skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Oakland really that bad? I really want the most affordable place I can find.

I'm not too scared of crime, I have guns and grew up in a lower class neighborhood, but am worried about theft when I'm not home.

edit: I would basically like to live in a neighborhood like Pilsen in Chicago. Affordable, working class, mexican, and close to transit. Any recommendations?
> Beat me to it. Have never really thought of the Canadian government caring about entrepreneurs, other than token support to get votes.

Really? SHRED was all about helping new tech companies get started in Canada.
Are you referring to the Verified Status? That could also include people who are looking to withdraw $50k USD. Perhaps a lot of people got in early and are looking to cash out.
That error comes up randomly (internal server error). Not sure why it happens or how to prevent it.

I ran a search for "Moonlight Sonata" and got results just fine:
http://www.youfm.org/#/search/Moonlight Sonata
Biological warfare
C10k was a relevant limit 10 years ago perhaps. It's only of historical interest now.
You mean they're not shutting down YouTube after the contest is over?
Do they need a different one? Probably not.

Could they benefit from one? Quite possibly. Small amounts of personalization can make people a lot more efficient — even if the actual difference is primarily mental, that still matters as long as your customers have minds.

(Whether that is the case here, I can't say. But I've seen how much a very slightly customized solution can resonate with people.)
Nobody has bit, and for a few reasons I think:

1. The site audience tends to be a little older and not very tech-savvy, so Bitcoin isn't something that many are interested in comprehending.

2. Since the price was fixed at 2BTC a few weeks ago when 1BTC~=35USD, and now 1BTC~=100USD, people will see this is a raw deal. (The USD price for a membership is $65.)

It's #2 that's the hard part. I'm not interested in accepting BTC just so I can convert it to USD, but since everyone's so focused on the BTC->USD exchange rate as the measure of value for BTC, and since the rate is so insanely volatile, it's impossible for a merchant to fix a "fair" price without auto-adjusting the BTC price to the USD exchange rate.
Similar here, but I haven't used Google Reader for more then 2 years. After all the buzz I thought I'd give rss readers another try. (It didn't last long.)
Agreed. But more than pretentious, it's downright inaccurate. I work in SOMA and live in Grand Lake (Oakland), and I have a shorter commute than most of my San Francisco-dwelling colleagues.
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This is really neat. I hope it stays up after April 1st.

Autogenerated haiku fans might also want to check out Twitter Haiku, which generates haikus from your recent tweets: https://sleepy-mesa-7562.herokuapp.com/

It strings words together randomly so it's a bit more dada. An example from my tweets:

Leaving shut when pain
Like em sleeping no day keep
Me dream normal sure

It was written by Patrick Estabrook, a fellow student(?) here at Hacker School. Looks like the source is on GitHub: https://github.com/patrickmestabrook/HaikuGen
I didn't downvote you.

You mention Walmart. The OP has an initial run of 5,000 units. He doesn't have nearly enough to get taken up by Walmart and they'll stiff him on profits.

Toys and games are a vicious market. Getting into Walmart is a mixed blessing.

Speciality shops is a good idea though.
SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME with benefits (or FULL-TIME)

I mentioned a couple months ago that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235860

We're looking to hire a couple more engineers who are interested in being part of a team but would prefer to work 24-40 hours per week instead of the usual 50+. If it sounds interesting let me know (ragalie@verbasoftware.com)

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About 300 colleges and universities use our applications to acquire low-cost inventory and price textbooks competitively. Then millions of students visit our white-labeled sites to transparently compare the bookstore's offers against online competitors, and around 80% of students choose to buy from their local bookstore.

We're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems on the technical side, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck, and we're always looking for ways to provide more control to our support team so they can provide top-notch customer service.

The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

We're also looking for a part-time designer/front-end person! If you have good taste and know HTML/CSS/SCSS inside-out, drop us a line.

And be sure to check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) so you can read all about our current products and hear people say nice things about us. :)
The Spotlight Effect in Social Judgement
Prices change to reflect new knowledge, not "very old knowledge". Everyone buying bitcoins knows the supply growth path, and this expectation is priced in when non-stupid traders buy or sell them.

It's not like ~2035 (or whatever) rolls around and everyone's like "Holy crap! There aren't going to be any more of these! Better quadruple my bids!" No -- there's no profit to be made simply from the fact of supply increase stopping at some point, not when the entire market knows it as well.

So you can't really compare it to a situation in which a government (or affiliated central agency) controls the money supply, changing its mind at future dates, to arbitrarily hold the supply steady when it had been growing before -- which is what is required to get the results you've described.
"most people rarely..."
Not only is it adorable, but it's not a gag. You actually can get a puppy free! You just pick your puppy up at the pound!
Heh. Sometime around '94 I helped Southwestern Bell Telephone with that during the 16 bit to 32 bit transitions of a Mac client.

This means that sometime around the mid 2030's some poor programmers will have to take a break from worrying about Y0x80000000 to get bit by the x86-128 varargs bugs.
> Wouldn't it follow that they will wait in perpetuity and never buy that new phone/laptop/etc?

People derive utility from those things. They make calls with their phone and do work on their laptop.

Bitcoin is entirely different. It's only purpose is to allow you to buy other stuff.
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be "incredibly mean" to a car company. I'm trying to express how I, as an aspiring electric car buyer, feel about crippleware adding 300 lbs of mass to a vehicle for which I would have to pay the energy costs to haul around.

Tesla's obligation was to deliver cars at least as good as were pre-ordered at at least as good a price.

Tesla has chosen your option (2) here, shipping the heavier 60 kWh battery for the 40 kWh price. They have chosen this option because it benefits them economically.

However, to ensure that it does not benefit the customers who preordered the 40 kWh battery, they are artificially restricting the capacity. As a result, the customers who ordered a 40 kWh battery are receiving a heavier car with no additional range to account for it.
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They weren't throwing nearly enough cash out the window to make up for everyone suddenly wanting to hold more money. NGDP still crashed. Inflation dropped. The spread on inflation-indexed Treasury bonds warned that monetary policy was far too tight and the market knew it and was signalling this well in advance. Low interest rates do not mean loose money... oh, never mind, everyone just needs to go read The Money Illusion.
Oakland is like any other city. There are safe neighborhoods and dangerous neighborhoods. Some of the safer ones are: Temescal, Adam's Point, Grand Lake/Cleveland Heights, Piedmont & Rockridge (not technically Oakland).
Auto-adjusting to the rate doesn't require you to cash out to USD, though. You can easily both adjust and hold on to the resulting bitcoin.
New York, NY

Vine (part of Twitter)

We were acquired by Twitter and launched our standalone mobile video app in January. The Vine app allows users to take and share 6 second video clips. As our user base continues to grow rapidly we are looking for a few key engineers to help keep us ahead of the curve. The team is small (10 currently) and works out of our new office overlooking Union Square.

The jobs page lists all of the openings we currently have, but the two that we are mainly focused on right now are an API Engineer and a DevOps engineer: https://vine.co/jobs

Feel free to reach out with any questions - david (at) vineapp (dot) com
It's worth noting that here in Canada investments of over $200K in tech startups are far from common.
Oakland is the only place in the Bay Area I've been held up at gunpoint. Property theft is a problem in both Oakland and San Francisco. Less so in the South Bay. Even if you are not scared of crime, dealing with the aftermath of a robbery or burglary is a headache. Oakland has a lot of boosters but I have never found much compelling about it. I find it similar to southern-midwest cities, whereas SF is a unique place, unlike most other cities in the world.

Edit: it's hard to compare places in the Bay Area to Chicago neighborhoods. There are plenty of hispanic areas near public transport. They aren't like Pilsen, though. The word "affordable" also doesn't mean the same thing.
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Stage: Just raised $1M of seed stage funding

Type: Full-time - unfortunately we aren't taking anyone remotely now

Obligatory TC article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/backed-by-1-1-million-in-fu...

We are looking for 1) Mobile Engineer 2) Head of Sales 3) Summer Interns

E-mail directly at saikat@getmobee.com

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For the engineer role:

* 4+ years experience in mobile (ideally both iOS & Android but must have significant experience in Objective C)

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Make sure to check us our app in the app store. This is a startup environment so you should be prepared for hard work, self-discipline, nerf gun warfare, and passionate but amazing discussions. We raised $1M from top angels & VCs and are currently at 10 people.
Magnus Carlsen wins the Candidates chess tournament
That's incredibly stupid. They present no evidence, and here's the quote they lead with:

> “If I was looking for a store of value, I'd buy gold, wouldn't I?” Edward Castronova, a professor of telecommunications, and an expert on virtual worlds and currencies, told Ars. “It's a hell of a lot safer than Bitcoin.”

Castronova, have you ever heard of things like 'margins' or 'fungibility' or 'walking and chewing bubblegum'? You know, people can buy both bitcoins and gold - shocking as this may seem. The question is not 'are people physically on the island of Cyprus who would be buying gold instead buying bitcoins?', the question is 'on the margin, are people worldwide buying bitcoins because of Cyprus?'

Nor is pointing out the recent rise an objection. The rise over the past months to $30 was relatively slow and gradual. The rise to $50 and then $105 has been meteoric and directly correlates with the sudden Cyprus crisis. Bitcoin literally started with criticism of bank failures and bailouts (check out the first block, by Nakamoto, in the blockchain) and immunity to this sort of shit is one of its main selling points. The burden of proof is on anyone who thinks that Bitcoin has suddenly just sorta accidentally tripled for no reason at all relating to Cyprus.
Schneier on Security: Sixth Movie-Plot Threat Contest
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Ask HN: Burnout - how to take a break without stigma?
I'm a 'successful' thirty something with a wife, two kids under 2 years old, and a 150K yr job with equity. I've really pushed myself over the past 4 years with the job, the kids, relocating. I moonlight 10 hrs a week as a freelance developer to keep my skills sharp while working 60 hours a week at my day job.

I'm now working from home with the relocation. The isolation is difficult, yet everyone I talk to say its amazing to have that opportunity at my income level.

I know I'm doing too much. I still find time to manage to exercise 6 days a week and play with my kids 2 hours every night on the weekdays.

My wife quit her job about a year ago so I'm the single income. We have a $2100 housing cost (mortgage+taxes) and $500/mo in car payments. We're debt free outside of that and have about $200K in cash and short term investments in the bank.

As I read through http://jacquesmattheij.com/Are+you+suffering+from+burn-out I feel like I'm on the spectrum of every bullet point. I also occasionally have flashes of unhealthy thoughts. The only emotions I feel are when I'm playing with my kids. Everything else is just a fog. I used to be full of life and creativity.

I haven't gone to the doctor because I'm fearful of being diagnosed with depression. I don't want to have to check that box on all medical questions for the rest of my life. I don't want it to affect my life insurance. I don't want to admit it to my wife and have her share it with her friends. Is depression and burnout considered weak? My mind says that it shouldn't be but my emotions say that it is.

I don't know how to message it to my employer that I need time off. A coworker had a breakdown and the rest of our leaders held it against him. It's starting to affect my work and my relationships with people at work.

I just want to sleep. I want to stop worrying about this and get back to living. Any advice? I'm posting it because I've read other helpful posts on the subject.
I first learned some programming being 8 year old and typing BASIC programs in an editor. Somewhat surprisingly, I think it was easier to get started then than it is now, BASIC was then included among the initial program set of the computer, complete with an IDE and if you ever got to that level it included graphics routines etc. and everything was described in a single book. I now have been seriously programming for more than 10 years, including 7 professionally, but whenever I want to do some fun graphics or sound stuff I still struggle a lot to pick libraries, install them, actually make them work etc.

I would love some recommendations for programming languages + runtimes that you install with one click and immediately have at your disposal a decent language + IDE without weird quirks together with good graphics and sound primitives. I don't think this should be specifically for kids. It should simply be free of ridiculous language issues (PHP and JavaScript are out) and ridiculous runtime issues (managing a thousand and one libraries). Then it will be as good for kids as for adults (as if there was some magic gap between them!) willing to prototype. Actually, I think it is a great project idea, the few existing projects that target this are not all that great I believe.
YC companies tracking Google and fb ad spend?
Any cool new startups out there doing a dashboard for tracking adwords and facebook spending?
But my kid also needs Quickbooks Jr. Did Intuit get the memo?
Quick serial console access to a Vagrant/VirtualBox VM
You are misunderstanding how "folk theory" is used in this context. Homeopathy (which I'll take as a stand-in for bad science) has nothing to do with folk theory. Think instead of "folk theory" as the informal models we use to interact with the world and to communicate with others about the world.

For example, a former employer of mine had problems reported with an internal search facility used by a branch of the customer service team. A coworker and I shadowed members of this team (ala contextual interview) to learn about their work and workflow. We were very interested to find that each user of this system had formed their own folk theory about the idiosyncrasies of the (very difficult to use) existing software, theories which let them get their jobs done. These theories had little to do with the inner workings of the software machine and everything to do with the tasks to be accomplished.

As such, creation of folk theory happens automatically in virtually any environment where humans use tools and processes. Even when this theory is backed by "science" or "inside knowledge", what emerges is still the working practice, mental models, and language forms of a folk theory. Back to the article's point then: the idea of invisible interface is problematic because it denies the formation and elevation of culture (folk theory) that will naturally form around an interface.
That may not be a good idea. The SR pegs are based on a moving average, so even if the vendor you're buying from priced his goods to the dollar, you may well still be overpaying. (And given how fast the exchange rate has increased, if the vendor did not peg to the dollar, you'll probably be overpaying a ton.)
> Quite apart from that, you do agree that laws and regulations have economic properties too, right? Why can't we buy and sell those?

I'm not sure if you get my point. It's not the fact that patentable subject matter has economic properties that warrants protection, it's what those properties happen to be. Things like drug design are susceptible to the free-rider problem, an propertization is a legal tool that can address that problem. Vast swaths of the law can be seen as basically existing to address various economic problems that undermine markets, and the free-rider problem is a common one and propertization is a typical solution.

There are economic issues created by laws and regulations (regulatory capture, etc), but they are not the kind of problems amenable to being solved by propertization.
> Most bitcoin proponents to indeed reject Keyensian, demand-side economics.

That's why we're laughing at you.
Well done! I think I'll use this. A few suggestions:

- You should add custom page titles for each album, search result, etc. It's hard to figure out what's what in the Back menu in my browser because they're all the same.

- Would be nice to have a way to drag multiple songs, or an entire album into a playlist.

- When dragging, droppable zones (playlists) should highlight, and when hovering over them the highlight should get even stronger so I know it's ready to be dropped.

- History doesn't seem to work.
Cool stuff...loved those two posts!
The investor class doesn't benefit from inflation, it's the banker class that benefits.

Here's how it works: The banks have a balance sheet of debts owed to them. Some of the debts come from companies like General Motors and United Airlines. If one of those companies threatens to go bankrupt, then the bankers simply lobby the congress to "bail out" the troubled company. This allows the banks to keep the troubled asset on their balance sheet, and continue making an ongoing revenue stream. Of course, the "bail out" results in an increase in the money supply, which means every single holder of USD pays through a decrease in spending power of their dollars.
“Can I resell my MP3s?” redux—federal judge says no
Ask HN: Why no dorm-style living for ppl in incubators in Bay Area?
Finding a reasonably priced place to live in the SF Bay Area (SF city or peninsula) is a damn nightmare. I haven't spent more than 20 min crunching the numbers, but I'm surprised some rich dude hasn't built some dorm-style housing specifically for entrepreneurs or people accepted to Bay Area incubators. When I say dorm-style I mean cheap, close quarters (for collaboration), potentially cafeteria style food (think fraternity house), with some sort of filter for acceptance (e.g. accepted to a recognized incubator, raised a seed round of >$Xk). Thoughts?
So how much is gold's commodity value really? I've heard $30/oz thrown around (no idea how accurate that is).

If that's true, 30/1600 is about 2%, yet gold is still perceived as a fairly safe store of value.
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But while trying to store a 64-bit integer in double the exact value can be lost (see picture 1).

I've seen that first hand. In fact, I wrote code to fix it. The guy who wrote the code, still did not get it... 64 bits is 64 bits he said, right... well yes, but that's not the issue here. When you have an int that is say 56 bits in size and you put it in a double that is 64 bits... see what happens:

#include <iostream>

#include <boost/integer.hpp>

int main()

{

boost::uint64_t too_big = 72057594037927936;

double wont_fit = too_big;

std::cout << too_big << "\n";

std::cout << wont_fit << "\n";

return 0;

}

./a.out

72057594037927936

7.20576e+16

The maddening part about this is that it's hit or miss. Smaller numbers fit just fine:

#include <iostream>

#include <boost/integer.hpp>

int main()

{

boost::uint64_t not_too_big = 281234;

double will_fit = not_too_big;

std::cout << not_too_big << "\n";

std::cout << will_fit << "\n";

return 0;

}

./a.out

281234

281234

Finding and fixing bugs like this will cause ulcers.
Just checked again.

I have no such option.

Their support docs mention something about a "backup e-mail address", which I can't setup w/o verifying my account, which I can't verify w/o answering these questions.

-___-; I'm just going to call Apple.
If you find an internship in one of the big names in South Bay, it is also a great idea to live in Sunnyvale or Downtown San Jose. The rates are quite affordable thanks to the large student population of SJSU.

That being said, commuting in the South Bay is a little painful without a car. But riding the VTA is extremely affordable and will get you to your destination, albeit a little slowly.
Shit just got unreal... mode!
Ah yes, of course, but that currency is undergoing inflation. Bitcoin is rapidly deflating. Huge difference.
Live in Oakland, dude. :)