skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that there are some people who are there in LA because they've gotten the message that entertainment fame (vs a startup) is the only way they'll matter in the world, that there's vanity, and that traffic can suck away your will to live or do anything if you don't figure out a way to avoid it.

It's also true there's lots of people who participate in entertainment because they love it. They love making stories, they love acting, they love singing, dancing, they love making sets, effects, animation, soundtracks, songs, whatever. They know their products can change minds and change the world, too. A lot of these people aren't so different from your typical hacker.

There's also a lot of shenanigans and bullshit from people looking to hustle a buck or make their next fortune. I'm sure you can find the analog.

I'll also note that I live in West LA in a few miles from my job, which takes me 10 minutes to commute to, and which pays wages which are probably average for an SF webdev job (though possibly somewhat above average for an LA webdev job).

And you can find 2 bedroom apartments are available for under $2000, 1 bedrooms between $1000-$1500 (though you can get a luxury place or something by the beach if you really want to pay a lot more).

It's certainly not a perfect place (I'd be happier with it if there were more varied weather, and more access to nature and quiet space), and of course, not everybody's experience with LA is like mine. In fact, LA is so big and so varied that what I've come to suspect over my experience there is that there simply isn't any single summary that can capture it.
As is Amazon Fresh.
Is the real reason bitcoin prices are so high that people can't get any real money out of the system?
GopherCon schedule
> It took a few clicks to find out what Box is

> I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox?

Surely you are trolling. Box has a much more sophisticated offering for enterprise customers, including a platform where third parties can offer apps for business users.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Box_vs_Dropbox

edit: formatting
A better (IMHO) comparison can be found here:
http://www.softwareadvice.com/labs/box-vs-dropbox/
As a native to NorCal, might I remind you this weather is incredibly unusual, and we're in a drought. I dislike the cold, but we need rain. If I wanted it sunny all year long I'd move to San Diego. This lack of rain is irritating many northerners right now because it's not habitual. The only people okay with it are non locals.

The other problem with this pressure ridge, is zero precipitation is horrible for your skin. You need lotion and humidifiers to avoid cracked skin, especially through sleeping.

I like warm weather in the Spring and Summer, but most Northern California residents enjoy living here for the seasons. It's almost depressing without them.
It wasn't a guarded secret... "Radian" is almost the same word as "radius", and 2pi * radius = circumference = 2pi radians.
Loved the article and its key idea that big cities send some kind of message about what people living there care the most about. Barcelona's message is clearly "enjoy life".
I highly recommend the quantum computing MOOC from UC Berkeley. I took it when it was on Coursera but now it's on edx.

https://www.edx.org/course/uc-berkeleyx/uc-berkeleyx-cs-191x...
There was a constant palpable rivalry with both NYC and Southern California, a rivalry that was mostly one-directional.

Seriously, the only people I know of who ever talk about NYC in SV are ex-New Yorkers.+

+ I'm a 4th generation native.
I agree; my "aka" wasn't meant as criticism. It's easy to get lost in the longer definitions, so I was just restating it directly in the hopes that one or the other - or the combination - will be clear to most people.

Though I'm not sure "abstract algebra jargon storm" properly describes use of "associative" and "identity" - I remember learning about the "associative property of multiplication" and such in elementary school and my wife confirms she had similar experience.
I think they only offer such a large amount free because they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for.

Edit: you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying https://www.box.com/pricing/
If you think advertising and psychology have nothing to do with one another, you're suffering from delusional disorder (DSM IV 297.1).
The top-level answer is focused on what you call steps 2-4. You have a wider, better frame of reference, but some of their focus is appropriate too.
"Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most people who live there. If you can read people's thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thoughts. What ever that majority thought might be- that word is the word of the city. And if your personal word does not match the word of the city, then you don't really belong there."

- _Eat Pray Love_, Elizabeth Gilbert.
Well, if you are going to fork money out for a modem, make sure it's DOCSIS 3.x compatible.

Bonus: free speed boost.

One can look for a DOCSIS 3 compatible device here: http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/
Another view point here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083439.
Recently I learned that if you're using a ring buffer for message passing, the clflush opcode (after sending and after receiving) can dramatically reduce cache misses.
Dear lord. People still use Java in the browser?
I've developed using both. Dropbox is much more well-known overall where Box is much more well-known in the enterprise area. From the iOS developer side of things I much prefer Dropbox and here's why:

- Box's SDK authentication uses a modal view controller with a web view to authenticate. Its appearance is somewhat unpolished and glitchy. Dropbox redirects to the Dropbox app if installed and if not uses a modal view controller. Box used to use this method but no longer does for some reason. It's much more cumbersome to log in without it.

- Dropbox is path-based and all actions are based on a path. Box requires that you recursively iterate from the root to get each level's unique ID if all you have is a path.

- Box's SDK has had a much slower development cycle than Dropbox. There are many operations that are not yet coded.

- Box refreshes the login token frequently, which has a tendency to slow things down.

All of these make something as common as a file chooser much, much easier to implement on Dropbox.
Adrive.com has been offering 50 gigs for at least 6 years. Because I still got so old backups there.
Length of which arc?
Major setbacks for two new smartphone OSs, Tizen and Ubuntu Touch
Beyond the straightforward good sense of this, it's a negotiation, and you should "talk to all the players on the opposing party's team" as you gather information.
I just now read the article with Firefox and NoScript. No NYT paywall for me.

I just now tried with Safari, after turning off JavaScript. No problem viewing the entire article, including pictures. Of course I reset Safari before opening the URL, just to make sure there were no existing cookies, etc.

I love the NYT paywall. The only way they could have made it easier to bypass would have been to include directions on how to disable JavaScript at the top of every page! BTW this is deliberate. It's not like they're idiots. They intentionally decided to make the paywall easy to get around.
victim of homokov's cookie attack.
How the 12.9" iPad Rumor Got Started
> If the web page includes obfuscated JavaScript

Ok, but how do you know that "obfuscated JavaScript" is "bad"? I obfuscate all of my javascript, it's called minimization, that's now inherently bad?

Maybe browsers should require approval of redirects? Or make it an option? I mean that technique could apply to any sort of browser plugin (flash, or anything, not just java), what does obfuscated JavaScript have to do with redirects or Java in particular? The article is just being dishonest. I don't disagree that the Java plugin has had issues, but JavaScript redirects have nothing to do with it.

Don't get me wrong, there are tons of inherent risks to the online experience, but let's not make shit up at the same time! Which is what it seems this article does.
Box is HIPA compliant -- Dropbox is not.

Generally Box is well known for its security, whereas Dropbox accomplishes a solution to its problem but I wouldn't trust confidential files on it.
FYI, this modem, unlike the otherwise similar SB6141, doesn't support 8-channel bonding, so it might not be supported by some ISPs' highest service tiers.
So how worried should I be about this? Are quantum computers really powerful enough to give us strong AI anytime soon?
The author is wrong by blaming anything at Wikipedia and etc. This sounded more than weird.
GoDaddy Unveils WP Engine Competitor
Vote down if you free-love karma.
Yup, important communication is often best when informal. For forms, official interviews and the like, carefully protect your goals. But be creative in considering how you can educate the other party.
How to leverage Trending topics
I think it is best to optimize for collisions. Meaning, be in places where people running into to each to do interesting things just happens naturally. This phenomenon takes place in elite universities and startup hubs.
There's a whole subreddit dedicated to this sort of thing, /r/trees3d
Please clarify the nefarious means by which PhD advisers are intentionally recruiting and training their underpaid replacements.

A "university" is not a single actor. PhD applicants generally apply to advisers or departments, not universities administrators.
I just remember radians being taught as a "thing", an alternative to degrees. We learned how to convert between the two and that was that. Seeing this animation, and seeing that radius bend to wrap itself around part of the circle was pretty breathtaking for me and now I must study it more.
Happy to see that they are actually offering 50gb. Most services say 50gb but it's actually upto 50gb. So you need to refer atleast 5 friends etc. to get the space.
Valve has done some foundational research and they've already released VR support in Steam, but don't plan to sell hardware. Oculus is designing hardware and working with Valve along with many other game devs. They will likely release an awesome consumer product in about a year.

Oculus + Steam OS will be the best VR platform for the foreseeable future. Everyone else is at least a year behind; probably much longer than that.
The quotes were the part where I was bluffing. :-/
I usually roll my eyes at the "listicle" type of journalism but this list is quite impressive. It does paint a better picture as to why Peter Thiel is viewed as such a contrarian.
Ideas Are Our Greatest Natural Resource
I think its time we try to shift the web standards to meet modern needs

But when we try that, everyone piles on about how it's out of scope for web standards, and complains about how it's being done, and...

Just makes you want to throw your hands up.
YouType 
YouType is a new application for Android that replaces your device's screen keyboard and allows you to type faster and easier in a way that is always new. YouType is an efficient and fun keyboard that improves user experience thanks to an innovative design.
The combination of a good font, a simplified design and the many studies and user tests that we have done, have contributed to the creation of a keyboard that provides a simple, fun, and better way of typing.
YouType is full of different designs, made to please all users. The beautiful designs go along with great, innovative functions. A swipe function allows you to quickly change the skin of your keyboard simply by swiping your finger across the bottom of the keyboard UI.
YouType is also the first keyboard for Android that allows you, with the Swipe Selection function, to move the cursor by simply dragging your finger over the keyboard UI. You can also move the cursor and make a selection by holding down shift while swiping. Once a selection has been made, a very useful pop-up window will appear on the screen allowing you to copy, cut, or paste the selected text. Lastly, YouType will be the first keyboard to launch a Color-Wheel function which will allow users to customize their keyboard even more by choosing among thousands of colors. New designs and themes will be also available later on this spring.

You can buy YouType on Google Play. There, you will also find YouType - Black which has the same features of the Flat version but a much more elegant and unique style. It also allows you to change the style of your font from Thin to Bold with a simple swipe.
What's the difference between that and running JavaScript unfettered? If the confines of the Java Sandbox can be challenged by hackers, JavaScript's day is coming and it will be huge.
" in London you can still (barely) hear the message that one should be more aristocratic."

spoken like a true tourist. that is just nonsense.
People speak at ~100-180 WPM (words per minute), with American Sign Language ~200 WPM[1]. Professional typists type at 50 to 80 WPM [2]. Here is a video of someone signing at 120 WPM, he looks like he is moving in slow motion. [3]

Everyone is trying to get rid of the keyboard because:

1. they take up a lot of space,

2. typically require a desk/not mobile friendly,

3. only supports fast entry of a limited number of characters,

4. are far slower than the theoretical best (for instance people can talk much faster than they can type),

5. many of the non-alpha keys require the user to look away from the monitor.

> Having well made key-switches and a good placement is probably the best thing next to just reading what I mean from my mind.

In theory there are input devices that allow far more characters, at higher speed, with fewer errors. Keyboards have stuck around both because they are a great technology and because of path dependency. They aren't going to stick around forever.

[1]: http://www.dbcusa.org/index.php/About-Us/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7OpQEu5-w
While the app developers may not be surprised, I strongly suspect the overwhelming majority of app users are.

And for Google to allow this to happen is unconscionable.
You can increase freedom/satisfaction by decreasing the things that you feel threaten it.

This is especially true in relationships, sometimes expressed as "don't sweat the small stuff—and it's all small stuff."

In evaluating a job or relationship, one technique is to make a pros and cons list, and put things that are easiest to adjust your attitudes on (like wearing a tie) in a third list to try to see the true value proposition.

Otherwise one risk is that you'll assume minor things may represent a "cultural/attitude problem" that doesn't really exist beyond a few easy-to-accept things, such as wearing a tie, taking out the garbage on a schedule, etc.

Of course, if the value proposition doesn't satisfy you, then you're in the wrong place. But if it does, keep your attention on the good things about the relationship as you practice "not sweating the small stuff."
If you think about it: as formulated, virtually all present Web advertising works via content injection. You're just (nominally) limiting who gets to insert content.
> So we're back to the issue of how do we prove not just competence but excellence in a field?

See, that's what bugs me about this article. Not once did it address this most relevant of topics head on. It skirts it, suggesting that people don't even want to consider how someone becomes an "expert" to the point where the word "expert" is used insultingly. But I think part of it, a larger part, is simple cynicism stemming from the awareness we all now have that: with greater access to information, the world is less one-sided and more complicated than we expect. As we get more adjusted to having the Internet, we realize that anyone can "sound like an expert" and so -- to come back to my original point -- proof is important. I'm not saying "prove it," as the author did, for I'm just as willing to hear someone's backstory and trust via third-parties. But ... when it comes to what's on the news, to politics, to business, services, almost any point where an expert can be useful -- there's a sense of "if you do a good job, we'll trust you" that now more than ever withholds trust unless you can also be charming. Sadly, in news cycles especially, if you're doing a good job, no one will notice you or your "proof" until you screw up. And being an effective personality doesn't require expertise to have opinions.
Looking at the comments, you'd think the post title was "Box vs Dropbox"...
Isn't the geometric formulation equivalent to the algebraic one? What makes the geometric representation any less general? Of course in higher dimensions you can't formulate it in terms of a drawing, but for 2 it seems to capture the entirety of the concept.
Uh, "feeling with the kernel panic very early in booth" meaning, boot failed with a kernel panic.

I was kind of confused by what I read about power management having been changed in Mavericks, but it turned out that whatever is relevant to this issue has not changed. As I noted the same solution fixed the same problem.
> Reload this page with JavaScript disabled and see how the content was "prerendered" at compile time.

To their credit, the page is not blank, unlike a lot of "web" authors out there. Unfortunately there are several links that point to invalid and nonexistent fragments like #/home/ instead of actual elements of that or some other document, which really means the framework is happy to make a siloed javascript app and does not ensure you are responsibly making all your content available as part of the world-wide web at some stable URL where third parties can reference it.

tl,dr: this encourages single-page apps which will be the death of the web.
Paul is describing an 80's New York. Paul doesn't use the word culture once in the essay. The word art only appears in reference to Europe and Paris. The strongest signal from New York is now much more about art, culture, and taste than about money.
I didn't 'get' K until I read an interview with Arthur Whitney in the ACM Queue. Apart from performance, you're also getting craftsmanship.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242

It turns out he rewrites the whole compiler from scratch in C every four years.

This is a snapshot from the source code of 'J' also by Arthur Whitney - the precursor to 'K'.

http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm#incunabulum

This is it described by Ken Iverson:

"The final impetus that got J started was the one-page interpreter fragment that Arthur wrote, recorded in Appendix A of An Implementation of J [29] and also reproduced in Appendix A below. My immediate reaction on seeing the page was recoil and puzzlement: it looked nothing like any C code I had ever seen. (“Is it even C?”) However, Ken counselled that I should reserve judgment. "

http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm
it's rather nurse shouldn't make more than a doctor. Mafia boss is a criminal and as you might know Americans just love to be "tough on crime" :-)
Obligatory response that you're not relying solely on your own ability to examine code for problems, but the entire universe of those able to do so.

With proprietary code, you're restricted to audits done by those whom the code author has allowed to do so (or who have surreptitiously obtained the source ... and having done so, put themselves at legal risk by disclosing their findings).
Airlines, Listen Up: Here's the Boarding Pass You Should Be Using
I'm really looking forward to pedestal. From what I understand the team is vacationing, but that there are plans to integrate core.async. I do wish that its development were a bit more public, though.
How should I respond to an inappropriate question in a job interview?
Wow. I didn't realize you were actually scraping these sites and re-hosting the content. That's a bit shady, don't you think?
Where would London fit on your continuum?
In Japan, there are homeless people, organized crime, corrupt corporations, a nuclear disaster, and a very high suicide rate.

He makes a common mistake when people first visit or spend time in Japan, they are amazed by all the things he talks about it.

On the surface Japan is amazing and can be overwhelmingly impressive, but he needs to spend more than just superficial time there.
> I think you must have missed the good parts of SF, if you felt that your coding skills defined you.

As a person who got into programming five years ago after finding out math doesn't get you jobs, I would be worried if my average coding skills alone defined me.

> Try Cole Valley, or the Lower Haight and skip SOMA.

I lived a block away from Cole Valley, dated girls in the Lower Haight, spent never more than an 8 hour day in SoMa. Your move! :)

> Might I remind you right now it's 70's in SF while you have snow...

As do all my friends who keep sending me pictures. However, a view as observed through a window whilst working in a SoMa warehouse is about as real as a screensaver.
Come to Seattle and learn about another dimension.
Rich Chinese continue to flee China
I always thought ubiquitous VR was a race between porn and games, looks like games will win.
Ok, just transferred $100 to your coinbase account. Since this was transferred directly to your mail within coinbase, the transaction does not get included in the blockchain. Let me know if you didn't received them. Best Jacob, CrowdCurity.
Hungry, risk-taking pioneer is better for start-up world than theory-oriented family guy with a state sponsored safety-net. Than the former will be better at liberal arts, philosophy or literature, design, luxury goods production.

Expecting to see SV in Europe is akin to expecting to see Ferrari production in the States. Some things derive from the culture and I'm a strong believer that SV is one of them.
Run. It is only a sign of things to come. If they are asking inappropriate things during an interview, I will promise you it will be worse if you work there. Take it from someone with many years of experience.
As usual, it's best not to sacrifice readability for performance until you have proof of a bottleneck. Most of the code you write isn't performance-critical. And (thanks to existing performance optimizations in everything ranging from the JS VM, to the OS, to the CPU itself) it's very, very easy to be wrong about where your performance problems are. Note the comments under the SO article; most of the micro-"optimizations" are actually slower than normal code.

Also, it answers the question wrong. :-b (Arrays are objects in JS, with a bit of extra magic.)
I understand what you mean about terminology and different names. My wife has auto-immune hepatitis. I mention that to people, and too often they then ask me, "So hep-A or hep-C?" It's like the first words AUTO-IMMUNE just fly right past because all they've ever heard of is a virus causing it.

... and completely ignoring the fact that "hepatitis" simply means liver inflammation, regardless of cause. So auto-immune hepatitis is totally accurate, and still, people think "virus" when they hear it.
Noticed link injection last week and tracked it down to a very useful extension called World Clocks [1]. Had a hard time trying to report it - finally tracked down the Report abuse button inside the details tab on the store.

One thing I noticed is that recent reviews of an extension are more accurate than the rating of the extension. Of course Google could mine these comments to track down problematic extensions and yank them.

[1] http://goo.gl/DGqW1
People speak at ~100-180 WPM (words per minute), with American Sign Language ~200 WPM[1]. Professional typists type at 50 to 80 WPM [2]

I'd wager that I can enter computer code at a higher information rate via keyboard than speaking. "Open-brace" takes a lot longer to say than to type.
You aren't diving the circle in half, you are using the radius. Radius vs arc length makes perfect sense; diameter vs arc length doesn't.