skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but my experience has been that there is a large group of people from very similar backgrounds (20-something from Stanford/MIT/CMU in the tech industry)

That's why I said "not so much as 10-20 years ago". It seems like our community is actually destroying what made SF so special in years past. That being said, while a majority of people coming in are fairly well-off 20-something tech industry kids, the fact that SF prides itself as being an "anything goes, something for everyone" kind of city helps to bring out the quirkiness and eccentricities of people who otherwise would've never found that side of themselves. In addition, if you look in the right places, you will find a ton of the goofy oddballs that made SF such a special place.
> San Fran weather is awesome, the amount of homelessness makes me sad though!

It bums you out?
We have exactly the same kind of apartment. I'm not sure if eliminating rent control would make things more affordable. I am pretty sure that we would have constant insecurity every year, wondering if our rent is going to jump and we're going to have to move. The buffer from short term market fluctuations is a big factor is helping us stay and build a life in our neighborhood.

But yeah, if we have a second kid it's gonna be tight. THAT IS WHY IM ON HACKER NEWZ 2 MAKE MILLION$$$.
See seph's comment. I took that from a heatmap I saw not too long ago on avg 1br prices in each neighborhood. I'll link if I locate it again.
No, I don't think this is a server problem, it's a UI problem: If there is no mistake, there is no visible feedback. Which makes it hard to tell the difference between being an awesome writer and seeing a broken website.
You can rent single bedroom for $1000 around multiple Bart stations and save 2000 more/month with 30 minutes commute by public transport in SF.
I love the timing on this. Just exactly when Putin is visiting the UK. So totally deliberate. The Guardian is having fun, but I imagine there are spies out there who are having no fun at all tonight.
The logo is arguably the least important part of your business, especially in terms of prioritizing the sequence of necessary investments. You should not be spending so much money on design this early.
It wouldn't even take that - you can go a long way in a few days making a child theme of twentytwelve and tweaking the stylesheets. Nearly everything else is plugins.
This is by far the most informative [edit: if speculative] article I've read on Snowden's choice of Hong Kong, which has been the most puzzling detail of the whole story. If true, it explains a lot, not just about why he chose Hong Kong but also about his subsequent interview with the press there. Can HNers who know Hong Kong shed light on how plausible it is?

It's striking how one obscure blog post can be more valuable than all the media speculation on this question (that I've seen) put together. That doesn't make its interpretation true, of course. But the alternate explanation that was going through my head seems a bit movie-esque by comparison.
Creative Commons for business?
You know what's silly? Calling one version of English "real English" is silly. I think what you were trying to say is "British English". And I agree, why would you want to avoid using it?
I must ask..What do you do for a living?I mean, in all honesty, you look like a gardener trying to build a spaceship. You have no idea what you're doing.If it was a contest how come you paid for the package?
I've lived in Syracuse. DC gets what Syracuse would consider a real snowfall about once every five years. But when it happens, everything shuts down. Not enough plows. And terrifyingly bad snow drivers.
Actually, I think the proprietary technology problem at Google is an entirely different beast from that at companies like Microsoft. At least there are comparable competing components, libraries and, heck, entire open source operating systems, to Microsoft's internal and proprietary technologies. Google, on the other hand, is so far ahead in some areas that tools that are commodities within Google don't have anything even remotely comparable outside.
While you have personally are benefitted from SF's rent control laws be aware it has had many perverse effects:

- Higher rents for everyone else, less affordability overall

- Reduced new constructions (even higher rents, fewer working class jobs)

- Increased vacancy (9.7% vacant [1])

- Reduced maintenance

- Lock-in (you move you lose)

- Endless litigation and political disputes

- Side effects (condos, TICs, Ellis Act, affordable housing)

[1] http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/11_5YR/D...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_the_United_Sta...

[3] http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-08-09/news/the-case-for-ending-...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/us/san-francisco-rent-cont...
Oh, sure, in 2007 when Thrift came out first, I was on board with that sentiment, too. "Oh, wow, they hired someone who was an intern here last year, and now they have their own Protocol Buffers, surprise surprise." It was easier to disparage it than it was to get concerned about our own well-being.

Now, however, every time they release something like this, I just crack up laughing. The servers, the software-defined switched network, all of it. It just keeps going. The real magicians have moved on and are now sharing their creations with the rest of the world.

If only I had a copy of that internal post which basically said "either we open-source our own stuff, or other people are going to do it for us, and we're going to be behind the eight ball". I want to say it was a Yegge Buzz post but I can't remember for sure. It's been three or four years.

Leakers, you know how to find me. Contact info in profile.
We also learned about the role played by German-Americans in the program, yes! Von Braun is pretty much a household name.
I thought the same, but as chance should have it I finally installed Ubuntu on my mpb yesterday. It went off without a hitch, and as far as I can tell everything works out of the box (wireless, dual monitors, sound, even all of the Mac function keys!).

It was a surprisingly pleasant experience.
You don’t need to set GOROOT, really
It may also be your movie tastes differ from his too. Right now I am noticing basically two groups of people (not correlated to age): one group which enjoys the effects, 3D, epicness... and the other which is disillusioned with today's movies (ie yay another movie where I watch CGI dudes shoot around and then get a 3D fly-over the battle-field every 5 seconds).

I think there is something to be said for the funneling of movie budgets into a few MASSIVELY costing movies (ie per the Spielberg interview that was posted on HN last week). I, myself, enjoy a good "Dark Knight", but also something like the King's Speech or The Tree of Life. The question is whether both can keep being made for their respective budgets, and both in film vs other media.
Very true, just speaking from first-hand experience. I'm trying to pay off all my (astronomical) student loan debt as fast as possible, so I'm putting around $1800/mo into loans alone. Factor in my biggest hobby is seeing live music and you'd be surprised how quickly money can go. I've cut back severely on my drinking/partying, but with the occasional trip home to see family, 401k contribution, loan payments, and more, I walk away with about $28k/yr for all other expenses (including food, transport, cell phone, random services like spotify and netflix, and fun). Keep in mind I also got rid of my car, don't have cable, and keep monthly recurring expenses pretty low. $28k sounds like a lot, but when food is about 30% more on average than most of America (just my estimate after being back in Indiana), sales taxes are higher, and everything costs more in general, it goes quickly. I'm adjusting my priorities as I get older, but my salary also goes up and I get closer to having no debt, so it balances out I think.
Is it me, or is this story impossible to read on an iPhone? I get about 1/3 of the way in, and the text gets covered with a dark gray overlay approx 9000px tall with a photo of Neil Patrick Harris in the middle.
Ive lived in Baltimore, Philly, NYC and Nashville and never encounter the culture of homelessness that one experiences in San Francisco.

I know part of why it's like that is because of the weather.

Besides being bummed out by being surrounded by destitution the smell of destitution is just as bad.
Thanks for the entertainment!
This is an important point, but I see it differently.

Want to become a truly great developer? A real one-percenter?

Get in the habit of diving into other people's big, scary codebases when you hit a bug. Learn how things work, learn why they're breaking, and fix it.

Who has time for that? That's part of my point. Many people won't invest in their own capabilities in this way. But once you do, you get dramatically faster at it. Soon it's no big deal to jump into the guts of Rails or Ember and bend them to your will.

This is also the best way to truly be able to judge the quality and usefulness of competing projects. Instead of following the internet popularity contest, you can go to the source and see pretty quick how good the ideas really are.
I forgot about FinFET and just extrapolated from the i-series jump but the only important differences I've seen in processors in the last 3-4 years has been power efficiency, cache, and bus speed. Clock speeds (especially with TurboBoost thrown in) became more and more erratic as a metric for my use cases so at this point it's all about Intel's microarchitecture and process (in my perspective). They've also been one of the most advanced firms materials wise so as we start to get smaller and smaller, I think Intel will begin to use new materials that will increase the gains on FinFET and process. IIRC in 2012 they were two "generations" ahead on high dielectric materials and their silicon straining process for mass production.

I just picked two companies off the cuff that are relatively well known and that I think could make an impact in the server market with ARM. I think comparing ARM mobile SoCs to Intel's x86 or AMDs AMD64 is disingenuous and since all TSMC and Global Foundries can do is play catchup (hence me touting Intel's process advantage), the brunt is left on the microarchitecture designers and the integrators to really make a server that can beat Intel's Xeon. I'm sure TSMC/Global Foundries are deeply involved in the design aspect but I think other companies will make or break ARM in the server market.

As for the dates, that's a shame to hear :(. However, I just looked it up and TSMC finished their 20nm design this year so I really doubt 10nm chips will be in a server-ready state in 2016. I think that the next few years are on ARM's turf but if Intel can hit the cost sweet spot that ARM is at (or even just in the ballpark) with Intel's process and performance, it might be the end of ARM as a non-mobile/embedded contender.
It's a very tightly focused hardware ecosystem with no publicly available documentation for the ways that it differs from the broader hardware ecosystem. Supporting Apple hardware well is hard, and I say that as a person who's done a lot of work on Linux support for Macs.
VHS tapes, being entirely enclosed in the cassette, are far more protected from accidental damage than are DVDs which are naked platters and will be rendered unplayable by minor scratches.
Regardless of the definition of "collect" that Clapper used, he needs to go.
SF people have to stop quoting the weather. The summer's are miserable with fog. It's as annoying as snow or sleet.
The ones who are really looking for super speedy servers are not going to signup with unknown, just created new company.

And you cannot beat run of the mill Go Daddies and Hostgators and Bluehosts with their prices.
UNLESS you offer something really unique, value-added that others does not have.
There are many processors and subsystems in modern cellphones. Malware could continue to run on some of them while the rest are sleeping.

How many people actually measure the battery life of their phone when they believe it's off?
I was down nearer the Highbury end of things, but in terms of drugs/violence/random menacing on the streets SF is way sketchier.
Multiple New Polls Show Americans Reject Wholesale NSA Domestic Spying
Brilliant move, maybe, unless he was manipulated by the Chinese. It is very interesting that the allegation that the NSA has been hacking into Chinese systems came out at the time when the US and China are meeting and Obama is trying to admonish the Chinese on hacking.

It would be interesting to explore if Edward Snowden has any handler. And how exactly he chose Hong Kong and decided to reveal that the NSA has been hacking the Chinese.
CBS' Bob Schieffer on Snowden's junket:

"For one thing, I don't remember Martin Luther King, Jr.,
or Rosa Parks running off and hiding in China. The people
who ran the civil-rights movement were willing to break
the law and suffer the consequences."

"That's a little different than putting the nation's
security at risk and running away."

"What I see in Edward Snowden is just a narcissistic young
man who has decided he is smarter than the rest of us"

"I don't know what he is beyond that. But he is no hero.
If he has a point — which I'm not sure he does — he
would help his cause by voluntarily coming home to face
the consequences."

Source:

Schieffer to Snowden: Come home, face the consequences

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU5-r6mw6nQ
Honestly the usage of SolusVM, WHMCS etc (i.e. things written in PHP which have no business being written in at least, the way a PHP typically is written) has been the main security problem of the entire industry.

We need more things like OpenStack out there -- competently designed and implemented toolstacks that actually work correctly and have a remotely acceptable security model.
None of those issues refer to current models.
That is my point, yes.

The tech companies are upset and should be upset because the law has destroyed their credibility. But by that token, by that very token, nothing they can say will get that back. It's really a problem because when a law direct people to lie, it produces an effect about as pernicious as anything.
I'm curious... is there anything currently preventing him from flying to a further country as well? I'm not aware of there being a warrant out for his arrest or anything yet... What would happen today if he just hopped on the next flight to Iceland or Ecuador or wherever else (or let's just assume nonstop flights)?
I agree that spies spying on people is hardly news. As far as any possible diplomatic consequences, it was more idly wondering whether anyone would try to turn the fact that this time it got out to their advantage during the G8.

But it doesn't reflect well on all the politicians rushing to defend mass surveillance/dragnet operations on the grounds that these capabilities are only used in serious crime/terrorism/whatever other specific cases they admitted to.

It's also rather surprising that some of these tactics were used or worked at all, not because there was any real doubt that these kinds of organisations could use them if they were willing to commit enough resources, but more because anyone attending a high profile event like that actually fell for the tactics and made it worthwhile to bother trying them in the first place.
The comment on schools is incorrect. The school system changed a year back and now you have a very high chance of making it to your neighborhood school. This is both from reading the system description and first hand accounts from friends with kids going to Kindergarden.

Noe Valley is pretty nice and it's hard to say if it's more expensive than say Mountain View in the south.
1/3 of that list are non-slaveholders and of the remaining 2/3 at least Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin seriously opposed slavery.

Generally I'd say they were well ahead of their time.
A bigger problem is the "he's a terrorist" issue - if there are not severe and well-defined repercussions for using a filter with false positives, and an active watchdog enforcing them, what's to stop, for example, anonnews from suddenly finding itself declared as pornography?

Once one thing is censored, you may as well consider everything else already censored as well not just as a slippery slope but as a fact, because anything else they want censored will just mysteriously get pushed into the same pile.
It's never very foggy east of Fillmore street, even in the summer. YMMV but SF weather is only miserable to people from LA.
Fourth point about Hong Kong being under China probably has a significant effect that public cannot know about to full extent.

It's not a outright conspiracy to believe that there's a largely hidden but real power struggle between US and China. China probably likes the fact that Snowden has brought NSA and US government into public scrutiny and they are probably plotting a way to make the best out of it.
Chris,

it seems like you are a do-er, which is fantastic, as most people have the other problem of having ideas, and not acting on them.

but you seem to be approaching this w/o sufficient knowledge/experience in business development aka, "theory stuffs".

I highly recommend http://www.mixergy.com to get a well rounded opinions, and anecdotes on startups to get a better feel for the types of things you need to be aware of before/after launching.

keep at it, best of luck.

p.s)
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

also fantastic places to checkout
Hate be negative, but based on the title, I was expecting something different, and since its HN, something with depth.

It was a lovely post, but what I got from it was "startups are risky, need belief, and it's tricky as a family and here's a link to my blog".

Edit: (I wonder if Medium is going to tackle the issue of people start treat it mainly as "medium" of promoting their own blogs or companies)
And if I wipe a MacBook's hard drive, I'll be able to reinstall and everything will still be working.

Anyway, the blog post I was responding to doesn't make this distinction. It argued that there are certain laptop models that you can purchase and expect to be as well supported by a Linux distribution as Apple hardware is by OS X. Other people have pointed out that this isn't true for many Thinkpads. I wanted to let people know that even the Dell hardware he mentioned has problems.

Additionally, I wanted to point out that it isn't just a question of compatibility with the computer itself. There are many peripheral devices, like smartphones, that matter.
Talk: Boost your dev environment with Vagrant
Nice idea! It think Posterous was awesome and I do miss features like e-mail posting for my current github hosted Jykell blog.
The abduction happened in Rockridge?
The graphic in the article is downscaled -- here's the direct link: https://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/2013/06/14/snowden-...
Is that stuff hardware from Lenovo? I am not familiar with any of it but briefly googling it, it does not seem to be.

I think you might be misunderstanding the claim that is being made.
Speaking as a foreigner, I can assure you that "oh, this is only for foreigners" is not going over well in europe. I'm pretty sure the EU is going to come down hard on the US over this. Or rather, they will simply mandate that data for EU citizens is not allowed to leave the EU without the express prior consent of those citizens. It's the perfect excuse to give favorable treatment to the EU IT industry without the US having a legitimate complaint in front of the WTO.
Regarding [1], I'd be more worried that there's only one guy helping out.
This is fine advice. Had the OP thought it through, they would have made this thread about "ticket tracker" or "issue tracker" and then your comments about debugging would be more obviously non sequitur.
Maybe Snowden now has enough material to claim that he's a political refugee? Now there are many nations being involved in his leaks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECDHE

Google is using it, a few other sites, too, though they are in the minority. OpenSSL supports it since version 1.0.0 that was released in March 2010.
The BI stack is growing steadily.

Lots happening in Excel/PowerPivot/Data Explorer land.
It doesn't have to be a perfect technical solution. They can outlaw VPNs - they just make it a law. Enforcement will be selective, although I guess for some well-known handshakes they could perform blocking.

If they detect something like what you described, they can flag your account, ask for justification, use as "evidence", etc.
A brand-new T430s worked out-of-the box with Arch. Everything came stock in the kernel, and everything worked and still works perfectly.
If you don't need to go as deep or as far, you might want to consider 'Code' by Charles Petzold: http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/

I found it great read and it covers some of the ground of this course.
An offtopic clojure question.

Today I was seeing this -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth-Morris-Pratt_algorithm

How can I begin to implement it in clojure ?

Specifically, how do I _ingeneral_ deal with assignments and while loops.

In common-lisp, for example I would use the `loop` macro and defvar-sefq combo, (beginning lisper).

In ruby, = and while itself.
Mods, please change the link to the non-mobile Wikipedia page.
SMH. You know you're drinking the Kool Aid when you try and go neighborhood by neighborhood. SF is terrible, Oakland/Berkeley better but not much (Berkeley gets nailed by the finger coming straight in from the GG Bridge) If you grew up somewhere else where summer meant putting your coat away for 3 months then "Two blocks over here the wind is still biting but the sun is out" isn't much of a consolation. Now, if you hate heat, as some do, then it's wonderful. I just think SF has a fantastic climate April/May and Sept/Nov. Folks need to realize though that there are big trade offs living there. No beach and always needing to have warm clothes if you leave your house for more than a few hours in case the fog comes in.
I am very glad that Mozilla takes privacy so seriously. I am glad it was a conscious decision. Also: I noticed the tracking codes in the email using Mozilla Thunderbird.

By the way: the email I got was probably sent to Mozilla supporters, not to StopWatching.us signatories (although it seems they use the same From address).

However, in the light of this privacy crisis, I think Mozilla should take time and think some more of what could be done.

It doesn't look good anymore that the fastest solution was to choose a technology provider that uses recipient tracking. It is bad that BSD privacy policies probably don't stand a chance against a government request with a gag order. I can only hope that the privacy policy treats US and non-US citizens alike. I can also hope that the screening checked that BSD systems don't store too much data about the recipients.
Google to use balloons to provide free Internet access to remote or poor areas
Show HN: a SublimeText plugin that automatically builds anchors from pasted URLs
The PasteAnchor plugin allows the user to paste an URL to a Markdown or HTML file and to automatically get an anchor with the page title as link name.

For example, pasting "http://www.quora.com/" to a Markdown file gives the following result:

[Home - Quora](http://www.quora.com/)

In addition to this, pasting links to threads of Hacker-News-like sites gives results that include two anchors: one for the thread and one for the related article.

For example, pasting "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879203" to an HTML file gives the following result:

<a href="http://jz13.java.no">JavaZone 2013</a> via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879203">Hacker News</a>
I wouldn't say 1.4k is a reasonable rent in DC, not in my experience at least. Not even if you move out to the nearby suburbs.
Useful to know how the enemy is arguing. Sure, the consequences are torture, imprisonment and death. But who wouldn't take those consequences to be a real hero?