skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just running off personal experience here (I've been through the Velocity Residence and Eng), but of the 10 smartest kids I know, all but one is in The Valley/Seattle. I think they plan to stay South after graduation.

Why do you think you can you get better talent? Less competition? People want to be closer to home? You can offer more in perks, salary, ect compared to local companies?

Ps. Sick boots in that lederhosen picture.
The expendables 2 2012 is a nice Action and Adventure movie in the year.The Expendables are reunited when Mr. Church enlists them to take on a seemingly simple job. When things go wrong, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory.
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-expendables-2-2012-72...
Static damage to a chip may not result in an immediate failure. It may manifest as lessened performance, unreliability, or a shortened lifespan. I've seen this demonstrated in training videos for the electronics industry. (I think EEVblog has a static demo up on YouTube).

The semiconductor industry (i.e., the companies like Intel that made the parts on your circuit boards) spends many millions, if not billions, of $ a year on static-protective mitigations. They're pretty smart folks and also very cost-conscious. They would not be spending all this money if it were pure voodoo.

However, parts mounted on a circuit board are much more resilient than loose chips. I, too, use the "touching metal" method but am very careful about it.
Rust 0.4 released
I was wrong. It looks like they share code in their on line services.
True, but encryption is merely a computationally unfeasible form of obfuscation
No, it doesn't. No one should be using Blowfish for anything (except its key scheduler for bcrypt) and Blowfish is known to be slow as hell. A SHA-2 HMAC is basically identical in speed to AES-CTR. Sure, you want an HMAC on that, too, but whatever -- get a modern processor or an AES coprocessor. I guarantee this is not your performance bottleneck.
Whoa! Good catch. On the giant scroll?
Is there any way to block YC posts?
That device had passed me by, this was a useful link, although it appears there are problems getting the boards shipped out.

The specs look excellent for the price.
From Apple's press release http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Locat...

1. Why is Apple tracking the location of my iPhone?
Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone.
Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.
Scheier's not talking about location.
A Java Virtual Machine for Microcontrollers
It would be very interesting to see some data on the impact of government-funded blue-sky research (in other words, science that didn't have an obvious short-term commercial application).

Intuitively, it seems like such spending would open up new commercial frontiers for the private sector, but I'm not personally aware of specific examples of net payoff.
Monitor your smoker/grill temp from anywhere on your Android and iOS Devices.
Being able to create arbitrary files without asking the user gets into some nasty security issues, so we went with "export" instead. Once the user selects where they want to save the file to, you can then perform .read's and .write's on it
How I organize my ASP.Net MVC3 applications.
And they've now suspended orders due to the high demand.
[Partnership] Seeking Corona SDK developer to teamup on an existing iPhone game.
A free game. It has almost 10,000 downloads from the App Store, has a great name and website URL, and its fun and easy. We could discuss via skype, etc. Looking for mostly sweat equity partner. I built the first version of the game and I'm looking to take it to the next level (multiplayer, more scoring features). matt mc egg at gmail dot com
I miss the point. Of course if this setup becomes common they will block it as well. They don't want you to do that. If you find a loophole they will fix that.
I've started making an effort to reach out to people who are obviously hellbanned and who subsequently make substantive comments; I think other people should do it too. A sibling comment next to [dead] ones might suffice, if we can make sure we only get one of those comments in each thread.

I don't personalize it or "blame" Graham for it; I understand why he started the practice. But he should stop now.
Just thinking out loud here:

I wonder how things would be different if we could "review" other users, Amazon style, on HN. And those reviews would show up at the bottom of your profile.

I wonder if that or something like that would make this a better, or more interesting (or more communal) place. I think the idea as I just spouted it wouldn't help much, but there must be similar concepts worth exploring here.
This has probably been discussed before, but why the huge gap in price between free and "Pro"? Why not make "Free" a max of 500 uploads/month and a "Starter" tier that costs $10.00/month for 5,000 uploads?
Come on man:

http://bit.ly/SYnwWM
Nice article, however Yahoo! could probably figure out a way to ruin the awesome UX IFTTT currently has. And with the track record Yahoo! has, I would hope they wouldn't buy it. Yahoo! is where good apps go to die. Haha
Geoloqi acquired by Esri
I'm just curious, but do you live in a rural area?
> Existing affiliate programs are broken and a UX that caters to that category is important for adoption.

But if they pass 100% commission to the affiliate, who is their customer then?

> The real money will come in when you start seeing Shaq's tweets with referly links.

Why would Shaq replace generating referral links with a guaranteed salary from Adidas. Let's say Shaq gets x% for every shoe he successfully refers. All of the sudden, you start noticing that after every game, Shaq sends a tweet "Great game tonight, all thanks to my new Adidas <Insert Cool Shoe Name>"...Every...single...game. Do you think his fans are going to appreciate that?

Also, a lot of athletes and high profile personalities act like CEO's for their brand. They simply hire a head of sales (usually a PR person and/or agent) and say "make me money". They can't be bothered because it's not their core competency to negotiate their worth.

Note - I realize Shaq doesn't play anymore and isn't sponsored by Adidas.
That homepage design has to be the most distracting blog theme setting ever.
Partisanship is not the problem, anti-science is the problem. A major political party should not be anti-science and until people who respect science stop voting GOP, this won't get solved.
So Yahoo should buy IFTTT to help people migrate from Twitter to App.net?

There are probably some good products to be built on integrated social experiences (or internet glue), but Pipes+IFTTT doesn't sound like an actual end-user product.
Rust 0.4 is out
I actually agree that there are great reasons to write plain JS, but Coffeescript is an awesome teaching tool (to explain compilers, the difference between syntax and programming, etc).
Show HN: fomo - a foursquare connected app
Do you have good posture? Can you do the hollow rock see gymnasticswod.com. I've been using a standing desk for many months and it takes a long time to adjust.

EDIT - Do you wear shoes when standing? I only wear socks/bare feet on a thin carpet over a wooden floor. Shoes raise your heals slightly.

Alot of the suggestions from people who are saying to get an anti fatigue mat probably have tight hip flexors it shouldn't be necessary have a look at this link

http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/06/episode-274-the-standing-...
> still no obligation

Most people consider social obligations to be obligations.
I'm aware of paulgraham.com but thanks for letting me know in the most condescending way possible!

This is a great way to search through paulgraham.com as well as his comments on HN. I'm a fan and I'm certain to find utility in it in the future.
Objective Logistics Gamifies Labor Management in Restaurants
Holy cow with the grandiosity of the title I would expect a master 5 year plan about how Pipes will take over the world. Instead it's just another 'aggregate my aggregators non-problem' that will be relevant to a fraction of a fraction of nerds. Of course as soon as the value prop for the piped companies becomes lower than the value prop for Yahoo they will simply turn them off. But that's not to worry, because the value prop for the piped content will ALWAYS be higher than for Yahoo. How exactly does one go "all in" on schlepping around other people's content? Yahoo was in fact just that, to begin with...
http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/ventilated-prose/

'Ventilated Prose' was a term used by Buckminster Fuller. The blog author linked above is drafting rapidly, then adding line breaks after each sentence/clause as an editing aid. He mentions Vi and the use of dif

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-discuss/2008-Mar...

Found in the comments to the blog post linked above. Just parking these for the inevitable return of this topic.
I find this a too informal and ultimately confusing.

> Misconception 1: “The Equals Sign Means Equality”

The equal sign does mean equals.

> The left-hand-side is a function, the right-hand-side is a … what, exactly? There is no help to be found in the definition. It just says “we write” without concerning itself with the fact that what “we write” is total nonsense.

This is not clear at all !

> If you take it at face value, you can deduce that since 5n and 3n are both equal to O(n), then 3n must be equal to 5n and so 3=5.

Yes well, f(x) = f(y) does not implies x = y. I think people know this ..

... and so on
Chomsky on the Cuban Missile Crisis
We're just comparing the Amazon Web Application template as provided in their calculator, with no changes.

You're right that it is x2 for each EC2 server which I didn't notice until later, but that doesn't change the economics or performance story very much.
A similar web site is: http://jobstractor.com/ . Though I think I like yours better.
If something like Feedburner, (which was several orders of magnitude more popular than Pipes and IFTTT combined) is forced to shutter, I don't think a tiny service for power users is going to turn around a publicly traded company as large as Yahoo. Call me crazy.
Worry.
Profiting Online
In other words: PaaS or SaaS will become much more popular to build on, and developers will spend less time working with servers or IaaS. Industry trends continue. We need an article for this?

From a practical perspective, part of what this means is that even more seemingly-distinct services will depend on the same infrastructure. We're seeing this already, as every time AWS experiences downtime, a bunch of web services go down. It will be interesting to see what effects this has on everyday business, as outsourcing internal infrastructure (email, calendaring, file storage, etc) becomes even more popular.
Congressman warns FTC To Leave Google alone
Nice first post! Keep up your motivation to write; you will be well-served.
I love maciej's footnote:

"""* What is it with these aggro facility names? Rather than Hurricane Electric or Raging Wire, I would much prefer to host with "Calm Multihomed Oasis" or "Granite Mountain" or " Cooling Breezes Pure Sine Wave Mount Bitmore".
"""
My take on this: lobbying works.
> Will Twitter deprecate support for RSS to lock down our tweets? Will Facebook block IFTTT to control how we share our filtered photos?

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they did. Doubling down on Pipes with Twitter heading in the direction it is right now would be a really stupid move.
Just hacking around with the foursquare connected apps platform. Also uses the explore endpoint to surface a recommended venue. All in all, the foursquare platform is a real breeze to develop with, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more connected apps. Looking forward to the Nov 3rd hackathon!
USA Today gets a drastic redesign
Show HN: GitHub issues on Windows 8 
This is my first personal Windows 8 app (I've worked on a couple during my day job) with the goal being a way for me use GitHub issues as a small Kanban Board as well as just generally managing issues. It's been a reasonably pain free experience building the app and would love to know what you all think and suggestions for the future.

Windows Store Website: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-NZ/app/hub-bug/bb5d3903-dd05-4a44-9c4e-f5c2a9651905

App Website with silverlight video: http://compiledexperience.com/windows-apps/hub-bug

Youtube Version of the above video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_9_jDx3QSQ

The Windows Store doesn't have voucher codes but it's available with a seven day fully featured trial.

The planned roadmap includes Markdown Support, Issue Events and Timeline, Push Notifications and Live Tiles.

Would love your feedback.
Building and Deploying Your First API in Python
The blog post doesn't make a compelling business case beyond "it'd be cool". If Yahoo! were to buy IFTTT for the purpose of consolidating their mobile experience (and I'm not even sure what that is supposed to entail), what's to stop Twitter, Facebook and all that from turning their feeds into the service off? Twitter have already pulled that kind of stunt.

Currently, IFTTT is a fun toy for hackers and power users who want to do slightly off-the-wall mashups. If it got bought up and became a more critical part of the infrastructure of a big company like Yahoo!, you can bet there'd be some intervarsity tech company politics going on.
> I kind of resent paying for so much more than I need.

I wonder if Dropbox might make more money if they charged $10/month for 20 GB, because 20 GB is not more than most people need. (It would be a worse deal, but if the main problem is having more storage space than you need...)

> I am guessing you are pretty young. You will be amazed at how quickly your tolerance for such things decreases with age.

That is the point. As the value of your time goes up, so should your willingness to pay $10/month. This is price discrimination, with price points of $0 and $10.
The issue is that a lot of HN has a habit of taking pg too seriously.
"Ripping CDs and sharing files with friends account for a higher percentage of people’s music collection than P2P file-sharing across all age groups."

I wonder how much of that is broken down between "ripping CDs" and "sharing files with friends". I can't remember the last time I, or anyone I know, "ripped" a CD.
I personally don't have a problem using symlinks but it's a user-experience thing. I know plenty of less-savvy friends and family who have a need to backup and/or share things -- Let's say a 'Photos' directory or maybe a 'Taxes' directory. Telling those people they must relocate their directories inside 'Dropbox' is confusing and, depending on the source files, can often break things (in the event of application files that has a particular requirement for the directory structure)

Trying to tell those same users how to create a symlink is unrealistic and should not be necessary for a user-friendly backup & sharing platform.

I didn't want to name drop other competitors because that wasn't the intent of my post, but as you brought it up, I'm talking about more user-friendly competition such as Mozy, Carbonite or SugarSync.
My guess is it's more valuable to have the people with 500 < x < 5,000 uploads/month comfortably try it out for free, and possibly upgrade, than debate whether or not it makes sense to spend $10.
I'm a newbie on Functional Programming.

But I'm changing that, trying hard at least. 2 things have been a great influence for me: Underscore.js and learning scala at coursera.org.

Perhaps, at some level, I owe these new skills to Phil.

RIP
Always include your phone number
Free JavaScript HTML5/Flash video player - no logo.
What about your thoracic mobility in extension, Can you hold the yoga asana 'the bow' easily and without tension? What about holding a bridge or as it's called in yoga 'the wheel'. Both are good predictors of thoractic and shoulder mobility. If you've been sitting at a desk for 20 years you've probably got your thoracic spine trapped in flexion (called kyphosis).
"... Even if you're amazed by it, you could have at least found an article about results ..."

Not sure what you mean about 'results'? Could you find one for me and post it?

"... Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading ... Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. ..." ~ http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(so is this a moderator post commenting back? - notice a title change & this comment on a new account. If so, moderator, stop being so snarky)
That's definitely not to spec if the browser is doing it. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3

"Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol."

However, it's possible that Facebook is passing users through an HTTP gateway.
Have you considered voting with your feet?
Off-topic: How do you remember your username?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I'm Tony, a co-founder at Catalyst.

There are a couple of interesting points to address here. One is that having an intense program could have a negative effect. In my experience teaching programming in immersion schools like this one, the students who stayed these kinds of hours knew they were going to work that hard from the beginning and just got more out of the program. I myself learned to code through an immersion school and felt more like I was missing out when went home at 7-8 than anything. We are looking for the type of person who wants this kind of all-encompassing program for 12 weeks.

I also think one-on-one tutors are great ideas, but for me personally being around a room full of other motivated people that are in my same position is so much more motivating.

I'd love to hear about what you think the 'wrong mentality' is. Feel free to ping me offline and let's chat.
Here is an incredibly lengthly argument which tries to be more balanced: http://rossduggan.ie/blog/infrastructure/cloud-vs-metal-infr...

Jeff is glossing over a lot.

If you're already massively invested in hardware, in terms of people, processes and hardware, then you could argue that cloud architecture is less valuable in the general case, otherwise, it's usually no contest.
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Hiring Lag: The Silent Killer
Because laziness (intellectual, and otherwise). And because Apple Is Evil is the narrative.
Virus conducting DDoS attack from infected systems
While I agree with your point generally, I think it's unfair to say that Dropbox is conditioning users to think the only value proposition is disk space.

For me, the Dropbox client, web integration and storage features are streets ahead of the competition (at least, last time I checked). The free on-by-default document versioning is invaluable to me. It's just difficult to "condition your users" to value software features because by the time you're in a position to condition them to value anything, they already have access to 100% of your software features.
Minimum Viable Vision
4 weeks ago:

> "Apple adds new "Limit Ad Tracking" feature to iOS 6"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545602

3 weeks ago:

> "Google implements Apple's Ad Identifier for mobile tracking choice"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4581781

Both hacker news submissions have zero comments. Why is it that a month ago no one cared, but now everyone is grabbing his tin-foil hat?

Also I am pretty sure at least some of the more extensive iOS 6 reviews have mentioned the new "limit Ad tracking" feature. And aren't we presumed to be developers who uses this stuff? I did know that Apple had a replacement for the UDID.

PS:
On Schneiers blog one commentator claims that he/she was notified of the Ad tracking by a prompt in the iOS update. Sadly I have no updateable iOS 5 device here to examine that. But I think this was only an info for the new privacy pane, wasn't it?
Blue Bottle Coffee Raises $20M
I chose the exact same word "cheap" in a tutorial presentation that I made for new hires and co-op students at my current company. No confusion registered in the audience so far.
The New Foursquare Homepage
Not in my experience. I've used this to get a job at one big corp and interviews at several others. The key is to contact individuals, who are often very open to answering questions about their expertise.
There you go, now you've an answer to index: http://wwpgd.com/?q=wwpgd.com
Yes, we're comparing the web application template as provided. Except you compared less than half of it instead of comparing it. I think "I claimed that AWS is twice as expensive as it actually is" certainly changes the economics much. Your 3 servers is not 6 servers and a load balancer. Reliability counts too, not just performance. Especially since most web apps are going to be 90% idle on the AWS hardware.
It looks like the intermediate 301's referer is being passed thru (For example, all links on Twitter get wrapped as a t.co link, and that's what shows up on the server). I'd imagine that analytics being mined are intelligent enough to collapse twitter.com and t.co as the same social origin.

Give it a try yourself: https://twitter.com/vikrum5000/status/256898972478763008 Note the protocol.
Only to be outdone by the swirly .gif avatar...
would this work in node.js?
+1 I love my Synology NAS. Truly a great product.
An 8GB iPad Mini Will Cost You $249 In Black Or White, LTE Models Start At $549
Are these photos artificially curved / lens-angled (perhaps intentionally deceptive?), making the Earth appear more curved and the altitude appear higher than it would to a human observer at the camera's position?

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/felix-
baumgartner-jumps-from-red-bull-stratos-balloon-640x353.jpg
The Best Bad Idea We Have
It's always a quandary--I will most likely be seeing ads, so would I rather that they are targeted to me and possibly even helpful, or do I want to tighten down as much as possible all possible data dumps of me?

I'm still trying to figure out when I want to turn off these sorts of things, versus when I'd rather keep them on.
Being influenced by your environment doesn't mean you had no say in the choices you made.

And if there truly is no free will, then we have no choice but to feel pride in our actions, if that's how we are built.

So you can't say not to feel pride.
Doesn't really make sense.
Oh, no. I don't think that's possible anymore. Since then Facebook revamped their settings at least 2 times:)