skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other related statistics I thought were interesting:

According to the Census, the median household income in SF was $72,947. According to census data from 2007-2011, approximately 1/3 of SF residents make over 100k. There's a notable doubling of households making >200k between 2000 and 2011, from ~20k to ~42k.

Based on the two datasets, it seems like 2/3rds of the population of SF either cannot or can only barely afford to live in the city.

I for one am ready for the rent bubble to pop.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0667000.html
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...
Fear. The fear of failing. The fear of being ridiculed. The fear of not achieving, of not finishing - of being the back of the pack. The fear of letting my friends and family down. The fear of not making an impact - of living a worthless life. The fear of being looked down on. The fear of not being able to eat, or shelter myself. The fear of not being able to live how I want to live.
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Ask HN: College recommendations for computer science/programming in the midwest
We're starting to look at colleges for my daughter, who is looking to follow in her programmer dad's footsteps. Alas, when I went to college back in the Jurassic, I learned COBOL on punch cards, at a poor school at that. Since then I've been mostly self-taught. So I'm not really up to speed on the schools we should consider. She'd like to remain fairly close to home (Chicago area), so we want to keep it to the Midwest if possible.

I figured the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) was an obvious choice, so we've visited there and she liked it a lot. But we don't want to put all our eggs into one basket, so we'd like to visit two or three others this year.

I've Googled around, but haven't had much success finding a decent, up-to-date list of schools with good reputations. I've been following Hacker News for a long time, and I feel that the people here can give me the kind of current, relevant recommendations that can help us find the right school for her. I've been disadvantaged in my career due to the poor choice I made, and I want better for her. Thanks!
Ask HN: Will Bitcoin crash?
Do you think Bitcoin will experience a crash? If so what effect will this have? If not why?

http://goo.gl/CQjFe
No idea about that, and sorry if my post was a bit insensitive to that issue, I didn't intend that.
Well, look at how people like Google's Jeff Dean, originally a PL person, became a systems person to basically attack parallelism problems head on. That is, look at the problems that NEED parallel computing, don't think of parallelism as a transparent benefit that is nice to have if it happens, and if it doesn't, its not the end of the world.

Once you accept that parallelism is needed, you realize that it is much more complex than just dividing things up onto multiple cores. That locking is never really the big problem, which really is one of concurrency, the problem becomes all about pumping data to the right place at the right time.
Mandelbrot set in WebCL
> 30 minutes to travel 2 blocks in SF

Sounds like you may be doing it wrong. I lived there for 4 years. Public transit, biking options etc were all decent.

You talking about on the 101 during rush hour? I bet their algos would easily avoid that.
The link is to the lifetime market cap of Bitcoin. Here is a clickable version: http://goo.gl/CQjFe
+1 on Octopress (if you like the quick route), else just take some minutes and wrap up yourself with some RoR Screencasts (Railscasts for example) and do it yourself (take a look at https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/syntax_highlighting for syntax highlighting stuff) - it's fun!

And for bhauers blog: love it !
I assume it was this one: http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/03/22/There-are-ladi...
Stop living in a vacuum. One billion people have a Facebook account. It's possible that your close friends are not in that group, but the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook.
If all software is math, and math is speech(?), does it make sense to put software under "copyright" instead of patents?
That's true, if you have a ferrari and declare minimum wage income you'll have problems though there are many less conspicuous ways to spend/save/invest the money.

You would certainly get a significant rise in tax evasion. I'm not actually convinced that's a bad thing overall (though I'm not inherently anti tax). If it brings tax schemes previously only available to the wealthy into the hands of commoners.
"One billion people have a Facebook account." " the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook."

The population of the earth exceeds 7B (http://www.census.gov/population/popclockworld.html) so in fact the average person on Earth does not use facebook

*unless you live in a vacuum where 1/7 counts as half
That's like a Facebook tracking multiplied by carrier tracking? Super big brother %) Who would buy that?
Show HN: March Madness map, made in D3
Northwestern is probably worth a look. I personally know that Ian Horswill (http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ian/) is all-around great, whether you're talking professionally, technically, or personally. But obviously that's mostly relevant for people who'd study in his specific area. I have no particular personal experience with the rest of the university, but its general reputation in CS is good.

It may also be worth considering a bit which aspects different schools emphasize, if she has an idea of which areas within CS she finds particularly interesting. There are significant differences between programs more tilted to mathematics vs. to engineering, for example. Different schools also offer quite different catalogues of higher-level electives, e.g. if you're really interested in AI, the top choices might not be the same as if you're particularly interested in OS development (and vice versa). Of course, it's also okay not to have such decisions made when you're 18.
It won't matter if it does unless you're speculating. (Or holding onto a non-trivial number of bitcoin for whatever reason.) Bitcoin has proved it's point, that a decentralized currency is possible, and that it can be done practically and used for real transactions.

As a proof of concept, bitcoin is a huge win for anarchists and libertarians everywhere. So in that sense, I don't think that it's original author really cares.

I think that if it does "crash" the crash will be caused by regulatory pressure, or it will live to see the end of bitcoins being issued in whole.

EDIT: In the short term, I would not be surprised if the currencies value takes a sharp drop.
It is unlikely the IRS would need a new law to require Americans to report significant Bitcoin positions on their returns.

If you have a stack of cash in a drawer, you are supposed to tell the IRS about it. It does not matter if it's in dollars, yen, Swiss francs, or pounds sterling. The fact that a lot of people don't doesn't make it legal, just unlikely to be enforced unless you give the IRS a reason to hate you. If, on the other hand, you have a garage with millions of dollars of un-reported cash in it you become an IRS priority. This is no different, under present law, from someone holding millions of dollars in bitcoins across several wallets.

The IRS could also treat bitcoins as an asset, which would classify bitcoin transactions as barter and make holdings subject to capital gains (and losses) in dollar terms. All said, it would not need new legislation to deal with this.
"don't count on that happening any time soon :)"

If Facebook offered 20B for Twitter, would Dorsey et al sell?
Sure, because when I need information, I think "I'll Facebook it". rolls eyes
As others have said: You didn't learn touch-typing to churn out text as fast as possible. You learned it because it creates a more direct interface between brain and machine. It doesn't hinder your toughts, doesn't break the concentration.

It's the same with vim editing: The idea is not to be able to move code around as fast as possible but to do it without thinking. It's a step closer to the perfect brain-reading computer with which writing code is only a matter of imaging it.
I like (the seemingly lost practice of) calling and meeting friends face-to-face
Mojang is already working on a Minecraft MMO [1] - how would this be different?

[1] http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/1018151-mine...
I misread and thought jiggy2011 was talking about not being sure if she worked there. I would assume someone hired to work a booth would know something about the product, and know who to point me to if they don't have an answer to my questions.
Since ownership of bitcoins is having the private key that controls the address on a globally distributed general ledger, what the hell does location mean in this case?
Once I fell in love with modal editing, I started using it everywhere I could. vi(m) bindings in my shell, web browser, etc. I wish it were seamless everywhere but it's certainly more ubiquitous than just one program. Couple that with a working knowledge of emacs navigation keys which work throughout OSX and thing become a lot nicer.
I don't have much bitcoin experience. The accelerating exchange rate seems to indicate there will be a major crash. At the same time the increase could be a result of bitcoin going "viral", but I don't think the amount of coverage of bitcoin justifies the massive prices.
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> IMO, from having studied this for many, many hours over many moons, is that what Apple is trying to do is fundamentally hard, if not entirely unfeasible.

"Distributed Databases are Hard" has been a mantra for many decades, probably getting close to a half century. We have known, basically forever, that this is hard on a fundamental level. (Google "Two Generals" problem.)

> Apple was hoping that by shoving a bunch of diffs of your database onto the server, that clients can reliably reconstruct a sane database by playing them back

This is called a variety of things. One of the terms is "transactional replication." It can get very very sticky when there is more than one party originating write transactions, though.
Ask HN: Joomla or Drupal port to Clojure? If none, i will do it in three years
Does this make sense?
We know that people don't like social login buttons because they believe using them will cause stuff to be posted on their behalf. I can imagine the same fear with buying a Facebook phone. "Jill just chatted with Tom, they discussed their sex life."
Very cool. I wish there was a time dimension on this. Also, would love to see Berkeley/Oakland. SOMA was actually one of the best values merely 5 yrs ago. My friends got a huge 1BR loft with parking spot for 2500. Granted they had no rent control and got effectively evicted when the rent increased to 3300. So maybe it wasn't the best value afterall.
Shadertoy: Build and Share shaders
I was thinking this exactly. This actually looks like an April Fool's headline/article.
People's ability to pirate games is already broken- the more of a game's essential logic gets moved onto a server, the more useless the blob of code you hand over to clients is.

On the other hand, that also destroys a game's ability to be archived, creating a cultural "dark ages" if the approach picks up adoption. "Piracy" is essential to future historians.
> 3. Grow up with a family that is as steady and secure as possible.

"I was having lunch with a friend who is a retired venture capitalist and we drifted into a discussion of the startups she funded. We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I said, “well for me you’d have to add coming from a dysfunctional family.” Her response was surprising, “Steve, almost all my CEO’s came from very tough childhoods. It was one of the characteristics I specifically looked for. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

I couldn’t figure out if I was more perturbed about how casual the comment was or how insightful it was." --http://steveblank.com/2009/05/18/founders-and-dysfunctional-...
Ask HN: Clozure CL vs. Clojure – pros and cons?
It's not gone: https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1
After a year of coding on a German kezboard (sic) set to US eng I finally bought little stickers and relabeled the []{}<>#_| keys. So much better not to have the cognitive friction anymore.
Well, C will be faster anyways... and the JVM is probably faster than v8 more times than not.
> Will someone please, please, please make a reasonable
> Gmail facsimile that I can pay for, so that I don't have
> to put up with these arbitrary changes?

You can pay for Gmail, if you want to. Paying will remove the ads. Paying won't cause Google to halt all changes to the user interface forever. I expect you will have a very hard time finding any actively-maintained web service that does not periodically change parts of the user interface to better serve the majority of their audience.

If you want a bookmarkable full-screen compose page, that is still available. Go to http://mail.google.com/?ui=html , then click compose, and bookmark that page.
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The network stuff is, yeah. But presumably you want your minecraft world to be durable, which means hitting disk. And you don't want your network stuff blocked behind that.
This sounds like an interesting idea but needs a fallback for mobile devices. It didn't work mobile Safari. If it had though the person at the other end of my extremely slow 3G would have been very disappointed.
How to make a computer from a living cell?
That's a lot to unpack - let me make sure I have this right.

Quantum theorists see that light is necessary but not sufficient for some sort of electron behavior. And I'm guessing that it's very hard to find an additional contributory/necessary cause that, when combined with light, would reliably predict the behavior.

So they use probability to communicate their findings.

If that additional contributory/necessary cause exists (but is just really hard to discover, or perhaps light itself is just highly contributory but not necessary/sufficient) then the probability is an effective way to communicate degree-of-belief, and helps to combine information about what they know with what they don't know. In other words, they are using probability to communicate partial findings.

If that additional contributory/necessary cause doesn't exist, then the probability is a fixed, physical part of the science. In other words, they're communicating full findings; that light actually creates probability of an effect.

And that confusion about "probability" is making people believe that the second case is true when they haven't necessarily disproved the first case yet? Which then serves as a curiosity-stopper and makes the science "mysterious". And this messes with scientific intuitions.

Forgive me if I'm way off, I've only read the first few articles of the first couple lesswrong sequences.
Spacebox, Memberly and Recurly are good for recurring stuff.
You have to factor in the number of people who have regular internet access though.
Actually Akamai is very much pushing their DDoS protection and "Antivirus" snake oil ever since the CDN market started collapsing.

Remember Akamai is the Oracle of the CDN world. They're in a bit of a shuffle right now as their competitors have long caught up and offer the same for less, minus the legendary Akamai-arrogance.
Nobody has said the Earth will become barren of life.
In what way is this a minecraft client?
Oh look, a third time in as many days that I think new accounts should be read-only.
Ask HN: Wordpress VS Joomla VS Drupal, in code level and architecture level?
what do you think，please?
Lol they forgot about the loin.
> Current asm.js is just for C/C++

There is already asm.js support for lljs, some thoughts on support in things like JSIL (C#) and Haxe (as you mentioned).

And in principle anything that compiles to LLVM IR or C/C++ would work through emscripten.
Any international call to the US from here costs around $1/min according to my providers website. Considering I'd probably end up on hold for a while when it's a big company like that, it crosses the cost limit for me being bothered to do anything about it.

After I tried emailing them a few times through a few different email addresses, and tried contacting them via Twitter, I gave up and flag the emails as spam.

I just figured anyone using OnStar might want to know how ridiculously easy it is for people to access your account, car, and personal details, if they get a copy of your monthly emailed report.
From this article they still aren't doing a phone. HTC are doing a phone and Facebook is partnering with them to run a forked version of Android on it, which will obviously be integrated nicely with Facebook.
> I'd be extremely surprised if >50% of SF's population is living with a spouse or partner.

I think when the grandparent said "living in couples" they mean "in pairs" not "romantically engaged." Most well-to-do SFers I know live with 1+ roommate. That's all they're saying. A 2(+) BR apartment cuts costs per person because you share the "core" (kitchen, bathroom, living room).
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First Shelfari which Amazon bought 3 years ago and now Goodreads.

In three years there's been no updates to Shelfari and that was my biggest peeve against Goodreads - lack of update) and absence of even a half decent mobile app(I use Android).

So, looking at Shelfari's fate one can say that Amazon has bought it for anything but continuing the development and doing sth about it's questionable interface.

Hope LibraryThing stays afloat. Would like to move my data there. Just in case.
Forget it, if there was a time when Facebook could have bought Twitter that might have been 4-5 years ago, but that ship sailed for good.
If the Facebook app on Android is any indication of build quality, I will not consider buying this phone.
While it is true that EC2 runs on a customized version of Xen, it's very unlikely that latency is being introduced by the hypervisor itself. With paravirtualized kernel and drivers, Xen introduces negligible overhead, and thus LXC would likely be no better.

The reason that the virtualized setup performs more poorly than the dedicated setup is that you are fighting for CPU time with other AWS customers, so those other customers are introducing latency into your application. Any shared/virtualized host will have this problem.

Interestingly, where Netflix really wants to squeeze CPU performance out of EC2 instances, they allocate the largest instance type so that they know that there's nobody else on the underlying machine.
Well considering they don't even have half of that in cash (even post-IPO) it would be an impressive proposition.
The API layer is built in node.js https://api.frogcart.com/heartbeat

MVC 4 and Web API for the marketing and admin site. AWS load balancer, DNS and hosting.
I didn't read it as mocking, or that it demands an apology for privilege. It just points out that luck in ones starting conditions is a large, and oft-ignored component to success in the startup world.
You linked to plus.sandbox.google.com; I suspect readers will have better luck if it was corrected to plus.google.com .
I thought Open Handset Alliance partners couldn't sell devices running a true Android fork without losing Google as a partner? How will that come into play here?
Life After PHP
Oh, and it's free for most users with 250 free carts per month. A cart is created the first time a user tries to add something to their cart, so for most people it'll either be free or pay for itself (only $0.05 per cart after 250)
Blech. No privacy concerns here.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend a while back. She called me one day and I noticed that her photo had suddenly begun showing with her contact record on my phone. Thing is, it wasn't a photo from FB or any social networks, or anywhere else obvious that she could recall posting.

Now, we are both pretty tech, so I'm sure if we really wanted to sleuth it out we could have run it down. But, the point was that we are in this online space and it was non-obvious how this photo was being associated with her contact record on my phone.

I can only imagine how many unknown ways FB would get their hooks into someone carrying their phone.

As someone else mentioned, this has to be an early April Fool's joke.
Speculation aside I think it has merit. If Bitcoin crashes it seems like it could cease being used. Which would be unfortunate because Bitcoins have proven to be an excellent medium of exchange. Also I definitely agree with you about Bitcoin proving its theoretical value.
It doesn't load on my Windows Phone 8, just so you know.
Seems high for a 1br, I have a 2br for that price.
Have you tried shutting down chrome before launching it from this plugin?
That isn't an MMO, it is just a server hosting service. However, if they wanted to add MMOs to Realms, they could acquire us. ;)
>For one, Windows Azure is a pretty big deal.

Windows Azure is a big enough deal, and working well enough, that Brent Simmons of Black Pixel (and well known indie Mac developer) has been recruited to do tutorials on the Mobile Data Services component for iOS.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ios/
I believe it. I find supermodels completely unappealing.
This didn't show up on my iphone3g
ok makes sense but i wouldnt write every change to the disk anyway. The server state can well be kept inside memory and only be saved once in a while, but nevertheless doing that in a different thread would make sense.
And I think most of the compiler team has been busy with roslyn, which sounds like a pretty big rewrite.
I think facebook already has what it needs for a smartphone.

Voice and Video: Facebook Video Calling

Messaging: Facebook Messenger

Photos: Facebook instagram

Contacts: Facebook friends

Games: Facebook's online games
I think it says

学びもののまとめをしよう
生活のまとめをしよう
事業と休みの区別をしよう

which are kind of preachy statements about how they should run the class.. Keep your learning stuff in order, keep your lifestyle in order, have a clear break between classtime and rest time. I'd assume that it's a left over from when the class was studying for end of year exams perhaps? Since the earthquake came at the end of a school year.
Pedantic correction: One billion people use their Facebook account every month. There are many more than that whose account is inactive, abandoned, or not used on a monthly basis.
I'm sure he was exaggerating, but in any case I don't think public transit or biking are viable options for a robust item delivery service (sure, there are some items biking could work well for, but it is a very narrow band of thing).
I don't think that's an MMO -- it's just a way to easily set up a server and play on it with your friends.