skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second al3x and add what I said last time:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=170750

Bill Wyman, who has never written a word that rang false to me, said it better than either of us back in '99:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/03/sf/index.html

Alex sees an upside to SF that I don't. Apparently you can DJ at a club in San Francisco. But your favorite band skips San Francisco, because there are so few venues to play at. I could opine about that, but JWZ said it better than I did:

http://www.dnalounge.com/donate/

(San Francisco was a crappy place to see music back when bands were playing the Maritime Hall, lest you think I'm being opportunistic here).

There are some excellent restaurants in San Francisco. Unfortunately for SF, NYC, DC, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle can all go toe-to-toe with it. SF gives you Michael Mina, NYC gives you Per Se, and throws in The Spotted Pig. For such a small city, SF throws down admirably, but it is simply outgunned by the big cities.

Of course, this is all a moot point, since you're probably not going to live in San Francisco if you move to the bay area. You are probably going to live somewhere in the South Bay, and the South Bay is an unforgiveable suburban wasteland.

Alex is one kind of person for whom San Francisco isn't ideal. I was him 10 years ago. Now I'm a different kind of person for whom San Francisco doesn't work: someone who wants to live in an actual neighborhood. There are 6 other young families with kids on my block, and I know them all; we have block parties. I never once met a neighbor in San Francisco; not in SOMA, not in Bayview, and not in Noe Valley.

But, hey, great dim sum. Seals. Really old trees. Knock yourself out.
See below. It'll take a while to collect though.

And I fully agree with your feature request.
In contrast there is a layer of garbage and grime everywhere in New York City. So much so that after a day of walking around in the summer, you can turn a white handtowel black just by wiping the sweat off your brow...

That's because the NYC summer is hot, not because the city is dirty. (Maybe you have oily pores?)
nice work! i ran my first half-marathon last spring. it was awesome!! anyone reasonably athletic can train in a couple months to run a half-marathon no problem. long running is totally awesome and zen. i've been meaning to get back into it but wacky swim sports have taken over my evenings.
NYC rocks. It's clean and one of the safest cities in the U.S. these days. Whether you can find a job is another question.
Ask HN: Screen Scraping Rules?
For a couple of years now, I've been kicking around an idea to write a program that gathers information from other sites on the web.

The problem is that I am unsure of the legality of such a program.

If I understand correctly, you can't write a web/server application that goes out and gets stuff on the internet and re-packages it. But you can write a "personal assistant" client-side program that basically visits web sites for the user and presents the information in a different format.

The difference, I think, is between a service that basically re-aggregates other people's content and sells it and a service that simply reformats information available through the web browser into something else -- much like a blind person would use a web-reading device.

Is that correct? Anybody have any experience in this area?.
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Turns out it's a simple matter of reading the iTunes music library XML catalog file on a customer's computer, and using that to create a sync capability for the Pre.

The author seems to mistakenly believe that this XML file is a documented and supported format for third-party interoperability with iTunes. It's not. The DTD he links to is that of plist files in general, and does not describe how iTunes stores its application-specific information in the file. The quote from the support article is not a message to third-party developers that they should use this file, simply a statement to users that it is used by other applications.

The only documented and supported methods of interacting with iTunes are with visualisation plug-ins, AppleScript, and the COM API.
Fleeing the bay area for Portland seems to be a fairly popular 'change of pace' move.

Would it be reasonable to ask you to write a comparison of the two? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested in a first-hand comparison as both are popular techy destinations but seem like fundamentally different cities.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859941
You're severely underestimating how hard it is to make one device behave exactly like another device. Start with Comer and Stevens back in 1993:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1267274
There's a lot wrong with Chicago, but I have to say, this is far and away the cleanest and safest big American city I've been in.

The climate may suck, the public transportation a joke, the government corrupt as hell, but doggone it, it's clean!
I have discovered racquetball since arriving to a college campus. It's phenomenal. Find someone that plays on an equal level with you and its a blast. Great cardio.
The other thing to note is that it's small. I believe WB6 was roughly the size of your average CRT monitor.

The estimated cost for a full scale polywell is ~$100 million, less than 1/100th of ITER's estimated costs. It has the potential for commercial fusion energy by 2020, not by 2050 like ITER. This, of course, is assuming the larger scale Polywell designs will break even with WB8.
Getting to the mainstream and staying there are two different line items on the budget.
If Pokemon cards are good for you when you are young, are Magic the Gathering cards good for you when you older ? :D
I'm afraid you are trying to mislead. No, a large pool of undocumented mexican labor was not coming to the US to live and work. Not until the late 40s, anyway. Then the problem was solved until the late sixties.

Talking about the ease of crossing the border in El Paso is irrelevant to the question of whether large numbers of people were illegally finding work in the US.

The Chinese you talk about were episodically shipped out en masse. Kind of makes my point more than yours.
> Oh yeah, and watch what you eat, I guess.

We may be complimentary hackers in this sense, so I'd like to expand on this sentence of yours.

I don't exercise very much, but be it good genes or not, I'm very healthy--ahem, as far as I know, where'd I put that piece of wood..?

From my years of exposure to the topic, what I've found is that your last sentence deserves far more than a sentence dedicated to it. For some (and only some) of the reasoning along this line of thought, see the TIME article "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin": http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.ht...

To stay healthy, I try my best to eat healthy. This means buying as many organic veggies that I can satisfactorily afford, and cooking and eating them at home. If you want to have a delicious and healthy dinner, don't go out, make it yourself at home. Besides saving money on the food and gas, you'll have yourself a healthier meal and you'll be doing the planet a favor. It'll probably taste better too.

Although I don't really think of myself as one, I'm typically a vegetarian as well. Meaning, I'll eat meat, but only if that meat was organically produced at a local farm. As such meat is hard to come by at the store, and completely nonexistant at the restaurants near me, this tends to be a very rare occasion indeed. Avoiding meat not only means that I spend less money on my groceries, but it also means I'm helping the environment, and am healthier as well (as a result of what "industrial meat" is).

Of course, discussions on healthy eating, and food in general, shouldn't fail to reference the movie Food Inc. and the book that inspired it: Michael Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma". If you haven't read that book, or seen that documentary, you may disagree with what I've said, and there's a decent chance that what you're eating is going to put you, and a decent chunk of American society, in an early grave. ;-)
I believe that would be covered as "prior art".
Random observation: very similar style to folklore.org, e.g.: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
The Startup Board's Hippocratic Oath: First Do No Harm
Between Chicago, NYC, and SF, Chicago is the one major US city you mentioned that actually has a design that accomodates sanitation. NYC is filthy, but that makes sense, because there are no alleys.

I've never heard anyone say Chicago was dirtier than San Francisco before, and I'm just going to assume you've never spent any time here.
I've always wondered about that.

I've lived in both Miami and Chicago for extended periods of time and there sure seems to be a lot more homelessness in Chicago, which is quite counter-intuitive for the very reasons you mention.
This example is too new to determine one way or the other. But the example cited by cunninglinguist above (regarding the chat bubbles) was one that went way beyond the legal department. Chess Wars was rejected by iPhone app approval (http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2009/09/01/chess-wars-app-up...)

Moreover Apple has a history of aggressively pursuing anything that remotely violates their trademarks.
That's because the NYC summer is hot

That's true, but it's still a dirty city. However, it's a different type of dirty than SF. The dirty parts of SF are dirty due to insanity and apathy. NYC is dirty because there are so many people out and about, all the time.
The public transportion in Chicago is a joke compared to San Francisco? The Blue Line and the Red Line run 24/7, and connect most of the city. The only cities of comparable size with better public transportion are NYC and DC.
Top ten reasons not to run marathons: http://www.arthurdevany.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons.html
And the technical epicenter of the world. Don't forget that.
This sounds interesting. I've had a few unusual diets in the past, and found packing lunches the hardest part. What types of things do you take if you need to carry a lunch with you?
oh yeah, i used to make a point of taking the stairs up and down at least once a day. 14 floor, so wasn't easy. i pretended i was training for a mountain hike one day. i mean, i am training, i just don't know when i'm going to climb a really tall mountain.
Perhaps the reason that San Francisco is so relentlessly progressive in its politics is that the residents can all see first hand the divide between the rich and the poor?

I've always thought of it as the other way around. A less "progressive" city would have cracked down on all the bums, vagrants and low-level crime long ago. One Giuliani-style mayor and the Tenderloin would look like... well, Times Square.

(Admittedly it would probably just kick the problem to the other side of the Bay.)
This would be tough for me. Notepad and especially Calculator are an important part of my Quick Launch bar. And I'm kind of stuck using Vista because last I checked they don't write poker software for Linux.

Before I got this new laptop, I probably went more than two years without using a Microsoft product.
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Or, don't:
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* No liquid sugar. Stick to black coffee (or better yet, tea) and water.

* Do something physical. A lot of hackers seem to like martial arts. I do karate.

* Pick times to go to sleep and wake up, and stick to them. Even on weekends.
To speak in Apple's defence here: I'm not sure this is 100% overreaching. Woolworths (and Coles) are producing a whole lot of branded in-house products.

That now includes Mobile Phone SIM cards. (Not handsets that I'm aware of - YET)

It might also include stuff like blank CD's, MP3 Players, and whatever other stuff they have down the stationary aisle. (I'll check tonight and reply later)
Certainly that logo would look suspicious on a MP3 player. (And also certainly - apple have no complain against a home-brand muesli)

Apple might have learnt from their past - think Apple Records and the fact that "Apple computer" weren't in the same business as them..
It probably depends on where you live. I see very few homeless near where I live in Chicago (Austin), but I'm sure you'll see many more in Printers Row or Bucktown. Likewise, maybe you just got lucky with where you lived in Miami.

I don't blame SF for the size of the homeless population; SF can't help it, it's a small city, which exaggerates the problem. But SF's response to the problem hasn't been a winning one:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/13/...

Remember the credit card machines?
This is what I do:

- run 5x per week every morning (~30 miles a week; more if I'm training for something)

- stretch, dynamic before, static after. Essential to prevent injuries

- weight lift 3x per week (bi/tri, chest/upper-back, abs/lower-back/shoulders)

- take rest days

- sleep 9-10 hours a night, going to bed at the same time (EDIT: every's needs here are a little different)

- eat 1 salad per day

- eat lots of fruit (apples, pears, banana's, raspberries, cantaloupe, etc)

- avoid processed foods, and overall eat healthy

- keep stress levels low (figure out what stresses you and then you can manage it)

I use to be very obese (5ft 10in, 240 pounds), but lost the weight through calorie restriction about 10 years ago (6ft 0in, 160 pounds now, muscular, etc). Later I got into running which made me much healthier. That begot eating healthier, which eventually begot weight lifting. Now I can do some crazy stuff, like run up all the stairs in Porter Square. You feel like superman all the time.

The human body needs maintenance. Like a car you can abuse it in the short-run and it's still gonna run. But eventually it catches up with you. Problem is, if a car dies at mile 100,000 because you didn't change its oil often, you buy another car; but you can't buy another body.

It takes time to get into a healthy lifestyle. One-step at a time is the right approach. If you're overweight, focus on calorie restriction. If you're a healthy weight but want to get fit, pick an activity that you'd enjoy. Some people like solitary stuff (running), others like social (team sports or workout classes). If you're not eating healthy, get a book about nutrition and change your diet (Google "Nancy Clark"). You'll eventually find that one healthy step leads to another.

Lastly, keeping healthy is like having a second job. Carving out time and prioritizing it is key. You'll find that friends, employers, bosses, spouses, what-have-you, try to steal this time away from you. You've got to fight back and remember that you're investing in your future. Especially with jobs; would you rather be rich, prestigious and unhealthy, or poor, unknown and healthy? A "good" job or startup will let you be all the good and none of the bad.
Wouldn't you want to hire a senior programmer to make programming decisions?
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I have not spent much time in Chicago, but I was born there, and have friends there. Where they live(d): Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village and Bucktown all seemed pretty grungy. Also, it seemed pretty dirty driving from the airport to their places. Whenever my dad drove us to see our old house in Berwyn, that seemed dirty too... I think by sheer size alone Chicago has to beat out SF in terms of dirtiness. The dirty parts of SF are just so epically dirty that it makes people think the whole city is covered with needles and poo. Really it's just a few select corridors... the rest of the city is very clean.
Please explain how (with links to sane sources if possible).
I'm impressed that you can even remember users from such a huge community.

I've been a long time member of /., first as a lurker, then finally posting a bit and getting more involved, but I only know the names there when I see them, not recalling them by heart like you do.

On HN it's fairly easy to recognize on sight a few hundred or so, and to be able to recall several 10's at least, but it feels more like a 'hackers village' than a city.

Right now I figure about 7500 active users on HN, but, again, my measuring methods are somewhat approximate so take that with a huge lump of salt.

If it grew to 'city scale' (say 50K+ active members) that feeling would completely change, most of the posts would be from members that you would not recognize.

It has occurred to me that it is very well possible that PGs strategy is based on keeping HN manageable, and to ruthlessly prune that which does not belong in the hedge is a pretty good way of achieving that.

Over time the quality should go up, not down if you keep at it consistently. Hard to tell if that's happening though, not sure what kind of metric you'd have to come up with to discount for the growth of the site vs the quality of the comments.

That's a pretty subjective issue.
In March 2005, Agence France Presse (AFP) sued Google for $17.5 million, alleging that Google News infringed on its copyright because "Google includes AFP’s photos, stories and news headlines on Google News without permission from Agence France Presse."[1] [2] It was also alleged that Google ignored a cease and desist order, though Google counters that it has opt-out procedures which AFP could have followed but did not. Google now hosts Agence France-Presse news, as well as the Associated Press, Press Association and the Canadian Press. This arrangement started in August 2007.[2]In 2007 Google announced it was paying for Associated Press content displayed in Google News, however the articles are not permanently archived.[3][4]

Wikipedia-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_News
A pork chop and some carrots. There's nothing complicated about it. You can do OK at grocery store buffets, actually.
Those numbers look wrong to me. It's unlikely that they did their series-A at such a low valuation.
Chicago rocks. It has the same climate as NYC. It's a huge city --- much bigger than SF --- and it's compact, well connected with public transportation, and filled with walkable neighborhoods. Everything NYC provides, Chicago provides more comfortably.

Like NYC, it is straightforward to start a company in Chicago, and like NYC, there are hundreds of businesses to sell services and products to. Unlike NYC, Chicago is cheap and still stocked to with talent.

There is no better city in the US to bootstrap a business in.
Credit card companies charge 1-2% of revenues. VC and hedge funds also charge management fees in that ballpark. I would say 1-2% of profits after deducting all operating and capital expenses is a good royalty figure.

In most countries, all mineral rights lie with the govt (I agree with this principle, btw). In the US, most mineral rights belong to the lucky owner of the land.

AFAIK in the Exxon case, the state of Alabama owned the land whose mineral had been leased to Exxon. It was proved that Exxon was systematically underpaying the state for agreed-upon royalties.
My only hesitation at comparing the two is that as I hinted at above, so much is influenced by where you're at in life, unrelated to city.

If I can find a way to discuss this abstractly, I for sure will.

For now, you can crawl through my HN comments, where I've talked about Portland a bit. Here i did a bit of a comparison of SF/PDX, though it was mostly about Portland:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733073
Ask HN:  How do you come up with names for your apps/services?
Does this require a unique sort of creativity that few people have?

Is there a process that seems to work well?
AFAIK (and IANAL), information on the web is public but copyrighted. That means that you can read all the data you want (though it's polite to obey robots.txt), but if you redistribute it you have to obey the normal copyright provisions, i.e. you can only take what's considered "fair use". Fair use depends upon a lot of factors - how much of the original work are you redistributing, how much of the re-aggregated work does it compose, is it commercial or non-commercial, and are you harming the original content owner's business model? Talk to a lawyer for specifics; there are a lot of grey lines, and if you're close to one you really need a professional to tell you where the line is.

You can't copyright facts, so the mere act of taking data off the web is not illegal. For example, if you came up with an algorithm that could extract stock prices off webpages and then used that to put together a stock chart, you're well within your rights to publish that. But if you extracted the text from those pages and then put up a news article with each inflection point, you may have a legal problem, depending on how much of the text you used and a bunch of other factors. Again, talk to a lawyer for specifics.
I lived in SOMA, I lived in Bayview, and I lived in Noe Valley, and all of them were covered in poo. I spent time in the Mission, which was covered in poo. The only place in San Francisco that wasn't fantastically dirty was North Beach, presumably because the tourists mopped it all up.

Berwyn isn't Chicago.

Wicker Park, Uky Village, and Bucktown are all essentially the same neighborhood --- they're adjacent, clustered, and only a few square miles; they're Chicago's version of SOMA or Greenwich Village. And yet they're tree-lined (right now, they're covered in fall canopy), and every street there has an alleyway, where the trash goes.

NYC and SF are dirty in large part because they are poorly planned.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with how EBS connects to the EC2 instances so I assumed the incoming traffic was hitting their EC2 instance.

Are you are saying that EBS is accessible from outside and that the attackers were able to discover its IP and attack it directly? This doesn't seem like a very safe way to configure things.

I also wonder why Amazon didn't notice this with any of their monitoring of either traffic or system performance and latency. Assuming they have such monitoring in place of course.
Dairy can be problematic for most people. Lactose tolerance is the exception outside of Europe [1] and west-central Africa [2].

[1] http://www.medbio.info/Horn/Time%201-2/Lactase%20map.gif
[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/LacIntol-World2.png
Before everyone jumps on the Apple-hate bandwagon, keep in mind that unlike copyright, which is implicitly granted upon authorship, and patent rights, which are guaranteed upon successful filing, holding a trademark demands a vigorous defense. If Apple were not to lodge complaints like this (and the one against PlaNYC), then they run the risk of becoming the next Xerox or Kleenex.

In other words, the goal here is not necessarily to get Woolworths to change their logo, but rather to get it on the record that they were defending their brand.

(see for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_trademark...)
Hi,

I wrote a longish post on what I did when I started. May be it helps. http://www.cyntax.in/blog/2009/09/tools-of-the-trade/

And I think there is only one tip ... Save cash. As much as possible. No fancy cars, no fancy offices, no fancy nothing. Just save cash. Thats about it.

Regards,
SG
I first convert it to a 1-2 word description of what it does, then translate to Japanese, then mangle it to sound cool (a lot of the time, no need to mangle). Note that there's no real creativity required.
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This plan worked out fantastically well for me. I started eating this way around April of this year, saw results after a very short time, then started weight training 2-3 times a week. I'm down to about 145 lbs from 175, and as long as I stick to the good foods (meat, veggies, some fruit) I feel great. Being healthy has been a great help for hacking because of better focus, energy levels, and overall mood.