skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. It took me a minute to figure out what you're actually doing here, but once I found the important bit on the page ("Setup your API Keys in OAuth.io"), I can at least be confident this isn't a glaring security concern. :) And yes, that was a legitimate concern when I first looked at it, given how little information is currently available.

While building https://foauth.org/, I had wondered if it'd be possible to do something like this, but it wasn't really my use case so I didn't really pursue it. I was more interested in people just trying to get access to their own data, so I built a solution for that side of things.

Still, I can speak from experience that wrangling 50+ OAuth providers into a single system is hard enough, and trying to provide a unified API to all of them is even harder. I'm not sure how many sites need to support that many sites, but for people like us trying to simplify the API for others, it becomes a pretty big necessity. As it is, https://github.com/gulopine/foauth.org/tree/master/services is something of a living tribute to the differences between the various service providers.

So yeah, I'll be very interested to see where OAuth.io goes, and for anybody else here who just wants to get their own data (but not run your own service), you might also want to checkout https://foauth.org/.
How can average age be 23? At 23 your still a new grad. The entire company was composed of new grads?
By not buying a house in the bay area.

I just bought a house outside the bay area last year, and tacked on a partial remodel with new wiring, heat pump, water heater, and bathroom.

My required payment -- including escrow for taxes, insurance, and (for now) PMI -- is comparable to the rent for a mediocre single-bedroom apartment in a sketchy area of the south bay. I'll be adding enough each month to have it paid off in 10-15 years.

For that, between the main level and the basement, I have around 2300 square feet that I can use as I wish, and I can modify it freely to suit my needs and wants.

But I would never buy a house in the bay area, at least not unless I had $20m+ in the bank.
In his much-quoted column, Friedman says(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-ne...): "Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever."

Middle income families who rely on manufacturing has been hit hard, with no prospects of an exit.
How is that going to help when over 10 million people are running WordPress on shared hosting accounts where MySQL and FTP are the only database and only file transfer options?
Not sure if it was 2009, unless the effects in that region were felt only years later.

I was having a look at another cheap house from around the area. Just check out the graph: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/23-Barrett-Ave-Jamestown-N...
Hemoencephalography
Nothing in "change the world" says that the change needs to be positive or needs to solve one of the Big Problems (poverty, hunger, energy, etc).
If I recall correctly he did mention that somewhere in a post blog.
This product is a sad example of the lengths to which some people will go in order to avoid spending time on tasks which are generally necessary and often quite enjoyable and rewarding. Cooking certainly fits this description: it's an enjoyable process, a rewarding skill, and something that others will love you for if you do it well.

The constant focus on saving time and increasing personal productivity is a recipe for mental illness, in my opinion. Most people would do well to slow down, tune out, and make themselves a decent meal. I suspect that some and perhaps many of the people obsessed with personal productivity and life hacking will at some point suffer from a stress or anxiety disorder and will realize that life is short and there's no point in trying to hurry through it.

This trend towards saving time by sacrificing basic requirements like eating and sleeping is increasingly absurd. In a year or two, I'll open Hacker News and there'll be an article in the top ten that describes how you, too, can Avoid Wasting Time Due To Lengthy Bowel Movements. Don't believe the hype. Have a good night's rest, followed by a leisurely shit and a tasty, gruel-free breakfast you made yourself, and you'll be a better person for it.
I've looked around for a mobile Bittorrent Sync app, but haven't found one. If they did have one, that would make me switch for sure.
It's a huge thing. KrebsOnSecurity covers a lot of the news in that industry, and discusses how they're used. http://krebsonsecurity.com/
Fair point! However, if it was a foreclosure it could have been sold at 4K + buyer pays owed taxes / liens.

I'll agree though - the main thrust that Jamestown, NY RE is surprisingly low compared to elsewhere is an interesting one.
Type Safety in Three Easy Lemmas
Dead bodies on Mount Everest
Pretty neat. A simple transform, but I prefer this style and miss C's static in some cases.

The doc says that the transformed variable name uses the method name for a suffix to avoid name clashing. But it needs to use the signature, right? Else you would have clashes for two methods with the same name (but different arguments).

I think it should also use $, since that's the convention to avoid clashes with user defined names.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-May/0208...
I think people are finally starting to realize that objects are not a good way to model information; maps, vectors and ADTs do a much better job.
OT: "patio11 v: to make money off of a complacent industry via consulting, software and generous amounts of A/B testing"
I'm from the same town, and now live in the Bay Area. I still can not get used to the housing prices here...which have been increasing recently: http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay...

When I visit my hometown, I feel like all the prices are in a different currency.
I'd really like to see a low-tax, low regulation part of the US (WA, NV, TX, or TN) where someone buys a few thousand acres and lets people build "temporary" structures (with power/fiber/wifi/etc.) for living and solo-working, combined with some more permanent structures for offices, meetings, socialization, etc. Essentially like a 2-5 year Burning Man encampment campus for various startup projects.

If someone's "personal burn rate", while living comfortably and efficiently, were $10-15k/yr (while still eating great food, socializing, medical care, etc.), it would make mostly-equity compensation as part of a founding team really viable.

The point would be to get the benefits of density without the costs of luxury.
GPA is similar to degree class in the UK. I think the GPA system is better though.

Nearly every employer in the UK asks for your degree class.
Couple comments. I didn't research the exact numbers in the post. I heard the house was sold for $4k, and the point wasn't about the exact price, but my perception of life after growing up in an area of constant economic decline.

Also one of my goals for 2013 was to hit the home page of HN. I didn't think my first attempt would do it. Thanks!
Chinese steal blueprints for Australia's spy headquarters
Our building codes and prevailing standards make stuff a lot more expensive, plus it's hard to get labor volunteered for private housing...

Awesome project, though.
You're asking two questions:

1. Why do you choose to live in a house rather than an apartment?

2. Why do you choose to own that house, rather than rent it?

To the first question, a house often provides a much higher quality of life than an apartment. You might get a backyard garden, or a workbench, a guest room, an office, a full kitchen, etc... and, you can drill all the holes you want, paint it your favorite color, and so on.

To the second question, buying a house rather than renting it generally increases your options by about a hundredfold -- many, many more houses are available for sale than for rent. And while property tax can be painful, it's generally substantially cheaper than what you'd pay in rent on the equivalent property. So you get to save a lot more of your income, or at least apply it to paying down your mortgage.
> This is one of the problems with "raw" PHP development

... or any other language.
"It kind of worked for a short period of time, but ultimately failed."

So it's almost 100% false, but actually correct?
Computer Science (or "Information Technology" as it's officially called) is an elective at school that students can take starting at the Grade 9 level. Students start out learning Python as their first language and learn C++ after two years.

I would guess 100-200 students take the course in total out of about 1800 students in the school. Students receive a very comprehensive education in the field and are encouraged to work on their own projects at the same time (e.g. I've done a lot of work in node.js, which isn't at all taught in the CS curriculum). Personally I've found that my teacher has given me the original knowledge of programming and from there I mainly was able to develop my knowledge on my own time as well as through the course.

Edit: more technical details: One can take an IDS (independent study) course in Computer Science their final year if they wish. Here you get to work on your own programming projects.
I didn't think there were many other people from Chautauqua county here.
In my case the tax deductions make it effectively $500/mo cheaper than renting a comparable apartment and the yearly coop fee increases are less than the yearly increases in rent. Doing some real quick math, I think, ignoring appreciation, its roughly an 8% ROI on the money tied up in the downpayment.
It's funny that Jobs implied that selling sugar water is somehow less world changing than what Jobs/Apple was doing at the time. I happened across this video [0] the other day, "Coca-Cola Small World Machines - Bringing India & Pakistan Together". Coca-cola has the means to do just as much "world changing" as any other company, and seems to. (albeit, Jobs was talking about Pepsi, not Coke, but it's still the "sugar water" industry).

I wonder if Jobs thought in 2001 that selling MP3 players was the kind of thing he was thinking about when he said "change the world".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_4vOUDImE
I think it is an all around better product. No need to tweak settings to make it work. It's generally faster, licenses are cross platform, we support more protocols. It's less expensive. We care :)
Being able to link your bank account is a big deal; everyone wins if Bitcoin becomes more "a currency you buy to buy stuff" vs. just something your speculatively hoard -- including hoarders, ironically.
Also in Victoria (Fairfield) with three young ones, I'd love to meet techie families in town.
This is a genius way to tell a story. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
>because of

That's how the history is written, yes. And how the history is written...is irrelevant. Where are all these profitable, distant colonies with voices in parliament today? Australia? Canada? Technically not sovereign, but they operate as separate nations. No country in the world fits the description of the U.S. you claim would have otherwise been inevitable, and you don't give this a second thought. The oldest truism is the ephemeral nature of Empire. You let your piecemeal study of history delude you.
Bcrypt and PBKDF2 are not custom, they are part of the framework:

http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/configuration/secur...
Neat! Can you shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com? I'd like to discuss some stuff that's outside of what other HN readers would find interesting.
Really, most of BC is awesome in terms of a place to live. My favourite areas are the island, the Kootenay's, and the Okanagan valley. Love ability to experience different seasons in the interior.

That said, I highly doubt there is a "best" place to start a business. Might be good places, or even better places, but no "best" place. Choosing a good place is a complex mix of where you can have connections, where there is a market (if applicable) and where you can lead a satisfying life.
Worth pointing out is that even $40,000 houses appear to have $1,800 a year tax bills. Treating that tax as a perpetuity you would need to invest 1800/.0357 = $50139 at mortgage rates to break even. It's still surprisingly inexpensive, but property taxes tell at least some of the story. A $4000 sedan that obligates you to $2000 in annual license fees is not a particularly good deal, even if it will run for another ten years.
It's a filter to try to keep the riffraff down to a dull roar. It's a litmus test that helps weed out nonhackers.

-- The RiffRaff
"But John Dryden said he's not the point. He wants people to focus on the issue he raised: Whether school officials considered that students could incriminate themselves with their answers to the survey that included questions about drug and alcohol use."

To me, that sounds like an unusually thoughtful social studies teacher. He is relating the general concepts that he is hired to teach his students to a real-world situation facing the students, and that sounds like good teaching to me. He ought to get a promotion or a raise, based only on this news about his public behavior in the classroom.

It is, of course, sometimes appropriate for schools to distribute surveys to minor students in their care on which there may be questions about student behavior that may be embarrassing or illegal. But the teacher, based on the report here, is just asking his students to think about their lessons and what those lessons mean, not trying to undermine the survey process.

"But Dryden doesn't want this seen as him vs. the administrators. He said he knows they were acting in what they thought was the best interests of the students.

"'These are good, professional, smart people on the other side who want to do what is right by kids,' he said.

"He would rather focus the discussion on the survey.

"'I have asked people (the supporters) to talk about the survey. I think I am a sideshow,' he said. 'This (the survey) was rushed and it wasn't vetted.'

"'I'm not a martyr,' he said. 'I'm trying to refocus people's attentions. Calm down.'"
Vermont fights back against 'patent trolls'
I think you forgot a crucial bit of infrastructure that's a lot harder to slap together than power or internet: plumbing.
Here's a link to the original Quora thread:

http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets...
Sounds like Chris Connors has the really important detail, which is how the government keeps the really important stuff secret: need to know and compartmentalization. Which for an enterprise as big and ambitious like Apple sounds like a very heavy burden on management and a likely source of trouble.
squareville? Let's not act like we are five years old and calling each other names. That makes for a terrible environment.

Remember that your opinion isn't The One and that everybody has different likes. I agree that graffiti on trains normally looks terrible, but in other places graffiti can be very interesting.
I would be curious to hear statistics regarding how many of the bikes being used had actually saved someone from driving a car. From what I know of how burdensome car ownership is in New York, I would suspect that the majority of BikeShare users would be people that would have been on foot otherwise.
BoxCryptor interacts just fine with EncFS on Linux (I don't know if its a reimplementation or just a nice Mac OS X gui wrapper round the EncFS code), and EncFS is GPL.

Note that EncFS "leaks" quite a bit of metadata - you might have problems explaining yourself if you've got files called blockbuster-movie.mpg or kiddie-porn.jpg - in certain configurations those filenames will be exposed (I think BoxCryptor always exposes filenames/directory-structure in the free version).
Should being voted into office give you a free pass on everything? "Democracy has spoken", shouldn't mean that democracy stays quiet for the next X years until the next election... though this often happen, to be fair.
Septic tanks and water tanks work pretty well in semi-ruralish areas; you could either have a couple of trucks, or lay pipe. Or, have no plumbing in the temporary structures themselves, but have shower/bathroom trailers (which, admittedly, would suck a bit) separate from the temporary structures.

I assume you'd build more infrastructure with time; putting in a real sewage plant would be expensive up-front and not really worth it for ~50 people on 2000 acres, but maybe in time.

(You could even probably do zero-grid, with wifi/wimax/4g coverage to a couple of hard points with fiber, and decentralized electrical generation on each structure using solar/wind + batteries, at least to start.)
I think I've seen your posts on this topic here before. I actually lived in a shared housing situation in a large victorian mansion in Epping, NH in my 20s. I really enjoyed it. I wanted to do the same thing when I moved to Tahoe as the owner, but couldn't afford a house big enough to make it work out.

If I was in my 20s and working in an area as engineer with a reasonable cost of living, I would seriously consider this exact thing. When you are just out of school it is actually nice to be able to share a living space and it makes economic sense.
sigh... this is totally wrong... as Jeff himself kinda realized with his comment "There's also a cartesian product or cross join, which as far as I can tell, can't be expressed as a Venn diagram"

SQL does have set operations, and the Venn diagram treatment is much less terrible [though still not quite accurate] at explaining SQL set semantics.

The biggest flaw with the Venn diagram thing is that it doesn't capture the productive aspect of joins.

A inner join B on (some-condition) will produce ALL combinations of A records pasted to B records where some-condition holds.

The Venn diagram approach can't distinguish between a single A-pasted-to-B record and 100 thousand combinations of A-pasted-to-different-Bs. All it can say is that the resulting combinations consist of some set of A and B records.

Venn diagrams don't accurately describe the records resulting from a join at all. At best, they rule out records that can't occur.

So they're not so great as an explanatory device.
Or roads.
I really want to understand this "proprietary information" excuse the school is using to justify not releasing the survey. Certainly the kids can go home and tell their parents what they saw (and some have). The kids didn't sign an NDA, they saw it, so why can't we see it?

This story is happening in my town. There is a public hearing tomorrow night and I plan on attending.
>I don't think there's anything ridiculous about drinking 2 quarts of water per day.

What about diluting/pissing away vitamins and other essential compounds?

>I easily drink 48-144oz of pure water per day with the 48oz bottle I carry with me everywhere I go

Is this because you are constantly thirsty? If so you may want to be tested for diabetes.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/diabetes-symptoms/DA00125
Are you proposing we endorse a shantytown? History has shown us those go downhill fast, and I don't see how temporary shelters won't turn into a shantytown (and amusingly enough become permanent, much like every piece of shanty-code I write)
No, I meant the provide a useful service to an industry and automate the hell out of it for a nice income stream.
This is going to be an increasing issue and it's something that Western nations in particular just haven't had to deal with until now.

The West came out of Europe. Europe is small. To put it in perspective, the distance from SF to NYC is ~2900 miles. The distance from London to Baghdad is ~3100 miles. So abundance of land is not a problem the West has traditionally had (not until colonization anyway).

Added to this, mortality has been high but population growth has been higher. The last century saw a dramatic rise in life expectancy (primarily due to a drop in infant mortality). The last 50 years has seen a dramatic drop in population growth (the lesson seems to be that the natural reaction to uncertain times by people is to breed more).

So the West is being crushed by the weight of supporting an ageing population from a system established at a time retirement was a rarity.

Add to this to overall trend of the last century has been one of urbanization.

And just to put the nail in the coffin, low-tech manufacturing has largely fled the West for the developing world where labour is cheap.

Our entire society seems premised on both population and economic growth. What exactly do we do when the population starts shrinking? This is a bridge we haven't crossed yet.

The experience in parts of the US seem to indicate the transition won't be an easy one. Cities with negative population growth have suffered from appalling crime and poverty that seems much harder to flush out in a city full of vacant buildings.

The ongoing story of Detroit is nothing short of surreal. That's a city that is slowly being reclaimed by nature, which is really what should happen. Half-empty cities are not healthy cities.

Now add to this the whole concept of home ownership. Home ownership is aspirational. It's political goal. Home ownership comes with a huge cost however.

- The unlucky who buy in declining cities have a huge part of their wealth eroded leading to virtually impoverished retirement.

- It leads to an inflexible labour market (people are unwilling or unable to move to where the jobs are).

- It has a snowball effect, particularly in the US, where much of the funding for local infrastructure comes from property taxes.

I haven't been to upstate New York. I'm one of those living in NYC where half a million dollars for a studio doesn't seem that outrageous.

If there's one lesson from this is that everything is transitory. I believe one of the largest fallacies of the Twentieth Century was that the idea set in that everything was going to keep growing and keep getting better forever. The institutions you grew up with would last a life time.

Hell, this even applies to climate where we base our views on a ridiculously narrow band of Earth's or even human history.

Cities come. Cities go. Nations come. Nations go. To think that the USA or Europe will exist as they do today a thousand years from now is the height of hubris and/or naivete.
I think the only time I have met anyone from Chautauqua county out here was when I went to see a Bills games at the Northstar Cafe in SF. When I was reading your blog post, I actually jumped a bit, because I thought I recognized the house (the red-brick street combined with the Bills banner is a familiar sight).
Because I need to live somewhere. It's tended to constrict certain decisions. But I have a nice spot on five acres in rural Mass. Will be paid off in the not distant future. And hasn't been a a particular drain on my other investments.
Show HN: bloom as a service in golang
Using Brain-waves and a 3D printer, Thinker Thing creates a physical object