skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your reply was EXACTLY what my pals who started a similar firm gave me!

If you cannot monetize from Day-1, then it's going to be very difficult unless you repivot and change your biz-model; and also, ofcourse if you are not too keen on monetizing itself.

Hotels will not list unless there are network effects. Already there are tonnes of listing services. An average hotel in South East Asia lists in Agoda, TripAdvisor, Booking.com and many more!!

I would recommend this : take a few months off and travel across South East Asia(or atleast Thailand & Vietnam - as they are well connected to Internet) and hear the challenges faced by hotels and guesthouses. You will be surprised to hear what they say. Remember that whole of the Western World descends down in this region to escape winter.

(Call me short-sighted, but making money from Ads is not 'monetization' as per me)
Oh please.

Unless you were in on the ground floor with CPU mining, you aren't getting many coins now. There was only 6 months where you could use GFX cards, and now the "room full of ASICs" take the cake.

Bitcoin is useful if you have goods, services, or currency to convert to it. It is not "free magical money".

Its main attribute is that it is stateless... and that's a big deal and also not a big deal to those whom are in poverty.
Would you consider distributing the magazine (including subscriptions) via Weightless Books [1]? They are also handing lots of other magazines like Clarkesworld, Locus, NYRSF, etc.

[1] https://weightlessbooks.com/
This is base rate neglect.

The percentage of people who are competent enough (or crazy enough) to know a LISP well enough to build a product out of it AND be interested in a startup AND applying to YC is quite small in comparison to the number of people slinging code in the more popular languages (who are also interested in applying to YC).

Of course YC is funding companies that don't use i.e. LISP/Haskell/whatever is cool. If it only limited itself to the elite/hipster programmer startups (heh), it wouldn't have that many companies to invest in per year.
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Nothing in the article suggests using more methane. In fact, there is quite a list of potential alternatives to methane. It merely also mentions that, if we must continue to use methane in ammonia production, which is convenient because the infrastructure is already there, then we should do it in a manner that does not release greenhouse gasses- specifically, via methane cracking.
Social Security. Unemployment insurance. WIC/SNAP (food stamps). Government mandates affordable housing on major transit lines. Non-usurious Government loans for the working poor, secured against income. Stuff we already do, but should do more.
So anything that's part of a system that isn't perfectly ideal is unethical now?

There are certain constraints that any large-scale system made of people has to work under, for example the sort of things that make communism not work very well at scales larger than a small commune.

Any localized parts of such a system, need to mesh properly with the larger system.

Much that is demonized as "exploitative" (not all, but a lot of it), seems to only be considered as such because people look at the immediate imperfections, and disregard the problems that would result from attempting to "fix" those imperfections.

I contend that the landlord mentioned is an example of this. You and the poster I initially replied to are providing no substantive arguments against this, but merely implying a lack of critical thought by anyone who doesn't stop their reasoning at the immediate local effects.
..or the people eating the fish and drinking the water.
WoW apparently. As long as your kids don't have the means to purchase gold from Chinese gold farmers that should satisfy your criteria. They'll just be out hours of repetitive grinding or daily missions, which may induce the learning process you're looking for.
"Non-profit" is an ownership structure. It doesn't guarantee that management isn't commanding extortionate salaries.
I studied econ undergrad but don't see much reason to get a PhD outside of academia or leveraging a public sector job such as a Fed job into a private sector finance role. I can see some of the technical skills such as survey construction/analysis, bayesian analysis/higher level statistics being somewhat useful, but a lot of that is also very role specific and can be learned on the job, no? Thinking with a game-theory/incentive-centered mindset is something that does not require too much formal econ knowledge.
"Land Value Tax". This is well studied area of economics.
Simplification would mean that some people pay more, some people pay less, but if people are told they will have to pay more by an opponent to simplification, then they will likely join that opponent. There is very little critical thinking among the peoples these days, and I fear that sets us on a dangerous societal path.
The problem demands a technocratic answer, but it's an emotional issue. Candidates could endorse incentives for companies to pay more tax (Clinton has, quietly[1]), but that would not satisfy voters who want to see companies shamed and punished.

[1] http://www.alternet.org/hillary-clintons-plush-life-corporat...
It's a little more than that: focusing on the expense side is useless, nothing is going to help much besides increasing income.
So this raises all sort of questions: Can Intel can be fast enough in integrating Altera(sw+hw+corporate...) ? What is the better FPGA development environment, with more developer share, etc ? FPGA's can be cannibalistic to Intel's business - will they have an incentive problem ? Do some companies(say in china) prefer an open processor, like POWER, and this will create some ecosystem advantage ? Are there any advantageous startups to buy like kandou-bus(faster interconnect) and who will buy them ?

So it's not certain Intel will win.
Aaron Swartz wrote in 2005 about Reddit's switch from Lisp to Python, noting some upset reactions in the Lisp community.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

> Another figured something else must be going on: “Could this be…a lie? To throw off competition? It’s not as though Paul Graham hasn’t hinted at this tactic in his essays…”
> The standard measure is that your rent should be no more than 30% of your income, but for poor people it can be 70% or more. [...] Money from government programmes intended to help the poor – welfare, disability benefits, the earned-income tax credit – go straight into the landlord’s pocket and, ironically, fuel rising housing costs.

In these types of economies (the US, Australia, etc), a Universal Basic Income would just make rents go up, just like easy 95% equity loans made house prices go up.
Again, it doesn't work the same way for everyone, but I've actually been from NYC to Hong Kong several times and always land at night both times. I am usually slightly tired the next day, but nowhere near as bad as landing at 7 AM would make me.
I up voted him/her to compensate. Also his/her comment was not bad.
US has something similar called Rent-A-Center.
not to be a buzzkill, but it'd be beneficial to reduce the data set examiners (and defendants) have to sift through to find relevant prior art. speaking as an ex-examiner, that's the biggest problem, separating the signal from noise from an already poorly written data set.
I think one of the keys would be allowing people to live in improvised housing, a la Brazilian favelas. Loosening or repealing housing standards and property would reduce stress on these people. e.g. let people in bushes or trailers without forcing them out.

second, receiving mail was listed as a problem. how to get people their mail for important papers?

third, allocating land for farming their own food. why should they have to take part in the rest of our food economy if they can't fork over $1.25 for an apple? Just let them tend trees with their time.

fourth: transportation. often you have to get someplace. how can we design public transportation so it gets the poorest where they need to go reliably?
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Sounds like you want a fitness tracker and not a watch. A pretty good one can be had for 100$, and I don't charge mine every day.
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"Not enough time" and "harder to do inference" are bigger reasons. It's hard to see why cross validation would do worse than the AIC or BIC for lag length selection in VARs, the bootstrap is widely used for inference for all of the models you mentioned, IV isn't known for its exceptional small sample properties, etc. People are working on this stuff, but it takes a little while to get it to work well for Econ research, and it takes some clear new empirical findings before it becomes mainstream enough to teach it in classes. Everyone recognizes that there's a lot of promise, though.
It's not for memory-mapped hardware. This is unsafe. You need something to flush the pipeline, prevent store merging, prevent caching, and more.

It's nearly banned from the Linux kernel. It gets used in one place, for the clock tick counter.

There is one other good use: suppression of compiler bugs.
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Isn't econ one of the most mathematical of the social sciences?

Apparently there's a lot of mathematical overlap between grad school econ and fields in Big Data: computer vision, machine learning, etc.
Pay day lenders are required by law to publish APR. The ugly truth at the bottom of it is that their customers base is fundamental to stupid to know what is good for them, or too impulsive to make responsible choices, or too desperate to seek alternatives, or too ignorant to know their alternatives.

Their are some easy improvements (education and outreach and banking programs for the poor and poorly educated) and some controversial ones (removing citizen's legal rights and freedoms to make self-destructive decisions)
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I believe that is what he meant by "all other things being equal". They are equal in library availability, speed, etc.
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The parent companies of traditional banks instituted high overdraft fees and the ChexSystems blacklist to steer poor customers away from checking accounts and towards the check cashing and payday loan companies, which they also own, but which have vastly higher margins on poor customers. At least, this is the claim I've seen thrown around.
The country in which, afaik and in general, no one forces women to have sex with men who clearly will not be good fathers.
Pretty much everyone who thinks that the unemployed don't deserve state entitlements (Typically, because of the poverty of their character).

That's a completely different claim. It's also a claim you agreed with - you just acknowledged a few sentences down that many unemployed people could work if they chose to. Does this mean you also believe such people are "scum"?

Nominal wage demands are held up at the bottom end by people needing to make a living wage. Yes, a skilled computer programmer asking for $7/hour could easily find work at the height of the dot-com bust - however, they'd still depend on handouts, be it from the state, or their relatives for survival.

Where I am right now many computer programmers survive easily on $7/hour. It's considered a good wage except in tech hubs (Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon). If your theory were right I should be surrounded by about a billion corpses.

But lets assume that one can't survive on $7. Suppose we adopted stimulus and inflation caused $10 post-stimulus to buy the same goods and services as $7 pre-stimulus. Isn't the person who suddenly became willing to work due to this trickery still failing to survive?

How would people already receiving close to minimal wage attain employability by lowering their wage demands?

You are correct that minimum wage can cause unemployment, particularly during recessions.
One case is Boeing training Captains are sometimes qualified to fly with multiple airlines, and multiple types. They have to be qualified for the operating procedures of that airline. The Boeing pilots are mainly used for training roles (supervising or safety pilot observer) and don't actually fly the jet on scheduled flights.

Some maintenance contractors have pilots who are qualified and current on several types, but its likely they are Part 91 flights only and may not be line qualified for Part 121 scheduled flights.

I can't see "freelance" airline pilots being more than a rare edge case.
I see where you're coming from, but still, after the function value is created, there's no restriction on its use. Contrast what some call second-class continuations, which can be invoked only once -- a much more severe restriction.

I could see saying something like, Python functions are semantically first-class but syntactically second-class. Or maybe we should just call them "business-class" :-)

(BTW your comment downthread about referential transparency is spot-on.)
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Oh are there only those two options?
Ah, that probably explains it... The resources spent on making this might just explain why qt has been so difficult to install! ;)
A huge portion of payday loans are repeat loans from people trapped in a cycle of debt, taking out loans to pay off interest on previous usurious loans.

Yes, payday loans have defait risk, whixh is part of why they are expensive. But that also shows that many borrowers can't acurally afford them. And the cost of defaults is borne by...the next-pooorest people who barely scrape by, who DO lay off their loans, but pay 50-200% APR
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Econ's undergrad degree is remarkably unrepresentative of Econ grad school. But every phd program in any subject is training you to do research first and foremost, so don't do it for technical training.
I've watched both my parents as well as several other close friend die, and none of them really expressed any regrets. What's the point? Most people live the best life they can, and I've never known anyone to spend their last years or hours mired in regret. They actually seem to mostly reminisce about the highlights of their life, whatever they were.
Open source projects rarely have a budget for development, let alone bug bounties.
The reporter's name, Jennifer 8. Lee, is not a typo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee

> Lee was not given a middle name at birth so she chose "8." when she was a teenager. In Chinese culture, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck.
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No, but you can frame it in a way where he was correct.

Look at some of the largest tech companies and what languages they used to get big:

- Facebook: PHP
- Twitter: Ruby
- Dropbox: Python
- Box: PHP
- Github: Ruby
- AirBnB: Ruby

Probably not what PG would have had in mind.

If you move away from his objective claim about Lisp's "power" to a subjective metric based on "the right tool for the job", then sure. (Though reading e.g. Hackers and Painters, his argument around Lisp was specific to the power of that language.)

PHP perfectly fits the "move fast and break things" mantra of early Facebook. Ruby allowed for quick iteration at early Twitter.

Note that Facebook built a PHP-to-C++ compiler called HipHop, while Twitter switched largely to Scala. Box (to the best of my knowledge) has supplemented PHP with Java and Scala. Github maintained a custom fork of Rails for a long time to achieve the performance it needed.

So no, it doesn't appear that Lisp-flavoured companies have an advantage.
Not having access to temporary credit means that any hiccup in your finances has you facing eviction, late bill penalties, and in the case of unpaid fines, possibly jail time.

Having access to temporary credit means that same problem, but next month.
Which is literally never the case, so kind of a moot point.
Performance and quality are rarely at odds with legitimate business interests or needs. In fact, if you sleight performance or quality it is exactly equal to sleighting future business needs or interests.

The trouble is when illegitimate (generally political) business concerns are allowed to be trumpeted as more important than legitimate business concerns, or when illegitimate views about how to discount the future value of quality are permitted to dominate the comparison with extreme short-term opportunities.
Some more sci-fi:

https://escapepod.org/
> One point the author hints at is that the median is more computationally intensive to compute than the mean. Computing the median requires you to store all your samples in memory, and then sort them.

Actually, you can find the median in O(n)[1]. It still requires storing them all in memory though. It's based on quick select.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_of_medians
Probably has something to do with "tax simplification" always getting hijacked by estate and capital gains tax goons.
It's theoretically trivial: most transactions have a surplus. How is the surplus divided between the seller and buyer? More lopsided, more exploitative.

Some transactions leave one side even worse off, but they execute due to ignorance, stupidity, or force. Those are obviously exploitative.
There is no need for this even without assisted suicide laws.
Python doesn't store the entire AST at runtime. You can hook into the import process and modify code before it's compiled to bytecode. You can modify the bytecode at runtime but not any that's on the stack.

Python is also not all that slow, CPython is slow-ish but it's has effectively no optimizations at all. PyPy which has decent optimizations is actually fairly fast and getting faster with every release.
you're missing the point... not talking about software... talking about ANYTHING. string theory.

court has already ruled on "illegal number" as stated above, so it's already murky.
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Then you'll just be labeled as "not passionate enough." BTW, even if you worked all weekend, you're still expected to stick around at work late on Thursday for some whiskey tasting or some other bullshit, because if not, you're not a team player or not a good cultural fit :/
Most POWER8 stuff does seem to be in the "contact us" category. The only reference point I know of is that Tyan has (had?) a reference platform for 2850 USD, but that's basically beta quality and not intended to be production hardware.

http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/
I am not sure what you are getting at. Those don't occur on the web and are not an issue with desktop apps you install. If a desktop app wants to run a bash command, it can do it. It doesn't need to find a bash injection.

There isn't easily exploitable issues like XSS on the desktop. Meaning, if you run a desktop app you generally don't have to worry that some rogue code is injected into the app, unless the developers keys are stolen which is rare.
Edison was a capitalist manager and salesman, not much of an inventor.
How much value he created vs extracted is up for debate.
Most people, therefore, have a basically neutral effect on homelessness. I'd argue this guy had a completely negative effect.
I would like to understand a little better your comment about "metadata is not linked to a profile". Do you say by not linked to a profile, there shouldn't be a way for a hacker to figure out the metadata of a user? Or you mean "metadata" should be associated to individual accounts(say dropbox), so incase of a breach, only the metadata for that account is compromised and not for all the accounts of a user? Thanks for your time.
ZipPy is damn fast from what I've seen.
seems like this would work out well except for every flight i've been on there has been at least one person unwilling to close their damn window shade.
All good points.

Even though it's hard to find any flaw in "Use the right tool for the job", I still think that the success of a start up in Silicon Valley (and probably the rest of the world) has a lot less to do with the technical choices of the company than the people who work there. And luck. A lot of luck.

It's still baffling to me that pg doesn't realize how lucky he was. He was in the right place at the right time and he was probably surrounded by competent technical and non technical people. If you have such a team, the technical preferences of the engineers will probably have very little bearing on the success of the company as long as they use the tools they are proficient with and which allow them to execute quickly.

I mean, the fact that Rails and PHP were at the origin of Twitter and Facebook alone shows that the quality of programming languages is irrelevant for the early year(s) of a start up.
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That's the way they're usually named in China, too.
Note the number of projects being witten in assembler, then try to calculate a rocket trajectory without calculus.

More powerful language is the driver behind many advances and is generally considered to be the primary difference between humans and animals.
I would certainly consider it, I'll check out their terms. Thanks for pointing them out! We want to get our stories out to as many readers as possible, so we're looking at many different channels.
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The margin trading scam is considered a "feature" by the devs at the moment, and has existed for a long time.

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scams_in_EVE_Online#The_Margin...
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I don't see how the money held outside the US is connected to tax code simplification. If anything, taxing that money would make the tax code more complicated, not less complicated.
So complicated compared to something like: http://ramses.tech

Disclaimer: I'm a co-author and huge fan of Ramses
1) Of course. 2) because nginx is much more mature and has protection against some attacks.
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Land-Value Tax. Landlord makes money by improving the land and providing services to residents, not by merely owning land in perpetuity. Land is common wealth.
One of the candidates still in contention has as one of his feature agenda items to simplify the tax code and eliminate the IRS "as we know it."
I'm getting an invalid cert.
where are the assembler startups if more powerful languages don't give benefits?
If this system worked so effectively to its ends, why is bill gates so wealthy and not taxed away?
It is less about gumption and more about familiarity with business valuation and negotiation techniques.Your ask price should bear a relationship to the valuation of your company.This is determined by its assets, earnings, position in the marketplace, proprietary technology and so on.If and when you do get into a situation where you wish to sell your company, it might be best to bring in professionals.
The main issue is it would be taxed too highly if it were brought back, thus it's held outside.
This was an actual question, not a rhetorical question, if anyone from the company is still here.
> I find some attributes of Android hardware compelling. I find the actual environment to be rather a complete clusterfuck.

Considering how easy it is to break the security on a powered on Android phone by just attaching a debugger to the JTAG interface, I would consider the hardware to also be inadequate when you compare it to the better physical security of iPhones. I don't like Apple or iPhones, but current Android phones can't beat them when it comes to physical security.
Where did I say that more powerful languages don't give benefits?

Besides, assembly fails the "allows to execute quickly" test.