skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice and simple. Good job.

You probably know this, there's http://www.scanr.com/ that tackles a similar problem.
I can't say I have done a formal study, it is just an observation in a single city. The Mint Blog published some numbers on illegal immigrants where it was claimed that over 60% of section 8 was claimed by them. Most of them get paid in cash so it is easy to adjust whatever they make to meet the section 8 qualifications. Also a lot of the households have more than one adult working so going over the $30k qualification threshold doesn't take that good of job if it is split between 2 or 3 people.

There are definitely people that have fallen on hard times and people on disability that needs the help section 8 provides, it just makes me angry that they are in the minority of people being helped.
or returning a Visio document back to me would be a complete win
Because once that content is indexed, you can receive a negative effect from Google by mass 403-ing a huge amount of content
Ask YC: Automated ways to perform credit check?
I've been googling looking for APIs to automate credit checks of people and businesses submitting applications to a finance related website but haven't had much luck.

Has anyone in the Web2.0 space seen or heard of such a service that would provide an API and structured credit reporting data?

The only thing I've been able to find is:
http://www.strikeiron.com/Catalog/ProductDetail.aspx?pv=2.0.0&pn=Cortera+Credit+Pulse

That looks okay -- and pricing isn't too crazy -- but was wondering if folks knew of anything else out there?
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First thing I thought when I read this is, oh no, not another time-tracking/to-do list software. There are so many, even ones that make the same exact claims that you did about being overwhelming.

However - I like this. Anyways the UI was simple enough to get me to start filling it out. It will be something else to see if I keep using it or not.

Would also be open to feedback in a week or so.
URL: http://www.strikeiron.com/Catalog/ProductDetail.aspx?pv=2.0....
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the link! Looks like it's more advanced than what I'm doing at the moment...

Thanks,

Kyle
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Is "Hand-to-Mouth" a well-known idiom in America and Europe?

In India, it means an existence in which you are constantly worried about getting enough food to survive for another day, and all the money you get from working ("hand") goes directly to feeding you ("mouth"), as opposed to building up some level of savings.
Sounds like in that frame, most of the consoling messages here are along the lines of "our gold is not the common gold."
None of that bears on the point.

By referring to "the cause of poverty", the OP makes it seem that each of us is destined to riches and luxury, unless something goes wrong and condemns us to poverty.

What I'm trying to illustrate is that this is actually the opposite of the truth: each of us has a lifetime of poverty in front of us, unless we do something to ensure that we do not.

Granted, it's easier for some of us than others: the "silver spoon" thing. But the fact remains that riches are not the default state, at least for the vast majority of us. We are destined to be poor unless we take steps to avoid it.
I'm quite sure that its impossible for Apple to find all malicious software via their review process.
presumably os updates (from google) must have the privileges necessary to do exactly this or maybe this is the interface used for OS updates?
Just tried it on an image where the whiteboard was poorly cropped -- lots of junk around the edges of the pic. The drawing itself was cleaned pretty well, but the extra stuff was distractingly multi-colored.

It would be nice if it could detect the edges of the whiteboard and crop. As Goosey mentioned, perspective correction would be nice as well.

Love the idea as an email service, and look forward to seeing what comes next.
We've seen this article before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156177

It was crap then and it's crap now. Karelis doesn't understand econ, but criticizes it because econ disagrees with his thought experiments and political leanings. His theory is nothing but traditional econ with a modified utility function. It has rather perverse implications (i.e., we should tax the poor but not the rich), and as the article notes it does not agree with experiment.

The best reason for completely ignoring Karelis: "ultimately, he believes, the strength of his arguments is less in how they fit with the economic work that's been done to date on poverty - much of which he is suspicious of anyway - but in how familiar they feel to all of us, rich or poor."
Key quote from the majority opinion:

"With ever more people trying to innovate and thus seeking patent protections for their inventions, the patent law faces a great challenge in striking the balance between protecting inventors and not granting monopolies over procedures that others would discover by independent, creative application of general principles. Nothing in this opinion should be read to take a position on where that balance ought to be struck."

The entire court held that the patent application in question should be denied as it represented only an abstract idea. The majority opinion declined to give much further guidance other than to emphasize that 1) the law should be interpreted using the plain meaning of words in the statute, and that 2) the machine or transformation test is not an exclusive test of whether a claim is patent-worthy.

Stevens, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Sotomayer concurred with the decision, but would have denied the application based on a more strictly defined interpretation of the word "process," noting that the majority's acceptance of a looser interpretation "can only cause mischief. The wiser course would have been to hold that petitioners' method is not a 'process' because it describes only a general method of engaging in business transactions—and business methods are not patentable."

Breyer and Scalia separately emphasized that the machine or transformation test is still useful, though not exclusive, and that there is much agreement between the majority opinion and the concurring one.

--

At the end of the day, it appears that this decision will lead lower courts to continue ruling, with new reassurance, that patents on software and business methods are valid as long as the patent claims meet the statutory criteria of being novel, useful, and non-obvious. Patent applicants simply need to be more careful than Bilski in ensuring that their claims don't on their face seem like common abstract ideas.

Given the language of the statute, the history of prior rulings, and the broad Constitutional authorization given to Congress to grant patent monopolies, it's difficult to take issue with their narrow ruling. The real problem we face is one of modern information theory colliding with an 18th century experiment in government-granted monopolies.

This is the end of the road (in the US) for challenging these types of patents en masse via the courts in our lifetime. The fight, if it is to continue, will now shift to influencing Congress to make changes.
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It's disappointing to see the comments section of the arxiv blog being used for spam.
Evaluating potential co-founders? Try going camping.
Is there a seed bubble?
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Bilski vs Kappos: Patent “Business as Usual”
If it's not production quality (and I don't gather it is yet), and it's at alpha state at best (code you write will break, and critical features are still in the planning/development state, like exceptions as I recall), you'd be better picking a production quality language that's more obscure than Python.

I'd recommend Clojure ^_^, at least if you're interested in a good concurrency story, which is one of the major things Go is about. Studying a functional language will do you good; it'll be a bit harder than you're used to at the beginning because you have to learn new ways of doing things, but perhaps easier in the long run and it will teach you vital stuff.

Plus you've perhaps now had enough experience with imperative side effecting languages to really appreciate what functional programming can do for you.

If you're alergic to Lisps, you might try Haskell or ML/OCaml/F#.
To me, the most interesting "hack" here is how the Tumbleweed house company has hacked its way onto Oprah, NPR and the top result for "tiny house" on Google.

I wish my startup could do that.

They've done a remarkable job with PR and are effectively the Apple Computer of trailer homes.
I didn't really understand this bee metaphor either. The last few times I got stung, I just waited until it stopped hurting. If I got stung all at once by a swarm I'd probably seek medical help. If I was getting regularly stung then I'd probably spend some time planning how to change whatever in my life was causing me to be repeatedly stung.

The car one made more sense, similar to the broken window theory, you'll be more careful and quick to fix the first problem if you have no other scratches and dents and grow ever less careful if they start to mount up and you don't have the time/resources/money/ability to get them repaired.
I can't use this without knowing how long you'll store whatever I send you.
I had it like that at one point and thought it required too much scrolling to see the flow...it was also suggested that I make the '4 simple instructions' into a pretty big button saying 'Get Started Now'.

Thanks for the feedback.
Interestingly the second quora link he quotes is explicitly marked "Not for reproduction": http://www.quora.com/What-strong-beliefs-on-culture-for-entr...

That being said, building a culture like that requires quite a lot of insight and Paypal must've been an exciting place to be back then...
I guess what I mean by success is not only about profitability. I consider that changing the world positively in a large scale is a success. So I think kiva, spacex, yelp and yammer are all successful startups/organizations.
Who said it was a zero sum game?
Perhaps more likely than in much of the developed world, however. There doesn't seem to be any reason to think the US has high economic mobility.
Agreed, but the reason you'd see more action is that they wouldn't be in it alone. Starting a business is hard, and people feel pretty lost. In making that offer you'd have to consider whether or not you want (and can commit to!) truly starting a business with your friend, versus just saying you will so they'll do something. It's not an offer to make lightly.
You are looking for Page Plus Cellular. Pay as you go on Verizon's network. That's what I do on my Droid. 50 MB limit on data though :(
how many... how many...

Fewer. Comparatively, at the very least.
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I'll have to add that to the terms and the faq - I'm using google apps to handle the email. The app issues a delete immediately after processing. Right now I'm clearing out the trash folder (edit: sorry the sent folder) in the google account about every day or so.

What kind of assurances would you like? If I implement accounts, would you be comfortable with storage? Would you want to be able to choose on a per-picture basis?

Thanks for taking a look.

Kyle
I love the idea, but you should look into the legal implications. Copyright of lyrics can be a little touchy.
Majority(5): Business methods are not categorically barred, but this particular patent is not eligible subject matter under 101 because it encompasses an "abstract idea." Machine-or-transformation test is NOT the exclusive test, but no further direction is given in terms of a standard.

Concurrence(4): J. Stevens writes for the four typically liberal judges, who are in favor of categorically barring business methods.

Overall, the judgment is 9-0 to strike down the patent. Software patents are not directly addressed, but the initial impression is that the opinion will likely make it easier to obtain "pure" software method patents because the machine-or-transformation test is insufficient to reject a a claim under 101.
If I was in your shoes I would look at ebay and their policies and consider which items make sense to exclude for business reasons (i.e. not worth the potential legal trouble human parts/remains, hazardous material, etc) and which are right out illegal like drugs, child porn, etc).

See => http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/items-ov.html
Windows 7 costs $1.20 to make. 20 cent dvd + 20 cent packaging + 80 cent booklet (or whatever is in there.)

A high end CPU costs below $3 in material costs. (Numbers purely guessed)

Given these examples I find it wrong to accuse Apple for selling the iPhone at that price point. At least to me these "Product X costs Y USD in production" articles sound a bit accusing.
I think a VPS would be a much better choice.
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>They haven't had to because they stop this stuff before it happens.

How does Apple stop malicious software? No one has ever claimed that.

Apple's review process doesn't validate that the software does what it claims it does, beyond the superficial.
Here's a somewhat scattered, but very sensible and low-cost minimum wilderness survival kit:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2721455542891667646#

Here's what I remember:

* Aluminum foil - can be used for many, many things,
like water collection. It's fragile but lightweight
and compact. I would include 3 or 4 sheets.
* Signal mirror
* Twine
* Cyalume Stick(s)
* Ace Bandage
* Mylar Emergency Blanket
* Chlorine - swimming pool chlorine - it tastes bad, but
it's cheap, and it's much harder to poison yourself
with it than iodine.
* Razor Blade or xacto knife - much lighter and more
compact than a pocket knife
* Epi-pen - injection for anaphylactic shock
* Duct Tape - Just a bit and not a whole roll, though!
* Compass - something really small and cheap but sturdy.
You should be able to score one as swag. Beware
leaking oil

You should be able to gather the materials for cheap and get this into a very small and light package. One of those disposable plastic food containers comes to mind.
Apple's curation has almost entirely been focused on eliminating duplication (even if better) of Apple-provided solutions.

Do you have any sources to back that assertion up? In the WWDC keynote, Jobs indicated that the three major reasons for rejecting apps were bugs, use of private APIs, and apps not delivering what they promised, which would be a direct contradiction of your claim.
Aren't you're providing a service that's running your software, not just the software itself?

With you're being in the U.K. I'd be rather nervous if I was in your shoes (granted, your new goernment has it's hands full and is unlikely to follow NuLabour's model in legislating a new crime a day (on average), but...).
The productivity paradox: When less is more
have you seen large groups of scientists at work? if not, maybe you're falling for the same stereotypes as those kids.
I know it's just a GIMP script but I was pretty impressed at how well the returned image was.

My only advice is to make the instructions clearer. It's quite a simple idea "send a whiteboard photo to XYZ, get a clean version back" but I had to go to a second page, scroll down quite a bit, then click a few other pages to find out exactly what happens when I send a photo. I might be dimmer than the average customer though.
This guy should have stopped typing this article after the first line:

I am not a soccer fan.

It seems by writing this, he is jumping on the 'every-four-years' soccer bandwagon that goes on in the US (or so it seems to a non-American).

I don't say this to be nasty, but because of his limited knowledge of the game, he doesn't realise that in a league competition, such as the English Premiership (or MLS in America), luck plays a much lesser factor in deciding who lifts the trophy (in other words, over 38 games, the cream will rise to the top. And penalty shootouts aren't a factor). As the cliche goes, "the league table doesn't lie".

In 2005 when Liverpool won the Champions League (World Cup-style competition, group stages and knockout stages hence luck can play a factor) I argued with many Liverpool fans that their team was still fairly crap as that year they only managed to finish fifth in the Premiership (league competition, hence luck doesn't really come into play).

ps. The Champions League is the best soccer competition on the planet, the World Cup is second rate by comparison. Most of the best players in the world play in this competition, which is between Europe's elite club teams. Generally, top players play far better for club rather than country as they are more familiar with their club teammates, as they play with them, week-in, week-out, rather than just once in a blue moon. Also, by the time the World up comes around, many players are tired after a long club season - see England yesterday, for example. Not to mention you get a set of really top players all concentrated in a single team (Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United) not unlike an outperforming startup.
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Go has also provoked some interesting developments in Combinatorial Game Theory. Conway got started with "On Numbers and Games" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Numbers_and_Games) basically got started by analysing end-game situation in Go.

Note: Combinatorial Game Theory has almost no overlap with Game Theory. Interestingly Combinatorial Game Theory has some analogies in topology. You can for example give meaning to the temperature of a game.
First Canvas and now CSS3. In the world created by my dreams, all of this is done to standards, with good performance.

In reality, experience has taught me that they could easily destroy these standards by doing it their own way. Only if there is finally a reconciliation to full standards (or little deviance like other browsers), would these press releases even be worth it.

If they "implement" canvas and CSS3, and basically the new web, and we still have to go "that's a great idea, but does it work in IE?" they have still failed.

Crosses fingers Here's to hope!
It's well known to mean the same thing in America.
Most of my professional work life has been developing Java, and my feelings are similar to yours. I really can't stand it anymore.

However, I wonder if part of it is the experience that "most Java jobs suck", whereas in reality most jobs suck. So had I been a Ruby developer for the last 10 years, maybe now I would be sick of Ruby.

That said, there also a number of evident things that annoy me about Java.
There are hundreds of fart apps in the AppStore. Hundreds.
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Sounds like a fascinating way of working, if not high-stress. It doesn't say how many hours/week their staff were working.

"but either individual heroes or small, high-trust teams more often than not found ways to deliver projects on-time."

I'm not sure to read that as if they are finding ways "out of hours" and on their own time.
Personally, I'd prefer an option to have it delete immediately after it's been processed, even if that's not the default.

Lots of idea's get thrown up on whiteboards where I work, but the boss man is a little paranoid. In order to become a regular user I would need to know that nothing I email over is being kept.

I understand the insecurities of email in general, but there's a difference between available for the duration of the email transmission and available for days after the email has been sent.

Thanks for being responsive.
If you haven't found it already, check out the online hip-hop lyrics archive (http://ohhla.com) for your hip-hop lyrics needs. I've been going there for lyrics for as long as I can remember and never quite understood why it doesn't rank higher in google searches for lyrics.
It's iPad only so the market is very small compared to the iphone. When they talk about 10,000 sales a day its for iphone
I think that's spot on. He may not have any idea what to do with the money, and he doesn't want to just waste your money and lose your friendship.

If we were friends and I came to you and said "Look, I've got $50,000 I'm willing to invest if you can just come up with a new drug idea and start it," you would probably tell me you have no idea how to do pharmaceutical research. Well, most people have no idea how to start a business.
Does the Champions League have finals where you get knocked out after losing one match?
You may or may not do it, depending your discount rate.

Suppose being bee-sting free is worth H dollars/day to you, and the cure costs C dollars/day. As long as C/H < exp(-r( days until fully cured)) (where r is your discount rate), you'll buy the the cure.

Since r tends to be larger for the poor than for the middle class/rich, C/H is likely to be less than exp(-r(days until fully cured)), since the larger r gets, the smaller this constant gets. This is just standard econ, BTW.
No, I don't think taste is the biggest selling point, but just as there is a dizzying array of potential flavors in nature, so too is there a dizzying array of marijuana intoxications. Just because most types of 'drunk' are similar does not mean most types of 'marijuana high' are similar - thus while a wine type might trade on its flavor, a marijuana strain would almost certainly trade on its style of intoxication.

That is, you can make niche highs just as you can make niche wine flavors.
Funny, in Costa Rica (and possibly other latin american contries) we have a similar saying: "Coyol quebrado, coyol comido", a "Coyol" is a palm and it literally means "fallen coyol, eaten coyol"
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The iPhone has a much higher profit margin. Considering they what they sell the iPod Touch for and how similar it is in parts, you can do the math yourself. (The Touch hasn't been updated in a while, so we'll need to see a Touch HD for a good comparison now.) They even give the Touch away if you buy a Mac for college.

Another thing, Apple charges more overseas. The 3GS retailed for a no-commit price in the states for $599/$699 depending on storage.
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -- Carl Sagan

Imagine John DeLorean meeting with PayPal instead of the FBI.
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Clay Shirky was wrong - the link distribution of weblogs is not a power law
My apologies to someone, a pic didn't make it back: mattp@a-bb.net had a permanent delivery failure. No idea how to contact them...hope they were here and see this.
The interest we're paying on Federal debt is or soon will equal the total US defense budget (or so the Chairman of the JCS recently noted).

You might also be really upset if the US returns to a pre-WWII isolationist mode (you do remember one of the things that happened as a result...). We keep the peace in large parts of the world and e.g. implicitly prevent a lot of those we're protecting from going nuclear.

The only thing less brutal than a Pax Romana, Britannia or America is its absence.
Wealthy people (read: almost all HN users)

By the metric where almost all HN users count as "wealthy", the US hardly has any poverty at all. I don't know that that's inaccurate, but it's not the usual assumption.
They are if you getting an early upgrade ($399/$499).
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iPhone 4 32GB without a contract in the UK costs £599 which is about $900.
I suspect you may be right. But what is it that makes you sure?
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