skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the cause-and-effect is backwards there. The prosperous parts of the geographical area NYC is in have very high housing prices and very little new housing construction, so it would be very hard for the population to grow without even more people piling into the existing housing units. Given the abundance of housing elsewhere in the country, people aren't willing to make that compromise, and leave. The Northeast thus leads the country in domestic outmigration:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732348250...

I don't have data on it at hand, but I'm willing to bet the high cost of living (mostly driven by very high housing prices) is the number one driver of outmigration. The expensive housing is a worthwhile to high-wage workers, but cheaper housing elsewhere makes a huge difference in quality-of-living for people working at low wages.
Mavericks does amazing things to memory usage. My machine has 4GB as well, and safari went from 1GB+ memory usage to 200MB memory usage for the same amount of tabs. Under ML, I was swapping constantly; now, no swap at all.
Announcing Crashlytics Real-time Search
Gruber pointed out today that it was Marissa Mayer who said that.
Love this! This is her facebook fan page.

https://www.facebook.com/Wengenn.wonderland

She's famous
I spoke at length with these guys last night. My takeaway is that this isn't something I personally would get involved in.

First and foremost because I have a preference for starting my own projects independently as opposed to signing on with Assembly; for a number of reasons, chief among them is arguably personal preference and perhaps a bit of an entrepreneurial streak. I also think there's a potentiality, as open source continues to grow in popularity, for corporate-funded projects to be more alluring given that they provide a steady paycheck and benefits if you work for the company. For example, I work on an open source project which was initially an internal project developed for my employer and later released to the public. Today we maintain the codebase and in a sense I am paid to do that particular bit of open source work (I don't exclusively work on that, of course). Maybe this isn't a fair comparison, but I wouldn't give up my day job, which affords some of the benefits Assembly is ostensibly offering (get paid to do open source), or exchange the free time I spend on my own projects for this kind of stake sharing in a project or product...at least not yet.

On the other hand, this might be exactly what some people are looking to do in their free time: maybe you don't want to start your own company or you want to spend time in open source but prefer to get paid for it and your employer has no intention of helping you scratch that itch. However, given that last comment in particular, I really wonder if money is the proper motivating factor for so much of what the community has come to mean? Certainly the prestige of working on a popular or important project has historically been far more valuable than monetary compensation (and can even lead to monetary compensation these days, if a savvy employer is involved and happens to notice you're a Linux kernel committer or some such).

It's an interesting idea, that I'm sure of and I'm wishing these guys the best of luck with it! While I may not be their target audience, it does seem like there could be something here. So here's to hoping it develops into something awesome.
As much as I agree with you, what competing search engine?
A tablet is a PC only when attached to a full-sized keyboard and a full-sized screen.

Input and output is the major differentiator, not the processor or OS.
It's the easiest way to build C or C++ targeting 16-bit real mode with a Windows host/toolchain, and they use it to compile a boot loader.
Atomicorp's "delayed" modsecurity rules discontinued
What if Google can't decide which store is most relevant? Is it okay to use revenue as a tiebreaker?
If anyone has feedback (pos or neg), I'd love to hear it.
The battery life is missing from the table, probably because it contradicts the author's linkbait title.
Easily circumvented by using proper browser plugins.
We do have plans for a hosted version of Deis -- similar to Cloud 66 -- that eases the spin-up of the PaaS controller/brains.. and lets ops folks take it from there, scale their application fabric, hand it off to developers, etc. I'd love to hear thoughts about how folks want that to work.
Yes, that's more or less it. The system you implement still knows about linearity of differentiation, the product rule, chain rule etc but it's not a full blown CAS. It can't give you the symbolic derivative of a function (although I guess you can technically apply AD to any numeric type, including a symbolic type..) but it can compute the numerical value of the derivatives at arbitrary points.
> TrueCrypt is not backdoored in a way that is not visible from the sources

... as long as you also trust the compiler not to introduce any backdoor... (cf. Reflections on Trusting Trust)
AppStrategy: How we growth hacked the iOS kids market
Just out of curiosity how long did you use Aviate for. I would assume their algorithm just keeps track of how many times you use an app at a specific location and then the premise would be after some amount of time it would reach a general consistency. To speed up that process It would be nice to be able to define a list of apps up front which have a greater weight and then hopefully it will reach a list of apps that you actually use over time.
Applicants who stayed long working for large organization bad for YC?
I was looking at the video of CodeCombat's startup school interview(btw congrats Nick/George/Scott!) and replayed the part where PaulG said-YC applicants who have stayed long working for large companies is a bad thing for us.Well I am one such person.But whatever experience/assumptions Paul might have to believe so certainly doesn't define me.Especially considering different kinds of society,cultures & norms.I am not trying to prove that PaulG's opinion is wrong;I am just presenting my case that it's not entirely true, for them or any other investor for that matter.
Yes,I stayed with a large company:1)Because I got my freedom (95% of it):Paul mentions in his article (http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html) how even in a small organization freedom might not come easy.It can't be more than true!However,I got mine!Basically,I earned it by being an intrapreneur with every opportunity I could grab.
2)Each challenge was bigger than the last:I asked for it and I got it.When there wasn't a challenge they could throw at me I created one myself.
3)It exposed me to new countries/cultures.
4)It gave my parents peace of mind-An employed/independent/settled daughter is a big thing for Indian parents.Well I did more than that;I ensured I am financially capable of taking care of them whenever they need.
So my point here's that working in large org didn't make me think less ideas or be satisfied with what I have,rather it has left we asking for more.It made me realize that I didn’t fit the large organization category,I am person who loves change,I get bored by routine.I love when it’s challenging,bored when everything is smooth, challenge rules/policies that are more restrictive than effective etc.So here I am with my mojo intact determined to take my startup to the levels I dream because I come from the other side knowing exactly what I want and don't.
In the Netherlands there is https://ikbenstilcomputers.nl selling high-end fanless computers.
Tangential comments:

1. The pirate theme, and the fact that each blog post has it's own well-done image are freaking amazing. I also love the sand effect (on the homepage laptop too). Made me instantly feel good about your brand, and I went to the home page thinking, "Hey we already use Help Scout but maybe we should try this out", even though we are completely happy with Help Scout and I had no real good reason to even think of switching... you still got me.

2. All of that was completely undone by the two screen-invading modal windows with sleazy tricks like not having an obvious "get the fuck out of my way you annoying piece of shit" button. One on the blog itself (which pops up before I even start reading your post) and one on the homepage. I'm even surprised that ESC worked, but thank god it did. Thing is I actually really wanted to read your article, and send it out to the team, but now I feel like I don't really want to help a company that uses slimy tactics. I still will though because the title fits so perfectly with what we're working on.

3. Oh fuck me, while writing this comment another one popped up on a really delayed timer. Never mind, no longer reading.
FWIW, I have a Chromebook Pixel and the large Sponsored brand box pushes the search results entirely below the fold on my screen.
This isn't universally wrong, but it is dead-wrong with present technology. And covering our eyes and pretending that we are currently that advanced doesn't make it so.

Because while basic computation is a universal commodity, what is implemented on top of it certainly isn't - a piece of software always functions as someone's agent. When the systems you end up relying on are entirely defined by someone else, the only thing that represents your will is your mind, and it is effectively executing a complex and ill-defined protocol against always-diligent computers.

You've done the computational equivalent of declining a lawyer.

But it doesn't seem like a big deal, since you're only compromising a little at any given time. But the software is always changing in ways that benefit its controllers while your expectations are mostly based on the capabilities that they've presented. So the progress you perceive is entirely in their desired paradigm. Features that would benefit you but at the expense of Google/Apple/etc are never explored, because you aren't the user of their software - you're its working set!

I can forgive the old-timers who were conditioned by broadcast media to see the world in hierarchal take-it-or-leave terms and don't understand what they're losing by sharecropping in walled gardens. And I can mostly forgive the unclued herd that just buys whatever is advertised.

But for everybody who knows the power of personal computers yet pretends webapps and locked appliances are actual progress, either out of personal laziness, cognitive dissonance, or longstanding need for social acceptance: shame on you for abandoning that self-determination you tasted the first time you truly experienced computing.
You can run Deis on anything including bare metal by constructing the application fabric manually. We have _automated_ provisioning for EC2 and Rackspace public cloud, with more on the way.
I don't know how I missed that! I think I missed out though!

There was some hardware genius in the original Archimedes and there was this game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch

Written by Braben - of all people!
Unless they come out with an 11" Macbook Pro, I'm sticking with the Air. If you have a 13" Air then yes, the pros have made more sense for awhile IMO. For me the 11" Air with 8 gigs of ram, i7 processor and a solid state drive plus a Thunderbolt display is the ideal setup. Super portable and powerful enough for anything but the latest 3d gaming plus the display for when I'm in the office.
Road cyclists in normal urban commuting situations (ie not in a pace line) do not cruise anywhere close to 20mph.

Ebikes (limited to 20 mph) aren't usually the fastest bikes on the road

Anecdotally, I am a reasonably fast commuter cyclist and have been passed by ebikes many times. I have overtaken an ebike exactly never.
The real product here is almost certainly an analytics service. From Cover's privacy policy at https://www.coverscreen.com/privacy:

Cover records the following items:

The list of apps installed on your phone, including which apps are
on your homescreen and dock

The number of times you run an app, including the time and place
where you ran it (specifically, the cell tower or wifi network you
were connected to, or that you were located within a geographic area
you identified such as home or work)

The number of times you turn on your phone (i.e. view your Cover
lockscreen), and what you do subsequently: launch an app, slide open
the cover, or simply turn the screen back off (e.g. just glance at
the clock).

Information from connected Bluetooth devices, such as the Bluetooth
device ID of your car.

Information from the sensors in your phone, such as the
accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS (though GPS is used exceptionally
sparingly in order to save your battery).

The system starts to collect data as soon as you install Cover. The
data collection continues until you remove Cover from your phone.

The data is uploaded from your phone over a secured connection to
our servers.

Cover is tracking every app you launch on your phone, when you launch it, where you are when you launch it, and even what angle you're holding your phone when you launch it. Privacy concerns notwithstanding, sounds like valuable data.
Tesla Snags Apple VP Of Mac Hardware To Lead New Vehicle Development
Regarding same-sex marriage, you don't have to be married to live together, and while I can't say for sure, typically in income surveys there's a distinction made between household income and family income, with the latter being reserved presumably only for formally married couples. If this pattern holds true in this case, then these data would include unmarried couples living together.

Also, there are a number of careers in the Bay Area that are going to pay a lot besides software development. I was really just using developers as a metaphor for any job paying in the low six figures.
This is actually pretty cool -- would be interesting to see this ported to other kinds of text: essays, letters, etc..

linting for <x>
One hypothesis: someone who is looking for stock prices would search Google Finance or search for "LUV"; someone who is looking for ticket prices will search "YYZ to SFO", and someone who is looking for wikipedia will search "southwest airlines site:en.wikipedia.org".

I suspect that's exactly what this experiment seeks to test. Is this giant banner result more relevant for users searching "southwest airlines" than the knowledge graph box that contains Wikipedia, Stock Prices, and a Flight Status prompt?

If so, then we'll start to see these "banner ads" become more common. If not, they delete some code and everything goes back to the way it was.

Rather than theory-crafting, Google is measuring their users' behaviour. As I feel they should be.
"Would you buy a MacBook Air after the latest MacBook Pro update?"

I can't see why anyone has bought a 13" MBA since the first retina screen was announced 2+ years ago.

I'm still nursing a late 2008 MBA along until there is a retina option. Why bother otherwise ?
Caltech names new president
This terrifies me. There's an instant problem of paranoia, and trust here. I would never be okay with the idea of an application monitoring what I'm doing, in order to reorder itself. Mind you, I say all this without knowing if it requests network access.

How do I know you're not sending my usage patterns upstream to CoverCorp? How do I know that you're not reading the Android Music Provider database, and sharing my data back?
The Atlantic's photography blog, In Focus, has some photos of the mirrors in the two cities: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/10/using-giant-mirro...
Ugh: http://examine.com/blog/fish-oil-and-your-prostate/
Does a tablet really constitute a full kitchen, with no compromise?

To me a tablet is a cramped working space (small screen, limited memory), difficult to use (requiring additional utensils like a keyboard, mouse to make certain tasks bearable), with limited storage space (no cupboards), limited processing power (more like a camp stove than an oven), and only usable in short bursts.

Edit: In any case, the analogy is as much about the time, effort and skill required to cook as it is about having the relevant equipment at your disposal.
Show HN: APIs like native libraries, with beautiful REST under the hood.
Yes, for the user it's probably easier this way. However, I find it a bit weird that Southwest is paying Google to display this banner. If it's just an enhancement for the user shouldn't that be offered by Google itself?

I'm just a bit concerned that we're moving more and more to the point where your business can only be successful if you're paying Google. I'm not sure if it's fair to say that and I understand that Google is a business that has to earn money, but there are some red flags showing up for me.
I'd assume you prefer to do it yourself is because you haven't found a system that does it well enough for you to let go of control? Or are you just the kind of person who tends to like to do things the harder way?

I wouldn't blame you for being the latter - it's kind of like people who prefer to drive a manual transmission to automatic.
Node allows you to write JavaScript on the server, which is pretty awesome if you're interested in sharing code (validation, etc) on a client-heavy web app.

I don't have any experience with Go or Erlang, but Node's particular brand of asynchrony is all about non-blocking IO. There are no threads -- all instructions happen in one thread.
Summary: The child was born with HIV, from a mother with "relatively low viral load", and started on antiretroviral therapy 30 hours later, and continued for 20 months. (While not being breast feed, to avoid reinfection.) Resulting in controlled levels of HIV-1 viremia 18 months after treatment stopped. That sounds like early treatment being more successful, not a cure.

I also don't see a discussion about the potential long-term health issues caused by the treatment, although they do acknowledge the FDA has warnings against using some combinations of ART drugs for infants less than 14 days of age.
>I for one am glad that we have continued to innovate, even when things were good enough.

Needing more RAM and more HD space (especially in order to offer the same feature set) is not innovation.
I was kind of wondering about this as well, the line between the smallest low end Macbook Pro and the high end Macbook Air is blurring. Perhaps they will eventually roll all the Macbooks into one product line again?
He also treats weight as a non issue.
I wish the term "reproducible builds" were the more popular one. I think that's more accurate.
I'd imagine they're ignoring lock screen stuff for the moment. When you send them your email address they ask if you use a lock screen. I bet they're filtering invites to those who don't. MVP, and whatnot.
This is a great first step but we're not done yet. It proves the binaries are built from the published code, but only when the published code has been thoroughly vetted can we conclude there is no backdoor.
I read the comment as if they would have applied sooner they would have had an applicant sooner.
Isn't this just an extension of what Google Now does? Do you mean that you'll never be okay with the idea, unless it's Google doing it?
Is weight really an issue? We're talking less than a half pound difference between two laptops. I don't think that's an "issue".
Node came at a time when client side JS was really starting to take off. I can't speak much about Go or Erlang, but I suspect a lot of it has to do with marketing and some lucky momentum.

It also helps that tools like Grunt are Node based, causing frontend devs to look to Node when they need to stand up a back end. At least, Grunt was a pathway into Node for me anyway.
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"And it certainly wouldn't have to be the same "who" all the time."

Totally agree. And this is the hard part for leaders -- letting their people make big decisions, because the mistakes will be attributed to the team leader, and not their teams. As it should. But great leaders will make that situation a reality, otherwise you have a bunch of unmotivated people working for you who will eventually look for a job elsewhere that empowers them to grow into larger roles.

So leadership has to guide the process, and occasionally just decide. But hopefully only occasionally.
> The new Mac Pro supposed to be only 12DB.

Until the dust hits it...
The price difference is $200 in the U.S. The wedge profile of the MBA makes it feel a lot smaller than the MBP (e.g. when shoving it in your briefcase). The trade-off for the lower-resolution screen is much better battery life. The MBA gets 15+ hours for web browsing with Mavricks. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/23/13-inch-2013-macbook-air...

I'm upping my MBA to an rMBP, but I can totally see why someone would get the former instead.
Those who know physics would hopefully know that a cooling microwave would be a blatant violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
I love the palette you've chosen mostly because of how vibrant it is.

I might also be the only person on the planet who inwardly chuckles when I see designs swathed in Pantone's color of the moment. Nice work adhering to the trend but staying away from their marketing directive.
Exactly what I was thinking I currently got a air 13 inch & i'm like fuck for 0.5 pound I much prefer having the new 13 pro.

Specially since upgrading the air cpu (& being still less powerful) puts you roughly at the same price.
A half pound is barely something to care about when you're talking about non-handheld devices.
So, let's say your worst fears are true, and it's sending up a log of every app you use. What happens then? What's the harm? I'm not being rhetorical, I really don't follow what the fear is here. I can't imagine how my life would be any different if some company knows that I launched chrome at 12:22, then hangouts at 12:30, then some half-assed game at 12:35.
The way I see it, go & erlang is rather about concurrency (and parallelism). async the node way is single threaded.

Anyway, the reason probably has rather to do with JavaScript (V8's speed) and node's eco-system (tools, libraries).
There was an interesting earlier this year from EBAY showing that there was ZERO value to buying their own brand keywords from Google (when their organic keywords ranked high).

In fact spending money on their own brand keywords generated signifigant negative ROI (1).

So my guess is that this strategy from Google is designed to provide brands with a first step to generating actual value from Google search results.

I can see brands making these out-sized spends when able to provide their customers w/additional value like interactivity within the goog results, etc.

(1) http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/03/did-ebay-just-prove-that-paid/
As a guy who has been involved in computers I tend to buy something to last at least 3-4 years. Once I start feeling I'm behind I like to upgrade.

I had a 2005 imac before acquire this 2011 iMac and in between I've bought MacBooks and Macbook Air. I'm thinking in getting my new desktop on 2015.

Thing is, when I go to my parents house, I see 2003 computers. I think this reality apply's to many families: parents don't care about speed, they get used because their needs are less computational and more casual, like browsing, Facebook and Skype. The trend I'm seeing in Spain is getting iPads for parents is getting notably high. All my friends instead upgrading their parents pc desktops are buying ipads and parents love it. Are you having the same experiences?
Very, very interesting.

Thanks for the answer.
My favorite shell trick (not in the link) is this: ~-

Tilde-hyphen expands to the previous directory you were in, and of course "cd -" returns you to your previous directory, so I put them together all the time.

Here's an example workflow (with a fake PS1):

mac:/Users/me/Projects/my_new_app$ cd ~/.pow

mac:/Users/me/.pow$ ln -s ~- .

mac:/Users/me/.pow$ cd -

mac:/Users/me/Projects/my_new_app$

Now I can continue working on my app.

<disclaimer>

That's bit of a contrived example above. Here's a more
realistic way to do a symlink for pow:

mac:/Users/me/Projects/my_new_app$ ln -s `pwd` ~/.pow/

</disclaimer>