skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks to all people who commented, I don't want my money back , I want a working MacBook, and it is not easy to bring this up to and apple store, since it does not happen all the time, I need to go there and try to reproduce it, and they I expect they say let's try a OS reinstall, then I'll go home and then it is likely that it does not solve some of the problems and ....
it is not what I expect from what I consider best laptop (my) money can buy,
Do you seriously don't know what "swatting" means? Somebody called SWAT on them, while he hacked into that machine. Nowhere was said that a SWAT operative was the hacker.
I live in a vacation area with a lot of second homes. The way property taxes work is the local government says they need $X and then work backwards. Residents get a huge discount and pay about 1/3 what non-residents pay. The only hassle is proving your a resident every few years.
By that analogy, Can I get free mobile advertising if I work at Facebook or free Adwords at Google ?
in 2000 we bought stainless steel kettle for $70. Buying it i felt it was expensive, and there were cheaper plastic ones. My wife overruled. As usually she was right. In 2013 she said that its time to update (though the old one was still in pretty good shape and hadn't produced any issues during those 13 years with everyday usage - at morning once and several times in the evening), and we bought new, stainless steel, for $90 something. This time i didn't even said anything.

Giving the retail markup of say 50% and wholesale markup of say 30%, the difference at the manufacturer of $90 vs. say $50 becomes $31 vs. $17 ($10 vs $5 BOM :)
Holy shit, again, what relative assessments? I didn't make any!
I take your point and it's a good one. I Think probably a pitfall is when you never go beyond the level of detail and research of your back of envelope calculation when, say, setting up a kickstarter. Manufacturing has a lot of pitfalls and it is very challenging, especially for electronics, to account for all the things that can go wrong, or all the hidden costs, or the peculiarities of retail infrastructure, supply chains, and retail, if you've never done it before. Not to discourage anyone from trying, but I think this is where a lot of crowdfunded projects can fail.
I disagree with this article, but in the interest of balancing your claims:

There are better rated restaurants in most of the categories you mentioned elsewhere in the Bay. For example, I know of at least two Indian places that I personally consider better than Sakoon and have better ratings on Yelp. There are a half dozen that have better ratings on Yelp but which I have never been to. And that's just within five miles of Menlo Park, to say nothing of the city.

You are of course free to your own opinion, but I'd caution other readers that this is just one opinion among many, and is probably not as near the mean as one might hope given the authoritative tone of the assertions made.
It is undeniable that generics are a quite demanded feature for golang.

We'll see how the language evolves, but I can't see them coming for a "long" time.
He's a big kid at heart.
Yeah, so, a poor college student can't have a bank account but he can have a computer ($200) and internet connection ($10/m) to get started with these coins.

Well, how does a poor college student get his first coin? or a satoshi? Oh right, a computer, a wallet, maybe a bank account and an exchange platform account. No? Go find someone sells coins offline? lol, with what? Cash? Oh, that poor student... He just transfered 10 grands into bitcoins yesterday, today, it worths 12 grands, tomorrow worths 8. No worry, a poor student doesn't care.

Any coin that needs an internet connection means a huge ignorance of 2/3 of world population and infrastructures (which are controlled by the goverments). I don't want to live in that kind of world/system.

The premined coins have already made the bitcoin world unfair, how can any one keep saying bitcoin is the future and doing good things for the poor? I guess because those coins made wealth redistribution much easier than ever.
I'm not a professional programmer by any means but I use Python daily and Flask is my goto framework. I wrote an automated commit system leveraging the API in Palo Alto Networks platform in a day. Auth, sessions, pagination, templates, CSRF, safe data, scheduling, etc. All easy to use, no bloat.

I just enjoy Python in general as I can get things done so quickly. Especially with a nice environment setup using phone and pip. On top of that PyCharm just works.

I've tried a number of other languages over the years, but could never get to the level of productivity as I've always gotten with Python. And now I'm going to have to buy the OPs book...
You mean "Mad house of trading" = Millions of dollars in bonuses.
How Intel is buying, building a piece of the tablet market
The bounce indenter in Steve Yegge's js2-mode is an interesting approach:

For any given line, there are some obvious possible indentation points:

- whatever position Karl's guesser wants to use
- the beginning of the line
- after the '=' if the previous line is an assignment
- same indentation as the previous line
- first preceding line with less indentation than the preceding line

[...]the TAB key cycles among them.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.nz/2008_03_01_archive.html

It takes a lot of the frustration out of the indenter getting it wrong; in practice this doesn't cycle around tab points as much as you'd think.

And then there's cc-guess.el, which guesses your preferred indentation style by examining the current file. It would be soooooo nice if these ideas were available across all modes.
Astonishing how messed up Google+ is with regard to zooming in ... in Chrome.
Indeed, it was a clever trick.

But in no way was the attack "serious", just for the lols, I know the attacker and swatting is just another way to get lols.
I'm glad there are still efforts to make cross-platform frameworks that don't just sit on top of HTML+CSS+JS.
You are an example of exactly what I'm talking about. You have an utterly alien mentality and worldview to me. In no small part perhaps exemplified by the fact that you have managed to spend a wall of text arguing aimlessly against a strawman.
Are Device Based APIs Where It Is At?
All of those places were somewhere on my list of good places (but not at the top) at some time in the past and have fallen off as I have discovered even better places.

Hoshi is still great though and one of my favorites, but definitely not the best sushi in the South Bay. Also - you can't judge a sushi place by its toro according to Jiro-san.
Oh look, the Oppression Olympics[1] is in town.

Someone always has it worse than you. That does not invalidate pikachu_is_cool's feelings of existential emptiness.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Oppression%20...
I think the peninsula is getting better, but we've still got a long way to go. The astronomical rents in SF are causing a lot of places to move down to the valley. There was a good article which just came out on the peninsula dining scene in the Palo Alto Weekly talking about the renaissance in dining.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/01/17/palo-altos-din...

Renaissance would imply "re-birth" though, which I'm not sure good dining ever existed here. :-D
Forgive me for offending your politically correct sensibilities, but it seems that I'm going to have to be even more blunt: if you want to convince white people in this country that doling out free money to the poor is a good idea, you're going to have to convince them that blacks and latinos aren't going to abuse that system en masse. The only way to do that is to try something similar in neighborhoods that are comprised predominately of minorities and cross your fingers that it is a success. It doesn't matter whether those below the poverty line are 65% or 5% white - it's the minorities that they're concerned with. That's just the political reality of the situation.

And while we're on the subject of statistics, I may as well go ahead and ask about yours: where did you get that figure from? Because I found something much different:

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_weal...

According to this, only about 25% of people living in poverty were white, and that includes the somewhat dubious category 'white, not hispanic.' (It's near the bottom, Table B)

That also includes white retirees, which inflates the figure as you're taking the number of retirees from a large category and sticking them into a smaller category, which means they will be over-represented in the smaller category.

And that's not even mentioning the rate of poverty or welfare participation, which is where the common perception that blacks and latinos abuse the welfare system comes from in the first place. It's much higher than it is or other races. When you dig into the data, it usually turns out that stereotypes exist for a reason, and this appears to be no exception.
When I moved to Santa Cruz (at the end of the nineties), my company eventually closed our office there and consolidated everyone into our office in downtown San Jose. No one wanted to work there, which I found weird at first (considering it wasn't very far away), but eventually understood.

San Jose was pretty shitty then (I have no idea what it's like now, but it sounds like it's basically the same).

I also didn't find anything redeeming about San Francisco (which I realize is a minority opinion), so I stayed in Santa Cruz as long as I could (before eventually relocating to DC after the company closed the rest of our offices out west).
Why, did you want to talk about the music industry's rhetoric? I don't think a comparison would be favorable to the music industry.
Can you give any particular examples that show that you really learned to be an asshole and not just confident and/or assertive?
I've been using wecare@mydomain.com since 2002
But when it runs out of water (or you forget to fill it up), it just burns...
As he said:

"Who the fuck is Carms Perez?"

Is she just some random bitch?
<T>errible to my eyes.
I encourage people to watch Fresh Off The Boat with Eddie Huang: Bay Area. In his short documentary series he tries different foods from different areas to get a feel of the culture. I really think his opinion about the food here resonates with the South Bay especially [0]. You wouldn't think that restaurants in strip malls would have good food or a lot of culture, but somehow we manage that here and I personally think the author is being too black and white in his analysis of San Francisco and San Jose.

[0] http://youtu.be/Ezq_96rookw?t=8m57s
That one got me too. It is empirically easy to screw up sushi. It is done all the time in countless bad sushi restaurants, which are far more numerous than the good ones.
Here is a link to the World Bank classifications of countries by income:

http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications
That's a good point. The additional information is helpful. I wouldn't be very pleased if I was a restaurant owner. Makes me suspension of the website since it's not clear it's not the restaurant's actual website.
Did you mean "agitprop"?

It's been a while since I've seen that. Thanks for the belly-laugh.
It's pretty funny that you probably don't realize that you sound alot like the Irish, Polish and Italian old timers when I was growing up in Queens and Brooklyn.

Substitute "white and Asian" with "black and Puerto Rican" and "office park" with "barrio" and you have the same sentiment.
We need to change the structure/paradigm to make so much inequality technically infeasible.
Looks like The Atlantic decided to preserve the 1996 layout of the "prefab hell" article. It is refreshingly minimalistic -- no ads, no links to "Just In" or "Top 10" articles. I like it much better than the modern theatlantic.com
"Not so coincidentally, an old personal server had a database accessed using old forum credentials obtained from the incident last year."

That either means that the attacker used the data on the compromised server to SWAT them, OR that the SWAT team used their physical access to access the server. Anything else would make the SWAT visit and the server compromise a coincidence, and they make it clear that it is not.

....I'm very confused.

Edit: Or the attacker used the SWAT visit to prevent Linode from stopping the server compromise? I guess that makes some sense, although it seems like an awfully large precaution to take for a phpbb forum. I know of attacks on financial networks and banks where one attack (ie, DDoS on public website) was used to distract from the "real" attack on the money wire system or whatever. But to SWAT someone to distract from compromising a FORUM? Doesn't add up to me; the forum hack is basically just a prank, but the SWAT team visit is hugely more serious.
I'd say he's right about the SF food. I haven't been to San Jose but I've been to SF and every meal I had there was awesome. I'm from Vancouver though, so it's probably quite similar in terms of Asian cuisine quality.

Oh yeah and the prefab article was a great read. I do find it sad how many ugly, dreary buildings went up in our cities. At least now they're starting to make better looking stuff, but nothing as timeless and beautiful as the older classical buildings (ie typically 1900's bank buildings).
Coder Factory coming to Melbourne
Depends on the startup. There are top-tier startups, promising startups, and then there are random startups. Some "startups" like Pinterest, Airbnb, Dropbox, Quora, etc. have extremely strong engineering cultures and would probably be a ton better than GS.
Just copy the URL and paste it into a Google Chrome Incognito Window.
Healthcare is free if:

* you need emergency care and make your own way to a public hospital

* you're prepared to wait for a non-essential treatment

* you see a bulk-billing general practitioner

* you earn enough such that the cost of medical insurance (plus out of pocket expenses if you do need treatment, making this calculation tricky) is less than the dollar value of the additional 1.0 to 1.5% tax you would otherwise pay as a Medicare Levy Surcharge. (Ballpark figure is >$120k individual or >$200k as a family)
> Well, then you should let me distribute my money that way instead of taking it and doing it yourself."

And AFAICT, the US tax code is at least half decent about recognizing charitable giving -- that is, letting people distribute their money that way or other ways -- as a legitimate offset to a personal tax burden.

Possible it could be better.

It looks to me like we don't see a lot of personal stipend style charitable giving, though.

(There's a significant presumption in the phrase "my money", but that conversation usually goes about as well as threading the proverbial camel through the eye of a needle, probably for much the same reasons.)
It is probably convenient for you to think that, but unless you have some sort of mental health condition (delusions of grandeur, etc.), I doubt it.

So what would you say to the young [insert famous and wealthy figure here]?
Click the link. The joke is that he eats sushi with lots of wasabi, which overrides the taste of the actual roll.
is this trying to solve a particular problem or just pandering to the "... but generics!" crowd of trolls?

because it doesn't look like it's solving anything, it feels positively ugly, and there's no way we'll every shut those people up no matter how hard we try. there's no generics solution that will do that.

thankfully go's authors don't usually favour the internet's opinion on these matters, or we'd be dealing with something even uglier now.
Don't want to spoil iWoz for you, but wanted to mention that his father was pretty cool too. Allowed him to play with the right stuff that enabled him to build great things later in the future. And it is not like he was some kid-genius. It is just that when you have a full scale electronics lab at home, you tend to pick things up, even as a four year old.

As a side note, it is not the electronics lab specifically. It is keeping current with the state-of-the-art yourself, working with state-of-the-art stuff at home and letting your kids to fool around...
would love your list then :)
This blog post was written almost two decades ago.
The Minecraft install process was on his new podcast. Here's the episode: http://atp.fm/episodes/25-thrustmaster-joystick

But yes, John Siracusa is a national treasure.
> Printing images as natural history data in a scholarly publication should be considered Fair Use.

The author's entire argument rests on this single sentence. And, so far as I know, it is incorrect.

[I think that by "should be" the author is really saying "is" in a flowery way: otherwise his entire article is a nonsense hypothetical rather than, as he says, something which happened in reality.]
the psychological and social difference between receiving money from a source which a population would consider to be 'theirs' cannot be overstated

It can be overstated; you've overstated it. In contrast to the careful research described in the article, you've just made a bunch of stuff up. Your rush to assume race as the dominant factor is another example.
The last part is backwards -- when F is a functor, the only law we need to check is the identity law, but checking the composition law isn't enough. For example,

fmap _ _ = []

satisfies fmap f . fmap g = fmap (f . g), but not fmap id = id.
>He may not have ended up being a billionaire without Jobs

I don't think he is a billionaire. Googling "net worth woz" finds several articles citing a net worth around $100 million.

But the point still stands (just at 1/10 the level.)
I think there has been some progress made on implementing BitTorrent like clients using WebRTC data channels:

https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

I haven't done that much investigation myself yet, but I definitely think it's possible. No idea on which will be faster, I imagine it will come down to quantity and quality of peers in both cases...
I don't believe those who have contempt for the poor have any less contempt for science, and social science in particular.
Information Control: Yale's Power Grab
Very strange shadow phenomenon
May be the author is trying to say "For him its pretty easy to not get the difference between good and bad sushi"
I just got into Bluetooth LE as an Android developer. My school background is in embedded devices, so I wanted to see what's out there that I can program on the device side, and then connect to the phone.

There are two comparable offerings for Bluetooth LE chips (are there others? let me know): the Texas Instruments CC2541, and the Nordic Semi nRF51822. They can be purchased as development kits for $100, but the chips only cost $2-3 in larger quantities, so you could take something based on them to production without the cost being prohibitive.

I like the TI SensorTag (CC2541 based, $25). It comes with several sensors a coin cell battery, and iOS sample code, which is neat.
http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2541dk-sensor

On the other hand, if you wanted to program the bluetooth device itself, the CC2541 isn't ideal. It's based on the 8-bit Intel 8051 micro controller, and TI's radio libraries only work with the very expensive and crappy IAR tool set. I bought their development kit for $100 before realizing that it's worthless without the $3000 IAR IDE :|

The Nordic Semi nRF51822 development kit is much better. Their chip is based on the ARM Cortex M0, so you get a tiny 32-bit processor. It comes with a programmable USB dongle that can be used right away, as well as a J-Link Lite CortexM-9, which can download code and do full GDB debugging on the device. You may need to be comfortable looking at schematics to figure out the other two included demo boards, however.
http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-R-low-energ...

If anyone knows of any other Bluetooth LE chip offerings, please let me know (I've read that Broadcom has 'announced' several chips, but I didn't see anything concrete that's shipping at the moment). The Bluegiga modules are too integrated for me, and too expensive to sprinkle them around the house for random sensing/controlling projects, but they may be easier to get started with as well.
> That makes total sense, and I wish it would have been explained like that to me, too.

Did you (and everyone else) really never learn the (paradigmatic) parametric equation describing circular motion, (x, y) = (cos t, sin t)?
Which is what I said and my point stands: how many people can actually give the correct answer to who created the first light bulb? Edison was attributed all of the credit when he built off the work of others, which isn't to say that's a bad thing but that this is usually how breakthroughs usually come about.
Is there anyone on HN who works in the valley and lives in Santa Cruz?

I currently work in SF/live in Oakland, but my gf and I go to Santa Cruz pretty regularly over the weekends. I really like the vibe there- way more relaxed and less obsessed with the latest startups. You can take hikes, surf, enjoy the weather, have nice meals for less money than in the Bay Area, and without the pretension.

For now I'm in my mid-20s and content with going there one or two weekends a month; but if I still work in the bay area when I start to turn 30 and have kids, I think I'd much rather live in Santa Cruz.

I know Apple has a few SC shuttles; are they the only company? I'd love to hear any stories :)
yep. but it solved the kernel 100% problem.
Oh, that's a good idea, let me see more about embed.ly, thanks, and good luck too!
New gTLD investor Fred Kreuger: Dot Com Will Be Dead in 10 Years
IE11 is a really good browser. Fast and rendering is flawless
Maybe you should consider naming it differently, as my first thought was that it has something to do with Zurb's Orbit.js
so? good for him.
I think it's an inescapable reality of the human condition:
we suffer an irresolvable emptiness. we make different choices about how to fill the unfillable hole. I think his choice to fill his by spreading hard-won wisdom and describing a path to honour is a smart solution to a problem we all face.
Jeeze, thanks for that I had no idea.
How I Stopped Procrastinating
I don't think it's possible. We live in a finite world. All my wealth comes from someone else's poverty.
I don't think "swatting" is a common enough term to assume that everyone knows what it means. I certainly didn't.
From his post history, it seems he himself is a "White or Asian male".
Is the only argument that Go users can come up with against generics is that they don't like the syntax? The pretentious nature of the Go community really puts me off from the language, especially when combined with some of the pretentious designs of Go itself.
or parallax ... I always confuse the two.
Much as I love bashing modern web design, I do prefer having more than six words to a line.
That was nice of the SWAT team to search their building for them, good thing they didn't put in an NSA backdoor or anything.
Am I the only person around here who actually enjoys living in the South Bay? Other than how much it costs, of course.
Disclaimer: I'm a Ninefold employee.

I can see how that claim could sound pretty ludicrous. A startup coming from nothing isn't going to get $100 Million to spend on hardware.

We're backed by a publicly listed Australian company: Macquarie Telecom. We've built upon their investment in datacenters and fiber connections between them as well as racks, servers, switches, routers, power etc.

We thought it was important to call out that we're not a fly-by-night operation, hosted in an office cupboard. We (and our backers) have ploughed serious capital and we're serious about what we're doing. I understand that we may not have explained very well how that investment works.

All that said, we have the advantage that most platform providers don't: capital invested in hardware which means that we don't have to rely on another provider (such as AWS) for compute resources.