skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

People have wildly differing opinions of what "comfortably livable" means.

To me, sharing an apartment without a dishwasher is not comfortably livable. A decent apartment anywhere between SF & SJ will run ~$3k or more, and $130k is ~$6k/mo after tax (this is assuming single, no mortgage, no kids). Minus another probably $1k for student loans, another $1k for retirement or home purchase savings, that leaves $1k/month to live on.

The numbers are rough, but my point is you can either "live comfortably" and spend everything, or live like a spartan and save money.

To someone without attachments (no spouse, no kids, young) this probably is living comfortably and it's a boatload of money. To someone else paying for childcare for a couple kids and trying to get into a good school district, it's not so comfortable.

There are certainly ways to hack the system, most notably to live somewhere outside the RBA (Morgan Hill, Petaluma, Concord/Antioch/etc). The Bay Area can be your oyster at $130k, but only if you have no monthly obligations but your own breath.
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Those fly-by-night establishments are what keep a neighborhood vibrant at night, though. I understand that's not what everyone is looking for, but all else being equal, a populated neighborhood is safer than an empty one.
I say go for it. I'm building that exact kind of application right now in my spare time targeted towards firearms and ammunition (should be launching in the next couple months). I've contacted a couple sites and one of them even gave me a dedicated JSON feed that I could use instead of scraping, although I opted not to use it over data integrity concerns.

I'm being very careful to write polite crawlers, but if a site really doesn't want me to crawl their site, I would of course de-list them.

Your site model might be a bit different since you say you're targeting the retailers as users, but I don't anticipate much trouble from my approach as I'm targeting the consumers and simply driving them towards the retailers' sites. If anything it's like free advertising for the retailers' products.

edit: also if you're really targeting retailers, Semantics3[1] might already be doing what you're planning to do (depending on the industry)

[1]: https://www.semantics3.com/
Also, nets trap fishes, webs trap flies, and the internet traps people :-)
No, B should log it along with the accumulated call stack, before crashing.
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I assure you, the field agents absolutely love these toys, much more than management.
I would be very hesitant to invest or subscribe to a product that solely relies on data scraping. You're asking for trouble if you don't obtain permission first to include another company's data within your product.

The one legal case that always comes to mind in terms of data scraping is Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc.
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looks like you are getting some positive feedback with this idea! If it pushes you to act on it, please let me know. I'd love to participate in something like this.
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It's because trademark is considerably more limited that most people believe.

You trademark is limited to specific markets you operate in, both type of market and geographic markets.

Apple Computers is okay because apple isn't descriptive about computer. You couldn't trademark apple in regards to the fruit.

Typically, there can be a Sky TV station and a Sky car rental. However, sometimes a company can become so popular that reusing their name will actually confuse customers, and it is no longer allowed.

For example, you would probably have a hard time using Apple now, even in an unrelated field.
Skype was successful way before being an American company.
Isn't the physical copy already available?

"You'll receive the book in both digital and audio formats, as well as a paperback book that will be shipped to you free, anywhere in the world."
Well written blog post, thanks for sharing!
The first thing I'd do is look up their funding on AngelList. This can be an indicator of what the equity is worth -- without knowing the terms it's only an indicator though. These numbers are also useful for determining how stable the company is. If they have 8 engineers and 10-12 other employees but only had a $500k seed round, it's a very risky job -- if its closer to $2m, its a bit safer.

As far as actual numbers go, that's entirely dependent on what you think you're worth, and what you think that equity is worth. You're the 21st employee, and they are raising money, so it isn't exactly a red flag to me. Treat the equity as a bonus that may never come to fruition.
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Here's Why Elon Musk Might Have Just Really Pissed Off Your Utility Company
We use https://github.com/kif-framework/KIF for automation! But you know the deal on how comprehensively you can do automation test!
$130k cash is very strong from a seed-funded startup. I agree completely with your final sentence.
I'm actually working on something like this, although minus the hippie aspect. The biggest hurdle (at least here in California) is zoning. Every county in California restricts ag-zoned land to (at most) two dwelling units, where "dwelling unit" is typically defined by having a kitchen. There are some ways to work around this, especially if you're willing to go the "tinyhouses on wheels" route, but you get into grey zones pretty quickly.

I wrote some more in an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9437392
Laws of User Interface Design
This guy is such an inspiration. Perhaps a different side of Politics. Well at least from where I come from originally.

He wants to build a data marketplace, invest in tech R&D )since 2010). OH and he also programs in Haskell.

I mean this is amazing how he have dedicated so much for this topic.
You're absolutely right about the fact that the list applies to both. Then again, it was easy to come up with since it came mostly from the table of contents and that was based on what people emailed me about during the development of the book.

If you look around at that "traditional" startups covered by news or accepted by YC, they don't talk about single founder startups. In my circles (MicroConf, Micropreneur Academy, etc) it's virtually nothing except single founder companies. So there's a misconception that single founder startups aren't possible or don't work.

For VC's and huge scale startups, that may be true. But I know of hundreds of small scale software companies that are doing just fine that would beg to differ. It's a matter of what your goals are and what you want out of life.

The title is meant more to draw attention to the fact that if you're a single founder, this book is for you. That doesn't change the fact that it's useful to small teams or to any software startup. But when you have two people working on something, the discussions tend to be different than the ones you have in your head.

I wrote the book in such a way so as to be that other voice saying the things you would have needed to hear from a cofounder. It's not necessarily about the message itself in many cases, so much as the subtle nuances of how that message is communicated that will make them more understandable and resonate better with a single founder.

In some ways, the title is a marketing strategy too.
The best resource is the github page:
https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw

There's also a video from SFPUG last year, though it's not great quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT34i82o99w
Takeaways from “The Hidden Dimension of Refactoring”
https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw

If you haven't found it already.
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There is also http://hnwatcher.com :)
It is cool to support Dropbox, but I never make it work since it's buggy.
TIL in Europe you are literally not allowed to pe under the sky.
UGH, these kinds of bundles annoy me. I don't want the physical or audio book, I just want the e-book and the supplemental materials - I will never want/need the audio or physical book, and yet it increases the markup a ton. Actually, I don't even care for the interviews, but I'd like to know what this "supplemental" material is before I'd ever consider that complete package.
Andrew Ng: Why 'Deep Learning' Is a Mandate for Humans, Not Just Machines
All I want is the book. Not the $100 package.
Consider a business model like 'Magic' where people pay you to search, and your employees leverage your internal system (built on scraping) to deliver excellent results.
I believe the key difference here is gathering information on technologies for national security benefit versus gathering information to be used to benefit French businesses.
Yes.

...and one thing that can also happen is, when discussing a secondary solution, a third one can come up that is even better.
*NOTE: We do work with visa and sponsorship needs, but are looking for candidates who are interested in FULL TIME, ONSITE roles here in the SF Bay area. Relocation package provided. :)
It's presumably the job of the BND to collect information about threats to Germany. If they've determined that the most effective way for them to achieve that is to submit to the NSA completely and beg for whatever scraps USA is willing to leave them, there's a fair chance that is true. If you question that assessment, that means you are questioning their competence at espionage, which doesn't bode well for their ability to collect the information themselves without the NSA's help.
Almost twenty employees, working remotely so you're probably not management, significant traction already, likely access to additional capital - okay, the equity seems a little low for 2015 but not obscenely so. There's more equity out there, but for riskier situations - earlier employees at companies with no prospects of further funding at their current level of traction.

Since your equity has a relatively small chance of being worth anything anyway, 'significant traction' or not, I'd focus on the things that'll definitely be a factor in your life - things like the work, the people, your salary, and so on.
Atomics in Objective-C
How about you... talk to a lawyer?
Yet Another “Material Design” Framework? (Expand.js)
For context - Sky was founded in 1991 but then named Premiere and only rebranded to Sky in 2009.
Do you remember pre-Putin? It was an effing disaster.
Brain Monitors Are Going Mainstream, Despite Skepticism
1224 Live hits for the exact word "Apple" at http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/
It's available for the second and third tiers but not the bottom one. I mentioned this in another comment, but the shipping costs were brutal for international fulfillment during the private launch so I had to make some changes for the public launch.
It is a method to promote the multitasking ecosystem by leveraging convergent expectations in order to ramp up the bandwidth of the target audience by viral conversion of their objectives.

The call to action uses A-B testing for targeted strategic on boarding and doubles down on the bottom up guidance for laser-focused personalization of integrated scenarios.

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Not EU, but UK protectionism, they do a lot different than guys on the mainland.
Skype was created in EU (ok almost, created in Estonia few months before it joined EU).
But commenting here is OK?
There are entire businesses that have full 150 members team that do "big data" work that is essentially just scraping a tonne of data off of many places on the web.

If the company's data is an aggregate from many different sources and how can the original sources' claim be established?
> An application developer (I'm leaving aside the can of worms opened by "web-app") absolutely should understand at least roughly how a red-black tree works.

Thanks for completely dodging any kind of substantive point I might have had. I can move the goalposts such that my opinion is always right and I can always win, too. But I generally try not to because that isn't the point of HN, at least as far as I can tell.

Here's my point. There are many, many software jobs. Only a fairly small subset of them need serious data structures and algorithms work. But interviews tend to focus on data structures and algorithms brain teasers, regardless of the actual day-to-day of the job.

I say "fairly small subset" here because that's the actual truth. There's a huge swath of programming that can get by magnificently with nothing more than arrays and hashtables.

I had a friend interview with Google to work in their uptime group or something like that. He had to solve some brainteaser about generating an in-order list of numbers that meet a certain criteria in O(n) time and constant space. I get that someone somewhere thought it was a good idea. But if you're tasked with keeping failures from happening being able to solve that brainteaser doesn't say anything about your suitability for the job. Being able to imagine disaster scenarios and how they'll play out seems a lot more important to me.

Now I'm not Google so who is to say that my opinion is right and theirs is wrong. Perhaps they're happier with the subset of folks who can do both. But it seems like they might well be missing out on the people who can imagine how bad it could get and help plan for that but who didn't take advanced data structures and algorithms.
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There are all kinds of complexity metrics that exist that you could use to quantify the complexity of the code at issue, and for many of those metrics there are also commonly-cited standards for levels of complexity that are sources of concern.

But its still, ultimately, a matter of opinion that the particular measure and standard are really too complex for the purpose the particular code is serving in the particular project, so while you can get some facts, the relevant bit still boils down to a matter of opinion.

OTOH, the best proof that code is too complex is to demonstrate simpler code that does the same thing.
Link to the pages: http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2015/may/04/...
I mean a 2-8 year old in Chicago? I consider myself not a helicopter parent.. but that seems like bad news.

Now living in a smaller town.. she can go up and down the block alone. Not worried about it. Chicago was different. We had drug dealers living a block away, and a shooting about once per week. (And this was in a middle of the road neighborhood)
Mike's partner in the http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ podcast - Rob Walling - has a pretty good book too:

http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...

It's also very much targeted at people doing small-scale stuff.

I'd buy Mike's book in a second if I weren't in the middle of a hairy intercontinental move.
Good timing then, and I'd be happy to talk more about whether LogCabin is a good fit for your use.

RAMCloud used to depend on an earlier version of LogCabin (before the data model was a key-value tree), then John rewrote the RAMCloud end of that and switched it to using ZooKeeper, but he made it pluggable on the RAMCloud side. So we just need an "ExternalStorage" implementation for LogCabin in RAMCloud to make that work again. It should be relatively straightforward and I'm confident they'd welcome a well-written and tested patch, but no one has volunteered yet.
The Fire Age
The photos, btw, are from the Finnish Defence Forces photo archive which is available at http://sa-kuva.fi

It's not exactly a masterwork of UI design, but for those who like ww2 photos it might be interesting.
Even if there were only one important CPU architecture in the world, you would still have to deal with multiple operating systems.
I'm not desperate, but here's my resume
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Can blockchain technology send notaries on vacation… for good?
Here's my opinions on the matter.

1) Build a MVP prototype with the scraped data. Don't worry about the business model. Yet VERY IMPORTANT make sure you are allowed to scrape the data in the first place. Work out an agreement that you are interested in the data but don't give away your methods.

2) Pitch the idea FIRST AND ONLY to the data owners. Suggest to them the usefulness of their data. They may want to invest in YOU to build it out. If the data owners are hard to approach then reach out to mentors that have networks connections.

3) Fall back and last resort is to build up your own data. This will be tough and tricky. You might have to build your own search engine (or similar type data feeding app). You at least own the data.

As conculsion, content ownership is king in the online media world. Make sure you follow the appropriate channels. Talk to the data owners about interest in their data. Get aggreements in place for access without giving away proprietary methods.
The typographic details behind my favorite sites of April 2015
The Rust Raft library[0] (not my project) is a library; you must specify how the store[1]/statemachine[2] works under the hood, though it comes with default implementations for both. I'd like for it to abstract over communication channels too, but currently it's tightly wired to an RPC and IO library and I don't have the time to try and fix that.

[0]: https://hoverbear.github.io/raft/raft/index.html

[1]: https://hoverbear.github.io/raft/raft/store/trait.Store.html

[2]: https://hoverbear.github.io/raft/raft/state_machine/trait.St...
Location: London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Python, Django, MongoDB, CouchDB, Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap.

Résumé/CV: uk.linkedin.com/in/rossrochford and: bitbucket.org/rossrochford (email me for full CV)

Email: rochford.ross@gmail.com

I'm a full-stack developer with 3 years experience, mainly on the backend using Python and Django. I'm open to contract work only, will work for lower rates if work is part-time and/or remote.
Most products I know in this space (souce, worked for one years and years ago) were hand translated.

So it was: User types stuff.. stuff goes in a database... a translator gets notified that there is new work.. and he would do it and insert back into the database.. which would eventually make it out to a site.

Google translate style is OK for google results, but not for a professional website.
Spoiler: Some apartments in SF are very expensive.

I'm sure I can find castles cheaper than other absurdly expensive apartments in other places too. I thought this article was going to be about castles cheaper than the cheapest apartment you can buy in SF.
SQL Server 2016 to include R language ! Interesting times!
I don't know about the legal aspects, but if the sites you are scraping do not want to be scraped, it can turn into an arms race. They figure out a way to block your scrapers, you figure out a way around it, they block you again and so on. Even if it is legal, there are plenty of other things I'd rather spend my time building.
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In a way, he's doing that. Not the company thing, but he still holds a part time job as a programmer.

But then, there is the issue of focus. How good can you get at both trades at the same time, if people normally take years to go through only one of the learning curves.
A 30k of 'salary per year' trade for equity should really get the same deal as the investors get. Assume that you take that salary and then invest 30k into the company.

Note, when you are investing money into company you are not getting any ridiculous vesting cliffs, you are getting a multiplier as a valuation cap and usually your invest in convertible debt, not stocks.

(as a side note, if you are a professional who can contribute from the first day at work with virtually zero effort spent on you to get you up to speed, you really should try to negotiate for monthly vesting with no cliff for all your equity.)
Very clickbait-y title. Only one of the "castles" is cheaper than an actual apartment. The rest are houses.

Also does not factor in the cost of upkeep of a 200+ year-old castle. Yes, the housing market in SF is crazy but this is a pretty spurious article.
I found it to be very useful. Even though it is a few years old, the underlying concepts of each pattern remain the same and I find it much easier to maintain code when I know which pattern was implemented.

As for newer content, I would point you again to Martin Fowler and his piece on Microservices[0].

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
Can someone fill me in? It looks like there's a ton of backstory to this on popehat, but no good summary.
Yes, good point. I welcome Mr. McCaffrey to give it a spin, if he's so willing. And though there may be critical bugs left to find, I don't feel like I've misrepresented the current state of LogCabin.
You grew up very close to me and I'm still playing D&D! I don't mind the suburbs at all, I'm very content having access to Los Angeles (with a bit of a drive) and then not have to worry about where to find parking at night when I get home.
Grew up in Fort Lauderdale (city) and my family owned land over in Everglades City (country) where we would go and enjoy the outdoors. Swimming fishing and boating in the 10,000 islands. Overall I actually had a pretty good childhood. A few years ago I moved to the Bay Area and do like it here. However recently I've been looking to purchase some land just outside the Bay Area to build a small cabin and grow a garden,and enjoy the outdoors. I feel like it's important that my son not just grow up in an apartment playing on playgrounds with rubberized ground so he does not hurt himself.
As far as I know, CL "lost" on that one - as part of the proceedings they claimed that the ads posted by users were CL's property, people freaked out about it, and the court set a precedent that the data are the property of those who posted it (ie, CL doesn't own the content of the postings).
So 3taps (and Padmapper, where the CL legal initially attacked) keep ticking along.
Note that our work-sample tests are, not-insanely, done in the comfort of your own home, at your own pace, on your own schedule, and represent the work we actually do. As co-head of recruiting for NCC US (aka head of recruiting for Matasano), I think the answer to the in-person interview question of "write code to do this," is "thank you for your time, I'll see myself out."
Great write-up. It clearly identifies the stage the new technology is in, it calls for the community to get involved, lays out the actions taken and the benefits people can expect. I'm not even an Ember user but this looks very polished and professional. Kudos.
FP languages have algebraic data types for this. Why do they call it virtual structs? How are they different than ADTs?
That's horrifying. 'specially as I thought Portland area had good transit!
What makes you call me a self-loather?
Reminds me of Crack Shack or Mansion, a game of sorts to show the ridiculousness of real estate in Vancouver. These listings are several years old - the situation is much worse now:

http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
If you're small, no one will notice / be worried that you're scraping their data, and it won't be worth their while to sue you.

If you do make it big, hopefully you will have enough profits to play the lawyer game.
The lower cost castles tend to have a lot of delayed maintenance.