skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how reliable indeed is but doing a quick search shows that the average salary for a Web Developer in DC is $105,000. It says the average for a Web Developer in San Francisco (the most expensive city in SV) is $114,000. Now that roughly $10k difference could seem like a lot to some but they'd be mislead to think that money wont get eaten up by SFs extreme cost of living.

>...your company in say DC then why would you continue to pay your engineers SV-sized wages.

Because you value great employees? I mean think of it this way. A lot of people can't just pack up ship and move to SF. But a lot people can! Companies keep their salaries on par with the valley to keep up. Granted the numbers aren't a science. It is hard to compare salaries in different areas but It has been my experience that SV wages are not that much more than any other city in the US.

> You'd be amongst the wealthiest people in DC if you were paid what a typical engineer is offered here

This is just blatantly false. Do you know how much government workers and politician minions make? It makes engineering salaries look laughable.

1.) http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Web-Developer-l-Washington,-D...

2.) http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Web+Developer&l1=San+francis...
After Mac: The Next 30 Years of Computing
Ask HN: Roll your own LogMeIn?
With the 7-day transition period for LogMeIn rapidly coming to a close I still haven't found a decent replacement for it (TeamViewer not working because of the commercial licensing aspect, I connect to various client work computers frequently).

Can we roll our own however? It seems like a lot of the components are available, they just have to be carefully constructed. Given the following list of components, how do we glue them together to get a LogMeIn-like experience (unattended remoting, NAT traversal, etc.)?

Obviously VNC is the first component that pops into my head. Second, I have a VPS that I use for hosting my sites and services; can it be used to centrally track where all my remote clients are? Third, what component would be needed to negotiate the NAT traversal, especially when computers are behind corporate firewalls (LogMeIn's killer feature IMHO?)?

Thoughts can also be appended here: https://gist.github.com/jlyman/8606354
Using search engines this way is also called "navigational search" and it's still how most of the world navigates the web (even sites they know well and use daily!)
I would have him not view people on the other side as advisaries.

"Competitor that through their marketplace success makes us further from our social goal" doesn't have all the same connotations as "advisory", but given their goals I don't see how it's not an accurate descriptor.

No, the software marketplace isn't a zero sum game. I'm not even a believer in free software, but it still frustrates me to no end when someone says "not a zero sum game" in a conversation that is so obviously about market share.
It's not quite that cut and dry. The 80286 was actually significantly faster than the 68000 at what-at-the-time-was-considered typical code[1]. The 68000 had a much cleaner and forward-looking ISA of course, but it paid a cost for that 32 bit architecture in more elaborate microcode that the 286 didn't need to worry about.

[1] That is, things that fit in mostly-16-bit data sets. Once framebuffer manipulation became the dominant operation a few years later, that status would flip. Nonetheless if you were trying to compile your code, model your circuit or calculate your spreadsheet as fast as possible in 1984, you'd probably pick a PC/AT over a Mac (if you couldn't get time on a VAX).
Focus or diversify?
In Chrome and Firefox, if you lazily type "gmail" into the address bar rather than "gmail.com" then it will google it for you. I suspect it's rather common, I know I've done it a few times by accident.
for me its jeff.morse@d214.org
"Bill Gates loses to LeBron James 232 - 0"

Not sure what outcome was expected...
Oh, sorry -- I thought you were talking about ways to subscribe to stories/articles, rather than forms of discovery.

These days, about 70% of my exploration online starts at HN. There's a bit from Kottke and Coudal, a couple of Twitter feeds, and various music labels (Stone's Throw, Mad Decent).

Is Delicious the answer? It's got tags for bookmarks _and_ discovery -- there go two of the HN front page stories from this past week. Remap Ctrl-D in Chrome, and I don't think you'll find a better, more open solution for the Web out there.
More terrifying is that it's not just email.

While Gmail was down I couldn't view or edit documents in Drive.

And I also lost control of my Google Compute Engine instances, apparently since the gcutil application couldn't authenticate with my Google account.
Magnus Carlsen didn't start a billion dollar company, and Bill Gates isn't a chess god.

Why is this article on HN? Who cares?
"Uber maybe needs to reinvent their sales incentive structure the same way they've reinvented ridesharing."

They don't need to reinvent anything here. Lots of companies have salespeople with no experience and a high turnover rate. Yet they rarely directly sabotage their competitors.
RMS had a pretty testy interview with Z magazine a few years back. Was very emphatic that his vision of the future included businesses, and swatted down several attempts by the Z people, who wanted to abolish all businesses, to get him to reconsider.

Not bringing this up to argue that RMS is correct or reasonable (here or elsewhere), but I just thought it was interesting. RMS may be an unrealistic utopian, but his unrealistic utopia is some mutant form of liberalism - with property rights and commerce etc. - not communism or even big-s socialism.
As long as there is profit to be made people will join, until there is no more profit to be made.

Pretty simple economics but kind of scary for a system which is based around mining.
I'm a Ðoge Millionaire ... to the mooon
Running Grunt tasks without grunt-cli
Condition of source code got my upvote.
I find that I get energized on my short (20 minute) drive home. Maybe it's the change in context, but even if I'm mentally fried at 5 I find that I can at least get another hour or two.
Do you think the widespread availability of a free and high quality compiler had something to do with the PC revolution?
Good point - I'll add some validation in there, thanks!
Did I write that I found it "so insightful"?

I found it relevant.
Gmail went down people started searching to find out what is going on.
Cloud Party acquired by Yahoo, shutting down Feb 21
Of course it's more verbose than a dynamically typed language. Silly comparison.
What takes up the majority of the time in your day?

Try these:

* Sleep one hour less a night.

* Don't drink alcohol.

* Prepare all food for the week in advance.

* Cut down your time from awake to shaved, showered, dressed to 15 minutes.

* Work less at your day job.
I agree that they may have violated the spirit of the contract. But the contract specifically handles the case of cancelling an order (including some restitution), so I would hardly consider it fraud.
So did you just make this for fun?
For all the sarcastic responses to this post, I can't find a single record of a death by CRT. I found lots of references to people accidentally touching the HV side of CRTs and receiving a painful shock but none of the shock causing any lasting issues.

Death by CRT is definitely possible in theory and the lack of real-world examples could be an issue of shoddy reporting (i.e. cardiac arrest due to electric shock minus a CRT as the specific reason) but I'd think think that across the millions and millions of CRTs sold there'd be at least one concrete report of a death.

Does anyone know of any?
XAMPP has a special place in my heart. It makes getting up and running with a web server on any platform a 5min affair. I still point people who want to teach themselves programming and might get discouraged with something with a high barrier of entry to PHP and XAMPP.

I know PHP gets no love on this site but getting that instant feed back from a "hello world" and a clear path forward to more complex programs goes a long way to keep true beginner coming back for more.
Marscoin aims at bootstrapping space colonization via cryptocurrency venture
Well yah, if you have ownership, you can license it under all the terms you want to different people. Kind of moot.
emails can sometime include passwords or pass reset link

this is extrememly dangerous

how can we find out if we were affected
Respect for Bill. That was impressive.

I'm not an avid Chess player but to play at that speed with his obviously gifted opponent and last that long is respectable.
What are you looking for in a city, besides friendly people?
There is no way Google (or I assume any good employer) would fire an employee would for such a mistake. Mistakes happen, they are a part of life in the technical world. You work really hard to make sure the mistakes are minor (which this one is) and fixable, but they are going to happen.

Losing data is really really bad, and if it happens it better be minor and there better be extreme circumstances. If a service goes down, that is bad but shit happens sometimes. Something minor like this is going to make for an entertaining post-mortem, but nothing more. I'm sure Google will do something nice for the person who was affected by it.

Easy rule of thumb for operations: Never make the same mistake twice. You learn from every mistake, but new and amazing ways for things to break are always going to happen.

Source: I worked at Google in operations and made mistakes that were far worse than this
Yup, same for me here. WTH is going on??
Are you in Switzerland?
It's worth pointing out that Steve Jobs at NeXT was a prime example of the benefits of a policy against proprietary linking as Jobs tried to have GCC be the backend of their (NeXT's) proprietary ObjectiveC front end.

He (Jobs) was not allowed to do this due to the licencing (GPL) which is what led to GCC getting a ObjectiveC frontend merged which was then available to all GCC users.

Had Jobs had his way, only NeXT users would have had the benefit of the ObjectiveC front end while NeXT would have enjoyed the benefits of the GCC backend.
But I think the point the OP was saying is that until a few years ago no-one saved those moments. And everyone survived just fine.

It's like an extension of everyone photographing every single moment of their life just because they can. Are you really going to look back over the chat log for naming your dog?
That guy should buy a lottery ticket posthaste.
That's a common misconception amongst software developers, but in fact its not your freedom that's being defended, its the users of software. So let's rephrase that:

Interesting that preventing users from doing something with a bit of software (e.g. selling non-free derivatives) is considered restricting freedom.

Kind of self evident when stated from the users point of view really.
Because it's fun to watch and I must say I was surprised to see that a genius like Gates played rather badly.
What you describe is a hoax, contrasted to fraud in that there was no intent of gain on the perpetrator's part and that no harm was caused (debatable in your example). What Uber did, and in my example, there was both intent of gain and harm.

You could argue that there was no harm to Gett because of the cancellation fees, but that's only true if the cancellation fees are greater than the cost they incurred which may or may not be true.
When was the midpoint of film releases? Make a guess first
Google site reliability team leaves to go do Reddit AMA, gmail goes down. Great timing.
Apparently old people do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOBzWF0Aws&feature=youtu.be...
Rents have shot up by ~50% since 2008

More than that. Rents for apartments have doubled in the last year in Oakland, says my friend who owns a lot of diverse properties in the East Bay, so you know it's much worse in SF.
I just don't get why GCC needs to cripple itself; shouldn't the (in)ability to incorporate GCC be handled by the license? It's a legal issue, not a technical one. Sure, making it easier to plug in to other programs enables proprietary software developers to do so as much as it does free software developers, but the former is still illegal if the software is released that way.
Right. That's what I mean. I'm talking about start-up currencies here; the EU could offer its currency higher than $0 because it was putting its own credibility behind it. But that's the only because people agreed to buy it at $0.80. There's nothing intrinsic about the Euro that makes it worth more than $0; everything about the Euro that's valuable is extrinsic to it.

If you create a currency from scratch, and you are not a representative of some country or corporation, it's only ever going to be worth $0 at the beginning. But in both cases it's the people who buy it who decide what it's worth.
MIT researcher's ‘mosh’ (Mobile Shell) CLI utility comes to ChromeOS
No, Poland.
We are creating the HIV/AIDS vaccine to give away to the world for free. AMA.
There's nothing super special about an amazing chess player that would let them check mate you in 9 movies unless you play horrendously. Grand Masters are not super heros of chess. They are 'comprehensive.' Lets be real rather than gaudy.

I should mention that I am a chess master and have played GMs online.
Yeah, here's a couple of good twitter threads that sum up some of the issues with CurveCP (and perhaps ZeroMQ)

https://twitter.com/bascule/status/383364389576773632

https://twitter.com/jedisct1/status/381136544515375104

Lord knows if anyone is actually working on a protocol that fixes the issues mentioned.
This was not about judging, it was just a bit of fun.
Want to raise money? Know this. - Naval Ravikant
"Us" is literally the entire world, _including_ the proprietary software companies— up to the point where they start making encumbered versions of the program. So it is far from as simple as straight up competition.
Are there any other more credible sources of reporting on this? Not only is the article very vague and alarmist but it also ends with a call to action to buy security audit software from the author's company, which makes me pretty skeptical...
Renting just a room isn't always feasible, depending on how much baggage you have in both the literal and figurative sense. When I moved out here 11 years ago from a one-bedroom apartment in Tampa Bay, I did indeed rent just a room from a friend -- and I had to sell a lot of furniture. I've since bought new furniture, and I would not be particularly inclined to give it up. I realize this is my choice, but it's one that you're more likely to face once you get into your 30s (or at any point if you get a family, of course).

And, I think my larger concern about prices still stands. That $825 a month could get you a 1BR place with W/D included in many other cities. Actually, it could get you at least a 1BR/1BA place with W/D in many other cities, and we're not talking "middle of nowhere" type places, either. There are still certainly reasons to live in the Bay Area rather than those other places, but we're paying an awful lot for the privilege.
It hinges on whether there was harm done. I strongly doubt there was harm.

Or at least intentional harm. Such as if they meant to cancel immediately but didn't.
In practise, has LLVM/Clang turned into an unfreedom-fest? I haven't noticed as much. It seems to be remaining free in practise.
Right, that's what I said[1]---there's a shim pkg in base to install pkg proper from ports. The real pkg is in ports so it can receive continuous upgrades, which wouldn't be possible in a RELEASE (or STABLE for the most part) if it were in base.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7114744
Ask HN: Dropout seeks undergrads for college-focused project. Advice? 
By leveraging only Craigslist and Postlets, Domi (the project) has grown at least 30% week over week with no press. I'm finishing my courses and working on the product but would love to work with undergrads as college housing is a HUGE problem we can easily relate to right now.

Background:
- Finishing Thinkful.com courses in Front-end and Ruby on Rails. Self-taught one year before that.
- Learning Growth Hacking last 3 months with 2 professional GH's as mentors
- Launched "manual first" and grew user base 3X this month to about 200 students (name, email, number, and some phone conversation) pre-product, launch, press, etc.
being a genius in one thing doesn't always translate into others ;)
They're trying to reach Gmail for a comment, but they can't, cause Gmail is down. It's funny. It's also made me realize that I should switch to email provider that I have more control over.
I know. I just thought this was a good illustration of this commonly stated aphorism.
I think children's worldview is largely determined by how their parents teach them (usually indirectly) how to internalize information they absorb and encounters they have.

What would your 11-year-old do if she saw porn? How would she think about it? How would it affect her worldview? Would it really be negative?

How would you have reacted at that age? Would it have changed your worldview in a negative way? What kinds of information does she not have access to that she should? When should she be sexually educated?

Just some things to think about.
I have so many questions after finishing that article, but first to come to mind is: who puts a HTML FAQ in their e-mail signature? Seriously, who does that?
Launch a Docker container and use its private-namespaced address as the host for the script...
Sorry for the confusion! I'll clarify the wording.

I emphasize working with days (vs hours) because I find it really pleasant to have days dedicated to one project instead of more than one.

In my organization, each day is dedicated to one main topic (consulting, or my own product, or something else etc).

Hope this helps!
It's only been 24 hours since that link was posted - praise & disdain both tend to come in waves.

People have many facets - not all are good. It's dangerous to play someone up as a savior when they're simply human.
Likewise. The more declarative a platform is, the more I'm trusting its abstractions to never leak, because when I do I'm going to have to learn every agonizing minute detail of how it works under the hood.

SQL is a tiny kernel of beautiful relational mathematics wrapped up in a 3-foot ball of ugly implementation hacks.

NoSQL is what happens when you throw out the beautiful kernel and just keep the hacks, so it's not really better I guess.
An impartial third party with a high level of experience and expertise in the area of review. Especially good if they can compare the product side-by-side to its competitors.

This can provide its own bias. For instance, your average film critic has seen so many versions of stupid action movie that they find those movies pretty tiresome.

My favorite reviews are currently from America's Test Kitchen. Their equipment reviews are especially insightful and well written to provide a thorough expert opinion on products. Wonderfully, they've found a business model that allows for their independence.
If all you want is a few doge, set a computer to mine for the afternoon. Even on a relatively weak computer, you'll end up getting a couple hundred doge.

EDIT: I only do this as part of a pool. I don't know how it is for solo mining.
I know exactly where Justin is coming from. I'm married with 4 kids. I'm glad my wife supports my side-projects. After the kids are put to bed (around 8-9 p.m.) I will work until midnight. My wife will hang out in the office with me while I work. On the weekends I wake up at 6:30 a.m. and work until around 10:30 a.m. From there I will spend the rest of the day with the wife and kids.

I tend to set a goal for what I want to achieve in a given period (for me it's about 4 hours). It's easy to be all over the map when you don't have a full day to commit. With a strict schedule and a goal anything can be achieved.
Fwiw JSX is totally unnecessary, and more verbose anyway. Using React without JSX feels almost like using HAML or something for your HTML.
> but we already did experiments that did confirm that there is an asymmetry.

I was always wondering if the fact, that a lot of neutrinos (not anti-neutrinos) travel constantly through earth and all the experimental equipment, was properly ruled out as a possible cause of observed matter anti-matter asymmetry in those experiments.
To be fair the Mozilla Public License is also copy-left it just uses a weaker (but also more clearly defined) barrier.
I zip up my dropbox, google drive, ect. and move it to my other hard drives periodically. I also zip them up and upload them to my 2 mega accounts.
> Each time someone figures out something that can not be done on current ASICs/GPUs, a bunch of smart people throw themselves at figuring out a way to modify the GPUs/ASICs in order to enable it.

Well, yes and no. Litecoin was invented in 2011 and still no one has successfully built ASICs for LTC mining.
Does anyone know if a potential incoming email would be lost when Gmail is down?
But, to be fair, it is only the 24th of January, so there might well be many more crazy things for us in stock. Though Google linking directly to mail some poor Hotmail account will be hard to top, yes.
How is this news? Magnus Carlsen is good at chess. Bill Gates is bad at chess. How does this story add value to anyone's life? What was learned here? (sincerely curious)
Not yet.

AI, like PSD, is proprietary and unfriendly to developers because Adobe's software is really complex (and they don't want to share the market). I want to write a small backend that uses one of several AI->SVG converters out there so people can use AI files in Mondrian. Unfortunately I haven't had time yet.
Have you cancelled on the day of or within just a few hours of the scheduled pickup time?
Well you better read my post again. I said "generally", not all of them are like that. Also the assumption is if you're putting all-nighters there is some reward in the end (money, stocks, recognition etc.). IMO I get more done during all-nighters than during the day and I'm not the only one in my team who does that.
Yeah because chess is an INCREDIBLY hard game to get good at regardless of how smart you are. I've been playing for years and going to my local chess club and I'm still trash ahaha.
It really depends where the crawler is finding these links. I don't think this is a mistake. It's possible that people are adding these links to their site instead of "mailto:" links and crawler is simply indexing them.
The author doesn't seem to think that's a problem.
Well, hopefully nothing that dire - I can't imagine this would happen. Likely though those responsible for the incident will craft an incident report detailing what went wrong and why, as well as how to prevent it in the future - preferably in an automated fashion.
He's not getting emails addressed to you, relax and read about the actual bug.
How many confirmations do you really need for micropayments? I just ordered a pizza and it went through almost instantly without paying mining fees. Bitpay saw the transaction on the network and knows I'm not going to try double spending 15 EUR.

EDIT To expand on that: the longer block times can actually be an advantage because the probability of orphans is smaller. If my transaction ends up in some orphaned block and is not resend the merchant won't get any money.
Would you have to be fluent in German to get a work visa?
Damn, TechCrunch sure is having a field day today.

That said, this was already posted in their original article about the Gmail downtime.
This is truly hilarious. Just imagine - some guy, in the middle of nowhere, sitting in front of his computer and suddenly his smartphone starts vibrating with notification about new email. And vibrating.... and vibrating... and after dozens of minutes, he got call. And the caller ask you: Hey, don't you get some emails lately?:D
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This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup
I sent him an email. I'm pretty sure that's what this article was wanting me to do.