skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Silicon Valley, and we have both parties and night life. It depends on who your friends are. I also knew a lot of people back in Cleveland who were living the workaholic life, trying to get into the best colleges, and so forth. So that they could leave Cleveland behind. It's a state of mind, not a place.

I realize this may not be a popular point of view among San Franciscans, but I think the east bay and south bay are actually better if you don't want to be a workaholic. In SF, unless you bought property in the 1970s, you'll be paying somewhere north of $3500 a month for housing. That kind of money requires you to have a high-end job it sounds like you're not that interested in. There are benefits to living in SF, but they come with costs.

A lot of artists and creatives live in Oakland these days. It has good access to San Francisco and other places via BART, and the housing costs are still reasonable.

On the other hand, the most laid-back place in the bay area is definitely Santa Cruz. It always brings a smile to my face to go down to the beach there.
Why “Teenage Flight” From Facebook Is a Good Thing
For those who haven't yet, I'd highly recommend reading "Steve Jobs", the biography by Isaacson. It portrays pretty much all of these events like Woz describes them, and is a very complete portrait of Jobs. Woz' status at HP as referenced isn't really covered, but his actions during the Apple I and II launches are pretty complete.

EDIT: I'd like to point out that this book covers everything, up to Jobs death, and is about Jobs, not Apple. There's obviously a lot about Apple, but a good amount about Pixar ,NeXT, and Jobs' personal life as well. A great biography IMO, but it's not much about technology.
What seems ridiculous to me is that the city that's absorbing the 'artists' is... Oakland! 20-minutes, or one BART stop away! That sounds fine to me. As SF gets bigger, let people overflow into Oakland. I don't see what's so bad about that.

The only people who are really concerned about this are the ones to insist that SF and Oakland are totally different cities. Come on guys, they've been the same economic region for 100+ years, it's time to admit that they're the same city.
I heard some estimate that each software engineer adds $1 million (not necessarily to a start up). But there should be a way to reward based on quantitative performance than evaluation by a manager who have no clue about software development.
> Using your money, one way or another - whether it's your farm, the mortgage on your house, or your pension fund.

When you borrow money in order to buy a house, it isn't your money that is being used by others. My mortgage got regularly sold to different entities, the only effect it had on me was I wrote the monthly payment check to someone else. The terms did not (and could not) change without my consent.

I'm a buy & hold stock investor. The machinations of HFT have no effect on me, they only really affect other HFT traders.
We used to include it and the Reddit admins asked us to stop for the time being.

Source: I was one of the recipients of the request.
This is awesome. Any suggestions for a slick ascii table formatter?
Not that I know of, but Musk wasn't part of PayPal at the beginning. He was off using the millions and VC connections he had from building and selling Zip2 to AltaVista/Compaq to start X.com, his own online banking company. Its early investors included banks; they were onboard from the start.

PayPal started as Confinity with Levchin/Thiel/Nosek/Howery and had its own set of finance industry investors. Thiel was from finance himself, so he's probably the source of their early connections.

It wasn't until 2 years after PayPal was founded that it was acquired by Musk's X.com, and the merged company kept the PayPal brand. Immediately after the acquisition, they raised another $100 million with investors including Deutsche Bank, Vertex and Development Bank of Singapore and JP Morgan.

I don't share the same assumption that banks would be especially hesitant to process transactions for a well-funded tech company in 1999, though. I think the fact that they were investing in these companies readily is evidence otherwise. I'm not sure I can ignore what I know today to say whether it was obvious or not 15 years ago that if person-to-person online payments got popular, they'd become a significant target for international payment fraud.
Those are not nearly enough for someone to exist out of the pit of despair.

Obviously someone against these services will probably think it's too much. Welcome to politics
This idea was explored a bit more thoroughly in an episode of This American Life

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/16/212645252/episode-...

They discuss and question the validity of the very deeply held belief that if you "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

While its very hard to argue with this logic, and it seems so true and obvious, it also implicitly assumes that the poor are poor due to lack of education, rather than due to lack of money.

I can't defend GiveDirectly or stand by any claims made on either side, but apparently the results they're achieving is some evidence that the poor really do just need some seed funding to launch from, much like startup companies need inital funding in order to launch.

One thing I'm sure of, whether you're poor or trying to start a company is that its very hard to start your virtuous growth cycle without a little money.
This is fantastic! I don't eat meat, and out of laziness I often get my protein from Quorn, which is a brand of Mycoprotein. People often say "but it's synthetic! It's made in vats!". This is true. So what?

I was having this debate with someone and we had a look at the ingredients. My opponent pointed triumphantly at "rehydrated corn starch" (i.e. flour and water). "See, it's processed!", she said.

I wish we could get away from the idea that Stainless Steel Bad, Wood and Leather Good. I suspect a lot of people would be horrified to see the shiny metallic interior of that temple of Natural Goodness the Innocent Smoothie factory!

ps: "out of laziness" - not because there's anything wrong with Quorn as a source of nutrients; it's just a pretty boring way to cook and eat!
Yes it's that second group I'm thinking of here. Show them that over an x amount of time period these programs resulted in Y and you might make more advances.
> I often receive emails from people who ask me to release my software under MIT or BSD3 rather than GPL so they can "relicense" it,

That makes no sense. People are asking GPL software to be relicensed under BSD/MIT to make them usable in situations where the GPL is a legal hassle or impossible to use. I doubt that people even consider relicensing BSD as something else (besides people practically downgrading BSD to GPL).
Exactly. I am not even a drug abuser, never even smoked in my life :)
and why the trader's job is not outsourced to someone in indian and china yet ? looks like a very "protected" profession to me.
> NewtonScript had a neat concept of heterogeneous multiple inheritance: Its "objects" had a prototype-like inheritance chain and a container inheritance chain.

See also HyperCard/HyperTalk...
It appears a wholesale switch to git is already in the works: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5211
You can't. You don't get the coffee. You also don't get the $40 fee for overdraft.
We have been based and fundraised in SV and LDN and my experiences are the following:

Hiring:
* Engineers in the UK are amazing, and you can hire from mainland Europe, which is also very good.
* Retention rates are higher.
* Salaries are lower.
* Most decent start-up-orientated talent is at the under-25 level. Finding good PMs with big vision is harder, and if you do, encouraging them to leave for a start-up is less heard of. In a sense, you have to 'grow your own'.
* Engineers traditionally have come from more corporate / tech-consulting backgrounds than start-up ones; this has both its pluses and its minuses.
* Engineers in mainland Europe, and to a lesser extent London, will have more experience with older technology (C++, java) than newer technologies. That said, there are great developers for clojure/scala/python/ruby, but -- again -- they tend to be at a more junior level.

Fundraising:
* The good people in London are really good, but there are a lot less of them.
* Seed rounds are not significantly harder (due to SEIS and lots of hnws.) Crunch, I believe, comes at A, B, where there are only a handful of options (Index, Accel, Balderton, Wellington). This is when people look across the pond. Ironically, London is full of PE and massive funds (property, hedge funds, etc.) I assume some of this money will divert to tech in the future.
* For seed rounds, you may have some discount price-wise, but, then again, it is a lot cheaper to run a company in the UK. I don't believe this discount is that high or particularly relevant.
* Investors are more inclined to want revenue, and focus on minimizing downside instead of maximizing upside; IMO it is harder to fund very big, disruptive ideas vs. smaller, cash-generative ones. There are outliers who are exceptions to this.
* Things seem to be changing. Lots of 'US-style' firms are springing up, but mostly at the seed level.
* There is a tradition of doing seed as equity rounds instead of convertible debt. This is a massive headache, but people aren't used to debt like in SV.
* Most VCs have been bankers / consultants instead of entrepreneurs.
As you guessed, this information is out of date. Bluetooth LE hardware doesn't require MFi certification.
By zero commercial value I mean that the current market price for this information is $0 because it is being given away for free. So it meets one of the key criteria of fair use.

However, I probably shouldn't mention fair use at all, because I don't believe that these course descriptions are eligible for copyright protection, therefore any reuse does not need to be justified as fair use.
I think the answer is what didn't motivate GCHQ to review other distributions. I think you're referring to their End User Devices Security review?

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/end-user-devices-s...

They didn't single Ubuntu out of a crowd, they just only reviewed Ubuntu which is probably due to the brand name recognition in the government departments the advice was aimed at or possibly the experience of the team doing the review.

I have assumed that was what you were referring to and not a different statement?
You seem to have an overinflated estimate of how many people are able to qualify for cash stipends from the U.S government.
When I was young, I got into a poker game with some local hoods, and they cleaned me out. I knew enough about the odds to know they were cheating, but not enough to know how they were doing it.

I resolved not to play poker again until I understood the game much better.

Ditto for derivatives. If you don't understand the game, you should invest in something else.
Copyright on course description. Nice, that's nice. How do supposedly smart people not get the very simple idea that open is good in academics (and in general but let's not get carried away).
Ask HN: Why Won't Microsoft Port 'Project' to OS X?
OReilly has a book
"Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects Real-World Arduino, Sensor, and Bluetooth Low Energy Apps in techBASIC" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029281.do

you can learn about techBASIC at http://www.byteworks.us/Byte_Works/techBASIC.html

they claim on their website that techBASIC apps can be sold through Apple.
Why you will fail to have a great career by Larry Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHTawgyKWQ
Look at the next word in the sentence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance

People receiving remittances from relatives working overseas tend to be on the poorer end of the spectrum.
"Part of it is due to the very strict Python standard of coding."

I don't know about that. Good code is good code. It's sort of one of those, "I'll know it when I see it" things.

The ease of which you can code classes for the sake of classes in Python can make some really hairy code out of what should be simple programs. Was that necessarily the 'one right way to do it'? Who's to say. And all the static analysis tools and syntactic aren't going to undo those hairballs anytime soon.

You might just feel more comfortable with languages with lower code density. 'brandonbloom made a good blog about that[1]. I think it can be doubly applied to any situation where meta-programming is employed.

1: http://www.brandonbloom.name/blog/2013/06/24/code-density/
This is the greatest mystery to me. The only thing I can think of is that the share of business people on strictly OS X systems are too few to make porting project worthwhile.

Right now, I have to use Parallels to Boot a Windows VM to run Project. OS X does have Project alternatives but I find them either too expensive and not as complete as Project or somewhat backwards to use their file types to share with Windows users using Project. Maybe I'm wrong, but right now I haven't found anything exactly like or better than Project.
http://peerjs.com/ is the best library I've found for WebRTC thus far. Their documentation is fair, there's decent support for DataChannels and they've also open sourced a signalling server. https://github.com/peers/peerjs-server
Nope I never had to use a PPA repository, sorry.
Bananas don't have any seeds - they're a sterile hybrid, and normally propagated via cuttings. http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-t...
I used to use OpenBSD on my daily laptop about 8 years ago. Loved it. Worked for a University and we had a few OpenBSD Servers in my department for web serving, email, etc. No other departments did.

Why did I stop? Theo was such an ass about questions on "his" mailing lists that, well, there were friendlier communities out there.

OpenSSH, however, I use a lot so I could donate a few bucks for that.
Oh my. You do realize that "giving a stipend" is not a Yes or No thing right? It's the size and type? "I have no idea why the man died under my care. I fed him 100 grains of rice every single day for the last year"
They absolutely can ship it. They choose not to. There is a big difference.

It's what happens when ideology is allowed to trump technology, and it is sad.

The fact that various distros ship not-open video card drivers shows that for some things, there's a willingness to compromise. This is far "worse" than shipping an open source module, or open source code that is compiled into a module on install, either of which could be done for ZFS.
Old Soviet joke:

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under socialism, it's the other way around.
Artificial is a subset, not the complement of natural.
The statement from the article is basically true. Credit derivatives can be useful to transfer risk from one party to another and may make the financial system slightly more efficient but if they ceased to exist the world would continue pretty much the same. You could argue that the net real effect of derivatives is to transfer money from the real economy to the pockets of bankers and derivative traders and so the overall effect of being rid of them would increase global wealth as some of the former traders would spend time trying to form tech startups instead of trying to get money from your pension fund into their pockets by selling said funds derivative contracts.
Cupertino (which is what I was referring to) is also ridiculously expensive, too. The apartment that I moved out of 2 years ago now costs $4,000 a month.

Also, I'm not talking about the rich adult night life. I'm talking about stuff you can do while you're growing up there. All of the kids my age were obsessed with getting straight A's, hardly any of them went out. The ones who were able to either were always in SF/Santa Cruz or were ridiculously rich.

Edit: I think we may be talking about different parts of the Valley. San Jose, Santa Cruz, and SF are nice, but I'm referring to the heart. i.e. Cupertino, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale.
This book looks fascinating! Thanks for mentioning it. (I do a lot of climate change related activism, and I'm always on the lookout for resources like these!)
That $1mm/engineer estimate is sometimes used for the valuation of a startup, not a yearly rate.
The researcher supposed that the reduced stressors in poor parents' lives allowed them to be more nurturing, resulting in reduced problems with their children. Seems like a no-brainer to do, considering this analysis:

"Bearing that in mind, Randall Akee, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a collaborator of Professor Costello’s, argues that the supplements actually save money in the long run. He calculates that 5 to 10 years after age 19, the savings incurred by the Cherokee income supplements surpass the initial costs — the payments to parents while the children were minors. That’s a conservative estimate, he says, based on reduced criminality, a reduced need for psychiatric care and savings gained from not repeating grades."

That means, its not only a good idea, its free.
Just a small notice: NewsBlur is actively hostile to power users.

1. There is a hard limit on a number of unreads per feed, which is pretty low (100-500 depending on a feed): https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/feed_cut_off_aft...

2. When not hitting that first limitation, Items are marked as read after 30 (previously 14) days: https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/do_unread_items_...
This is what I was alluding to but just because someone is working on something in an open source project doesn't mean it is ever going to happen. Particularly something as controversial as switching to another VCS. If you don't think this is controversial I encourage you to try it yourself with some project that is dear to you.
"This very likely can and does apply to databases the same way it applies to art or music."

No, that's not correct:

"Uncreative collections of facts are outside of Congressional authority under the Copyright Clause (Article I, § 8, cl. 8) of the United States Constitution, therefore no database right exists in the United States. Originality is the sine qua non of copyright in the United States (see Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service). This has not stopped database owners lobbying for the introduction of such a right, but so far bills to introduce it in the U.S. have been prevented by the successful lobbying of research libraries, consumer groups and firms who benefit from the free use of factual information."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right#United_States
Behind the Scenes with nil? and empty?
A rap video about Yogurt
I use my creative skills to rap about Yogurt.
For years (decades, really) proponents of copyright reform have complained about inflammatory rhetoric ("don't copy that floppy" and other timeless hits) hyping grossly inflated “losses”. Stooping to that level is wrong, no matter who does it, and it also poses a significant risk of backfiring: that “both sides do it” belief is easy to establish and hard to remove.

It's also completely unnecessary: the current situation is already deplorable without needing to further embellish it
Thanks to a project that has been previously pointed out (node WebRTC bindings - https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc) interop between a browser and node applications isn't too far away.

There is this issue which is being worked on at the moment in the node-webrtc library:

https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc

Once that's resolved data channel connectivity between a browser and command-line app, server, etc should be reasonably simple. While this bug is outstanding, it is possible to fall back to Rtp data channels in the browser and if that is something that is of interest then we can look at putting together some examples with rtc.io if that would help you out.
Nitpick: Historically, Microsoft ported to Windows, not to the Mac. Both PowerPoint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint#History: Originally designed for the Macintosh computer) and Excel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#Early_History: Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Macintosh on September 30, 1985, and the first Windows version was 2.05 (to synchronize with the Macintosh version 2.2) in November 1987.) were first released for the Macintosh. Word technically arrived for DOS first, but that version wasn't WYSIWYG.

Back to your question, my guess is that Microsoft realized that supporting Mac OS was feeding their competition more than it would bring in additional money. That didn't happen with the other applications because they were released years earlier (Access is from 1992; Word and Excel from 1985, and PowerPoint from 1987), when it was far from certain that Windows would win the desktop.
I shit a brick when I realized you can copy and paste entire selection areas.
Maybe it is just that UI from all other companies isn't that good, and everybody is amazed at something that doesn't suck.
And so it can be exploited:

http://www.scip.ch/en/?vuldb.10561
No, they're not. But that's the culture since the floor trading days. Even when most things are automated, traders still rake in huge bonuses. (Worked at a prop firm for 4 years).
Also check out woz's book iwoz.
You know that I can't. And you also know that what you've described is a series of opportunities presented as a burden.
In theory, RFC 2142 answers this:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2142

but in practice, any of the addresses listed there
will be the targets of a lot of spam - so I would
avoid using those as live working addressses.

You could perhaps put a powerful spam filter in front of sales@ and
info@ and see if any pearls pass through it - if anyone at your
company can spare the time for that - up to you.

Otherwise, the exact addresses you use are less important,
as long as Joe Random customer/vendor/outsider can
understand which address (or contact form) to use.

If your company is in an established niche, you might
follow any patterns that exist in that niche - check
your own address book for ideas.
Back in the early aughts I think.
Probably evil?

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
Actually, if you read more articles about the doctors putting people on disability, it is far more nuanced.

When there are no jobs in the area, you don't have an education, and you don't have enough money to move, what option do you have? There are places in Alabama where 3/4 if the population is on disability; this is not because they are disabled, but because they have no other choice.
Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?
Since the exchanges know who you are they can fill in those gaps. BTC-e is a bit of an anomaly; at some point I expect them to either adopt KYC or be hounded out of business.
I'm going to guess not as it is marked as being compatible with amd64, you will need an ARM build (arm 6, I believe) for the Raspberry Pi. I'm sure a third party will eventually post a pre-compiled version somewhere fairly soon.
Cities of the Future: Songdo, South Korea
There are new comments from Woz posted today on the original Google+ post's comment thread.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf