skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expensive real estate ruins the culture, makes personal burn rates high, and creates a sense of transience. You don't feel like you really belong until you have enough money that you don't need to work and (for most) have ceased to be a productive part of society.

When people have to beat others down just to afford to live in the city, it's bad, and most people lack the talent or opportunity to make that amount of money (300k+, for a family) through decent means.

The transience, I think, is behind a lot of the build-to-flips that are degenerate gambles on social trends.

Silicon Valley happened because California land was cheap-- at one time.
10 Reasons I'm Giving Up On Having Opinions
Chat Trumps Meetings
Not really. There is a big difference between the posts you're referring to and the privacy concerns inherent in each.

The one underhandedly fills in information that the user hasn't explicitly given a site. That's abhorrent.

Another offers a solution for incorporating multiple analytics services into a website a sane way. That's worthy of applause.

They are completely different products/services serving completely different needs.
I got that too. Any screenshots or examples of what this looks like?
This is awesome! There's a few bugs in the Chartbeat implementation. Expect a pull request soon! :)
I'm not sure if we're just talking past each other or what, but I feel that you're ignoring my point rather than vice-versa. Deleting an article on a computer scientist because he was written up on LWN instead of ComputorEdge does not make the article on Intel any better; it doesn't make the article on the American Revolution any better; it does not have any external impact besides pissing off the guy who wrote the article. Deleting articles does nothing but get rid of those articles. I believe that the site would survive just fine if one day the admins decided to reinstate every good-faith article that was ever deleted.
At some point segmentio's analytics.js will have to be update to use Google's analytics.js when it goes public and deprecates Google's ga.js.
Sure I can live an hour away from my workplace and sit on the BART 2 hours every day but it's quite well known that this kind of living is bad for you [1] and I know from experience I would hate doing that again.

Why commute all that way when I can move somewhere much more reasonable and get a 3 bed house with a pool for the same price as a small 1 bed apartment in SF, AND only have a 10 minute drive to work? These places exist all over the world and contrary to popular belief around these parts, smart people and businesses do exist in places other than SV.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/05/your...
> "If you remove one from the network, the rest start (ever so slightly) re-adjusting weights, synapses, dendritic arbors, etc."

I am not terribly familiar with neuroscience, so you will have to forgive me for asking, but why would this be particularly troubling? Is the concern that surrounding neurons would neglect to "hook up" with the synthetic one, once they got used to nothing being there?
Right, good question. We're focused on beginners, especially people who have never touched a guitar. The goal is to get them playing recognizable songs within the first few minutes. To that end, we want the experience to be as friendly and patient as possible.
I'd disagree that it's a natural progression to move from collecting anonymous (or at least pseudo-anonymous) use data from what your users actively do on your web site (which is very useful for measuring usage and making design improvements) to cross-referencing that with data your users did not give you for the explicit purpose of identifying them.
Any alternatives to cydia?
So, where did this happen to you, or anyone you know? It should be very easy to cite a source to "the jerk brigade" glomming onto some innocuous bit of good content. Most of what happens on the project is logged. Deleted articles "vanish", because the point of deleting content from the project is not to host it at all, but the discussions and talk page articles and AfD debates are still there.
PCs released after the XT could be configured with up to 640KB but the original IBM PC was limited to a max of 256KB (entry level config was 64KB).
How an Internet-connected Samsung TV can spill your deepest secrets
I've been using analytical with our Rails backend which seems to achieve something similar:

https://github.com/jkrall/analytical
Facebook Legacy:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151391609962845

Released this concept today as sort of a "Your Life in Review" for children and grandchildren to follow your life story through Facebook.
I generally have to call into question the merits of an author when they unnecessarily distinguish between humans and other animals. Especially when that isn't the truly interesting item coming from the research.

The two genuinely interesting items from the research are that it uses a yet-to-be identified means to enter the host's cell. The other being that it can still infect any of the probable original hosts of the virus, even though that has not been previously documented in SARS.

Virus' being able to infect different species is not that new or note worthy and I believe the title of the article is therefore poorly thought-out and misleading. It's not even new or noteworthy for SARS which had the ability to infect multiple species.
Solar costs could fall below 50 cents a watt by 2017
I don't know if its still common practice there, but Google used to trial new code by rolling it out to geographically limited audiences.
I've recently started using CDNJS for my projects. Thanks to Ryan, Thomas, and CloudFlare for this awesome service!

Even happier to see that you guys host CSS and images for the common libs. I will change my bootstrap css hosting over to yours soon.
FreeBSD Foundation raises $43,200 in three days
Oh, thanks for sharing that. This presentation is great and is food for a couple more ideas I think I might be able to pull off for Rails using multi fetching.
It's actually a bit hard to quantify. The true cost of radioactive waste is related to what type of radiation it emits (gamma? alpha particles?), how long-lived the radiation is i.e. it's half-life, and the actual quantity of that material that is produced per Watt. This triple-axis makes it a bit hard to quantify in simple terms, but the main idea behind thorium is that the waste has a significantly shorter half-life[1]. Depending on the exact reactor design, there may also be ways to reduce the quantity of secondary waste (like water that's been exposed to heavy neutron flux while transferring energy from nuclear core --> steam turbines).

[1] : http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/09/11/is-th...
RailsHelpdesk this saturday at HackerDojo
Author here. I should have elaborated this a bit more. The pricing statement comes from the fact that I factored in invalidation requests and they sum up on my project.
I think the most impressive thing here is the number of individual donations, really -- 650 of them. Well done Hacker News!
This seems to be an update on the Norway story at the end:

http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/11/norway-begins-four-year...

And how come he didn't even mention LFTR?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
History of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor
Except when you say "B and C walk into a bar. A ducks."
Secret Agent on SomaFM?
There's also Google Tag Manager. It's not itself an analytics script, but it provides a clean way to separate tags from code (one tag to rule them all). In addition, it's dataLayer acts as an intermediate store which any tag can access via macros in order to use the shared data. The SEM folks can (almost) manage the tags themselves once some rules are prepared.

https://www.googletagmanager.com
What is Business Intelligence and what is the utility of BI Software?
There's the ecommerce api though, which would apply to this specific case.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Zuck's Facebook Year in Review Curiously Excludes IPO
This is actually a fairly typical representation of what has always been on Hacker News. Why the hell are you surprised?
It was great getting to work with you at Twilio. Good luck with everything in your future!
I was hoping that this would be an open source version of Google Analytics.
This is awesome ! I tried my hand at some chord recognition a few days ago : https://github.com/jcaille/Chords. I only compare chords to fingerprints I recorded, and do not extract pitch or anything. I'm looking for feedback or pointers on how to go further (mainly, discarding the fingerprints altogether)

Have you considered teaching chords and such ? Another cool feature would be to let people enter their own songs, or connect with a tab API to expand the library.
pen and paper, with me at all times. less distracting. less weight.
The best way to think of it is since U-233 is so much easier to burn then U-235 is like tinder instead of lumber. It reduces to much less and burns thoroughly.
With all of these pluses, it can't be that terrible right? ;)

Java is not anymore terrible than anything else when you remember to use the right tool for the right job. I have developed in Java, libraries (JDK's and third party) are just incredibly good, you will not find the same variety and quality anywhere else, period. The language is verbose and also /insert favorite Java complaints here/. So what? Get over it and use the right tool for the right job. We are programmers, not damsels.
Quick question... I thought the best part of CDN hosted js files was that they were more likely already cached on the client, not so much for the speed of delivery.

So, wouldn't it be better to go with the most popular and not the fastest?
One liners are an (extreme!) optimisation and programmers feel quite proud when they able to optimise code :)

And it's not restricted to Perl: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4906370

> Then again i've seen a lot broken, half-tested and unmaintained CPAN modules as well.

You also get this in PyPi, Gems, NPM, etc. Just more proof that Sturgeon's Law exists.
Yeah, that is an odd decision. Makes you wonder if the “secret” motive of CloudFlare in hosting this, other than to promote their service, is to track and analyze your visitors.

I don't see a privacy policy on CDNJS.com. I'd definitely like to know what data they collect about my visitors and what they do with it.

At least the CDN doesn't itself set any cookies.
This is really neat! I never got into idea/creativity-a-day resources because there wasn't really any motivation or inspiration outside of my own self, and that was the hurdle I was trying to get over by using them to begin with. The ability to see how other people are thinking/solving really helps solve that.

I'd really enjoy seeing something like this that's oriented towards design and programming. Dribbble's "Playoffs" feature is somewhat like that, but it's generally a battle of over-designing something more than it is coming up with wholly different solutions for real world problems.
I loved this movie when I was 12 and even now (27) I still enjoy watching it. Brings back lots of geeky memories likes reading 'zines about phreaking, cracking etc.

I'd love to see it in the cinema!
The Crowdtilt API can easily power something like Selfstarter and significantly improve its features by offering support to multiple payment processors instead of just Amazon Payments. It also provides collaboration tools for the supporting community as mentioned by my co-founder http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911765

Selfstarter is really cool for a one-off type of project such as Lockitron, but with the Crowdtilt API, you can also build a "kickstarter-as-a-service" type of product, which I would really love to see built one day.

(disclosure: I'm one of the Crowdtilt founders)
LFTR are a type of molten salt reactor, which is mentioned, though certainly not given enough attention in this first short article ;) will see what i can do.
One thing that's fun is that Google has a page detailing how to handle redirects on your own sites-
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-redi...
Snapchat (aka “teen sexting app”) raises $10M from 1 of Instagram’s backers
there is always: http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
You didn't ask me and I realize how dumb this is going to sound, but his films are too violent for me.
>hCoV-EMC (short for human coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center)

I understand that hCoV is a category of virus, but this strikes me as an unusual name. If this becomes a larger problem, people are not going to be calling it hCoV-EMC. hCoV would be incorrect, so would they rather people call it EMC and associate the name of the virus with the name of the medical facility that named it? Nobody called SARS SARS-hCoV, they called it SARS.

It just strikes me as an interesting name choice, and perhaps a bit narcissistic on the behalf of the research facility (not that narcissism isn't running rampant through science anyway).
The big difference is most employees are forced to use internal company applications, so getting user adoption/conversion is not as big of a concern.
It's not said often enough, but Contagion is probably the best and most realistic movie to deal with the likely scenario of a deadly pandemic. Everything from the political and economic impact along with the roles of the scientists and field personnel were spot on.

I found it to be a riveting story.
Honestly, I don't think that it is some conspiracy to track me, rather it was just a mistake. Perhaps I am not cynical enough.
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None of the content in question is "wrong": we are only discussing things with "inappropriate weight". Are you saying that the game Space Empire Elite (the article that Jason Scott is angry about today) did not exist? Was there something else on the article that you believe was "wrong"? We are explicitly discussing "notability" here.

(Sadly, I can't even look at the article, for the reason I already complained about: when Wikipedia decides to delete something, it is totally removed from the website in a way such that you cannot use edit history to get it back, making arguments about it impossible post-facto. I wish I could make a real judgement for myself.)

I do now see, however, why you made your Britannica comment: you are responding only to the final sentence of Nate's comment ("Meanwhile, a generation is growing up with this as their only example of an "encyclopedia"."), which I mostly ignored as it was just rhetoric ;P. (I am sorry that I did that, as it caused me to misunderstand your's.)

Regardless, looking at the actual argument thread, Britannica is entirely irrelevant unless it can be shown that either 1) they were of higher quality due to their more limited focus, or 2) that their eventual downfall was related to them being more likely to cover a niche topic than Wikipedia ;P.

Regardless--to now respond to your new comment--at some point you need to make a choice: either that content is notable, or it is not. If it is, you have to decide who is allowed to determine whether that fact. Wikipedia, FWIW, does not appreciate content that requires "expertise" much, as they want everything verifiable by the layman.

(Again, leading to what I consider to be a ludicrous situation with respect to the various articles surrounding RSA: there is much more coverage of the recent non-attack on embedded systems with bad random number generators than there is on actual modern mathematical attacks, seemingly because the former could be verified by newspaper articles and the latter requires citing academic papers, as the last time a review paper in this field was published, a requirement for Wikipedia's "primary sources must be verified by secondary sources" requirement, was 1999.)

"...similarly, a scientific paper documenting a new experiment is a primary source on the outcome of that experiment."

"A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the source but without further, specialized knowledge."

"For example, a review article that analyzes research papers in a field is a secondary source for the research"

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

"All Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources. Reliable primary sources may occasionally be used with care as an adjunct to the secondary literature, but there remains potential for misuse." (emphasis copied from original)

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MEDRS
Where's a link to a debate where a computer scientist's points were deleted from WP because "ComputorEdge" (or any trade rag) trumped LWN?

That's a point you didn't make anywhere upthread, so it's disingenuous to say I'm avoiding it the way you avoided my argument, but I'm happy to stay on track. Point me to the pervasive class of mistakes WP is making by trusting some sources and not others?

I'm sympathetic to this argument, because when I was actually volunteering for WP back in 2007, I spent a lot of time beating back vanity pages that were anchored in one line mentions in trade press articles that were merely regurgitating press releases. So I'm with you about the low value of ComputorEdge. But when you say that computer scientists are systematically disadvantaged because of WP:V rules that prioritize ComputorEdge over LWN, you lose me, because I don't see that happening.
Psychological warfare: Is DHS funding the decimation of privacy?
Totally agree, that's the reason I'm in Austin.
I'm assuming the receiving entity also has to have an account with dwolla, or is at least instructed to create one to receive their $?
No, not true. Server maintenance is a job that requires that you track what services are deployed on a server, which ones need security updates, knowledge about how to correctly configure a firewall and lots of other stuff. Deployment via Rubber/Puppet/Chef etc. only changes how you get the needed packages and configuration on the server. It doesn't tell you magically what configuration you need on a system.

Nitpick: Vagrant is not a deployment system. It's an awesome tool, but it falls back to puppet/chef for the actual configuration.
> My problem is that I also took a job that wasn’t exactly what I wanted to be doing so that I could be in San Francisco, instead of staying where I was and honing my craft.

Nothing wrong with that. When it comes to finding a career, learning what you don't like about a job can be just as valuable as learning what you do like.

A lot of my friends in college already knew exactly what job they wanted the day they arrived at school (or so they thought). I don't know of a single one who got the job they'd been striving for and ended up genuinely enjoying it. Many are now in grad school and still trying to figure out what they really want to do.
Good luck, hopefully you find the experience that you're looking for!

San Francisco has only been considered a hub for startups in the past few years. Before that, very few companies made their home in the city, and it was generally down in the South Bay or the Peninsula. Before Twitter, et. al started moving to SOMA, it was mainly banks, and retail companies like the Gap, Red Envelope, etc that were up here.

Ever since startups have decided to move to SOMA, the rents have skyrocketed, from 2000/month for a 1 br to over $3000, all in the span of maybe 18 months.
For jQuery, maybe. But if you're using, say, Backbone, that point is moot because only CDNJS has it. The Google CDN[1] only hosts 11 libraries, CDNJS hosts over 200.

1. https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide
<i> Assuming you've done the prep-work to ensure you get placed on a well-populated user desktop network</i>

This is a write up of attacking LANs from the inside, privilege elevation stuff. Only relevant for large networks obviously.
You might enjoy elinks.
I recently left SF, and the culture, along with the rent, are two big reasons why I decided to leave. I hadn't put the two together, though, but I think it's a pretty accurate conclusion.

The sheer number of startups and engineers in the same place can be pretty fantastic, and there isn't anywhere else that can compete (NYC to some extent, I suppose). In the end, though, it's just an unusually large collection of tech-minded individuals in what amounts to a fairly terrible place to live. YMMV, of course.
Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Are there serious arguments against Thorium? Or is it just early stage waiting to be a bit more experimented with before going mainstream?
There is a misconception about the waste from current reactors. In short, the waste is not waste (as in something useless to be discarded, disposed of). This is all explained in the long video linked in my first post so I'll not repeat it. So much so that two MIT students (and their Professors) have come up with the acronym WAMSR, Waste Annihilating MSR,
http://web.mit.edu/nse/inaround/dewan-massie.html
and started a company.
http://transatomicpower.com/products.php
The LFTR itself can also burn the waste from a conventional reactor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor (the item "Destruction of existing long lived nuclear wastes" in the "Advantages" section)

This infographic is a nice compact presentation
http://imgur.com/pm4Ux
The video below the slides is the main content. Slides by themselves don't do anything.

It's a great talk, by the way.
> Silicon Valley happened because California land was cheap-- at one time.

You're being facetious here, hopefully.

In any case, San Francisco was never cheap, where OP's startup is.
China, Russia Resubmit Proposal to Get Web Control
This is somewhat like how the 'Ndoli Device' works in some of the short stories of Greg Bear. (I'd especially recommend the story 'Learning To Be Me'.)
The Crowdfunding API Is Here: Welcome To A New Era Of E-Commerce
FYI: Going on now - AMA on Reddit: Chris Anderson, former Wired Editor-in-chief
Ask HN: What is the meaning of life?
Rage is irrelevant. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
so comprehensive!

i wouldn't mind a tl;dr ;?j
Remember the great programming language purge? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215168

Just Googling around Hacker News, I find a number of innocuous pages whose maintainers have had to defend themselves against deletion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2752285

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216723

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=288200

You might agree or disagree with some particular cases, and sometimes things go the right way, but either way it's still a hassle that you have to fight. Personally, I don't remember what the specific pages were I used to help maintain. I was doing it because I wanted to help out and I saw those pages could use it rather than because I cared a lot about the topics. But I do remember it was unpleasant and I wouldn't want to deal with such people again.