skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Tom. We really welcome your feedback, any questions or issues please open an issue on github https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake-js
Thanks dbreaker. Any questions, email me or Duncan.
It really does. I always think Chromebook is pretty bad in this decade given how terrible Internet speed is outside your super fast office connection.
Missing a closing paren on the Airbrake.try example. Otherwise, looking good!
Which companies allow you to apply for internships with programming challenges?
I'm looking to get quickly noticed when applying for internships. Certain companies like Facebook offer programming challenges, which once you complete, a recruiter will contact you. Is anyone familiar with other companies who offer something similar?
Interesting topic and relevant to SF for a non-obvious reason. Most people don't know this, but if you earn between 70% and 90% of the SF median income, you are eligible for below market rate housing in the city. This means you can buy a apt in a brand new building for far about 1/3 of market rate. i.e. a $900k 2 bedroom in Hayes Valley would be around $300k BMR. Why do I bring this up? Because if you aren't in that narrow range, then you need to earn like 3-4x or more of the median income in SF to afford a house otherwise. This leaves an entire chunk of the market without any options for purchasing a house. I find it strange that the city feels that a solution like this that favors one small group and ignores everyone else is an acceptable solution to the problem. Programs like BMR need to be replaced in favor of permitting enough housing permits to satisfy demand so that housing is accessible to people earning the median income and above.
Or better yet, discard the loaded terminology and ask that laborer, his parents, and if possible their parents if the post-WWII economic order has lived up to its promise in their country. As with most real world problems the answer will probably be pretty mixed and the blame for failings won't fall on any one party.

Developed countries could do a lot better by the developing countries that do a lot of the heavy lifting. It's not an either/or thing where we either mistreat the heck out of workers, pollute everything, etc. etc. or simply pull out.
It's a great quote for people who are trying to hype/push onlive and gakaistyle game streaming.
Domo CEO Josh James Is Keeping Quiet About His Company. Deal With It.
Perhaps the author can come to an agreement with Spotify to integrate their service under different licensing terms. It might run into money, but that can be cast positively as forcing more clarity for the revenue model.
Unu, Yet Another Android Gaming Device, Ships by November
On a similar note, you generally shouldn't use ampersands (&) in the body of text. I know your book isn't claiming to be literature, but when I'm quickly evaluating whether to buy a little-known book, the use of ampersands is a red flag of an amateur, un-edited, production. Other common ones are using "loose" to mean "lose" and "lead" to mean "led."

Hope this is helpful. I have written a book myself, so I know how much effort it takes.
Comment moderation and the (anti-) social Web
...because the only thing GTA V doesn't allow is bondage and humiliation.
Can we get this title updated to reflect that they mean San Francisco? As it stands, it's too ambiguous for HN standards.
The "My girlfriend and I" part -- SF is great if you're living willing to live with ~2-3 rommates, which makes things very awkward for couples who want to cohabit. It's also great if you work in the city, spend most of your time outside of your house at various "third places". In many neighbourhoods it's easy to just step out of your place and have plenty of options within your reach.

Peninsula/South Bay isn't a cultural desert -- there are amazing ethnic restaurants, used book stores, concert venues, etc... -- but they generally aren't all within walking distance, nor is it likely that a great selection of such places will be equidistant from both you and your friends. On the other hand, if (like me!) you prefer to read/code/etc... most evenings and are more deliberate in regards to outings, it isn't really a problem.

Cities also allow you to save money by foregoing having a car, but it's less true for SF: public transport in Bay Area -- even SF proper -- is quite horrid compared to NYC, Berlin, etc...

Not everyone lives in SF by choice: while SOMA is easily accessible from Peninsula by multiple modes of travel, other areas (FiDi, mid-market) are fairly far from Caltrain, expensive as far as parking goes. BART is great when it's not having a strike, but the only locations in Peninsula with BART stops are Millbrae, Dalty City, and Colma.

What most people raving about "end of suburbia" are missing is that high density (SF, NYC) living is rather expensive and this isn't likely to change (SF is a Peninsula, Manhattan is an Island).

What's also missing is that cities vs. suburbia is a false dilemma: many neighbourhoods in Portland and Seattle, parts of Peninsula (e.g., Burlingame/San Mateo area), East Bay (e.g., Berkeley), and even Downtown Mountain View/Palo Alto are far cry from the usual suburban cliches (there is abudance of independently owned restaurants and stores, relative dearth of strip malls, rail transportation, etc...) while still having lots of green areas, being amenable to driving, good school systems all available to middle class (St. Francis Wood in SF might have all of this features, but the middle class is priced out of it.)
I think you salary statistic is probably in rural favor unless adjusted for cost of living...
Interesting.

There's a whole emerging field called "learning analytics", which at the moment appears to be more a theoretically good idea than anything with practical outcomes (Sadly, much in education is like this - something will emerge in the technology field, and then 6 months later there will be a XXX-in-education movement) - although Khan Academy is in a good position to get that data and use it.

But for those of you who have kids who do Kumon Math (or similar) it's pretty easy to see how analytics could speed up the Kumon process (of selecting questions that exercise very specific skills).

For those interested there is an upcoming "Big Data in Education" Coursera course[1] that I'm planning on doing. It will be my first coursea experience, so I'm not quite sure what to expect. I'm in the fortunate position of having access to a fairly significant amount of educational usage data, so I'm hoping it will be useful.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/bigdata-edu
I don't know because I haven't looked. Also, I think it is unlimited certs per verified identity or something like that, and it's the verification process that costs the $60. So one top-level domain is one verified ID, a second TLD would be another, and so on. Now for me, with all of my web sites using SSL, this is very cost-effective. I can also take advantage of the fact that my private networks use real TLDs (registered but with no public DNS), letting me use StartSSL instead of running my own internal CA (for which I lack the staff).
Am I the only one who thought London?
Reminds me of a joke

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Focus is brother to blindness, just saying.
> Yes, globalization has serious downsides – but only because it happens with nations still existing

So...

A) What do you propose in lieu of nations
B) How does your proposal in (A) fix the issue of disparate living costs across the globe? It costs less to hire an Indian developer than it does to hire an Australian developer than it does to hire a German developer. When we abolish nations, how will this be resolved?
Look at it this way OP: Why haven't you dedicated your life to finding a way to maximize your chartable output? Exactly.
I don't see how what I described has anything to do with a romantic comedy. I think it's completely reasonable that women may not feel immediately comfortable spending after-work time with male colleagues. But, with a fellow female colleague, there is no ambiguity.
For an international audience, "The City" means London's financial district. This is the only use of the term sufficiently common to be mentioned on Wikipedia's article.
A lot of benign facts are used in textbook political propaganda, too. More ice in North Pole this year! Global warming must be false! Doesn't make it any less interesting that ice levels fluctuate as wildly as it does. Sure, it gets annoying when people with the wrong ideas repeat it all the time. But if you're someone who is genuinely interested in how polar ice caps behave, it doesn't matter because you already know that those little fluctuations are par for the game.

Historians of science need to stay away from both extremes: (a) the religious pundits who claim that science is just like religion, as well as (b) simplistic views of science that paint it as more objective and value-free than it really is. If every historian flocked to (b) just because they got annoyed of having their work co-opted by (a), we'd end up with an understanding of science that is just as unrealistic. Without a solid understanding of how social, psychological, and even religious factors influence science, how do we even go about trying to reduce such influences? You don't solve problems by pretending they don't exist. Who cares if Jerry Falwell's ilk use it in their propaganda, they bend and use everything in their propaganda anyway.
Most successful funds place the majority of their dollars in follow-on rounds for their earlier investments.
I feel like I'm facing the same problems but in a completely opposite context. He's in a stressful situation every day, unsure what's going to come next, and forced to imperfectly make decisions. His strategy for motivation comes from keeping his eyes on the prize and going with the flow.

I'm in a completely stress free environment - every day blends in with the next; I can just do nothing one day and tell myself I will do it tomorrow. I'm financially stable enough to never be in a do-or-die situation. My passion for my project temporarily died somewhere after 30k lines of code. Yet, it is my dream to finish the project. I have to finish it, it's my self-designated job. But it's such a huge, abstract task, and I can just enjoy myself right now instead. There's literally no reward for working until after another year of it. It's so hard to stay focused and motivated when nothing is at stake.
Being legally blind, myself, I found a way to use my iPhone to help with my distance vision a while back. -- I point it at the thing I'm trying to see, zoom in, take a picture, hold said picture close to my face, and zoom in on the photo to see the thing I was after. This sometimes gets blurry, but is often still an improvement.
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath...I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. - Messner on the first solo ascent of Everest

There is no secret, it is willpower. Every person draws willpower from their own unique place. Find yours.
Which is fine - people make an exception for you. But the original point was that other people use Facebook to schedule things, and the response was "Well, I schedule things over email and text." Which misses the point, because we're talking about other people's behavior, not your own.
>Humans are the exception that proves the rule,

You know, this phrase actually means "an exception that makes the rule more specific," not "a counterexample that mysteriously makes the rule more likely."

>To give the example I already gave in my essay, evolution may or may not have hit the lucky path, but if it did, because it disables perception of danger, the goofy lucky people would be quickly eliminated by Inspector Darwin.

This is a post-hoc justification, not an advance prediction, and not a finding of a focused research campaign. As is the rest of this article.

You haven't convinced me that any of those things are fitness-reducing! On the contrary, I think that to the extent that humans are fitness-maximizers rather than adaptation-executers, those things all increase fitness by rather a lot.

>This is a very strong and specific prediction which seems to be doing well.

Don't the legions of coked-up amphetamined-up professionals totally disprove this?
Which is fair enough. I'm not going to get into that. I just wanted to point out the fundamental assumption in the notion of "fighting sexism with sexism."
The Ptolemaic model was not conclusively proven to be false until parallax was verified. Every discovery before parallax could be accommodated by some or other variation of the Ptolemaic model, and such variations did in fact proliferate in geocentrism's desperate final years.

Sure, the more random variations they came up with, the less credible the Ptolemaic model became. Occam's razor and whatnot. But the conclusive blow came much later than you might expect. Parallax was only verified in the 19th century, long after most scientists already gave up on geocentrism.
OMG it just sank in that there are people who might be too young to know that movie exists. Yes! See it as soon as you can. It's a beautiful dramatization of the early days of space exploration, with Bill Conti's perfect soundtrack.
I love Elon Musk, but jesus christ, way to make the rest of us feel utterly human.
Valve's Steam Box: a true console contender?
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"Syrian Electronic Army" Seriously? Oh, obviously it must the Syrians. I mean, it wouldn't be the "Lithuanian Electronic Army" now would it? They're not in Evil Doer Fashions 2013. So clearly it must be the Syrians trying to... well to do what exactly? Change the weather reports in the Times weekend edition? Frailing hogwash.

Far more likely is the old middle school tort: He who smelt it, dealt it.
What do we get for that DRM?
I'm Going to Jail
There is a rumour floating around that Mantle, a new low level gpu api from AMD launching on desktops soon, is the same api the next gen consoles are using. All they have to do is launch with strong linux support and they will own all three next gen platforms.
Year in tech - back to university
My experience at a London startup and being back at university
Possibly people switching to Windows 8 and trying out IE.
Founder Interview: OneFlare.com
Understandably this is all purely anecdotal, but installing fglrx using smxi on Crunchbang 11 was actually a relatively painless experience.

My gaming machine has always been in "Windows only" territory due to the fact that I tend to run configurations that are slightly outlying -- my current machine has three monitors and two AMD 6970 videocards, with two monitors attached to one videocard, one attached to the other. I was incredibly surprised to find that this configuration worked 'out of the box' on #!, and continued to work perfectly after the install of fglrx drivers. No issues with hardware acceleration, no crashes, no difficulties whatsoever (beyond having to increase the 'virtual' resoluting in xorg.conf so I could move screens where I wanted in xrandr.)

All this brings me in a roundabout way to my point: If my wacky configuration can work relatively seamlessly in an arbitrary distro, I tend to think that AMD will probably be able to manage to get fully supported configurations running on SteamOS in a straightforward fashion.
Judging by google maps, there are several Walmarts within a 12-14 mile radius of the Sutter-Stockton garage. (All on the east side of the bay, as you might have expected.) The traffic estimates are roughly 30 minutes.

For comparison, my family lives in a "suburb" 20 minutes or more away from everything (and 25 miles / 40 minutes from the nearest Walmart). I wouldn't have thought much of driving 30 minutes to Walmart, except that SF doesn't exactly encourage, or even tolerate, car ownership.

Then again, I could walk 10-15 minutes to Macy's, Nordstrom, or Target.
The museum of Mario
An interactive experience exploring the many eras of Mario. Turn on the audio and click around to find hidden interactions!
Historically this isn't true. There's a much less flashy reason for why so many startups are flocking to SF -- there isn't much space available at reasonable prices in Palo Alto or Mountain View that that's suitable for startups. If office space in Palo Alto or Mountain View was not desirable, the prices would crash.

This isn't new either: there were plenty of SF startups during the old dot-com boom as well. I'd also predict that if there is a further growth of tech startups we'll see startups spread to other areas now considered "less desirable" -- in dot-com days there were plenty of companies in Santa Clara, Milpitas, Downtown San Jose, Fremont, and even exurbs like Pleasanton. When the boom ended, CA-237 was locally called the "dot com graveyard".
Going to bed. Any questions I'll answer tomorrow.
What if I gave you one hundred dollar bills and said this is all the money you had to spend. Once it's spent, it's spent, and you can never get any more.

How much would you spend on movie ticket? A blissful escape, sure, but you probably have other things to do with your life.

You're only going to live for maybe one hundred years at most, maybe many less. Spend your years wisely.
Unless, of course, the secondary index has all of the columns you need to execute your query. (Sometimes it can help to add an extra column or two to your secondary index if you want to avoid the extra lookup.)

sqlite3 stores rows in an integer primary key index. If you do not specify an "integer primary key" column, it synthesizes one behind the scenes (essentially a rowid) and your primary key lookups end up going through two indexes.
Oh yeah, I didn't mean to imply it's not worth pointing out.

Only that this is more reminder that if you are using SSL, you are going to lose a lot of performance UNLESS you connection pool. Worth pointing out because a lot of people forget or don't realize, but not really MySQL specific (which is fine).

You say it's possible to write a performant solution using MySQL that doesn't pool connections -- sure, if you don't use SSL, right?
Does it handle uncaught errors such as a window.onerror function might do?
> it is faster and easier to create a new connection each time.

Unless you're creating an SSL connection, right?

Did you guys read the same OP I read?
Damn paper is hidden behind piece-of-shit paywall! Paying the Impact Factor Tax, supporting an exploitative business model.
Have you tried releasing your project in small iterations instead of waiting for a year? Having users use the product that you're building and giving feedback on it is a motivator that works for me. Keeps reminding me __why__ I do what I do every day.
That, and cities have a higher standard-deviation than suburbs on pretty much any variable you choose to measure: house price, income, race, price of gas, education level, price of a haircut... In my experience cites have the best and worse of all that life offers. Suburbs are mediocre.
Hmm, I'm confused what "non-factor" meant to the original author then! 75% performance penalty is a "non-factor", what? Now I'm just confused.
I only work on projects I have a deep interest or passion for. Nothing kills motivation more than non-interesting work. A close second is ensuring you're on a great team.

I agree w/other comments that taking breaks helps, but I haven't found that to be as important as those two (passion and team). You can take as many breaks as you want throughout the day, but if you're stuck having to return to non-interesting work or a team you'd rather not work with, you'll still find it hard to get motivated and maintain focus.
Simplified IO is a library feature, not a language feature, and Android has its own IO stuff anyway.

Diamond type inference is cute, but hardly important. You could do the same thing with a save macro in your IDE.

Try with resources is about the only thing in that list that would be actually useful in Android.

> Any Java library targeted for Java 7, even without the new language features, is also not usable in Android projects, because Dex cannot understand the new Java 7 bytecodes.

So target Java 6 if you're making a library. Which is what people do anyway, because not everyone has immediately jumped to 7.

And none of them will run on J2ME which Sun/Oracle never upgraded past 1.3 for Pete's sake. If not upgrading Java was worthy of a lawsuit, we should be class action'ing the hell out of Oracle for the crime against humanity that was J2ME.

BlackBerry was also 1.3 right up until the end.

Android right now is only using a version of Java that's ~1 year out of date. That's still a shitload better still than Sun ever managed to do on mobile.

> Google is a corporation like any other.

Cows go moo.

Saying irrelevant facts is fun! You're on to something here I think.
AMD/ATI is in all new major consoles, and with what they are trying to do with "Mantle", things may radically change, and more PC's could start getting memory unified between CPU/GPU, like in consoles.
Is there a reason content providers can't just put ads in the RSS feed?
> a terrible male-to-female ratio

San Francisco's male to female ratio 1.008 [1]. It must be rough finding someone when for every 251 males there are only 249 females. But, in fact, even that's an understatement.

If you factor in that there are more gay men than lesbians in San Francisco [2][3], the tables turn. The straight men to straight women ratio is more like 0.96 [4][5].

So, far from the stereotype you've pulled out here, in reality for every 24 straight guys there are 25 straight girls.

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[1] http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty....

[2] https://www.baycitizen.org/news/census-2010/census-34000-gay...

[3] Assuming that the ratio of gay to lesbian individuals more or less follows the ratio of gay to lesbian couples, which seems reasonable.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orienta...

[5] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28251+*+%281+-+0.154+*...
Damn paper is hidden behind piece-of-shit paywall! Paying the Impact Factor Tax, supporting an exploitative business model.

Press release is, well, public:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528221
+1 for a Rails demo app
I watched the same video, love Adam and Tested.com, my favorite aspect of the pen is how small it is when you put the cap on. Fits in my pocket and I can't tell its there.

Edit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bypi7h6WOGg This is the video of stuff Adam Savage carries on a daily basis. Interesting if you are a gadget nut.
By most Americans' definition of suburb, Mountain View doesn't exactly qualify. My apartment was within 15 minute bike ride of Walmart, 10 minute bike ride of downtown (including commuter rail), walking distance of YCombinator, and it on the easternmost edge of Mountain View (the grocery store I walked to was technically in Sunnyvale). My commute to work was 5 minutes.

Now I live in Saratoga where I've a 20 minute commute to Palo Alto -- and again, am in walking distance of grocery stores, coffee shops, and biking distance of downtown.
Javascript full text search library
Javascript full text search library
I generally cite the triad as thus: Bathory, Hellhammer and Slayer, all of which had releases in the 1983-1984 period. Sodom is also important. Death, less so, since its demo at that point sounded more like speed metal (it was only after the time spent with Repulsion, formerly Genocide, that Chuck hit on the death metal formula). If we're into the 1984-85 period with Possessed, we also need to include Sepultura, Master/Deathstrike, and Morbid Angel.
Thanks! No worries, I do love it