skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what if Google/Apple/Intel and everyone under the sun poached each other's talent. How high can the salaries go and how high can the money drain affect. After a certain number of years, things are bound to normalise isn't it ? Why fret over 5 - 10 billion when all of these companies put together have something like $500 billion collectively in cash. I seriously do not get this.
How does that work exactly? If federal laws are above state laws, then what's the point of state laws?
I'm from Santa Clara, and "affordable" is an extremely relative notion. Silicon Valley itself isn't much cheaper than San Francisco. Berkeley, Oakland and East Palo Alto are not in Silicon Valley. And frankly, they're not as cheap now as they were even 18 months ago. It's still possible to get a one-bedroom apartment for $1000 a month if you look around hard enough, but it's almost certainly going to be small and old.

The big issue is that right now, $1200, even $1300 a month for a one-bedroom apartment in this area would seem quite reasonable, even a bargain. That's banana crazypants. In Sacramento you could get a two-bedroom, one-bath place with all the amenities for under $900 a month without looking too hard. That means that if you were able to telecommute three days a week -- maybe even just two -- it would cost you less to live in Sacramento and take the Capitol Corridor train in to San Francisco on your office days than it would to live pretty much anywhere in the Bay Area.

I'm not advocating that (the thought has clearly occurred to me, but I have too many friends here in SV to want to make getting to them that difficult), but I think it points to a genuine problem with the local economy. The median housing costs across the Bay Area show an implicit assumption that everybody is making Big Tech Money, but they're not -- and some areas are starting to get too expensive even for the people who are making top dollar. This just isn't a sustainable mix.
i know the mofo Woz!
Yes, but even just by talking about the topic, it's basically re-opening the old can of worms. Let it be, people.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in RedFlag?
Yelp is for business. RedFlag is for People

RedFlag : Is an app where users rate the People. It can be your friend/boss/colleague/Ex/Anyone.
If you had a bitter/bad experience you want to let others know that, so they don't face the same experience.

Would you guys be interested in this app? Comments welcome.
Star Trek vs Babylon 5
Is there a Julia forum anywhere. Like with a hierarchy of topics and subtopics and with hierarchical threads at the bottom level like HN? Optimally something that remembers what you've read.
OK. I am glad to hear this works for others.

I would now change the title to something like "Chrome and FireFox sometimes display text unpleasantly" but the edit link is not available.
Hacked by Ron Paul!
How would OAuth help? The problem is training users that it's okay to enter their username and password into any schmuck's app... which is exactly what they'd be doing with OAuth. OAuth and its ilk are neat ways for honest app developers to avoid touching user credentials, and therefore (presumably) would have been a better solution for Sunrise, but they offer no protection against phishing in a native app.

Of course, OS X Authorization Services prompts for keychain access with a standard dialog that just pinky-swears it comes with the OS's blessing, so maybe Apple's approval of this practice shouldn't come as such a surprise.
Updated driver. The text is still rendered the same - zigzags instead of lines.

Now about:support shows

Graphics

Adapter Description	NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
Adapter Drivers	nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Adapter RAM	1024
ClearType Parameters	DISPLAY1 [ Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: RGB ClearType Level: 100 Enhanced Contrast: 200 ] DISPLAY2 [ Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: RGB ClearType Level: 100 Enhanced Contrast: 200 ]
Device ID	0x0a28
Direct2D Enabled	true
DirectWrite Enabled	true (6.2.9200.16571)
Driver Date	12-19-2013
Driver Version	9.18.13.3221
GPU #2 Active	false
GPU Accelerated Windows	1/1 Direct3D 10
Vendor ID	0x10de
WebGL Renderer	Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)
windowLayerManagerRemote	false
AzureCanvasBackend	direct2d
AzureContentBackend	direct2d
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend	cairo
AzureSkiaAccelerated	0

So, DirectWrite is on now.
Our governor in Texas recently said he is working toward decriminalization. Change is coming.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Gov-Rick-Perr...
I agree. I prefer Ansible because I can get something prototyped and built faster with it and it's easy to refactor a playbook into something more complex and more reusable.
Guys, I know this is an extremely stereotypical Hacker News response, but I really want a Dvorak layout :(
http://doesgohavegenericsyet.com/
Thank you for your information. Do you mean in Silicon Valley, VCs are rarely get preferred stocks from the startup company? But why are they offering convertible notes which to me is more risk for the startup companies than the VCs?
Less than 18 turns 30 in 10-15 years.
I wonder if we will see a change before the midterm elections. If it doesn't happen very soon, it will become an election issue. The failed drug war causes enough pain that I'd probably vote single issue to get it changed, above virtually any other congressional issue right now (an exception might be reigning in NSA or election/campaign finance reforms); above immigration, taxes, IP reform, the war in Afghanistan, or guns.
I see similar behaviour on my app.. Many 1 star ratings without any comments.. Initially I was convinced it must be competitor playing games.. But the trend continued.. Not sure how long Google will take to address this issue..
I travel with my laptop so I worry about it being stolen...

So I could be wrong about this, and if I am please tell me.

From what I read if you use full disc encryption, bios password, and set the bios to go direct to hdd for booting on a macbook air, you've essentially bricked the laptop. You can't get the laptop to log in with no guest account and only the one user account. You can't get it to boot to another device because of the bios lock. You can't change the boot device with a bios password set. Finally you can't reset the bios password because to do so you would need to remove the DRAM per the macbook bios reset instructions, and that's not physically possible on an air since it's soldered down.
pgadmin, http://www.pgadmin.org/download/macosx.php
Steve Jobs said it well, "this means war." The engineering profession as a whole needs to play "war" like adults. This is going to cost money like anything. A permanent PR company that at least gets the engineering profession a louder voice than Marissa Mayer would be a start. A permanent lobbying budget to slowly but continually chip away at domestic and international threats to the buying power of your talent with changes in law is the other half of how grown ups play "war." No need to act like laborers and form a union or have strikes. Real change today happens via PR and lobbying. A well-funded and run professional organization formed with this as its sole agenda would do wonders for all of us.
Sorry, yes, misspoke (so to speak) because I had friends waiting for me to queue a Dota 2 game :)
And yet Holder refuses to reign in his attorney for Northern California, Melinda Haag, who has been aggressively raiding and shutting down legal California dispensaries. She is currently trying to seize the property of a large Oakland dispensary prompting Oakland city government to intervene to try to prevent it. She refuses to drop the prosecution even after everything that has happened in Colorado and Washington and the statements by Obama and Holder.
Adwords vs Twitter vs LinkedIn ads, a small experiment
Seems good. I tried CryptSync before and it is of similar idea.
http://stefanstools.sourceforge.net/CryptSync.html
It's mentioned in the footnotes of the article and discussed below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7111183

Basically the way Dvorak is optimized is sub-optimal for the Minuum disambiguation engine and so it reduces the accuracy. It turns out you're much better off with QWERTY or better yet something specifically optimized for Minuum.
This is the subject of the Tenth Amendment. There are enumerated powers, duties, etc. of the federal government, enumerated proscriptions for the states, and everything else is up to the states.
What are the cases for that feed role?

Why not deliver an RSS/Atom feed with the page and a standard feed reader within HTML that could present the content, polling at specified intervals.

In the same way that HTML finally standardized on HTML5 semantic page markup (not that HTML1.0 was grossly inadequate), and we're finally getting integrated video / multimedia support (though lacking the ever crucial "off" switch), once you dig through all the bullshit and hype, most of Web 2.0 corresponds to "we can update the page you're looking at while you're looking at it".

Some client-side capabilities to sort and filter content would finish off about 90%+ of the use cases. Good enough.

And you'd end up with far fewer monstrosities such as Facebook, Gmail, G+, etc., in which a simple content stream has a client-side footprint of 1-2 GB. SRSLY?

Yes, the standard problem of having users upgrade their client software to support the featureset remains, but there are still huge numbers of what are effectively Web 1.0 sites (Craigslist comes to mind) that are phenomenally useful and successful.

I've had a very late and passionate come-to-Jesus love affair with RSS/Atom feeds. Taking Craigslist, for example I can get an RSS feed of any given category search:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/rss

Remember "Web agents", you know "a personal online assistant that would scour the Internet for you"? Well, this is it.

Combine that feed with rsstail and multitail, and you can track items of interest in a console window. Find something particularly useful? Fire off an email alert to yourself.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1udv6i/further_...

I've got Chromium running on my Thinkpad T520i, sucking down about a gig and a half of RAM. newsbeuter tailing 85 feeds is around 300 MB (a single Chromium browser tab), and rsstail weighs in at about 145 MB resident. Since they're only intermittently active, they swap out with very little performance overhead.

The existing Web design model is a fucking trainwreck waiting to happen. The browser-as-app-platform metaphor has its advantages, mostly in rapid development, though that's also a weakness (users HATE change), and it's a bastardization of two competing uses (content vs. app).

Much of the design and feature set serves advertisers and NSA water-carriers far more effectively than it does users. Sadly, that's where the funding comes from, so it's no real surprise. Be careful what you incent for, you'll get it.
I know this is frowned upon but it seems fair to say that we're brushing against reddit when the top story about marijuana is accompanied by a top comment that starts with "this."
This looks nice, but I'm not sure the solution to the overwhelming amount of content out there is more curation. I can't see myself having the time to build the perfect set of "troves".

Instead, I'd like to see more automated filtering of the many streams I already have. I think Summify was on the right track here (before they were acquired).
Ask HN: Our kickstarter is 38k of 100k funded, with little hope
We thought we made the hottest vision sex of 2013+2014, but dev consumers mostly went meh. A lot of love, considering, but most of it came from businesses wanting some thing that can use what we built. We wanted these idiosyncracies to be filled by randoms, and already slightly pivoted to fill the overt demand. Do we kill it? Let it fail?
When you do that, also add the words "for me" at the end. Thanks.
They recently posted that their social media accounts were compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army, so this is probably related.
What it’s like to found a startup in Estonia
Some matters are designated by the constitution as belong to the federal government, and any powers not granted to the federal government are granted to the states. However, within the context of powers given to the federal government by the constitution, federal laws trump state laws when there is a conflict.

For the most part these divisions between state and federal responsibilities, but the commerce clause, which gives the federal government to regulate commerce between the states, has been interpreted very broadly to give the federal government broad powers even over issues that are only tangentially related to interstate commerce.

The courts have gone back and forth a few times over how broad the commerce clause should be interpreted. If you are interested in the details including some interesting court cases, Wikipedia has a pretty good summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
> Once new evidence was found, the new explanation was quickly adopted into the scientific consensus (so it remained the best model for reality).

The problem with a direct comparison in this case, that we ought to accept the consensus and be as dismissive about anthropogenic climate change skeptics as we are about someone who still claims that the Sun revolves around the Earth, is that in the case of stomach ulcers, the result is easily testable and reproducible. Much harder for something as complex as the climate. Additionally, this issue is laden with political consequences on both sides so it's hard to accept objectivity on either side (very difficult for someone to obtain a grant inside the academic mainstream to study something that is contrary to accepted opinion, and very difficult for someone to obtain a grant from industry to study something that is in line with accepted opinion. not to mention the potential effects for fossil fuel and alternative energy companies)
Global trends and technology to look out for in 2014 – #estonianmafia’s pick
The software excels with user-supplied specific conditions; which might be a feature.
This is politics we're talking about. Nobody in power is going to do the right thing -- just the expedient thing. The numbers are in, and the majority no longer believes the lie that marijuana is dangerous (which it isn't, for fuck's sake).

This whole madness was manufactured and can be equally dismissed "under pressure".

You don't think that alcohol prohibition ended because the government wanted to do the right thing, do you? They wanted the tax money and it clearly was a failure. Fast forward to today. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Leaving aside the quality of life argument. What about babies born with HIV? Do you think they'll have the same life expectancy?
Why is there still such resistance at the highest levels to legalization / decriminalization?

Obama and Holder have made it pretty clear (at least personally) that they don't see marijuana as a risk, and yet when the discussion about removing it from Schedule 1 status comes around, the answer seems to be "no".

Why is this? Obviously politics, but I'm curious where the big resistance is coming from. What would happen if Obama just said "You know what, we're taking it off Schedule 1 status. Done." Who would fight back and why?
Ask HN: How do you structure your cross-platform mobile app?
Do you follow any particular code structure for easy cross-platform (native) app development? I have developed a few small android apps, but now I want to make a bit more complex app and was wondering if there is any structure that I should follow so that code on different platforms looks similar or so that is easy for (say) WindowsPhone developer to migrate Android code?
http://superherojs.com/
dailyjs.com
There's a web version too. Besides which: they just launched, so have presumably just decided to support iOS first (seems sensible to me).
Salary is unimportant. Its like allowance from your parents. "Here's a little cash so you don't starve or freeze during wage slavery" It does not matter if its $50k or $102.5k, the goal is going to be the same for me.
If you don't trust a third party you can use CrashPlan to backup offsite to your friends.

http://www.code42.com/crashplan/
First off, don't take my comments the wrong way. Good on you for this work to fill in something that's missing from the whole Docker deployment process. I love Show HN's and there's always something for everyone to learn here.

If I'm understanding your project correctly, what you've done is create a way to deploy some git-managed code into a Docker container. It's a good idea but I think you are attacking the problem from too high up the stack. The real problem, as I see it, exists one level down: in the Dockerfile and the Docker image. We need deeper control of the environment than a Dockerfile and your app deployer provides. The popular approach is for developers to create their Dockerfile that builds their platform and instantiate a container from this. The problem is that this works great for a small startup with a couple of devs but falls short for larger companies who want to layer configurations on top of one another, applying and enforcing rules across those configurations. Let me explain:

Where I work, we have lots of servers running lots of apps. The apps themselves are managed by various developers but we have standard things that we do across those servers, like install our monitoring agent, applying patches, configuring performance tweaks, etc. The problem with running Docker in this environment is maintaining these things in a centralized manner. Sure, we could create a bunch of Docker images that contain all of our organization standardizations but how do we maintain these? Without Docker, we use Chef and Gangnam-style[1] cookbooks but Chef is not lightweight at all and it's a total pain in the ass for junior guys to learn.

What I think we need is a system of building Docker images that allows dev & ops teams to collaborate and layer different configurations and applications on top of one another in a structured way. It sounds like Chef, but this imaginary application evaluates the "cookbooks" and produces Docker images and Dockerfiles, not bootstrapped servers.

Perhaps Chef will evolve and people will adopt it for deploying Docker. Perhaps someone will write the next-gen Dev/Ops configuration management tool and it will be built around Docker. Perhaps this is already out there and I'm just not aware of it.

[1] http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-to-write-reus...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/visionai/vmx-project-com...
I wonder: could the recruiters that were fired sue based on wrongful termination?
Or, just accurately reclassify marijuana so it's not schedule 1.
Like it so far..
If that were to happen, Congress could immediately reschedule it as Schedule 1. They've done this before with GHB when they disagreed with the existing schedule.
Flooz failed for a number of reasons:

1) Flooz was billed as magic Internet money, but provided no benefits for effecting transactions in Flooz versus transacting them with credit cards, which Internet merchants had begun to accept. Flooz' primary customer acquisition strategy was giving people free money. That was pretty popular, but also costly, and -- unlike Paypal -- Flooz never successfully convinced meaningful numbers of customers to transition from "spending free money" to "spending their own money."

2) Flooz had far insufficient transaction volume to justify the ongoing engineering and operation costs of keeping it around. At the peak, it was generating "thousands" of dollars of transactions a day. You can do the math on that: $200k volume per month times the pick-your-teeth-with-them margins in payment processing means you can't pay even a single engineer to keep the lights on.

3) Flooz, like most early payment processors, got their pockets picked by fraud to the tune of millions of dollars. Their merchant processor responded by requiring a $1 million rolling reserve. This caused a cash-flow crunch which was the proximate cause of their bankruptcy.

4) Flooz could have postponed death if they had access to the capital markets but the dot-com crash happened and, as a consequence, nobody wanted to throw more money at an e-commerce company whose core line of business was selling fake money for real money.

But bitcoin is, as you say, decentralized.

[Edit to add: I'm being a bit unfair there. Bitcoin has several advantages over Flooz. One is that Bitcoin, considered as an entity, awarded free money via seigniorage to early adopters and never had to back that free money with actual cash. Another is that Bitcoin structurally encouraged the creation of a widely distributed self-coordinating Internet boiler room to act as Bitcoin spokesmen and salescritters, via the aforementioned seigniorage and tapping into pre-existing networks among people with complementary political opinions regarding e.g. banking, self-government, privacy, etc. A third is that Bitcoin was, happily for Bitcoin advocates if not expressly hoped for, actually an improvement in the state of the art for small-scale drug smuggling, a business which turns out to be quite lucrative and underserved by other payment processors. This lead to people who had acquired essentially free bitcoins getting paid actual money by folks who wanted to buy very-much-not-free contraband, which helped provide a bit of kindling for the speculative bonfire.]
While I don't need videos in order to learn, I find that seeing concepts represented visually while hearing them described by someone often works better than simply reading them. I've done some of CodeSchool's courses even though I already kind of knew the material, just because seeing it presented in that format helped reinforce things.

Furthermore, having coding exercises with a checker that can tell if you've done things correctly would help a ton when it comes to actually writing Haskell code.
I was wondering what was happening to the site as well. The bookmark icon for http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com changed to a generic wordpress icon just recently in my toolbar.
I do it every day.
One-off Webpages That Make Life Easier
Anything that makes the banks less relevant is good in my book.