skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been living in Paris for a few years and bought an apartment last year. If you are the right type of person, finding an apartment is less difficult. By the right person I mean skin tone, profession, or passport. The mayors of Paris and NYC have the same problem but slightly different ideas on tackling it.

Bloomberg, a capitalist, believes that Manhattan should be a playground for the rich. The tax receipts can be put to good use to help the less fortunate by keeping them far outside the city. Delanoë is a socialist, he has the power to take a building if it is left vacant for a long period of time (10-20 years) and convert it to city housing. I've seen parking garages, disgarded mansions, and old banks converted to living quarters. There are many places like these all around the Paris and the paperwork is glacial.

The apartment owners have to be found. And for a city as old as this one this is a real task. Children grow up, move away, inherit property and neglect it for decades. All of them have to be tracked down and given the ultimatum of fixing it, selling it, or donating it to the state. That last one happens when no heirs exist. The gov't owns tons off these.

Practically, every week there is a protest going on to let the city know there is an affordable housing shortage. Like I said there are places to rent but the owners put on onerous terms to only get the best renters. A waiter wouldn't be able to easily find a place in the city, but if he has rich parents to cosign then it gets easier. Once, you sign a lease you are locked in. The owners can't force you out and eviction takes years.

To avoid this lots of owners were doing only short term leases to tourists, students and companies. Good for the owners, but extremely bad for normal renters who've had to endure one price increase after another.

I believe it's a bad idea to tell owners how to manage their properties. According to one of my real estate friends, there is plenty of places in Paris to live. The government should try looking under it's bed. It's cheaper, and easier for them to write laws telling people what to do verses redeveloping the properties sitting in their lap.
I second your first point! Something like a fork and a phone would be great as a logo!
Though whining is annoying, publicizing a gap - an unsatisfied need - can encourage someone to fill it. a problem is an opportunity

A web framework is still useful, even if many people assess a language purely in terms of it.
Sounds like a clear case of Survivor bias: http://blog.asmartbear.com/business-advice-plagued-by-surviv....

The analysis on the article details goes into the odds and is actually quite good.
For my own business project I aim to keep it manageable, this is easier when on your own as you have the luxury of picking your customers from those that are interested in your services. I have always been of the mind that if I can make enough money to live comfortably without disliking what I am doing then I will be happy. By making sure I don't have any "troublesome" customers and being proactive to move them to other providers I feel that I will be offering them a better service whilst maintaining my sanity and allowing me to support all of my other customers.

Its like a teacher who removes a loud student for the benefit of the others.
In an episode of This American Life there was a story of a guy who bought lottery jackpots. (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/329/N... 20 minutes in)

This was during a time where you could not receive the full amount of the jackpot immediately -- regulation dictated that you had to get it in monthly instalments.

This guy would offer a lump sum here and now in exchange for the monthly instalments.

The winners were overspending because they started 'acting like millionaires' without having enough money from the monthly payments, so he would get them out of trouble and make a profit at the same time.

While signing a deal with one lottery winner, the lottery winner promptly bought 1000 scratch tickets without even bothering reading the contract he signed.
This simply rehashes and old and badly made argument from months ago...

I mean, the Ars article was a bit "out there" but he clearly hasn't really read it (e.g. The idea that I have a moral obligation to stare at an advertisment, the thought I have an ethical obligation to voluntarily annoy myself for the sake of a company's profits... it would be hilarious if it wasn't so repugnant.)
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks
Trolling they may be, but they got a snicker from me. There's something to be said for an actual, well-executed troll—as opposed to the senseless asshole tactic that most "trolls" on the internet use these days.
You could shorten it even more by just using

body {border-left:18px solid #ebf7fb;}

:)

Oh, and an RSS feed would be great, too!
you seem to have a big team. How did you manage to get so many people to all fund themselves?
Live your life by the Tao of Python
Can you clarify what you mean by "Google doesn't index search results" ? Looking at your site, it doesn't seem as if there are any links to crawl.
How come you don't have a link on each page to the home page?
It is not that simple. Initially I used that method. But then you have to put:

html, body { height: 100%; }

After which you end up with padding issues which you need to workaround with some stupid methods.

Got tired of it, put background image instead and simplified the CSS further :)

As for the RSS feed, it won't have any.
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Ask HN: Looking for incubator interior ideas
Dear Hackernews,

I'm in charge of decorating and designing an incubator in Amsterdam. I have full flexibility in how I want to decorate, and we're on a small budget (2.500-5.000) as we want to keep scrappy, but we foruntately already have some desks and office chairs. The space is about 250 m2 and is one big room with large white walls. There is room enough for a lounge-like-space in one of the corners.

We really would like to create a Google-like-atmosphere, so crazy and wild ideas are more than welcome. To give you an idea of the kind of ideas I'm dying to find more of: We have decided to paint one of the walls with ideapaint (http://ideapaint.com). We're also hooking up webcams to our website/flatscreens which are visible from the outside so people can see the work in progress.

Any ideas, tips or recommendations are highly appreciated, thanks!

Cheers,
Edo.
I have. Click on my name. If you are on the article it will take you home. If you are home, it will send me an email.

Maybe has some usability issues but it was a minimal and elegant solution to a problem.
Cross Posting With A Single Comment Thread
Seems it'd be hard to do mantras.

"Ommmblblblubublbubublublb"
You're right. Actually, just this will do it:

html {border-left:18px solid #ebf7fb; height:100%;}
Why to ask questions at conferences
The site

http://www.soundsabitlike.com

probably it's not visible enough on Google or it's just me who finds song similarities interesting :)
I remember playing that.

My strategy was to breast-stroke as fast as I could while not quite scraping the bottom of the pool with my chest.

I usually came out pretty well in the end :)

We would also do exercises in the diving pool of treading water for a half hour+ at a time. Good times.

(I was also around 12)
Like I said, it is not that simple. The best would be to make a copy of the page, de-minify it and try for yourself. Then tell me the results ;) Focus on top and bottom parts of the page. If you don't see it, try a page with more content, so it will scroll.

All kinds of issues will arise.
It's surprising how many people have had a close call with this.

It does explain why psychics often talk about how something happened in your childhood involving water. That always seemed pretty unlikely to hit to me, but I guess not.
I use Moneydance http://moneydance.com/. It's not a web app but runs on java. Uses double-entry accounting.

All though that said I would love a website that didi it. To answer (5) I would use it on both my laptop and my phone. The phone version would be to just enter transactions on the spot while the laptop would be used to reconcile for expenses etc.
This one: http://www.karminator.com/

I thought this would be a competitor for http://www.fmylife.com/

Not just any feature, the entire site is something that none uses
the bell is awesome :)
Ait, cool. I'd remove the email link, or at least label it, drives people nuts when a hyperlink starts Outlook etc.
The pages load really fast:-)
http://flowingdata.com/2009/10/01/30-resources-to-find-the-d...

US Govt data on the stimulus: http://www.recovery.gov/FAQ/Pages/DownloadCenter.aspx
On #4, data security, please check out:

http://github.com/wesabe/grendel

It was designed for a personal finance application, but is generally useful for storing data securely behind a REST-based web service. Think of it as GPG-as-a-service.
I know this is silly but you might want to put your name way up top, like a regular site.
I've put title attributes on links ('Send me an email' and 'Go back to front page').

Minimalist trade-offs :)
Medical shows legally have to be responsible. Apparently at some point, someone took medical advice from a soap opera and a life was lost because of it.

From that day forward they hire RNs part time to fill in gaps in the script with medical terms. A friend worked in an office that contracted out an army of RNs for this kind of script work. Pretty weird when you think about it.
Considered, but I like the bottom-up approach, putting content dead first. First you read something and then if you like it look up the author etc... Seen it on couple of sites and immediately liked it.

Also, my name is in every page title.
I don't think he intended the suggestion of requiring a contract to be a "starter." Although he'd love internet content providers to take a realistic assessment of what their content is really worth (My favorite movie critic put ads on his site a few years ago and I read it much less frequently now, even with adblock) what he reasonably expects is for companies to stop whining about adblock.
I researched this very briefly last year, and a Vermont Virtual company was quite interesting:
http://gigaom.com/2008/06/17/vermont-oks-the-creation-of-vir...
our app allows users to interact (create reminders via natural language) through email. I added in a feature/easter egg that lets the user start any email with @answer, followed by a question. Instead of reminder being added to our system, they are sent back the answer to the question. Uses natural language recognition
Filling covers of the books with ads is very common (I can find them in many books printed in the last 100 years, mostly textbooks, technical manuals and paperbacks, of course), but I haven't seen ads anywhere else, yet.
I'm not too worked up about adblock - the people who use it likely dont' click anyway. However, were the internet to move to an equilibrium with adblock as the norm because of massive adoption, it would cause serious problems for many content providers.
It's more than that though - it's about changing statements about an object into statements about your interaction with it.

"John seems grumpy to me" makes it clear that you are aware that your perceptions might be wrong, for instance.
It's a caricature of course, but some cube-dwelling gigs can be fairly close to aspects of that; process-drones, expectation of extra work with no extra benefits (generally in order to cover mis-management), etc.
Unfortunate domain name. Almost didn't click it. But it is legit.
You've thought this through, I like it. Keep it up!
Ask HN: What do you do *after* you've checked your news sources?
My procrastination fall-through usually goes like: Hacker News -> Google News -> Buzz -> Facebook -> Onion. And then, by Onion time, I usually get a moment of clarity and shut my laptop lid.

I'm not too concerned that I procrastinate in this fashion...rather, I'd like to fix the sharp diminishing returns of my current fall-through.

What do you do once you've finished checking HN? What's some positive, low brain-intensity, online activities that you could recommend?
PhysX87: Software Deficiency of Physics Engine
Added a note about nginx http_gzip_static_module which doesn't get used as much as it should.

One tip on the gzip parameters, I use -9cn. The 'n' flag is important as your gzipped files will not appear corrupted by many gzip online checking tools. E.g. everything is green: http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsimeramov.com%2F2010-07-.... Took me a while to figure it out. I believe it also benefits rsync.

There is one serious downside to all this reckless optimization -- I don't even notice the bandwidth RRD graphs changing if some page hit the HN front page or get featured elsewhere. The pages are so small the graphs almost always look the same, i.e. basically flat :) All the bandwidth is from me backing up my home dir to server.
If Prince can make more money doing deals with newspapers than online music distributors, then he is making a smart business decision.

Prince already has a legion of die hard fans. He doesn't need the internet to build an audience or distribute his music. He, like everyone else, also knows that his music will end up on the internet through unofficial channels. So why bend-over and do a suboptimal deal?

He does however need it to maintain buzz, hype and notoriety. Telling everyone the internet "is over" has spread his message about his new album and his own brand to the least likely places. I mean... he's on the front page of Hacker News and Ars Technica. I'm pretty sure I first saw this story on Reddit too. I bet if I read Digg I would see it there too.

If anything Prince has demonstrated his understanding of the internet audience. He's told the cool kids they aren't cool and that their favourite toy is out of fashion. Needless to say they are pissed and talking about it.

The last time I heard anything about Prince was.... when he released his last album via a newspaper deal.

As jeb said earlier: Prince knows what he is doing.
If his claims are accurate, and only minimally influenced by hyperbole, it appears he's at the center of a massive miscarriage of justice.

I'd be interested to see an analysis by someone who knows more about the law than I do.
Delicious is a good place for the same. Eg.

http://delicious.com/sidmitra/datasets
I guess that's a no! (:
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You're certainly not the only one; Pandora.com is based on that very premise.
Ask HN: What's your burn rate? What do you do to reduce it?
In light of the recent 'Ask HN' on churn rate: what's your burn rate: how much money do you need every month to stay afloat? Which techniques do you use to reduce your burn rate?

[Edited to add the burnrate reduction topic]
mmmeeehhh or the inertia of fame got him a bit of undeserved attention.
Since the HTTP mirrors warp and cicada put up are getting hammered I've made a Torrent of Don-Knuth.mp4:

http://v.nix.is/~leech/Don-Knuth.mp4.torrent

It's using the OpenBitTorrent tracker. Please seed it.
The single feature that forever ties me to Chrome is tabs on top.

On top of the address bar isn't the point. It's a nice touch that emphasizes the metaphor for "real" tabs, like on a paper folder, but it doesn't have the huge usability bonus of Chrome's implementation.

The important thing is that in Chrome, the tabs are on the very top pixel of the screen (in Windows or a Linux UI with no top bar). Since I browse with a hand on the mouse, this means that I can switch between tabs by chucking the pointer at the top of the screen and scrubbing left and right, instead of having to pay attention to vertical alignment.

http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
they have fixed this. They regularly blog, have sent email messages, twitter posts etc apologizing for the delays and keeping us informed on the latest updates on shipping, demos of the product to show they are making progress etc. I'm really not sure what else they could do in the communication regard, their only problem now is they aren't shipping the product.
wow, interesting.. haven't seen this yet. There are also some interesting links and details in comments.
I'll save you 90 min of your time. Instead send me two dollars and I'll tell you the secret is to put up a web site that convinces people to drop money on some video you probably stole from somewhere else. Oops, just gave it away without collecting the two bucks.
I might say that New York is also cool and hip, but that doesn't mean I'd be fine with being mugged in New York.
I would say it's pretty much accurate minus the sex with Jennifer Aniston.
I think it's shameful that no one has stepped up to provide him with free, top notch legal assistance. I'm relatively familiar with the case (I know weev personally, too), and he is actually not exaggerating. This is exactly the kind of case the EFF exists to defend. Yes, weev is a troll and a media whore, but that doesn't automatically make him wrong.

Goatse behaved in the industry accepted standard way in popularizing a security vulnerability -- full disclosure. I personally would have done the same (although I would not have kept illegal drugs at my residence after doing so, but I also would probably ventilate anyone breaking into my home without clearly announcing a warrant...)

Free weev!
You’re Dead, Unless You Tweet Otherwise
While many people seem uberly disturbed about the delays and "$5" charges (under 20% of people who pre-ordered it even seemed to affect), I took the opposite opinion. I'm excited to see a startup trying to build hardware and software, all from an original seed investment with ycombinator. It is suffering from situations most other seeded and angel invested startups go through, and they seem incredibly excited to improve.

What more could you ask for? Sure, the product. Fair enough, but give them some slack. It's not like some of the software vaporware we've seen (like The Hit List for iPhone). I know it must be hard not to be able to get that Venti Double Whip Quad Shot Mocha until you get your $5 back!

Whatever! This negative response only excited my interest in the product and I just got done pre-ordering one. And if I don't get it in a couple weeks, they'll release my $1 hold. Nothing lost. And if it ships, I'll improve my sleeping habits.
Emacs already comes with functions for that.

pop-global-mark (C-x C-SPC) moves you around a global mark stack, and C-u set-mark-command (C-u C-SPC) does this locally in a buffer. (I use this hundreds of times a day.)

The bookmark package (go to "Bookmarks" in the Emacs info pages) give you persistent bookmarks, with a fairly nice interface.

I've written stuff in elisp only to find that it already existed in Emacs, too. Now, I usually check http://emacswiki.org first.
This is a very interesting market, and I think your prices could work (restaurants are known to have almost no money)

Regarding this line:
"14% of smartphone users look for restaurants on their phones." I don't know about you, but 14% seems not worth it from a restaurants perspective. If I were you I'd say "One in seven smartphone users look for restaurants in their phone, and that number is only increasing!"

Best of luck, your features page looks great.
American Dream is Elusive for New Generation
This story gave rise to one of my most favourite novels, Shōgun, by James Clavell. It's a great story about conquering the cultural divide. Not entirely sure why it was linked on HN but it's certainly interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shōgun_(novel)

It's also an interesting exercise in cultural expectations; even now, with our small world, there are still very different expectations with, say, setting up a business or even just conducting business or going to work (or even living) in Japan or China (or many other countries) and that of the same in a "Western" country. Even then, doing business in America is, it seems, quite different from doing it in Australia or the UK or Continental Europe.

Just goes to show that even though we feel we get closer as an international society, many things highly resist change or adapt in quite different ways.
>(By contrast, books (for example) are awesome. I pay for a book, and then I read the book start-to-finish with no ads, no distractions. A few pages at the back maybe, but I can ignore those. Books are nice.)

This reminded me of a line from Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death:

>Imagine what you would think of me, and this book, if I were to pause here...and then proceed to write a few words in behalf of United Airlines or the Chase Manhattan Bank. You would rightly think that I had no respect for you.
Frankly, I prefer them on the side: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/
This came in my Twitter feed. Kind of funny:

So Prince is giving away his CD via a newspaper. Kids everywhere are saying - "Who is doing what with a what via a what?"

Original:
http://twitter.com/andres_sehr/status/17929286252
CRU climate scientists did not withold data
I was surprised to read this article, as it seemed to me from reading HN and other tech-related news sources that there are more opportunities than ever. Am I wrong?
It's about getting people to your front door

It's more about getting quality people in your front door. That is, people who are interested in whatever service you are offering, not people who like cute cat videos.
"We live in a Brand Era"

Very nice study, thanks for posting. In the first paragraph he says that 'we live in a Brand Era' but in fact the rest of the article shows that human civilization can be seen as the history of brands and branding. Maybe it is more correct to say that global corporations in the business of consumer goods 'discovered' branding and that's why branding is now so visible.
Might it make sense to open an Ltd in the UK? Those are fairly cheap and might be easier for you to deal with as a European.
But the report does ask for better handling of the blogosphere, plus opening up data and source code: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/07/cce-review-report.html
I don't know anything about the story, but right now, it somehow looks like he's quite a nutjob. Writing shorter, more precise and in a chronological order of the events would really help the text to be more understandable and get the point across.

The situation is probably quite stressful for him, but he somebody should really help him work on the text so others understand what it's all about.
I'm ashamed to say that I mostly enjoyed that for all the comments grasping for some rationalisation that down-plays the results.

But I also want HTC to hurry up on delivering Froyo for the Desire.
so clean, the minimalist in me loves it.
Life in a Day
2 chicks at the same time
Good post.

The Guardian has an interesting article from this past Sunday about scientists being more open.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/04/climatecha...

I, for one, welcome this openness, and hope that it leads to the removal of fundamentalists from both sides from the debate. No doubt there is a big problem, and we won't solve it when people are merely shouting at each other.
Just to note, I've had very good results with tarsnap, thanks cperciva!

I'm hoping that the results are made public they'll be anonymised at least somewhat.
"The biggest problem with backups is"

Missing option is impact on the computer while I'm using it. All of the transparent services (especially Time Machine) that I have experience with are abysmally bad at turning themselves off when the machine is being actively used.
Some bank sites allow you to open an account online. Doesn't that count?