skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally wonder whether Finance has been consider to be anything other than self-serving

No it hasn't. But there have been times (eg, post WW2 to Regan-era) and places where regulation has shaped the market in such a way that financial players interests were more aligned with society as a whole.
Why doctors are so bad at predicting how long their patients will live
I never said Google bought Youtube out of kindness.

I said that Google had the option of letting Youtube weaken, and buy them at a discount...or fully letting them die out and have Google Video dominate. Each decision with a different risk/reward ratio. They chose the lowest risk/reward since $1.6 billion is probably a relative drop in the bucket for them.
> Another reason to not "see how it develops" is Zuckerberg's track record.

You absolutely have a point there.

But still, for Zuckerberg to openly screw a YC backed company would be to screw YC as well.

And I find that hard to believe.

Doesn't mean that it is impossible, just implausible.
I definitely hear you - this is actually just an idea I had last night and just wanted to get some data. The response has really been pretty decent (I've got about 150 pieces of usable data).

My next step is to figure out exactly how to use the data. I will likely start with neighborhood pages, and move on to individual building pages once the data gets dense enough.

But I would love to hear your thoughts on product ideas - what info would you like to see? What comparisons/analytics on the data you know I have?

Thanks a lot for the feedback!
RentEnforcer
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While there's no truly 'unlimited' packages, my standard data with T-Mobile is 1GB, and you can usually find packages for more if you need it.

If you're using your phone's internet a lot, it's probably better value to get a USB dongle or mifi device. You can get a 3GB/month contract from Three for £10 or £15.
As I understand it, this is no real IRC-twitter gateway (as is BitlBee, for example), just an IRC-like web interface?
I easily could - the whole point is to avoid taking the information from the marketplace. The prices on craiglist are borderline fraudulent, and are meant to get you into the broker's office at which point they inform you "oh sorry that apt is gone, but here are 5 more that aren't as nice and twice the price!"
Very cool! What will be behind the resources tab?
Just started this project this morning, but the goal is soon! Once I get a decent product working for NYC it shouldn't be difficult to branch it off into other cities.
You should travel, if you can afford it.
I imagine it's hard to enforce caloric intake limits effectively. Perhaps people who drank water simply had more success staying within (or close to) the allocated limit.
I'm not 100%, and I turn to HN for ideas. I will likely be providing a free search/compare service for apartment lookers, and eventually charge the landlords to manage their page or something. But any ideas you have I'd love to hear. Ultimately I'd like to make some sort of API to the data (ie: destroy the gatekeeper to this information that makes the market so hard for consumers), but that will likely be secondary to the main product.
Nah. It's ok if you don't cater to all joni :)

Guess this is the only framework that's keeping up with new browser functions available. Sizeunds awesome to me.
It's on the blog now: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done
Bill Gates: We Need Multiple Energy Miracles
I will definitely concede your point. Teaching is not easy.

But I do have to say that in this PARTICULAR example, not knowing that PXE is the solution is a very clear, very easy to grasp next step to not knowing what PXE is.

But you're right in general.
thanks. I originally built it so I could ditch Firefox for my personal browsing. Looking forward to any feedback you might have.
Definitely agree, this will be the next step. The project is about a day old, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on what directions it should go in.
An (may be dumb) idea that stroke me. please tell me what you think.
Because the entire discussion is bogged down by people trying to signal how egalitarian they are, and if anyone has a marginally differing viewpoint then they must be distanced as far as possible as violently as possible lest the speaker be perceived as a bigot.

Personally? I don't think this is something that needs to be fixed. If women want to get into tech, they'll get into tech, and that'll be that. Many already have, and many more will continue to do so. Forcing the issue just keeps people on edge, overreacting to try to keep their perceived latent bigotry under wraps.
Of all the failures that led to the big meltdown, the most aggravating is the failure of the bond-rating agencies. These people took good money for pasting AAA credit ratings on piles of the most implausible shit imaginable, and what’s irritating isn’t that they did it, it’s that apparently they didn’t break any laws and thus there’s little prospect of the long prison terms that anything smelling of natural justice would require.

If anyone is looking for a YC application idea, there's one right there. To be more explicit:

Ratings agencies currently are paid by investment companies to rate the risk associated with the products they are bringing to market (ie, the fox is paying the farmer to tell the chickens how safe the hen house is ).

The financial incentives for ratings agencies are aligned with the sellers, not the buyers. That creates a huge risk for the buyers, because they can't (or shouldn't) trust the ratings.

There's an opportunity there to create a company that does ratings but takes money from the buyers, not the sellers.

(Note that entrenched players will go to huge lengths to tell you how hard this is, and how smart all the "financial engineers" are. From my very basic investigations, I'm not at all convinced that it's as hard as they try and make it seem.)
Swarmation: like musical chairs for pixels
[Created this weekend as part of Node Knockout.]
This has fantastic potential. Good work!
You've posted in the wrong thread. You want this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644691
So you think he's lying about his internal mental state and specific efforts in areas he controls?

Why not assume good faith?
me and my brother have decided to learn wing chun. seems very interesting.
GAE Channel API on TyphoonAE
thats what the project descriptio nsays
Oh, the director of Paprika, I saw that anime. It's complex but visually stunning.

I would be proud of having accomplished something like that...

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJzEW_eE1G0
There is a problem with the example he gives, of parsing “Create a window with a table view, and then when someone clicks a button, add an entry to the table view”. I think a future programming language could actually make a program out of that. I agree that there is not enough information in that sentence to be sure that the program is what the user wants, but in this case, the language can use a popular technique in programming: have defaults. For instance, most languages have a file I/O library. If you open a file without saying whether you want to read or write to it, the compiler doesn’t complain, it just chooses the default. If you realize the default isn’t what you want, you can change it.

Similarly, a future language could parse the given sentence as “put a single-column table view on the left, and a button on the right that says ‘Add an Entry to the Table View’, and when the button is clicked, just put the string Entry at the bottom of the table view”. And then the programmer tries this out and tells the programming language “no, I want the button at the bottom, and it should say ‘Add Person’”, and the language makes the necessary changes and follows defaults otherwise, choosing to left-align the button at the bottom rather than center it, and resizing the button to fit the text. And the programmer could just keep specifying more details about what a Person is, and how you edit it, and you can make a program in this way.

Basically, this is just like modern libraries: instead of writing your own HTML parser nowadays, you can use a library with a “default” (non-custom) way of parsing HTML. In the future, rather than specifying your GUI and attached code in exact detail, you can just use a library of defaults. It will probably be the case that programmers in the future would simply move on to bigger and harder problems than GUIs with code, as gaius mentioned at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1641514, but I think programming at the level we know it actually will get easier.
>Say goodbye to encoding issues

And good riddance! Utterly thrilled to hear this.
Project Description:

A website that will collect donations of used clothes and deliver them to people who really need them. Please contact me: elvirs /at/ gmail /dot/ com

Givers:

1. Will have to:

1. Register on the webpage
2. Submit new donation. Mentioning name of each item, best date/time to pick up.

2. To stimulate motivation and satisfaction will be able to:

1. Monitor which of their items have been requested, shipped to where.
2. Receive anonymous thank-you note from the buyer.
3. Mention special notes on where the items can go to.

Takers:

3. Will have to:

1. Register on the webpage filling out their contact info and physical address.
2. Enter their sizes and type of clothing they need.
3. Confirm if the shipping has arrived or no.
4. (Optional) Leave feedback/thank-you for the items they have received.

4. To prevent abuse and ensure fairness won’t be able to :

1. Browse among all of the available stock and request anything they want.
2. Request more than a certain number of items per person.
3. Request more than a certain number of items for certain period of time per person.
4. Request items that were not mentioned as needed.

We:

1. Notify a cargo company to pick up the items and ship them to the storage
2. Dry clean arrived items, take photos of items and enter full description of items to the website
3. Notify eligible takers about new relevant items.
4. Ship the package when request has been approved.
5. Notify the giver and taker about the shipment.

Alternatives to cover shipping, dry cleaning and operational costs:

1. Ask cargo companies fully or partially sponsor the shipping

1. In return put their banners on the website, on packages, etc.

2. Ask dry cleaning companies fully or partially sponsor the dry cleaning

1. In return put their banners on the website, on packages, etc.

3. Charge small amount of money for most requested and/or valuable items available
4. Sell advertisements on website
5. Accept money donations
6. Ask takers to cover their shipment costs.
Node Knockout entries are up
Funny you should mention thermal. Had to replace heatsink retention module recently. But that didn't help anything, really. It's just XP being all clogged up from years of use. Can't do clean re-install. Point of no return.
If you wouldn't otherwise sign up for the developer program, you'd probably be better off just getting a mifi-like device. In the UK you can pay as little as £5/month for airtime and around £50 for the device.

More flexible and less confusing, too.
If you want to help New Yorker's, you're going to have to make an option for "0" bedrooms, as that is quite common around here :-).
Wonder if the blog is running Rails 3 ;)

"Status: 500 Internal Server Error"
It's 500-ing, so here's a pastie of the text: http://pastie.org/1125097
I don't think he's lying to us, I think he's lying to himself.
Yes, that's an effective tactic--win support by setting up hundreds of your women to be slaughtered by your enemies. You don't even have to arm them or equip them to fight, just put them in buses and park them around any legitimate military targets. In fact, it would work even better if you used children?

Needless to say, this idea has been thought of before, and people tend to look poorly on those who employ it.
This need not be legislated. If commercial renters were sufficiently biased in favor of places with an objectively determined square footage rating, landlords would provide it regardless of the lack of a legal requirement. The key is getting demand started.

This is currently an inefficient market, and more information would substantially improve it. And objectively measuring square feet is not particularly difficult or expensive.

What will probably happen is, eventually the misrepresentation of square footage will get so egregious that there will be a movement by commercial renters toward some sort of third-party measurement. The landlords will go along, because they want to rent their office space.
Frankly, pg should not be dismissing his detractors' arguments as 'mere linkbait' if he wants to maintain a civil atmosphere on this forum. Not to say your direct parent was justified in his flaming, but our curator should have known better than to throw in that spark.
Status: 500 Internal Server Error

Maybe not quite yet?
http://nodeknockout.com/teams/celestial-being ftw
If the Kurzweilians have their way you will be waiting an infinitely long time.
As far as I know, there are bins for that in a lot of places as well as just calling Salvation Army and other existing groups. Solution for problem that does not exist.
Fixed the issue. The weblog is a prime example of cobbler's shoes. I think it's running Rails 0.5 on a machine that hasn't been updated in 6 years.
we live in an era where you can basically take a pill that gives you the experience of being a woman for whatever amount of time you want

Wait, what? I've never heard of that before, what is it?
It's sad that this troll gets more upvotes here than the original announcement did.

Obviously every startup needs to be mindful of the potential for competition from larger, more established companies, but avoiding all the opportunities they create is even riskier.

If you want to be really sure that nobody ever "steals" your great idea, target an obscure platform (Linux desktop?), stay in stealth mode, blackout your windows, and keep all of your computers in a faraday cage. However, if you want to to build something that matters, you're going to have to take some risks and get a little closer to the fire.
Is fusion garage going to sell this in the future or is the litigation currently stopping them from selling?
"more men die in the military because more men join it"

Ooh, what a great example that women are (generally) encouraged to take less risks, while men are (generally) encouraged to take more risks.

Not that some brain function differences are impossible, but assumptions about brain function seem more risky (sorry) than assumptions about cultural conditioning. Until we can get an ethical double-blind study on a large group of women with perfectly controlled upbringing, or at least a good study including some hypothetical culture that encourages women to take risks (not the same as matriarchal), I think it's better to assume cultural differences.
It's not: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644940
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While I agree with your second statement, your first is misplaced. There is a huge difference between "I'm an engineer, can't design, here's my resume(even my HTML5 resume)" and using oddly timed fade-ins, slides, text reflection, etc. etc.

If you try to put that much design in a resume, you get judged as a designer.
Wow I can't believe how FUN this is.

Edit: I just realized no one is commenting because everyone is still busy playing it.
Not a single mention of Merb in the entire blog post.
You're forgetting that many institutions can only accept/rely on ratings from regulator-approved companies.

For example, the SEC has granted a ratings monopoly to three companies.

The idea is that ratings are too important to be left to some unapproved company. If anyone could issue ratings, folks might be led to make bad investments....

This is one example of how regulation is systemic risk.
Yes, this game is absolute genius. Felt really sorry for the guy (X) who got stuck running around in the middle of the Fortress formation a minute ago. Like:

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#X #
# # #
# #
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I'm the one in the blue, by the way.

Edit: This makes me think about mathematical morphology^, used in image processing. You win when you are inside the opening of the set of pixels by the given structuring element.

i.e. you win when you are in any place where the shape can fit.

^ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/open.htm
Speaking of, you might want to get rid of the mephistoblog.com link since it is no longer valid.
The really sad part is, a year ago this might have been an interesting product.

By the time they get their egos and money grabs sorted out, it'll be just another (overpriced) me-too tablet in a sea of better competitors.
I live in Tucson, not NYC, but this definitely seems like a great idea: I'm going to put up a link in my next links post. And I hope it gets to Tucson too, although NYC, L.A., and SF are all obvious places where real estate is very, very important.
Waitstaff are often paid below minimum and only "caught up" to minimum if their tips failed to exceed it, so not sure what exactly you mean.

I'm not arguing that people shouldn't be able to earn a living wage, I just don't think minimum wage laws help the situation.
Looks like they only received 90 pre-orders and started shipping at the end of March.

http://www.webcitation.org/5ofyB1Y7L
CrunchPad Denial of Preliminary Injunction
> But there have been times (eg, post WW2 to Regan-era) and places where regulation has shaped the market in such a way that financial players interests were more aligned with society as a whole.

How about some evidence? Be careful of correlation vs causation. Heck - be careful about correlation. (Consider fees for stock purchase.)

Note that inflation had some effect. The dollar threshold for "accredited investor" was constant for a long time, but $200k/year in income and $1M in "not-residence" investments became more common. As a result, more folks could be angels.
Does anyone else find it somewhat funny that the presently highest post on this topic called the article's example bs, and then we've been discussing that very topic ever sense then?

Is it just me, or are we ourselves a case-study of exactly what she was making a point about in her article?

Just an observation.
Why do people love trying to make complex issues black and white?

Because they love the resulting attention.
It's also useful to know that 'sort -u' removes duplicates.
I want to nuke that entire installation from orbit. It's the only way to be sure that it's gone.
There's a paper by some people who got MySQL to sort using the GPU, and got great speedup. That was quite old and I can't find it now.

However, a more recent paper is Accelerating SQL Database Operations on a GPU with CUDA: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/bakkum_sqlite_gpg...

The references in that paper are pretty interesting, too.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by your (4) that isn't already in my (2).

Assuming that your (4) really is something other than my (2) or a subset of my (2): how big do you think the opportunity of (4)s is, realistically, over the next 5-10 years, from an investor's perspective?
That's good advice for someone who is on the receiving end of discrimination. Yeah, work harder, don't count on douchebags to stop being douchebags, because in predictable future they will not. Maybe they will become less douchebaggy. Maybe even thanks to you.

But that doesn't mean that douchebags are okay, or that people should tolerate them, or not try to stop being douchebags. Or that we should not try to make douchebags feel like douchebags.
> I don't know about in the US but in a lot of places you certainly do not have to incorporate to launch a product

You don't have to incorporate to launch a product in the US, but there can be significant personal risks if you don't.
Forgive my naivete, I am watching the video now but won't be able to finish it tonight. Could someone please explain to me how the universe came from nothing? Isn't that like saying that something both is and isn't at the same time and in the same sense?
perl and ruby for dynamic languages, MongoDB and Redis for nosql
I mean, it should only take 15 minutes to build a new one, right? ;)
Context is important, here. The author is the chairman of SIPB, a group of students at MIT who spend part of their time helping anyone who happens by the SIPB office with computer problems. A low level of computer knowledge on the part of the questioner is the correct default assumption in her context.
Maybe you are right, but it doesn't matter. If I had a spare camera lying around and enough resources to deal with the legal system, I would love to provoke them and see how far I can go. But I don't.
It's really made me realize how irritated i can get by gray blocks moving out of formation.
MIT Angels Hack into Startup Scene
Doctor JS
Time is Money, Now Act Like It
There's an ongoing thread in the CUDA forums about it: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=175238
Pfft, do you really only watch people you 100% agree with? Do you really believe you see all sides of any issue when you shut out people you disagree with on principle? I find it sad that critical thinking is a lost art today.....
1. opensource it (the code, so people can build their own website)
2. provide an api

You'll soon face spam issues though. what's your spam strategy?
Alchemy llvm-to-actionscript gave us http://github.com/mkr3142/QuakeFlash, hope someone uses this to give us QuakeCanvas.
I love how reliable everyone is when Block comes up. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I ALMOST HAD LOBSTER?!

addicting.

edit: hmm. I think the match-algorithm is a bit too forgiving. Several of the forms can be "solved" by just clumping together. Though, given how many are still missed, maybe that's not a bad thing.
Hmm...I figured those people would select 1 BR and hit the Flex/Studio checkbox, but I guess that's not so clear? Maybe I should make it 0/Studio -> 5+ and then change the Flex/Studio checkbox to just Flex? Thoughts?
Despite a few product mockups, I always assumed the 'CrunchPad' was just Epic Vaporware/Linkbait, which Calacanis and Arrington are undisputed masters of.
1000 Hackable Websites Using Sql Injection (List 1)
The police found him and claim he's "in good health and self-sufficient" though his friends and colleagues are still looking for him.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/01/missing_i...

He's written a lot of good stuff, though.
Hacker News readers probably have at least a passing familiarity with Unix/Linux, but it's still refreshing to be reminded that you can move mountains with short commands.
"Too sad for the ladies who have this computer addictivness syndrome, your group did not follow you, you are just an exception."

Computer addictivness? My group? Too sad?

You seem to have this odd perception that you cannot be both feminine and a programmer. Why can't women both program and talk about "how great Sara's date" was?
He probably even read it here and then twitted it.
How the rails team will celebrate this milestone? really, it's an amazing work guys, thank you and congratulations
Nodify
Pictshare - real time photo shraing
Pictshare allows users to share photos with other users in real time. Ajax photo uploading and websockets for broadcasting the photos. This work was done for node.js knockout.
Also, every friend I have who tried to rent an apartment in São Paulo either failed or ended up with something wildly overpriced. If you could make this generic enough to use in other countries/cities it'd be great.