skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked PDF has a detailed explanation of their definitions in the appendix at the back: http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014.pdf

The number for “fair market rent” in each market is provided by the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development, and:

> Out of Reach is consistent with federal housing policy in the assumption that no more than 30% of a household’s gross income should be consumed by gross housing costs. Spending more than 30% of income on housing is considered “unaffordable.”
FOBO – Hiring Growth Engineer, local marketplace for used goods (SF)
Fobo, a local marketplace undergoing rapid growth in SF, is looking to hire a dedicated growth engineer.

Sound interesting? Reach out. Would love to chat about:

- Objective-C

- Javascript, and ideally Typescript/Haskell

- Leveraging mobile measurement partners (we're using AppsFlyer)

- Small-scale, targeted ad buys on Facebook

- Retargeting across the web

- Mixpanel

Just shoot me a quick note at ed@fobo.net

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We're well on our way to profitability (10% WoW growth leading to $1M run-rate, in just 6 weeks).

This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

FOBO has raised $1.6M from a number of top-tier investors such as YC, Kevin Rose, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Chris Sacca, Tim Ferris, Index, Greylock, et al. Visit us at http://www.fobo.net

We're located in San Francisco's mission district, just blocks from BART.

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FOBO - The Fastest, Easiest Way To Sell Your Consumer Electronics

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/fobo/

Gadget Marketplace App FOBO Has Hit A Million-Dollar Run Rate

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/16/fobo-video/
This is exactly the reason they responded. By changing the code quietly, they would implicate themselves. An official PR statement like this is obligatory.

What is more probable, that they a lying, or that the random generator generated not a single code that matched, which is very(!) improbable by itself, but two codes that belong to the same account, generated at the same iteration.
You may have already come across it if you've read a lot of Stoic philosophy, but 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius is a good read.

Other books I've really enjoyed are:
Talent is overrated, by Geoff Colvin (short version: working hard is more than half the battle)

Drive, by Daniel Pink (short version: to be motivated, you need to have/be working toward purpose, autonomy, and mastery)

How will you measure your life, by Clayton Christensen (short version: just read it - very good)

For the win - how game thinking can revolutionize your business, by Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter (Note: one of the authors offers a Gamification MOOC on Coursera)

And for fun:

Eastern Approaches, by Fitzroy Maclean (short version: a pseudo-biography about a british man who was a diplomat, politician, and special forces operator all in one lifetime. Incredible)
> "the world's most advanced type system that no language can compete with so far."

While I love Scala, I'm yet to see a better type system than Haskell's.
Hear, hear! I propose we keep raising minimum wage until everyone's living conditions are comfortably above average!

Edit: In retrospect, I made a critical error; I can't tell if the downvoters understood I was loosely referencing Lake Wobegon, or if they thought I was just dumb
Box to enterprise developers: Build, build, build
Wow, this was insanely well timed. I was in the market for a decent belt and just bought one!
I went back to the Analytics Admin panel to double check, and it indeed looks like filters are applied to specific views. The tracking code collects data at the property level.

From https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2637192?hl=en

> If the number of visits/sessions to the property in the given date range exceeds 250K visits/sessions, GA will employ a sampling algorithm...

> It is important to note that session sampling occurs at the property level, not the view level.

So it sounds like reports will sample 250K from total traffic first, and apply the view filter after. This has the potential to be left with reports generated on too small of a sample.
Back to Basics: When allowing user uploads, don't allow uploads to execute code
Companies not involved with BitCoin lose large amounts of money and/or customer payment details (which is the same as losing their customers' money, in a sense) all the time, for reasons having nothing to do with malice on the part of the companies.

Why do you hold BitCoin-based companies to be different?
Java 8 has the potential to kill languages that were designed with the purpose of being a "better Java". Scala ain't one of them. Clojure ain't one of them either.

Surely some people that just want Java with closures will not move to Scala anymore. Some people that moved because they wanted a better Java, may move back to Java, because Scala is actually painful when used as a better Java. But Scala will thrive, as it's a very well designed language that achieves the best combination between OOP and FP available.

In fact Java 8 is good news for Scala, because of the JVM improvements and because Java developers will be more comfortable in consuming libraries built with Scala, like Play and Akka. This is extremely good news, because with the Java ecosystem being so massive, Scala will gain more users than it will lose once people start seeing the possibilities.
Rice cooker
I'd argue that Drupal has been quite successful. It lost the war of platforms for blogs and, to some extent, forums, but has one a foothold for large projects which require a CMS. I'm not sure it was ever competing.

4.7 and 5.x (the first versions I used) didn't have many nice themes or a particularly friendly interface for content creators, which Wordpress had and won. But the Drupal community weren't much into making simple sites (though they could be made).

Drupal has always struck me as a CMS for non-coders to create something quite complex, and when scaling something for a coder to pick up and adapt as they need, with a lot of stuff built-in. And it has definitely won on that front, with perhaps the most comparable system being Django, but even then Drupal is more Swiss Army Knife like: It can't open a tin of beans perfectly, but it can do it quickly, and a few hours in the tool-shop improve it a lot. Likewise it can cut down a tree (if painfully), cut your fabric and has a neat nose-pick built-in.

Numerous media, government and commerce sites use it. It is quite adaptable, gets the 90% done quickly (yes, the learning curve is greater than Wordpress, but a lot more is happening), and allows anyone with some PHP and CSS expertise get the remaining 10% done reasonably well.
I was glad to see the oft forgotten, and correct view in my judgment, Aristotelian position that infinity is never actual, always a potential. The number line is open-ended not "going to infinity" as the flawed modern approach puts it.
I hope to eventually employ people in the USA, but have no need to seek VC.

How are hack-together-a-product-per-month founders handling this process?
Then you should probably use something like JSON or XML, or at least do the file combining/splitting with something like tar or zip.
Rent seekers are sucking every last spendable dollar out of people. This situation is the same in almost every large IT hub. I wonder what stops companies from allowing distributed working environments and just bypass these guys altogether. I'd rather pay for a couple of days hotel charges for face2face time than pay these extortionate rents.

It's time to re-evaluate our work style.
That's not really going to fix it, I don't think. Quite a lot of people go to the Valley because they want to live, in the Valley. Until the days of Remote Coffeeshop'ing and Remote Dive Bar'ing, it's still going to be a highly desirable place to live with rents to match.
and... ordered.
He rents and has a mortgage; perhaps his family is in Florida, he works in SF, and his pad in San Mateo is his "home away from home"?
I also agree with spending decent chunks of change in shoes, beds, and anywhere else you spend a large portion of your time.

I'm trying to get into some sort of physical shape, but running is challenging to get into for me.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, its totally doable if not for crazy-backwards zoning/building regulations.

Either buildings can go up, or prices. They're not making any more land.
perhaps reframing your question / perspective might shed some light... It's ok buddy, whatever you say...
> I wonder what stops companies from allowing distributed working environments and just bypass these guys altogether.

Poor management.
The ones in SOMA and the new UCSF campus are all built on land reclaimed from the bay. In other words, rubble. When an earthquake hits, they are within a liquifaction zone. This is a zone that during earthquakes, behaves a little like a liquid.

The buildings they are putting up there, however, have foundations drilled down so deep, they are well in to the bedrock below. They aren't going to come down.

I don't know how I feel about being on the street if that happens, though.
Who is downvoting all these comments made in good faith? The same thing is happening in other posts on the front page, and elsewhere on this page.

If you downvoted this, you need to go review the HN guidelines [1] and Paul's recent comments on what makes an ideal HN comment [2].

Downvoting is not something you do for a comment you mildly disagree with -- it should be reserved for posts that explicitly violate community standards. This is not one of them, regardless of whether or not you or I agree with the particular sentiment.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
It's equidistant from SF and Palo Alto, with rent way cheaper than both. The downtown area is well developed with lots of restaurants. San Mateo also has good transport links with easy freeway access to the 101, 92 and 280, and most of the caltrains stop here.
I would use Java 7 rather than Scala in production environment. There are different reasons, some actually concern language features but one of the biggest is IntelliJ's capability as Java IDE. It blows away all of the other alternatives as efficient way of creating readable code that is breeze to refactor. Even though Java lacks features that make life easier, the lack of features is important, too. And as a former Scala enthusiast (when it was not so hot), I just dislike Scala's monstrosity. I have high hopes for Kotlin because it has some advanced stuff that have been clearly included by the experience of using Scala. And it in all likelihood will have very good IntelliJ interop, because JetBrains.

I don't get it why people fuzz over languages without a context of tools.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm just not getting value out go my smart phone and the only times I seem to want to use it my connection is terrible to non existent. And I live in San Francisco.
Take it with a grain of salt but at least there is a rumor that MtGox has found 670K more coins: http://theblogchain.com/news/mtgox-found-bitcoin/
For a non-trivial example of a web application, check out http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/software/architecture/oss/c... which documents the making of a news feed service that is written in clojure and combines lots of other open source technology such as postgresql, cassandra, solr, redis, and kafka.
Nerds were cute when they started getting big paychecks. Now they are using their money to buy things that other people want. That's not fair!
I think it's more that they've taken one good part, but in their defense it's probably one of the best parts :).

Pattern matching and specifically algebraic data types are probably the most important to me since I find algebraic data types to be such an incredibly powerful data modeling tool. I find that almost any problem I encounter in my daily work can easily be modeled using algebraic data structures and from there the code is always some set of "trivial" set of pure pattern matching functions. Unfortunately the full power of pattern matching (compiler-checked exhaustiveness/consistency checks, specifically) can only really be emulated with the visitor pattern in Java -- which is just too much boilerplate syntax to make it useful outside of special cases.
FWIW, more supply, even of expensive units, will drive down prices so long as they get occupied.
Slightly OT, but how could you tell it was a higgs? What was the icosahedron representing?
Almost yes; I've just updated our README to explain how to contribute + add default configurations: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search#contribution
Sometimes downvotes are something to be proud of here.
Which, in this tax bracket, corresponds to roughly 40% of net income
Well you know, if you can reach one person with your music...
I had a stable job that paid enough to live a decent lifestyle that I could have worked at for who knows? 20 or 30 years, there were employees that had worked there for 50 - 60 years. When faced with the prospect of living the same life doing the same thing for the rest of my days, I woke up and set out to live with a purpose. I'm 29, my dad died at 49, keeping that in mind lights a fire under my ass every day.
Download and Extract Depth Maps from Google Street View
Not trying to be rude, I'm sorry if that's how I came off.

I'm just trying to make people realize that there are better alternatives to YCM. I quite like neocomplete, which does the same thing as YCM, but is much, much, much smaller and lighter.
Tech world's equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru.
Debt crisis nears tipping point:
Silicon Valley seems cheap compared to London
If you have access to a recumbent bike or elliptical, doing HIIT can be quite effective. It's done wonders for me.

I actually started getting in shape with the basic cardio routine from Power 90. It's really easy to do anywhere and does a pretty good job of working up a sweat.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VEVVIA

Stick with it and hopefully you'll find something that works for you!
> 2014, the NLIHC pegged the average two-bedroom rent in Santa Clara County at $1,649

$1,649 / 4 = $413/wk

$413 / 40 = $10.30/hr of your income going to rent.

So they're saying you need to make $31.71, which means they're saying you spend $20/hr of your income on things other than rent. Absurd does not cover it.

Obviously I'm not accounting for tax, but I'm also not counting that a two bedroom apartment means two people paying rent. If you only have one person, then rent a one bedroom apartment. It's 2014, not 1964.
I know very few scientists who are terribly pleased with their coding skills, and many who actively admit they're not great coders.

The problem is you can't rely on a "code for science" campaign. A research study isn't something done in a weekend Hackathon, though they are occasionally helpful. What happens if, 2 years into your 5 year study, your helpful volunteers, leaving you with an incomplete code base beyond your skills to maintain or extend?
Academia, because it is fueled by grants, cannot necessarily adjust pay to compete with the demand from other sectors, no matter how much they might like to.

Beyond that, good programmers are stupidly helpful, but not mission-critical.
In Cupertino I have seen the minimum wage which is actually $8/hour for the part time job like a cacher in the store. The the rent average is $2,000 for one bedroom apartment there. It's totally unfair to low income people. They sacrifice the time to stay with their family and have to work even weekend for bills.
It works for most kernel handles, sockets might be a little more normal starting with Win7 but I stopped doing Windows development around then.

Here are the official docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms72...
Old Town Sushi FTW, seriously though San Mateo is a great location I'm right next to downtown, Half Moon Bay is only 15min away. I need to stop, I don't want the secret to get out and my rent to go up. :P
They are if you're saving formatted text in a tsv- thus all the discussion about this rather mediocre attempt to replace them.
Bitcoin Battle: Warren Buffett vs. Marc Andreessen
Perhaps I did not phrase this question properly, hence the downvotes. Let me retry:

Consider a situation perhaps 5-10 years from now when this procedure is widespread. A critically wounded person has two treatment options: the best is this procedure followed by repairs. Second best is traditional surgery, which carries some risk. If the person is unconscious and cannot give consent, are we going to treat this as just another procedure? In which case the doctor can make the decision.

I ask because humans tend to identify themselves with an area localized somewhere in the space behind their heads. The do not identify themselves with exact mental replicas of themselves. This has never been a problem in history because such replicas do not occur in nature and we never had the technology to create them. But this procedure may -- I repeat may -- produce a virtual replica of sorts by putting a pause in between brain activity.

Like I said, people have already asked this about cryogenics, but no cryogenically frozen person has ever been reanimated. This procedure, however, is viable.
everything is breaking *nix philosophy. systemd is the new hotness and it does everything. That philosophy is nearly dead, insofar as it ever lived.
Tax is pretty important--even at the 15% bracket it's still $3000 a year, not including FICA withholding or state (or for the Bay Area, local) taxes which are easily another $1-2000 more. For someone making $100k a year, that's not much. For someone making $20,000 a year (rounded up) it's a big bite and it definitely changes the affordability calculation.
Well said. I often get downvotes on comments that go against the "more women in tech" feminist agenda. You just have to ignore the hive mind and give your honest opinion, no matter what the votes.
Wow, I can't believe that birth is only 5x as common as immigration in the US. I knew there were a lot of people coming into the country but I didn't think it would be that significant.
A useful analogy might be how accounting ledgers work. You never really delete anything; you just keep appending records saying what you've done. The balance is just the sum of all those operations. (Ledgers are a bit special in that usually all the operations in a ledger are commutative (+/-), but other than that it seems a pretty good analogy.)
I always wondered how medicine as a whole figured out things that don't lend themselves to clinical trials - how are you going to measure the success of different approaches to psychological counseling?
> You don't need a visa to travel, and I think people travel for business all the time.

What?you obviously dont know what you are talking about.
Gnome used to have lots of things like that that were just really wonderful touches.

The calendar integration is still there, at least- if only I could get EDS to work with exchange...
If you plan on never internationalizing your code, this works. If you take your code into China, for instance, this might not work.
Actually, this type of procedure done succesfully would strongly imply that there is something beyond simple neuronal activity that comprises a person's "selfhood".

Dr.Sam Parnia, the resuscitationist mentioned elsewhere in this thread, has some thoughts on this:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/06/sam-parnia-re...
Actual deletion occurs on app close (or next open). The "delete" the user sees just hides the data.
Foc.us – App Writing Competition – $10,000 Prize
It's sad, but I've switched to xterm
Failing an Inka pen, there's always the Space Pen, or for budget inclined, the Zebra F-301 (and Compact version of the same)
No, that's confusing, even to intermediate users. A dialog box is fine with the "Delete" action more pronounced. Another nice touch might be keeping around a "trash" that can be recovered from. No need to get too clever.
I know it says "everyone", but for any male: a top quality shaving cream to try for while. I used to think Edge, Barbasol, etc was good enough and the boutique ones were for snobs and no difference. Then I tried a few. Like night and day difference in closeness and after shaving comfort. You will not go back.

Not even that expensive considering you can use less per shave because of the quality. The two best I have ever used are both fairly affordable and don't even need a bowl/brush:

men-u Shaving Cream:
http://www.men-uusa.com/men-ushavingcream33oz.aspx

Kiehl's Ultimate Brushless Shave Cream:
http://www.kiehls.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-kiehls_us-Si...
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/294/shellshape/

finally fixed this for me. Awesome-style window switching without Awesome-style window glitching.
But jokes do have their place right? They brighten someones day, for example.

I propose someone makes a subsection of Hacker News dedicated solely to jokes or funny stuff.

Or someone create a new site... named.... Hacker-News-Chan?
OpenSSH 6.6 released
I can see where you're coming from, but even the off-the-wall suggestions are awfully relevant for hackers/tech.

Infrared thermometer for cooking is a fantastic example of using industrial-aimed tech for culinary perfection...
Make sure it's collaboration, not distruption
On Multiple Collection Views
All Software Products from Digiarty will always Serve Windows XP Users
Digiarty Software announces the continuation of rendering a service to Window XP users in DVD ripping/copying/burning, HD video conversion/downloading, movie streaming, etc. This solid promise comes with a rebate offer embodied in the all-in-one 2014 Spring Gift Pack valid before April 10.
Doesn't the app have ads in addition to the mining aspect?

As someone pointed out in a similar past thread, 1 coin for $0 of energy is still an infinite profit.
These schemes mostly just convert electricity to cryptocurrency. The electricity is almost always more expensive than the value, but the app authors aren't paying the bill.

If you're plugging in your 5W charger for less than half the day, the limit is maybe $2/year/user, assuming you can get away with it for a year...
I can see Buffett's point "Are checks worth a whole lot of money just because they can transmit money? Are money orders? You can transmit money by money orders. People do it. I hope bitcoin becomes a better way of doing it, but you can replicate it a bunch of different ways and it will be."
Not only can bitcoin be replaced by the various alt coins, it doesn't seem very secure in practice (see MtGox). I think it's likely someone else will come up with a competing technology that's less hackable.
Any system which one party creates for a set of players will effectively be gamed by a more willing and able actor.

> Given all our activity (direct or indirect) that is being captured on social networks and general internet activity, there was some inherent value (which we'll call a "clout score") in just knowing who was the "most popular" on these networks.

This as I understand it, is your argument on why Klout should exist. To paint an even simpler picture, this effectively determining a signal-noise ratio for people. Unfortunately, this is flawed, because I believe that we as human beings cannot even determine our own signals. Ultimately we have to rely on 3rd party actors to do it for us (call them Mavens, pundits, curators, or what have you). More of my own thoughts on this: http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/09/18/we-are-far-from-sol...
Ceglia's ownership claim to Facebook dismissed by federal court
This is a common marketing strategy for people with products that target webmasters and/or general spammers.
You can always try a site like flippa.com. As for the valuation, it's probably a bit optimistic but I guess it never hurts to see what someone might be willing to pay. But my personal guess is it's going to be a lot less than that