skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of unsolicited dating advice: is the reason one is embarassed to mention one's occupation to a woman at the bar caused by tech salaries being too high, or by years of social conditioning telling you that geeks are low status? (Or by learning that the way one signals high status is by constructing a low status outgroup and then explaining how you're unlike them?)

An alternative: just pretend society really likes rich people who make things, and start talking about something more interesting than your work.
It's not about stopping prices from going up, it's about stopping them from going up at an uncontrollable rate.

Many desirable neighborhoods are seeing market rents increases in the double-digit percentages, every year. Some parts of SF are experiencing >20% YoY growth.

That's real estate hyperinflation, far in excess of the normal appreciation you'd expect in a healthy economy with increasing population.

And the solution to real estate hyperinflation is to build more.
This young man is an American hero
The idea of a completely open company is interesting. Balanced is not completely open (yet?) because there are still financial info and salary info that is not public. Gittip is an example of a fully open organization http://gittip.com/ where every single aspect is open. Personally I work at Mozilla which is not fully open but we strive to be as open as possible. For example, salary info is only public for board members, not all employees. Also, Mozilla needs to keep severe security bugs private until all patches are out in order to minimize wild exploits. It is definitely a challenge to be a fully open company.
Apple iPad 5 To Launch In September XA+XA
Apple are expected to released iOS 7 some time in September, we are also expecting to see the new iPhone 5S and now it looks like Apple may also launch the new iPad 5 at the same time.
In Java, sets are merely wrappers around a map that maps to a dummy. I guess Go just left off the wrapper.
> The whole article used the pronoun "she".

It was obviously a female client, so why not? When did using personal pronouns to refer to a person become offensive, not to mention invoke a suspicion of an underlying hatred of women?

The only time I've seen people have problems with the use of personal pronouns is when they use "he" to indicate a generic person, even though that person might as well be female (an annoying limitation of the English language).

> Several pictures of women complaining or generally in a bad mood.

How does that raise a suspicion that the author hates women? I'm honestly at a loss here.
i think that it's beyond that. I think that someone suggested the idea of limited elections. People make careers out of being politicians, and that wasn't the intent. If they can only be in a political position for a limited time, they would then be likely to focus on their lives outside of the government, and hopefully consider what the laws they pass will do to their lives after they are done "serving"
I agree with the crux of your message, but references to "one time pads" are an insidious red herring. They aren't actually secure against anything but the simplest passive adversary, and do little to further an understanding of the scope of modern cryptography (public key distribution, message integrity).
Every possible way to represent a set is a very thin wrapper around an existing data structure that is commonly implemented. There isn't a generally applicable way to represent a set. All sets are simply existing structures (BitVectors, Linked Lists, BST, or HashTables) with functions like Union and Intersection being tacked on and all have very different performance considerations.

Basically there really isn't a general purpose way to make a set and it’s not a fundamental component of programming, it is a modified HashTables or what ever. So I argue sets don’t actually exist in CS because you can’t represent one as it exists mathematically. You are simply tacking union and intersect to an existing data structure.
Well, you could try to search for BUEPF instead.

In German when you cannot write the umlaut, an e gets added to the letter that should have the umlaut.
Why bother owning a car at all?

I dunno. In well developed cities people used bikes and public transport instead since decades now. Driverless cars sounds so silly, if I ever used a car, it wouldn't be in the city, be to go out somewhere outside the normal infrastructure.
> Are we really so javascript/web programming oriented now that "plug-in" connotes javascript?

Yes, afraid so.

> I am talking about an actual application level plugin. Think flash, and silverlight not greasemonky.

This is absolutely an option. It's a tall order, because there are a lot of browser/OS combinations out there. But I believe it could be very successful.
The real reason is almost always "We didn't feel like it. So =P"
I'd agree with you if I was referencing some mysterious elite who lucked into their positions or had ivy league connections. I'm talking about my friends from college who had average grades at a top 30 small private school on the East Coast. Several of the ones who went into finance make more than I do, and some a LOT more. I have friends who frequently clear $300k with bonuses in very average wall street jobs. They are in their late 20s... how many enginers can make that much? They are also still early in their careers. Some I imagine will go on to make 7 figure incomes at their peak, whereas we can agree that engineers will top out at 250-300k with bonuses working at the best companies in the world.

Now, I'm not saying I'm struggling to buy food or anything on my healthy engineering salary, I'm just saying that I don't feel guilty AT ALL about how much I make, nor do I feel that I am overpaid in anyway. I do tend to think my contribution to society is at least as much as my finance friends, so perhaps either I am underpaid or they are overpaid.
Ryan Davis was a cofounder of giantbomb.com. He died on the 3rd during his honeymoon.

He's been prolific in games press for a long time and will be missed by other members of the press, fans of the site, and developers of games.
Heh.

I also hear that the SV school districts are not up to what you'd expect for a region with >$1mil house prices.
> 1. Build more 2. Watch prices go up

I have my doubts about this. I would be interested to see evidence that you can actually drive prices down by increasing housing supply.

Because when I've been in a position to watch some dramatic housing supply buildouts in a few areas, my observation has been that generally been that the owners price (at least) somewhat above market rates for existing housing -- after all, it's new. Often it's marketed as luxury housing and leased/sold at multiples of the median price.

There's a few places I've observed a decrease in price. It's not where supply is increased, though, it's where demand drops, usually because the economic activity of the region drops off, but sometimes because of conflict/crime or health hazards.

If I'm right, then there are still two options -- build more or don't build more. Each case may have its own merits, but there's not a case that excludes prices going up for SF and the Bay Area.

Short of the current state of economic activity in the area turning out to be an unsustainable bubble or a major disaster, anyway.
Yeah NYC!!!
$1,000,000 machines are not that much faster, you won't get 1000x the performance or anywhere near. The memory and IO performance is going to be within a factor 2 or 4 of that high end machine. It might have 50x the cores, but most likely that's not the limiting factor anyway.
And for the sake of completeness, I've also found spammimic http://spammimic.com/. There is a paper at: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/old/mimic/mimic.text
This is a decent explanation but it's actually simpler than that.

People who are upwardly mobile follow the jobs. In general, they choose jobs, then cities. Except for the very rich who don't have to work, desirability (excluding commute) is a minor factor in prices. I can back that up, but I think most people buy this already.

However, real estate demand is extremely inelastic. If 5 percent of the houses in Manhattan were destroyed, the price increase wouldn't be 5%. It would probably be 2-5x, possibly 10x. That's why, even though rent control only affects a small percentage of the market, its price influence is huge.

New development is supposed to correct for that, but often the result of it is creation of more expensive housing, which solves quality problems but doesn't have the desired price effect until many years later. (Real estate rarely goes down in dollar-denominated amounts, for psychological reasons; what does happen in a soft market is that prices stay flat and lose to inflation. In effect, it's a loss-limit on price declines that is very tight when inflation is low.)
Click the sidebar for a link to the full paper. I'm fond of feigning disbelief at how simple this attack is, given how widespread RC4's adoption is. Of the crypto attacks you'll read about, this is among the simplest to understand.

As RC4 encryption is de ned as Cr = Pr ^ Zr, the corresponding ciphertext byte Cr
has a bias towards plaintext byte Pr. Thus, obtaining sufficiently many ciphertext
samples Cr for a fi xed plaintext Pr allows inference of Pr by a majority vote: Pr
is equal to the value of Cr that occurs most often.

(This attack turns out not to be directly workable, but the working attack isn't much harder.)

This is operationally important crypto research; if you understand it, you may configure your servers differently.
Is there a decent numpy/scipy equivalent for Go yet? By which I mean an easy way to manipulate matrices, complex numbers perform discrete Fourier transforms and the like.
Looks like peerflix: https://github.com/AaronO/peerflix
Any particular language that they are working in?
They can't ask for less than that through Twitter's OAuth API. If you have a public account, they could do that anyway with just your username.
True, and hopefully nobody took my 2 examples as the only methods or suitable conditions for a rewrite.

A rewrite is risk, a huge amount of risk. And often taking on risk can be bad, but often taking on risk is married to the possibility of huge wins. It takes good judgment and solid development practices to take on risky projects and persevere, but it can be done, and indeed is done all the time. Going into a rewrite nonchalantly with a thousand casually made false assumptions and all the while squeezing your dev. and QA cycles between two products is a very, very common way to waste a lot of effort and seriously hurt your company, especially in the market. So be aware of what you're taking on when you take on a rewrite.

As a general rule if your team/company is capable of taking on and succeeding at tasks that others typically struggle at then that can be a key competitive advantage.
Can't speak for OP, but for me it's much more of the former than the latter.

When I lived in Seattle, and later SF, I loathed to tell someone my job. Firstly because in that city it automatically paints a "has a truckload of cash" target on one's head, regardless of whether or not it's true.

Secondly because the tech folks in the city are blamed for basically all of the city's woes (this is true in both Seattle and SF). It has little to do with how "low status" software work is (because in those places, it's not really).

Now that I'm in NYC I feel much more free about telling people my job. For one thing, the response is generally "oh that's cool, tell me more" instead of "[eyeroll] yet another one", and secondly I'm not the biggest species in the pond anymore. The response to "I'm a software engineer" isn't automatically "you must make a lot of money".
Good luck. If you're planning on buying, the only areas in the Bay Area affordable to a single-income family will be places you don't want to live (East side and south San Jose, Hayward, and the nastier parts of Oakland). Also, in the current real estate market, you're going to need all-cash (or a very, very high down payment) and be willing to waive all the usual contingencies. It is a brutal seller's market, and as a buyer you are competing with foreign cash investors and hedge funds buying properties 10 at a time.

This is from someone who has been trying unsuccessfully to buy a home in the Bay Area for the last year and a half. We wrote an offer on a home that got 45 written offers and ended up selling for 25% over asking.
How can middle class not mean anything? Doesn't it refer to the fat section of the income curve, where there are supposed to be the most number of people?
How can it support cabal? Is that only for other Haste libraries? Most haskell cabal dependencies end up needing a native library (eg: compiled c files) somewhere in their transitive dependencies (this is very unfortunate, btw).
You can try taffybar [1] but it's a bit more involved (I don't think it's packaged anywhere). Has both widgets, task bar and tray.

1: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/taffybar
Well there must have been an underlying reason why companies would go out of their way to invest in their own transportation system than invest in the one that already exists. Maybe they were met with resistance? What is this resistance?
I think the assumptions in the article are most applicable to an urban context, where car ownership is already nowhere near 100%, and alternative modes already exist that accommodate concerts, movies, etc. I'm reasonably certain, for example, that none of the movie theaters in the city where I live (Washington, DC) have surface parking lots. People are already used to not driving here, and I don't think the sudden arrival of self-driving cars will mean every single person will want curb-side pickup from the movie theater that's already half a block from a metro station.
IMHO here's an even cooler hack-

Gtk+, the widget toolkit used to develop GNOME and many free software applications, supports rendering applications via HTML5. One of the developers has demonstrated using it to run desktop applications on OpenShift, Red Hat's PaaS, that you then access via your web browser.

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/03/19/broadway-on-openshif...

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2013/04/03/more-gtk-in-the-clou...
Me neither and I can't work without XMonad.Prompt, especially the Shell instance, for spawning executables. I don't remember Tuumo's ion in detail but the only other launcher that behaves similarly in a sane way is cwm's built-in menu. dmenu_run doesn't work the right way and is limited in what it launches or auto completes. Like ion there are also instances for ssh and man pages. When using the shell prompt the memory usage goes up by 1 or 2 megabytes but that's constant. Any time I try spectrwm or dwm I always come back to xmonad.
Stabby as in "You might get stabbed".
Thanks for your reply.

The issue isn't that we can't sell the product it's that we don't have the free time available to scale out to the extent we'd like. We're already stretched quite thin, so having a separate sales force allows us to reach far more customers than we could ever reach on our own. Also, given that we're selling to schools, our salespeople have a lot more contacts, and can thus reach the relevant buyers more effectively.
They mean to get stabbed by a knife, a common misconception about the east bay. Yes there's violence, but theres also beauty, you just need to know where to go and where not to go (san francisco is the same).
I don't see San Francisco turning into Detroit. It's more likely to follow Pittsburgh's path, and Pittsburgh isn't a bad place to live these days (but it's far from a star city).
Every hour driving my own car is an hour I'd be paying a human to do the same task I can do myself in a situation where there is little else for me to do. Can you see how cost-inefficient this is on a labor basis until the need for labor is removed? Taxi drivers are up there with gas station attendants and toll collectors in terms of "jobs where the person who is being serviced could perform the same task easily for free." These types of jobs are extremely at risk to automation (see FaskTrak and self-service gas pumps) since if the person being serviced can perform their job, likely a computer can too.

The reason Uber works in cities is not because it's somehow cheaper to take taxis on a per-hour basis than owning cars there, but because the need to do so is less frequent so the overall net cost per year is less than owning a vehicle where parking space is at a premium. As soon as you get into a situation where you need to use your car regularly for (relatively) long periods of time, like living outside of the city in America, the labor costs of the driver go through the roof and the "illusion of freedom" is a very real one.
Instead of designing your own language Logos, have you considered using Clojure, which is also homoiconic, is a modern variant of lisp, and was/is designed by programmers who have industry experience, so it's not an academic experiment?
Few people I have the chance to listen about such maters actually know what they are talking about. I upvoted your strings of replies here.

I live in Romania and here we always have had all kinds of immigrants from all around us. Maybe there were inter-ethnic tensions but the environment was always civilized, and the minorities integrated themselves (mostly) as a part of society. ...well, with one notable exception - the gypsies. The rest of the Europe are blaming us for not putting enough efforts on their education and integration but they do not seem to have an idea who the gypsies are and that is especially irritating. There are all kind of... let's say "peculiar" people in this world with whom it is difficult to accomplish things, but many of us are not willing or prepared to acknowledge this.
> I never understood the reasoning behind this kind of social login. If you're dead set on being an ass [...]

The purpose is to influence people who exist on the spectrum somewhere between angelic and dead set on being an ass.
"anonymous leaks" are not transparency.
Javascript/Coffeescript
He's referring to high crime rates. Parts of Oakland does have extremely high crime rates, much higher than even SF's notably elevated violent crime rates.

Many Oaklanders would point out that not all of the city suffers from extreme violent crime, but it would also seem that the areas convenient to a SF commute generally tend to be worse, and the good areas aren't that cheap.
True. For what it's worth, Wikipedia has project pages explicitly addressing this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Counterin...

Even at best, though, an Internet project is inevitably going to be biased towards the POV of whoever uses the Internet. The solution is to expand Internet access, which quickly reduces to the problem of solving all of the social problems nobody's been able to solve yet. Piece of cake.
At my default browser size I can see 8 items on Monocle at a glance and 21 on Hacker News. I'd suggest, at least, reducing the size of the information about the submitter, number of points, etc. When scanning HN I very rarely look at those.

I don't find avatars add to the conversation mostly because I don't first look to see who said something. If I read something interesting I might look to see who wrote it.

I'm not sure what the thumbnail graphics from the article are adding.

One thing I like about HN is the choice I make between reading the comments and reading the article with no framing.
Mr. Stabby may provide an unsubtle hint:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Mr+Stabby/
Yeah I don't get it - I had zero issues with installation (and I usually find a way to screw everything up). Can you post your YouCompleteMe install block for NeoBundle?
Yeah. I'm leaning toward no. But I'll hear them out. It's a good employer and they came after me, so why not.
Google releases fix to OEMs for Blue Security Android security hole
Google And Maker Faire Create Virtual Science Camp
Google has driven almost a million km without an accident

What's the latest on this? Last I heard they were only at 250,000 miles.
I don't mean this to play into stereotypes etc, but just as a matter of experience, every single person I know who's lived in Oakland for any significant amount of time (say 1 year or more), over the past 5 years, has been robbed at gunpoint at least once, usually while walking within a few blocks of their home. It's not a huge sample, I probably know half a dozen people/couples who live/have lived there. But the fact that all of them (or in the case of couples, at least 1 of the 2) have had it happen makes me say "no way" to the East Bay.
I can't read the low contrast overly designed content area.
I just tried out Potluck and it feels like the whole goal of it is to suck in your graph. It has zero content or usability until you do that. I suspect that even after you add your graph, if none of your friends are using it, it will continue to have zero content. Seems kind of the opposite of what Monocle is trying to do.
He's referring to the high murder rate of Oakland.
I have a similar relationship with London. Not because of the tech scene though some of my most challenging but rewarding jobs has been in London, but purely because nothing beats being at the heart of a lot of things, especially culture. After a few years I leave London to go somewhere where my quality of life increases massively, but then London draws me back again. I've moved there three times already and I won't be surprised if I end up back there again one day.
http://www.discourse.org/
Startup Founders Have Gotten Brutally Honest About Their Struggles
personally, I feel uncomfortable reading stuff like "If the width is 2 units and the height is 2 units, the area is 4 square units since 2 times 2 is 4".
2 plus 2 is 4 as well, yeah ?
As also, 2 ^ 2 = 4
The area is 4 regardless of what 2 times 2 is, or 2 plus 2 is, or 2 raised to 2.
I get your intent, but the phrasing is questionable pedagogy at best.
(I work at Balanced)

Watsi (https://watsi.org) is another fully open company. They publish all of their financials. It's pretty impressive to watch.
I think there are good odds we will see privacy related whistleblowing happening at US tech giants in the coming years.
Ok. I will! It seems to be more up to date. Thanks
Take a look at xpra instead. The performance is much beter than X11 forwarding when you don't have a low latency connection.

http://xpra.org/
Wow, that's pretty bad. I've never had to go that deep with a chip manufacturer. Then again I've been using Motorola/Freescale for 30 years...
Zynga's newly appointed CEO looked to buy company while at MSFT
I'm pretty bourgeois and it's entirely affordable to me. Rent is 50% less.

My total monthly bills for utilities are $245 for a house, with AC.

Electricity is half the price it is in the bay area. Parking is a quarter of the price.
Sounds cool. Non-Hollywood films would also be interesting.
I don't understand your reasoning. People who are genuinely dead set on being an ass will be an ass, period. Like you said, adding friction can improve things (you mentioned requiring proof of identity) even if the friction can still be subverted (IDs can be faked). The fact remains that adding any sort of friction should be expected to cut down the number of asses, so I don't see why requiring authentication via a service that's generally not anonymous (Twitter or GitHub) is a bad idea.
[ROM][LineSkipper v3.0.1][Now fixes crash bug when joining line behind Audi's]

Although perhaps ridiculous at face value, I wonder how automobile manufacturers and legislators will prevent modders from tweaking driving algorithms to win the prisoner's dilemma of traffic.

Food for thought!
He means "stabby" as in "there are a lot of stabbings there and the possibility I will be stabbed is slightly higher than in other areas"
Yeah, somebody hasn't gotten the memo it seems.