skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the memes of the Bay area is that people want it to remain the same as it was the day they arrived and that anybody who arrived after them is "the problem".

But seriously I find it amusing that the author thinks that Berkeley and Oakland will attract people away from SF. Berkeley is even more hostile to change than SF. Witness the nasty campaign against Measure T in 2012 where Berkeley voted to keep a cesspool over a nice new business park and kept parts of the city zoned for manufacturing that is never coming back instead of startups. Berkeley should have a thriving startup culture with the university, but everybody drives across the bridge rather than dealing with the NIMBYs.

Oakland's current and previous administration couldn't find its arse with both hands. Witness how much new development has ended up in Emeryville.

So yeah businesses setup in SF because because at the moment its the least incompetent or hostile of the Bay area cities to have to deal with. And will most likely remain so.
Somewhat related to point #2, this article (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230454950...) was shared here a while back that discusses a way in which vacant property is being used to house people at a discount, but it deals more with office buildings. Perhaps they could implement something similar for absentee property.
> "We have had the order not to miss out on any information now that we are no longer able to monitor the chancellor's communication directly," it quoted the NSA employee as saying.

Saying "we'll stop spying on Merkel", but we'll continue to spy on everyone near her even more so we can "incidentally" collect most of her conversations, or find out anything she would know from the ministers", is like a distinction without a difference.

If I were Merkel I'd be just as pissed off at this, because the whole point of me getting mad in the first place was NSA trying to find out what I know. Whether they spy on me directly or through friends/colleagues, it doesn't really matter, does it?

I'm imagining these guys guying their asses off in their offices when Obama made the speech about his "reforms", knowing very well the changes are at best cosmetic, and that they will continue to do everything they've been doing so far, while making the public believe otherwise.
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The GPU's burden. Infrastructure intense script kiddie toy currency to enlighten technically deprived cultures of Africa. Funny how Africa's problems will enrich the hoarding kiddies.
I'm amazed by programmers who welcome the discovery of a misplaced semicolon but who object to the report of an egregious grammatical error, especially given the fact that both traits affect their employability.
Edited, thanks.

There is, of course, a difference between occasional errors and the way in which millions of competent English speakers use their language, but I'm sure you're aware of the distinction.
I was in a similar situation but I was not living in a houseboat slum but was technically squatting for a short while. The reasons people do this is varied - they could be saving up to be able to pay down a deposit to live (and trying to find a decent place here is bad enough!), they could prefer to live 'in' London instead of outside due to the cost of transport and also more opportunities in London and so on. There are other factors as well - for example you had to have a NI and have a bank account to get paid, and to get an NI/bank account you needed a place to stay.

The thing here is that unless you are in the upper-middle income bracket then you are locked in the London rat race. London is good to live in for a few years but in terms of a lifetime here, it's not good or you find 'strategies' in evading council tax.
It's like both communities have zero memory the dotcom boom era.

I guess ranting tech-n00bs can't be asked to know their own history and the locals can be forgiven for the smokey-mj haze.

But when your wait staff is having to move to Oakland, there might be a point where it can't make a come back.
This doesn't follow. What if their sample size was 100,000 conversions?
There is no consensus in "the tech culture" on the value of remote work. You've confused pundits and politicians with techies.
Which may well mean that the Koolaid is a fabrication by a segment of the tech industry to move units and subscriptions.
Come down to LA. I don't have enough tech entrepreneur friends down here. We'll create a young CEO's club, it'll be fun I promise.
Restrictive building codes are not a scapegoat. They are a public policy decision which directly explains why the price of housing is so high.
Nice job, though you could argue a big part of the prototyping (in fact, the main feature) was already completed. Most of the design decisions, illustration and how the information should be displayed had already been 90% provided by Neila.
Norvig teaches a Design of Computer Programs course on Udacity, which helps you think about solving problems.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs212
Facebook isn't bargaining with them directly though. This just accelerates the process.
I just think it's funny that programmers, acutely aware of the consequences of small code syntax errors, seem peculiarly indifferent to much more significant errors in their English prose.

And yes, I'm aware that many "errors" can be defended as conscious choices. But most of them are neither intentional nor contribute to effective communication.
Why do you think the experience sucks in FF?
Are we supposed to be mad about this or something? I'm no fan of the NSA monitoring everything that every American does for no particular reason, but that isn't what we're talking about here. Every country in the world spies on its enemies, rivals, and allies to the best of their ability. There's no such thing as "Fair Play" in diplomacy.
which/that is not even an error, much less an egregious one.
Ask HN: How old is the internet's "skin"?
I was thinking about my skin health today (I still have some acne on my face at age 34) and I remember reading articles saying we shed so many skin cells everyday and about every 7 years, your skin has replaced itself (through this shedding process)

And I had a thought - how old is the internet's skin? Meaning - how often does x% of the websites on the internet receive a partial facelift (be it cosmetic or codebase)?

Major websites such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc... shed "skin cells" pretty often - Facebook is always implementing new features; Apple and Microsoft always have new products and layouts for major projects.

Has anyone researched this? Are there any figures for how often the majority of the internet changes? IE: sheds it's skin? There are some pretty old websites out there if you go looking for them. Do 50% of the websites out there shed their skin every couple years? Less ?
> Bild am Sonntag said its information stemmed from a high-ranking NSA employee in Germany and that those being spied on included Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a close confidant of Merkel.

So it looks like, according to Bild am Sonntag, this information was provided by a new, non-Snowden source from within the NSA itself. The report even goes so far as to indicate the source isn't an entry-level employee.

Courage is contagious?
The problem is a structural one. There's more demand and no increasing supply of housing in SF:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francis...

The debate about whether ___Group X/Y/Z____ needs to flee is a false one -- just build more housing that will accommodate all types of people who want to stay.

To do that, the NIMBY laws and once-romanticized ideal in SF that prevent building up need to change.
and the x-axis represents the future..? dates in March 2014
The opportunities definitely are there, and so are the challenges which go beyond the usual PMF jazz. That being said once you figure the environment out you really can make headway. If it worked for me then it'll definitely work for you guys
> It turns out that working out what you mean is the hard problem, both in programming and in law.

This is the heart of the issue, and is why we have both programmers and lawyers. They are domain experts in working out what people really mean. Specifying contracts in code doesn't eliminate the need for this process, and if anything makes it more laborious, because English it turns out is a pretty good language for what people mean.
Might I humbly suggest Elixir with Mnesia as your backend, for the 1.5 weeks that it's still hipster enough.
The most alarming thing about this article is the author's tone.
DNI Clapper: We can't stop another Snowden
From another perspective, the total income of US persons in 2010 was over $12 trillion/year[1]. People are currently paying a total of $899 billion in federal income tax. Assuming we distribute the burden evenly per dollar earned, assuming incentive to work is linear in dollars, and assuming there are no other effects we would see incentive to work drop by something a little over one third. This leaves dramatically more incentive than the above numbers would indicate. For the record, though, $14k/yr is about twice the BI level that I personally (tentatively) favor.

[1] https://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-tpi.htm

[2] https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=4363
> It should be on Comcast to ensure their network can get their customers the data they want.

In your opinion why doesn't the same responsibility apply to Cogent?
Well there's all sorts of issues. But what it essentially comes down to is that evolution works in tiny steps, not in great leaps. When "trying to achieve" goal X, adding a tiny bit of complexity is simply much more likely than a simplifying "refactoring".

And then in terms of the biology itself, you will run into things that we might think of as "complications" but which are actually for the sake of redundancy/fault tolerance, etc.

I remember watching a series of biology videos where a particular messaging pathway was explained. It had at least 5 or 6 proteins. But then the lecturer described that by having so many proteins in the chain, the messaging is exponential. So what initially might seem like a complex way of sending messages is actually an amplifier!
Our mistake. Should be February. We're fixing and adding in data from the last couple days.
WebKit does not work for your analogy. WebKit and Gecko are two completely separate HTML parsing engines. Maybe you ment neo-kHTML.
sorry,you cant honestly recommand that phone.It's pure crap and a total waste of money.I suggest people looking for cheap feature phones to buy some old midlet based nokia/lg/sony.They do what a phone is supposed to do and they do it right,unlike Firefox os based phones which are pure crap.

HTML5 based os need a lot of processing power,webos already proved it in the past. That's why firefox os will fail,it's not designed for lowend devices.
There are also some complex problems with assumptions that are infrequently addressed, e.g. maybe if a regular user sees a structural/cosmetic change he is more likely to look at that and click it, while that would fade away in steady-state.
I have no idea, maybe they want the model of startup entrepreneurship they see outside (19 billion hint hint) and want that in their portfolio too.

"it has only accepted five or six companies in some classes due to a lack of fundable options"

In my experience with South Africa there are a LOT of people trying out their luck with accelerators. I don't think it's that they can't find options, but I suppose options they like: and the wider world offers that more than Africans themselves. Hmm.
Facebook could've even paid users in Facebook stock to use their all instead of WhatsApp.
This is a comment thread. The language is informal, spontaneous, largely unedited, and participants come from a variety of language backgrounds. There are going to be grammar differences and mistakes.

You clearly understood the author, as did I and probably everyone else who read the comment. The objection was superfluous. When the commenter took offense and argued, the polite thing would have been to back down gracefully, since the point is entirely unrelated to the greater discussion. Picking on the missed-word typo is just a childish dig.
Obama promised spying on Merkel would stop. Should Merkel have looked at the fine print when she talked to Obama? Even if you agree to this premise, the leaks show that NSA is not competent enough to carry out this task.

I agree with Mr Scheiner[0] that the NSA ought to be broken up.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/opinion/schneier-nsa-too-big/
Hard to take this article seriously when the first few paragraphs are talking about the hyperinflation of the currency of Zimbabwe, then trying to rectify that with bitcoin, which can fluctuate hundreds of USD in the span of a couple of hours.

It specifically mentions M-Pesa, which is already used by the majority of the continent, but trying to improve and go all-in on something established and accepted like that wouldn't be web 2.0 enough.
I've done some remote work, and found it to be mixed at best most of the time. I think part of the problem is that, for it to really work, the entire organization has to completely change their methods of work around it. If there's even one remote worker, the entire workforce has to commit to doing everything online, even if they're in the same space, or else the remote worker is shut out. Even if you're right next to your co-worker, all of your interaction has to be over email/chat/whatever you're using. Everyone you might want to talk to has to be as available on chat/IM as they are in their office.
yeah, last time I clicked a related article on a news site, it happened to link to an article to a women's magazine, I got women's underwear advertisement for weeks afterwards.

So, no, I don't want to receive advertisement for perfume because I waited for my GF in front of a perfume shop, thanks.
> Not if the programmer was hired for his independent expertise rather than be told what to do, and how to do it, by higher-ups. That's a a common arrangement in small companies.

1. That does not excuse software from a proper code review process, in fact any reasonable software company would probably see this as even more of a reason to code review the code. If I knew that a software company doesn't properly review critical code, I would definitely think twice about using that company's software.

2. Apple is not a small company so that doesn't excuse them in this case.

>All true, but surely you realize that lawyers and judges don't necessarily ask themselves, "Is this fair?"
Remember that a group of scientists were successfully convicted of manslaughter in Italy for not predicting an earthquake. It was a different country and legal system, but not that different.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/scientists-convicted-man....

Come on this is the Italian legal system. No offense to Italy, I believe it to be a beautiful country, but they have had a shocking record in their legal system as of late. And I highly doubt that this would have stood up in many other western legal systems.

But even if I concede to all your points, someone on HN should be smart enough to realise that suing someone for a software bug would definitely not be a smart move. And we definitely shouldn't be recommending such a thing. Just like we shouldn't be recommending scientists to be convicted of manslaughter for not predicting an earthquake.
The main problem was that a particular popular distribution made PulseAudio its default audio system before it was ready for that, and did a bad job integrating and testing it.

That wasn't Lennart's fault. PulseAudio is a really mature and stable system now.
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Differences between Eastern and Western Ukraine are overstated
That's accurate, and I think that's all the more reason to jump in and start. The content is all there, but there's more detail needed to make an app like this awesome, including stats and UX polish. I'm advocating for the 'just start' approach.
consider fair coin flip sequences. stopping at arbitrary points of your choice can never really affect anything serious. but you need to make sure you're doing math right, meaning if you stop when something gets a lead you don't use incorrect math that says the coin is biased.

data is data. as long as the method being used to collect individual data points is fine, and they are collected independently, then the data you get as a result is gonna be OK, the rest (like arbitrary stop time) doesn't ruin it. you just have to avoid bad math.

what ruins data is stuff like throwing 10% of the heads results in the trash or using other approaches in which data can be selectively discarded or not discarded. so just stopping arbitrarily can be a problem if you might never stop and throw out the results if you don't like them. but if you do something like "stop after 1 million data points max, or when i feel like it earlier" then your data is still OK because it cannot get selectively ignored.

stopping earlier cannot make a fair coin look unfair or anything like that.

this is not some random unknown position that flies in the face of how actual statistics works. something like this is the standard bayesian position, and i think it's true. (i strongly object to bayesian epistemology, but i think bayesian statistics is correct).

not ALL stopping rules are OK but lots are. you don't HAVE to use simple ones like "gather X data points, stop".

see stuff like:

http://andrewgelman.com/2014/02/13/stopping-rules-bayesian-a...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/mt/beautiful_probability/

> And then there's the Bayesian reply: "Excuse you? The evidential impact of a fixed experimental method, producing the same data, depends on the researcher's private thoughts? And you have the nerve to accuse us of being 'too subjective'?"
To be precise, while MD5 has been 'broken' in the sense of not meeting its design goals for a long time, and there are now a number of scenarios where attackers can create pairs of files with the same MD5, it is not yet practically possible to create a collision for any arbitrary file (such as jquery.js) on demand. That would be the total 'preimage vulnerability' as mentioned at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Preimage_vulnerability

MD5 should absolutely not be used for this content-identification purpose or any other new code... and wise designers haven't been using it for 10+ years. I'm just mentioning this to be precise about the current state of its proven weaknesses.
>> Unless they deliberately drove up debt just before dying.

What happens then?
The article doesn't really justify this. What benefit does the block cypher offer with a fixed key offer over not using a block cypher with a fixed key?
I wish I'd known about Branch And Bound when I was a student - it would have probably come in handy a few times.
Would you mind expanding on that a bit? I mean, what kind of authenticsation bypasses you found? I am using SRP (for non-web stuff) and it would be good to know/to check whether I am affected by those problems.
Exactly. As an American I really do not see why I should care if we spy on our allies. We have everything to gain from gathering privileged knowledge and very little to lose.
Peter Norvig of spell-checker fame explains us regexes.

I always get confused when I have to do NLP stuff and use the re library.
What other reason is there? I could think of 1) money to use yourself, 2) money to use altruistically, 3) because your startup itself will benefit the world, 4) because the market "is just begging to be disrupted", 5) because you need to prove it to yourself, or to someone else. (They're all reasons for me.) So what is the reason that you think is the best to advertise?

And it's definitely honest.
Be sure to read the comments here: https://vpsboard.com/topic/3607-choopa-sends-out-vultr-to-dr...

Looks like several people are reporting cases of this: https://vpsboard.com/topic/3607-choopa-sends-out-vultr-to-dr...

A new account already had the customer details / data from a GameServer.com customer. Looks like Vultr is using the same billing database as their other brand.

David from Choopa provided an explanation in the thread, but it still doesn't sit easy with me.
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> MacBook.js

You'd get a cease and desist for that.
I worked for a company that got about 1 million users of their facebook game, mostly purchased. They got this and the CEO mentioned it prominently. Unsurprisingly, paid users generate about zero revenue. Still, it probably sounded good to investors.

This company is bankrupt now.

A lot of business activity is fads. Social media will probably always be a big business, but it seems likely to me that companies have been rushing into it part not knowing what it is worth, part knowing it may not be worth it but it sounds good.
Yes, let's do that. No vertical limit on buildings

In fact, let's concrete the SF bay to have more space for houses, it's better that way

After all, all those people 100% need to live there, there's no space left in the USA for them.
Did you even read the article? The third point is "regression to the mean."
You could actually use bitcoin essentially as the payment "rails" for a transaction, so that people don't hold bitcoin and immediately then convert back into local currency, and therefore get around the price changes. Companies like coinbase already allow merchants to do this. Also, bitcoin prices will stabilize over time & as more people use the currency.
Why shouldn't it? It seems to be a huge reduction in friction of all types to have everything in the same place. Not just coders, but investors, people willing to start companies, accountants and lawyers specializing in the field, marketing, graphic design, etc. Face-to-face interactions are simple, and always work. The multitude of internet-based remote-work assistants all seem to have their own issues and limitations.
> What does it matter if it is JSON or not.

It makes it easier to pass the complex data regarding a financial transaction into a stored procedure all at once. That's the non-trivial part today.
That's a very valid argument and interesting thoughts. I know a few people at 88MPH will pass that to them and see if they appreciate the essence of your argument
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I don't think that people in general have a problem with "techies" or "nerds". They do, however, have a problem with people who are generally referred to as "hipsters" today.

It is understandable why the dislike is there. Hipsters do tend to exhibit an attitude, behavior, fashion sense and materialism that can easily been seen as socially obnoxious.

Residents of long-established neighborhoods, especially those made of working-class individuals and families, will not be pleased when their neighborhoods are invaded by hipsters. The resulting changes to the community can be quite rapid and painful for those already there, both economically and socially. It's not about jealousy, but instead about unwanted disruption of established communities.

To some extent, the traditional "techie"/"nerd" community has been similarly co-opted by hipsters. This is especially true with Apple's resurgence over the past decade, when it comes to social media, and in SV in particular.

There was never this much strife when the tech industry was made up mostly of "techies"/"nerds", who in general behave in a way that is more socially friendly to established communities. Now that the balance has shifted toward hipsters being more and more prevalent within the industry, it's perfectly understandable why there's more hatred toward the industry as a whole. Their way of life invokes a very negative reaction out of basically everybody else.