skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. Then it's good when you want to learn new skill. I actually want to do this, but I believe retirement is something different. =)

Probably, we need to define what is retirement. =)) If it's doing nothing (business wise) - probably it's too boring anyway and learning new skills is good idea.
I have yet to hear a definition of free will that isn't circular. I am not convinced the term means anything.
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." ~Warren Buffett

Do you have any personal experience with multifamily real estate? It's valued based on the income stream, so unless the income stream is inflated, it's not really overvalued. And increasing population + more single-member households + fewer people buying houses now = more renters. Where the hell do you think all the people losing their homes right now are going to live?

Avoidance of the kind of knee-jerk reaction that you're espousing is what makes good real estate investors incredibly wealthy.

The leverage thing I'm more willing to concede, but the numbers aren't terribly different if you just buy the property outright. And let's be honest: this isn't a true "retirement account".
Hey nudge, thanks for the kudos. Yes I did Invoice Bubble too, it has been developed quite a bit since you last looked but design wise it should all be quite the same?

Yeah the locking automatically is whats happens in Writeboard and some people have expressed this to be a problem, so I'm just gathering feedback at the moment.

Thank you!

Stu
Analysis of Groupon's nationwide Gap campaign and cities by potential growth
> free will is an objectively observable phenomenon

Not true. To observe free will, you must have a really big picture view. You must have enough information at hand to be absolutely confident that the action was not a direct result of all prior experiences of the actor. Until you have that kind of measurement, free will is a matter of faith.

> god is not objectively observable

That is a very human-centric view, and it would behoove any rational thinker to look beyond their own limitations. Again, it is all about having an appropriate instrument to observe Him.

But you may have a point about who owns the burden of proof. (I will not argue either way on who owns it, and whether we should prove or disprove.)

Edit: Sorry, my definition of "objectively" is skewed. Both free will and God can be objectively observed. You just have to have the right instruments, enough information.
Pac-Man for president: Hack highlights e-voting flaws
Northeast - Cablevision. I'll admit the $29.95 is an "introductory rate" for the first 12 months, but then it only goes up to $49.95 a month. It's not a bad price for 20 megabits down and 2 megabits up.
Hey thanks. People can edit in realtime, but the changes won't get reflected unless the master user changes the version - so thoughts welcome on this.

I'm not sure technically how you would do it, literally in realtime, unless the data was pushed to the editor somehow every time there was a change - but then that could get annoying for the person actually in the flux of writing.
Ask HN: Who's coming to Ars Electronica 2010?
Ask HN: Who's coming to Ars Electronica 2010?
I was thinking the exact same thing. It could very well be a good idea that is ahead of it's time. We are still wedded tightly to traditional email, but something like Wave could very well take over in the next say, decade or so.
PG / YC rejected me / my startup idea but I made it anyway and its starting to get some traction. YC / TechStars etc.. are just programs that help you not make you.

If you don't take the initiative and get started on your own then why would they assume you have the tenacity to keep going in the face of constant opposition. There are lots of problems that you run into while running a startup and many days really suck. How can you make it through this if you are not even willing to move past a YC rejection?
I have to say I find that time.com site pretty awful to use. It is difficult to know where to look, where the main page content is and how to navigate around.

Very messy !
The money is not the only factor that can make it a wash. The practicalities of where suitable day care is located and the hours they operate mean that for many people returning to work just isn't an option, even if you can afford it. My wife worked freelance in TV before having our daughter. The unsociable hours alone meant that it was going to be unlikely she could return to work, despite being desperate to work again. Add the fact that no local childcare is able to offer 5 days a week without a year or more's notice. Then add the fact that her salary would pay only about 50% of the childcare costs. Add the fact that my own work + commute means I'd never be able to drop off or pick up my daughter in time. It doesn't add up. Maybe we need to move country :)
Thanks for the clarification (you too gyardley!). I'm in the UK and we don't do that here. We pay 'stamp duty' when buying a house and capital gains tax when selling (or not as there are exemptions) but nothing on an ongoing basis for the appreciation in value.
Yep, preview invitee. It's not all it's cracked up to be. Sure, you get back-seasons of some shows, but for PS3 and iPad there are no closed captions, which seems like a huge step backwards.

720p is nice on the shows that have it though. I have a laptop connected to a 55" LED-backlit LCD TV via HDMI and it seems to work pretty well for me.
Does anyone know how to copy this spreadsheet to a personal Google account so it is editable and private? I am not seeing that option. Thanks!
You've got a great theory. And yet, it somehow does not fit the data.

As of 2001 (the most recent data I've seen), more than 2/3 of poor households had at least 2 rooms/person, and only 6% were overcrowded. Just under 3/4 owned a car.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/understandi...

In the same year, 80% of the poor neither had nor were looking for a job, so bus fare is irrelevant to most of them. (This number hasn't changed much up to 2008, I haven't seen 2009 data.)

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2001.pdf

It would seem that even most of the poor do not suffer the problems you describe.

(I'd love more current numbers, anyone have them?)
But because of the way UI is designed, one of the first elements of the UI mental model your elderly noob will learn is that dialog boxes are to be ignored.
Regarding my assumptions, you're largely right... Though I take issue with:

"(2) That you would invest your $4m in a low-return investment."

My assumption is that you'd invest in a BALANCED PORTFOLIO. What sort of return do you think a balanced portfolio would get you?
Android is not good enough? Really?

My coworker has an HTC Legend, and it seems better than the iPhone in every way; including design.

Have you heard about HTC Evo?
Hulu doesn't carry ESPN content, so I'm not sure what this has to do with anything.
There is no point in getting up either; eventually gravity will win.
I really enjoyed your article, so I apologize if you felt like I was attacking you. That said, I think I disagree on a few points:

1) Commercial real estate underwriting much more heavily weighs the fundamentals of the property as opposed to the borrower. As a result, it's possible that you could have a lender who would be comfortable with you carrying several times your net worth in loans, provided the underlying collateral fundamentals are strong.

2) I'm skeptical that a long-term diversified portfolio will only return 5%, before inflation is taken into account. This would correspond to a real return of 2%, which seems overly-conservative. Don't wealth managers advise safely withdrawing 4% per year to protect your principal and keep pace with inflation? I may be mistaken here.

3) I'm not as gung-ho about diversification as you are. I think it can make sense, but as Buffett has said, it's a hedge against ignorance. If you sell a startup for $20m, you were highly under-diversified before the sale, but that doesn't make it a bad idea. Nor would it be a terrible idea to roll a significant portion of that capital back into a business that you knew well enough that the risk profile was low for you. This probably requires more work and self-assessment than most people are capable of or willing to engage in.

Anyway, thanks for your original post and your comment here. Food for thought, as always :)
Amongst my group, I'm known for my near hatred of Amazon's Kindle (not the ecosystem or apps, just the devices) due to their shoddy typography, but even I've caved and ordered one of the new ones. They're cheap enough now that, I think, anyone involved in writing/publishing needs to keep a good eye on what Amazon's up to. For writers, the Kindle (ecosystem) is rapidly looking like it could become their equivalent of the App Store.
http://www.greaterfool.ca/2010/08/24/market-update-6 (Granted, Garth Turner is extreme, but he does not make things up.)
A related cartoon: http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/1243
You can still microwave it tho'.
"File -> Make a copy..." from the toolbar should do the trick
Someone at Adobe is attacking Oracle? Pretty hilarious ...
Don't confuse asshole qualities with competence and status. Scoble is one of the most wanted people in SV.
Oh. You still need to pay for after-school child care; that's what I was referring to. School here gets out at 3:00PM; we get home from work around 6:00PM.
Sadly, the US Gov is going to make it worse. Go look at the budget for Indian Health Service versus the number of people served, then expand that to cover all Americans. For a bonus, check the level of service compared to the private sector.

It probably would have been cheaper to allow people to have real personal health savings accounts and provide a "last-resort" insurance that pays everything over some amount ($100K perhaps). That last bit probably would bring down premiums because of a max risk.
Feature Request: Hide flagged articles for individuals
When I flag an article would it please be possible to stop that article appearing in any of the lists, making it dead to the person who flagged it so that they don't have to look at it anymore. Everything else below would then move up a place for that person.
Ask HN: The case of the semi-technical co-founder
There are many debates about the necessity of having a technical co-founder in a start-up and many opinions subscribe to the views that without a technical co-founder, the probability of failure is much higher. I'll use CTO as a synonym to technical co-founder from here in.

The reasons giving are that a non-CTO founded start-up will fail is because the "business" founder can't hire the right talent because he won't know what to look for. There are many other reasons but I want to focus on this one here.

My question is, what about the case of a semi-technical founder, or founders that don't know how to code explicitly, but they are very familiar with development processes, they have enough grasp of the technical side to at least partially gauge how development is progressing, and they can compile blueprints etc. well enough for other programmers to quickly execute them?

Compare this to the current archetypal view of CTO + 'business guy' founding team, and how do you think it bodes in terms of failure probability?
sorry, forgot the sarcasm tags.
A balanced portfolio is a very inefficient portfolio.

Many people would be willing to take risks, or don't want/need to hedge against everything. His real estate example is a good one - you are at the mercy of housing/renting markets. But over the long term these have been quite steady and wouldn't be outside most peoples' risk thresholds.
Startup story confusion leads to failure
In California, Proposition 13 limits (among other things) reassessments to when the property changes hands or when there is new construction. Opinions vary on whether it's a good seal for the state. It's a great deal for me, though.
I really appreciate that people like you take the time to transcribe things like this. I got a lot more out of your summary than out of the segment of the video as long as it took me to read your summary. Thank you!
I think that's one of the exciting things Fridge has done:
Provide one of the killer apps of Google Wave — things like planning a trip with friends and sharing the photos afterwards — but with e-mail integration, not in a walled garden and without all the extra cruft Wave added (threading, branching and histories).

Is the fancy Wave stuff cool for hackers? Maybe. Is it good in a product? No. I'd go far as to say Wave is to Fridge as Linux is to OS X -- Wave might be important, but not in actually using it :)
In other words, it would be irrational to not operate on the assumption that you have free will.

Religious people might say something similar about God's existence.
You know, Facebook is not so far off from Google Wave -- not as much as a lot of techies would like to believe for their comfort.
If anything it's the other travellers that are anti-American (but not to their faces). The natives of countries don't seem to have a preference really except some country specific issues (Wars, long standing disputes etc.)

As for point #2, the media lies. The point is, really that you can't get a balanced point of view about anything from the news, since it only reports the unusual and abnormal otherwise it's not news and that's typically bad news too.

American culture seems to dominate the world particularly in that movies and T.V. seem to be everywhere.
"Free will" may be. But "rationality" can be given a clear, concise definition that most of us will agree upon in our context. Here, amichail probably talks about epistemic rationality: the art of obtaining beliefs that correspond to reality as closely as possible.

Source: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/

Now, the question of free will itself has been discussed. here: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will and there:
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Free_will_%28solution%29 are probably very good start points.

I haven't read these pages yet, but from what I have already read on http://lesswrong.com (which is quite a lot) is of outstanding quality.
That's right, Hulu is a network, not a TV producer (well, technically they do produce at least one show that I know of). Modern Family's producers get paid every time Hulu airs a show. All they have to do to make money is price it appropriately.

Let's do some napkin math, shall we?

Let's say Modern Family has 20 million regular viewers. Let's say it costs them $5 million to make one episode in production costs, actor salaries, etc. They can charge Hulu or Apple $0.50 to show an episode to a viewer, and then Hulu can either choose to sell 4 30 second ad slots for $0.25 each, or Apple can choose to charge $0.99 per episode. The producers made $10 million revenue for 50% profit, Hulu/Apple also made $20 million revenue for 50% profit, everybody wins.

The problem is that the cable companies and networks are used to being able to double and triple dip at the well of consumer spending. Charging for content and ads is double dipping. Bundling channels I don't want with the few channels I do want is triple-dipping. Why should they be allowed to do that?

There is plenty of profit to go around, but the cable companies might not like having their piece of the pie made smaller.
900 phone line meets gaming for lonely hearts: GameCrush.
I hate to be pedantic, but "penultimate" means "second last", which doesn't seem to be the intended use here.
"High taxes have a tendency to mean cheaper child care."

Is subsidized child care, really cheaper - if you are paying higher taxes to receive the subsidies? Kind of an odd logic.
An Island to Oneself - Tom Neale

Free version somewhere online - but I own a first run edition. Amazing book about what you can do if you really want to, and how strong the human mind can be.
Financial literacy is not going to be taught in schools until it appears on some standardized test.

Parents need to be picking up the slack and teaching their children these skills. For all of the helicoptering modern parents do, you'd think watching over finances would be part of it.
Facebook says it owns rights to the name 'book'
It fits.

The Heritage Foundation study assailed the Census Bureau's definition of poverty. My point made no comment about that; I was just debunking the idea that a family of four can live "easily" on a single minimum wage income, which is preposterous.
Good point, but the analogy falls apart because "literacy" implies being able to read and write.
A few remarks:

- The Scholar App sounds like a great idea, however I see a large hole in your business model. Your landing splash screen shows the differences between Bill (the average student) and Ted (the above-reproach student). You show the value proposition for a user like Bill (which, I assume, is getting help from students like Ted) but really don't provide incentive for a student like Ted to get involved. I would try to make this aspect more obvious in your screen cast. (Or change your somewhat misleading splash screen.)

- Don't make us watch you type directions. It really breaks the rhythm of your presentation and makes me want to fast forward (missing important info?) or close it altogether. Instead, have the information pre-copied and paste it from the clipboard (the low-tech way) or edit this out of the video.

- An important part of a screencast demo of an application is to give the user a brief experience of the application in action. I noticed in certain portions of your screen cast where you provide generic placeholder information (clearly for the purpose of the demo) however the placeholder data you used doesn't provide any idea of what information you mean to convey there. The example that was very obvious to me was the screen title of the Class "Demo 101" which read "Demo 101 - The Scholar App Demo". This is probably the Class Designation followed by the Class Title, but it's difficult to tell (at least for me) when it sits next to your app's logo.

This might seem like a small gripe, but you might as well make the most of the attention your screen cast is getting and give the clearest possible experience your users might benefit from when using your app. So instead (if my assumptions were right about the type of info you intended to display) you might display "Demo 101 - Example Class Title". Your users will recognize the "Demo 101" as the name of the course and the string "Example Class Title" will convey that they will know which course they are currently viewing (an important UX feature which someone might appreciate). You don't convey any LESS information than you did before and if you influenced at least one person to try your product then it was worth the change.

- It feels as though you haven't really practiced the presentation. It's noticable in your delivery. Nothing to do here but practice more. :)

Cheers!
Mmm, life imitates art. I always knew Nerdrotica was a good idea.
Ask HN: Intro to molecular biology for a math/compsci background?
Recently read "Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality"; slightly biased, but really thoughtful book.

In any case, it got me interested in learning a bit more re: molecular biology; wondering if anyone knows of good resources for someone with my background (more mathphysics/compsci).

A vague question, but perhaps others can be helpful in refining where I should focus as well.
qemu is efficient?
I thought that seemed awkward. What do you think they intend to mean?
They haven't sued projects like Gimp yet, or have they?
Last year's was posted on August 24th. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1... Last year's decision probably had some influence on when to post this year's. I wonder how meticulous the time editors are in consistency vs revising to what makes sense
GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript: Graphics
Like the domestic version of "Don't be evil."
Depends what A-Level subject they're taking and school; at my school, they're taught Pascal and C (possibly moving into Objective-C this term if I finish installing the Macs into my department before the end of next week!)
Pragmatic Bookshelf announces new Pragmatic Guide series
Ultimate? :)
We ask Jessica, who has near perfect judgment of character.
My guess is "ultimate". Admittedly, "penultimate" is a cooler-sounding word.
Glossy screens have a much higher contrast ratio, aren't covered in plastic and are much easier to clean. You can easily stick a matte layer over the glass if it's that much of an issue.
Looking forward to his dead-tree book.
I say this every time this topic comes up, which seems to be often, so I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but y'all need to read 'Freedom Evolves' by Dan Dennett, followed up by his longer more important work, 'Consciousness Explained.'

You might not agree with his conclusions, as they're fairly radical, but it answers the question of the original post.
This "social" thing is similar to so many societal changes occuring over time. It's introduced, picked up, overdone, there is an anti-movement and over time, it finds its way into regular life in an amount and a way that fits with people's lifestyle.

In internet speak, let's wait and see how social 2.0 comes about.
So foursquare was one of 'The 50 Worst Inventions' ever? http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1...

But gowalla is one of the '50 Best Websites of 2010' http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...

With that context, this is just great: Foursquare may be getting all the attention, but Gowalla - its scrappy Austin competitor - is more fun.
When I read your comment I realised that I had made a rather foolish assumption myself - that most people would want to take risk. In practise most people do the opposite and seek to minimise their risk.

Then again, your article was talking about startup founders, who (in general) presumably are quite willing to take risk!
New Version of Digg Goes Live This Morning
That's funny. The only reason I checked the comments is to see if I was the only one that caught this. :)
Use it as your primary phone. At a cursory glance, it seems fine, but you find all the quirks when it's what you deal with day to day. If AT&T wasn't such a miserable experience, I'd have switched back to an iPhone already.
> as the parser generated from a pure top-down approach will give fairly useless error messages when you have a typo deep in a nested expression,

Errors in general are a hard part of PEG to solve. What you really want to do is save the "most correct" failed descent as you iterate across a rule. Usually they define it as the "deepest" failed subexpression. If your implementation doesn't implement error preservation like this, it's time to add it. :)

I don't think tokenization would really help here, and the preference by most PEGs to not have a separate class of token expressions is often cited as one of the major strengths of PEGs.
At secondary school we had BBC Basic running in an emulator on the RM Nimbus, which had the mysterious 80186 processor. You could run Turbo Pascal if you first ran the 8086 emulator.

If I were designing the curriculum kids would be taught Forth or ML.
Indeed, Facebook could provide a collaboration model for the future. I don't think the collaboration platform will be Facebook itself (not their focus) but perhaps a startup will come along, look at how people communicate on Facebook, and apply that to business. Wait - there are guys doing that now (I love how framing something by typing it out fleshes out your thought process!) I saw a good presentation on HN on Enterprise 2.0 recently, I'll try and find the link.

EDIT: Jive are one example, not the link I had in mind though:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/20/readying-for-an-ipo-jive-so...
Nearly a third of children on Facebook are ready to unfriend their parents
It's really true. I ignored Twitter initially because it was described as micro-blogging. As a macro-blogger I assumed it wasn't for me. By the time I realized it was actually a new messaging protocol, all variants of my name were taken.