skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, well said. I agree with you. I, too, have some good friends who live out there (cannot fathom why).

I like the raw energy of NYC, something no place in CA has, not even LA, and I lived out there for almost 4 years. NYC trumps any large US city for pure energy and things to do. I can be in Europe in a few hours, Canada in no time, the food is second to none, the weather is decent, as you tend to get four seasons instead of warm and cooler.

I've lived in Europe, Asia, and 7 US states. NYC is by far my favourite place in the US to visit, and perhaps one day, live. NYC is walkable, something few US cities can boast. Not even Chicago comes close to NYC in amenities -- and Chicago cannot seem to get a grip on their gun violence problem, something NYC has all but stamped out.

Let's not even mention the plethora of museums, restaurants, theatre choices, educational institutions, and more that NYC has going for it. No other US city can compare.
Ok, if we're talking total energy, then 5% rather than 15%. The point still stands.

I've no idea why he would include imports. Does he exclude exports? It seems a bit mad. There's a huge difference between me buying some aluminium and having to generate the electricity at my home to smelt it myself as a kind of cottage industry! (A case of he who smelted, dealt it?)

The point about area use not increasing linearly is a good one. However, Prof Mackay doesn't do this. He consistently states that - even giving renewables every advantage and pretending they'll always work at peak efficiency - you'd still have to blanket the country with them to make them effective.

I've read his book and it's where I first started to think there was something a bit off in what he was saying. Yes, he's very full of the idea that he's the hard-nosed realist and anyone who disagree must have their heads in the sand. I've heard that tactic before.
That's part of being "finicky".
The ad-detector extension doesn't think so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8178940
Then it's just a more complicated hash function.
Sort of, but it's hard for me to get angry at the people who called the police in either case. Yeah, they should have more common sense, but the police are the ones with responsibility here. If you're scared you're scared, and you should be able to call the police for pretty much any reason and expect them to deal with it rationally and professionally.

In this case, if the police just show up, look at the whiteboard, laugh it off and leave, then I would say no harm done. Whoever called them feels safer, and everyone else has at worst been inconvenienced for a half hour.
this too shall pass

(NYC is overrated, but so is SV)
SF wouldn't be in this situation if it was willing to become Manhattan. If even one neighborhood in SF became as dense at the Upper West Side the entire housing crisis would evaporate overnight.

Ditto on office space. If SOMA built up like Midtown - or screw Midtown, just SoHo - we wouldn't be looking at these insane office rents.

But of course, Manhattanization is a dirty word in SF, largely because rent control lets you pass the buck on macro problems in the housing market. You got yours, sucks to be the guys who need an apartment now.
>to ask for? Is there an "idiots guide" to equity?

Not exactly, but I'd recommend reading http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis... because I think it will help despite being focusing more on founder vs investor rather than employee asking for equity.
Approval Voting is actually an extremely good voting method.

http://ScoreVoting.net/BayRegsFig.html
http://ScoreVoting.net/AppCW.html
Pandora's Promise is a very interesting documentary about plain nuclear fission power, created by an environmentalist who decided to think for himself and investigate the power source that his movement hates.

The film highlights much of the misinformation campaign about fission, with particular emphasis on Chernobyl. I highly recommend watching, no matter the what you believe about nuclear power.

> "Cancel the funding of all nuclear power projects, like the ITER project"

This is so very sad indeed. Fusion and fission are entirely different technologies, and both show immense promise to meet the energy needs of the future.
"Explicit is better than implicit"

I think making the implicit explicit is also a belief of most logical devs outside of the Python community.
Kind of sad the state PhoneGap push support is in. I checked the links and they have an if else for two completely different code branches for Android or iOS and don't support anything else:
http://www.practicalguidetomobileapps.com/resources/book/ful...

Ideally you would support more platforms and not have to make any distinction in the JavaScript and could have a single code path. Right now I pay Pushwhoosh a hefty fee per month for exactly that.

I hate working with closed source stuff that I can't bug fix and improve myself. Just the current state as evidenced by this guide is so far behind commercial offerings it would take months just to get it even comparable.
hehe.. absolutetly
This looks great! I've been wanting to get into mobile dev but stuck between choosing one of C#, Java, or Objective-C. I work with Javascript every day so this should be more familiar.
I don't want to downplay what was involved as I think it's a cool project. However, from a real world perspective:

If the algorithm requires everything to be in one clump it's not robust even if it's 'provably' correct.

It requires specifying a small set of special bots which is external control.

It scales while a bird flock can respond quickly even at 100,000 birds and a simple algorithm try and calculate how long building a shape would take with 100,000 bots.
Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out
The Phone Call Isn't Dead
Ask HN: Trademark help?
I have an app out named "Heyyo" for iOS. I just checked trademarks and it seems there is a file for the name. Take a look at it and I'm wondering if I would have to change the name.

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:x5ej6l.2.1
No wonder it's his next big thing... Considering that a bottle of Purely Perfect Cleansing Creme costs $40/£35, compared to a few dollars/pounds for a bottle of "normal" shampoo.
I don't agree. Sometimes the submitted articles really are about how to do X specifically using language Y, using Y-specific practices. The title allows those who are not interested in Y to skip the submission, even if they are interested in X.

I might click on "new web browser", but would be less inclined to open a submission titled "new web browser written entirely in bash!".

By contrast, someone who is currently feverishly into learning shell programming might be more curious about "web browser written in bash" than about "new web browser'.

So mentioning bash is pertinent and useful.

From a different angle: if you're a hacker, it matters what something is written in. What something is written in is related to how that something works, and hackers care about how things work. (At least usually, when not wearing their "consumer of functionality through abstract interface" hat.)
In this case I think it's meant to rhyme with "1099" like the IRS form.
Exams suck (2013)
...and maybe that's why most popular coding fonts are monospaced?
Tate After Dark: Remote-controlled robots for viewing the Tate museum
The Full-Stack Web Developer
If you're running Ruby 1.9.3, go upgrade to 2.1.2. It is such an improvement all around - deploy time, restart time, test time, console startup (if you're using Rails), etc. Just a whole different experience.

And if you've done a 1.8.7 to 1.9.3 upgrade, going from 1.9 to 2.1 is nothing. Piece of cake by comparison.
"San Francisco has no right to compare itself to New York. None at all."

Who exactly is the arbiter of this right? San Francisco (and for that matter Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, London, hell even Turlock) are free to compare themselves to whatever other city they like.

Also, you don't need a car in SF if you're not lazy or just coming back from buying a couch, I prefer the weather in SF, and different cities have different good and bad things about them.

As far as capital of the world? Eh... I guess, but London seems the more natural choice for that in many regards.
I only have about 50 anyway. So, not that big of a deal just to redo.
I thought his proposal was really interesting:

Assume we standardize a taxonomy of concepts, each concept being like a “stage” in a computer game. You can think of the planets in the khan-academy galaxy. I can’t find the link right now, but I know of a company that had a complete knowledge graph and always scheduled the quiz questions so that you would be practicing on topics which you didn’t know but you had all the prerequisites for. So assume we have this bunch of “stages” to clear and to clear a stage you have to pass a bunch of difficult exercises which require the use of that concept.

The student profile should show the grade as a triple (w, m, y), where w is the number of stages I cleared in the last seven days, m is how many stages I cleared in the last 30 days, and y is how many I cleared in the last year. This is analogous to how the UNIX command top reports CPU load averages.

While concepts are highly interwoven at higher stages, I don't see why this wouldn't work up to a generation or two ago, which very roughly corresponds to undergraduate studies in fields like mathematics.
So I as a dyslexic would be screwed then.
The OCR was not quite up to snuff or the cameras, but it would work in ideal conditions (they had to come to a complete stop, full daylight etc.). I had no real reason to do it other than I thought it could be done.
BART is already built through the very same ground. MUNI already has multiple tunnels through the "mountains" in the middle of SF. BART even runs directly through artificial landfill without issue.

The seismic activity of California certainly exposes more challenges, but there's no good reason why underground transport is impossible in SF.

Bus Rapid Transit is a cheap way to look like you're doing something about transit in a growing city when in reality you're just kicking the problem down the line.
(although server-sent-events are supported by just about everything except IE: http://caniuse.com/eventsource )
I must be getting downvoted by Facebook employees.
The riots occurred after the cops murdered an unarmed black man. But why even try to argue about the causality? The fact is people are alienated from society, and consequently give no fucks about society's rules or expectations.

If you want people to care about your shit, they need to have some stake in it, some meaningful reason to respect it.
Well said. We're deeply committed on the blink team to making such polyfills and frameworks easy (eg. it's a big part of why we shipped touch-action in blink). That's where the fighting over what API shape is "best" can best happen - in a market with unlimited choice and furious competition.
How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries?
I haven't used shampoo in over two years. I realized I was doing just what the article describes- removing all the oils with shampoo then adding them back with another product. Now I just rinse it daily. That may not work for some hair types, and I don't know if it would be enough if I had longer hair, but it's much less fuss for a result I'm happier with.
If you were to color in the sparsely populated hills and mountains of the Bay Area as water, you would get an interesting map that makes the place look almost like a bunch of island chains. There are breaks in places like Hillsdale and San Bruno Mountain that disconnect the peninsula from SF, and that is not as obvious a gap as the bay. What you say about the bridge length is interesting because I think most people don't realize the scale of distance between these island chains.
I totally agree with the sentiment, and iOS/Android support only is unfortunate at the moment. It's only getting better though, and in a few months the improvements in Famo.us/PhoneGap will be impressive.

(un)Fortunately, I've wasted the hours of getting the payload/etc support working pretty seamlessly, so handling incoming Push's is all done in one place: https://github.com/nicholasareed/internal_app/blob/master/sr...
>> c) have some real sense of what being a lawyer actually means (e.g. they spent at least a couple years working at a firm in some non-lawyer capacity...

This is the most important factor, in my opinion. Work as a paralegal (or similar job) for a year before you apply to law school.
There was a delay, but we worked past it. The web would definitely be a better place if Apple would participate in the input API standardization process though.
I had a calc prof who spent most of a class lecturing on "RTFT," where the last T was Text Book instead of M for Manual because he thought somebody asked a stupid question.

To be fair, the question was kind of dumb. But the textbook was also worthless and created to generate revenue for the math department. So it's unlikely his proposed solution would have helped the student in question.

Not to mention that the lecture on RTFM didn't help anyone learn math anyway.

The student who asked the question probably never really understood the math (wrote learner), but did become the prof's office hour best friend and got a good grade anyway.

Anyway, file under the teacher hostility section of this article, I guess.
There is a sample node.js server for the Waiting app as well, in case you missed it. Writing everything in JS has advantages!
Show HN: A Terminal.com container to code/host PhalconPHP apps
nerdben, as noted by pdx, this looks a lot like idonethis, which I recently tried and found useful but not super useful (though it did alert me to one issue when a team member used the daily reply to rant about something - that was worth the monthly subscription fee).

At any rate, I thought you might appreciate some thoughts I had on that product and shared with them.

Can we get nesting, bulleting, etc., within a person's report? I was thinking about the dirt simple

* [space][text]

gets you bullet, that sort of thing.

Can reports be organized or grouped by sub-team? Org structure would have to allow for org-private permissions.

As manager, I'd like the ability to add tags to someone else's posts. (Commenting on items to add the tag is one step too many - I'd like to be able to add tags to items entered by my team, or by others in the company. The OCDishly organized among us will worry about the tags, the ones doing this because they were asked to can be given a pass....)

Eventually it would be nice to be able to sort of auto-generate a dashboard report using a template that would use tags to populate parts of the report. Just a thought.

On the report side, I'm wondering about prompting users based on (loose) structure provided by a manager or team leader. I think I am thinking in terms of having being able to tag people with tags, and perhaps with time windows, so the system could ask a person "we haven't heard from you on #A in while, any updates?"

Or something. I like the freeform nature of things, it allows people to capture everything, not just things they've been assigned, and I don't want to break that. But some way of being able to say "I need to hear about #A by yyyy/mm/dd" might be useful - though one could argue that's what a ticket system is for.

I also recommend you look at the integrations idonethis already has.
BART isn't really "underground" though, right? I was pretty sure for 99% of its track it never goes deeper into the ground than an underpass.
Biometric ear recognition. Google it, there's plenty of research in this area.
Love the writing on this blog. Been reading it for years. Well worth a dig through the archives.
Thank you!

Do you have a read you'd recommend on vesting--an overview for someone who has never worked for a startup?

Is what you listed an industry standard ratio (for lack of a better term) between equity and salary?
Foolz Archive’s Farewell? 4chan archive looking for a new owner
Messed with Kivy about 6 months ago, while I love what it is, it suffers from PyGame'ism. Yes you can write games and such, but the end result always just feels bloated and performance hungry. I ended up going with Corona (http://coronalabs.com/), and it is/was awesome for the game I was building.
If you're on heroku (or similarly memory-constrained VPS), it's worth noting that 2.1+ can use significantly more memory.

I've been collecting bookmarks on how to properly tune the GC environment variables in these situations -- hopefully they'll help someone else:

Heroku discussion: https://discussion.heroku.com/t/tuning-rgengc-2-1-on-heroku/...

Using Out-of-band GC on 2.1: http://tmm1.net/ruby21-oobgc/
Spiped solves a different problem than this does. Spiped will allow you to obscure the existence of a certain service, as well as prevent unauthorized access to that service. But it will not allow you to hide an entire host. Tunnelling a service over spiped will simply mean that spiped appears in your portscan instead of that service.

This proposal, on the other hand, will allow you to prevent a service from being visible altogether to those without the key. Combined with spiped or a similar tunnelling scheme, this would allow you to have no visible ports on your portscan. Thus, those without the key would not even know that the host exists.
London is the financial capital, not the cultural capital. London long ago lost its lustre as a place of fun and sanity. You get taxed driving into the city centre, not so NYC, the cost of living in NYC is far less than London. A year-long NYC subway pass is dirt cheap compared to the 7,000 pound a year British Rail pass.
It's pretty clearly a play on words...
Other people use it though and do click through. I just make a conscious effort to remove clutter from my life.
As soon as you move past the low end of cable / FIOS Internet speeds NY has awesome commercial network bandwidth. Think OC 192 and beyond. You can often make a deal with another company in your building to add bandwidth or redundancy.

Also, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihoming FIOS and cable Internet or even just DSL is a good option if you need a little more stability or bandwidth.
Right, we (Chrome team) definitely care about multi-input-device scenarios (I started at Google by leading the chrome work for the chromebook pixel). We're just trying to project out 5-10 years where we expect most Interent traffic to come from phones/tablets to a mobile-first (touch-first) world - rather than carry the baggage of the mouse-centric world. Here's some ramblings on how we may be able to evolve touch events to fill this need: http://crbug.com/404128
I just tried out the ulu app on OnePlus(top of the line hardware) and in terms of performance I wouldn't call this acceptable.
At first I read "Gavin Belson..."
We changed the title to a sentence from the article.

Edit: changed it again, because this piece is more interesting than "Interview with Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab" made it sound.
There is a good deal of research that has concluded attending an elite private university has a significant impact on career earnings[1][2].

If you are suggesting that the Y Combinator alumni network is of immense tangible value, what research do you have to back it up? To be fair to you, there obviously isn't a whole lot of longitudinal data, but as I pointed out, Y Combinator's portfolio stats look pretty much in line with what you'd expect in Silicon Valley.

The value of an alumni network is tied to what it can reasonably do for you. Ivy League alumni networks have been tapped for decades for lucrative opportunities not easily accessed by outsiders.

[1] http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jepsen/hoxby-selective.pdf

[2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w5613
Outside of SF yeah, a lot of BART is elevated or separated at-grade, but in the city proper it's definitely legitimately underground.

Which is the same as NYC - subways in the central bits, elevated/at-grade rail as you get further out and land less scarce.
Job Search Tips for Becoming a Software Engineer
Is ageism a lazy form of decision making?
I'm concerned that the code base is open to SQL injection.

I'm not a Python developer, but it looks to me like you're taking input from the user and putting it into queries without filtering it.

That said, my nonprofit helps other nonprofits use technology, and ALL of them want a volunteer-tracking system. This is a very useful, worthwhile project.
Agreed! We had a great "input face-to-face" meeting at Microsoft back in June, and the collaboration between IE, Safari, Firefox and Chrome teams seems better than ever. Despite our differences of opinion, we finally all appear to be working towards common goals with interoperability foremost.
Yes but Ithkuil is a bit unique in that it decided to include as many grammatical distinctions as possible.
Three (UK) inTouch: GSM over WiFi
Does anyone else find the author rather aloof from financial reality in this article?

> the education I received was well worth the $16,000 a year my parents paid, after scholarships.

> The students all now say they’re confident in Minerva—although of course they can leave whenever they like, with little lost but time.

The writer embodies the all-American liberally-educated Ivy League "coastal-elite" stereotype (writing in the Atlantic, after all), so I shouldn't be surprised at their reflexive apprehension towards an attempt to undermine the old institutions which are so tied up with that identity.
The Search at San Jose (1958) [video]
Games for Learning Weekly – insights and analysis on a $9.5B market by 2017
Teachers as spirit guides
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8178777 was posted yesterday, but this is substantive enough not to treat as a dupe.
I'd do yourself a favor and take the time to learn native mobile development.
It is an app optimized to teach. From what I see, it looks great for that.
Are there good examples of titles which were changed to be less baity than the title of the HTML document? Or a "best practices" guide to titles?
SF has quite a ways to go before it becomes Manhattan, it's half as dense as Brooklyn (17,867/sq mi vs 36732)
We're absolutely living more comfortable lives than we did in the middle ages, or in the 50s, or whenever. That wasn't my point. I don't agree with the "things were better in the old days" sentiment either.

Suspect I wasn't clear enough somewhere; feedback appreciated.
Facebook, the security company
Thanks very much for this post. I'm doing a full pop3 download of around 3 years of mostly email newsletters from my gmail account now.

In order to enable pop3 though, I had to change a default gmail security setting. Have you had any issues at all since leaving pop enabled?

Using Kmail, I'm having to fetch each month's worth of email at a time. Can't find a setting anywhere so assume that is a Google thing.
Honest question for the engineers/programmers in here that are also on LinkedIn:

Have you gotten any value from LinkedIn?

I realized a few weeks ago that 1) I have a LinkedIn account, 2) I make semi-regular updates to my LinkedIn account, 3) to my knowledge, I have received exactly zero value from having a LinkedIn account. It feels like this weird social network where they've convinced everyone that they _have_ to have an account/profile, but nobody really knows why.

I guess I'm curious if other people have had better/different experiences.
Grocery Chain Supervalu Encounters Potential Data Breach
And the robots.txt blocks everything, so the Internet Archive refuses to archive it.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Ya marhaba ya mashala!

Firstly, it is very cool to see this guy quoting Bukhari. The internet is a wondeful place.

I have commented her before, but I am very jealous of your travels to Yemen. I have talked to co-workers for a while and I am not sure the time is right.

And you have to be sitting in the back of a Land Cruiser! (For the uninitiated the most popular car in the Gulf, far and large, is the Toyota Land Cruiser, in all of its carnations, and the Nissan Patrol in a distant second).