skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most densely populated cities in the world by what measure? It's barely top 10 in the United States (depending on how you define 'city'). Hyperbole won't win any arguments here.

Back to the topic at hand, something's seriously amiss if you believe that San Francisco's Rent Control Ordinance and other regulations have nothing to do with the issue. I believe it's a perfect storm of undesirable rental conditions -- high population, high regulation, and high demand. I'm interested in hearing an argument to the contrary.
I've worked on the web site for a few big global brands. Believe it or not, there are companies out there (like Spire [1]) that can link web visitors to actual in-store sales. I was involved with a client last year who ran a report matching registered users from their site to in store buyers, to measure how much their users actually spend on their products. It's hit and miss, frankly.

But for a campaign like this, I am sure the web and marketing teams are overjoyed if their web traffic doubles over the course of a week. That would be counted as a major win. Marketing drives to measurable metrics (like hits) and we let the sales teams worry about sales.

Also, there are analytics people using tools tonight counting mentions across the web. How many impressions through mentions is huge in the marketing space. "50 million people heard about the new KitKat homepage through news articles!" This campaign will be submitted to Cannes next year and possibly win a Gold Lion.

[1] http://www.spirenow.com/
Lots of good responses here, but my 2 cents: Work on your writing. Aim for simplicity and clarity. Avoid words like "explicate" when "discuss" works just as well.

Students with strong STEM interests often undervalue good, simple writing. But learning to write is really about learning to communicate. And one of the most important skills for success, especially as a founder, is communication.

I recommend Strunk & White's Elements of Style as a quick guide to most of the things you need to know about writing.
They are far more open than BCM or Qualcomm.
"No longer will my school's nurse have to cosign my bank account."

That sounds like an interesting story in and of itself.
The "new" Google Maps is essentially an opt-in beta. The "replacement" is to continue to use classic Maps until it is done. It is obvious that most of the old features like multi-stop directions will return, but Google needed external testers because WebGL is very dependent on machine performance and GPU, and they indicated as much when they limited the initial users to an explicit signup form.

I find the new Maps interface incredibly better than the old one. Search results appear directly on the map so you can see spatial relationships, easily highlighted and clickable. It invites exploration. No separate Google Earth plugin needed, seamlessly move from 2D to 3D, no separate Flash plugin for Street View. The way the map spotlights important roads and related places when you click on a particular POI helps with planning.

The only downside is it is slow, because it is a very complex web app, probably the most complex one ever written, but I'm sure they'll optimize it by the time it is ready for public consumption.
I have another explanation: If you have more kids, you don't have time to watch after them all as much.
Value, Experience, Growth
There is more regarding zSearch: "... computer search tool called osTriage/zSEARCH. The search tool allows investigators to find child pornography without damaging the forensic integrity of a computer." http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/PR_122011.html
What separates success from failure is the ability to learn from your failures and to try again. You failed at both so far.
You should discuss this with your school counselor. Or better yet, reach out to schools directly. Many schools that are seemingly too expensive to attend, e.g. Ivy League schools, are actually very cheap once you factor in financial aid.
Application Form is broken on Safari 6.0.5 on OS X 10.8.4. It doesn't display anything after "What tools do you like?"

Error Console shows "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) https://news.ycombinator.com/sus.css"
Dare I ask why your mom "removed" your computer and why you deserve being kicked out of your parents house?
So we've become the bad guys now I guess.

It's always shocked me how little my fellow Americans appreciate the massive benefits they've gained from global good will over decades. Having grown up British in Cold War Europe and in Asia, despite a small degree of anti Americanism everywhere the bulk of popular opinion was net positive and that was a major coup for America for its companies and for its foreign policy. Squandering that over the decades since the end of the Cold War has been a generational betrayal of epic proportions.
English Department Conformity ;)
Maybe also have URLs update automatically for copying and pasting? At the moment, it stays as http://road.li/

Allowing people to share URLs might increase adoption of the site. You need to make use of your site a habit or people will think "Neat" and then forget about it.

It was very fast for me from South Australia. Design needs work, but functionality was decent. Well done.
They only want people that pay extra for Z chipsets to be able to overclock.

Pretty ballsy of them to release an update that disables functionality for no good reason. (Intel's bottom line isn't a good reason.)
Doesn't sound like the dude took any SERMs to soak up the estrogen or to let his body's own testosterone up-regulate. Thats why he came out of his cycle with 3 pounds of nothing but bloat.
That's a pretty ridiculous list of US places to try to argue against SF being dense for the US. Not all of them are as absurd as the 362 people near Louisville, KY, bit, but basically that list says "NYC is denser than SF, as are a few relatively small parts of LA, but SF is easily the second densest large city in the US."
Whether or not it's true, your best chance of success may rely on believing it.
Remember to keep things in perspective. If your only goal is to succeed at all costs, then what will you do with yourself when you finally obtain your goal?
Good to hear this feedback. I work for AWS; I will pass this to the team.
Feel free to shoot me an email: simone attt amazon do0tcom if you have more comments.

Thanks!
> `pip install awscli` just installed 26 other modules besides awscli. Now I feel a little obliged to go check out those 26, as well, to see what they are.

So? Use a virtualenv and stop worrying. These 26 dependencies will be separately updated and maintained, who knows what warts are sitting in the monolithic perl scripts.
You mean Adderall?
Former Skypers launch messaging app Fleep
http://www.datastormusers.com

A gentleman camped ~100 feet from me at Burning Man last week was using it; said it worked like a champ. He's on a mobile platform as well.
read the black swan
Potential major security flaw on HP laptop?
You might want to serve your javascript and submit your forms for a security-related website from a domain not called something like "toxiccode.com"…
And you are wrong about it being one of the most densely populated areas in the US? 20th isn't that high.
The new Maps interface isn't driven by the idea of making it "consistent" with GMail, it's driven by the same idea that Google Search's homepage used to represent -- simplicity. The Map is the UI.

A single search box. You type in POIs, the Map is constructed around the search results.

The old Google Maps (the tile based one) was based on the idea of a multi-pane map with gadgets and a side panel of 10 ranked search results, but the map was the same no matter the search (pre-rendered tiles). Search results had to be clicked on the map to get a popup to see what it was. The new Maps is based on the idea that the Map itself is the search result The POIs are rendered directly into the map, just like a specialized paper map. It is based on spatial based exploration and relevancy.

There's a difference between a design disaster and "I don't like this because it is different than what I was used to and I don't want to change" IMHO, the new maps is what Maps should have been all along.
Dragging to change the route is still there, but multiple stops (more than just A & B) are not.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2013/08/04/goog...
I have often described Ritalin and Concerta as mental steroids. (Haven't ever tried Modafinil and the others.)

Like steroids, they don't work for everybody and they can have side effects. But when taken in normal, doctor-prescribed doses, these drugs will enhance mental function -- including the ability to learn -- in normal adult subjects.

I still think I am pretty good at what I do, but there is absolutely no doubt that I was more productive as a computer programmer -- I learned faster, invented new solutions more quickly, was less prone to mistakes -- when I had a Ritalin prescription.

And I do feel a serious sense of loss not having that anymore. Sometimes when I'm sick of thinking about a problem and just want to veg out and read HN, I get furious, thinking about how if only I'd had a tab of Concerta that morning, the fucking problem I'm working on would already be solved by now.

I don't quite feel like Charlie in Flowers for Algernon, but it is in fact somewhat like that.
> The issue is that they can't release them all compiled into one thing. Instead the dependencies have to pollute the rest of the operating system.

Bullshit. Python supports having modules installed into local locations (see virtualenv).

Just `virtualenv ~/.local/lib/aws; ~/.local/lib/aws/bin/pip install awscli; ln -s ~/.local/lib/aws/bin/aws ~/.local/bin/aws` and put `~/.local/bin` into your PATH.
If you don't want the pip dependencies to "pollute the rest of the system," you can just use pip install with the --root option.

Java's CLASSPATH causes enormous pain for end-users. Just read the Hadoop mailing list. The fact that Java doesn't have a sane default for where to put anything or how to manage dependencies is a huge flaw.

Back when I was doing AWS, I just used the C binaries (I forget what they were called) to transfer things to or from S3. I just wanted to avoid installing hundreds of megs of dependencies. We paid money to transfer our AMIs around, after all! Still, a more full-featured tool will no doubt come in handy in some scenarios.
Looks really bad on my portrait monitor
Google Names Latest Android Mobile O/S 'KitKat'
Thanks! That can easily be changed, what permissions would be acceptable? I'll make the fix.
You could live and bootstrap in SE USA for that rent too...no sense moving across the planet.
Rents are a result of demand and offer. San Francisco has seen an incredible raise in rent costs, because more and more people (with money, evidently) want to move to SF (from elsewhere in the country, or from the South Bay).
Not everything that looks like it comes from the government really does.
Even better, use AIDE on device. You can even just give it a github url and have it build you an APK locally.
This is referring to all the push to use "The New Google Maps". One is not currently obligated to use it, but it's there and being pushed. He seems to be using it.
I actually started using Emacs at work when work became dangerously boring and I was looking for a distraction. Plus I had read a lot about Emacs in my Vim days and wanted to know what it was all about.

So I suppose I actually switched without a specific need except for curiosity and boredom. I'm glad I did though, since Emacs has improved my life quite a bit since then.
+1 for good advice about matching, vesting, and diversifying.

Here is a postcard cheat-sheet of "what to do with your money," per the OP's request:

1) Pay down credit cards and never carry a balance.

2) Keep 3-6 months' worth of income in a savings account for emergencies.

3) Invest in your 401k up to company match. Put everything in a TSM or SP500 index fund and forget about it.

4) Pay down mortgage, car payments, student loans.

5) If you still have any money, talk to an accountant for investment advice. 401k, IRA, etc are good options.

6) Invest for the future, and live a full life in the present!
Thank you for your feedback.

It would be so much more helpful if you could provide specific examples within my writing that are grammatically incorrect.

Lastly, to comment, I am very curious to know why I am receiving more feedback on my style of writing rather than the ideas I am attempting to communicate.
Also not OP, but on my 2012 Macbook Air I had to turn off the maps preview because it was making my machine very warm, reached over 98C before I switched it off. Only took a minute. I was very disappointed.
That first sentence is so important. I had to google explicate. I haven't had to google words that a young adult wrote since I was a young adult :-)
Move It and Lose It: Every ‘Brisk’ Minute Counts
"Russia claims Viktor Bout was innocent" does not mean "we've become the bad guys." This is a state of affairs which has existed since the beginning of the Cold War.
I agree, the US list is skewed by the effects of county size. However, the 5 boroughs of NYC are geographically large in a human scale. All of them are more densely populated than San Francisco, including the ostensibly suburban Staten Island.

Meanwhile, Tokyo is vast and, until recently, could not have Manhattan-esque skyscrapers. It is substantially more densely populated.

San Francisco is more densely populated than a suburb. But the idea that it's amongst the most densely populated places is just not true, either in the world at large or the USA in particular.
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Jason Cornwell is responsible for the atrocious gmail UX
The link includes the two US cities in the top 20, and neither of them is SF. And while density calculation is complicated, on any metric SF is way less dense than NY.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2012/10/americas-tr...

And since you ask, the "unlimited" package at this rather swish coworking facility in Mumbai runs Rs.9000, or about $100, per month.

http://bombay-connect.com/space/start-co-working/
My wife is not a citizen of the US (me neither), has almost no US record (but she has an SSN, as we're currently living in the US), holds a H4 visa, she didn't pay $100 and she's a TSA Pre. She doesn't fit a 'powerful person' profile quite.
Wow! that's awesome!
If you like this kind of stuff, here is an analysis of Chutes and Ladders http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november12011/index.html

And another about Candyland http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/december12011/index.html

Anyone for Battleship? http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/december32011/index.html

Or Hangman? http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/april12012/index.html

Or Darts? http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/january12012/index.html

It's a hobby of mine to analyze these kind of games. Suggestions for other games to look at welcome.
Your young plenty of opportunity for growth, patience is virtue.
Oh, but the food is better here.
Unequivocally, I agree. Effective communication involves gauging the audience qualitatively and responding accordingly.

Thank you for your insight. Do you have any feedback about the ideas that which I was attempting to communicate?
Thanks for the laugh, I forgot what I sounded like at that age.
Perfection is unattainable.
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If you have the opportunity for independent study, take it. I did that for part of my senior year and it freed up a huge amount of my time.
Pride in difference between himself and his peers?
Show HN: I made a tiny BBS that only shows the last 15 posts
You should become intimately comfortable with a powerful text editor. Whether that is Emacs or Vim or Sublime Text does not matter too much.

I don't think there is any one axis that clearly marks Vim or Emacs superior. Both are awesome, geeky, sophisticated and powerful.
Please don't kill it.

Made with Sinatra, DataMapper/Postgres, and hosted on Heroku.
There is a wikipedia page listing most of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers
I think Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates would disagree.
Real estate is expensive here in large part because it's very densely populated. Whether or not it's #1 or #1,000 on that wikipedia list is almost completely irrelevant to the point I was making.
You could say all of my studies thus far have been independent ;)
The controversy is whether it was lawful for the letter to be deliberately inaccurate. Broward maintains that is was, and with good motive: Florida law makes it a criminal matter to lie in a public records response.
New iOS Google Authenticator update deleted all my accounts
> I'm a 28 year old entrepreneur and frequent flyer who opposes visual and manual inspection of the private parts of our bodies! I hope you'll join me in my fight to have our rights restored!

Very noble goal, but my feeling is: Too late, not going to happen. Not by using any of the conventional "solutions", anyway.
Finnish Experts Analyze Deep Impact of Nokia Decline
That's awful. Thanks for the heads-up, I would have clobbered all of mine, thinking that there's no way they'd be stupid enough to do something like that.
A lot of people here are recommending you stick it out with school. I had your attitude 5 years ago. I was (am) very smart and entrepreneurial, and I hated high school. My senior year, I only took 4 classes, showed up at 9:15 and left at 11:45. I got mediocre grades at best.

I stuck it out with school, went to college and got a CS degree. College ended up being excellent, but my advice to you would be not to go... yet.

The best thing you can do is find a programming job or internship. Learn to work hard (rather than talk hard), build things (publicly on github is best for opening up opportunities), save money, and go to college in several years. College will be the best experience of your life, and if you do it when you're 22-26, you will get way more out of it than the rest of us who went straight after high school. Make friends, build things with them, and use the education to become a far better engineer than you ever were. You will then be able to build something amazing.

I can guarantee you if you go out now and try to build a company at your stage of skill/experience/age, you will build a heap of crap, that you might be able to sucker some company into paying you a million dollars at best. But you will have squandered your talent, and you will not be as amazing as you could have been.

P.S. like other people have said, stop writing as if you're referencing a thesaurus for every sentence, it reeks of immaturity and naivete.
That was a loaded statement followed by a visceral suggestion.

Take years off for introspection? I'd find that quite insulting if suggested to me in person -- I hope you realize that's the opposite of constructive advice.
I am a developer on the Road Redemption team.(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkseasgames/road-redem...)

We also got greenlit last week.

Tell me more about your Pipe Bots iOS game. You can email me at fischp@gmail.com if you'd like.
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The NSA would have to be damn slick to fit any kind of spying tool into a CPU bitcode update. The CPU doesn't know what the code that it's running does or what the data that it's handling is. It would need to set aside memory to do pattern matching on the code/data being processed to introduce any kind of back door. Then, it would need to hide the back door so nobody notices, which would potentially involve huge amounts of code to disguise the fact that the data has been modified.

An example of an attack would be for the NSA to muck with random number generation to bias it towards certain values in a very subtle way. That would mean that encryption would be less strong, since the total number of possible values needed to brute force is lower. This would be difficult to hide: if they attacked say, RdRand, anyone using/researching RdRand would be able to see that it's no longer NIST/FIPS/ANSI compliant. They would need to attack it such that the back door was only open when nobody was looking (when there's not a very large number of those commands being run, or when the command is part of a larger piece of code). Even then, anyone studying the final output from the affected code could potentially determine that the random number source was biased.

Either way, I'd think that an attack like this would be pretty damn hard to pull off, and Intel has very little reason to help the NSA with that. Can you imagine if it was found out that Intel was helping the NSA by weakening encryption? Everyone would go out and buy an AMD machine.
> Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

Anxiety over some feature?

If your anxiety doesn't come from the fact that you agree to the concept of the surveillance state (by using products like Gmail), then something is clearly wrong.
Except that everybody knew that switching to WinPhone is suicidal. Search for the announcements on HN and read the comments.
Am I missing something here? Looks like a normal 404 page to me and I'm using Chrome. So if anything impressive visually via Javascript or CSS3 were to occur, it would have.
Wow, I can buy the book I own a second time, but at a low price and in the known low-quality, no-human-ever-even-looked-at-it OCRed version. Great.

I'm buying a lot of Kindle books, but I feel that I shouldn't because peddling such low quality shovelware is not something I feel I should encourage in any way.
Apparently WebGL doesn't work on Chrome for certain types of hardware, including Intel Mobile 945 Express, NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200, certain very old drivers, and a variety of other certain pieces of hardware/software, see http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists#Ch...
It doesn't exactly mean that the value does not exist, it's that it's unknown whether it exists. NULL means nothing at all, not the absence of a value (though applications will often abuse it to mean that, and pragmatically that's usually OK).
Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts
I upgraded Google Authenticator to the latest version this evening on my iPhone. It lost all my accounts.

DO NOT UPGRADE Google Authenticator or you'll have a really bad day.

People on Twitter are starting to complain:
https://twitter.com/search?q=google%20authenticator&src=typd
I haven't played it yet, but it might be useful in training neural nets?