skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever been to the northeast? NY and MA have far worse roads.
The anatomy of a post that got over 500,000 likes
What about "computer"?
Marin headlands is one of the most beautiful places to go when you are there. For someone from the east coast, walking along those dramatic cliffs was very exciting. My wife and I imagined we were in Scotland!
International correspondence chess allows, or at least does not forbid, using computers for analysis. Most serious players use them. http://www.iccf.com/
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> Rough analogy: writing to a file by name (process, Erlang) vs. writing to a file descriptor (channel, Go).

That analogy doesn't really work, messages can be sent to an Erlang process by pid, how this pid came to be obtained isn't necessarily through naming (you can also register a process to a name, in which case it is indeed like writing to a file by name), and some of the things messages are sent to are not actual processes (e.g. ports).
Tomorrow's Web London is back for founders, devs & creators.
Only if you think they're trying to keep in touch with the average person.
They should've used a quad core Cortex A15. It would've made them cheaper, and there's no reason for x86 in these machines.
Yes, the first well in our area (the nationally-known Buell well in the Scio area, about 2 miles from our place) has produced some of the most amazing figures for oil plus wet gas ever seen. Other early wells are also turning in highly encouraging results. But you never know if they're massaging/optimizing the reported results to encourage investors or if they're for real. We'll see...
Seriously. Don't expect me to read your verbose description; just show it to me.
Hydrogen is a great substitute - it's abundant, cheap, provides a bit more lift and if you're aware of the risks and handle it properly it's quite safe.
I attempted to sign up today and found out that you have to be a member of a research institution. Why is this? Doesn't this defeat much of the purpose of openness (as members of research institutions usually already have access to paywall-protected research anyway, whereas the general public doesn't)?
Oregon has done exactly the same thing, though, and it hasn't caused the same problems. We have a balanced budget requirement, an annual cap on property tax increases, a requirement that the legislature can't pass taxes itself but has to put them as ballot measures, and a requirement that no new tax can pass at a special election (non-May non-November) without a 50% turnout (in response to too many ballot-stuffing special elections where all the special-interest groups remind their members to vote).

So, I remain curious about the root cause difference here.
It's usually better to implement onSaveInstanceState and onRestoreInstanceState.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542333/how-to-prevent-cu...
Thanks for posting this, you gave me the bits I needed to make a simple test I could use to verify the patch, without needing the metasploit stuff. (on rails 2.3, I don't get the disallowedType error, but I can verify in the logs that the patch works)

http://www.railsperformance.com/2013/01/simple-test-for-rail...
You lost credibility with me by repeated use of the vulgar "San Fran". It's THE CITY. :)
So maybe people don't realize but there is a chart that is used for determining possible sentence for any given set of charges. I have seen this work sheet in process. The charges are listed. And there is a book (or document or something like that.. I forget) that explains the max jail time and fine for all these charges. and then there are "special circumstances" for some charges that can add on to the sentence. So if you have a list of 10 charges and you go through each one and examine the special circumstances and tally the whole thing up... you get you maximum (potential) sentence. That does not mean that is what will be sought. That does not mean that is what you will get. That just means that is the max you face.
I'd like to see a post-mortem for this submission one the traffic dies down. Most startups these days feature flashy designs, and I've always wondered how much it really mattered. This design is straightforward and not flashy at all, so I'd be interested in seeing the conversion rate of an "academic-looking" design.
Too bad. I really prefer the name WikiTravel. Clearer and simpler.
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Hosting our own for now--although weighing pros/cons of using AWS.

On one hand, AWS GPUs do seem a bit slower than bare metal, and it's theoretically (actually?) more expensive. Plus we get more control if we host our own.

But then again, running a data center is a problem that has been solved and I'm not sure we can create much value there. In practice, it will probably end up a bit of both, depending on demand.
The way I see it is that you write to files with an fd, but and fd can point to more than just files.
Fair enough, must have just been enjoying the journey then.
What part of the Mission do you live in?
In a decade the jobs will be gone, the energy will be gone, and you're left with large areas of f* up land, pollution and health issues. It's not worth it in the long term.
Coming from Oregon, PBR has a surprisingly low profile -- Tecate seems more like the "it" beer in SF. Maybe a neighborhood thing.

(Also Fernet, which I'd never heard of before -- it's sort of like a grown-up's Jaëger.)
Ask HN: Are startups a good market?
I'm considering launching a tool that would help entrepreneurs validate whether their startup idea has merit. It would be mostly targeted to web startups, but could have broader applications to other entrepreneurs as well.

My question is this - do startups pay (in general)? Does anyone have experience targeting the broader startup ecosystem as a market?
Spent some time in SF after PyCon last year.. a good pro tip is dont attempt to walk home if you live in the hills! :)

Really great experience.
There are many ways to deal with this, here is a simple one:

...
ch := make(chan int)
defer close(ch) //I can timeout later if I want
go consumer(ch)
...
//I timeout down here and return
}

func consumer(input chan int) { //I will terminate when the input channel is closed
for x := range input {
fmt.Printf("I got %d!\n", x)
}
}
Unless the build quality is stellar and/or the size makes a difference, I would much rather pick a machine from their Essential series (to keep the discussion to the same manufacturer, similar options exist). It is not tied to an ever-changing online service, it has the specs to act as a stand alone work machine for myself, let alone school students, and only costs $369.

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/essential/g-series/...

I recently picked one up for a family member and was impressed by how much computer <$400 will get you.
there it is: "don't give up before your friends"
It is in the general case, but most cases are decidable, so it's still a useful feature.
They had a plugin site running for a long time, but one of the admins accidentally deleted more than half of the database one day when trying to purge some spam, and the most recent backup was over a year old, so they decided to scrap the whole thing and move to a git-based system.
> Tell me when the PDF version has embedded, runnable code snippets.

When you're making the basic task of seeing the slides impossible, nobody cares about your pointless turd-polishing.

Furthermore, PDF readers (at least Adobe's, but third-parties also sometimes do even if not all APIs are present) embed an ECMAScript interpreter, so you can indeed have embedded runnable code snippets in PDF: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html
Work in residential property management. Either your salary is decent enough for SF (the higher ups), or your rent is free (the front line managers.)
> some of the things messages are sent to are not actual processes (e.g. ports).
In general, I believe people underestimate the importance of development time, as well as ease of training/hiring new programmers - one language is nearly always better as far as both of these things are concerned (unless that language is something like Malbolge).
Wonders how anyone can live without being in the tech industry... then chooses not to buy local..

You are making things a lot harder on the families of SF that have been here for a long time by not shopping local.. please think of that next time you order on amazon from your soma office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNmYA3ZPPs
Can you imagine trying to raise 2 children on less than $260k? Thanks Obama :(
The Note 2 isn't exactly setting the world on fire - yes, it's doing well at 5 million pre-Christmas, but it is way behind the sell rate of S3s.

Thus I don't think Apple is going to be shifting form factors for phablets, the iPad Mini is basically their concession to a middle road form factor (and by most accounts is selling very well).
Thanks for the tip. I often get wrapped-up in the buzzwords then end up splitting my attention between a million different areas that I forget to build up the basics or start small. Sinatra looks like a good gateway to understanding the 'magic' behind Rails.
I considered moving to SF but chose Austin instead. I refuse to live in a state with such a dysfunctional government and ridiculously high taxes. Some of the same reasons I left NY.

You can do tech anywhere. You do not need to live in the bay area. If you really like the city pick a place (like Austin) with inexpensive direct flights and go a few times a month. You'll still save money.
I think it'll look like this:

http://www.assaultweb.net/Forums/showthread.php?t=142405

"AR-15 30rd Magazine Dowloadable CAD Files"

Edit: Maybe I've been reading too much Charles Stross:

"Mind you, not everything that comes out of a rapid prototyper is good. Here's the Magpul FMG-9 prototype: and here's some more. Is it a flashlight? Is it a submachine gun? Who knows? Here's another baroque weapon that probably started life on a rapid prototyping machine. If reprap-like machines with strong materials turn out to be cheap and easy, then never mind licensing handguns — we're going to have a problem with home-made crew-served weapons. (Reminder: yr. hmbl. crspndnt. lives in a country where, for better or worse, possession of a pistol by anyone who's not in the police or military carries a mandatory 5-year minimum prison sentence. The implications of rapid prototyping machines for this sort of legislative environment probably parallel the effects of peer to peer networking on music industry cartels.)"

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/06/the_futu...
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Read mp3 file info with PHP
Actually, email was exactly what tripped up Oliver North.

Even getting rid of incriminating emails is worse than keeping them for inspection. North and John Poindexter (sp?) exchanged emails, deleted them when they realized they were in hot water and those emails were subsequently recovered.
Cartoon - Social Mafia
Why does that married couple with 4 kids look so sad while making 650K/year!
Knowledge transfer networks vs. Information transfer networks
Every time you buy stock someone else is selling it. That does not mean it's a bad buy, just that the seller has different priorities.
this has to be the stupidest graphic i have ever seen

not only does it assign unrealistic income values, it uses different income brackets AND different deduction possibilities for each scenario. I walk away from this graph with absolutely no knowledge.
I'm getting the same error in the US.
On it getting cold at 4 PM, I quote the estimable "30 Rock":

"Can’t hack it in the big city? Gonna move to the Bay Area now, pretend that was your dream the whole time? Have fun always carrying a light sweater."
Only rappers say "Frisco" any more, probably because it's easy to rhyme. The most common abbreviation I hear is simply "SF" for San Francisco itself. "East Bay" for Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley. etc. "The Peninsula" or "The Valley" for anywhere south of SF and "Bay Area" for the whole thing.
The incentives are completely screwed, because flaring off that gas represents a mere opportunity cost to the oil company, yet imposes a heavy externality on the rest of the world. The waste is only "less expensive than the alternative" because the person doing the wasting isn't the one paying the price.

So yes, absolutely: impose a carbon tax, where the person burning any fossil fuel pays a price that actually reflects the externalities of their choice. That's not arbitrary at all. If it still makes financial sense to flare rather than capture, fine. But there's no pretending that everything is all right with the existing equation.
People making $260k a year are making $5,000 per week

Somehow I am just not worried about them.

There are tens of millions living on one tenth of that in this country and even millions living on one 1/20th
All of my friends who have lived on both the east and west coast absolutely prefer west coast football times. I find it difficult to stay up until midnight or 1 AM watching Sunday or Monday night football and make it to work the next day. I feel sorry for those who attend the games. On Sunday mornings, there is no time to kill before the games start, and the local teams usually kick off at 1 PM.
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Learn How to Become a Great Storyteller
No Limit Texas Holdem is strategically challenging, difficult, and unsolved. Computers are excellent and can be better than most humans at Limit Holdem.
Our Django Book is Launched
Outrage over zealous feds
because it got stolen, what did you think he meant
Demo demo demo!
Punitive tax -> higher oil price -> shipping oil from overseas is more competitive -> more fuel used and environmental impact to get the oil from overseas

You should probably just be advocating a carbon tax since that addresses this externality in a more general way.
I'm sorry, I just don't think these points are true for the other cities you mention. As a Seattle inhabitant, the descriptions of San Francisco-specific weather, rent, cost of living, costumes, events, transients, canine-friendliness, fog, commuting, and other things just do not apply here. Of the first few things mentioned, only the strong neighborhood identity is something we share.
I was actually pretty disappointed with the "beginner" workflow for the Raspberry Pi, which is essentially "run this linux distribution, which has some educational applications pre-installed once you fire up X". Not to knock linux, but based on the stated mission of the RPi, I would have thought something more similar to the traditional 80's experience of "boot & start programming" would have been the out-of-the-box default.

I've actually been mulling over starting a project like this for machines like the RPi and APC -- an OS where you basically boot into something like a REPL, and start coding away.
$430 seems to be expensive for something with no real hard drive (only 16GB solid state) and with a Celeron processor.
Look at those poor, sad retirees struggling to make ends meet on only $180,000/yr, with no change to their taxes.

Four children on $650,000, what a horrible life those kids are going to have - those parents look so stressed and tired.

That single person on $230,000 looks pissed off they'll have to contribute a whole $2,900 extra. How horrible for her.
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I think that's his point. A bank wouldn't do that if you did not have a history of delivering.
I think everyone who lives near a major city calls that city "The City" in everyday conversation. I live near NYC, and I do it in reference to Manhattan. (Less so the other parts of NYC, such as Queens and the Bronx.)
New Heroku Dataclips eases data sharing via Google Docs
"Blue horseshoe loves Anacott steel"

The WSJ has never had credibility in this regard.
What Facebook Must Do.
For what it's worth, this looks like a CrOS variant of the existing X131e[0] which is also an .edu-only model. Not new and shiny, but gets Lenovo in the CrOS market. I'd like to think this is a precursor to a mass-market CrOS ThinkPad.

EDIT: it's available to mass-market as well[1], but the sales pitch still makes the target market fairly clear

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/education/us/en/edu-series.html

[1] http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x...
Ah, fair enough. I don't know erlang. Can a process have multiple distinct channels it receives on?
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How much of that is just that when you move to a place, these sorts of differences are conversation starters?

When I decided to move I was painfully aware of the cost of living and housing issues. They factored heavily into my decision and I made sure the numbers added up. When I got here, did I still complain about it to anyone who'd ask, and some who didn't? You bet.

Also, though by the time I got to SF I had been out west for a while already, let's not forget that for many of us east coasters, complaining is a big part of the culture. :-)
Just what about those income levels is representative of the rest of the country? It is not telling me anything.
The median household income in the US is something like $45K/year. The people in these examples are paying more than that in taxes every year, except for the retired couple struggling along on $180K.
The Complexity Versus Value Trap
I don't like that the headline has changed. Sure, it may have been editorialized, but if the editorialized headline was inappropriate, the whole submission should have been removed. Without the original headline, this post makes no sense.

If you're confused, the original headline was along the lines of "WSJ - Out of Touch?". The implication was that with the WSJ saying their idea of a retired person makes $180,000, their single parent of two makes $260,000, etc, the WSJ is out of touch with the common person's actual salary, especially during a recession.
You CAN do tech anywhere, just as you CAN be a banker outside of NYC or an actor outside of LA. Doesn't mean it's the most efficient or effective way.

I have lots of respect for people who choose to live in other parts of the world but to suggest that there's not much difference between living in SF or Austin for someone interested in starting or working for a successful technology firm is inaccurate.

I don't count freelance development as "doing tech" as it's equivalent to being a "day-trader" vs banker or "youtube star" vs actor.
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Sometimes I have the feeling that most of the namespace is already clogged with spammy parking pages, and even spammier sites. I think I'd rather stumble into monuments.
Yes, and I would say it's much easier to make businesses pay than consumers. As a startup founder myself (http://www.gotealeaf.com), if your product helps me 1) increase revenue 2) cut cost 3) reduce risk 4) save time, paying is a no brainer.

The key difference is this: when you target consumers, people tend to have a fixed budget on discretionary spending and a fixed amount of time to pay with their attention. You will be competing with the big players with their unlimited marketing dollars, polished content, and not to mention the countless startups that are piling on.

When you target business, if you can help me with any of the above 4, just "shut up and take my money"
> I walk away from this graph with absolutely no knowledge.

This graph is showing there are people out there earning a lot more than you and I, so we need to put our noses to the grindstone, stat!

No more talking about extended vacations, citizen.
I can't speak to Oregon, but in California the voters also specify the things the government has to spend on. We have legislature must spend on. For instance we require that some 60% of the budget go to education. The legislature only have control over something like 20%. Additionally, while this is probably only a small problem now, we will have pension / retiree health care issues.
Buy local is the biggest crock (with one exception: if you honestly and truly believe the food is better quality). It causes a net loss for society. Consumers can't purchase as many goods, and the goods being purchased are not being produced as efficiently as the 'non-locals' version. Which means your groceries cost more every week then they would have otherwise.
http://mises.org/daily/5283/The-BuyLocal-Canard
are those rental prices really per quarter?

if so they're making central London look exorbitant, I have friends paying that per month for studio flats!
Dear Tycho, I'm well versed in English and Dutch, but I have no clue what you're trying to say.

As for dropping quantities of liquid on your Mac: don't do it, or at least get yourself some proper computer insurance. Apple's standard warranty doesn't cover accidents, AppleCare doesn't cover them either. If you bring your water damaged computer to an Apple Store (try Amsterdam), they might take pity on you and replace your computer on the spot, but they're in no way obligated to do so.
The objective arguments are sound, in my opinion. I don't care for the flippant insults like "assholery," but I'm a big boy, I can filter these out.

One thing to remember about interviewers that ask poor questions is that many such people aren't full-time professional interviewers. They are to interviewing as a marketing manager who does some Excel scripting is to programming. They are often repeating what they've heard or read or been subjected to, much as an inexperienced programmer tends to use whatever programming pattern was espoused in the last blog post he read.

A terrible interviewer may still be a wonderful person to work alongside, just as someone who performs poorly under the pressure of an interview may be a fantastic programmer once hired and working on an actual project.
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Nope, each process has a single mailbox.

On the other hand, processes don't have to go through their mailbox sequentially, they can prioritize messages (through pattern matching) and handle these first even if they are the last message in the mailbox (it's called a "selective receive"), so you get the same feature trivially by tagging messages instead of sending a message to a different channel.
When did the Onion buy the WSJ?
Making Complex Data Simple Through Design
Surely all of these arguments boil down to balancing how important general intelligence vs domain expertise is to your hiring procedure.

You could see these riddles as a stand in for just giving the candidate a full blown IQ test.
Hah do you guys just have servers sitting around or are you at least co-locating?
I love how much denser the suburban parts of LA are compared to other places (though I do wish it had more of a super-dense urban core), but it does take a toll infrastructure-wise. LA has a pretty extensive network of freeways, and they're still all packed. It's crazy. And impressive, in a way (I have a love-hate relationship with the 405 in particular).

On the other hand, the city I'm from originally is finally getting to widening one of the core freeways in an area that's seen a ton of growth over the past twenty years, and it sounds like just as much a pain for the people living there as the 405 construction has been in LA. There's just a far lower total of affected people since the city is so much less populated. :)
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Not mentioned is one of the great San Francisco treats: THE EXPLORATORIUM. http://www.exploratorium.edu. The Exploratorium is moving in April from the old facility near the Palace of Fine Arts to a more central location on the waterfront. While it's a great place for family and kids, it's also a great place for the rest of us. And, in the new location there will be more events like the popular date night "after dark" gatherings. And if you've got spare cash, donations are always welcome.
Oh US and your complaining about taxes. "You leave with ONLY 65% of your income after paying taxes". In Denmark you pay 60% in taxes, so you leave with 40% of your income in your pocket. And petrol is now more than $10/US gallon.