skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks interesting enough, and the sort-of SQL language looks OK, but I have to ask: why would anyone use a young project (with only one developer?) rather than something really well supported like MongoDB or Cassandra? That said, interesting looking work.
You are using multiplication where you should be using exponentiation. If one fifth is (3/2) then 2 fifths is (3/2) times (3/2) which is (9/4). Your math looked semi-plausible when comparing fifths and octaves, but comparing 3 thirds and an octave it was way off.

Therefore the first comparison should be 7 octaves which is (2/1)^7 = 128, versus 12 perfect fifths which is (3/2)^12 = 531441/4096 = 129+3057/4096 = 129.746337890625.

Similarly for thirds, you're comparing one octave (2/1) = 1 with 3 thirds (5/4)^3 = 125/128 = 1.953125.

As you can see, the ratios are close, but not quite right. Hence the problem.
So which of those three does a car do?
I find this really interesting on two levels.

Firstly, the issue to 'free' and what that means in terms of what we can expect from a company which gives us something for 'free'.

The dynamic involved in getting something for nothing in modern society, is incredibly complex. In almost every situation, when a company gives something for free, the transaction holds a huge amount of value for the company in question. In a sense we are paying them, but they are able to hold us (the consumer) to ransom, because we didn't pay any money for the privilege.

Perhaps - due to this - there is going to come a time when, companies and people, elect to obtain a certain level of service by dipping into their wallets? Maybe a swing back to the days of paid models would be actually be beneficial to the consumer?

Secondly - I think this is interesting because Android is an open-source OS, and I've found that open-source OSs generally look after users with legacy hardware. That old 486 box you had in the early nineties could potentially still run Linux and be secure.

Bearing this in mind - why does Android have to be any different .. and will it remain different for the foreseeable future?
Fair point, but then the whole article should be accounting for the time discounted value of money, etc. etc.
Apparently you're correct, I have looked up the privacy policy and was unable to find any indication they're using the keywords you're searching for for Adsense.

I apologize for making wild claims.
Found this very interesting, and especially so since I've been evaluating the financial efficacy of owning a car a lot as of late.

I own a Green 98 Subaru Forrester with about 150k on it that my father gave me on my college graduation. It's been a heap of problems, due mostly to its age, but I've come to realize that owning it is actually not a bad value (it is of course not an investment, but a consumable product). The problem is one of cash flow.

My Forrester recently had a wheel bearing go out on the rear passenger side, and it was going to cost several hundred in parts and labor to get it fixed. Since the car is so old and I'm tired of fixing it, I decided to just let it sit for a while and try out not having a car.

I started using a car sharing program (CityWheels), which requires you to pay for each time you use one of their cars. Although the cost of operating a rental car is higher and the use case is less flexible, it's not a terrible deal.

What it has made me realize though, is that for the cost, owning a car isn't a bad deal if (like me) you live outside of a huge city, there isn't a lot of public transit, and you want to get around. As I mentioned above, it's cash flow that gets in the way of realizing the value.

When you own a car, you pay for gas, insurance, incidentals and repairs, and it's the last category that really gets you. Figuring up the cost of ownership, I pay about $.27/mi to drive the Subaru compared to ~$.40 for the City Wheels car, but the CityWheels car feels like a better deal because I pay everything up front. If I need to drive 30 miles, I have to pay the $12 now. If I drive my car 30 miles, I sometimes don't have to pay at all (if I don't need to put gas in it). But then, about 2-3 times a year, I have to pay $400 or $600 all at once, and it makes me resent the thing.

I've heard it said that more millionaires own Toyota Camrys than any other model, and it makes sense: as some of the commenters above mentioned, paying for reliability and quality is worthwhile, but paying for an Aston Martin should not be viewed as an investment, but as a consumable.
Agreed with @nedwin on gut feeling to make him/her nearly equal. Hours definitely not an accurate measure of value add or your progress to date.

Heard this once: 90% of zero is zero. You want a split that incentivizes your partner to make your part worth millions and the best way might be to give them more.
Mnesia - one year later (part 3)
One thing this argument ignores is social signals.

If you're in sales, as one example, you may want an expensive car. This lets clients subtly know that you are doing very well, and can serve as a form of trust for some people.

If you have a small penis and no significant other...
Android Dev - Working With Databases
why would anyone use a young project (with only one
developer?) rather than something really well
supported like MongoDB or Cassandra

I don't know either of the systems you mention - and should have a look into them. I have some experience with couchdb.

I've got an app in mind, and have some experience with couchdb but not with the systems you mention.

Orient interested me because I'm constantly on the lookout for something with these features:

* Key/value database.

* Straightforward to install on linux and darwin.

* Able to push data into it through high-bandwidth

* Queries give result sets that are reliably correct for a moment in time.

* Doesn't take up large amounts of disk space.

* Straightforward to get started with and evaluate without large time investment.

Couch fails a few of them, but I didn't know they were requirements until I'd started playing with it.

Orient seems to be very easy to set up, and supports a binary input protocol which might be faster than the HTTP drop mechanism I've been using against couchdb.
Anecdotally, for the first time in 6 years I don't have a car and I'm loving it. I'm living about 10 minutes walk from the CBD. To visit anyone I'd fly anyway, and the airport is only 15 minutes away by bus.

Walking everywhere is much more satisfying, and not having to worry about breakdowns, oil changes, registration - not to mention the cost - is very nice. On the occasion that I decide to take a road trip, I can rent a car, for a small percentage of the annual cost of ownership.

It probably helps that I live in a dense, pedestrian friendly city though (Wellington, New Zealand).
What do you mean that no one can hear the difference? If you have any musical training you should know to listen for "beats" which happens because as the sounds come in and out of sync. The closer together the notes are to the proper interval, the easier it is to hear those beats on a pair of sustained notes as they come in and out of sync. Even though the tones are so close together than nobody could hear the difference if they were played separately.

The beats aren't as strong as when two slight variations on the same note are played. But they are still easy to hear in that link.
I get to mind less about consistency of those web apps.

You don't get consistency until it eventually gets consistent. That's how I look at Web 2.0.
I believe you need to be on the chromium dev channel. Looks like you are on the beta channel. That's a pretty easy fix though.
It depends on where you live. In the States or outside a fair-sized town, there's (so far) no alternative to owning your own car out of sheer necessity. In the city, especially here in Europe, it's a different story. The usual rule of thumb is the cheapest car costs you _at least_ 300 €/month (taxes, depreciation, not counting gas money)!

When my son was born this made it easy for me to decide to buy an Xtracycle (http://www.xtracycle.com) for my bike instead of a car. The Xtracycle covers 95% of my transportation needs and 300 € buys a lot of trips by taxi whenever that's necessary.

Still, the point of the article as I see it is that most people underestimate the cost of their car. That's a small problem. The big problem is that our societies underestimate the external cost of private car ownership. When you figure in loss of life and health through accidents, noise, and pollution, loss of usable space in inner cities through car-only streets and on-street parking, and general loss of quality of life - the private car becomes the most expensive mode of transportation ever invented.
I dont understand the comparison of cars with investment.
Car is a utility which makes life better, hence expenditure. You invest to make money to spend on utilities which make your life better. :)
My strategy is to own a few $500-$1200 cars (might be different in your area) that work buy might not look very nice. When one breaks down, drive one of the other ones until the best one is fixed. Of course, sometimes they sit in my garage or driveway broken for months at a time. But it's always a learning experience (and a little time away from the keyboard).

Also, I'm not going to be impressing any clients with any of my vehicles.
None of the above. He's talking about planes, boats and women.
I think the real title should be "why millionaires don't have great cars while they are becoming millionaires." When they are rich, they can and do by nice cars.
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I moved to California in 2007. If I had purchased a house, instead of renting like I do now, I would be quite underwater on it by now.
Yahoo Poised to Unveil "Project Nike" Partnership with Nokia
Why the two browsers?
You're truly blessed to be living in such an ideal location. I'd kill to be able to be 10 minutes away from both the CBD and the airport.
It's currently a trend like any other trend. There's a huge amount of the public (specifically the younger generations) both content to follow and eager to conform and fit in. It's my guess that a huge amount of people are doing that. Of course, the whole privacy debate started because of what was viewed as an actual issue that was uncovered. While you may have the common sense to think what you post online might not remain private, many people do not understand that. When Facebook made a conscious decision to make privacy options essentially off by default, a lot of people had a problem with that. They felt tricked that they didn't have a say in the matter.

As any other popular topic, it's going to have a long wind because any blogger or news outlet wanting a little extra attention is going to rewrite posts, come up with new accusations, and highly publicize every development.

I'm for privacy, not because I expect it, but because I prefer to control what other people can learn about me. The real issues with privacy are situations like an abusive ex-husband being able to relocate his wife due to a privacy breach or a private matter publicized.

I hate those posts too, I'm tired of them but it's not going to go away and the best you can do is ignore. When this issue is over, there will be another equally unreasonable issue making headlines.
Skip to the bottom of http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/superposition/supe... and looks what happens when you have 2 notes that are almost, but not quite, the same. That results in very easy to hear "beats", which makes it very easy to tell whether or not you have the same exact note. You don't know which direction you are off, but the slower the beating, the closer you are to being right.

Since most of the energy in a note is at the pitch the note is theoretically at, this is easy to hear when comparing a pure tone to a normal musical instrument with lots of harmonics. Furthermore it is actually somewhat harder to hear it than when you are comparing two musical instruments that both have harmonics, because you get more complications you need to ignore in the harmonics when you're listening for that conflict in the base note.
The one thing worse than car ownership? Taking a loan out to buy the car: http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?t=634&pagenu... . I'm shocked at how we allow people to take 5 year loans for cars that depreciate 30+% over that time.

I live in Texas where a car is required, and bought a "new-to-me" year old used subaru a year after graduating college, with a couple years of warranty left on it. It was mentally better than paying to maintain my previous car, which needed thousands of dollars in repairs. I do all the easy maintenance (oil/coolant/filter changes) myself, and hope to have the car overall for 10 years.
The bottom line is, other people don't have the attitude you do about online privacy. That explains it all.

And maybe they didn't think about it, or they trusted it, and they just woke up and realized how much dirt there is to put together on them. They weren't consciously deciding that online = open.

They're realizing that these free "tools" aren't tools at all; they are big, nasty companies. And their user data is the product.

Nobody likes waking up and realizing they're a product.

Also, trends come in waves. The 'privacy' thing comes in waves. The 'openness' thing comes in waves. Everything in life is a pendulum, from boom & bust economies to the level of religious fundamentalism.

Nobody seems to put that all together, but these waves of trends are largely BS, almost totally ineffective, nothing will happen, and it will disappear, only to reappear again in a year or two when the next big co. sells its user data without warning.
Rails 2.3.6 is not Haml-compatible
playing games with your voice-Awesome!!!
Does anyone want to tell this guy to get the fuck over it? It's mindless pop music - what did he expect? Music is an escape. I enjoy brooding, melodramatic, indie music too, but listen to pop music occasionally.

He reminds me of that tool who stops listening to their favorite artist just because they got famous and "sold out"
I prefer 7-8 hours on a train with a laptop or a book compared to 4-5 hours of driving. Driving is either boring (freeway) or annoying (cities), whereas I can usually either be productive or relax on public transport.
He is committed and we seriously believe in that opportunity. But my co-founder is already 40 years and has been working the last 15 years. He already cut back to just over 20 hours to be able to contribute more to the startup. And we do not have enough money to just quit our day-jobs.

I do appreciate working with my co-founder and he does push the project forward. But since I do 80% of the work, I would appreciate a full-time partner.
I got there at two in the afternoon and left at two in the morning. I couldn't stay up and I was making simple mistakes that cost me an hour of work. Should have got more sleep the night before. But it was fun and I learned a lot. I saw my first 3D printer in person and was amazed.
I know that, what I don't understand is the connection to the article, which is about cars. If you're very rich, joining a supercar club rather than buying a supercar probably makes great financial sense. If you're on an average income and want a 'normal' car, I doubt renting would work out cheaper than buying.
I'm close to a national park as well! Wellington is crammed in really tight. Unfortunately the price is higher rent.
In some respects you are right. However most people have, to date, assumed some level of privacy. The issues can probably be summarised as:

1) Lots of people using these services assume only friends can see/access their data. They don't realise that much of their stuff is actually visible to a much wider audience, or if it wasn't before, it is now, due to privacy policy changes. This problem is exacerbated by extremely complex and lengthy privacy options.

2) It's not just about what you are putting out there, it's what others are putting out there about you. Whilst you might be happy for a friend to post a picture of you puking at the prom, or smoking a fat reefer, and to have that image accessible by only your friends, you probably wouldn't be so happy for your prospective employer to see it, and would, I imagine, be pretty hacked off if an image like this became accessible through some privacy change.
Not in South Africa. Look at the rates on South African government retail savings bonds: https://secure.rsaretailbonds.gov.za/ViewHistory.aspx .
People like complaining and crucifying. For many years, Microsoft was the obvious target, but the last couple of years they've become ever harder to fault on principle (they still produce bad software), so the pitchfork mobs need a new bad guy. Someone started drumming about privacy at the right time, and the mob latched on. That's about all there is to it.
Tell HN: Stop surfing and start making things people want
I've hit a slump and can't get to work. I have a to do list and I'm going to cross out five items before the end of today.

What progress are you making?
It's hard to put a value on the freedom to, at a moment's notice, get up and go wherever you please, without having to rely on anyone or anything. It's what continues to attract people to individual transport.
My first thought as well. But after clicking around the app a bit, I was impressed with its responsiveness. Apple could learn a lot from this app.
A great book to help you come up with the appropriate visual representation for what you're trying to say for your given audience is Back of the Envelope by Dan Roam.

It ends with a somewhat unfortunately chosen example, but the actual advice is quite good.
While they hacked, I rested up for a day of real work.

I think what these people did all night was really cool; if I wasn't so busy I'd almost consider giving it a try myself sometime.

But please don't think that this was anything more than a publicity stunt and whatever you do, please don't call them "hacker gladiators".
The article is also about large hidden costs, which the above mentioned 3 contain.
Actually the German banks got into trouble mostly because they bought big time into the American subprime mortgage and CDS card house. Because those things promised low risks and high profits. Pressure from investors and politicians (who loved the idea of their regional banks becoming big players in the global market) did the rest.
Where are you?

In Austria, a Toyota Yaris (different name) costs 15,000 - 16,000 euros. That's around $19,000+ even with the weak euro right now. A BMW X3 SUV starts at 41,500 euros. That is $52,000 now but, before the colossal euro drop, it would have been more like $62,000.

Last I checked, a Yaris costs $12k in the US and an X3 starts around $37,000.

So you're right, it's not double, but it's close enough for me. Especially as soon as the Euro gains its strength again, or the US dollar drops down.

That amount of money for a car is ludicrous to me. When I spent 10 hours a week in the car, I had a Toyota Matrix and it was perfect. When I plan to spend 10 hours a month in a car, it's beyond ludicrous. :)

EDIT: If you're looking at export deals, you might be looking at prices without the 20%+ VAT and additional luxury taxes.
I've been using Thunderbird v3 the last few months to handle interacting with 6 gmail accounts. Its the best experience I've found on OS X thus far.
You rested up for a day of real work on a Sunday, which starts off with hacker news?
I think it's the most fun way to do a short event like that, I don't think anyone assumes more would get done in 24 hours than in 4 6 hour sessions.

Haven't done one of these before but when I was doing uni programming project we would always end up having a lot more fun with it pulling a big night than just running normal uni hours.
What kind of day of real work doesn't start with hacker news :P
Do you have some statistics on that? Google probably does, and that probably factored into their decision to not trust use the Accept-Language header as their sole mechanism for deciding what language to serve content in.

Most computers with Windows sold in large markets like Germany probably send the right Accept-Language headers, but there's a lot of localities where this isn't the case.

Small countries like Iceland just use the stock English version of Windows, then there's stuff like mobile devices which may not send Accept-Language at all to think about.
'Rogue' Internet firm 3FN shut down
OK, yes, agreed. The actual Mail.app is slower than the web app. If that was the point of doing it, bravo. :)

But still… all that potential to innovate…
Ask HN: What happened to the financial reform bill?
So the Senate just passed Chris Dodd's financial regulation bill and the House and Senate
are getting ready to reconcile their two
versions. What I want to know is what happened to
the parts of the bill that we were up in arms about (adjusting the requirements to be a qualified investor, the 120 day SEC review, etc.)? Anyone have any info?
It's not about privacy. It's about trust.

People aren't upset that their data is publicly shared.

They are upset because they understood that it would remain private.

Tell everyone my favorite color and I don't care.

Tell everyone I have an STD after you promised me that you wouldn't, and we've got a problem.

It's that simple.
Buy, read, and use "I Could Do Anything I Want... If I Just Knew What It Was" by Barbara Sher. Don't let its goofy self-help look deter you, because the design is horrible and the back cover is retarded but the book is quality, no-nonsense all the way through it. And because it describes you and your problem to a T. It will help you uncover the core issue of why you keep abandoning things.

It's more complex than "it just gets hard," trust me.

After that, read The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz. Take notes. Think hard about it. Figure out if you're even working on something you love so much you want it to exist, whether you want to feel satisfied or feel engaged, and how you're misusing stress or rewards to keep yourself going.
I think the author was suggesting between the lines that we are what we consume - and if that is mindless pop music - well, I think everyone can do the math.

Its certainly generational change. I'm only 24 and I think its ridiculous when I see kids walking in groups (supposedly together) with their freaking ear buds in. I see them on Facebook on their iPhone during dinner out all the time. The fact that they can sit there posting on their BFF's wall while someone else grows, ships, prepares, plates, and brings them their food completely escapes them.

They are a generation without consequence. I see this constantly and it scares me that one day I will be their boss.