skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know but you are left with a crippled subset then. D was not designed for it. You can turn off the GC in most GC language implementations I know, that does not make them alternatives to languages designed for no-GC code. Non-GC (i.e. maximal and predictable performance) is first class in C++, it is a red-headed stepchild in D.
Things are expensive but there's no reason to round-up or inflate numbers. Maybe if you must rent a large single family home. Then sure, $4k would be the minimum.

But I live in a 2/2 duplex in a desirable SF neighborhood and pay $3100.
I have absolutely no relation to this book but I'm pretty excited about its release.

Specifically the chapters on the FFI, Memory Layout and Garbage collector seem pretty cool.

It's not often you get a text that goes into that kind of detail but if OCaml is to be a more prominent language then adding more libraries via the FFI is probably something that has to happen.
Mentors. The patient doesn't need credentials, the doctor does.
The way I read the article, it's mainly pricing of the GM product that led indirectly to their despair. They could've handled the crop failure with the cheaper non-GM seeds.

It's analogous to US students getting into a pickle by accepting large student loans and then finding no jobs in their field. But if they don't take the risk they may lose to those who took the risk. They'd almost all be better off if the student loans weren't available.
Have you looked outside Palo Alto? I live in San Carlos, where the weekly median sale price is $1.3m at the moment. Median income is just over $100k. http://www.city-data.com/city/San-Carlos-California.html
I am completely appalled by this article. How could working for the system (in this case, the finance sector) ever be considered as a positive gain? The state of the world affairs is f'd precisely because currently all aspects of life are viewed through a mechanistic view focused on short term financial gain. Wall street, by supporting and feeding the mega-corps, is indirectly part of the economic exploitation of the world.

Furthermore, as pointed out by @mathattack, some charities are very inefficient operations--sometimes bordering on unethically so. My friend worked as a webmaster for a charity whose operations overhead was ~70% (mostly due to the annual general meeting held at a 5* resort in Banff, attended by all the volunteers working in the charity (most of them spouses of the donors)).

OK, I am going to calm down now. It is just words. Just propaganda. Perhaps this article was commissioned by Wall Street as an attempt to influence perceptions and to assuage the existential threat to their existence. If the analytically-minded youth of the next generation makes the really moral choice and STOPS going to work for wall street (and big corp in general), then the system stands no chance.
The funny thing about this article is that it cites one of the biggest flops as a sign of success.

Dean Kamen might have said, if you live in the future, you won't drive short distances. He built Segway.
I think it is a bad thing to tell people that their contract position is contract-to-hire. For one, I feel that is always implied. For another, it maybe something that is well-intended but eventually can't happen due to bad circumstances. Lastly, it creates this entitlement feeling of the contractor which he/she doesn't deserve (maybe it is a good thing because it can help weed out potentials... same for interns).

This is something beyond just the games industry. The other issue I have is from the position that he was in. To have clout as QA takes a lot of work. Especially when you are basically doing black-box testing. He has to be on his very best to show that he should be hired. This post doesn't seem to reflect that.
Shoot me an email. I'll run you through our Interview process and give you feedback. Who knows, you might get a fun job out of this too :-)
SF is only like 10% of the population of the SF/Oak/SJ bay area triangle. It may have the best brand in the area, but what happens when the housing prices drop in fremont/milpitas and then in santa clara/san jose and then starts working its way up the peninsula?

I think housing in SF is very dependent on 1) the tech boom and 2) the baby boomers who own property in the south/east bay (but wont sell because they missed out on the 2008 sales price). Both of which are temporal in nature.

SF may always be a enclave of the wealthy, but if the rest of the bay area goes to shit, prices will drop. It may not get massacred like SJ eventually will (after the baby boomers houses start hitting the market en masse), but even those wealthy enough to live there will feel it.
Very cool.

I had actually mocked up something similar with openapi.me, but never got to release it.

It included different level of permissions and data including addresses and payment information. The goal was to have a centralized repo of data to update only once and have it propagate to all the other services asking for the same data over and over (email, address, links, etc).
As an undergraduate, you may not fall prey to this particular problem, but where I work we have a lot of postdocs, and I often see them falling into ruts because they have a student mind-set of "I need to solve this problem entirely independently" rather than a company mindset of "my job is to deliver a solution to this problem."

Mostly this manifests as a reluctance to seek out advice from people who know the problem space well. It can also show up as a dedication to a particular self-brewed approach, despite strong hints from experts that some other approach probably would work better.

To turn that into direct advice, try to identify a mentor at work-- your boss may be one, but you really want a technical mentor-- who can spare you an hour a week or so to bounce ideas off of, and to give you an occasional nudge when you go astray (which you will). And then respect that mentor's time, by weighing his or her advice carefully before you reject it.

Another thing I've noticed is that physicists are very fast at making inroads on problems they've never encountered before. I'm not a physicist, so I can only speculate about why, but in general I think it relates both to their broad background training, and to an approach that emphasizes estimation as part of the analysis. I feel like physicists are far less likely than others to start off chasing a solution that's likely to tackle only 1% of the problem.

To turn that into direct advice, before you plunge off on some tack that you find interesting, try to perceive the outline to the answer of how this approach is going to solve the problem, or a substantial amount of your problem. Obviously you need time to build up your technical background, but maybe thinking in these terms will help you not only find the most likely research approach, but also figure out where you personally want to invest your time acquiring expertise.

Finally, the fact that you posted your question to HN implies your problem space is programming-related. Another side of the student/employee dichotomy is that students are much less likely to consider IP issues when scavenging code. Make sure you find out what your company guidelines are regarding provenance of any source code you use, and make sure you document where you got every last scrap of code you don't write yourself.
Property tax:

SF: ~1.25% appraised value

Austin: ~1.9%-3.1% appraised value

(consider the typical "appraised value" in both locations and think in terms of actual dollars)

Sales tax:

SF: 8.75%

Austin: 8.25%

State income tax:

SF: usually 8%-10% for tech folks

Austin: 0%

edit: You had a reply that reiterated that TX still can't print money, but deleted it. My response is that you're ignoring the other option, which is to spend less. TX doesn't have a super-train-to-nowhere project or other spending issues that CA has.

CA ranks 4th in per-capita spending, with a (pre-federal) budget of nearly $146 billion. TX ranks 50th per-capita, with an $80 billion budget.
Anywhere else in the US? San Franscisco and "the Valley" are hugely over rated.

There's no shortage of jobs here in Denver, and that kind of money can last a long time here, even without working and living modestly.
Comparisons to Detroit have been the case for longer than I can remember. The formula appears to be:

Recession -> Area is becoming Detroit
Boom -> Area will be Detroit

There are newspaper articles comparing Silicon Valley to Detroit going back to at least 1985...
Last I checked the Case Shiller futures are so illiquid that they're a bad trade in almost all circumstances. I believe they just never caught on.
What are the sources of these assertions? This seems like sheer speculation, or common-sensical reasoning -- do you know anyone from prison? Have you conducted some kind of psychological survey of prisoners?
I'm not rounding up or inflating numbers. That example came from recent rentals on the peninsula my brother is looking at. 2/2 townhomes ranging from $3800-$4300.
Does anyone really still believe that real estate represents an efficient market?

Regardless, if someone did believe that, and factored in expectations of rising rates, they simply wouldn't be a buyer in this market.
> "where would you live?"

Do you absolutely need to be in the [EDIT] Bay Area?

If the answer is no, then there are a lot of other cities with reasonable tech scenes and much cheaper housing. Boston and Seattle are around $350k median home value. Denver, Atlanta, and Minneapolis-St. Paul are around $200k. Those places all count as "somewhere to live", and don't make life particularly difficult (unless your life revolves around something specific to SF/SV.)
Ah, I knew about these but never found an actual paper. Thanks for posting that!
You are not allowed to make a photocopy of the personal ID document. It contains data about your electronic signature.
But teaching will only make the middling developer better. Trust me, this won't be the first time students labor under less-than-perfect teachers. At least these will be motivated.
In some ways the prison system in the U.S. seems to be worse precisely because it is supported by a democratic society. If prisoners are tortured under a king, their barbaric treatment can easily be associated with the cruelty of the king. This connection creates a risk of revolt, and a sensible king will be mindful of it.

In a democratic society with a Kafkaesque prison system, torture of prisoners is not as easily associated with any one person's cruelty. Because most people are optimistic and don't like to believe that several hundred million of their neighbors would silently condone the torture of a whole class of people, it's easy for lazy minds to consider prisoner torture acceptable, necessary, justified, and so on to whatever stronger beliefs these individuals may hold.

I'm not saying that prisoners would fare any better in a non-democratic society, but how people think of prisoner mistreatment would definitely be different.
How is it suboptimal? $2,500 per life saved is pretty good, let's say that's 10 lives a year for him. How could you do better than that?
The story confirms that the seeds must be purchased anew with each season.
Murphy's is probably most current, and an excellent text (read first review). OTW there's lots of stuff on the web for various levels of rigor

http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspec...

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab...

http://www.p-value.info/2012/11/free-datascience-books.html

http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Tutorials
Neat project! Took me about 5 clicks to find out that VRM is defined as 'Vendor Relationship Management'.
While I'm a huge Atari fan and I really want to see what's under the dirt, a small part of me will be sad that this legend will come to an end when I do.
I don't think Kleenex got generalized because other tissue companies named themselves Fleenex and Gleenex. Or Band-aid because of Land-aid and Gland-aid. They became generalized because they were popular in their category and then any old knock-off (what ever the name) was the same to consumers.
Someone went through the ROM dump and fixed the worst bits! :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470446
I honestly think this article provides very little insight into anything. You don't have to agree.

Money in it's theoretical form is supposed to be value. To be a good founder you have to create value. Since this is a site dedicated to technology that inherently means we're dealing with ideas about what is coming next - not private equity firms who buy up paper product manufactures to corner the market.

So, to me, this article states only the obvious and has no value besides maybe a masturbatory experience. That's just me.
I think you meant to say "stamping out radicalism". Unfortunately, "stamping our radicalism" could be taken exactly the wrong way.
The timeline you described has events separated by 40 or more years. I cannot practically plan my life around events separated by almost half a generation.
All this assumes that people want/can leave where they currently live. Personally, with family, friends, fulfilling job, and a lot of fun stuff to do, I don't particularly want to relocate.
I did it by applying to an HFT shop. I had a non-CS STEM degree from a state university and 1.5 years of experience as a developer.
I dont necessarily agree with your moral standpoints however the statement "They are typically leaniently sentenced, pay for their mistake and move on.", this is not typically the case... there are plenty of people who receive light sentences and plenty who get the book thrown at them for non violent first time offenses
But that's not what studying population shows us: when people have economic opportunities, education, and choices, they choose to have fewer children. So much so that we end up with the "problem" of the birth rate dropping below what's needed for replacement. It doesn't appear that population growth will ever reach the point that we'll have a problem producing enough food to feed everyone.
Where can I buy the 1/100 model?
Apple has at least also being using 16:10. This ASUS monitor is 16:9 so you lose 11% of useful vertical resolution which is what matters a lot to us techie folk.
That's a subjective opinion and assumes people would prefer to live in Denver (and can relocate) over the Bay Area for the extra money.
In 10-15 years, you will almost certainly be able to charge your cellphone in 30 seconds.

And a supercapacitor will probably be what's inside to allow that.

The incredible charge rates of supercaps will someday (when the energy density improves enough) become a nice feature.

It's possible some version of LiPo batteries will improve the charge rate dramatically, but I believe the rate is limited by chemical reactions.
Nice! I'll check out Thinkful, I might need something a bit more advanced / focused on Rails tho
From the FSF "As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us." A statement laced with moral reasoning. The whole 'about' page is a full of fallacies, no least appeal to emotion. Not for one minute do I with the FSF's raison d'être, I hasten to add, merely I use it point out how utterly poorly that logic is applied in these discussions.

"The cost to all computing simply isn't worth the tiny perceived benefit to a very few" So morally it's wrong. That pragmatism comes from the moral imperative or the perceived masses.

"...it is the very practical lesson that people don't want it." Why? Because it affects their perceived freedoms, ergo moral reasoning.

To glibly dismiss the moral imperative of F/LOSS simply wrong. Heck, Stallman, the EFF and the FSF rely heavily on argumentum ad consequentiam, argumentum ad metum and argumentum ad passiones in a not-insignificant amount of their literature and all of those to varing extent rely on moralising.
Still waiting on teleportion...
Ask HN: Simple Project Scheduling Software?
I'm currently doing a 6-month project for a client.

We want to simply create a schedule where I put each component of the project, how long it will take estimated, including hopefully some sort of beta testing/fixing time.

Then I give the software a start date and it will spit out a schedule.

Then when things change/go wrong/go right in the future, I should be able to change a date or a duration, and it will re-calculate my dates.

Does anyone know of this sort of software?
[ fun(N) -> N + 1 end || N <- [1,2] ]
Ok, if you want to live in a 2/2 duplex. How's your kitchen?

If you like it, good on you. Real estate more than almost anything else really does take all kinds.

My challenge is that I want some room for kids - more than 2 bedrooms, a yard where they can play and still be somewhat supervised, no sharing walls (for me AND for the neighbor, what neighbor wants to hear a screaming baby through their $3100/month duplex walls?).

I moved south of SJ. Still not cheap, but I've got the big SFH 30 mins outside of SJ for less than $3k.

Not everyone desires suburbia but if you do, prepare your wallet.
Who designed http://octokit.github.io/ ? So fresh and so clean. @mdo must have had a hand in it...
Shouldn't the ruby guy be dressed less like a robot and more like Robin Hood?
No, the opposite is true. SF population increases by 20% because of the net increase due to commuters. Table 2 on page 11:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/commuting/files/ACS/Commuter%20Ad...
On the Go mailing list I suppose :) They (the authors) seem that they did not research this issue deeply enough as you mentioned.
If genetics and biotech knowledge is a public good, then one alternative to IP would be to let the public i.e. governments fund the development of this knowledge.

I agree that buying seeds yearly seems pretty practical to me too, but alternatives are imaginable.
Love the idea. If you wish to incorporate social stream data, check out http://socialsafe.net

I've used it to back up and then delete my personal FB account, and continue to archive instagram, linkedin, twitter, blogs, etc. etc.

What's more, even though their interface is kinda weird, they store all kinds of granular data in a very nice SQL database which contains more then they represent in their reports, and can be be repurposed in many different ways...
I moved here 2 years ago from Sarasota, FL.

My rent did nearly triple AND i went a little down-market from the high-end condo I had in FL.

But my other expenses didn't increase more than 50%.

At the same time, my salary without including options is 85% higher. Including options (I work at a somewhat recently IPOd company) is 122% higher.

My wifes salary -- she's not really in tech -- also increased 25%.

In total, we are far better off financially now than in Florida. And to be clear: In florida my income was a multiple of the median HHI. I was not underpaid there.

Most importantly, though: I can't swing my vintage IBM XT without hitting a half dozen job offers. Seriously every experienced engineer here gets pitched via LinkedIn on the regular.

I'm not trying to sell you on it. But the way you wrote your comment, "romantic notions" and all, was a little condescending. As if it's some foolish thing. Like you have all these analytically minded engineering types going like lemmings.

We may move at some point to another tech-heavy city like Austin or Boulder or, ya know, whatever. But as techy as those places are, truly NO other place can compare to the density of startups and tech companies here.
Proportionally, that's still a lot more affordable than SF, given that it's almost 50% higher in terms of household income. This is partially due the problems inherent in tracking home values based on median sale prices - by definition, transactions are always going go happen at a value higher than the value of the overall housing stock.
> NaCl has always been enabled only in the Store, and not on the web, while the news in that announcement is that it will be enabled on the web.

...when PNaCl is fully released. Which is what they've said for years, that they weren't turning any Native Client on for the web until PNaCl was ready to be "fully released". So that wasn't actually the news.

The actual news was the announcement that PNaCl execution is supported (not that PNaCl will be "fully released") from Chrome 29, which was, at the time, the Canary version of Chrome (its since moved to the Dev channel.) Prior to Chrome 29, the only way to run PNaCl code -- or rather, code that had been generated by the PNaCl toolchain -- in the browser was to run it through another tool which generated regular, architecture-specific NaCl code.
Looks like blogspam for http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/30/revealed-australian-spie...
As an American, I don't seem to understand Canadian currency at all. I've watched 'Love It or List It' on HGTV knowing that it's a Canadian show but the prices of the houses are all typically anywhere from $700k-$900k for 1600 to 1800 square feet. Trying to convert it back to a price in US dollars I guess isn't quite right. What's the median income in Canadian dollars that makes home prices so high?

Side nitpick: do Canadians primarily use square feet as a measurement? Is that a real estate standard even though Canada is mostly metric?
No, the choice here is either we have better crops and people starve, or we do not have them and less people starve. brent_noorda explains above.
That's a lot of very torturous reasoning there. I just thought I would point that out.
I chose a few events from a 300 year history. There are lots of micro cycles - if you note from the article, current prices are only returning to previous highs from 2007. So in just 6 years we've gone through a cycle.
Can also be useful to mix internal SQL data from JSON from an external source without having to manually sync/import it no?
So, the successful founders are futurists that are not cranks.
And what would be the proportions of futurists that are not crank? That could be a good recipe to predict which founders will be successful...
Looks cool! But why the Japanese?
Will be interesting to know what percentage of smokers love starbucks ?
I take that to suggest it will be affixed to the track, sort of like roller coasters, unlike a traditional train which simply sits on the tracks.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120420164756/coaster...
What if users want to zoom in on the picture ?
This is great timing. We just recorded a two hour Intro to Elixir with its creator Jose Valim. We'll be publishing it in June at https://peepcode.com

I think it will be a good companion to the books from Pragmatic Programmers and O'Reilly. Jose works through a real-world project. You can see how he writes code with Elixir, uses metaprogramming, converts code to run concurrently, etc.

I was impressed with the syntactical consistency that makes more sense than Ruby, such as putting "do" after "def". You can write native-looking structures in Elixir that wouldn't be possible in Ruby (such as an if-then).