skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this type of "next sylicon valley" stuff pretty misleading..

SV is what it is because of its pionerism.. after the first seed give its fruits to the world, the tendency now is people for different places and backgrounds start their own things in their own countries.. so we gonna start to see the next microsofts , googles and apples comming from other places as well.. without any connection between those places..

the infrastructure of course is essential.. so those SV wannabes will need to have and provide a fertile ground to those tech seed have some growth..

the word is multipluralism and descentralization.. the internet have started a true globalization movement.. and lets recall that SV started to grow and became what it is before this phenomena..

it was a flower in the desert.. but for now on, big things will start to happen in unespected places..

no need to search for the next silicon valley.. it will pop everywhere now
Oh god, the LoseThOS guy returns.

Do yourself a favor: Turn on showdead in options and browse a bunch of threads. You will see his markov chain generator going nuts, plus his rants.
Reverse engineering network traffic with a Raspberry Pi
The blog post you referenced I think was done by instagram, not tumblr. I remember reading it and doing something similar. They also found doubling the `hash-max-ziplist-entries` options to 512 from 1024 also didn't cause much CPU load.

Something you can also try as well is encoding with msgpack rather than JSON. You can save 30% from the original JSON string without losing the keynames.
Maybe the world is a bit more random than one in which overarching conspiracies rule everything. Snowden was pretty random, no? He could have stayed put and sold his data, or simply kept his mouth shut, but he did what he did when he did it. There are a lot of other people working there, and none of them were the ones to expose all of that crap. So maybe the people at Google valued their jobs more than doing the right thing. That hardly makes for some big plot.
My favorite slide: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zfbv3mHcYrc/Sre5JqBKZyI/AAAAAAAABn...
Ask HN: Is it legit to sell HN account with high karma points?
>> misleading title

Not really - the article claims it costs $4 per device to move manufacturing to US, so that is the cost of a "Made in USA" label.
But there's a line, a line of common decency and civilization

I think, given a number N of people, there will be always a fraction of them who can't take care of themselves, mentally or physically ill, who gone through bad conditions (bankruptcy, depression...)

I know a relative which inherited a lots of money from his parents. Now he has nothing. It's not about giving money to people.
Weird. I didn't have that issue. I'm on the latest version of chrome, and not signed into my google account
Just like Windows!: http://screencast.com/t/tWlRhQ3z
Edit: I know it's alpha and I still think it's cool even after that BSOD.
I think you may want to define "legitimate" in this context. Obviously your karma isn't that of another person, and particularly not someone who wants to buy an HN account.
Eevblog had a nice video about this, taking it for a test ride and looking at the electronics: http://www.eevblog.com/2013/07/31/eevblog-501-sinclair-c5-el...
"We have more pressing concerns than calling string.replace()" -- ? I don't think this particular case quite rises to the level of a "tradeoff." It's a single function built into just about every high-level language.
That was an absurd comment, meant to illustrate how meaningless it is to say 'anything is poisonous in the right dose' in a thread about whether the poor today are better off than the middle classes of some past era.
I attended UW for my undergrad and UU for my PhD. Seattle is definitely more dense in tech talent, but this has as much (if not more) to do with Microsoft than UW's very good program, which still doesn't crank out that many students (and those students are mostly off to google anyways).

Also, WA doesn't just mean Seattle, but I'm sure the startup scene in Spokane is kind of moribund.

The interesting thing about Utah is that it has a tech talent scene at all...I just wouldn't have expected it before I was living there. Rents are also more affordable and it's an ok city to live in.
[jobs] Need a Ruby contractor in Bay Area?
I am available, ideally 2 days per week, or if needed more.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandrodalgrande
That works, but I couldn't get audio to work. So no listening to Songs by God and Me or anything else in the OS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CExVdxVwI
The situation is pretty much identical in Sri Lanka. If you don't know the right people or don't grease the right wheels, whatever proposal you have is pretty much DOA.

Spend cash. Make friends. Then, carry on with your business.
Omniture is another succesful Utah-based tech company.
">It's frustrating that corporations continually reinforce this notion that a piece of paper is more important than work product."

I can't speak to software development certs in particular, but I've worked in "enterprise" pretty much my entire career and I've done a fair amount of hiring over the years.

I've encountered vanishingly few people who truly put much, if any value on certs outside of the very top end.

Generally, I see them employed a simple filter, aimed more at preventing problems with "body shop" contractors/recruiters when posting entry to mid-level positions rather than direct hiring.

It's basically avoiding a torrent of wholly unqualified resumes at the expensive of some false negatives.

I've never seen certs as a hard and fast rule for higher level positions. In those cases, the requirements are going to be about accomplishments and demonstrated ability and potential hires necessarily drawn from a much smaller pool.

Personally, I didn't carry any certs until 2007 and it didn't seem to hurt me one bit. Eventually, I picked them up because my employer insisted, paid me for my class time and covered my exams.

One thing that's a bit frustrating is the prevalence of technology companies which require "official" course time to be eligible for their exams. It's a shameless money grab which works to exclude people who don't have the benefit of a employer footing the bill as I did.
SLC is unique in that they suffer from inversions, that lead to AQIs as high as 70 2.5 ppm. I now live in Beijing where we sometimes get up to 700 AQI (also with inversions!), so I remember the first world problems I had in SLC.

If I move back to the states, I'm going to avoid living in bowls or valleys.
Google Maps never worked well for that bridge anyway...you'd be driving along to go to either end and it would get confused and start giving you directions like you had gotten off on treasure island.
I can't believe how many mistakes I made in this comment. Sleep deprivation isn't healthy, folks! And thanks for upvoting.
BTW, I found this super-cool construction cam page earlier today, where you can look at the construction over the past few years.

http://baybridgeinfo.org/construction-cams

The YBI camera is the most interesting IMO
It'd be interesting to see some stats on average update times for various places. Do they update North Dakota road work with the same frequency/speed? Canada? Norway? Italy? Japan? Australia?
Is this a car or a sit down scooter? Personally I don't see this as a car.
I barely see half that information so something's different about how we're doing it. I'm Ubuntu 12.04 btw.
Anyone in the SD area want to buy my desk?
Ask HN: Should Bill Gates come back as the CEO of Microsoft?
This was Google's optimism test. You passed!
Because that's more expensive than a sheet?
I tried navigating from Moraga to Treasure Island, and it flat out says it can't route me there.
I've got little problem giving temporary permissions to a site. I'll even dance through a round or two of attempting to load flash and other bits.

In the case of darkpatterns.org, I had to:

- Load the page.

- Allow the domain.

- Reload the page.

- Allow slideshare.net.

- Reload the page.

- Click on the Flash link (yes, Flashblock is also in service here).

- Check for more JS. Yep. Try a few.

- Rinse, wash, repeat of reload, check, click Flash, check, reload ...

Honestly, usually it's not worth my trouble. I fairly frequently encounter pages which fail to function with _all_ JS enabled (possibly due to XSS usage, I haven't troubleshot them, really not a productive use of my time in general). Given that plain Jane HTML is fine for presenting textual / graphical content this is pretty much an anti-pattern.

JS resources claimed by Darkpatterns:

www.google-analytics.com
flash.quantserve.com
b.scorecardresearch.com
slideshare-audio.s3.amazonaws.com
darkpatterns.org
s3.amazonaws.com
www.slideshare.net
cdn.slidesharecdn.com
static.slidesharecdn.com
Polygamy is very damaging to the community. The boys they have to kick out to support the high female/make ratios become wards of the state, have little education, and it's just a sad state of affairs. This and the pervasive child rape going on, there are good reasons for the UT AG to be harsh on this.
mapping 'jj' to <ESC> was so revolutionary for me lol
I can't really speak to other generators libraries nor their how good their debugging stories are based on how good or bad their designs are. core.async is just a library and not directly part of ClojureScript. I do know that we need nothing to support good traces and we do not take any performance hit of any kind for this "feature".
It's not clear if the wallclock savings was consistent over multiple runs.

And by moving one look-up out of redis into ruby, doesn't seem like the right thing to do. That increases complexity by now requires an application layer to process the data source.

I'd like to see how this compares with just simply increasing list-max-ziplist-entries.
It has begun: https://plotagon.com/427
That's like saying "you can't see light, that's just your brain's interpretation of your retina's interpretation of the lens's interpretation of a narrow band of the spectrum".
I don't quite understand what he meant by 'identity-mapped' - can anyone clue me in?
Yeah, in a "Daisy, Daisy" kind of way.
you know you use vim too much when you find ":wq" in your code, and you didn't use vim to write it
What makes you think the majority of Google employees had any idea this was going on? We have the testimony of several Google employees who comment here on Hacker News that there was no indication any of this was happening.

Then there's the news report that corroborates this, implying not even the leaders of the companies had any idea.

I mean, again, they could all be lying...but Occam's Razor and all that.
I know the author is a long-hellbanned hn user, possibly with some kind of mental illness.

But just out of curiosity, I downloaded the 24MB ISO from the website and loaded it up in a VMWare instance. It does boot...

It's an odd curses-like interface, with lots of blinking and scrolling. There are command-line looking things around, but all of the commands are kind of like C statements, like instead of 'cd ..' you have to do 'Cd("..");'. Really odd. There's a blue box that pops up possible completions, but it seems to have a whole dictionary in addition to commands.

Play with it if you have VMWare and you're bored, but I'd strongly recommend fully isolating it...
A bit off, that's like saying Stalin had the odd off day or Machiavelli was a tad manipulative.

LoseThos is balls to the wall flat out crazy.
Want to contribute to the discussion? Try addressing the issues, not the participants. And endeavor to say something coherent.
No, the point is that the judge determines the precise programming of the robot, and requires that it be programmed to only retrieve certain types of things (e-mails containing certain keywords, in this case).
Quality Pearl Necklace
It is also showing the new bridge with east and west lanes side by side.
I think it was intended to replace a car, but legally it counts as an electrically-assisted bicycle since it has pedals and such a small motor.
I understand what you mean, but I'm not opposed to extreme skepticism. It's alternative explanations that seem contrived that I'm opposed to.

There is a difference between extreme skepticism in the face of one story, and postulating hypothetical scenarios that have equal or higher burdens or proof, and are less likely or more difficult to demonstrate.

In fact, in terms of logic, the two are diametrically opposed.
What about robbing a bank?
He is 58 right now. His "first tenure" was from (roughly) 1975 to 2000. That is 25 years from nothing to Microsoft as it were in 2000. When exactly will his second tenure end then, so he can focus again on "saving" the world? Reorganizing and making MS lean takes its time and I highly doubt Gates is actively analyzing the competition and keeping track of the market so there will not come any ground breaking line-up immediately (otherwise he would have told Ballmer his disruptive ideas, I am sure).

It will take some time (say years) to get Microsoft with Gates back on track again and the end result is unclear. Will it improve or will all his effort vanish in vain? Does he even know how to do it, after all those years? No, he currently has enough disposable income to do what he does. In fact, he can triple his efforts and he will still not run dry in his life time. It is hardly about money anyway, saving the world takes time - negotiating takes time. Money puts it in fifth gear but bureaucracy and human psychology can only change this fast.
Why do developers contribute to open source?
Play with it if you have VMWare and you're bored, but I'd strongly recommend fully isolating it...

He's said that networking isn't a goal of the project, as the OS is intended for gaming. So it doesn't have any way to connect to any network.
VIM plugin to search for nested keys in a YAML document
Anyone can update Google maps: http://www.google.com/mapmaker. It takes about a day for changes to propagate through.
Seems like bad karma to me.
The crack about the holocaust in this story is not funny, sorry it just isn't.
I often start thinking the same of people on HN, but I still listen for those occasions when they say something interesting.
Ask HN: As an individual in the US, how can I help make public transit better?
I recently had to take public transit to SJC and SFO from Mountain View. Words can't describe how much a hassle it was; a 15-minute trip by car would take more than an hour and half by public transit. It got me wondering if it would ever get any better. Is there something I could help as an individual make public transit a priority to the city/state/country?
(Small tip - you can get banned from here talking like that - you wouldn't talk like that in person in polite society. Read the rules).

The situation you described, 'build cheap apartments', is already the current situation. It hasn't worked has it?

Land ownership is a heavily regulated industry, and wherever you have regulations you get distortions in the market caused by political activity (electrician/plumber unions, local land owners etc).
Having had to deal with a little COBOL now and then, I wonder whether English words are really what makes for readability. I am reminded of something that Jacques Barzun wrote long ago about English, that it is the density of the thought, not the length of the words, that makes for difficulty in reading.
The words "astroturf" and "grassroots" refer to political movements. Wealthy people create the appearance of a broad movement representing the public interest that advocates for certain policy positions, but this is just to disguise the primary mission of the organization, which is to expand the wealth of the donors. If wealthy donors used the Red Cross to lobby governments for favorable legislation, then your analogy would be reasonable.

And the nearest thing to a mission statement of peers.org is "We educate our peers and community leaders about the benefits of sharing. Together, we can help protect and grow the sharing economy."

"Educating our peers" sounds a lot like customer acquisition efforts for the relevant startups. "Protecting the sharing economy" probably refers to the startups' regulatory issues.
The ramen I had was 40 RMB, which...given that 1 RMB is .16 USD, is around 40 ramen units. They would never call ramen as fangbian mian here.
This is nice but I am of course biased about the CSP model. While `wait` is good for one off tasks, I now prefer CSP channels as they just as easily capture Rx style interactive event programming.
It's interesting that he's done more actual work than most of us. I would imagine he spends most of his time working on the OS rather than interacting with people. Kind of puts into perspective how productive we could be... And also how useless some forms of productivity are.
Why would someone want to buy it?
Ant it's not just in the Bay Area. When the I-5 bridge across the Skagit River collapsed [1], Google Maps showed I-5 as a pair of disconnected segments that night.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-5_Skagit_River_Bridge_collaps...
That's so long ago that likely a lot of people here haven't seen it.

You can complain about reposts within a short timespan, but, really, reposts over the span of several years, or even several months, are irrelevant if their content is genuinely interesting. You have too much spare time if such reposts really bother you.
"Offices are a good idea for many jobs today, but there is one specific case where I think they’re no longer beneficial: software companies. What do programmers do all day?"

See what just happened there? The author jumped to the conclusion that "software companies" employ nobody except "programmers". That might be true for a tiny start-up, but once you reach a certain size, all types of other jobs spring up:

- Managing payroll, health insurance and other benefits

- Sales and marketing

- Legal and accounting: someone has to negotiate the contracts for data center services (even if all the services are outsourced); someone has to pay the company's bills; someone has to do the taxes and other legal paperwork (lots of extra paperwork if it's a publicly traded company); someone has to reimburse employees for travel and other expenses.

- Recruiting

Imagine a software company with just a hundred employees (not a very big company at all, compared to Facebook's 5000 or Google's 45000) that consists of just people working from home. It doesn't seem to scale.
This is the operating system made to run Dwarf Fortress.
I completely agree. I really appreciate the story and timeline feature of the alpha site.
That won't happen. The kind of person who needs to live in a car doesn't have any political clout.
Reeder for iOS (universal) submitted to App Store for review.
Some people care about accumulations represented by numbers. I don't understand it either.
So I will just leave this here: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/DateTime.html
That's not specific to PGP at all.
Or rather a reputation that lags reality by 20 years or so. It isn't cheap enough to exist in the tenderloin for it to be as bad as it once was.
"If I were him I would never-ever take that position as a CEO ever again."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6304463
What do programmers do all day? They read code. They write code. They read docs. ...

How are programmers different than bloggers, secretaries, online and social media marketeers, customer service reps, etc.. in this regard?
>> I really want to have a spare laptop on which I can install all kinds of weirdo OSes just to see what they're like

Actually, is there somewhere a list of all the weirdo OSes? I'd be interested to see that.
Woman arent Navy SEALs for "any varity of reason?" No. Women arent Navy SEALs cause its against the law. http://www.navy.com/careers/special-operations/seals.html

"By law, only men are eligible to apply for the SEAL program"
Virtual memory addresses equal to their mappings in physical memory.
I'm looking at moving to WA-8 in early 2014 (assuming the stupid CA gun laws pass). That's not Spokane, but potentially could be an office around Redmond and me living somewhere east of there, with other people choosing to live in Eastside or even Seattle (I guess). (I actually really like E/NE WA too, and Idaho, but that isn't exactly viable.)

What I like about UW is specifically their aero program and their cryptography and law programs. UU/BYU are not as strong on that. And MSR is amazingly proper.

I guess I've known about the strengths of Utah for a while, but that's because I met a lot of Mormons in the military and in general overseas, and they did a great job of selling the state (actively and passively).
This entirely depends on your loans.

If you're loan rates are larger than the rate you're making in your 401k, then it's better to pay off the loans.
I seriously thought certificates like this always meant the candidate was weak. I never realized that these courses could play a positive role in the developer's development. We have to be careful about what we include on our resumes given the bias of people like me.
Does dropbox run as root?
This shows what a cliched mindset you have about an entire nation. Electricity doesn't goes out as much as you think. It's hardly an hour in an entire month and it depends on where you live more importantly. And as always you can get inverters for dead cheap here for un-interrupted power supply.

Faster internet connection? Again you have a cliched mentality. You can get an 8Mbps connection with 5min so far for this entire month for $20.

Wake up buddy, this idea that an entire nation is full of shit just because you read articles about a particular place in the news doesn't make sense.

By that logic, everyone in the United States should be eating only burgers, be ridiculously obese and die of heart attack before 30.
Going underground on Crossrail: A 40-year project is taking shape
A nice cogent summary of the goals of the project:

"The main reason TempleOS is simple and beautiful is because it's ring-0-only and
identity-mapped. Linux wants to be a secure, multi-user mainframe. That's the
vision for Linux. That's why it has file permissions. The vision for TempleOS
is a modern, 64-bit Commodore 64. The C64 was a home computer mostly used for
games. It trained my generation how to program. It was simple, open and
hackable. It was not networked. The games were not multimedia works of art,
but generated programmatically with innocent, programmer (non-artist) quality
graphics. It was simple and unsecure. If you don't have malware and you don't
have bugs, protection just slows things down and makes the code complicated."
I've often felt similarly, having worked on a number of remote projects.

But at the end of the day our efficiency/productivity in making major decisions is much higher when we gather. Technologically, this is driven by 2 things:
1) Whiteboarding software just isn't there. I can't as effortlessly sketch something out and share it with remote people as I can on a physical white board (which is arguably as relevant to "software companies" as actually writing code).
2) Audio/visual latency still exists. Even if I closed my eyes, I could still tell who's in the room and who's not. Sometimes I'll come in just for a meeting because of this.

I do think a happy medium exists in much smaller offices/coworking spaces where most people are WFH a lot but come in once a week for meetings.
"So I'll be bringing it online in a few weeks again."

Wait, what? He gets to keep his product but post-pones its availability by a "few weeks"? Opportunity missed. Or am I missing something?
Seriously?

Talk about all those dudes working in their dream MNC's like Wipro, etc?

Dude, everyone starts somewhere - The amount doesn't determine quality. If we go by that logic, you live in India and you're probably a shitty dude because you're not making anywhere as much as your American counter parts. Get over this mentality dude. Price != quality always.