skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Vancouver, my folks own a detached home there... and the previous poster isn't entirely incorrect in his statements on Vancouver housing.

The speculative bubble started in the mid 90s, and housing has been rising ever since. It was still within reach of middle class folk all the way up till, oh, about 1997-98 or so. The announcement of the Olympics drove prices even higher, so that's where we're at today.

My folks bought in about 15 years ago, and even then our modest 2-story cost about $300K. It is worth $800K now, and our neighbourhood is not even one of the explosive-growth neighbourhoods. Heck, we're not even in Vancouver proper. Buying a detached home in Vancouver city itself is, to put it strongly, impossible for anyone who only has a day job as income. Tiny single-floor bungalows are priced into the $700K's, it's just all so absurd.
"What does P.C. stand for?"

Looks like Praux.Com to me.
I once asked a friend of mine in uni if it was hard to write a program that generates audio from image files after listening to aphex twin.. Later that day he had this completed: http://134.74.16.64/wwwa/web/hardware/soundmural/

edit: since then, i've researched more on the topic, on signal decomposition and transforms and understand this a lot better :)
When I go to your site, my first reaction is "so whats the next step?". Maybe give a flow chart showing the transformation of a resume/cv.
I'd be very surprised if Apple constituted a monopoly in the phone (or even smart phone) market.
"It was during this time that I stopped worrying about the details of my computer and worried more about what I could accomplish with it: browsing the web, listening to music, doing email, and writing papers."

This is really the division. Not between smart people and dumb people, but between people for whom what they can (or want to) accomplish with a computer boils down to a list like that and the people whose computer-aided ambitions are larger. This is what Tim Bray and others mean when they say "For creative people, this device is nothing".
aren't hot dog eating contests supposed to be on a timer? i.e. eat as many as you can in 1 minute

I think that's how they do it in those televised contests.
absolutely.
1. You need something saying that "Get Started"
2. You need to let people know that if its free or what is the chage.
3. Demo/Sample resume.
4. Facility to email resume/link with cover letter.
5. May be advantages of using your service over word document/google documents
Just when you thought Moore's law was broken.
im not implying selling them on the cheap. they can offer better deals to devs, since it's not their core business. it's like google offering the nexus one at a bargain basement rate if they could. I'm not implying a loss leader either, but somewhere close to break even. Essentially it would replicate what they did with iTunes in terms of economics.
Here in the UK there are no restrictions at all (that I'm aware of) over investing into private companies. There's also a 30% tax break on doing so through the venture capital trust scheme (with the restrictions that implies) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Capital_Trust - and there's no capital gains or income tax to be paid on VCT gains! (Note: I am not your financial advisor!)

Despite this, the UK isn't known as a hotbed of angel investment (at least, not in tech) and it hasn't "hurt" us.. so why not?
The link: http://unbig.me
Microsoft: Dropping Linux, Unix enterprise search will "accelerate innovation"
Very nice clean interface that leads to direct action. Use a more realistic product such as a textbook or a vacation trip - where you can entice technically savy students for example to act.

It got a great potential and I think it can fly! Well done.
I guess I should've used a smiley. :)
Yeah, the moment I saw "Prauxmote yourself", i closed the window. I don't know if it's supposed to be cute or clever, but it made me feel uneasy.
From gap:

"The rich people I know drive the same cars, wear the same clothes, have the same kind of furniture, and eat the same foods as my other friends. Their houses are in different neighborhoods, or if in the same neighborhood are different sizes, but within them life is similar."

It is likely that PG's friends are from roughly similar neighborhoods, and have fairly similar lives. However, all of their lives are probably very different from people in inner city Baltimore, or an impoverished small town in the mid-west.

In addition to stealing, I do not think he gives sufficient weight to crony-ism as a means of acquiring wealth. We all know that there are a lot of wealthy people in the finance industry whose wealth was preserved, at least in part, by government intervention. Add to that wealthy executives sitting on each other's boards and voting each other pay raises. And lobbying efforts that maintain the competitive position of existing large companies over smaller businesses. And the inherent advantages in having wealthy family in networking and introductions granting access to high paying jobs.

In short, I think there is a broad gray area between stealing wealth and creating it that is more complex than Graham's essay suggests.

Empirically, there is much evidence to suggest that the fortunes of the media American has been declining for a few decades now. It is difficult to see, then, why the median American should favor the continuation of the current system that promotes increasingly unequal distribution of wealth.
Leadership in 2010
There is an assumption here that they do!
Quote care of "Strange Brew" right?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/
Checking the current location requires extra battery use. Apple doesn't want your app draining their user's battery if you're only using it for showing them ads. This may be all that it's about.
It is a derivative of oCaml and Haskell, but it's also a multi-paradigm language that borrows from C# and Python. It has elements of imperative and OO.

I don't know if it really is "the most original new face", and could be critized for trying to bring too many things into one, but it's not just a clone of Haskell or OCaml.

[edited typo]
You're assuming that books by different authors are interchangeable goods. If had to choose between buying the latest book by my favourite author for $21 or three books by independent authors that I've never heard of for $7 each, I'll go with my favourite author. When it comes to books I buy what I like and price is pretty much irrelevant. So yes I do vote with my dollars, and I vote quality first.
>The iPad is just the iPhone experience with a larger screen and some extra apps.

I think this will be important. It's an enrichment of the iPhone experience instead of a denigration of the laptop experience. A user comes to it familiar with an iPhone and finds it faster, more useful, etc. A user comes to a netbook and feels cramped because it's worse than what it's imitating.
Any Tcl hackers here
Any Tcl hackers on HN? I ask because I'm preparing to open source a project in Tcl that most people have been telling me seems quite compelling. In my most grandiose vision its a project which in turn could enable other startups. Anyway, just want to see who out here hacks Tcl, and/or might be interested in the announcement of the release of version 0.1. Until then, vapor-tastically yours....
We ran 5 miles at midnight yesterday for Facebook's 6-year anniversary :).
I think the more important part of the story is the % a publisher gets and the relationship between the publishers and Amazon / Apple. I would really like to see some analysis of how the different models worked and who got what.

I still think publishers are important for editorial. I wonder if a group of editors will create a company to do the "editing, ebook production, accounting" part of the chain and take like a 5 - 10% cut of the book.
Show me the Angel that shows up at YC demo day wanting to invest $10K.
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We tried life without multitasking. It sucked. It turns out there are a number of cases where multitasking helps especially when networked. I guess you can makes special cases for Email, Twitter, Instant Messaging, and Music however it starts to seem silly.
When you come back to Safari, the page will still be there, with form fields as they were. [Though if the device runs low on memory in the interim, it may send a low-memory warning signal to Safari, which causes it to dump the current states of your pages.]
How angel investing is fundamentally more pernicious to personal wealth than casinos, credit cards or time-shares I'll never understand.

It isn't; and there are no restrictions on who can invest in startups... subject to one caveat, of course: The company issuing the stock must satisfy the standard disclosure rules.

Casinos, credit cards, and time shares are all heavily regulated; they don't have exactly the same regulations as stock offerings have, but overall I'd say they're similarly burdensome. The current situation vis-a-vis angel investing isn't an extra regulatory burden; rather, it's a loophole which allows -- under certain circumstances -- startups to suffer less regulation than other similarly risky enterprises.
Sure you do, but let's say a small publisher like the Pragmatic Programmers managed to roll out a $8.99 iPad e-book on a new technology (let's say Clojure) and O'Reilly's was selling for $14.99.. well, the choice would be more difficult, no? In many niches, books are interchangeable.. at least until the reviews come out ;-)

Luckily with many tech and non-fiction books, the author isn't quite as important as when you're buying fiction or high profile books from the likes of Seth Godin or Malcolm Gladwell. Those guys will always be able to charge the premium rates :-)
Very, very interesting -- and if I habitually wore a hat, I think I'd have to eat it at this point. :)
Ask PG: vote weighting or editorial adjustment?
Wondering why this post I recently submitted [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1104521] sits at #32 with 19 points from 1 hour ago, while much older posts with the same or less votes are much higher up.

More curiously, my post is much higher up if you use the /classic view.
OpenDNS is hiring really fantastic computer scientists who want to run very large systems.

A focus on global networks, security, and performance.

Lots of C, Linux and FreeBSD, BGP speaking processes and some python are all in use here. The website front-end is PHP. New tools are welcome.

Your code will touch our 10s of millions of end-users every second of every day.
Hey Jacques - Well, we've certainly got egg on our face now. =)

In Dana's defense, she wasn't asking for a submission. She was trying to put the story on your radar in the event that you were interested in the topic.

I'm sorry you saw this as her trying to turn HN into Digg - which RWW certainly doesn't want to do. We'll be submitting our own stuff from now on.

In the end, whether you're talking about Digg, Twitter, Reddit, or a more niche site such as HN or Slashdot, the best content comes from active members of the community. I guess ReadWriteWeb needs to have more startup writers as active participants, not just content creators.
I'm at work, with no sound. Don't really want to watch videos anyways.

In short, I loved the slideshows, and want to see more of them.
And it helps allow them to not use a virtual memory swapfile. This makes performance much more constant and predictable. One of the things you don't see nearly as much of on iPhone OS is beachballs/hourglasses and random interface-freezing lag. This not only improves the experience, it makes it easier to use: lag that makes the UI unresponsive can be really confusing to users. "Why didn't my button click do anything this time?"
Apple's design philosophy for OS X and iPhone OS is different. OS X is not comparable to automatic transmission, it's a full *nix that lets you shoot yourself in the foot plenty of ways. iPhone OS is a different style.
I recommend picking up CSS Mastery: http://www.cssmastery.com/

In my case, I never took the 10-12 hours required to learn how to employ CSS properly. It seemed like a very boring low-return investment of my time.

My designs were lack-luster -- and I claimed I preferred an austere approach -- because I didn't know a headache-free way of implementing certain looks. This book helped. My designs are much better now, even though I have not changed my aesthetics.
Many don't do official rounds at all--- if your dad wants to donate $10k to you with no strings attached, in return for an informal promise that you'll fund his retirement if you strike it rich, there's nothing standing in the way of that.
Mac sales grow because of Windows
I really really hope that toppcloud takes off. I strongly empathize the itch that provoked its creation: deployment sucks, and a generalized Google App Engine would rock. Using Django to demonstrate how his project isn't just academic is a great move. Good job Ian.
So what does that mean exactly? That because he's "always trolling," any attempt to argue with him is a waste of time? It seems like an easy cop-out, like declaring "I'm an asshole," before being a dick, and somehow thinking that excuses the behavior.
You do realize that your comment was essentially a meta-meta-policing comment? And you wrote nearly as much as he did.
Looks like I misinterpreted Rasmus Lerdorf's tone in this, just slightly.

He actually likes HipHop a lot - he's just worried that some devs will skip 'low-hanging fruit"-type optimization because they think that HipHop will be a magic bullet for speed.

Sorry for the hashed metaphors.
I'll definitely be bookmarking this one, as I am not quite ready to put myself out there for the whole world, but I'd love to contact people directly if they were looking for something like what I'm doing (or who and where I am).
A couple of things:

- Commit to some rules on your site layout/design/font/colour. It's easier to associate links with a certain pattern rather than inconsistent presentation (e.g. you have a link on the bottom that is bold but the rest aren't. Should be clear why that is bold or all should be bold or none at all.)

- Information and typography are very important elements. Graphics are only there if you really need it but personally, I don't think they are necessary if you are only placing them in there to just have a graphic.

- The graphics you currently use for your project listing should be the same width (height may differ). Some are longer, some are shorter and it makes it difficult to scan the content.

- Think about spacing on your layout. The top navigation should be straight across in this current structure, not alternating upper and lower. You are only wasting space without purpose. Shrink the font size, remove the bold or remove the uppercase and keep it all on one line.

- You need more padding between sections (e.g. your intro statement, current and past projects). It looks really crammed together right now. If you are worried about scroll, there reduce the general font size.

Hope that helps.
I've read that was made illegal in the US.
The iPad is for people who can't be arsed to deal with the cognitive load of a full-blown computer. Which, depending on the circumstances, is just about everybody.

There's a reason why the best programmers are switching en masse from Linux to Mac on their desktops[0]. Mac OS X is a no-compromises Unix: the power and flexibility of Unix when you need it, but when you don't it imposes virtually zero cognitive load. Turn it on, it just works. Even the geekiest hacker ever is going to run into times when they just want to read or surf, and not even have to deal with the interference of a keyboard. For those times, the iPad is perfect.

[0]Actually two reasons, the other being that they stand to make money developing Mac desktop software. Linux? Not a chance...
I didn't close my window... but the only reason I didn't was that I was intending to provide a review for an HN'er, as a service.

I vomited a little in my mouth though, as I despise invented marketspeak words.

Also, I'm not on a particularly fast connection at the moment, but your graphical widget (I assume it was flash) took a few seconds to show up for me. I had probably 2-3 seconds where I was being told to Prauxmote myself, by PC... and that was it.

I definitely would've hit the back button in any other circumstance.
Because if we allow this type of behavior, that formula no longer works. Those who simply post an article will never make it to the front page, because they don't have the clout and/or group to get their post voted up.
Doesn't the mere existence of a 'collapse scene' suggest such commentators still enjoy enough idle time (aka sufficient employment, food supply, shelter, leisure time) to make the commentary in the first place, and thus that the prognosticated magnitude of the economic collapse is exaggerated?

People are not dying of exposure or starvation in refugee caravans across the plains, as they did in the 30s. Urban families are not sending their pre-teen daughters to work 14hour factory shifts 6 days a week just to be able to afford semi-rotten food from the nearby grocer, as they did at the turn of the last century.

It seems we would have much further to fall before genuine survival is imperiled.
OCaml is also a multi-paradigm language, in which you can program in imperative, functional, and object-oriented styles.

Sorry, but F# basically is OCaml. F# code can even be compiled in an OCaml compiler, often without modification.

The only credit I'll give Microsoft here is in not picking a shitty technology to copy, like they usually do (like Java for C# or VMS for NT).
Childish self-conscious backlash. If you take a look at the whole series, there is very little proper argument and a lot of fanboyism.

Examples:
- Flash is used for ads (which are spyware), therefore it's a good thing it wasn't included.
- Obviously nothing could satisfy Apple's competitors' pundits, who pounced on the product as soon as it was released, which is the reason for the common dissent of the public.
This article follows a line of reasoning about quality which seems to lead to the conclusion, in part, that Apple makes superior products. My question is "compared to what?"

The conclusion is drawn based on the fallacious view that the properties optimized by Apple are universally important. Britney Spears may be hot and rich, but I wouldn't consider her a quality mate. She doesn't meet the minimum set of criteria I'm looking for. In the same vein, not all of Apple's products optimize on properties I care about (e.g. open source, full control of configuration, etc.). Lots of other people probably disagree on both counts, and that's okay.

The point is that while I agree quality is important, it's just as important to know what properties of a thing you're judging or optimizing, and why. This is especially true since the resources for producing anything are finite.
Thank you very much for all of your feedback so far! Very thoughtful and appreciated!
Nope, doesn't keep playing for third-party apps (at least, for games, haven't tried it everywhere).
The logic here is astoundingly bad.

"Developers will love it too, as it will serve as a semi loss leader, the same way the iTunes store does"

Wait, the iTunes store that rakes 30% of app transactions? That's a loss leader? It's a break-even leader in music, but is probably enormously profitable in apps.

"Payouts and rates that put AdMob to shame."
Having one ad network compete for developers, rather than dozens (all of which compete on one point: how much developers make off of them) will lead to higher CPMs? Please repeat high school economics.
> It isn't

It is, for two reasons:

1. The minimums are higher.

2. You are not guaranteed to lose in angel investing the way you are in a casino. That makes angel investing much more difficult to resist than ordinary gambling.
why is something this short, this speculative, this completely lacking in any real foundation already at 16 points?

hacker news, i cry for you.
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Interesting service and I agree with most of what's been said here. I have to reiterate the naming choice - it really does make me think of "faux", which would in turn cause me to hesitate passing out the URL to show my resume.
It would also be really confusing to the user. I download a game or some other app where location isn't useful and all of the sudden I get a popup asking me if I trust this application with my location information. Then if I do, I just get targeted ads, not app functionality. Probably there isn't a local ad for a lot of places (or I just don't notice that it's local), so this just seems weird to the user.
Did the Big Music Miss The Opportunity To 'Monetize' Online Music?
People aren't dumb just because they aren't passionate about the same things you are. Lots of smart people drive cars without giving a crap about how they work. Most people don't want computers; they want information appliances that work reliably.
A couple of things:

- Commit to some rules on your site layout/design/font/colour. It's easier to associate links with a certain pattern rather than inconsistent presentation (e.g. you have a link on the bottom that is bold but the rest aren't. Should be clear why that is bold or all should be bold or none at all.)

- Information and typography are very important elements. Graphics are only there if you really need it but personally, I don't think they are necessary if you are only placing them in there to just have a graphic.

- The graphics you currently use for your project listing should be the same width (height may differ). Some are longer, some are shorter and it makes it difficult to scan the content.

- Run the text for each project across the entire page and avoid cramming text from two or more sections on a single horizontal section. It makes the readability of the text difficult since in some cases you only have 3 words across before it continues below.

- Think about spacing on your layout. The top navigation should be straight across in this current structure, not alternating upper and lower. You are only wasting space without purpose. Shrink the font size, remove the bold or remove the uppercase and keep it all on one line.

- You need more padding between sections (e.g. your intro statement, current and past projects). It looks really crammed together right now. If you are worried about scroll, there reduce the general font size.

Hope that helps.
Agreed, I think it looks nice and catchy. It might need some design work I'm not qualified to comment on.
Yes. The timer for this contest is just several hours long - it's a marathon, not a sprint.
People aren't understanding the purpose of this "ban."

They aren't banning location-based ads, they are banning the use of the Core Location framework when it is being used only for advertising.

They are protecting a good user experience. For privacy reasons, applications that use Core Location need to ask for permission to do so. They don't want a bunch of ad-based apps asking the user for permission when they don't really need to know any location info. It's that simple.

If you know the user's location anyway, you can show location-based ads.

I'm not saying that Apple isn't going to try to take over the ad market for their devices, but all the recent speculation based on the news of the ban is just short-sighted.
Your site is almost blank if the visitor has Javascript disabled. There is a huge blank space even if it is enabled, I guess a Flash thing? Just add some noscript elements and alt/text stuff. That would be good for crawler bots too I guess.
It's actually quite a bit more if you only consider payment processing (more like 10-20% for fully automated like the AppStore). But if you throw in everything else, it's about fair -- I wouldn't consider it cheap.
+1 on the name...I say lose the stats and have either screenshots or an intuitive demo.
The iPad Ecosystem: Economics, Elitism, And Advertising
Brutal! But... Shouldn't it've been six? ;)
Yes.

It's not always a good thing, either.
agreed. took me a while to figure out how to pronounce it, then figure out what it meant...