skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a fair comparison, though. San Francisco weather is exceptionally cold given its geographical location. It shares the same latitude as Mediterranean countries like Spain, Greece and Turkey but is much colder than them year around. This is why SF residents tend to be bitter. :)
Love and Empathy for the DoD Technologist
HDMI connector is also a darn sight smaller, which is good for limited board space, and probably cheaper than a D-SUB connector as well. (Remember, they were pretty tightly squeezed on budget)
Man seeks women to role-play Star Trek with him, but it’s “nothing weird”
http://edmonton.en.craigslist.ca/stp/3542260564.html
Ask HN: What Conservation Societies do you help?
Well, people treat email a little differently now than in 1986.
Thanks for the feedback. Our focus demographic is currently high school and college developers. We've noticed that most of our existing users tend to prefer seeing an example of the code in use (the Ghost template) as opposed to an API/documentation online. The full instructions on how to use the SDK are included in both downloads, but perhaps we should also include a link to it directly on the SDK page.
Interesting, but silly. You need some angle on the overhead view so you know what building it is. You can't recognise buildings by their roofs.
Agreed 100%. I lived on Division and Wells for 4 years and never saw homelessness like I see walking from our startup office in SF to visit our bank.

That said, Chicago's true poor are cached away far south of the places where people who read Hacker News would likely live.
Hot swap would not be that hard to add to pcie but I don't think they care. Sure there is ram per soc but the discussion implied they wanted to break it up more longer term...
whoever that person is keep them them the hell away from the strategy sessions :-)

Don't know if they have those, the Pi foundation is not a business! (Last I checked)

Not to mention, based on blog posts around the time they were in development, the org was only a couple people.
SpaceX Lands Inflatable Space Station Room Contract
So Aaron downloading JSTOR files is very similar to a murder?
Eh? Do you think the folks at Linode would be willing to load my server onto a plane so it could come visit me with this round trip ticket from Houston that I'm supposedly very eager to purchase?
A reasonable middle-of-the-road position would be to not take sides until enough facts are known about the subject at hand, and even then submit them to a careful analysis and consideration, context is very important. And also, a person must have the right to not be compelled to choose a side, even in the face of overwhelming evidence i.e. everyone can have their opinions independently of what is really going on, we might not like it but we have to put up with it.

It is not about taking perfect decisions, it is about taking the best decision with the information at hand, and if there is not enough information, then I personally would not take a side most of the time (I am only human).

And I say all this while myself taking what you would define as "Aaron's side". I am only debating the philosophical and practical implications of what you said.
He does mention it is good for read only primarily...
The Google maps views are pretty good for what I would assume is an automated (or mostly automated) stitching process; locally consistent, and the discontinuities seem to occur between buildings.
What has LGBT got to do with this? An individuals sexuality has nothing to do with asking gender questions.

This Ask is really creepy, what do you intend to do with a list of women hn members? What's next? Sexual orientation? Ethnicity? Religious affiliation?
Of course he could if he had put time on it. I never think if I can, it's just matter of how long it will take. Applies to everyone and everything.
Was there a reason you left this comment, beyond some innate need to feel snarky?
On Github[1], they have some instructions[2].

1: https://github.com/adesai/mgwuSDK

2: http://pastehtml.com/view/cpfdfurib.html
What is a “scalable” product?
I like Postgres much more than MySQL, but my theory is that it's taken off because so many developers have been forced to try it out in order to use Heroku.

But you're right, a ton of great stuff has been added in 8.4+.
One sad aspect of this event, that I see rarely mentioned, is that Swartz knowingly taunted the legal system to test its response, which he sadly was inadquately patient in using to his own advantage. Had he really intended to make a lasting point, perhaps he'd have more effectively done so by risking prosecution, refusing to spend any money on legal fees, as he was obviously eloquent himself. The public awareness of a trial's outcome may have been as extreme and intense as that of his unfortunate choice. Importantly, the world wouldn't have lost him so early, and, importantly, he would have been a wonderful voice in explaining the flaws in the process through its completion.
It's great, it was new to me too. There's a discussion we had about it the other day over here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5039042
Maybe date in California and move to Austin?

I also heard Austin is like a Californian oasis in TX (when it comes to politics/race/etc.)

There is also visiting a different country if you want to find a spouse. The foreigner mystique (esp. if you are pale and Caucasian) is still somewhat alive... based on the vlogs/blogs I've read about: South Korea, Japan, China, etc. Foreigners who blog/vlog eventually talk about foreign guys who date outside of their league because of the foreigner mystique. "Why are so many beautiful women have ugly white boyfriends?"

The paleness comes in handy because of some dumb stereotype: People who are pale work in offices, not in fields, and are wealthier.
I've been looking for an app like this, and it fits the bill. I'll admit that while I could sketch right away, it took me a second to learn how to clear the screen. I skimmed through the site, and didn't know to double tap the grabber, so I shook the phone, not expecting much. But I appreciate that that brought up the menu as well.

Good job!
It's not called "change" when it goes backwards in time.
Thank you for the comment, as I did not live during the hayday of then(born in 1981 and had an electrician as a father). But regardless of what you are saying my point is still clear: Globalization and newborn tech and hacker mentality are souring; Not as much as when they started!
I usually have multiple PuTTY windows open to a couple different servers. I wish it was easier to have multiple SSH sessions going with this extension.
They probably have a surplus because they underfund health care system, among other things... (I remember being surprised at the full-time firefighting budget cuts not long before the huge fires two years ago)

EDIT: Oh and apparently there is no surplus

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-usa-deficits-st...
They specifically mentioned using it for read queries, where transactions are irrelevant and waste bandwidth and processing power on both the server and the client.
FUSE is the way to make a source look like a file system. It's the right architecture for this.
Wait, so in order to use the SDK developers are forced to publish through the company AND the company takes the first $1000 in revenue? Isn't that really bad for developers?

Mobile games are so hit and miss I bet most people using this SDK will never top $1000 in revenues and will never see a dime. But if their app does blow up and get popular, they won't be able to get the brand recognition that comes with it. I am struggling to find the benefits of using this :/
You wouldn't understand the complaint unless you move here (I moved from a "high tax" country to SF).

The taxes are still high (any claims that the US is low tax are inherently just BS spouted by people who don't understand taxes) but you get nothing in return. That's the problem.
It's ok to just use transactions all the time when you don't need performance, but those transactions come with a cost, and normaly most queries of a system won't need them.
True story: I asked a guy at work if he's seen Django Unchained, and he seriously said "No, and I didn't know we had a Django book in our library"
Definitely go down to the hells angels headquarters and let them all know that they aren't really from here because they call it the "frisco" chapter.

Post back and let us know your experience! ;)
I assume he means having the more appealing political platform to hypothetical Tech Industry employees ie. young, urban and college educated.
Sure.

1) Code that depends on autocommit is hard to unit test, since you have to mock out whatever internal method autocommit calls

2) Code that depends on autocommit is hard to reason about, since you don't have a consistent view of your data, especially in multi-step update methods.

3) Because of 2, your updates will (not "may", "will definitely") be corrupted at some point, leaving broken bad data in the database. Comprehensive constraints help, but if you're relying on autocommit chances are you're not using constraints very well either.
I know being minimalistic in your design is good but your app icon doesn't really benefit from being minimal. It needs to tell the user what the app does. I suggest having "Ink" in your icon using the same sketch style in your first screenshot.
Is this compatible with our own linkshare affiliate links?
Deep Belief Networks tutorial (with pre-reqs) put together by Andrew Ng
This is what he has students go through before beginning to work with him.
Irony.

In the same post you complain that no one seems to give a rat's ass about actual technology anymore and then you downvote someone for bringing up Brian Behlendorf as someone who has contributed to actual technology.

In fact Brian definitely has made a lot of technical contributions to open source, and the fact that you don't like one organization that Brian Behlendorf's is associated with does not change that. Perhaps if YOU "gave a rat's ass about actual technology", you could understand respecting Brian for that EVEN THOUGH you disagree with him on other topics.

(If you really want to stretch yourself, you might consider that when the same person is important in organizations as diverse as Apache, Mozilla, Burning Man and the World Economic Forum, that perhaps the last organization has goals you are unaware of that might in critical ways differ from the actions of the world leaders who they have to engage in order to have any change of achieving their real goals. That might be a stretch for you. It doesn't fit nicely on a propaganda placard. But it is worth thinking about regardless.)
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Right, it's definitely respectable, but the costs were projected to be in the millions. Generally people making 150k/year or so cannot afford this.

FYI there is a hard cap on the payscale (according to wikipedia) of 155k. After base+adjustments+modifiers, it cannot exceed level IV of the Executive Schedule or something to that effect.
The moral of this story is: do not let your career slide to the extent that you go all the way through school and then college, most of two decades including what should have been some of the most productive years of your life, and still end up with no work experience so that someone like the above poster feels entitled to tell you you are a nothing. The time to get proactive about your career is long before that point.
Lesson I will take is:
1) Save like mad.
2) If buy a house, buy with 10%-20% down-payment and financed with aggressive mortgage payback timeline.
3) Climb the ladder and take the money.
Too heavy. Samsung ARM still the best Chromebook.
Anecdotally speaking, yes that was exactly why I first tried it out (when Heroku first launched a few years back.)

Glad I did though.
Yeah, I cringe at seeing a share sheet shown by a double-tap on a grabber. For one, I strongly expect share sheets on iOS to be shown only by the normal "share" icon; for another, I don't expect double-tapping on a grabber to do anything. Inherent in a grabber is its "grabbiness": it's something tactile that you drag, not something you tap on. (Yes, Chrome uses a clickable grabber-looking-thing for displaying a menu; that's unfortunate IMO.)

Additionally, having "Clear" as an option in a share sheet feels really wrong too.

If something acts differently than another thing, generally it should look different, too. This thing isn't a grabber (at least not as far as I'm aware of from having seen the linked page) and the thing that it shows isn't a share sheet.

I do definitely like the idea of a quick, minimal sketching app like this that ruthlessly eschews feature creep to do one job well. I think you're on the right track and am interested in getting this!
Gotta say I was skeptical clicking the link, but after reading about how you plan to give app analytics, I'm amazed nobody thought of it sooner, its a great idea. Good luck on your venture.
Show HN: JS Cloud/Web Desktop I made in my spare-time
* How do I do board layout?

You learn an EDA tool such as Eagle, pick a board vendor, and produce a design that meets the board vendor's specifications. You submit an order, and get boards in the mail. It's like designing and getting custom t-shirts made, expect much more involved.

* How do I know which components to put on a board?

Mostly datasheets. Once you identify your subsystems (I want this micro, that USB interface, this video chip) you get the datasheets and read them to learn how to design the schematic for that part. How do you pick what micro or USB chip? I start by browsing hobbyist websites to see what is popular and digikey to see what meets my specs and is cheap.

* How do I know what components go where?

On a hobbyist board running in the kHz range? They mostly go where they fit. There are no rules, just guidelines- group things by how they connect, so you have less wire everywhere. Rats-nests are hard to design and debug, and component placement is the #1 way to fight rats-nest. Put central components (like the microcontroller) in the center. Put ports on the edge of the board. Put the USB chip next to the USB port.

* How do I test the system I want to build.

You build it. There's no simulation. You build it, and if things are wrong you figure out why with a multimeter and maybe an oscilloscope.
Fair play. Ought to admit I haven't used one on a ThinkPad yet. Never enjoyed typing on other manufacturers' chiclet keyboards so I am judging them on that skewed basis. It's my first ThinkPad so I'm still a bit spellbound about the sheer quality of the keyboard compared to every laptop I've used before. Shouldn't be all too surprised to learn Lenovo's are a cut above the rest and, in light of your comments, I won't be so dismissive of them when buying my next ThinkPad. Don't knock it and all that!
At the time, FB was also hitting the 500 shareholders which meant they had to start reporting everything to the SEC, same as if they were a public company. So why not just go public? (I guess they learned why...) That number may have been bumped up since then.
I love how he said that NFC was equivalent to a QR code, and then said how it was awesome that they could be rewritten. If a rental car (or any car) had a rewritable NFC chip in it, how quickly do you think it would be before it was pointed at goatse?
I wrote a gem to help you create partial indexes (among other things) in Rails projects:

https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers
Why more women should develop apps
Yes sure, but it could be fixed if you added a few hints in the app.
Completely, it doesn't touch Linkshare unless you add it to the shortener.
Genuine question - Can't a natural gas power plant be built nearby? Assuming access to grid is not far, extra power can be sold to nearby markets.
I believe that could be ideal for some people but click this and see an alternative deal/option http://www.thefoundershive.com/how-it-works/
I have a x131e AMD model. The keyboard is awesome. Way better than any other laptop I've used. It may look similar to some of the new chiclet keyboards but it feels great. I wish my mac had this keyboard.
Yay for generalization!
Fernet? Wow, never heard of it. Sounds kinda cool.

If we're talking beer, I'd say Anchor Steam is the drink of SF.
Show HN: Web service mocking tool.
Sure if it's 2.6%, 97.4% will be released in some form at some point, but those 2.6% are lost with a utility/greenhouse ratio of effectively zero.

But the marginal utility of capturing that gas is negative: less than zero.

(By the way it's 4.2%, not 2.6%; my post has an error and I can't edit it. There's a mismatch between the gas flaring and oil production figures: one is from 2011 (NYT article), the other 2012 (WSJ). It's a large error because oil production doubled in the space of a few months).
Better construction and it's a bit more armored than your typical laptop.
The article also has a link to an interactive tax calculator that lets you compare 2012 tax rates with 2013 tax rates:

http://calculator2.taxpolicycenter.org
I'm curious how TapStream auto-magically ids the user. My first guess is you guys are doing the app-safari-app dance at first fireup.
The app looks nice but it has usability issues.

I downloaded the app and used it for a bit but wasn't able to figure out how to do anything besides clear the page by swiping the grabber up and so I deleted it. I hadn't read the website nor the app description and there was nothing in the app itself to indicate that I should double-tap to bring up the action sheet. (Note that in iOS in general double-tapping is typically used to zoom.)

Here are two possible solutions.

(a) on first launch show a modal dialog that says something like "double-tap the grabber to access the menu"

or maybe a better fix:

(b) have the options "behind" the paper so when the user slides the grabber up the options become visible, then if the user continues to swipe all the way up the screen, the drawing is cleared.

I'd love to chat with you about the app. Post a link to your twitter/email/smoke signal/etc if you're interested.
Vagrancy is a different standard than "craziness".
Read the link in the parent post. There is in fact a shortage of women, and it causes real problems.
FTA:

from booking factory time to purchasing the chips — fell to the relatively modest resources of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charitable body initially funded by loans from Upton and five other trustees.

"That would have been fine at 10,000 boards [...]"

So right in the article he admits that they were funded for 10,000 boards yet they are surprised they sold 1,000? Considering how Raspberry Pi has been plastered all over HN from day one, it's not a surprise at all.
Just FYI, http://qbix.com/ just shows "Error rendering this page." in Opera. Took me a second to realize it was just a browser compat issue, at first I wrote the whole service off as broken.

You might want to drop in an explicit browser support warning.
I agree, I have no idea why someone would have this attitude when trying to sell something especially when it is perfectly reasonable to want an eraser on a sketch app.

One of the great things about computers is that we can sketch in an ink style and still be able to erase mistakes. Ironically, the style in the app seems to be more pencil than ink.

Edit: Just saw that this was not the OP's comment. Apologies.
What do you think about using a js-keylogger via a malicious Chrome extension, could that be a plausible scenario?
I support:

The Center for Industrial Progress http://www.industrialprogress.net/

The Ayn Rand Institute: http://www.aynrand.org/
NYC is a big place and its not all the same. One could, for example, live in Brooklyn, pay a more reasonable rent and be surrounded by interesting people all with access to great food and bars. I suppose you could stretch that a bit further to Queens as well.
Manhattan itself is quickly changing into a business district. You go there to work, grab dinner or hit the theater, then leave.
Plenty of people still care about technology, it's just that "the scene" has become big enough for celebrities to emerge. This is part and parcel of the type of individualist capitalist society that enables a place like SV to emerge in the first place. The fact that there's a lot of noise drowning out the real technologists is nothing more than validation that technology is in fact relevant.
Can users start a new thread via e-mail? What would that look like?
We are working on allowing folks to use it without publishing through us. What kind of pricing model would you like to see?

Here's why you want to use it:

-It's so easy to use a couple high school students build a social game with it that's doing quite well.

-It leads you to build the type of game that has a higher chance of succeeding.

-When you publish with us, we produce all the art and music for your game at no upfront cost to you and promote your game. This is easily a $1000 value. We got Name That Jam! To the top 25 Trivia and Music games in the App Store for 2 weeks :)
Did you miss this summer? It was really nice from August through most of October.
Or sneeze. Ever noticed how occasionally, every single person on a street sneezes at exactly the same time? I've practiced keeping my eyes open during a sneeze to try to see what the buildings don't want us to see, but no luck yet :|
Students have never been allowed to "tinker" with school-owned computers. I have been involved in educational programs that relied on school-owned laptops at the college level. In my experience having a locked-down machine is really the only way to make this sort of thing work well.

Unless you're teaching CS or networking or something along those lines there is just no benefit to allowing students fiddle with the computers that isn't completely overwhelmed by the negative effects of students accidentally hosing the machines.

I guess in a perfect world we would let everyone tinker with everything. You never know where the next brilliant idea will come from and all that. But in the world we live in, there are costs and there are benefits. When the costs of something dwarf the benefits of that thing you don't do it.
Slab City: Living Off the Grid in California's Badlands
The machines are also totally fungible. If something happens to a computer, you can swap in a loaner machine with negligible loss of productivity.
What vendor lock-in? You can install any OS you want on these devices.
Can someone please explain to me why PBR is so popular in SF?

I really want to know. How did it become trendy to drink bottom-rung beer?
I thought that autocommit simply wraps each SQL statement in its own transaction? Wouldn't a good programming practice, be to ensure that everything that is supposed to be atomic, occur in a single, possibly large, SQL statement anyways?
Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people.

This being HN I'll probably get stoned for this reddit-like comment. So be it.
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Yeah, I know that leftist groupthink doesn't comprehend that fascism is a leftist political ideology.

Hint, you know what NAZI means?
A post like this is begging and screaming for concrete numbers. I want to see - initial perf, perf with Apple sampling, perf with hookshot instrumentation, perf after fixing issues found via hookshot.
This isn't clear from the blog post, but we only use autocommit for read-only queries. Using autocommit is only really a major boost if you have a very high skew of reads to writes like we do (50:1).
Kate Middleton Portrait Buzz: Art Criticism, Sexism, or Something Else?
Living in Oakland is popular.
I would love to see a chess with friends for android