skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
National Science Foundation is not building an Orwellian surveillance nightmare
Yes, and IBM is pushing this (plus the v2 ABI which is a bit more like x86 and simplified in some small ways).
Well, the first guy profiled could've used his "his savings and his investments" and his "daughter's college fund" to move instead of spending it all on rent. Downsizing is a pretty common occurrence in most parts of the country, but in SF there's really not much to downsize to.
There are basically three accelerators which are widely regarded as value-adding: YC, 500 Startups, and Techstars. The field is otherwise littered with options which have yet to demonstrate value add and which offer terms which are not considered very competitive relative to the standard terms in the Valley.

I have no dog in this fight and don't know anything about the particulars of your accelerator, but those terms strike me as somewhere between "Uncompetitive with your best options" and "Run screaming."
IMO, simplicity, speed and reliability.
Most of them, although not the Apple G5s which are BE only.
Friend of mine is still on EarthLink DSL, as Verizon wouldn't rollout to her town, and I think they're really the market for this.

I can't be sure about this, but I've read somewhere that FiOS has stopped new deployments. In a lot of these places, CenturyLink isn't available and everyone hates Comcast, so the few independent ISPs around may benefit along with their customers.
If you're already soldering, a crystal isn't so much work or expense these days.
So, we got political deadlock in a way that constrains new housing addition.

Why is the law not being changed?
If you're looking for affordable housing, it would probably be wise to look anywhere other than SF:

http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-is-more-expensi...

The East Bay is only a 45 min BART ride away from downtown, and considerably cheaper.
Sunken World War II German U-boat and Freighter Found Off Coast of Cape Hatteras
Text adventures were magical to me in the early 80s when I started playing them. My child mind had no idea how a computer program could do what it was doing. I was talking to a machine, and it was talking back to me and taking me on an adventure.

Then graphics came along and made them pretty much obsolete.

Then they got renamed to "Interactive Fiction", and, frankly, became a really weird niche.
>with their strange ways and disrespect for the local culture. Always trying to "disrupt"; they're obviously troublemakers!

This is a straw man. It's the "tech upstarts" money and their willingness to spend it like water that's disruptive, and not because it makes them "troublemakers" but because it makes local rents rise to multiples of what they were before. It's very much different than casual racism.

edit: it's very silly and reality TV drama to think of this as a personality conflict. It's a rent going from $2K to $5K in 5 years conflict.
I'll happily overlook the font tag and tables. But for the love of all things holy... that background image.
These people still remember when you could graduate high school, go to work for GM for a few decades, and have the company pension to depend on in retirement. A suburban house with a white picket fence is somewhere in there too.

Nowadays we're much more used to the at-will relationship. The employment only lasts until either the employee or the employer decides that things would be better off if the relationship ended. I don't think either is "weird" - just mindsets from different places/times.

Actually, that kind of sounds like dating too.......
I remember reading your story here and writing my thoughts about it: http://blog.nerdvana.gr/index.php/2013/03/humble-beginnings/

Maybe I should do a rewrite..
Your absolutely right. Free Software was the term is was referring to. And if it came out as a rant that was not my purpose at all, but to share a positive experience about Telerik`s products.
Well, truly altruistic until you tell someone that you're a regular blood and plasma donor. But, like said before, you could simply refuse the compensation.
This actually really bugs me as a Crashlytics user. I'd much rather they stop trying to bundle it themselves and just list these so they can be used by the already established package management out there - Gradle/Maven and Cocoapods. Having to install an IDE plugin just to get a library feels like the dark ages.
My impression is that most of the mandatory phase of education in the US teaches this lesson. It was well into my 20s that I really realized that I was taught wrong.
How to make tough career decisions?
Why Was the NSA Chief Playing the Market?
Of course there's a social contract. We also have laws against burglary even if you leave your front door unlocked. There's a limit to how much people are allowed to screw you. If someone takes an action that results in you losing your house, that person is an asshole even if they're not technically a criminal.
On any search result page, for example:
http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Francisco,CA

Expand the filters and from there you can set a Max Commute Time.

Or, under "map view" search, you can add a commute time layer to the map.

http://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Francisco,CA/map_v
Could you give me some examples of why you switched to Infragistics and never looked back. And also some info on which platforms you have used it on?
Because they don't want it changed. Is it that hard to imagine that there's a subset of SF residents that don't want new housing built?
It's accessible via inbox.google.com, so works on Chrome as well as iOS and Android.
The Weather Channel is one of the WORST offenders for clickbait ads. The whole website reminds me of a poorly designed spam wordpress site complete with 'has science gone TOO FAR? CLICK HERE!' ads.
San Francisco does things to make the desire even less rational, in the name of maintaining civic character and political status quo. Not just building restrictions, but management of core services (particularly transit).

It's hellaciously expensive to live in Manhattan, but viable for many low-wage workers with jobs in Manhattan to live in NY Metro.
> I actually think that the universe of people who could do those jobs is actually pretty large

I'd like to believe that, but it's not just a matter of inherent capability, talent and intelligence.

A very large part of the qualifications is experience with bureaucracies, politics, management, power-games, diplomacy. I'm talking 2 decades of experience, at least. Not the kind of stuff you can learn in school (mainly because school just doesn't last long enough), and definitely not the kind of stuff you can pick up on the job, no matter how talented and super bright somebody is.

I kind of wish it wasn't sometimes (although other times I'm not so sure of the consequences..) but the fact of the matter is that medium-smart experienced politicians are going to out-politic a super-smart rookie every time.
Ask HN: Why all the good stuff happens in JavaScript?
I see people started using it as a general purpose language when building cool stuff?
Because this view of reality was the American dream promised (literally and figuratively) by politicians, companies, churches, schools, families and advertisements in the 20th century.
Why is this marked Show HN and why was it posted at all?
> Why don't these people just move to more affordable places?

It's not a viable solution to just "go somewhere more affordable" when you don't have the money to leave and there are no jobs where housing is more affordable. What you save in housing costs would be eaten up or exceeded by the cost of just getting to a job.

If you're rich, moving is always an option. If you're not rich or have no financial cushion, you are well and truly stuck.

I just went through a bout of homelessness. What money I did have, I had to spend on gas, food and minimal rent to stay in the area, because the option was going back home where the high-paying job is Walmart or a prison.

And by high-paying, I mean around $28K a year, if you're lucky.
My bad, this is actually an important distinction.
I can provide a personal example, I work at a place where we have one and only one ticketing / bug tracking system, but it can't be used for ticketing / bug tracking because its only to be used in hyper procedural, formalized manner solely to generate numerical metrics. All actual ticket tracking / bug tracking work is organized manually by each individual in email.

Not entirely unlike how most corporations use Excel as their corporate standard database, although excel isn't technically a database. So email is not a ticketing system, but for us, it is.

A few hundred emails is not terribly unusual per day.

Filtering strategies are vital. Topic drift away from the subject line is strongly discouraged.

This is at one of the largest companies in the world.
Unemployment level for high school graduates is now about 5.3%. [1] Maybe I'm living in a bubble but I think it's hard to believe that there's literally one single job available for a person asking for a low pay and if that person doesn't take that job they would have literally no options. Especially for something like phone support job - it's not really an uncommon field (2% of US workforce, over 2 mil. employed [2])

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/10/05/sept...
[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=customer+service+worker...
I use your 'pet project' daily. Thank you so much for it!
Because cost are going up across the board throughout the Bay Area, and the transportation infrastructure - both automotive and otherwise - hasn't kept up.

Moving further means increased commuting cost. For drivers this comes in the form of massively increased fuel costs. For transit users this comes in the form of increased fares, since BART practices distance-based pricing.

Commuting daily from Fremont to SF costs $12, that's over 1h of minimum wage. Imagine if you had to pay 10-15% of your total income (pre-tax!) just to get to work. More if you're unable to get a full 8h of work a day.

Moving further also means a large reduction in disposal free time. Free time is a bit of a misnomer when it comes to the poor though - since the time isn't actually free. The article touches on this at a few points - the working poor require a lot of government subsidies and aid organizations for survival, all of which takes time, and most of which are located in SF.

One of the key inhibitors in helping people out of homelessness is, to be simplistic, lining up for things. The basic services they need to survive have huge lines to access them, making a large proportion of their lives idling in a waiting room, waiting for one necessary thing after another. Imagine the DMV, but every day, and multiple times a day.

All of this exacerbated by living far away. Not only are you waiting around forever for basic things, you're now spending more time to get there in the first place.

Even to a rational, completely-informed actor (an unsafe assumption, to say the least), the economics of living further away may not actually work.
‘Crypto wars’ return to Congress
That appears to be an invention of whoever posted this. They do not call it a platform on the site anywhere I can see.
Tangentially: people totally would fault FTDI for releasing drivers that don't work with counterfeit parts. See: Apple detecting and rejecting counterfeit iPhone cables.
I doubt it. Redfin is in a limited number of markets, and selling this walkscore data is clearly a good business model.
>I don't think you would ever hear those words coming from a millennial.

I have heard these words coming from a millennial. The thought process isn't related to age, it is related to the mindset that karma is real: if I do good things then good things will happen to me.

People eat it up because nobody likes to see bad things happen to good people.
Near 50%? It's 38% in Vietnam.
but be aware, "send as" isn't disguising the base email.account in the free gmail-non-business-version: e.g. outlook shows which smtp-server was used.
There is a interesting anti-correlation between this and Prop G.

Prop G will be a retroactive tax applied to anyone who bought a multi unit building in SF in the last few years who would sell it the next few years. Tenants have no problem pushing this bill stating that buying a building does not entitle you to a lifelong contract and that 'things can change' which will negatively effect you. So even though you bought a building a year ago with no hint it could be taxed at 25%, you are now expected to pay that tax if you sell.

Now, on the other hand we have tenants who are upset that they have to leave their homes they (wrongly) assumed they could rent in forever. Either this is from ellis, OMI or other eviction. I feel for these people to a extent- But I am not a believer in the whole "right to stay in your birth city forever" movement. I do not believe anyone has any more of a right to live in San Francisco than they do Malibu or Aspen. It is one of the most expensive metros in the US.

If you are a 90 year old grandmother who was counting on your landlord not evicting the whole building, you should have known that was a risky bet to begin with. If you want to stay in a place forever you should buy the home. Otherwise, you need to be prepared to move should situations change. You need to prepare for all 'disasters' - That could be eviction, fire, death, floods, etc.. If you dont prepare, I will be sorry for you- But I dont think that entitles legal protection either. If you lose your house from a fire with no insurance, you are going to bare that burden alone.
You should probably work on getting less email then. I find zero inbox easy to do. It takes practice, but I also unsub from newsletters and reduced my work load. Tons of email is a symptom of either over-loading yourself with work or not managing how you communicate with people well.
Ask HN: How much JavaScript do you know as a back end dev?
Does it make any sense being a real full-stack engineer? Client-side JS is getting more and more complex with all that AngularJS/React etc stuff, it really pushes the limits of the one-man show approach for web development. How many JS do you know as a web/backend developer?
Crap. I was hoping for emulators.
Same. And on top of that, I keep hearing horrible stories from the world of cable business, and I shudder to make a switch with more $$
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>I have no dog in this fight and don't know anything about the particulars of your accelerator, but those terms strike me as somewhere between "Uncompetitive with your best options" and "Run screaming."

That's the same impression we got. I was hoping to get an outside opinion.

Our contact told us (straight-faced) that no software company could be started for $70,000 and I immediately thought of Bingo Card Creator.

Thanks for your input Patrick.
Only coming from personal experience, that $1737 number for a 1bed in Chicago is very high and makes me question the rest of their numbers.
FCC Releases 2.5M “Net Neutrality” Reply Comments to the Public
Are you kidding, or are you seeing a different page than me? Literally all the page has for me is an "Inbox by Gmail" logo on top and some text below for "Already have an invitation?" and "Need an invitation?". No information whatsoever.
It's simple:

Roaring economy, NIMBYism, affordable housing -- pick two.

SF has picked roaring economy and NIMBYism.
Yeah, that's true -- perhaps weird isn't the right word for it; more like foreign (to me). I find the idea of being so dependent on a corporation terrifying, so it's fascinating that some people have just thrown themselves into the arms of the the social contract without any qualms or backup plans.

edit: OK, that sounds harsh. I have no idea what this dude had for qualms or backup plans; I'm just generalizing based on what I read about him. If you're out there, Todd, don't take my comments personally.
In the late 90's I had a Battlebots team and we made it to the televised finals several times (and we were on Robotica a TLC show). The interesting bit was that if you were on national TV, you could get a sponsor who would, in exchange for their logo being on your T-shirt, provide consulting and sometimes components for your robot. It was an interesting negotiation with the production company as to whether or not they would 'blur out' the logos or not.

This technology would let them make their own deal with some company and put that logo on their instead, even if the competitor didn't like the team. Can you imagine Nascar where the lead car always has an STP Oil Additive sticker?
That would make it hard for a competitor to negotiate with sponsors, or perhaps even get sponsorship. Code that erases the Nike 'swoosh' in every frame? No problem.

It also is interesting that it can cut Google out of the loop. I've wondered how Google deals with people who put their own "direct" advertisement in their Youtube videos while Google tries to monetize them with popup ads. Does Google start blurring those 'integrated' ads out?

Going to be interesting, that is for sure.
Having lived in other large US cities, I am always astounded by the number, brazenness, and aggressiveness of SF's homeless population.

From my (anecdotal) observations, poor police enforcement appears to be a motivator for homeless people to gather and remain in SF. Walk a couple laps around City Hall and count the number of misdemeanors you can spot in the open and homeless 'tents'. Most other cities don't allow anything of the sort.
There is a huge amount of stigma around homelessness and poverty. "Those people are irresponsible and they deserve everything that happens". His story just reminds us that what happened to him can happen to most people.
What am I supposed to do, live in fear every day of my life that my job might disappear tomorrow?
Any or all of (a) because it keeps housing prices high, working to the advantage of those who own property; (b) because low density is easy to tie into environmental/quality of life concerns; (c) because the culture is deeply distrustful of market-based solutions, such as market-rate housing.
Guess the self study has gone well. It appears that he struggles at times but never reverts to English. Betting this video will be widely shared in China.
Context - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/fccs-a...
What if this chip is part of the maintenance interface on a medical device at your local hospital? Meaning regular maintenance can no longer be done, rendering the device unable to help people?
Many may interpret this as victim blaming but I think it's a valid question: why have we as a country/culture become so much more resistant to moving? I know I've read more comprehensive literature on this before a but a quick google brought up these starting points:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/11/declining_ame...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/generati...

I understand that we develop local support networks of friends and family and it's easy to understand why moving comes with the fear of having to start in a new place with no such network. But it seems that this fear has become limiting - that we are now refusing to relocate to places where greater opportunity exists because we can't stand the thought of leaving our current network behind. We're stuck, effectively. And it exacerbates the conditions in places like SF.
Thanks, I abandoned LastPass after the Lavabit controversy for pass long ago and I love it.
Charlie O'Donnel: If you don't lead, you're not a VC
Show HN: Self-Service Retargeting for Small Business
>I don't think you would ever hear those words coming from a millennial. Maybe we've just learned from the mistakes of people like this guy.

Or maybe the world used to be different, and the millennials are being released into a world of unemployment and a largely dismantled safety net. The generation gap has narrowed for them, largely because they're still living with their parents after college.
Just so you know, I am recent graduate from the Fullstack Academy (http://www.fullstackacademy.com/) bootcamp which focuses on the MEAN stack (JavaScript only stack). I did decide to go to a JavaScript focused bootcamp because of the fact that I would be using the same language (JavaScript) on the front end, back end and in the database. I believe this allowed me to help learn the principles of web development better since I did not have to learn anything else like (ruby, python, or php lets say).

So I found it nice that I am using the same language on the front, back and in the database which maybe why there are a lot of people using it.

However, with that being said, I think that there is a lot of "good stuff" happening around the whole web development landscape and not just with JavaScript.
Released an android app ZPulse for location Task and Track
Yeah I'd thought about that, but I figured it's no worse than gta - which you can get on google play. Lots of good fun ideas there, unfortunately the Christmas edition's going to have to wait
Thank you, I'm going to apply at http://www.alethicorp.com/
I don't think they mean move to a place more affordable out side of SF, but move away from SF to another part of the country.
Because the people with political clout are the ones that benefit from the housing shortage.

You could be an owner, in which case the skyrocketing value of your property is something you'd like to defend.

Or you could be a high-income renter, in which case you're willing and able to pay the sums necessary to live in a neighborhood of quaint, charming 3-story buildings, damn the consequences to people around you. This would be the "neighborhood character" argument.

Both demographics have a lot more sway at City Hall than the working poor.

What I find sad are the number of working poor who are fighting for neighborhood "preservation", since said preservation serves nothing except helping the rich live in a theme park of a 1930s emulation, a theme park that explicitly excludes themselves.
Google Wave was actually cool, it wasn't just an app, it was a protocol. Too bad it didn't take off.
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Mailbox is an all-in-one email client. Gmail is a webmail client for your (singular) Gmail account.
We are still using the original ASP.NET MVC extensions that they released as open source before they went on to develop Kendo.

I've used a fair few .NET controls from various vendors and they all are challenging in different ways. The common problem is that they force you to do things in a particular way.

If I was to rebuild our product it would not be using any of this heavy backend style server controls.

It is history as far as I can see. JavaScript front-end frameworks and REST services even with .NET is where Microsoft seem to be headed as well.
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No, but it might be a good idea to be prepared for that eventuality. Being prepared means also you won't have to be afraid ;)
Why don't these people just move to more affordable places?

In many cases, they are: most often to Sunbelt cities like Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix, which are the fastest growing in percentage terms in the nation (See Matt Yglesias at http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/06/14/in_the_future... or http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/23/fastest_growi...).

Yglesias also details some of this in The Rent Is Too Damn High (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO?ie=UTF8&tag=thstsst-20&l... -- a must read on these issues, and I usually post a link when discussions like this one arise).

Anyway, lots of cities have dysfunctional political and legal systems that prevent the supply of housing from growing. San Francisco's problems are particularly acute: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/... and are exacerbated by rent control, which discourages owners from even utilizing existing space.