skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say both are lower in NYC. Salary is definitely lower, and rent is as well because the infinitely better public transit in NYC gives you more living options that have a short commute.
So... any major government site is a target? People use sha256 because it's easy and simple.

Bcrypt? There be dragons!
The U.N.'s "Code for Trade and Transport Locations" [0] was new to me and its use makes sense in some cases. I was also quite surprised to see on the list two _very small_ towns where I have facilities.

For those who have no gear outside of the U.S., however, CLLI codes [1], common in the telco industry, might be a better fit. Some of the codes on the U.N. list aren't very "intuitive" and the CLLI codes (the six-character "Network Site Codes", specifically) make a bit more sense. The U.N. code for Albin, Wyoming, for example, is "US AQI" while the (geographical portion of the) CLLI code is ALBNWY.

Side note: As seen below, you'll often see CLLI codes in PTR RRs when running traceroutes across the Internet. This can sometimes help when troubleshooting networking issues ("LSANCA" refers to Los Angeles, California).

$ traceroute route-server.ip.att.net
traceroute to route-server.ip.att.net (12.0.1.28), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

... snip ...

3 ge-0-7-0-24.r04.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.198.185) 0.691 ms 1.393 ms 1.098 ms

[0]: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLLI_code
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There are degrees in which society must suppress an individual's impulse in order to maintain cohesiveness, and so long as that control is limited to ensuring that everyone's rights are upheld (meaning, I have all freedoms that do not infringe on your rights), then nobody's ever anything more than irritated.

It's only when a society tries to impose value judgements on others, and to be fair, they almost always do, that unfairness creeps in.

Regardless, I think we're fairly far afield of the original discussion, so I'll demur on this.

To circle back around though, the idea that one should optimize for genetic advantage with his or her own offspring is no more offensive than when I volunteer at soup kitchens to help the less fortunate.

Compelling either situation though is (at least in my opinion) quite wrong-headed indeed.
Feel free to look at the sources cited in the wiki article if you're not convinced. Hint: they're quite reputable.
They tend to have the same pay (amongst the big companies that have offices in both areas, anyway) but NYC is more expensive, especially Manhattan.
We use Node.js with Express and some pretty simple but very effective middleware we wrote to make API development a little more robust, like automatic metrics collection, logging, proper error handling etc. I have 0 Ruby experience so I can't comment as to how it would compare.

I would say neither Go or Node would be a bad choice, each having their tradeoffs. Node honestly is very performant overall given the time in which it takes a developer to code, test and deploy (tradeoffs). Also IMO Node has a little more available in terms of examples and people that have already hit the issues ahead of you. So if time to completion is important, it might be faster for that purpose alone. Then if you find a hot path, work to optimize it etc.

For what it is worth too, I hear people complain about Node occasionally and it is usually when they are trying to do longer running tasks, like huge sorts etc. Node is not a good candidate for work that blocks the event loop for long periods, there are better tools for that as you probably already know. The other complaints I hear/see often are when people choose the wrong 3rd party plugins to base their systems on. npm makes it easy to install almost any module, and sometimes that low barrier makes for easy but less than stellar choices; its like anything research the module first and try real scenarios as a POC before committing.

Also there are other frameworks other than Express for Node, for example you can check out HAPI which some people have switched to for RESTful API work.
Don't forget that the USD/BTC price could also skyrocket to partially compensate for the difficulty increase.
This is an analysis that comes from simultaneously valorizing popular culture consumer products while denying the producers of those products a livelihood. It makes absolutely no sense in any case; where does the analysis end? Does freedom from copyright end at age 12, or should huge companies be allowed to ignore the GPL?
I don't know about NYC much but SF has culture. The suburbia is exactly what it is: suburbia. I remember living in Mountain View for three months, they have one fucking street which is "downtown". I got stir crazy after a while.
For me the pertinent part of this and related stories is that the governments will undertake any action no matter how abhorrent at the beckoning of whatever lobby dollars come their way. That is the real criminality; text book protection racketeering.

Whether or not what Kim is doing is right or wrong, or if he is a nice person or not is a red herring and is used to deflect people away from the real issue.

This article had so many character assassination elements I would not consider it impartial journalism at all.
You make it sound like there are a couple minor bugs. What about the addresses of the users sent away? "only accessible for authenticated users": which means everyone.

From the home page "Play against friends in real time": this is a false advertising at best. Also, is it written anywhere that people can play against bots?

"We're sorry" would have been a better start
The best thieves are the ones who get their victims to hand over their valuables willingly ...
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The mistake in your argument is assuming people are good; they aren't, without oversight innovation isn't the result, scams are, by the truck load. The FDA exists to protect unwitting consumers from bad people, not to spur innovation. For every innovator freed by lack of regulation thousands of con men exist that'll flood the market with crap that hurts people, far more than any possible innovation is likely to save. Lessening risk is far more important than not stifling innovation because the simple indisputable fact is that bad people vastly outnumber innovative people.
If you inspect the source, you'll see that the form where you enter your credit card is an https site in an iframe. That will protect you against a passive MITM attack, which is what most people worry about when submitting credit cards to a website.
That's right. In fact, for a subclass of image recognition tasks, MNIST has become the standard benchmark. Pretty much all of Geoff Hinton's early work on deep learning used MNIST to track the progress of his (their) methods.

In fact, if the goal of the book is to educate people on the field then I would say it's definitely best to use the standard benchmarks. It lets readers relate what's in the book to the literature, should they desire, and just like in academia, it lends credence to the author's statements. I've seen people take a lot of flak for publishing writings that don't use the standard datasets, but make claims of progress.
Good catch. While the site isn't served over SSL, the actual Wufoo form is. And Stripe (who we're using to process the payments) only allows payments over SSL (https://stripe.com/help/ssl) so your information is safe.
Interesting that you fail to mention the other side of SF, the people who have lived here from before we started coming in. The New York Times had an article on them today [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/us/backlash-by-the-bay-tec...
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I'm not sure if I am making a mistake, but I couldn't use the command listed in order to clone the repository. I'm using windows, with git installed, and I received the error: "Permission Denied: publickey"

I was able to get everything by looking you up on github and using the url of the repository.

Edit: Also, you might mention the repository earlier, because it's rather large and I've had to break from the book while it downloads.
Disney paid $210MM to produce _Brave_, which money went not only to creatives, animators, and movie production types, but also to software developers, testers, devops teams, and network administrators.
What was his crime? Bribery?
Ruby if you want quick /initial/ development.

Go if you need performance, but slower development time.

ExpressJS/Node for neither. Just kidding, it might be sort of like a combination of the two, moderate development and moderate performance. Though, this sort of makes it's usefulness moot for me, but that's /just/ me. I either the fastest development time, or fastest application. Both usually ends in a clusterf*ck of some kind (IMHO).

Personally, though, I wouldn't use any of the above except Ruby and would use something JVM based. Play! is a mature framework, it's fast, and is easy to use/deploy. It also comes in both Scala and Java varieties.

I've used everything mentioned but Go, and the JVM keeps coming back to haunt me because it's fast as hell and has TONS of libs.
Don't forget the meeting that you have to prepare for the meeting; the dreaded pre-meeting. "Hey, Eric, mind if we get together to go over the meeting this afternoon?" And the feared post-meeting. "Hey, Eric, can we chat later about that meeting?" And the email, "Hey, Eric, I missed the meeting. Can you forward me your notes?"
I am surprised that the rent is lower if you are living in NYC proper. I have one sample point for a friend who lives I think in the East Village. He pays $2300 for a studio. That seems about SF standard. (Well, not in the nicer parts of SF anyway.)
Correct, the boards are not useful for anything other than bitcoin mining. However, you give an engineer that form factor and have them design a password cracking board, now you pull out and scrap all the Miner boards, replace them with Password cracking boards, and all of the investment in the infrastructure around the boards is preserved.

My reasoning is that replacing just the boards should be less expensive than creating the entire system from scratch. It may not be much less if the infrastructure is cheap compared to the boards but less.
I am assuming I am missing the sarcasm or you don't live in San Francisco. We have barely a month of continuous sunshine and most of it is not during summer time. It is fog, fog and more fog.

Edit: nvm, I didn't know what Silicon Beach stands for. LA obviously has way better climes than SF.
This is certainly true of Americans in "upper middle class" culture, but how true is it for the rest? I went to an average / below average American high school, and most of my high school peers are still living in my hometown. It's only a subset of the highly ambitious among us who left (some who entered spread out professions like health stayed; engineers left).

And as an adult, many of my peers who grew up in economic centers like NYC and the SF Bay Area were able to stick around, regardless of profession.
I see your problem, you think logic matters, it doesn't, this isn't that world. In this world, numbers matter, votes, not logic. Rights are a social construct, we have whatever rights we've all agreed we have and no more. Any talk about natural rights and logic and positive vs negative rights is just that, meaningless talk; policy comes from those who acquire power, not those with the best arguments and facts.

> Society can pass a law to coerce people---at its own peril.

Look around, turns out it's not really perilous at all. It's actually the normal way the world works.
Well it's a good example of how not to communicate. Unless this is normal Yahoo! speak, I'd ask for an interpreter.
But then you're acknowledging that startup success is not solely dependent on luck...
Proceeds is synonymous with both profits and revenue so using this word is confusing, and even misleading.

Currently: "100% of the proceeds will be donated to fund medical care for patients on Watsi."

Suggest: "$25 will be donated to fund medical care for patients on Watsi."
I hate to say anything good about SF, but frankly only people in the NYC tech scene think they're in competition with SF. I doubt people in SF think much about the tech scene in NYC.
I don't see how an effectively-infinite monopoly on content (which is where we are now with copyright term lengths) is justifiable in any way whatsoever.
"It isn't recognized as currency by any jurisdiction on the planet as far as I can tell"

Wrong: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/07/federal-j...
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^This doesn't make any sense.
Tricked? You mean marketed?
I am seriously trying to figure out if you are trolling or not. I mean, there's something to what you're saying here. Just that you've picked the weirdest-ass venue for it. You're not supposed to give a shit about your fellow human being if he or she is (imputatively) genetically incapable of or unwilling to perform the same feats of achievement as you.
Caveat emptor. Geoff's videos are a great way to launch into the field of deep learning, but do bear in mind that they are beginning to age. A lot of the stuff about why things work, what is state-of-the-art, and where the work is headed is now dated (even according to Hinton himself).
It's also a very poor fit for free markets

Yeah, just look at what (nearly) free and open markets have done to things like vision correction surgery. Quality has gone up exponentially while prices have dropped by one to two orders of magnitude. Those free markets are awful.

The problem with medicine isn't that it isn't a match for free markets, it's that there are no remotely free markets in the space.
Agree with last comment -- Salary is roughly equivalent, but cost of living in NYC is much higher. While you can rent for cheap in NY due to transit, you can do that in SF too (see: Dogpatch). Cost of food, entertainment, etc. is way higher in NY. (Reference: I lived in NY for 5 yrs, and SF for about 6 months now)
Tech + Non-profit + Marketing = Win-Win for everyone

I get to donate to charity and familiarize myself with an interesting company, all without having to exert a whole lot of effort. Simple. I like it.
The amount of capital provided by YC is trivial...a rounding error relative to the value of a successful company. But more relevant is that YC almost certainly has some meaningful data on the companies it rejects.

So PG's claim could very well be supported by proprietary information.
What I said is correct, but I suppose ambiguous. What I mean to say is that counting MSB zeros does specify that the number will be below a threshold, just not an arbitrary threshold like the one you gave in your example.

For a more concrete example, if the requirement is that a 16-bit word is less than 4096, you only have to verify that it leads with 4 zeros.
The OP made a statement but didn't provide any reasons as to why the statement is true. If you want to get technical about it, it's not my burden to retort something unsubstantiated.
First example: of course it's complex (though I have no idea what you mean by "definitions of observations"). The correct answer needs my probability distribution over the algorithm your brain used to select which drug to send to me (my brain already hurts). Also, could you describe the Frequentist method in more detail? I'm sure it must overlook something.

Second example: Okay, Bayesian statistics are harder. That's a disadvantage.

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> If you use [Bayesianism or Frequentism] correctly, they'll get you the same answer every time

Wat.

If they gave invariably the same answer, then, why the endless debates? By the way, here is an apparent factual disagreement bettwen Bayesianism and Frequentism:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ul/my_bayesian_enlightenment/
TL;DR: Taken together, the factors favor fair use. Moreover, the video furthers the purposes of copyright. It serves the public interest by advancing political criticism and debate regarding sexist stereotypes about girls and engineering. What is more, it’s a classic example of growing the cultural commons by remaking existing cultural works to create new insights and expression. That kind of creativity what fair use is for. And it’s part of what made the Beastie Boys great.

On the merits, then, the fair use analysis is solid. But expect to hear this counterargument: that one of the most basic “copyrights” is the right to control how your work is used—including whether it is used at all. Proponents of this kind of claim will often invoke J.D. Salinger’s steadfast opposition to any adaptions of his works. But the argument forgets that every copyright set out in the Copyright Act is subject to numerous exceptions – including fair use. Copyright ≠ total control.
Is your brain supposed to look the same after four months without a concussion?
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"Silicon Beach" is in LA
What exactly do you think the boundaries of NYC proper are? The East Village is one of the most expensive neighborhoods, not a typical one.
Your advice that I create formal academic-style paper is reasonable, and I agree that it should be something that I pursue. Will you follow me somehow (by links at http://www.infinisql.org) so that when such is produced, you'll see it? I can't guarantee getting front page here again, and don't want to be missed in the future, especially as you (and others) have been asking for this type of information.

And, yes, many thousands of transactions per node in memory is what should be expected. But scalability of ACID (lacking durable, as discussed) transactions on multiple nodes--that's the unique part. I'll try to distill that into a paper.
FDA warns Google-backed 23andMe to halt sales of genetic tests
Win95 had preemptive multitasking. Win 3.1 had cooperative multitasking. The "multiuser" aspect of Win95 wasn't secure at all, it was more for letting multiple users have separated settings (e.g., browser bookmarks). However, even that often failed because software would assume a single user and store all the settings in a common location. Since there was no real security in FAT32 filesystems that was pretty easy to do.
It doesn't make much sense in restricting a 12 year old from learning physics.

Just because one do not like the alternative, it doesn't make it any nicer, moral, or right.

If one can not accept that a business model based on restricting 12 year old from learning is wrong, can copyright ever become the compromise between society and the promotion of the Progress of Science and useful Arts that was once promised?
When I go to Mega and download a file, the URL includes the decryption key. I am not asked for any additional information. That means anyone who knows the URL of that file can obtain its contents.

Every request sent to Mega to download a file goes to their servers, which means that they control the code served to your browser. At any time, they could change that code to send them logs of which URLs you request from their service.

Claims that Mega can't access the content of your files are true in only the most superficial sense. If you require secure file storage, Mega is an inappropriate solution.
This is cool, but I'm going to be a wet blanket here: you are seriously limiting your audience by making people install and host it themselves.

Even the fact it's on github is a big turnoff for a lot of potential users. Developers who want traction for their hard work should keep this in mind.
Who cares? you know what's in NYC that trumps that consideration? The opposite sex in balanced ratios. Finding your life partner far outweighs salary or living expenses any day of the week.
You begin from the premise that everyone who believes they have earned their money is correct. This is why the phrase "born on third base, think they hit a triple" was born.

It's fine if your premise is that people who have money deserve it a priori. But let's be honest. A great many haven't worked orders of magnitude harder despite orders of magnitude greater wealth. A great many are not themselves (but for their wealth) orders of magnitude inherently more valuable to society than everyone who has less.
This is a really critical point. People who are pro-regulation are under the premise that regulation actually does protect people. There are countless examples to the contrary.

(The finance sector is even much worse than the FDA in this regard---for example Bernie Madoff was regulated, leading people to think their money was safe with him---but in some ways, the FDA is just as bad.)

Of course it can help, some. I'm not going to deny the obvious. But it's highly imperfect, and it often hurts.
Precisely. Princeton is prestigious, but I don't want formal models. I want someone that can at least pass the fizzbuzz test.
I've just finished building an API in Go, and my experience was:

You have to write more actual code than in Rails (or even ASP MVC), so it takes longer to develop, but it's much more satisfying.

I'm not 'web-scale' so the speed differences didn't actually matter that much. I didn't optimise for speed and the benchmarks were still impressively exceeding our requirements.

The standard library is amazing in places, but there are some libraries (gorilla in particular) that are almost obligatory.

If you have to write 2 API's you'll re-use a lot of code... you've effectively rolled your own API framework.

If your editor can handle snippets, make one for "if err != nil{" since that's a good 25% of any go program it seems ;)

Go is deep; the tools are deceptively simple and amazingly powerful. I refactored a lot as I went along and discovered better, more elegant ways to do things I'd brute-forced on the first iteration.

It was fun! Go is a really lovely language to code in.
There's a big difference between reading the news every day, reading the news every week, and reading the news every month.

I used the read the news every day (and reading news magazines weekly); what ended up happening is that I also ended up reading through a lot of fluff and reading about a lot of inconsequential mere-fact-stating news. Even if you read the news every week, there's a ton of repeated analysis that you have to filter out. I ended up realizing that this was a legitimate waste of time.

Now I just read the news maybe every month. I'll usually only read long-form synthesis/analysis articles, rather than the kind of stuff that comes in through AP/Reuters. The exception being news articles coming in through HN, of course.

Going back to your analogy, while I'll keep myself updated on the major movements in the civil war in Syria, what I don't need to read about is how 12 people died in a bomb blast on Tuesday in <city> or something extremely-low-level like that.
>Wallets are incredibly poor judges of medical efficacy. The FDA rules are in place for very good reasons, namely to prevent snake-oil salesmen and other unscrupulous merchandisers from foisting their -- potentially harmful -- products upon an unsuspecting public.

There is snake oil for sale in every store, and no one has ever been hurt from their test.
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What's the tech scene out there like? It's 30 degrees here in NY :(
So you're advocating doing harm to my life (by blocking legitimate medicine), for the sake of supposedly protecting irrational hippies from themselves (which you may be able to do in this one area---but what about all the other ways they harm themselves)?

I can make my own decisions. Just like 99% of rational people, who are able to judge for themselves that homeopathy is nonsense.
I work at a large tech co. in NYC, and we don't really talk about being in competition with SF at all. Besides, many of the really big SF-based cos. have offices here anyway.
I don't know a single person who thinks Elvis is alive...
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Thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely take a look at getting an outside opinion on our takehome test