposite gender (or the same, if you prefer...not that there's anything wrong with that) for your self-esteem.

Also, don't give too much weight to well-meaning writers who ask you to do more and dream less.

After all, we're no more than little grubby organisms clinging to a dirty, water-covered rock in a rather humdrum star system that sits on the edge of a pretty ordinary galaxy. Against that backdrop, even the Apollo program is not much better than your soon to be forgotten project.
Working exploit for MS12-020 RDP flaw found
It's not an unwelcome mat, it's a go away mat. As an American who travels a lot the biggest hassle I've ever had to deal with when entering another country was putting my bag through an x-ray machine and filling out a form about fruits and vegetables. Whenever I get back to the states I see hours long lines of non citizens waiting to get through customs with way too few customs officers stamping passports. That alone would be an unwelcome mat, but put on everything else we make people go through and we're pretty much just saying "Go Away".

Along with the fee and abusive questionnaire at this site https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/ we've also got this lovely informational site http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1262.html and tons of other fees http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1263.html . Then of course after you've paid all your fees and told the US government all about your diseases, mental illness, and intention to spy on them, you still have to give them your fingerprints, photo, submit to a search, wait in line for 2 hours, and answer many more questions about the same stuff.

It's not xenophobia. It's full on we think we're better than you and you pathetic humans get to deal with us 'cos we said so. The whole system wreaks of 'cos we said so. Every citizen and border patrol agent knows it's excessive and ineffective, but we keep on truckin' cos hey, they're all just doing their, trained to be overly aggressive, jobs.
I've had the same experience with Amazon, when orders have gone wrong which I think is even more impressive given they're much larger and public. It shows is possible not to put short-term profits first -- some people excuse "evil" acts by companies as being required by shareholders.
Because it's a software update? I don't know what qualifies to be posted on HN, but people post software releases and updates here all the time.
Yes because the risk is more real.

In theory - my knowledge of the problems we had making the obsolete GR2 Tornado's radar work would have been useful to the Russian IF there had been a WWIII, and if they didn't already know. And that the East Germans might have passed it on if I had been silly enough to carry all my technical reports with me to Berlin in the 80s

But my current phone has a list of all the calls/emails to my company's component suppliers and many customers and potential customers along with price and delivery info.

We compete and in some cases also partner with US aerospace companies that the US undoubtedly consider vital for it's national defense.

I am pretty confident that if the TSA copied my phone or laptops's contents - while looking for terrorist plots or MP3s and handed it over to the NSA or whoever. Then if they found info that could be of commercial value to Boeing/Lockheed Martin/Raytheon etc then the NSA are not going to be prevented from passing those on by a sense politeness to a foreign visitor!

That's why I get a clean wiped 'travel' laptop and a dumb phone to take, I use a VPN to check my email and I don't chat on a cell phone about how which US airlines are thinking of not buying Boeing.
The difference between pre-industrial and now is that you now not only have to find a product/service to sell but you have to find something that the large wallmart style corporations can't do quicker, better and cheaper than you can.

Even small software companies now have the risk of Apple etc completely removing their distribution channel on a whim
or a larger software company (or open source project) just replicating their entire product.
Loose-lipped iPhones top the list of smartphones exploited by hacker
Mumbai, Shanghai, Seoul all sound more exciting. In that I mean that maybe it's time to shift our focus to other places.
They appeared for me in Canada yesterday.

This site[1] seems pretty reliable about finding new items as they're added to Netflix, and I find it easier than using Netflix's own "new" page. If you're in the US (I know you aren't, TheCapn, but it's good info), you can replace "can" in the URL with "us". I don't think there's a UK version (yet?).

[1] http://can.whatsnewonnetflix.com/
As much as I share your admiration for O'Reilly, this is seems to be common practice. It's just more expensive to get the items back in inventory again than what they are actually worth.

See this thread: "Microsoft suggests customer donate extra X-Box they sent him."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3434404
Ron Paul, Envy, Confidence, and how to Make Your First Million
I haven't seen them since the immediate weeks after 9/11.

But I did see them in Frankfurt and CDG _before_ 9/11. So in some countries it's quite routine to have (para)military personnel guarding airports. In the Us it seems to be the exception. I haven't seen any recently.