skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's exactly the problem. Kids that are born in the 90ies and younger see computer "gadgets" as given. They don't try to play around with it and discover its functionality. They just play casual games on smartphones and video consoles. They hate computer science classes in school, etc. And as a result they are incredibly un-tech savvy. But it's also the elder generation (60+) that just bought their first computer device (smartphones/tablets).
Manhattan prices may $2k -$3k +, but you can get a reasonable apartment and commute for $1300 or less depending how far you want to commute daily
Yep, it would be fun to do that for code - we're thinking of different models and timings for Hacker Retreat. Consider sub'ing to our email list to stay in touch, thanks.
The difference is that YC isn't investing $15m into companies, they're investing $20k. The corresponding valuations for the companies that they invest in is $1m on the high end (20k / 2%), not $100m. The risk profile for different check sizes is vastly different.
How do they rate against Videocore IV? AFAIK, ARM core represents only about 2-5% of total computing power in RPi. And can you provide some links, please?
Is somebody proposing more regulation? I don't see it if so. Everybody seems to be merely proposing that people follow the regulations already in place.
I want the mobile web to succeed as much as the next guy here, i am just talking about the general smartphone using population. But even for me, things like twitter/facebook/youtube are just a better experience in app form.
Any tips for level 9? I can't seem to find a handle on the raft to be able to modify its behaviour directly.
Even Doctors and Lawyers Can't Afford to Buy in SF
There was a Blog-post on HN 10 days ago, showing Amazon is actively scanning for this and warns developers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491272

it also predates this blog post
We run our forums on DO as well and it hasn't caused a hiccup at all. Uptime has been great for me, but at this point there isn't enough tooling around DO for me to be comfortable with doing more than just simple web sites
Wow! I had no idea. According to http://www.idanalytics.com/news-and-events/news-releases/201...

> More than 15 percent of SSNs are associated with two or more people. More than 140,000 SSNs are associated with five or more people. Significantly, more than 27,000 SSNs are associated with 10 or more people.
A story about this was posted about 10 days ago here on HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491272

Amazon themselves check random apps on the Play Store to make sure you don't embed your cretendial in your code.
Well, it's not older than C, but around the same time. Wikipedia shows S (R's commercial inspiration, for want of a better term) was first written in 1976, but C was around back in 1972. And C was adopted by lots of people a lot faster than S, though it kept chugging along.

Agree with the missing values in native datatypes point, although many libraries for other languages had workarounds for missing values that allowed you to get similar results even back in the day, way before python and panda.

I think the general consensus is that for every thing S and R got right, they got a bunch of other stuff not-so-right, but it was worth the pain to work around them because the good stuff was so very good.
As someone who did a summer internship last year at an amazing SF company, the pay-scale at fogcreek sounds pretty competitive (read amazing).

$6,000 a month comes to	a shade	less than $40/hour. Bear in mind that most full	time students work only	in summers so although considerable federal tax	is deducted from this amount, the intern is likely to receive most of it back when filing taxes next year.

Also, catered lunches plus an apartment	in NYC plus	two amazing events in twice a week (which likely include dinner) means that	the only money that needs to be	spent is a handful of weekday dinners plus weekend fun, and I haven't even gotten to	the thousand dollar signing bonus yet!

Being in college, I knew about 10-12 others who interned last summer in the Bay Area. With most companies in the SF Bay Area you're looking at about $27 to $34 at most large companies in the south bay and	$35 to $40 in SF. Plus an hourly pay scale means that interns don't get paid on holidays like 4th of July, Labor Day, or when they get sick (didn't know anyone who got paid monthly instead of hourly in the Bay Area). I haven't heard of housing benefits in the south bay much and heard of only one company in SF that threw in free housing.

(Sorry about a long comment focusing only on the financial aspects of an internship program but it is an important factor that debt-ridden students take into account).
Down for anyone else?

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One thing that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned are app updates. Updating apps is a pain for the user and a bottleneck for devs. This alone seems like a compelling reason to choose mobile web over native.
I don't think this entirely will kill AirBnB.

For example, I used AirBnB when doing an internship. Since it was >30 days, it was legal. I liked that I was able to read reviews, verify identities, and in a worst case scenario contact my credit card company's fraud department and get my money back.

There's a huge demand for medium term sublets in SF. People doing internships, people who need a place to get some breathing room for a couple months while they hunt for a more permanent space, that sort of thing.

Is it worth billions? Probably not. But I'd say it plays as useful a role as say, Craigslist.
Funny t-shirt 'I'll suck dick for equity' 
A modern day reflection on the old crack-addict adage
It's not about freedom of speech. I didn't say anything about your nature. I believe homosexual behaviors are worthy of punishment because they pose a threat to the successful existence of society; they impede the "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" of society as a whole, and I oppose these behaviors precisely because I respect the preservation of those principles. Behaviors that produce that impediment are known as "crimes".

I believe that homosexuals still have basic human worth, just as I believe other criminals still have basic human worth. I believe that homosexuals as well as other criminals can make useful contributions despite their crimes because they are not "evil at their very core". I still believe crimes should be punished, but I don't believe a significant portion of criminals are naturally and permanently evil, and this includes those who engage in the criminal behavior of homosexuality.
I don't get why this is necessary. Is there no server backend in these cases? I don't do much mobile development, but I would just generate a random token and register that with my server, like a cookie.
Actually, it's more like a 43% tax (assuming a 30/70 split).
>But there's not an anti-trust situation with app stores

I am not saying that there are current or even future anti-trust issues with app stores. I was simply using that analogy to illustrate that the "free market" can move in a direction that is less free to an extent that is negative for consumers. This can happen because consumers are free to choose.

In other words, that anti-trust laws exist and have been employed to combat this is simply offered as evidence that the great-grandparent post above overlooks the fact that the free market can lead to reduced choice for consumers.
This "coexistence" mischaracterization is silly. His right to coexist is not in question. But we are under no obligation to patronize an organization that puts people whose worldviews are at odds with ours in ways that damage people we care about. I feel no ethical compulsion to associate with or enrich (because his salary's paid for by my eyeballs if I use Firefox) people who want to hurt people I love. He's welcome to sell his services to people who don't care about that, but I won't buy.
I sometimes wonder why is anyone surprised that a programmable hypertext medium has a worse UX than an OS-native general-purpose interactive UI stack when you try to implement general-purpose interactive apps?

The Web also bears the burden of having grown up in the desktop keyboard and mouse environment. It's going to be at least as hard to touchify the Web as it is to touchify Windows.
Short term occupancy doesn't have a very good load factor. Perhaps 50% of the time, that bedroom is going to be empty even when it's being actively rented out short term.

Whereas if the person can't profit from it and doesn't need it, they may simply downsize, allowing another renter who does need it to move into the unit and use all the bedrooms, giving a much higher load factor.

Not saying it's necessarily a good idea, but banning short term rentals can help increase the utilization, and thus the availability, of existing housing resources.
Those raising a stink assert that "political sympathy" (to the extent of taking action to support it) with a proposal to strip rights from a portion of the population is intolerance of that subpopulation. And certainly it's the case that one needn't be intolerant in every possible way to be intolerant.
Google Play's single biggest problem
Google Play has various problems that are moderately severe, e.g. the "broken" permissions model [1].

But its relatively open nature comes with another problem, and one may argue that this is its single biggest problem:

Apps that provide zero value to the user without them noticing.

"Virus Shield" is only the latest example [2]. There are myriads of other apps that similarly do "nothing". Most of them are removed, eventually, but at that point, they have already deceived tons of users. As they come up time and again, they collectively do harm to tens (or hundreds) of millions of users.

If you need more examples, search for "Telegram" [3] and see how a single app has deceived 100,000+ users already [4]. Search for "ask.fm" [5] to see the same with 500,000+ users [6].

You can report those apps, but Google is not likely to do anything about it. They're probably employing a system where manual inquiries are only done for the apps reported most frequently. And as users don't notice, they can't report.

One may argue that the the affected companies (Telegram, ask.fm, etc.) must talk to Google here. But it's not just their problem ...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7544864
[2] http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/04/06/the-1-new-paid-app-in-the-play-store-costs-4-has-over-10000-downloads-a-4-7-star-rating-and-its-a-total-scam/
[3] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=telegram&c=apps
[4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=angryinvadersappstudios.telegramnotesv2
[5] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ask.fm&c=apps
[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wAskApp
Just reached out to them to test this out.
Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling
I wonder if this will clash with content-id systems. It'd be interesting to see a DMCA takedown from a game studio against a video uploaded through xbox's featureset.
Analysis of Pitchfork music reviews
Cached URL: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.cdi...

(It's erroring out in production.)
Eich is one of those people. So much so that he put money into supporting a law that actively banned same-sex marriage. Mozilla is a company that is friendly to same-sex marriage, if people don't want that changed, they shouldn't support a CEO that could change that.
dang this is awesome
have you looked at this? https://www.tunnelbear.com/
When I was little, back in post-Soviet Russia (circa early 1990's), the prevailing progression of a developer was "learn BASIC, learn Pascal, then learn C". And, if you were extra badass, you'd learn assembly. BASIC was the first step, simple and easily accessible on most computers of the day (ZX Spectrum, MSX, Atari, GWBasic/QBasic on MS-DOS).

Best of all, being an interpreted language meant that you often had the source available to tinker with--"open source" of sorts. I remember tweaking GORILLA.BAS when I was 12, altering colors, inserting extra screens and text and silly stuff like that.

I think there's a whole generation that grew up on BASIC. I wonder what today's generation growing up on?
> I'm sure many supporters of Brendan Eich's ouster are completely sincere

What "ouster"?

> It can't be as simple as "civil rights" and "marriage equality"

Even ignoring the questionable use of "ouster", yes, it can.

> for example, (first) cousin marriage is important to many groups [...]. And yet, I rarely see advocates of "marriage equality" get all lathered up over this issue.

So, what? Opponents of interracial marriage bans in the 1950s-1960s didn't get "lathered up" over cousin marriage bans, or same sex marriage bans, either. That doesn't mean that opposition to interracial marriage bans wasn't all about civil rights and equality.

> Are advocates of "marriage equality" in favor of legalizing cousin marriage?

Some probably are, some probably are not. As with most political issues, position on this issue doesn't absolutely determine position on any other issue.

> If not, why not?

Conceptually, regulating new legal family relationships on the basis of existing family relationships is different than doing so based on some other non-family status, so there is no real reason why positions on these should be expected to correlate.

> If so, why have they not worked harder to achieve it?

This is the "why aren't advocates of 'X' spending equal effort on every other analogous issue" argument, which ignores that actually effecting change often requires serial focus, rather than parallel effort.

> I see no way to resolve this paradox from within the context of progressive ideology

And yet, as noted above, I see several that fit quite well in that framework. Maybe what you fail to see says more about what you want to see than about what actually is there?
The key issue is that mobile apps tend to be task oriented. A lot of web companies (like FB) are not transitioning into app studios by breaking down a monolithic site into set of mobile apps that deliver a single feature/accomplish a single task.

If the open web were to be redefined along those lines, I dont see why users wont use that.
Even if apps totally won, it wouldn't mean that the mobile web lost. 100% mobile app usage wouldn't imply 0% mobile web usage.

Someone might spend way more time in Facebook.app than Safari.app, but within that, they might spend most of their time on pages linked to from their Facebook feed.
In case anyone was wondering why I wrote spiped...
I am also interested in this. It could end up being a nightmare scenario. Someoen signs up for a month, says "You know what, I like it here. I'm not leaving."

Even if they kept paying rent, they might be an unpleasant person. If they also stop paying rent it could be even worse.
> no one should be made to apologize for a belief that half of the country...

What? If the "belief" was the material support of a law to strip a class of people of rights -- yes, absolutely they should apologize... at the very least.

> Now we are slandering him thru a social media shit storm.

It is only slander if it is untrue, he never repudiated his views. People basically called him someone who is against marriage equality ... because, well, he is someone who is against marriage equality.

> Mozilla failed to back the cofounder that worked tirelessly for them for 16 years.

What really kicked off this thing was lack of internal support, when you have GROUPS of your own employees publicly calling for your resignation, you are in deep shit as a CEO.

> his personal vote did not have any effect on his ability to lead a diverse team

By "personal vote" you mean, material support for a law to strip a group of people of a right? Just double-checking. Additionally, it DID have a massive effect on his ability to lead the Mozilla staff, bunches of them on twitter asked him to step down.

> Hope his next company will appreciate his contributions more.

We will see, I suspect no company will hire him as a CEO. Being homophobic is just not hip these days. I really think he doesn't belong at the helm of a company -- probably make a great CTO somewhere, or just retire and relax.
I had the exact same experience with interviews in the Midwest. Nothing rigorous at all, very high offer rate, and about half the compensation. I made a more in-depth comment, but just wanted to note that.
gwern has a great summary of "time-lock encryption" possibilities: http://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting%20files
Econophysics: Can antimoney prevent the next financial crisis?
Klout shows Wired as a better influencer than Mashable (Info graphic)
Having an id in the URL lets you have a key to uniquely query. Without it, you would have to disallow identical titles.

What benefit do you get from having a title in the URL?

I think of a URL as simply an easily repeatable parameter of a web request. The URL is only one parameter of the request, but it's the only one that's easy to repeat.
Wake me up "Trailer" 
A trailer of a short Film thats coming this Tuesday "A young boy has a sleeping disorder (Sleep Paralysis) and takes pills to sleep comfortable. What happens when he can't find his pills?"
It's worthy activism to repeal unjust laws, or help to pass other laws to protect people's rights. It's something else to merely attack the people you don't like, no matter how noble your justification is.

A more accurate description of this action would be as a boycott of a company with fair labor practices, for an exercise of free speech the CEO made 6 years ago. Does that even make sense? It sounds like a gratuitous witch-hunt to me.

If one's activism is going to further the notion of tolerance and social justice, then it had better hew to the principles of tolerance and social justice. Merely resembling other civil rights actions on the surface is just "Cargo Cult Activism."
How marijuana legalization will affect Mexico’s cartels, in charts
A dose of perspective
On a related note, the city of Amsterdam recently distributed a clear and friendly leaflet regarding the do's and don'ts of private short-term rentals: http://www.iamsterdam.com/holiday%20rental%20guidelines

Clearly it's a prelude to a crack down, but the rules are clear, reasonable and communicated well up front.
"Sponsored Comments", "Sponsored Tweets"... amazing how many people struggle to spell "Spam" properly.

Oh well. Won't bother me. I've already got Ghostery configured to block Disqus.
I am somewhat sympathetic to that view, but that was a long time ago. If he has been 100% tolerant for almost six years now, this action seems more like a very belated punishment for past intolerance than an attempt to force him to be tolerant, which he was already doing.
This strikes me as very boring, non-Apple style thinking.

That's because this is Apple's thinking. Not Apple's external messaging that carefully crafts a picture of how they "think."

I sincerely hope that Apple has not become a boring company.

Boring is just a matter of perception, I grew up exposed to Apple's branding and always thought they were boring. They're very much like a career-politician running as a "Washington outsider" but with more success selling it. Cultivating a family-friendly counter culture image was a smart response to the fact their primary competitor was the juggernaut of the day.

If they become "boring", it'll be because their customers perception of them as an underdog to Microsoft has finally worn off, and now they're recognized as top dog to Android. Not in market share but as a luxury brand. Now that I actually think about it, their messaging has been turning towards a "car manufacturer quite pleased with themselves" vibe...
I'll never forget standing in a K/Wal Mart when I was about 12 years old, standing in front of a Commodore 64. My older brother showed me a simple program that he typed in:

10 PRINT "I AM THE BEST!!!"
20 GOTO 10

I fell in love.
Amazon operates a fork of android, not sure if you count that in.
Creating a Ruby on Rails Plugin
I have dreamed of a similar thing for a long time...

When I worked in a (science research) lab, we had a few Excel files we passed around for performing various calculations. These were great in that my non-computer-fluent boss could use them (and even contribute). There were a few input boxes to fill out which were run through some calculations, and the answer spit out.

Pros:

* Single file

* Everyone has Excel installed on desktop

* Accessible. Even if you're not an Excel wizard, you can see and edit the basic formulas.

Cons:

* Rigid grid (Any documentation, notes, etc. must fit into the grid)

* Formulas are hidden, when you might want to highlight the most critical ones

* If you want to calculate intermediate results (which you do, to prevent very long formulas that are hard to read), you've got to plop them in some cells

* No meaningful variable names, A10:A55 what?

Excel is so entrenched, it'd probably be difficult for a slight improvement to gain any traction, but it would have made my life a heck of a lot easier.

And I'm by no means an Excel wizard, so there's a good chance that some of the Cons above can already be avoided... But I still want some kind of hybrid of LabVIEW and Excel.
Amazing how little code is needed to make this!
Please don't.

I'm a consumer finance attorney who has worked for several years with people from all over the income spectrum who have trouble with finances. No one -- and I mean no one, not federal judges, not banking attorneys, no one -- really understands what APR actually means. It's useful in the US, though, because it means that all borrowing products are calculated the same way, so a consumer can compare the cost of credit from one product to another and it's truly apples-to-apples.

Keep the flat interest. As you say, this is what your customers are used to and it will allow them to make meaningful comparisons with sources of credit in their own markets. An APR will only confuse people and be misleading.

For what it's worth, I'd take the one-time application fee out of the cost of credit calculation and put it down below with an asterisk, like "if this is your first loan with us, there's also a one-time fee of $11 to cover the costs of ___."
IMO It didn't happen because Hypercard does not provide a paradigm shift in application only in interpretation.

It's the same discussion you see around why 3D interfaces aren't more popular.

The second we need to manipulate more real world objects (like in robotics for instance) in real time, the more visual kind of programming languages will gain more popularity as they will provide faster access to controlling the already optimized algorithms.
Aww, I thought that was to easy. That trick works for basically any level.

Also, is there a good way to completly prevent tampering with functions, or is this just going to be an arms race?
http://hn.premii.com/
great HN mobile webapp for phone, made with html5
So the Eternal September is going to end after all.
Broccoli: Potential Data Loss On OS X
> I wonder what today's generation growing up on?

Take here to ask the same question.

What hooked me on BASIC was the graphic capabilities. It was relatively easy to create dumb little graphic programs: circles that changed colors and grew, etc.
From the study's abstract: Differences in taste among individual players, along with differences in playing qualities among individual instruments, appear more important than any general differences between new and old violins.

Another case of science reporting failing miserably at understanding and conveying the results of studies. The three articles all come up short at even reading the abstract:

Daily Mail "Concert violinists can't identify the sound of a multi-million-pound Stradivarius"

Phys.org "Study shows even professional musicians can't tell old master violins from new"

Npr.org - Doesn't even come close to the same universe as the study in the submitted article to the point I wonder if the npr article covered something else entirely?