skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And protesters are destroying stuff around. Fantastic.
Maybe we should concentrate them in some sort of camps so that they can't 'take' from the good ones anymore.
> It would be great to talk to someone who has first hand experience with this

I'll give it a go! A few things you should be aware of to put what you're saying in context.

Firstly, the cost of living in SF is incredibly high. Slightly higher than London, if you can believe it (that's not just my opinion - I was chatting to about half a dozen engineers who had been rebased from SF to London yesterday and they all agreed).

Secondly, and this is probably the really important point, you need to actually get the visa. As somebody else has pointed out here, generally salaries for those on H1-B's skew a little lower. Also, it can be very difficult as a graduate to find someone willing to give you a H1-B. This isn't to say you shouldn't apply to jobs in SF when you finish uni - definitely do. It's just that the way the current system works, you could have the best job offer in the world and still have a 50:50 chance of not getting a visa in the lottery.

Thirdly, as others have pointed out this is a somewhat self selecting poll. I graduated four years ago, I've worked in London all that time, and I'm on a salary comparable to the valley. I got quite lucky, because I was in a niche field when I started, but it's definitely possible.

> when I think about a job at google or other SV or SF company, but what do they expect in terms of experience from a graduate?

Here's the problem that you have: smaller companies / start-ups in SF - they're probably not going to be able to sponsor you for a visa. So you're somewhat limited in terms of places you can apply to in the first place. What are Google, Facebook, and the like looking for in graduates? Experience, sure, but incredible technical savvy. You're competing against US graduates from great schools: it can be very difficult.

Remember that many companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like) have engineering offices in London. If you're wanting to move to the US you may find it much easier to look for an opportunity in the UK that could in the future allow you to move laterally.

Please don't be discouraged by anything I've said - just don't make money the only reason for moving to SF, and you'll probably end up slightly disappointed.
To answer this question you pose:

>I know the term Web Developer has become a pretty broad term nowadays and maybe I am kidding myself when I think about a job at google or other SV or SF company, but what do they expect in terms of experience from a graduate?

If you're talking about being a fresh graduate, the answer is that "Google or other SV company" will typically require zilch in the way of experience. Google, et al will have separate job postings for "recent graduates". The requirements are pretty bare.

Since you mentioned Google: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/tech/fulltime/us... Other companies will be similar.

Now whether you can get past the interviews (again, using Google as an example here): http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
Is it only me or this sounds like a terrible idea? Maybe it will eventually be more productive but during the transition phase, there'll be mayhem. Not to mention all the unusable clocks, hardware etc that'll have to be completely scraped.
> He was thrown into prison

And the same guy, now prime minister jailed a world renowned pianist because he quoted a poem criticizing Islam (for foreigners technically court jailed him but they basically control that too) . Repeat after me Turkey as a country does not have a religion. You can believe in the power of the stone for all I care as long as you do not throw it on my head. Erdogan's actions are just doing that. I do not want to live in a country where kissing in public gets you arrested, homosexuals are hanged publicly or my daughter bought/sold like a common house good. When Erdogan criticizes something/someone (this went as far as calling the founding father a drunk which if it wasn't for him Turkey would be Christian country.) it is a democratic right when regular joe/journalist/MP does it he/she gets jailed.
I wouldn't say 'very top end' - I've hired graduates for more than that. Not much more (£36k, I think, was the highest), but there's always flexibility.
That won't even buy an exploded meth lab in the bay area.
How so? I think they're just implying that even once police drones are in use it won't necessarily deter suspects from driving erratically.
I don't see the absurdity. You like having holidays because you find them fun. You're happy to go along with religious and/or relentlessly capitalistic holidays for the sake of expediency, because (as mentioned in the previous sentence) holidays are fun for you. There's not a single part of this that doesn't make sense.
ok, but uhmm, I was asking about recent developments in Istanbul, not islamization.

btw abortion is forbidden in Poland, so is drinking on the street, and we have religion at primary school as well as other sorts of political and social influence by the church. and yeah, I know about how Turkey is leaning towards an islamic state and Ataturk is probably rolling in his grave, but your particular examples are not that radical to be honest. the Turk I talked to in Istanbul was a lecturer at an university and he told me they started replacing liberal principals with muslim ones, who obviously enforce their politics - penetrating the education system is serious stuff, not some beer ban (although I love beer).
There's a lot of it in Ireland, but then, there was a lot of it in Ireland even when times were good. We have this sense, as a nation, that if you can beat the system and get money for nothing, then you should. Probably a holdover from colonial times, which is sad.
I tried the same thing 2 years ago [1], but this one is way nicer!

[1] http://lab.dornauer.cc/apple-logo-css3/
> no law of nature that supports his statement that atheism stems from any scientific reason.

when people talk about scientific reasoning, I assume it also includes the scientific method. As such, atheist and it tend to agree that any prevailing theory should be abandon as soon as a better theory is suggested. This however is strictly contrary to faith, in that faith is the constant belief no matter what other theories exist. (also see The God Delusion for an expanded version, and other arguments of scientific reasoning and atheism.)
Your examples proves that SF/Bay area makes sense for singles and DINK couples. But not for typical family with kids though.
> > As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie.

> Tells us more about an opinion he's made about other people.

This being HN, jokes have to be pointed out. So to you - This is a joke:

"The first time I visited Croatia, that country had a major PR campaign based on being the origin of the tie. ("Cravate" and "Croat" are related words.) You can imagine my distaste for this — therefore, I referred to that country as "Tieland" for a while."

Come on. It's funny, lighten up.
More fascinating photos from several contributors: http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com
That was the very first thing I said; the production rate is ramping down exponentially.

I agree that if you're a consumer, Moore's law has less to do with BitCoin, but the whole point of the comment was stop looking from a consumer's perspective. From the point of view of a miner -- i.e. of the computational clusters which compete to make the ledger work -- Moore's law has plenty to do with BitCoin. The fact that the production rate is constant means that there's essentially a fixed-size "pie" in any given time-frame. The fact that electronics are becoming cheaper and better means that your investment of $X today can be matched by an investment of k $X tomorrow for some k < 1. The person who does that will eat up part of the pie, leaving less for you.

And why should you look at it from the point of view of the miners? Because the economic pressures on the miners determine whether the system eventually stabilizes into an oligopoly. If it does, then it can degenerate into a central-authority currency.
At least link to the page you're quoting snippets from, for context:

http://stallman.org/harry-potter.html
> the argument here is that those shouldn't now be allowed to use a buss, taxi, train, or go with a friend somewhere in a car?

Nope, that was not the argument.

> I have a small distrust

Ha. At best this is a friend-of-a-friend story from 20 years ago, posted on the internet. If there's any consequence to you trusting this story, I'd highly recommend against it.
Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
In a previous HN thread about selling side projects, someone floated the idea of trying out a "Sell HN" thread - so here it is.

If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.
That's hardly disrespectful -- and Stallman himself has agreed with you, describing himself as "borderline autistic". The label certainly seems to fit.
You've hit the nail on the head there. Go to any cafe or bar in London and the chances are you will be served by a Pole. Think about that for a second: the labour situation in the UK is such that we have to import workers from 600 miles away to make coffee. Now these people aren't being paid under the table, they are legal employees or legitimate companies. So where are the Brits who could be doing these jobs? For whatever reason, unavailable.
You get annotated as well as original PPT-slides along with clear text transcripts of what he says in the videos.
Can be a bit awkward as it is not a textbook text but it gets the job done.
I honestly think it is hard to do a better course than what you get from Ng's Machine learning on Coursera.
The sharing economy blooms on campus, saves Higher Ed?
Sweden here. Went through heavy austerity in the 90s. Things going comparatively good now, just to give you some anectodal evidence for the contrary position.
'I like to eat boogers' is strong. Not against a dictionary attack, I don't think.
mongodb + redis instead of sql? ...because?
I assume you haven't read many biographies of famous people. The only thing that strikes me as uncommon is that RMS writes it on a website in condensed form rather than having it written by a biographer for a physical book. Many historical famous people had extreme opinions, and was very dismissal of "silly rituals", newspapers, cats, workers, and street music to name a few.
Heracles a Python configuration file parser for unix systems.
I've just built a configuration file parser in python, it is built upon augeas (http://augeas.net) to allow direct access from python to their lens parsers.

It allows you to parse de file, modify the data and render it back to its original form without loosing any additional data like comments.

Hope you like it!
Very interesting! Implementing a semi-index is very easy if you have implementations of Elias-Fano and balanced parentheses data structures.

For Java I recommend Sux4j [1] that has a very good implementation of Elias-Fano, but I think that balanced parentheses are very primitive. I was told by the author that a better data structure, based on Range-Min-Max trees, should be added soon.

[1] http://sux.dsi.unimi.it/
Oculus VR co-founder, 33, killed by speeding car
Forcing Religion on children: No I mean Imams acting as guidance counsellors. Children refusing to take religion classes not given their grade cards.

Restrictions on TV: You do not /can not threaten to cancel a TV show as a prime minister because the show portrait a Ottoman sultan in a way he did not like (I do not watch tv I don't know the exact details but that’s basically what he said.) Still not a single government run TV station (basically all but two) said anything about the riots. How is that not a restriction?

Jailing journalists: I am talking about the ones that did not do anything but jailed. And half the army is in JAIL most not even formally accused for years and the people affiliated from the terrorist organization are called as witnesses imagine bin ladin as your star witness, and tell me this is not f.cked up.
Not thinking doesn't imply not beingness.

One might also say - they're not smart enough to realize that they are smarter. [But this is another PoV].
I don't think that taking jobs as a reference for thinking ahead of time is specially good; In this particular video, he is presenting, to the general public, the 'file system' as a general software application that can be replaced by another one. This is totally and entirely misleading: without file system I doubt he can maintain any unified and persistent local data storage on a computer.

I understand that, ultimately, he is talking about the file explorer software application, but getting layman to confuse the two is almost a sin, as those users are potentially novice expert in the making (plus the fact that he is repeatedly say 'app', 'app', 'app', as if this would make the software application of the mac environment more of a software than on other platform ....).

If you really want to put a video of future thinking in the computing world, ... well welcome to 1968: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
First of all, there is already the Swatch Internet Time[0], which is a very similar concept (and similarly underused).

But more importantly, you would have to redefine the length of a second in order to keep days the same length. Redefining the length of a second is not good. Really, no.

Then there is the problem that this is not really a sensible metric time – 10 hours, 100 minutes and 100 seconds each? Frankly, that's stupid – ideally, you want the conversion factors to always be the same, ideally 10³. The swatch time mentioned above got this right with 1000 minutes (‘.beats’)/day, if absolutely necessary, you could probably also go with 100 quarter-hours/day and 100 seconds/quarter-hour, with 1 new second = 8.64 old seconds, or 1 old second ~ 0.12 new seconds.

The underlying problem here is that time lengths are intrinsically non-metric and there is little to no way to consistently make a year and a day both ‘metric’, simply because nature doesn’t require them to be. The same goes for nearly all other SI units – the equator is 40 Mm, the average height of a human is ~2m, a human weighs 80kg, not 100kg (and really, kg as the base unit?!).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Wouldn't this problem be solved by making an extension that runs in a sandbox instead of a bookmarklet that runs on the same page?
Interestingly though, things are going to be reversed in 2013:

"The 17 countries that share the euro will have halved the pace of budget consolidation in 2013 compared to 2012, as the overall budget deficit of the euro zone fell by 1.5 percent of GDP in 2012 but will only shrink a further 0.75 percent this year, the European Commission forecast this month.

The United States plan to reduce their budget deficit by 2 percent of GDP in 2013 against 2012. Unless policies change the overall euro zone consolidation will be only 0.1 percent of GDP in 2014, the Commission said, against 1 percent in the U.S."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/us-eu-economy-idUS...

But the U.S is coming down from a higher level.
My perception was that the comment was correct however with a quick skim I cant produce anything more than anecdata. The police do seem to be consistently breaking their rules which dictate that the chase ends when it gets dangerous. However crashes do seem to be happen after the chase has ended rather too regularly - about 30 seconds later. Citation. Here is an editorial on the poor stats we have. An interesting aside - police chases followed by a crash kill far more people here than police guns.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objec...
EDIT: I read your sentence as "regardless of the fact that I am neither a theist or an atheist". So my comment here is a reply to that sentence, which is probably not what you implied.

Sorry to disappoint you, but you are probably an atheist. An atheist does not believe that god does not exist: an atheist does not believe, period. An atheist recognizes that reason can not answer that question. That the question "does this invisible, untouchable thing exist?" has no meaning whatsoever.

The only difference between an atheist and an agnostic, is that the latter is utterly concerned with the impossibility to prove the existence/non existence of god. An atheist accepts that fact as self-evident, and goes on with his life.

You are right that atheism does not stem from science (atheism predates the scientific method by some millennium). But the scientific method reinforces the atheist point of view.
IMO Mongodb makes it easier to add and query file metadata and Redis is really just for session info.
I quite disagree that the tie comment is guarantied to be about other people rather then personal opinion.

Someone once told me that they disliked tattoos because they didn't like the idea of getting branded like people in Auschwitz or cattle on the field.

Question one: Is that an opinion about tattoos, or about other people who wear tattoos? Should those people be offended?

Question two: What was intended by the person who said it?
Damn, news like that surely make you note the fragility of our lives. Too bad. Condolences to the family. Keep yourself safe fellow hackers.
This has got much better over time. A filesystem should be a database (for larger blobs of data) so it should work, but scalability is limited still. Newer fs may be better.
Wow. So every stage went as bad as it could have. Sure, there is a series to events where more people could have died, and I'm sure this will be brought up. There should be some people doing some pretty hard thinking about how they handled this.
Just use LastPass (or one of the alternatives, like 1password). Sure it takes a few minutes to set up and learn to use, but once that's done, it will be far easier and less error-prone than something like this. Plugins for all major browsers, as well as a couple of top mobile ones, apps for the major mobile platforms... password reuse is a solved problem.

Sure, it sends data over the internet, but data is 256-bit AES encrypted on your local machine, and then is sent via SSL on top of that. So even if someone could get a hold of the data you're sending, they couldn't do anything with it.

I finally started using LP a few months back after having it on my to-do list for a year, and I only wish I'd made the leap sooner.
Well, it is subtle really.
I suggest you to read the comments with a grain of salt (Including mine and that lecturer). People are politically biased and especially bias is strong against the current government. Always look at the cases not general statements. As you compare with Poland, we are not that different indeed. Perhaps even less restrictive in cases.

I lived in Istanbul from 1990 to 2003 then in 2009. I can say today, overall it is a more modern city. But problems like traffic persist. Government are starting to restructure parts of the city destroying old housings. It is a good move but I am skeptical on their artistic eye.

Also business as usual, construction companies close to government are better supported. This situation never changes.
It is more fundamental than that: religion does not offer any falsifiable claims. It is not that we do not apply the scientific method to it. It is that, by design, religion is out of bounds of the scientific method.
You may even need to drive faster...
Artificial brain 'Spaun' passes IQ tests
Or sell it. People COULD just compile it themselves, but they won't. Free software != $0 price tag :)
Authority based on a large amount of actual experience is infinitely more useful than cherry-picking some random facts and ignoring several important details.
Given that all of the suspects had outstanding arrest warrants, this episode was the result the suspects 'being found easily after the fact.'

It seems you can find them all you want, but eventually you're going to have to take them in and many times the bad guys just won't want to go.
They're really getting paid well in SF. Their living costs are maybe the highest in the US, but not in the world.

I live in Stavanger ,Norway and have a salary around 75-80K USD, 40% of it goes to paying taxes. This is slightly above the average salary here for a software developer.

My biggest living costs here is my apartment, and my car.
My car (Rusty Mercedes C Class) from 1997 costs me around $8000 per year in gas, toll road, insurance, reparations/service. My small apartment, about 600 sqft in size costs today around 350 000 USD, I bought it two years ago for about 290 000 USD. Standard is good, but you have no chance finding anything around this size for less than 300 000 USD, if you're not willing to move hours with car away from Stavanger.
Food and beer is also a lot more expensive.

I may have free health care/insurance and 5 weeks with holiday, and cheap air tickets to London :)
But that's about it.
Every time I visit the US, I go shopping like a woman who just got her credit card. Clothes, shoes, sports wear & equipment costs only a third of what it costs in Norway.

But I'm not complaining, because I'm doing fine here, though I would love to have sunnier and warmer weather. For me it sounds like the extremely high salaries in SF is becoming a bubble. Much like the oil industry here.
But this is not about Istanbul. It is not about a park or a shopping mall, you hear about Istanbul because that’s where 1/4 of the country lives in there are protests in Ankara Izmir Eskisehir Adana etc.

> but your particular examples are not that radical to be honest.

Every time I head that I like to remind people that Iran in the 70s was not much different than your average European country [1].

https://www.google.com/search?q=iran+70s&num=50&safe...
Imams acting as guidance counsellors: If there is a demand, I see no problems. No body is forcing people to do that. Edit: Also it would be nice for Imams to give some consultation they are virtually doing nothing. Your second sentence sounds like a stupid rumor. Good citation please. Again, To me whole minister of religion can go away (which was founded by Ataturk).

TV: Well blame press for their cowardliness. Threatening means nothing. Things go court, you win or loose. If they had some balls, they would broadcast whatever they want. Wake up, press is a business. Plus note, I see a lot of coverage in gazettes. But not following TV for years, so cannot comment on that.

Jailing Journalists: Then you are talking about 10-20 people. It is a shame they are there. But would have been same in 1930s,40s,50s,60s,70s..
All of the suspects in the fleeing car had outstanding arrest warrants.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device.

Most phones can be remotely updated with software by the carrier, and the GSM protocol allows for remote update of the firmware.
Sorry, I am confused. You say you are atheist, and of a "fairly open religion". You probably mean that you grew up in that culture, right? Because, in my book, the set of atheists and the set of religious people (whatever the religion) have the empty set as intersection.
Also the same price on preorder
People might not share my sentiment but I think doing this is fine. Yes, all your points are true, but they require the attacker to single you out specifically, and try and figure out your process. Frankly, unless you're a very important person to warrant someone singling you out, an attacker is going to go after the countless easier targets that do not require personal attention.
Show HN: A golang websocket server you can pipe to
> which if it wasn't for him Turkey would be Christian country.

I really don't understand this? How would Turkey be a christian country if it wasn't for Ataturk? The Seljuks invaded Constantinople in 1453.
In my country, folks with 6 years of experience make around 12-16k. For us, freelancing pays manyfolds higher than regular jobs.