skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I got an offer the other day for 120k in SF. I did the math, and said no. I'd be better off taking a job for 85k in Austin.

This is false. Have you checked actual rents and commutes in Austin rather than silly online calculators.

Yes, you get to avoid state tax in Texas. That is the primary advantage.

Rents within short commuting distance of downtown are ridiculous. Both IH35 and Mopac(Loop 1) have ridiculous traffic with no mass transit in sight. IH35 through Austin is actually acknowledged as a traffic nightmare in the same class as 101 and 405 in LA!

And, finally, you get to live outnumbered and surrounded in a state that wishes Austin would simply vaporize because it's full of "daymn libruls".

So, yeah, all that cheap housing is available. It's just a horrible commute from a community that likely hates your guts in a state that doesn't care.

Don't get me wrong. There is a lot to like about Austin. But this isn't 1996 when Austin really was 85% the cost of living of the rest of the country when I would fly in from California, buy a $4.95 submarine sandwhich and get back "3 feet" of food because I forgot where I was.
I have a hard time believing that a serial killer will be cured by religion.
> grill you on CS fundamentals

Could you provide some examples of questions you were asked?

I majored in entrepreneurship so my idea of "CS fundamentals" may be different from yours, but I took Harvard's CS50 class and felt that it provided a very good introduction to CS.
Looking at the decay chain of U-238 [0], some of the descendants of radon-222 have extremely short half-lives.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-238#Radium_series_.28or...
It's my understanding that only about 10 people in the world make $28+million a year as CEO compensation. Not saying it's reasonable. Just that people tend to argue as if that much was common.

http://www.equilar.com/ceo-compensation/new-york-times-top-1...
I wanted to say the same thing as Taniwha. My understanding of mana in Hawaiian pre-contact usage was a combination of the qualities we would call leadership, charisma, and popularity. People with mana made good chiefs, led their warriors in battle and earned respect. They would be good politicians nowadays.

I'd be very interested in any further explanation from fit2rule about the missionary influence on the term. What you say is plausible, but is it based on real sources or just your interpretation? Most Polynesian societies were not secular in the sense that the chiefs consulted with the priests who interpreted the signs of their deity and both acted accordingly. So the chiefs ruled somewhat by divine authority, and the social taboos were couched in religious meaning. So mana could have had a meaning of divine grace or chosen by the gods, yet a modern-day Hawaiian shaman did not explain it to me that way.
This is great to see. I remember ToneLoc when it came out.

Looking back, it was still the wild west. I remember finding dial-ins that had no logins at all and just dumped you to a shell.
Stock prices are based on the market's view of the future. You don't evaluate a CEO like a middle manager. If he cuts some critical program for strategic reasoning, the market will either punish him or reward him based on the future outlook.
I've seen this firsthand with artists and commissions.
And in the meantime, their child (like my niece) might have clicked her way through $300+ of scummy iap that my sister didn't realize was hooked up to her credit card. People who facilitate kids spending money without their parents permission are not good people, even though the parents have the duty to supervise children. To take this to it's logical conclusion, it's the same reason that -- though parents are legally required to supervise kids -- we also put fences around attractive nuisances like pools, and throw pool owners in prison if they don't.
It would be great if you said this somewhere prominently before needing to sign up for an account. Once I saw the "refund" section near the top of the Terms and Conditions, I closed the window, assuming that you'd be asking for a credit card number.
Full design case study on a modern email client
It's funny, I ran into the same problem a few months back and came up with something similar to cursors as well.
Airbnb Tech Talk: How to Drive Growth: Lessons from Facebook, Dropbox
All of my nearby friends do. But then, I live in NYC. So, the biggest TV of a nearby friend is 45". Then again, most folks I know in CT and CA stick to around 42" even in much larger houses.
Streaming is only available through libspotify or the beta SDK on IOS. Rumors from #spotify on freenode indicate that the SDK for other platforms is still being worked on. But once it ships it will provide a minimal lib for streaming and the web API will do everything else.
Direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
One more hour to go - plenty of time for more questions for Dr. de Grey.
The choices offered gave away too much, I was able to pick out languages I've never spent any time looking at, much less coding, from the choices offered. Make me choose from the whole list of 20 or more instead of 3 or 4 each time and I'd get less than half instead of 20/20.

Maybe I'm more aware than I give myself credit for, though.
What's your return / satisfaction policy?
Wow, sensitive topic? No need for ad hominem. Thank you very much.
This is just speculation, although possible.

Whereas if you buy an Android phone in Europe, you know for certain that your data and behavior are being examined by Google, and are available to US agencies.
Why is this a big deal? Obviously OAuth can be done with a popup. What we really need is instant and anonymous personalization when a user enters the app.
That sounds a lot like Pump.io or Diaspora. MediaGoblin is going to support federation soon as well.
They've explained why you'd choose this over ProtoBuf, but why not its successor Cap'n Proto?
I had this problem before too. Most are not "billable" hours because you have to do lots of POC, estimate, hiring, selling...
For people who have wanted to try this type of programming out but have not jumped the boat from JavaScript to ClojureScript, I created a little library that mixes Backbone and React in a similar model described in the article: https://github.com/andrejewski/reactbone

It takes away a lot of the data-binding cruft that you find in Backbone.View and works well with React without making you switch languages, design paradigms, or add new libraries. The Backbone component makes it easier to build data hierarchies than with plain JS, but I assume other MVC frameworks could be retrofitted to work with React.
5 Reasons Your Awesome Content Isn’t Going Viral
Well, I was chased off by the signup. Maybe I'm not your target market, but I'm unlikely to sign up until I'm pretty convinced that it's something I'm interested in.
It was mostly Frick
Particles, yes, but plastic particles? These didn't even exist a hundred years ago.

The damage is being documented, and it's far more obvious with larger contaminants, the most prevalent being plastic nurdles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurdle) that sometimes escape into the environment.
As an aside, I've got the Dualit toaster he talks so much about, and it's worth every penny. Attractively designed, built like a tank, lifetime warranty, easy to clean, and makes perfect toast.
Agreed. Rebrand it now to target those who sit all day.
The study should also consider the company's performance before the CEO takes over. If a CEO is coming in to rescue a company that's in trouble, they might expect to be compensated for the additional risk they are taking on.
False. The software running on your Android phone's application processor is not open source.

A significant fraction of it is based on a closed source fork of AOSP. The rest (both the Google Mobile Services layer, and the manufacturers customizations) are all closed source and have never been open.
The "R" in RAID is for "redundant". Unless we are talking about RAID-0, which should not even be called "RAID" (AID, perhaps?), it does, indeed, protect you from individual drive failure (how many and which drives can fail depends on the RAID configuration) and, therefore, the whole array will be, on average, more reliable than the least reliable of its component drives.

There is, however, a lesson I learned - never, ever build an array with drives of the same maker, model and batch, as they will have a tendency to fail at the same time for the same reasons. I did not build the array (I'd never do it), but it failed under my watch. Luckily, the first drive to go went one week before the second and the third and I had a plan-B.
in vertically integrated business, even 2 times difference in the price of some basic parts/materials may not matter if that is just a fraction of the total price of the resulting product/service. If you own the high margin exit point like installation of the solar systems, you may be more worried about quality and the performance of the parts, stability of supply, etc... - the factors which can significantly affect your downstream high-margin part of the pipeline.

Add to that that Musk is going to own battery component of the solar systems as well.
There are like six implementations of cursor-y things for React on the internet in varying degrees of quality. I feel pretty strongly that a quality cursor implementation should make its way into react addons before 1.0.
It's going to be much nicer when ClojureScript runs in Node without needing a JVM. Now a ClojureScript project requires a lot of boilerplate and running cljsbuild auto. For big projects this is fine but I want to write smaller scripts in ClojureScript as well. Basically I want to do:

cljsbuild app.cljs > app.js

And that's all. No project.clj, no waiting 5 seconds for clojure/jvm to load and Closure to compile it all.
That's kind of the catch though. Indian food is drastically different by region. Many american-indian restaurants will try to offer a full variety of various region dishes and may be great at some but weaker at others. So depending what a certain restaurant is good at and where your indian friend is from... you get different results.

That said, the more options the better in my opinion!
I have the Asus PB287Q and it scales perfectly to 1080p (and does the 60Hz input, single-tile input), etc, etc. The only downside is the TN panel but it's much better than any TN panel I've ever used.
"a new product that helped users find the right offline store to do their shopping"

I'd love an app that did that. I'd love inventory search for brick-and-mortar stores. I'd love an app that let me know where a product is located in a store.

In fact, Google Maps on my phone does part of this with it's "Explore nearby" feature, which I've used more than once. Maybe the time just wasn't right for Larry Page to accept it back then.
Show HN: Android homescreen with HTML5 widgets
Rob Walling of Startups for the Rest of Us discussed the first of a two-part article on SaaS pricing¹ by Richard White of UserVoice in episode 153².

The podcast also covered collecting billing info in episode 179³ and briefly discussed handling credit card expirations in episode 184⁴.

¹ http://500.co/2013/07/18/the-data-behind-purchasing-behavior...

² http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-153-s...

³ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-179-w...

⁴ http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-184
seemingly way too easy.
Would someone kindly explain why I and two other users (msane and jrlocke) were downvoted for simply expressing delight? Is that somehow unwelcome? I don't see anything against that in the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note, this isn't a complaint, it's merely a request to understand why my comment is inappropriate and to understand how I can express my approval of a submission without losing karma.
Famo.us 0.2.1 has fixed jittering scrolling issue
Yes. We changed the url from http://digg.com/video/the-designer-of-the-f-15-explains-just..., which points to this.

Pierre Sprey, btw, is an interesting character. After retiring from military projects he became a record producer specializing in highbrow jazz obscurities. An original hipster!
Bezos's great deflationary tech machine whirrs on
Android root vulnerability affecting most devices
I'm not very surprised by this. Information gets spread very quickly for this type of activity, infact there are entire funds created around the merger arbitrage scene.

Typically this information is told to a fund by the investment banker or company itself, and then the fund would become "restricted" on the company, meaning once they know a deal is in the works, they can't act on it until the deal has been reported.

Funds know that they are being very closely watched. Some funds do cheat, ala SAC http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-10/sac-judge-approves-..., but the vast majority don't intentionally trade on the news.

The article didn't mention it but I'd guess most insider trading happens form individual accounts and not funds. The risk reward just isn't really there for most funds, compared to individual investors.
Damn, rethink won't stop getting better and better! I'm looking forward to getting to use the changefeeds, as I've currently got a redis list that I use to get notified of changes to rethinkdb, which is fine but just another cog in the system to debug.

Seriously guys, thanks for the great product and awesome database experience (PyRethinkORM author here).
A harder quiz: http://helloworldquiz.com/
Q: What is the point of this plane?

A: The real mission is for the US government to send money to Lockheed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw#t=443

By that standard, the F-35 has been a trememdous success!
This is the "Brazilian brothers" case mentioned in the article: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/two-brazilian-brother...
What is speculation about this?

- wifi and celltower db query servers are indeed hosted outside EU

- Siri indeed uploads your whole address book - it even tells you about that beforehand!

- iCloud tabs must upload every URL to a central server, it would not work otherwise

- the mud puddle test* proves that iCloud backup is extractable from Apple servers by third parties.

*http://www.magnir.com/2012/08/how-secure-is-your-cloud-take-...
A startup’s guide to getting investment
Tell me about it. He actually said to me that instead of making an investment, he should own the company and would just pay me a salary to build the business. I respectfully declined.
Salary is just one aspect of total compensation. The company might give the CEO a $1 salary plus big, non-salary cash or stock bonuses or options.

Ben & Jerry's used to have a CEO salary cap of 5:1 compared to entry-level workers, but the company later had to give in to recruit new CEO candidates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s#Wages
Stock markets also consider risk, so when a new CEO pushes for a new direction, that's penalized initially even if it's the correct long term approach because more is unknown.
My generation did not have the ability to spend $300 on my parents' credit cards by pressing buttons on my walkman in exchange for prettier outfits for my fake characters.
The post is a good example for itself :)
One question I have for you: In those large React apps, did you put all state changes in the big single central app state data structure?

I'm currently building an app where the core state is simply a tree of plain old mutable JS objects. We have all the expected disadvantages (mostly: no easy shouldComponentUpdate), but things are easy to reason about, otherwise. We found that stuff like "has the user expanded a dropdown" or "which auto-completeable search term has just been entered" works perfectly in a local component's setState. The idea is, basically, anything that the user doesn't care losing when navigating away from the current screen can go in a local component's state. This seems to go entirely against the functional immutability idea, but it significantly reduces the amount of updates we need to do to our big central data structure.

I'm going to build a new thing and I'm considering going the nice functional way. However, I can't see any downsides to using directly mutable state to simple, local, unimportant stuff.

Would you do it like that? Or would you avoid component state altogether and go with props only?
Early on in their life, Instacart couldn't convince grocery stories to give them access to product inventory lists or high-quality photos.

So they found a cheap photography studio over a weekend, went to their local Trader Joe's to buy one of every single item and then spent 48 hours photographing all the inventory.

Problem solved.
Just another corporation stepping in to do the work an ignorant, ineffective populace is too stupid to demand from their political representatives.
Did you use one of them or roll your own?
GCHQ can legally intercept Google, Facebook traffic
Just learned about that recently -- it's a retina display issue (fix going up tonight). Thanks for pointing it out!

I have heard of it and used it myself.

The primary difference is really the intended use case. Where ETM is focusing on highly-specific (usually on a nutrient/caloric basis) meal plans to hit a target nutritional intake, we are more centered around using general preferences about food (ingredients, cuisine, cooking methods, etc.) in a "browsing" capacity -- currently in the form of recipes aggregated from other sites and bloggers. The goal is eventually to also incorporate nearby restaurant dishes.
I'm not happy that they led with Larry Ellison as an example. As a Founder-CEO, his perspective on the company is fundamentally different from the mercenary CEOs running companies they didn't found or haven't worked at for decades.
Father Devises A 'Bionic Pancreas' To Help Son With Diabetes
Engineer @ Prismatic here. I'm happy to answer any questions about the post or our experiences with the rewrite.
Your last statement is false. Texas has many large 'liberal' metropolitan cities. The state is now purple and a lot more open than people expect, the majority of the state advocates legalize cannabis and the mayor of Houston is gay. Austin actually used to be known for it's libertarian bent.

In fact, there was a discussion on the Austin reddit about this very subject today:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/28cmrs/psa_when_you_...
I have used a 11k RPM grinder, not that I would have called it small the thing was like 10 pounds. So, I can can see how they might be harder control with newer motors and swapping steal for plastic.

Backing up, being safe with power tools is IMO more a mindset than a set of safety equipment. As such you need some understanding of the forces involved. Not, just to be safe right then but so you don't get lulled into a false concept of safety because the overblown worst case you picture did not happen.
You may find this book interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
Sometimes you don't realize it's gone until you go looking. It could be 6 missing emails from people of interest out of many many more people that are also missing emails, and that complete a random set of individuals.

That said, I have no idea. Just throwing it out there.
Tech News People from Robert Scoble can be good to follow ;)

https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/lists/tech-news-people
Exactly. The parent of your comment says "The internet and mobile devices create endless possibilities for people to communicate, learn and interact."

How are people going to communicate and interact? Probably by sending text, images, and videos to each other...I'd love to hear some proposals for alternatives but I'm kind of tired of the "cat photo sharing" pejorative, because that's what people want, that's how they connect with each other, and if you can actually come up with a better idea you'll be very wealthy.
We also use component local state for things like that, and David Nolen (Om) likes component local state too. But the state goes up top by default. The biggest reason for this is because you might want to attach a diagnostic component to your state (e.g. a json editor [1]), and you don't want to have to change the shape of your state to do that.

[1] https://github.com/dustingetz/react-json-editor
Why not make the switch to ClojureScript then? Seems like you're reimplementing things that cljs gives us fro free like immutability and cursors.
As you note, we don't get rid of power. Sounds flatly impossible, not to mention dystopian as you note (insert here any one of several SF works that e.g. make the healthy and fast wear weights so they're slow).

The partial answer I prefer is the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) and a well armed citizenry. It puts a ceiling on the tyranny the "powerful" can impose, by allowing empowerment of the less powerful.

For the most recent recognition of this concept, note that one of the many, many rules ISIS is imposing is that nobody else can own guns: http://claytonecramer.blogspot.com/2014/06/totalitarian-gove... (link to a blog so you won't use up your Torgygraph monthly quota; the author is very reliable). Even the anti-gun US authorities, when occupying Iraq, allowed each household to own one AK-47.

Before you have to resort to that, note e.g. Heinlein's advise that you can almost always vote against someone. As long as the system allows negative votes to oust the powerful, they too are working under a ceiling, although of course they frequently don't realize it until it's too late, e.g. ask Eric Cantor, the first House Majority leader to lose an election since the office was created in 1899. Cost the powerful power, and they'll change their ways or continue to lose power.
Congrats to the team...I think my appetite for this has been whetted a little by the modern 2K Games remake...which, I know, is kind of heresy, but it really is a great example of how streamlining and simplifying an already decently-thought-out game (i.e. restricting soldiers to one special weapon and grenade, and base management to one base) can still be satisfying.

That said, in the remake, the AI is inexplicably "boxed" up. That is, the AI doesn't move until you stumble upon them...and so if you're patient and methodical, it's not terribly hard to win most fights, scratch-free. That ruined the tension that the original game had...The About page for Open-XCOM says the AI is improved...I'd love to see a writeup on what was changed.
Shouldn't that be radioactivity? Light is a form of radiation, and I'm pretty sure that webcams can already measure that.
You can find mine from my github but it is not yet ready for public consumption. As far as I am aware mine is the only one that allows === checks on value & onChange. (I will find time to release and document it in the next week)
Usually, when someone bothers to tell you, it's because the comment 'doesn't contribute to the dialog' or some such reason. Aka, too obvious or perhaps seems pandering for +karma type thing.

Anyway, I didn't downvote you btw, just my 2 cents from what I've read in the past.
You can still run your own Wave server, although it seems as if development has slowed down quite a bit - http://incubator.apache.org/wave/
Title is still wrong, Pierre Sprey designed the F16 (co-designed) not the F15.
Showed this to a friend of mine that works for a start up out west: http://downtowntrex.com/officespace/ Office space is jaw-droppingly cheap.
That is a very good question. But it appears religion (even atheist religions) manifests itself in just about every society so it probably is a need of most people to a certain extent.

Maybe the answer is to keep inventing better religions. The old ones keep appearing more and more ridiculous and pernicious. I suppose this trial and error produces lots of cults and casualties.

Or maybe the answer is for people to grow up and take personal responsibility and truthfully examine what we really know about life and stop trying to hide from reality. That's the path I personally have chosen. But I think the first might be easier on a mass scale. IDK.