skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right. Even though, say, Allston is actually part of Boston the residents don't really think of it that way for the most part--certainly not in the same way that (my impression is) San Francisco neighborhoods think of themselves. And Cambridge and Somerville both are and feel like different cities which, at least these days, are more like each other than they are Boston.
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You should not reuse private keys, you are wasting a opportunity to replace it if it has been compromised without your knowledge.
Governments, always trustworthy, especially for their own citizens.
With rent prices like these, food is no longer a significant part of living costs.
Yeah, it's been active since at least last spring in the current form. I assumed it had already been discussed here but to my surprise it had not.
I've had two parallel paths:

1. Starting doing programming for pay in high school ---> continued working throughout school

2. Biomedical Sciences degree -> Law degree -> Lawyer
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YC-Backed VizeraLabs Projects New Materials onto Any Surface
If you've ever searched for an apartment in these high rent locations, you would know that the data presented from the listings is super super dirty. Often they are lower than actual rent or not the actual apartment (bait and switch tactics).
Collection Repeat
Looks awesome, but curious if you are going to continue to support and develop Tyk? It seems like it was a side/weekend project. If we are going to integrate this in-front of our API (expose to our paying users), we have to have confidence that you can continue to support, maintain, and handle our traffic.

Frankly, instead of TYK CORE & DASHBOARD being free, make it $12 a month. That gives us confidence you can continue to iterate and improve. We are interested in chatting further and willing to pay. By the way, I read the $150 plan as per month, and didn't really flinch, then I noticed that it is $150 per year. You are significantly under charging.
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I just created a demo installation of 92fiveapp at Terminal.com. You just need to spin up a new container using this snapshot: https://terminal.com/tiny/yTUnxPVAiz
Here's another approach:

http://ionicframework.com/blog/collection-repeat/
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I'm especially curious about the last point - that screenshot slides are especially bad.

I gave a presentation to an audience comprising my target market, and did almost all screenshot slides - the purpose was to give a high-level tour of the app. I would rather have demoed the product in action, but it was an iPad app and the facility lacked the means to Airplay the screen.

From what I could tell, the presentation went ok - people came to talk to me about the app and they were quite excited. So it worked out ok for me.

But circling back to my question, given that experience, I'd like to know what the context is behind "screenshot slides are especially bad" - why? What should be done instead?
Was this influenced by Reddit's "Daily 3?[1]"

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Mydaily3/
I know about that. What I said was that hardly anyone dies from it in developed countries. Also, the 'grand comeback' only amounts to about 340 cases right now, which is not exactly a public health disaster.
My guess would be housing or building regulations. That said, developers are starting to build, what else, high-end luxury condos in the Tenderloin or close to it. I've heard the word "Trenderloin" bandied about unironically. So there's that.
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And be sure to get a big raise every year, to cover your 25% annual rent increase.
Be nice if I could get an adsense account approved. Or even a reason why its not been approved.
I agree with OP, actually.

There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but my inner writer cringes, since it's a random throwback to Jobs' commencement speech, and it seems a bit out of place (especially in contrast to the previous 3 headings). I tried to come up with something short/powerful/meaningful, but in the couple minutes I've spared I've come up empty handed.

I would recommend finding a different background image for your header, as I think you could find something a bit less noisey. I like back5 with an y-offset of 540, but another stars/galaxy image would be great if you can find one available for free!

BUT. It looks great! I really wish it was available for android. Keep it up, this is a win for you to remember :)
Thanks I will look it up
No, Pedro Bravo Didn’t Ask Siri Where to Stash His Roommate’s Body: http://www.wuft.org/news/2014/08/13/no-pedro-bravo-didnt-ask...
Sounds like a great idea until you realize that they think you're bringing the disease, not helping.
There is a special hell for people who present tabular data as images.
Some. Most do not. San Francisco's economy relies on young people not realizing the importance of saving, and the consequent willingness to spend to the bone.

In some cases the importance of saving is realized, but offset by the certainty that they're going to cash out huge Any Day Now(tm).
This article talks about it a bit.

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/01/15/123502/san-francisc...
Only 28 out of 638 startups on AngelList in San Francisco list software engineering jobs at over $150k.

https://angel.co/jobs?utm_source=home_gs#find/f!%7B%22locati...
I have a friend paying $2200 for a 230 sqft micro-apartment in SOMA. It's like having your bed in a tiny kitchen.
That's what the author concludes actually, that this data might help determine Satoshi's hardware.

"These insights may help investigators determine the sort of hardware Satoshi used, and how much control he would have had over the early client or his PC / cloud infrastructure."
That's because Microsoft's guidelines say not to leave icons in the notification area any more for running apps. For skype and friends, the behaviour has always been to keep running even after the last window is closed, but keep an icon in the notification area (a.k.a. systray).

It does mess with everybody's expectations of closing the last window freeing space on the taskbar though.
Also, I would think they are sharing 2-3 bedrooms with other co-workers.
No, Pedro Bravo Didn’t Ask Siri Where to Stash His Roommate’s Body
That game kills your battery fyi.
http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/arise-tender... is a fascinating article explaining the unique circumstances of the Tenderloin.
It's somewhat true for imperative - you still have to keep an eye on your call graph, et cetera.

But in Haskell, say, because of lazy evaluation, it's easier to lose track of how much CPU effort something is going to cost, and when you're going to have to pay for it.
If you plan to stay in Bellevue long term, buy as soon as possible. The Seattle area's population is growing rapidly (mostly immigration it seems) and the cranes aren't keeping up.
Ask HN: How do you manage your Linux scripts/processes?
There's a difference between bad crypto and easier to use crypto. Just because it isn't 100% secure all the time doesn't mean it's not useful. If they have to go through the trouble of breaking each individual message rather than just gathering everything in a dragnet; that's good enough in my mind. You have to make mass surveillance expensive enough that it's no longer worth it.

You as an individual cannot fight a state actor. It doesn't matter how secure your crypto is; they can hold a gun to your head and force you to give up the key (or in more civilized countries, throw you in prison forever). If you become an individual target to a state actor, there is literally nothing you can do to stop them unless another state actor is willing to protect you: they have the resources of an entire economy behind them and there's no security solution you can cobble together that will be able to keep them out.

Even Snowden, who practices a paranoid level of OpSec, just assumes his electronic communications are being read. The only reason the CIA hasn't done an extrajuducial rendition on him is that he is living under the protection of another state actor (Russia).
That's why I started to build a list of trusted extensions which I've reviewed every line myself. Except for ones like Pushbullet, Pocket, and Lastpass

https://github.com/kolodny/extensions
Worst Hurricane
If you want to live in San Francisco proper without paying a terrifying amount, try looking at some neighborhoods that are not the same places where everyone wants to live (Mission, SOMA, Lower Haight, North Beach, NOPA, etc). The Inner Richmond or Sunset are good picks if you don't mind having a 20-30 minute commute. Still expensive, but not as bad as the aforementioned neighborhoods. Those can easily be $2k per person if you are signing a new lease and not moving in with someone with rent control.

If you want some substantial space for $2k or under, I would look at the East Bay exclusively.

Be prepared to be shocked either way.
Looking at the hash rate reductions and how it seems to be explicitly controlled first (1) to drop just below 50% and then (2) fading out, it's almost as if Satoshi was thinking (1) build trust in the network by not maintaining a 51+% attack position and (2) the network is self-sustainable, my work here is done.
I had my dream job awhile back, where I was paid to work full time on my own open source project. Essentially my employer was offering the software to customers, and they wanted to make sure it was maintained. It was easygoing, I set my own roadmaps, and I had the freedom to contribute to struggling third-party dependencies as needed (I felt like an open source superman, swooping in). This job lasted for several years until I quit to pursue startup life.

I'm currently the founder of my own funded company, which in a way sounds like a dream job too, but because there are a lot of non-coding distractions and also huge stress levels, I don't think it's really the same. The cushy open source gig was the dream job. :) Maybe after I'm "successful" I'll go back to that.
Oh yes the old, "they know that you don't know that they don't know that you don't know" defense.

This worked brilliantly when the USSR collapsed and we didn't send a crackshot team of experts to secure their nuclear arsenal because we didn't want them to know that we knew they were going to collapse. It was much better to scramble around for the following few years trying to track down all that dangerous inventory.
There's a growing gap between people who know how to negotiate and position and people who do not. Despite heavy competition for talent it's still easy for an experienced, capable engineer to make "only" $120K in SF.

If you really have the chops, and know how to stick to your guns and position yourself in negotiations, companies are willing to break the $150K barrier (even the $200K barrier). They're simply hoping you're not smart enough to know how.

This includes not advertising the fact that they're willing to go above that barrier.
If you notice, there's some space left between the maximise and close, so they're more like _[]...X

Plus, you can maximise/restore by double-clicking the titlebar which is a larger target and I expect most users learn that and almost never touch the actual button.
Took 15 seconds to load the landing page. Honestly, you lost me as a user after the first 5 but I wanted to see the rest of the page.

Scrolled to the bottom quickly, had to wait for it to animate in so I was staring at a blank page for a few seconds.

Can't be bothered to try the product, since I'll be old and gray by the time it boots.
I'm urging companies to avoid overcompensating for one form of discrimination by engaging in another.
This is an interesting attitude.

It basically sounds like "Come work at your dream job, where you competed in a global talent pool to get, for employers that conspire to suppress wages, where you can't actually buy any real estate, and we will pay you just enough to survive"
If the office is within walking distance of MUNI rail stops, you can expand your search to more inexpensive areas of the city (like Outer Sunset). If within walking distance of BART, you can expand to even more affordable areas in the East Bay (like Berkeley, Oakland, or further out).
I very much doubt Satoshi is a group of people, because the nature of bitcoin is too much of a creative leap to have been discovered by committee.

That said, "Satoshi" could have had a group of suboordinates or collaborators working with him on the grunt work. Though again, from what I've read about the original C++ code, it looked like the work of a lone genius-albiet-non-programmer.
- I work for a mental health nonprofit, largest one in the country at the moment.

- I got into IT after being a warehouse worker and "being good with computers" there. I did air guitar to land my first IT job.

- My current job is awesome because as a nonprofit everyone is very huggy-feely, lots of psychiatrists leading the way and whatnot. It is also awesome because I am given free reign to come up with solutions, design new systems and generally tinker with a home-built lab using old equipment I was loaned by this non-profit.

- We get several different models of charity licensing from various vendors in addition to having some of the best negotiators around. A non-profit running all EMC storage, backup and replication? Pretty awesome.

I love the work in general and would do it for peanuts, almost.
As a person in his late 20s, I'm surprised to see so little Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Floyd, which seemed so incredibly important in the 1990s.
The idea of being a hacker and hacking certainly is sexy. That's why we have hacker news, lifehacker, little known hacks, hack your [summer, brain, relationship, bible, etc], and so on.

Now, if you actually need to hack something together, that's generally frowned upon. If I duct tape my bumper back onto my car, people will not be terribly impressed. If I replace a damaged wall in my house with a tarp, my roommates will move out.

But oh lord, if I hack my headache by taking a cold shower, if I hack my plants by draining my air conditioner into the garden, hack my notebook by labeling it with tags, or if I hack on a multi-billion dollar startup that gets sold to Facebok due to the massive amount of money, talent, and polish I've put into it... now that's a sexy hack.
I've been doing some browsing and I'm preparing to have to pony up $2.5k-$3k, but it just seems crazy. Commuting is fine as long as I can avoid driving (bike or Caltrain). And a neighborhood with things I can walk to. I don't need to be in the center of SF, so I've been looking around the Redwood area.
That's an interesting way to look at it..
Exactly, but the thing is, Amazon looks like they went in completely ready to compete with the big boys like Wal-Mart on this level. All of the major retailers have call centers and phone numbers posted in their stores for people to call in. Major manufactures like John Deere and Ball and even Phillip Morris have consumer call staff.

When Google and Twitter say they can't handle incoming calls or respond with anything other than automated email, what they are really saying is 'fuck you, we have no competition'...which works great until there is competition.
I was under the impression that the networking aspect of Startup School is a major draw for a lot of people. Did you not find this to be the case?
Not most, but not unheard of.

I know one guy (not at Twitter) making around $180k. But his real brilliance was getting in around 2007 and staying in the same place. Right now he's paying around $1500/month for a really nice one bedroom on Valencia.

It's great that we have laws to protect him from predatory rent increases.
The Chinese spies are in China. They install malware onto the computers of American engineers in Silicon Valley, which then takes on the task of copying the source code needed for critical software systems.

This is the 21st century. There's no need to put yourself in physical danger by entering the country you wish to spy upon. Everything is done electronically.
My experience is that the scroll effects do not negatively impact readability and are mostly nice. I like the magazine effect. The intro effect w/ the fade in I don't like so much because it creates a sense that your scroll isn't working. But I like the scrolling effect of section headers a lot.

I am using Firefox & Ubuntu on an HP laptop.
Compatibilists redefine free will, similarly to those who redefine "god" as "nature" or "the universe". Sure, anyone can define any term the way they want, but it simply causes confusion to the majority of people who don't hold such definition. Rather, it's best to abandon some terms as fiction, and create new ones surrounding the concept you are looking to address. Better books on the topic are Sam's _Free Will_ or Trick's _Breaking the Free Will Illusion_.

http://www.samharris.org/free-will

http://breakingthefreewillillusion.com/
More likely, they earn closer to $100K/yr, live in a studio or share a house/apartment with multiple people, and pay closer to $2000 a month, which leaves plenty of money leftover for food (especially after at least one free meal at work) and luxuries.
one reason for sky high rents, with the rules so bent towards renters the higher rents and deposits filter the majority of those people out.

Its akin to renting homes, rent below 1k and your more than likely to get a bad renter.
Seattle is the fastest growing large American city, according to estimates from the Census bureau: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/22/census-seat...

Seattle seems to have much better planning than SF though. There's a large amount of high density housing being built, and there's not the same restrictions on rent, or prohibitions against micro-apartments.
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Seems like a very logical move. First we get stable CoreOS updates, now we have private Docker index built-in.
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You might want to ask people if that price includes tax or not. For example in the EU (and UK) it is typical to include all tax in the list price (e.g. £12 is "really" £12).

In the US almost all prices don't include the tax. Cellular services are particularly bad about this due to the way the US tax system works, they fund things like 911 operations from telephone and cellular bills.

So in the US a $20 list price might be closer to $35 in real terms (i.e. the amount they debit from your account every month).
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My company makes a rent per sqft map that somewhat answers this question:

https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/Boston-Cambridge-Q...

https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/San%20Francisco-Oa...

Looking quickly, rents per sqft seem a shade higher in SF but not by a wide margin.
Correlation does not equal causation but the first thing that stands out to me among these two articles today about Mathematicians who've won Field Medals is their tenacious appetites for literature of all sorts as children.

I think it's incredibly important to note the diversity of subjects consumed and the importance of literature in these children's upbringing.
Algorythmic Bartering System Seeks Technical Co-Founder
Our project began as a bookswap in college before evolving into what we learned was a better way to trade.

Initially a server running rails- we aggregated the goods everyone had and wanted in our community while suggesting optimal trades.
Our approach involves an algorithm that creates new forms of trading opportunities.

We found success at our university and spent the last year developing a scalable implementation using a combination of:
-Ruby on Rails
-Breeze JS (Data-management)
-Angular JS

The Ruby-Breeze-Angular integration is complete, we are 97% of the way finished with our first release on this new platform.

Our new architecture supports trading of different products in various types of communities.
If you are proficient at Rails or Angular your skills would be an invaluable asset to our team.

Unfortunately one of our co-founder recently fell ill, we are seeking a technical co-founder to help us get this product to market.

If you'd like to learn more, you can reach me at Ely@SwapDistrict.com
Why do you consider async a drawback?
There is no shortage now, but every segment where Java ceases to be a viable option is one less reason to learn it. If Google decides to move on to something else, less people will be interested in learning Java, which was the original point of this discussion: whether Google's use of Java was beneficial to Sun and Oracle. Oracle's decision to sue indicates Google's use of Java was, somehow, detrimental while I have a strong impression it's the exact opposite: Google kept Java viable in mobile computing and Oracle benefits from the network effects. J2ME is not a credible revenue source these days.

For the last couple years, all Java code I wrote was intended to run on Android devices. If it weren't for Android, I'd have no reason whatsoever to bother doing it.
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$130k/yr, after tax is ~$7000/month. Minus $3000, you've still got $4k to use up as you choose.

If you choose to go for high-end dining for every meal, you won't be saving very much, but $4k/month is hardy ramen.

Not every restaurant in SF is the French Laundry either.
Not quite gone
Still available here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/
I can't even count how many times I've been insulted or been accused of being an entitled white guy in the last 24 hours for telling this story. I think the reason why I anonymized it should be self-evident by now...

Rather than try to refute all those points which I've attempted to address elsewhere, I'll just ask you one thing.

You asserted that because my race and gender has enjoyed special privilege on the job market for so many years, that we should come to expect the kind of discrimination I experienced in order to fix the underrepresentation of women and minorities.

I understand that logic. I don't agree with it of course, but I'll concede it now for the sake of argument. Given that, can you tell me, when does the discrimination against my overprivileged group start to become wrong? What metrics can we use to declare victory in the struggle for equality of the races and sexes?
sqlite would be great, or some NoSQL solution such as Mongo (though I see as that being less likely).
I can definitely see the Chinese diaspora becoming obsessed with Seattle in the same way they have with Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne, etc ...
a few things...

1) there is a 1 gig inband channel to CPU. the traffic prioritization referred to (selective packet discard) really doesn't matter at the point in which the inband channel is saturated. when you start punting large amounts of traffic to CPU, it will take down your routing protocols, kill ARP, etc, even with selective packet discard, due to this saturation. the only way to prevent this is CoPP in the fast path.

2) inband traffic is interrupt driven on this platform. high inband traffic, by itself, will cause the CPU to spike and drop protocols (missed hellos, etc).

the result will be, without a doubt, an outage. packet loss and high latency would be the best case scenario, but only on a box that doesn't carry much traffic (typically not the case for anything taking full tables).

as a side note, these boxes should have started alarming well before overrunning the TCAM (iirc, it begins at 97% utilization), so operators should have had notice to implement the necessary TCAM carving changes.
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this is an excellent point. goal-setting and achievement gives tremendous hope so that would be a most excellent feature.
> I have no problem with the NSA spying on foreign communications or disrupting them.

Great. The US is basically in perpetual war, so I'm sure you've got no problem with other countries doing exactly the same thing to the US!
How big was the code in javascript versus in dart? The smaller the latter number the more compelling dart becomes.