skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes. In both New York and San Francisco there are fun and exciting zero-sum dominance games, combined with the overhanging threat that some communist like Bill de Blasio might get elected and decide to take away your future rental income by tightening the rent control regime. And people wonder why the rent is too damn high.

Not sure which city has it worse today. Of course, in New York in the sixties and seventies, over a third of the apartment buildings in Harlem were simply abandoned and left to rot, and the Bronx was burned; I'm not aware of similar destructiveness in San Francisco (notwithstanding even the Japanese internment which replaced Japantown with the abominable public housing in the modern Fillmore and Western Addition).
Oh sure, I agree. I think that what Aereo is doing is legally correct. As you say, the question of whether it should be at least deserves some discussion.
The conditions of admission to the show forbid the audience from recording or retransmitting. So you can't do that from inside the theater. But let's just say the stage is set up next to a huge window, and anyone standing on the sidewalk can see the whole thing. The cameraman sets up there, and now he's golden. This is what Aereo is doing. The broadcast station has a huge window on their stage, because they want as many people as possible to watch the show (and accompanying advertisements).

When you broadcast, you are granting implicit license to everyone who can receive to have and keep a copy of that event. Were it otherwise, I could set up an antenna, broadcast a video of me flipping the bird to the camera, and maliciously prosecute everyone receiving on that frequency for copyright violation.

If you want control over who sees your show, you can't really be doing it in front of a huge picture window visible from public property, or by pumping it out over radio signals, which is metaphorically the same thing.
How deep do those properties go? Can I run sophisticated tests which change data sources, layout, etc. Or is your app focussed for now on the more trivial things like colour and copy? And on the copy front, do you support multiple languages within a single experiment?
Anecdotal story time:

I lived in a rough neighborhood in Philly probably at the beginning of the first wave of gentrification in that area. Our house was a recent rehab, there were several houses next door that were completely vacant. We would frequent a terrible, dirty, cheap hoagie (or sub for you non-Philadelphians) shop owned by an immigrant family. I was always worried that they would get displaced by the incoming 2nd generation of gentrifiers.

Instead they rehabbed their business and now serve expensive sandwiches made with organic ingredients and have a large selection of pricey craft beers. It's still owned by the same family.

Now I'm not saying that the gentrification process isn't destructive to a neighborhoods culture, but I don't think it has to be this way.
IANAL, TINLA, but I think the SCA, 18 USC § 2703(e) would protect them from being sued. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703#e
Ahahah, well thanks but i can assure you that the way that lead to this wasn't easy at all. They weren't always pleased by the fact that i was running my own company (and not looking for a stable well-payed job - maybe in a state office). Only with economical difficulties (we have always been a medium-level family with my dad's ex job) they definitely started to appreciate what i've built. And while i'm happy that this is helping the whole family, i wouldn't consider myself as an "achieved" person quite yet.
> brodcast a feed on the internet ... for each person who is logged in?

The analogous situation would be if they paid $20 per watcher to the strip club, and had one blind dude come in with a whole array of webcams that linked up to people on the internet, with one webcam per person.

To which I'd ask you, why do you think this is a bad thing?

(The difference, of course, being that strip clubs are private whereas the public airwaves are public.)
The most disturbing thing about Pebble is the lack of proper UTF-8 support[1].

The most positive is of course the notifications: I leave my phone at a desk when I'm at work, far and away from me and still get all the notifications in the world, never missing a phone call.

[1] http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2013/03/05/the-pebble-experie...
Great, so I can write a bunch of document.querySelector() and el.addEventListener() glue instead. That's a real improvement.
Not the parent, but for me I don't have to keep the phone on my desk at all. It can stay in my bag. That's actually less distracting since the notifications to my wrist can be filtered (only email and messages, only phone calls, or whatever). Parent mentioned working on-site, where the phone might be more likely to walk off if you forget to pick it up.

Is it revolutionary? Will it change your life? No, I don't share the same rosy view as the parent commenter. But I do find it handy, my phone stays in the bag most of the time, and I don't have to dig for it to find out that I need to pick up milk on the way home.
every programmer i know works in a windows dominated environment. this is a small sample though.

Indeed, every programmer I know works in a Linux or Mac dominated environment!
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Open-source SDK to monetize Android apps with Bitcoins
Many companies in the peninsula and south bay also run these free shuttle services - Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, etc. For whatever reason, they've all been lumped together as "Google buses".
> NYC? I hear nightmare stores of their issues.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.
If I were you, and I wanted to see how elegant and great PHP can be, I would just go check out and learn Laravel 4.

I recently moved from CodeIgniter 2.x over to Laravel, and it was like breathing fresh new air at the top of a mountain. Everything is cutting edge, organized, and fun to code again. Sounds like hyperbole, but for real it reinvigorated my programming efforts.

Check it out here: http://laravel.com/
I don't know. I suspect many would think that. The disproportionately large number of African Americans in prison and on death row is certainly widely considered (by myself included) to be a bad thing. Of course, for me personally, I don't want it to be resolved by adding more people of other ethnicities to the group.
Yelp only hurts (or helps) small new businesses. (McDonald's doesn't need, care, or probably know Yelp).

Small business owners invest lots of there personal money, time, sweat, and tears and don't need some stupid brat posting some garbage on Yelp because they were not happy with the $25 they spent.
Same situation here. Wasn't enabled at all, and I've certainly not changed the settings in the past.
It's an issue in SF as well. NY Times article states that 27% of individuals in rent controlled units make more than $107K/yr.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/us/san-francisco-rent-cont...
And to sell any of your recordings.

Can you give me references for this? As far as I understand it the broadcaster is doing the first distribution, so the copyright holder cannot restrict my ability to resell the (single) copy they gave me.
> You, your employers, and the housing speculators are to blame for this new crisis, so much more awful than the last one.

This is harmful to the fight against fraud and speculation in finance. Thanks.
This is fundamentally great news. Insurance is a great hedge against risk. In this case a bitcoin "bank" believes it can reduce the risk of someone stealing all the deposited bitcoins and running off with them. Llyod's has a very interesting and long history of insuring things that are outside the realm of "normal". Read about it on wikipedia.

The end result is I now have a choice. I can store my bitcoins on my own computer or pick an insured bank. If the bitcoins are stolen out of the bank I can be sure I will get my money back because they are backed by a very large insurance company.

Llyod's has a huge amount of capital available and they have been in the business a long time. As an insurance company this is important because you get to see lots of black swan events (and realistically how often they end up happening).

I am sure their analysts have looked at what happens if someone ends up stealing all the bitcoins vs how much money they can make off insuring against this risk. They can give bitcoin websites discounts for security audits and how they store their data.
FEMA tends to respond in varying degrees to most disasters, following a suitable declaration of a state of emergency. It's a federal agency, with a very specific role, so not being the "top item" for the federal government is just a weak rhetorical argument.
I was hoping to find a statement of some sort of achievable goal or solution. I did not expect to find one. This is mere sound and fury, of no significance.

The influence of this influx of wealth can be likened to a rising tide, and as Canute demonstrated, it is not terribly accomodating: the flow of dollars does not hear this outcry. I'm amenable to a discussion on whether markets are the most appropriate solution to the allocation of housing, but I doubt many others would be, and that is not the argument being made. If these people are angry about serving coffee, they should learn programming -- I taught myself, in the poverty of a third world country no less. If they are less able to learn programming than, e.g. the children of the Chicago Public Schools, then I would consider it reasonable to charge a far greater rate for the services that they do provide. If their services being provided are not of sufficient value to afford them a new apartment (rent controls already being in place, as far as I am aware) then 'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche'.

I'm no Horatio Alger character; I probably can't afford to live in the Bay Area even now -- so I don't. You want to talk about grinding poverty, let's bloody well talk. You want to talk about the evils of capitalism, you will find no more willing audience. If you merely want to rage and riot, and not stir a finger to help yourself otherwise, well...I'm not going to resort to invective, but you may have to live elsewhere, Canute.
Supply and Demand is amoral, and section 8 housing promotes a "bare minimum" mentality for landlords.

So now, we have this huge supply of well off middle class kids like myself (I say kid at 26, pretty sure most of us still feel that way) who want a less expensive place to live but can pay for a decent residence. Housing costs go up as tenants actually matter to landlords, and the poor folk living on the taxpayers dime get edged out.

I don't know how to fix poverty, and I don't know how to make landlords care about tenants that don't give a shit about their home and don't have the cash to fix what they break. If everyone could become a responsible human being over night we'd have a lot of problems fixed.

What I do know is that having a larger taxpayer base in a city is a boon to everyone around. I'm from Ohio, and have watched this happen in most of Akron and Cleveland but in the exact opposite direction; The well off middle class left for anything that wasn't East Cleveland, and those that are too poor to leave seem to just destroy the neighborhood. If everything was crime ridden shit before, then it obviously isn't the fault of the new folk that moved in. The same goes in reverse.
Please yes (on the Light Table demo). I know my way around ClojureScript, and I cannot get the Om TODOMVC demo to run in Light Table. If I get it figured out, I guess I'll be the one writing the tutorial, but so far no dice.
I question my own understanding here, because I still don't think I grok all the motivation for this action (on both sides), but I don't think it's a conflict of interest. Nobody buys RHEL because they can't get it anywhere else. They buy it because it's what Red Hat officially supports. Or they buy it for one of the add-on projects that you have to pay for, like Satellite, etc. I don't think any of that changes with the merger. Just my 2c, though, because again - I feel like I'm missing something.
Triia: A secure payment bracelet
Thanks for letting me know! Going to update on my development environment so I can run our tests against it to be sure nothing broke.
Although I'm merely a messenger in "my" two comments above, there seem to be 2 important takeaways here:

(1) First off, it's great that several YC founders are so quick to come to the female YC partners' defense, which lends a lot of credence to PG and JL's claims about the large role of female partners at YC.

(2) We all know that even the greatest product can be held back by poor marketing. I don't personally know the YC founders my friend above referenced (via my username), but the fact that some~many YC founders would think that at all, shows that there's a lack of good marketing/branding around how active and influential women (i.e. JL/KN/CL) are at YC.

The (positive) reality clearly does not match the (negative) perceptions.

I don't know what the solution would be, and you could certainly argue that PG/JL/et al. shouldn't have to "market" or "brand" this aspect of YC at all, but clearly this a problem, especially in light of PG's latest essay, the Information/Valleywag incident, etc.
> Google have many [...] buildable and deployable things, which have very different release schedules. Facebook don’t as they substantially have the PHP web-app, and apps for iOS and Android in different repos.

At least when I was there, the first sentence was true for Facebook. There was/is a separate repo for Thrift services (largely C++, but also Java, Python, and more), each Thrift service is a deployable. The deployables could be pushed at separate times and were usually pushed by teams themselves on their own schedules. The process was still frictionless and trunk-based: only difference was having to type a few well documented commands to push the service yourself. This may changed since, however.
Are they? I'm not so sure. They have a right to feel upset that money has disrupted (and not in some cool buzzword startup kind of way) their way of life by driving up the cost of living without trickling down to them. A lot of what was written struck me as sour grapes, frustration at the ease with which some people live while they slave away, but it doesn't change the fact that gentrification can destroy communities and culture.
I think that the person who wrote the letter uses "you" here to refer to the non-blue-collar world. I think they would view the "turning it around" that you mentioned as making Oakland nicer by gentrifying the current residents off to some other place.
Society has a variety of ways to entitle people to live somewhere. One involves purchasing the property. You could also enter into a lease with your landlord that gives you the right to renew for a very, very long time (which you'll pay for, of course, if you get it.)

Now, if you want to talk about rising property taxes driving people out, that's a legit thing to talk about, but really more of a NYC problem than SF.
I think that standard procedure is to store 1 gallon of water.

Living in a 750 sq ft apartment, 40 gallons of water would occupy a significant amount of space.
I should have been more explicit, and said "I should only start a startup if I think I am above median if my goal is to build a company that makes a net gain."
How can increased housing prices create foreclosures for the people who have been living in the area? If housing prices double overnight, the mortgages don't change a cent. The only way Google can create foreclosures is that they create unemployment. That doesn't seem likely. Getting more wealthy engineers to an area will likely increase jobs.
Nice catch, deevus.
No, it's the Googler-on-Facebooker (if that's even a word) full-out gang war.
> Do you not root for your country's athletes at the Olympics, and wish that more people would enroll in X so that your country would have a shot at a gold medal?

This might be the wrong audience to ask a question like that. :-)

(My own answer: no, of course I don't root for my country's athletes at the Olympics or care whether "we" have a shot at a gold medal.)
Perspective all around. The perspective where a six figure salary can be considered even remotely modest is the perspective that cuts the >90% of Americans who don't earn a 6 figure salary out of the frame.
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I'd say it's not so much about defending his reputation as it is about trying to make sure that female founders don't avoid applying to YC because of this drama.
A lot of "makers of things" don't really make their things, they just sell their brand.
Fun fact: the first programmer was female.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
Hawaii is an interesting example. You should check out this supreme court case: (HHA v. Midkiff) http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/467/229

Basically, a few people owned a majority of the homes on Hawaii, and there was a supreme court case about the right of the state to seize and redistribute them.
I may be the public face of the company, but it's impossible to imagine YC doing something that Jessica, Kirsty, and Carolynn were against.

So effectively they have veto powers. This sounds a bit like "my wife runs the house, I'm only allowed to do what she lets me do." I know that's not what you mean, but you come off sounding too defensive in most of the essay. Stop playing defense with words, let your actions (or YC results speak for themselves). More importantly, take a step back to truly understand the problem and perhaps study some solutions that have worked in other industries.

Why do I think you should do some more studying?

Because you still make comments like this: "You can tell what the pool of potential startup founders looks like. There’s a bunch of ways you can do it. You can go on Google and search for audience photos of PyCon." You made a similar comment two years ago [1].

Because of statements in your essay like the ones highlighted by parfe in the parent post and by me in this post. These statements don't mean anything, they carry no weight, and I'm surprised you would think they do. All your best friends could be Martians and you could be actively trying to destroy every Martian on Mars, except your friends of course. One does not preclude the other.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3256052
this is probably the most constructive thing anyone could have done. this is a great list. thanks!
In 2011, a $100,000 salary gave you a higher individual income than 93.4% of all working-age Americans. It seems strange to describe an individual income in the top 6% as "relatively modest."

Cite: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032011/perinc/new01...
It's also a symbol that the area's public-transit infrastructure is only marginally useful.

On a related note, I'm off to catch the R train. [/nyc]
At first I thought this was going to be a soylent story. I'm glad it's not. Thumbs up for the enjoyment of eating.
The difference is, in these cases the business hierarchy usually follows the family hierarchy. In other words, parents hire kids. This is an established paradigm. Sometimes siblings hire each other as well, and that can be OK more often than not.

But, that's not to say kids should hire parents. In that case, the business dynamic and family dynamic are very different. From a historical/statistical perspective this is an extremely unorthodox arrangement, for a good reason imho.
I'd like to share a message specifically for the Googlers on HN.

I am a poverty fighter. I run a nonprofit that helps kids in high-poverty communities. I just want to say that I know that there are tons of googlers who care deeply about helping fight the persistent causes of and horrible effects of being forced to struggle with poverty. I see it every time a googler volunteers to help a school, donates a dollar to a charity, or builds something that could help people in need. And because volunteers are a primary part of our program, I see Googlers giving a lot. I just want to say thank you. I think you can guess why these protesters have decided to pick you to focus on. I just hope that you keep in mind that their opinion does not represent those in the greatest need. Please continue working to make the world a better place for those who are struggling to break out of a cycle that's incredibly hard to beat. Even if they protest, please keep volunteering. Please keep donating. Please keep building. Please don't stop keeping the poor in your thoughts.

Thanks.
Um, that is exactly the same claim the counter arguments are making: "we're entitled to move in wherever we want"

I know I'd be pissed if my community - not the place I happen to live, but the actively built relationships I have with people in my neighborhood (years of freindship, acquaintance, understanding and so on) - were disrupted because a bunch of new people showed up and forced that community to be scattered by mechanisms such as "we can't afford the rent anymore".

There is a lot of value that is destroyed. It isn't monetary, but it is a form of wealth. That is a real problem.

I get that a lot of people don't give a shit about interpersonal things, and think the notion of community is pointless. But a lot of us do care. Basic decency should suggest paying attention to this sort of thing. Just because you have more money than someone, doesn't mean you get to kick apart their world.

Building a new community for oneself, a deep one anyway, is not easy, and gets harder when you have to keep doing it - you start to say "what's the point - I don't have enough money and time to do this again the next time the better off need a new playground".
>The point is not dominance contests, the point is people want to keep their low density housing even as housing costs rise in their city.

I was told by an SF native that the problem was also one of wanting to keep older housing rather—some historic styling reasons.

Does anyone know more about that aspect? I mean every city / town has historically designated homes, is there a more aggressive form of general legislation like that preventing new housing?
Another takeaway might be to avoid talking to people who have been shown to twist your words for money or attention.
Here's an ugly solution.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8364074
I've been wearing a pebble everyday for about 2 months now.

Working from home (software dev) I will often leave my phone on my desk, before I got my pebble I would often glance at my phone after coming back into the room, just to see if I missed anything.

Since I have gotten my Pebble I have noticed myself doing this less and less, because I know what notifications I have received because they are right there on my wrist.

I admit there is more I would like from my pebble as far as functionality, initial outgoing emails/hangouts via voice dictation would be nice. That being said the Pebble in its current iteration has proven itself useful for me.
So because there are some people in greater need, these people deserve to have their communities disrupted?
The article mentions that one such review is now the second-from-top on Yelp for this business.
I imagine that would depend on what exactly Taplytics allows (or at least encourages) you to change dynamically. While I suspect that Apple prohibits loading code remotely, I'm not sure if they would object to loading CTAs remotely any more than they would object to loading a news feed remotely.