skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa-whoa-whoa hold up. The spiraling cost of rent 'threatens the well-being of our industry?' I say this as an engineer who's worked in the local industry during both booms and as a native-born "local." Sure, perhaps but only just like it does for every other industry besides fancy restaurants and cafes. Rent is too damn high and no one wants to pay it, and we seem to be the only ones who can. But lets get some perspective here. I'm willing to posit that the relative high rent prices has give our industry to greatest boost of all in town [quick edit: for clarification if everyone is pushed out and only tech workers can move in, does that not just create room for more founders? Not at all arguing that wasted money is good].

This city is still the Gold Rush, always has been. People move here with the dream to make a ton of money and have a good time, most likely moving away after <10 years when they get serious about family. This city is fueled by alcohol and general hedonism, which is fun! San Francisco is an awesome place to live, and people want to live in it. Tech workers move in to town and push everyone out, blah, blah, blah -- but its true, for better or for worse. Top talent not only wants to work in the Bay Area, but are also so often willing to throw away everything to live in San Francisco. The Valley down south has been there for half a century, attracting the best and brightest in the world.

Its only now, with this Second Boom's influx of new businesses into the City Proper and the realization company-provided motorcoaches to bust the commute, that the tech workers are really pouring into SF. We're the only ones who can afford to live, so we stay here, working more and founding more businesses. If the price continues to go up (mark my words, no more than 30% above now), rather than be threatened, the industry will slowly spread out to the periphery. What is startup-rich Soma was urban blight during the 90's, the periphery.

I'd be the first to argue that urban development is good, especially when done effectively (not the conversion of existing rental space into high-HOA condos), and quickly (unlike commercial real estate development in Soma and South Beach). Just realize that we are the kings of this age of this city, and we are the last ones who would be at threat, especially when you can just move East or South and ride the comfy bus in to work.

tl;dr Nothing threatens tech but the drying up of capital to be invested in new business. Rent and/or supply is far, far down on the list of even those potential threats to the SF tech industry.
Are you serious?

New Zealand is the land of night-raids on Kim Dotcom's home to please American corporations -- not exactly a prime candidate.

Sweden is the country currently responsible for Assange's plight.

Switzerland, as I said elsewhere, is now an EU state in all but name, and their security services are laughable anyway.

What Snowden needs is not "neutrality" in a Cold-War sense. Strictly speaking, no government will ever defend the ideas he's fighting for; he can only choose the lesser evil, the place where he gets the most leverage out of his stance (i.e. most non-US-friendly nations) without losing his rights (i.e. most democratically-run nations with a respectable legal system). There's only a handful of countries in this peculiar intersection, and HK is definitely one of them.
> why are #get and #set acceptable ways of accessing object properties but #area isn't?

Because Ember only has to recalculate the area after set is called on length or width. If area is just a function, it gets recalculated every time it's called/get'ed.
They can certainly try to outlaw it.

In the US you can be jailed for contempt of court until you're able to decrypt a "blob of random radio noise data": http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?t=23969
The Bots Can Save Us, But Only if We Ask Them To
From his post on a co-founder dating type site:

Apparently based on people I've talked to who are familiar with the
tech startup scene, there aren't ant dedicated server providers specifically
targeting the tech startup market, and if I were to enter the field,
I'd be the only player there

Seems he thinks he has identified an unserviced market (unfortunately, it's not accurate...)
If you enjoyed this article, then the following one describing a sodoku solver will be fun too.

http://sudokugrab.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/how-does-it-all-wor...
http://www.aishack.in/2010/08/sudoku-grabber-with-opencv/
I suppose Google will be hiring a lot of meteorologists! This would be a very fun project to work on.
Trading: a hacker approach?
The Innovator's Dilema: The studios should have started the streaming services. Instead they were busy continuimg to optimize their existing business model. It makes you wonder if any of those people even heard of the book.
Aha !

Now in,

while m+i is less than the length of S, do:
if W[i] = S[m + i],
if i equals the (length of W)-1,
return m
let i ← i + 1
....

How would I implement the `return m` part ?
I don't think that's the major distinction. Both store models in javascript. Some of the big things being debated are the use of getters/setters and the data lifecycle that happens when you change routes.
Very cool! Provokes the thought of doing something similar for Magic: the Gathering as well.

Missed triggers no more!
They tried this in Australia, some time ago.

The PM told the minister to do it. The minister (who's reasonably tech savvy) told the department. The department told him it was a joke - it wouldn't work, and the government would get blamed every time a legitimate site was blocked, or a kid got caught bypassing it.

It's political suicide. They will be blamed every time a teenage boy figures out how to bypass the filter (hint - they all will). They will be blamed every time they block a non-porn site. Tech sites will publish "10 ways to bypass the government's joke of a filter" articles. Current affairs programs will have concerned parents shocked that their unsupervised 14yo boy filled their computer with smut (probably passed around on a USB). The next time an MP or celebrity gets arrested for really shady stuff, they'll say the filter failed. They will look like idiots, and waste millions doing it.
I agree that the Nadler thing is a small part of this whole news event... but it was pretty much the entirety of the CNET piece. It is no longer fair to say the NSA "admitted" to listening to the contents of phone calls. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but there's no evidence they admitted it.
I'd argue that the trackpad on MBP's and Airs is the best anywhere. Every other computer I've ever used resulted in funky stray swipes, sometimes even when I hit a key near the trackpad. (Haven't tried a Dell Precision's, and I haven't had a Trackpad since the IBM days)

I believe the X1, which Avdi referenced, maxed at 8GB? (same as Air) The W series of course can have crazy hardware in it, but it's quite the anomaly in the industry.
There is another big reason why Snowden may have chosen HK. A few months ago the HK high court ruled that the process for applying for asylum needs overhaul, and until that happens all extradition proceedings for asylum seekers are on hold. So Snowden simply needs to apply for asylum in HK to significantly delay things:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific...

I haven't seen much coverage of this in the US press, aside from Slate & CSM. The rest of the media seems more interested in Snowden's girlfriend and scholastic record instead (sigh).
Our entire cash outlay, pre-revenue, not including founders time, was about £1,000. We bought a VM, a domain name, a copy of Flash to build an little interactive game our domain required and paid some admin fees on content we acquired.

We made up our first logo, 10 minutes in Photoshop—it was as ugly as sin but it didn't matter.

We lived with a VM because there was going to be no load on our servers until we had traffic.

The really expensive bit was the time me and my co-founder put in. To a degree, if you don't factor lifestyle (and you should), we're still recouping that.
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Don't post these transient events here. Memorize the link Extaze posted in the comment stream.
+1 on Mixergy! There's lots of case studies on marketing, building a customer list, customer support etc. etc.
Film, as an artform, will survive. The current studio system, hoisting this crap into the theaters will not. The faster we can end the current paradigm, the faster we can move to the new order.
Who says the cost is purely economic? What is the value of the first and fourth amendments to americans?
He mentioned picking up Mandarin in one of his Ars posts, I think. Not "fiendishly" clever, just apparently more clever than the folks running our intelligence services.
Lots of people thought the CNet piece was fishy. I asked Declan about it after I saw his post here yesterday but nobody noticed :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887443
When I was taking EE/CS courses, I'd consciously try to look for courses with large, open-ended projects (without eschewing theory completely). Although project classes can be run very poorly, the good ones tend to be the exact opposite of memorization/test-regurgitation.
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This. The privacy cost is relevant and not easily quantifiable.
"peddling [pornography] to kids"

He tries to make it sound like there some creepy dude in a trench coat going, hey kids wanna see some porn?

What are they going to do, block imgur.com?
smartwater's post on the last one is interesting.
I think instead of knowledge memorization (like the periodic table), the author is refering to algotithm memorization, where the exam is testing your ability to reproduce the process of solving the problem. There is some validity to this in that it is possible to do well on an exam by reproducing the process without understanding the materials.
Good examiners can write questions and grade in ways that support deeper understanding than algorithm memorization.

On the other hand however, education is about the process of learning. The advanced techniques used in engineering aren't immedieatly understood by many (any?) students. So the first steps in learning these techniques is mimicing existing work. Not alltogether different than actual engineering practice.

Aside: I do think time spent on student teams is very complementary to taught engineering programs, and spent 5 of 7 years in university doing Solar Car racing.
Some people find seasons preferable. I plan on moving back to Boston for that reason alone.

The lack of seasons in SF makes me feel like it's Groundhog Day. I'd gladly take some snow in exchange for the other seasons. For me, summer feels much better after a long winter.
I've used PyCharm before, IME people that complain about Rope autocompletion aren't adding the virtualenv to their Rope search paths.

As for slowness? only on init. After that, it's as close to instantaneous as it gets.
We might have some troops running around in the TAR of PK but that's not exactly where OBL was hiding.
According to angular's FAQ:

> Q: Why is this project called "AngularJS"? Why is the namespace called "ng"?

> A: Because HTML has Angular brackets and "ng" sounds like "Angular".

http://docs.angularjs.org/misc/faq

sigh
8 million tiny, poison-tipped drones.
This guy is a moron or a troll... Why are you replying to him. He said he spent 4k on the logo, no way someone can be that stupid
FISA = Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The 'right of the people' in the 4th amendment is the right of the American people (ie citizens of the USA).

You only read part of the law, that is, statute. Court precedent is law too, and not looking up cases where the statute in question has been at issue means you have only partially informed yourself. The US has a common law legal system, not a civil one.
I don't believe there is any country in the world, except Russia and China, that will not kowtow to US when pressured. Snowden made a very smart choice by going to HK.
In Angular if you need to share global state between controllers you can just create a service that will fetch the object once and then cache it. I would like it if service/provider/factory were a more unified concept as they can be confusing when starting out. However, once you understand how to use them they are straight forward to use and provide a nice way to share code between controllers.
I appreciate the reminder. Pluggio seems pretty clean from the video tutorial!

It seems like you must've had to implement a fairly big subset of something like Angular in the process, no?
There is no explicit return value because the functions aren't functions: they are values, thus the result of the algorithm is bound to the value that is bound to the function.

When you write:

(defn square [x]

(* x x))

You are really writing:

(def square

(fn [x]

(* x x)))

and x * x is bound to the value of square. There would be no logical reason to have an explicit return value here.
I do not wish (or expect) for Snowden to be sentenced with capital punishment if he were to turn himself in.

However any attorney or advocacy organization will find it extremely arduous to prove that he did this in good faith.

Fleeing only makes it worse.

It is universally considered a symptom of insincerity.

An insincerity of mission and an insincerity of motive.

It will be an entirely unconvincing case even if it were made in the court of public opinion much less closed-door hearings.

Had he even made the slightest of effort to reach out (to whatever institution, individual or group that he trusted, based in the United States) he would have left an indelible impression on privacy advocates, news organizations and the larger public, even if his criminal fate eventually remained unmitigated, by that act of outreach.
Read this http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html. In fact, read about any topic you plan on publishing posts about.

I'd suggest that either you: a) actually list free software alternatives in this post or b) remove any reference to free software at all and replace it with whatever you want (open source has a pretty flippant definition, so perhaps that would be the best option)

And no I don't use a Leemote, nor do I use Linux or any free software at all. However I do recognize the FSF and its beliefs and people who misrepresent them annoy me. Someone will come along and read your blog and believe that the set up really is Free Software, write a blog post of their own, probably skewing the definition even more. Where does is stop. Why does no-one do research anymore!
It's 2013, we have the internets, 24/7 news and no end of sources on everything related to politics of any country on the planet.

If something you don't know becomes vital to a project you're planning, you fire up Google every day for a few hours and learn what's going on. It's clear he didn't leak on a whim: he planned it over a certain period of time and, being a smart fellow, had all the time in the world to read up on the fine points of US international diplomacy, which would significantly narrow down his research pool on extradition systems.
Hashlife's pretty sweet although that particular answer you can get in time too short to measure by just typing some multiplications and divisions into a calculator. A glider contains 5 cells, a glider gun 36 and after the first glider at generation 15, the glider gun churns out a new glider every 30 generations, like clockwork.
With enemies really, who cares about the morality? They're out to get you, you're out to get them. With allies if you're both spying on each other you are thoroughly in the verify part of "Trust but verify." A decent intelligence network can give one a much higher level of security in one's allies good intentions.

Also, morality? Intelligence agencies? This is realpolitik man. If we assume high level politicians resemble executives they're 20% pstchopaths. The other 80% are also quite capable of reasoning amorally about goals and power.
Please don't think that I am trying to correct you. But narcissism has nothing to do with our Snowy. It's inception,
by brute force.

What Bob is doing is, he is compressing the issue to a trifle.

It's the reporter equivalent of calling "LOL OP, you are such a short sighted faggot" and receiving precious HN karma for it.

When you can't win a debate, you win by stinking it up and making others leave.

That's how trolls killed love4eva-forum.

Every sell-out reporter is doing it, for quite some
time actually.

Edit: Does anyone remember the sheer Debauchery of the press, during the Occupy movement ?
Rockridge is far, far more crunchy than any part of Berkeley these days...
Can we add Ecuador to that list? Say what you will about the current administration, they are not kowtowing to the US or Britain even under a lot of pressure.
The EU isn't going come down that hard on it because a) they do the exact same thing and b) they quite like outsourcing the costs to the US but getting a lot of the benefits. I'm guessing that at most you'll see a aspirational clause on data privacy buried in the depths of the forthcoming EU-US FTA. http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2013/0614/456567-eu-us-fta/
I'm not sure if it's available in the UK, but here in the US you can buy pre-paid credit cards.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/an...

Do any of you believe that there would have been a new Letter from Birmingham Jail if Snowden were imprisoned? Keep in mind the US authorities are calling this civil rights whistleblowing "treason". Aiding the terrorists and enemy combatant status cannot be far behind.

Like it or not, the rule of law has been badly damaged by the endless emergency.

These days you do your nonviolent resistance from behind the safety of a diplomatic minefield.
And probably not even by the guy that went to prison for it.
Except nowhere in your post do you say transition, or moving towards, or any other thesaurus term I can come up with.
I actually started writing my own hardware test runner[0] to more imitate a spec/unit test runner, and because I really wanted just a folder, a NAND gate, and a DFF. I found the built-in components confusing, because I would not implement parts, and yet the tests would still pass.

Also, the source (thousands of lines of decent Java) is available at the bottom of the download page[1].

[0] https://github.com/Jared314/n2trunner

[1] http://www.nand2tetris.org/software.php
Sounds like netflix could make some money by adding a trailers area.

People could go there and watch whatever trailers they like (and I think netflix could even suggest what they might like), and netflix would get some advertising dollars.
Spectacular, but not reference. General printing is OK for almost any printer, but support for advanced features is limited (in my experience).
Not sure what kind of hardware you have, but the last time I experienced something like that was in XP.
Pretty hard?

China has steep controls on its own citizens leaving China. Hong Kong is now part of China, and probably a favoured way out.
The possibility of being executed is merely one facet of the issue here...
Almost anything will seem like peanuts compared to a war.

You're just misunderstanding what I'm arguing: It isn't that corruption isn't a problem, it's that sortition isn't a solution.
Really, if you want good weather in the bay area live in the valley. It's close enough and the weather is waaaay better.
I'm glad to see someone with this point of view. A lot of people don't seem to realize that there is a huge difference between the idealized American farmer and the lives of real peasants living in rural China. It's extremely difficult to run roads, electricity, and water to all these villages, or to provide them with modern schools and clinics (and corresponding staff) necessary to implement social welfare that extends beyond the cities.
I disagree. The rising cost of living will have nothing but detrimental impact on startups. When $1m used to buy a year of runway, now it's $2m, and you're not really getting any more for your money, you're just making sure your engineers have a decent roof over their heads.

Your theory is sound except for one little problem: the Bay Area's transportation system is fucked. FUCKED. Completely, utterly, irredeemably fucked. BART is a joke, MUNI is like a fevered bad dream, Caltrain woefully inadequate.

So yeah, SOMA used to be urban blight, now it's urban blight with a bit of startups mixed in (seriously, go hang out at 6th/Mission for a bit). Rent (both residential and commercial) in SF is exploding, but there no more periphery, because nobody can reasonably get to said periphery.

Oakland has been trying to steal some of SF's thunder for years, offering themselves as the more affordable alternative. This will never happen at scale, because of how utterly screwed transportation is.

SF is out of space, and there's very little room for it to expand into, because nobody is willing to redevelop land, the the complete fuckery of a transportation network you have prevents effective expansion into anywhere that will let you develop.

At some point the cost of living and operating needs to square with reality. At some point a startup board member is going to say "Holy fuck, you pay HOW MUCH for your office?"
I think you need a smaller brush.
I haven't seen any articles discuss a major issue: his immigration status. If he's on a visitor/business visa he likely only has 6-12 months in the country. If he's there as a tourist, 90 days. If he overstays his visa, he can be arrested and deported.
surely, this child has never heard about heroku.
> In the case of such a broad surveillance system, I'm having trouble coming up with good secret reasons. Perhaps I'm being unimaginative. If, for example, this system was preventing hundreds of terrorists, what damage would be done by stating that it has unequivocally stopped major threats?

What if it had prevented a biological weapon that could have killed millions of people in NYC? Revealing this publicly could cause mass panic.

Obviously I have no evidence of something like this, but it's a thought experiment to consider. Would that make the surveillance worth it in your mind?
Politcal Party leader not a fan of new Aussie Startup
There are questions surrounding who actually shot him. The man who went to prison for it may have been set up, as he denied personally shooting Dr. King.

MLK was planning a huge "live in" on the National Mall to pursue greater income equality and there were plenty of interested parties that would have wanted to prevent that.
OK. While religious tech war, I'll be offering whatever my clients want and solves their particular needs.
I as a foreign citizen do take the morality of intelligence actions and foreign politics quite seriously.

As far as my view(which is rather ignorant, hence why I would like to know and discuss more) is concerned, I'd think that some form of international agreement on spying/intelligence gathering should be formed and enforced. For example the NSA hacking to Hong Kong machines should be a criminal offense, and the same should go the other way around. This stuff should really go through the legal system and people should be punished accordingly. Just because it is some form of governmental intelligence agency shouldn't ever put it above the law.

As we have seen with the case of NSA, it is used for domestic spying too and nobody really knows for what else.
The argument I've heard is that it's the "soul" of the industry that's being threatened, rather than the industry itself, and the fear is that SF will basically end up being "software hollywood".
Yeah, I was also amazed at how good the 3g was on a random sim I bought at the airport. Works great in the metro too which is awesome coming from Melbourne and having no connectivity between stations in our metro.