skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two good bets for a young person in the East Bay:

Temescal. Macarthur BART has lots of trains to the city and assuming you're going somewhere near a station (like Twitter or Google SF) it's ~ 20 minutes. Strong hipster vibe, and an explosion of restaurants, bike shops, funky secondhand stores, etc. in the last 10 years. Neighborhood is still rough in patches, but rapidly improving. Stay to the North and East of Macarthur BART and you're fine.

Downtown Berkeley. Safe Neighborhood. Lots of young people about, plenty of restaurants. Things tend to close up earlier than in the city. Commute is slightly longer than to Temescal, but the Richmond trains tend to be emptier and so you almost always get a seat.

If you work at Google SF or anywhere downtown, look into the AC Transit Transbay Buses. They are slightly more expensive than BART ($4.20 a ride, last I checked) but you get free Wifi, great views, clean, comfortable coach seats, and nonstop service. That opens up a LOT more territory, albeit mostly away from the concentrations of culture.

But all that said, you're right, SF is the place to be if you can afford it. Don't try to save money as an intern. What you earn during that time is a drop in the bucket, ultimately, and you're only young once. But if you have a crew of people you want to live with, the Easy Bay can be a great bet, and you can spend what you save on trips out of town.
Javac also takes longer than Turbo Pascal to compile...
And a population withholding investment capital when those (actually very heterogeneous) tools when they're for unsustainable business plans is better than one in which people have to invest in some business plan to preserve what they have.

It's really not as simple as "investment = good". It's good when it's for stuff that produces value. It's not good when it's invested for the sake of investing and ends up in the stocks of corrupt corporations and shady ventures.
The market cap isn't the stat to watch on BTC- the daily volume is. With volume at something in the low millions of dollars it'd be very easy for the currency to be manipulated by dollar-based traders. There's not much evidence that there are large deep pocketed investors who will toe som imaginary line in the wake of a retail investor sell-off. Until volumes pick up the daily price ont he various exchanges represents the valuations of a distressingly low number of traders.

That said, I think bitcoin is super exciting and want to see it succeed. But it needs to be much more heavily traded, regardless of its dollar exchange rate, for that to happen.
Actually a 63 bit number and a 1 bit sign flag

Not true. Modern architectures use 2s-complement rather than an explicit sign bit to represent integers. If you use a sign bit, there are two different zeros (positive and negative) but the range of positive numbers is exactly as large as the range of negative numbers. With 2s-complement, there's only one zero and the range of negative numbers is larger (by one) than the range for positive numbers.
This is not about entitlement, and destroying value is not a wise thing to do for short term economic gains. I think it's pretty obvious and intuitive that even in CPUs, this kind of design is a failure of imagination and exploitative to the market, both supply and demand.

I couldn't say that it's something to make illegal in this exact execution, but the same actions could be a huge negative PR hit in different circumstances, and it's certainly wasteful and arrogant. The fact that these companies are even doing it shows that it's about time for someone to challenge them in their market. It's a huge market failure sign. Basically, because of Intel's and Tesla's near monopoly, they can do this kind of thing.
Oh that takes me back. Well done!
It should work on mobile devices, although a few tweaks in the CSS is needed to make the UI adapt properly. I'll make those in the coming weeks.

If I find people using the site regularly, I'll create a mobile app for it.
It's not at all clear why Mr Herrling's point is relevant at all.
It comes out to "we patented something and prevented others from doing anything related due to the patent, but it turned out we couldn't sell that version". This seems like "tough shit", wait to patent a version that works, you got the benefit of the patent.
> What exactly is the motivating factor for an acquired website (especially one acquired by a large successful media company) to care about how you feel with their service?

That's precisely the point, isn't it? Right now there's no incentive for them to care. The percentage of users who care about open data right now is pretty small, mostly confined to the very tech-savvy. Maybe this punchfork acquisition kerfuffle can be used to teach non-tech-savvy users the importance of open data. An open, free recipe database - importantly, that follows the punchfork model of not including instructions, so the actual recipe sites still get traffic - is a step in that direction.
I actually thought it was pretty witty
Later on, yes, many of our weapons came from France and Spain. Before that though, almost all of the arms provided (including cannons and ships) were done so by either civilian owners or confiscation.
That is just math.

The worldwide money supply is roughly 50 trillion USD (~20 trillion USD + ~20 trillion EUR + others).

If Bitcoin ends up capturing 0.1% of $50 trillion, this is $50 billion, divided by 21M bitcoins total = $2400 per bitcoin.
Agreed. Like Diaspora for data? :)
I just noticed something: your links are "lying with statistics". Everyone knows that if you want to "prove" that Gold is a good investment, just start your graphs at 1970s.

After all, Gold reached a glorious bubble of inflation-adjusted $2200+ / ounce in 1970s, and has fallen since then. (yes, even with today's inflated prices, Gold is no where near its inflation-adjusted high).

Lets take a more reasonable graph of Gold, ehh? Something longer term... and see what happens to your trend.

http://www.macrotrends.org/1437/gold-to-s-p-500-ratio

Gold's trend is downward compared to the majority of the market. Each valley is lower, and each peak is lower than the last (with exception of stagflation period in the 70s)
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I hear a lot of grief about companies shutting down. And I get it, if I spent a lot of time on Punchfork or Google Reader I would be bummed out.

However I can still see the good that will come, yummly already jumped at creating an API replacement much like feedly promises to be an alternative for google reader.

By the way, is ending your startup in "ly" the new fad in the technosphere?
And this is why you use nullptr, not NULL.
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Is there an Ad service (a la Adsense) I can use to display ads using my Chrome Extension? I can't use AdSense because it prohibits my use case - Ads through Chrome Extensions.

I would like the ads to be text ads. But, in the worst case, can work with banner ads too.
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Metacomment: I don't think that it's a bad thing to consider and reconsider the ideas being pushed and pumped by various parties. Even when the party being critiqued is pushing the agenda you favor.

The article could stand to be a higher-entropy source though. It proved distressingly low-entropy after a while.
Comparing this to indentured servitude is pretty silly. A serf has to eat. If all your friends and family are on Facebook and refuse to interact with you via any other means, that is not the same as being forced.
How Crocodoc turned your PDF into a 3D viewing experience
A completely optional service.

You are misled or are misleading.

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive....
There's also work involved.

I have hundreds of Starred articles that I will have to write a script to move to whatever service I end up using.
Well, not only that, but even after shipping, life isn't necessarily roses and rainbows for even the most successful Kickstarter campaigns. A story worth writing would be a followup with some of the biggest winners in Kickstarter's history, with sort of a "Where are they now?" angle.

It's awesome that the Thermodo guys were able to get such interest in their product, and to generate such a big round on Kickstarter. But let's ask ourselves: is there really a market for plug-in thermometers for mobile phones? Would they have been able to establish such a market without Kickstarter? Will they maintain a market after the Kickstarter campaign is over? Or, perhaps more likely, is the set of all people who bought into this Kickstarter round = to the set of all people who will ever buy a Thermodo?

Don't get me wrong; I'm a big Kickstarter fan. And I've contributed to plenty of campaigns to get "gee-whiz" types of novelty products. But I have a hard time seeing a sustainable business model in many of these ostensible success stories.

(Maybe that's ok. Maybe some of these guys are just trying to bring cool or interesting products to a big group, and nothing more. So be it.)
And the point is, depending on where you work, the East Bay is often "closer" in terms of time spent than some parts of the City, because BART is so much faster than Muni or cycling.

The most important thing is to live near other interns. If everyone's in the city, live in the city. If you want to get a house with a few people, or just prefer a more laid-back vibe, the East Bay is a great option.
It's the MC Hammer animation that makes it really special.
Hold on, who's the whining party here? ;)

If you take out the whining people out of the three million, you still have a pretty good user base. A user base which just might be willing to pay if there's a good service. Heck, I'd pay if there was something significantly better than the free Feedly.
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Some really great stuff here - I love the passion Milne has about changing the way we move money.

I love what Dwolla is trying to do - changing the way transactions are done can make an impact on the economy. The part where he pulled thousands of dollars in cash out of that bag was a great way to drive the point home about the hidden economic cost of interchange fees.

With any startup, the bigger the vision - the more I want to see them succeed. Keep building!!!
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Yes, I did consider making the exact process you described for videos. Held off on it to launch earlier. Maybe in the next version I'll finally add this.

I'm primarily a designer (just learning to code php and ruby) so I'm happy that you liked the interface.
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"whereas flats (apartments) are normally leaseholds"

Must be an English thing, that is certainly not the case in Scotland.
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I love how this readership is spending all of its cycles discussing whether or not the software hack which will allow Tesla to ship a car they aren't going to build. Rather than the fact that they actually surpassed their production goals and have, for the moment, proven a lot of people wrong. People who were held up as the experts in what it takes to create a new car that people will buy and what won't cut it.

So they turn off the '40kWh' option in the buying screen and just give everyone 60kWh cars? That is a known amount of capital downside, one time charge, etc etc. This way they can 'credibly' say to 60kWh customers that they have prevented those people who paid 40kWh prices from getting the same benefit.

Now about that profitable quarter, is that cool or what? Can you imagine how amazing it will be if they turn in a profitable year?

[Disclaimer: Back when their stock was $30 I bought some because I figured Elon was going to either kill himself or push this thing out to market, and now debating on whether I should take my profits. Decisions, decisions.]
The volatility of a currency is one of the most important metrics.

It really doesn't matter if a currency is inflating or deflating. It just shouldn't change that much over time. The less it changes, the better. (or, if it is changing, then it should at least change consistently. IE: People expect USD to inflate at 3% so it should).

Since no one can predict the value of BTC next week, or hell... even tomorrow's price of BTC... it becomes a very hard to use currency.
Ending in .ly was really popular 2 years back (bit.ly, embed.ly, etc etc). It's still popular, but it has waned since .ly was publicly available.

I think the fad has since passed and a lot of people have been jumping on the .io bandwagon recently.
If Bitcoins are worth more, criminals are probably willing to work harder to steal them.
The only way it "works" is if people start using it to pay for goods and services.

Right now it is an investment vehicle for speculation. And the crazy volatility suggests to me that most people won't feel comfortable using this as a currency for transactions, until the volatility decreases immensely.
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Someone on bitcointalk.org [1] noticed that approximately 42,000 BTC (currently worth about US$4.3 million) was just transferred out of one of Instawallet's accounts [2]. No idea whether the transaction was Instawallet's doing, or the attacker's.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=164143.msg1716794#ms...

[2] http://blockchain.info/address/1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96...
I would be surprised if it would turn out, that Schneier wasn't active in building this stuff at DoD and AT&T etc.
I don't know what's going on anymore. I can't get it to NOT play 2 songs simultaneously.
Looking at his history, it looks like you are on the right track; he did make a questionable comment regarding the subject.

I would argue that it while it was perhaps misguided (and actually unclear what his point was), it was certainly not "violently woman-hating..." etc. Those lightning-quick to jump on "misogyny!!!" do themselves no favor in the gender discussion.

So his almost 5 years of contributions are nullified by one unclear non-pc comment. As I ponder all the mostly-well-meaning-but-dumb things I said in my twenties I believe this is a bad sign. I appreciate that the signal to noise is high here, but at risk of big-brother thought control.

Personally, I've had a critical comment about Ubuntu quality killed because someone didn't like it.

Don't know about others but I will be curtailing my comments here for fear of retribution.
Things that clear Ruby's method cache
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> "How is the non-tech user ever going to be able to use this with anywhere near level of trust/safety they do with current traditional currencies."

Insurance.
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Takes me back to when the web was fun. ;)
Piki retrospective
Which paid solutions exist ? And there is a distinction here. Feedly exists because of feeds and hence are in the same camp as Dropbox, Evernote, LogMeIn and other companies that exist solely for one purpose.

But the lesson from the Reader saga was clear. Google is an advertising company and if there isn't a clear way for them to advertise then the product has a high risk of being cancelled.
Hard to say, but my guess is that the price won't go under 15 USD no matter from which level it will fall. Also it's interesting that according to google trends, the current popularity of bitcoin still doesn't reach peak level from 2011[1], I would expect that current popularity is much higher compared to 2011. BTW using forecast feature, "google predicts" the crash any time now :)

[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin
Software == limitless possibility
I trialed several things. I went into Feedly with the expectation it wasn't free. I was actually surprised when it never charged me, and I find myself hoping they will, as I'm not really interested in following another service like this into the inevitable sludgy morass of ads that all free services like this degenerate into. So far it's the winner for me, since I've ended up moving a lot of my RSS consumption to my phone, which has made the final contenders a rather short list.
>Why would anyone trust an electronic form of money that could get hacked and then diluted into oblivion?" Michael Pento, president of Pento Portfolio Strategies, told CNBC.

Instant credibility death.
Yes, right now using these online wallets is not really an option if you are at all concerned about your bitcoins. But it will be in the future. Because online wallets are not less secure than an E-Banking account at a conventional bank. The difference is that banks spend a lot more money on security than the current online wallet operators (think penetration testing, code review, dedicated security staff, option to have two-factor authentication etc).
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Several points were being made, as I can tell from a single reading. Note that I don't claim to do anything more than summarize, and that, probably badly. Read the original to rebut/clarify my take...

- The open source movement separated from libre source in the pursuit of profits; Mr. O'Reilly was heavily involved in that.

- Mr. O'Reilly has changed & massaged certain words and meanings in a masterful art of propaganda.

- Mr. O'Reilly's influence & the approach he favors has demoted the individual's ability to effectively govern themselves.
Aside from the actual content, I'm intrigued how working on this sort of content can pay. The author claims to have spent three months (not necessarily full-time, I assume) reading everything O'Reilly has personally written in public and this gigantic article must have taken a good week or two to write and edit alone. That's several thousand dollars of effort there and I can't imagine it ever getting paid back by this article, no matter how good it is (or not).
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UH OH

Says it was sent FROM cold storage that's not a good sign.
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She should really look into http://codehs.com

I've gone through most of the lessons and while they do a really good job of breaking coding concepts down into real world scenarios involving dogs and tennis balls.

I think they also provide live chat based help if you pay extra.
The price of Bitcoin won't stabilise. The best you could hope for would be a similar volatility to a commodity like gold or silver. So products and services will never be priced in Bitcoin while there is a better alternative like the dollar which is relatively stable.

A mistake 'economists' make with bitcoin is to draw macroecomic conclusions based on theories suited to single currency economies. Actually we need theories that allow for multiple currencies circulating that have different strengths to understand the effects.

Tl;dr Bitcoin won't change the way we price things, it just provides another option to transfer wealth.
Initially, I thought it was the transition to 32-bit-clean code in the 68k line, but that was more of a 24-to-32 transition, and it only affected pointers:

http://lowendmac.com/trouble/32bit.shtml
Hopefully they've figured out limbo.
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Hah, thank you for pointing out the spelling error. :)

As for the variations in the sleep cycles, I think it would have to do with the length of time between REM cycles in individuals. I'm sure there's individual variance in both the length of the cycles and how many cycles are needed for "A good night's sleep".
Examples 2 and 3 as presented in the article couldn't be more horrendous examples of invalid inferences from test results if the author had tried.

It's the cargo cult approach to testing: "let's change everything and if the revamp increases conversions we'll guess what factor had the most effect".
While I agree with the whole "Learning how to cook" analogy, I still belive that, when starting, you don't really need to learn all the server setup mumble jumble. It is true, you DO need to know how to navigate through directories and such if you'll be developing directly in the server, and you need to learn how to setup your tools (if they don't come up prepackaged in your VPS solution), but aside from that I don't see the use of learning all of that.
On a side-note, this just gave me an idea for a series of posts in my blog ;D
Commodities that are consumed are priced on the marginal cost of production. Saudi Arabia can pump oil for less than $5/barrel, but what drives the prices are the costs of fracked shale and frontier plays like UDW. Gold is the same. Generally, gold is found in sulfide mineralization deposits or in placer deposits (weathered ore bodies, ie nuggets in alluvial deposits). Most new mines are the former, which requires massive mining and ore treatment (on the order of grams of gold per ton of ore, which is then crushed and leached in acids). So it's expensive to produce. Usually it's found with silver and copper, and some miners will account for it after credits for selling those metals, but you can assume $800-1000 USD/oz for production costs after fully capitalizing the development of the mines, at least the last time I looked into it several years ago.
This is a disappointing criticism of someone who presents some very interesting ideas. Morozov is definitely guilty of tearing down some absurd strawmen, but that doesn't invalidate his criticisms of, say, SV's "solutionist" culture.
Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong but Punchfork scraped their recipe content from other sites? Is it possible there is a data tainting issue here? Hard to reconcile Jeff's comments about user archive and the stuff on the web site, but that said I wasn't a user so I don't know if they sent an email with a download link or something.