skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Android "mini-pc" comes with an app called AirPin (Pro) that apparently does AirPlay. I never had a chance to test it, though. Just FYI.
It sounds like you are suggesting a rather perverse sort of inheritance where the "right" to San Francisco stock is granted to those who are born into it irregardless of that man's wealth, merit, or ability.

Allocating resources this way would be bad enough if housing stock was a public good, but it's not. It's owned by landlords who are then required to subsidize the lifestyle of the beneficiaries of this "right".
Keyboard. You can edit and move code and it's also much faster to type than to write. I don't understand why anyone still uses whiteboards for anything other than pseudocode. What advantage does a whiteboard have in interviews when what you're hired for is typing code?
If you want some extra context for the awesomeness that's happening here (especially around the power of reusable components), try watching When We Left Earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Left_Earth:_The_NASA_M...

It runs through the making of Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle, Hubble, and the ISS.
You won't find an apartment in SF with a 2x ratio, landlords will run screaming away from you. This is a city where you line up with other prospective tenants to see apartments, and deals are sealed frequently on the spot - and where bidding wars are not unheard of.

If you come to SF intending to rent an apartment on a 2x factor, you will be homeless.

The insane rents in SF is an express of the extremely constricted supply - which has other effects beyond merely just rent. It's a landlord's market and they can afford to be extremely choosy about who they rent to.
This feels incredibly hand wavy. I moved to Spain from the UK last year and one of the huge benefits for me is that the hours feel far more natural. I tend to go out fairly late in the evenings (usually 1 or 2), get up earlyish (around 9:30) and then crash for a bit in the afternoon. I naturally tend towards this cycle but obviously in the UK it's a bit difficult (no siesta and the pubs tend to shut about 11:30).

With regards to time spent at home, the Spanish seem to spend a far greater portion of their normal lives socialising. I really don't see how more time spent at home could be listed as a positive thing. In the UK it makes me think of long cold winters when no one wants to leave the house because it's so miserable outside.
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Out of curiosity I looked up HMAC on Wikipedia; as it turns out, using H(key ∥ message ∥ key) as suggested by nullmeme is "better, however various security papers have suggested vulnerabilities with this approach, even when two different keys are used."

Now I'm thinking to use plain hmac("a",t) instead of hash(combine(t,"a")) - and simply hash(combine("b",t)) instead of hash(combine(t,"b")); after all, hmac shouldn't be required to protect hb since it's never stored as is.

hmac("a",t) would look like:
hash(combine(xor("a",0x5c),hash(combine(xor("a",0x36),t))))

I could perhaps concat(m,hmac(t,m)) instead of leaving m alone when computing he.
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The productivity is measured in an abstract unit (currency), not the actual quality and quantity of product - thus it is open to distortions (such as abnormally high foreign investment).
Well, it depends. Are you looking to hire a programmer or a teacher? ;)
Yeah .. It's weird, The Psychology of Bumming (c) (I can see Norvig's future "Teach Yourself How To Bum in Ten Years" or ESR's "How to Become a Bummer").

But in all seriousness, I get your point: It's not that you want their money, just want the gesture.

It happened I paid for their coffee, or gave a gum. Or proposed to buy it (for half of the pack's price). Reciprocity.

On another note, there's an amazing book by Robert Cialdini called "Influence: Science and Practice" (the old one, not the new) which should appeal to hackers: It's about hacking people's brain.

It is the greatest book I've read on the matter: All empirical data.
So long as you live in a system called capitalism, yes. Thats the basic premise of supply and demand.

If not, sign me up for a place in Aspen or Greenwich though.
I checked the website, looks promising so congratulations on that.
I do have a comment, your entire website is still linking to your Heroku subdomain.

If I'm not mistaken, this pretty much feels like A/B testing with the implementation being a survey.

So have you tested users' sentiments about trying to use a feature only to realize it isn't implemented and then being promoted to answer a few questions?

I'd speak for myself, I'd rather not see a button to for example Authenticate with my Twitter account if it doesn't work, than to see one of which when I try to use it, I get asked a few questions.

I'd feel that's a bummer.

To that point, why would I use FeatureKicker instead of a service like Qualaroo, which works fairly well.
In my experience it is quite normal in Madrid, which does get blazingly hot in the summer but is pretty okay the rest of the year.
Yep, no single language except C(/C++) is enough by itself (potential exception here is Java, but even there it's still useful).

C has become the lingua franca of computing. You can call everything (except Go) from C and you can call C from everything. So you want to actually reuse standard libraries, you will want to know C. And if you're a good C hacker you'll know C++. I'm not saying you'll necessarily use it, but you'll know it.

The vast majority of python programmers do not know how to call C/C++ code and are therefore limited to pure python libraries exclusively. They usually use writing to files and os.system() as an alternative. Needless to say, the performance of this approach can be questioned.
What's wrong with this?

1. Keyboard covers are superfluous. Bluetooth keyboards are what people use with tablets. The "DJ" cover is especially superfluous. That's what touchscreens are for.

2. It's a PC in a tablet form factor. It weighs like small PC. It has battery life like a small PC. It costs like a small PC.

3. The OS is better than previous attempts at tabletizing Windows, but it's still Windows with a tablet UI that has little traction with app developers tacked on.

4. It will make you fiddle with touch-unfriendly controls. Bad things that would never happen in iOS or Android will happen: You open an app, and wham! You are trying to touch a tiny button or drag a window by a tiny title bar.

5. Windows is a brand with negative value for buyers of mobile devices. "You're running Windows on your tablet? Why?"

Microsoft is a company that could have chosen to make any product. But the problem there is that XBOX and Zune haven't made any profit, so choosing "Windows everything, everywhere" was at least a plausible choice, on the basis of a history of making money. Who could argue for "Zune II?"

They will have to learn by failing.
Depends on what kind of lists... while working on projects with hardware, shopping or not near a computer: paper & pen, stuff that has to do with a software project or organizing either a leo file (but emacs org mode would do just as well). I used taskfreak for a while and occasionally stuff things next to google calendar so the NSA has a copy without having to ask me.
Are there, in fact, "types that shop at Trader Joe's" beyond people who live near them, people who like saving money on the stuff that TJ's sells cheaply, and people who like quality food?
Not to mention partying to 6 am. But staying up 'till 2 am is not necessarily a problem if they take a midday nap.
Tangent, but that's a great observation on the agility implied in "agile." So many managers and executives think it means "building software faster" because "agile" == "quick" and you get to skip the requirements and design steps and can just start writing code. What it really means is "accommodating change more easily."
So testing double(mocking) in Go is still a big headache in version 1.2?
Thank you so much, I'm nearly sure this is what I was asking about
How do you replay the tutorial once it's finished?
The launch will included a number of Falcon 9 v1.1 "firsts", including:

- First use of the upgraded Merlin 1D engines, generating approximately 56 percent more sea-level thrust than the Merlin 1C engines used on all previous Falcon 9 vehicles.

- First use of the significantly longer first stage, which holds the additional propellant for the more powerful engines.

- The nine Merlin 1D engines on the first stage are arranged in an octagonal pattern with eight engines in a circle and the ninth in the center.

- First launch from SpaceX's new launch facility, Space Launch Complex 4, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and will be the first launch over the Pacific ocean using the facilities of the Pacific test range.

- First Falcon 9 launch to carry a satellite payload for a commercial customer, and also the first non-CRS mission. Each prior Falcon 9 launch was of a Dragon capsule or a Dragon-shaped test article, although SpaceX has previously successfully launched and deployed a satellite on the Falcon 1, Flight 5 mission.

- First Falcon 9 launch to have a jettisonable payload fairing, which introduces the risk of an additional separation event.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
What a crock of shit. If you're going to use the thinnest of lines to draw the shittiest of conclusions to justify your narrow view of the world, you're gonna have a bad time.
I don't think the climate in general is harsh. Maybe for very inland locations, and some places in the northernly parts.
When your list comprises items of varying priorities, you tend to take care of the “A” priorities and let the “C” priorities lie fallow…until it becomes an “A” priority itself.

I had to re-read this three times to be sure I was getting it... his contention is that sometimes a "C" priority is really more important than an "A" priority???

The entire point of prioritization is that you do the most important stuff first, and if you don't have time for everything, well at least the stuff that didn't get done was not really the important stuff anyway.
> Perhaps that was more of a culture coping mechanism?

If it's a new thing, it's a coping mechanism. (I'm pretty sure it's not)
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What is the reason for such low living expenses in Berlin?
To his credit, he may have tried searching for it with reddit's search feature, which isn't great. I still agree with you though --- a simple google search is really often better than using a given website's search functionality, and I think it's fair to say that a given HN reader should be privy to that knowledge.
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... because it's such a great idea for your housing to be tied to your employment, and for your employer to have direct control over your housing situation...

I can see it now, "Johnson, if you don't work the next 3 weekends I'll fire your ass, and per city law you'll have one week to get the fuck out of town to make room for the next SF-employee".

I cannot see any way in which "everyone who works in SF deserves to live in SF" can be implemented that won't make it even more inhumane and tyrannical than the free market it's replacing.
You aren't suggesting that it scales easier on the server than on the mobile client, are you? Nothing would scale better for this app than putting the logic on the client -- it's a customer's phone communication with an Apple server. This leaves nothing for him to scale, anywhere, except for engineering to push out updates.
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Friendly pro tip: saying something is a "crock of shit" does not in fact make it one. Do you have a specific reason for not agreeing with the parent comments assertion?
It seems pretty clear to me that Julia is gunning for Python's sweet spot. Worth checking out.

http://julialang.org/
Really, hepatitis? There's me washing my lettuce because I was worried about salmonella!

Your food chain already includes a lot of handling, and indeed a lot of your food has at some point been in the dirt :o or covered in blood :o so I wouldn't lose sleep over that element.

Also this is the first I've heard about requiring vaccines for handling food "in most places"... is that really a thing?
That somehow never works for me. Partially because when writing code you cant always knw how long wil it take (issues come up all the time. debugging can take a while especially if it's a big project and there is a lot of code written by a lot of different people)
I've never been asked for my vaccination records for any food-related job...
im saying it would be trivial to implement LOGO in choc
If TPTB wanted affordable housing, they'd get out of the way, ditch rent control, let developers build more of it, and subsidize rental for the poor.

There's one showstopper problem with a more free-market approach--the overriding purpose of rent control is to subsidize rich parasites like Charlie Rangel. It would be a lot harder for such people to have their housing paid for by others if subsidies were explicit and means-tested. Sure, poor people wouldn't come out worse, but they're not the ones making the rules.
Maybe something like this:

def is_ipv4_addr(s):
try:
octets = s.split('.')
assert len(octets) == 4
for o in octets:
assert 0 <= int(o.lstrip(0) or '0') < 256
except:
return False
return True

It is longer; on the other hand, it is easier to read and more importantly easier to verify correctness.
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>> "The Crowd that shops at Trader Joe's"

You, Sir or Madam, are a victim of bad science. Hell, I am one of those people who shops at TJ's because I live in San Francisco and it is excruciatingly expensive to shop at your neighborhood store that has hyper-inflated prices. I am also one of those people who is paranoid about getting all my vaccines; I grew up in Africa where I saw people die because they were too poor to afford a vaccine.

I also read the transcript of the american life article; there is simply nothing apart from anecdotes from these people about "the parents who don't vaccinate their children and also shop in WF/TJ". Show me a scientific observational study that shows that there is high correlation between every person who pays money in TJ/WF and their nature of being diseased, then we can talk!
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It's amazing that there is so much variance from launch to launch. I realize they are in a very progressive stage of the company but you'd still might think there would be more commonality from launch to launch for such a error-prone exercise.
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"But I was talking about the how people will perceive your comment - you came a cross as taking a hardline "Caveat emptor" line."

I'm sorry you got that from my post. It was certainly not the intent. But if I was unclear, I'll accept responsibility for any misinterpretation that has resulted.

I tend to use overly elaborate sentences. Speaking more plainly and clearly would do me a lot of good. That's a consistent problem I have on HN, and it's my fault.

If I had to sum up my OP in three sentences, it would be as follows: "People are smart, and they'll figure out if you're keeping things from them. So don't hide things from them that affect them. That being said, it's not necessarily your responsibility to get too far into the weeds on every last detail of how startup financing works."

In general, I'm in favor of transparency. I'm in favor of giving employees an honest deal. I'm in favor of treating employees as partners, not as "human resources." I don't, however, believe the CEO's job is to be the parent figure of everyone in the company. And accordingly, I believe startup employees should educate themselves as much as possible about the risks involved before joining a startup. Some of those risks are outside of the CEO's total control, in fact (e.g., Series A investors, the Board of Directors, M&A processes, etc.).

That's not meant to be a cold, caveat emptor sort of statement. It's just meant to be realistic. Ideally, a good CEO is transparent and honest. He or she should keep employees up to date on the company's finances, and on how things may change if major turning points arise. A good CEO always does the right thing by his or her employees. But the employees should still do their homework. The CEO should be transparent, but the employees should still be capable of self reliance and diligence. It's a two-way street.

(The article, for instance, brings up the case of an employee who's thinking about buying a house. It's not the CEO's job to manage that employee's personal finances. While she should share any pertinent facts with the employee, and perhaps offer solid advice, she's not responsible the employee's personal-life decisions).

I hope this clarifies what I was trying to say. And again, I'm very sorry if I was not clearer.
Unfortunately, it looks like American Islander now has a destination of San Diego, which would seem to make it unlikely that the stage will be recovered intact.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?mmsi=367035570...

It'll be interesting to find out what happened, if SpaceX tells us. It could be anything from a breakup at hypersonic velocities to the stage sinking after dropping from three feet over the water. (Or maybe they were just there to observe that a destruct charge went off?)
No. What you did was insert a bunch of articles that talked about those people who shop at TJ's. That was just a pseudo-scientific way of saying something equivalent to, "Hey, this place has a lot of black people, I am going to stop going there."
you can check the macrumors tread http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1642770 . I've read the ios7 doc and even if the device pair, there is no api to access it.
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Ask HN: How do you find a project you're passionate about?
I love writing code. But I really struggle with inspiration for side projects. Spending (even) more time at the day job is not an option -- I'm already getting comments along the line of "don't forget to go home!" or "make sure not to come in on sunday".

What are your (successful) strategies for finding (side) projects you're truly passionate about?
I've seen both conventions; also in other languages, CSS class names ('-' vs '_' vs camelCase), e.g. anywhere a "name" is created to refer to something. Do try to not get hung up on it, it's mostly a matter of developer preference and you'll never get universal agreement unless the language itself enforces or excludes a particular convention.
How do they not get hit with C&Ds?
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The problem with this analysis is that you're failing to actually make a comparison with shopping at Trader Joe's (or any other grocery store).

First of all, grocery stores are pretty filthy places. Carts get used by thousands of people, and the most cleaning they generally get is when a customer grabs a sanitizing wipe at the entrance and wipes down the handlebar.

Supposing that Trader Joe's shoppers are significantly less likely to be vaccinated, which is worse: having someone unvaccinated pick up your groceries and deliver them, or going to an enclosed space full of unvaccinated people and pushing around an unsanitary cart for half an hour?
1. Midi controllers aren't superfluous. The DJ cover fullfills the exact same function.

2. Well, it is a small pc

3. That's kinda valid. On the other hand, it's a plain
Windows PC, so runs millions of apps hence sheer amounts of developpers are in the running

4. I seem to remember a very recent post about tiny buttons in iOS 7 :P

5. Again valid. But that value might change over time: Windows Phone 8 is rather good, pretty hard to deny that.
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I think this is amazing.. a huge problem all around and a very clever solution. Surveys are broken, putting the feature on site and testing who clicks on it-- so good!! Engineers all over the world thank you!!

Any thoughts on how to do this for "non-button" content features? Like say, do our users want to see product images in the search result page?
10 States that include the Largest Metro's also many cities mandate it through local health laws.

[Edit]
[Citation]
http://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Hepatitis-A.aspx

[Edit 2]
Citation is only for Hep A which is less prevalent than those that require Hep B, or other Vaccines. Finding a single map of all the places that require a vaccine since some are city ordinances was too time consuming.
Why would you believe that? One of the big point about Falcon 9 is how simple it can be and how easy it is to manufacture the product.
In this age of software and asynchronous communication, there is little reason to have so few time zones, or to have one 1d timezones rather than 2d. It would be nice if local time continuously skewed a few seconds each day (sometime around three a.m. perhaps) such that sunrise was always at seven a.m. Most (non-cave-dwelling) humans evolved to rise with the sun.
Love this post. I agree with almost everything you wrote here. One thing I would respond to is the notion that tech industry workers are somehow inherently not creatives or artists. The best programmers and designers I know here are without exception creative, thoughtful people in many other areas of life. The ones who choose SF over the valley may trend even more in that direction.
> I also know that folks in most of Latin America, India, Thailand, etc. eat at 8-9pm or so

I can only speak for Mexico, but the reason for this is that dinner is not the most important/bigger meal of the day, lunch is.

Mexico: medium breakfast, big lunch, small dinner.

USA: small breakfast, medium lunch, big dinner.

Over here people will just have a sandwich or two for dinner, that's why it doesn't matter if it happens at 8 or 9 p.m.
I love when they talk about the magical properties of time zones.

No, moving the clock an hour up or down is not going to have a huge effect into a country in the long term. That's magical thinking.
Competitors like Orbital deserve very little publicity. I know something about engineering practices at Orbital (my spouse used to work there) and they're just not comparable to SpaceX at all.
Obviously it's my opinion and to me, it's a crock of shit. Do I really need to spell out my specific reason? OP is making sweeping generalizations, based on pseudo-scientific bullshit, to justify his/her narrow view of the world.
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Sure, if the idea is to make the 10 in 10x meaningless. My point was that saying something is 10X implies that it is quantifiable. That developer can be assumed to be above average but you don't know that he's 10x. Maybe he worked in the same domain for a long time or did exactly the same work before. I agree that if someone works in the same domain for a long time eventually they will be an expert but as a developer saying that he/she is 10x doesn't mean much. If I write social networks for 10 years then I can appear to be 10x for all things social but how productive am I outside of that? I guess the more appropriate discussion is what is a developer 10x in.