skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I think defining new operators is impossible to do even this cleanly in Ruby. It's emphatically not well suited to this particular kind of metaprogramming. You can override lots of operators and define methods that read kind of like language keywords, but AFAIK you can't define new infix operators without flat-out hacking the parser in C.
Makes sense, though it's probably a correlation to the root source of outperformance, which is being an index fund. Cheaper funds tend to be index funds, index funds tend to outperform, thus cheaper funds end up outperforming more expensive (usually more actively managed) funds. One of the seminal studies on this is http://www.firstquadrant.com/downloads/How_Well_Have_Taxable...

What's more, the more expensive (again usually actively managed) funds tend to have high turnover, and turnover implies a huge tax penalty for taxable investors in taxable accounts. So if anything, the winnings of lower-fee index funds are understated, as turnover-generated tax hits are not disclosed well.

I agree with the author completely - hopefully more disclosure, legislated, would entice more people to shop for lower-fee funds.

(Full disclosure, I run a startup that's based on helping people do index investing, so I might be biased ;p)
Peak as you define it. Like comedians would speak of when they peaked, some don't think they have peaked yet.
and deployed at heroku ?
This is true at the macro level as well, if companies form an alliance, "profit" is whatever the one that actually touches the customer says it is. If you are going to share anything, it has to be revenue.

What are these 3 co-founders bringing to the table if not money? 3 MBAs and 1 (or 2) engineers does not a viable company make...
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Thanks for the feedback. I am sorry that the experience was sub par due to problems on port 443. Try again.

Your other points are well taken. Design needs polish, and it needs content from a wider audience of users.

Interesting thought "wordrobe reddit". That's a one sentnce pitch right there.

Any thoughts on the name?
Exactly. And the more African entrepreneurs come up with innovations and reforms and new products/services to try to reduce Africa's problems -- while hopefully making a profit and building a big business out of it -- the better off Africa is going to be. Use foreign resources where useful, but the more that Africans drive it and control it the more long-term benefits it's going to yield especially in terms of role models and morale and self-respect and making sure things are done in a way that's consistent with the values of local culture and traditions.
But the debt behind the houses will default, resulting in deflation. You're talking about the CPI, which always only measured owner equivalent rent (so they could hide the inflation).
The quickest way, without hammering anyone's server is to download the Verisign zone file daily and just search it.

They frown on using it for domain lookups, but you might be able to get access anyway.
Apple manager indicted on kickback charges
Android uses Java? Um... no
Wow! That sounds crazy indeed. My feeling is that if you are reasonably smart, there is nothing to stop you from learning those kinds of skills. Plus, in that kind of situation, it's very important to make sure that you don't get ripped off, etc. Have to be able to understand what's going on.

Honestly, making / maintaining / designing web sites is fairly easy, especially if you have something in place and are looking only for incremental change. While I don't expect everyone to be able to write beautiful CSS in their sleep, if you have a web startup you should be able to know what's going on there. I can handle all kinds of front-end / design problems, just never cared to develop the technical chops for serious back-end wizardry. Looks like I am having to try to pick up more of that these days.
> I think people should think more carefully about how they spend their time.

I'm surprised that no one has yet commented on the irony of this statement. You are implying that you thought carefully about how to spend your time and decided that a good way to spend it would be telling other people they don't think carefully enough about how to spend their time. Indeed... much better to spend your time arguing on the Internet than learning something new.
OED, 2nd Ed.

freedom, n.
8. Of action, activity, etc.: Ease, facility, absence of encumbrance.

You may have political beliefs about the utility of positive liberty, but that doesn't mean he's misusing the word.
I don't really understand the confusion surrounding how much debt is bad. Debt is good when it allows you to make more money in the future than your cost of capital. It is bad when your cost of capital is higher than the amount of additional income you derive from that capital. If your cost of capital was greater than the income derived, then you lost money over the long run by taking out that debt. There's only one good in play (money), it's completely fungible, and so this should be self-evident. If it's not, it's also covered in first-year econ.

Now, there's a lot of uncertainty as to whether a particular investment will yield returns greater than the cost of capital, and this is why CEOs and CFOs get paid big bucks. But the fundamentals themselves are not hard. Nor is it hard to look at $9T in federal debt, $2.5T in consumer credit, or $600K mortgages taken out by families with $30K in income and realize it's virtually impossible that the additional income generated by taking out that debt will pay for the interest on it.
I can't find any professional or academic links to or from this paper. Do you have any more resources?

Specifically, I'm interested in the sources for their data. This was a fascinating paper.
And spending too much on expansion leaves nothing to spend on teaching.
But it doesn't explain why there are no actual Chinese people on Firefly.

This does explain it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmzegQUtFA
Left school with about 20K in loans.
Paid them all off in 4 years or so - working as an Engineer in SoCal.
First priority was the 8% loans (about 12K). Paid them in about 3 years.
Had some lower interest 5% loans from the school which I paid off more slowly.
Had a 0% ($1000) loan from the school's emergency loan fund (can't pay rent emerg fund the school had, etc.). I thought of holding off on those, but in the end just paid them off in full when the other stuff was paid off, too.
"Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany."
Awesome stuff. Thank you :)
From Svalbard you can see pretty much every polar orbit once per orbit, plus Norway is politically stable and very liberal with research licenses there, plus it’s warm for the latitude. So there’s demand from the kind of people who have polar-orbiting satellites that produce a lot of data.
Not speaking here as a legal expert or anything of that nature, but I can't think of a reason why you would make a different company for each app; there would be no need. Disadvantages there include lots of fees, paperwork, and headache.
I graduated about two weeks ago, and I currently have 5k left in loans. I should be able to get that paid off before the end of the year. Total tuition costs over the 5 years I attended college were ~$133,000 USD (including housing while I was living in the dorms my first two years). It is possible to pay for most of your school as you go along. I was fortunate enough to have my parents pledge $40,000 ahead of time. The rest was mostly paid for by either myself or by scholarships. I started working full time after my sophomore year at a job that a "tuition assistance" program that paid you more if you were going to school. A lot of large companies have these (although sometimes there are strings attached, such as requiring you to work for x amount of time after you graduate) and I'd highly suggest looking for them. Also, I hunted down scholarships in my free time. I got about $52k in scholarships - many of which I won because I was the only person who applied for them (although the largest was an academic one for good marks in high school). Sure you'll be required to write an essay, but think of it as an essay that's making you $500. $250 an hour is well paid work.

You'll be able to pay it off, just start now. That's my advice.
You can start by getting rid of or significantly reducing zoning! A lot of municipal zoning designs end up with people having to live in one area and then commute to another. If offices could also be mixed with apartments without having to get permission from a politician or 'pay extra' for the privilege, you would find a lot more city designs that are friendly to living close to where you work and shop.
Tech. co-founder of Paisa.com here. This is a bit earlier than we expected :) I was going to post it on HN myself a couple of days later.

Anyway, I would be happy to answer questions and resolve issues. Thanks!
If you believe - as many do - that our "defense" agenda is much of what protects the dollar's continued status as a nearly universal reserve currency, our defense budget is an amazing investment (notwithstanding the terrible, non-monetary costs that accompany defense spending).
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> Everyone loves being really listened to.

That's interesting. Tell me why you think that is? ;)
What's the best way, as a future business-cofounder, to be reasonably well-versed in the technical side of things?

Would I approach it as if I wanted to eventually code, but stop once I view my understanding as adequate for it's purposes? Or is there a different approach specific to my having little interest in actually coding myself?
none! The semantic HTML and template logic are both in python and thus look too similar in all of them. You want the HTML in the template to look like HTML and visually distinct from the template logic so you or other designers working on the project can style these semantic structures easily with stylesheets. Writing HTML with an IDE like eclipse that autotypes the closing of an element and autovalidates if elements are closed is easy enough, and there's no string-joining nonsense.
You are right about the profit motive in health care. There are too many negative externalities. We hope that selfless professionalism super cedes insidious profit motives but increasingly this isn't the case. Doctors getting kickbacks to prescribe drugs or fake research are on the rise.

Similarly for education. The for profit schools get their money on the backs of the poor and those who shouldn't be in college. Obviously they don't get all of their money from such people but a large portion of it comes from these people. The profit motive in education is a bad one and should be avoided.
I assume he means the real economy. Unemployment is down maybe 0.3% from its highs, foreclosures are up, consumer spending never really recovered. By most metrics other than the stock market, we never really left recession.
The more successful regions in today's world seem to be the ones that are more united than other regions. Chinese civilization is united, apart from Taiwan, Singapore, and the overseas Chinese. The Indian subcontinent is (approx) 75% united into the nation of India, the rest splintered between Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, etc. Europe is more divided, but because there were 4 approx equal countries (60 million people in each of West Germany, France, UK, & Italy), they federated easily. North America is mainly the US, easily controlling Canada (and Australia/NZ). South America is 50% Brazil, so they can successfully electioneer in the "South American Union". The Muslim world is more divided, with a few equally sized players (Egypt, Turkey, Saudi, & Iran) who won't ever federate because of religion and foreign interference. And sub-Saharan Africa is the most divided of all. Unity and modern success seem to be correlated, though of course not necessarily one causing the other.
I think the issue is that much of the expansion isn't in educational facilities but in things having to do with prestige or wasteful competition.
My MacVim auto-updated to 7.3 when I launched it. :-)

I like the incremental improvements to things in this release. Kudos to Bram (and Bjorn for the Mac build).
Ask HN: Career opportunities with Haskell?
I've fallen in love with this language and writing in anything else just doesn't feel right.

How valued are Haskell programmers in the "real world"? How do you think this will change?
Curious, when did you attend? Current fees alone are close to $11,000/year at the UCs now. Nonresidents have it even worse.
I'm saying I bet that the percent of WalMart protestors who still shop there is probably pretty similar to the percent of Google protestors who still use gApps.
Aircraft fuel energy is incredibly expensive. For example, for a four seater turboprop airplane, a 1 hour round trip can cost about $80 in aircraft fuel. A two seater electric powered gilder can do the same trip with $5 of electricity. If we could mass produce mini electric automated air taxi glider flocks, they might be more economical than large airplanes for domestic flights (not to mention a lot nicer!). Your typical 1970s airplanes that a lot people still fly are so simple compared to your typical $15'000 Yaris. You still need the jets for hopping over oceans although. AirAsia has flights down to .03/km per passenger. A car full of people would be cheaper by a factor of 3, but the typical case of 1 person in a car is actually less efficient. But a car is slower by a factor of 1:14, due to traffic, indirect routing and slower speeds.
A classic example of what you're talking about is Los Angeles. Almost the entire stretch of land between Santa Barbara and San Diego is developed, and so now you see ever-growing hordes of people in the more inland, desert communities.
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You need much better design. It has to be beautiful.

I think big pictures right from the start give a better impression, like http://www.weardrobe.com (posted by JangoSteve in this thread) and http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/, and you could probably A/B test that.

I wonder if your team includes people who have worked with fashion before.
Almost all of the innovations that the post-war prosperity was built on were initially innovations in killing. Radar, sonar, microwave ovens, synthetic rubber, jet engines, antibiotics, atomic power, plastics, employer-provided health care, widespread automobile driving skills, rockets and space travel, satellite communications, computers, the Internet, and GPS all came out either WW2 or DARPA-funded research after the war.

I hate wasteful defense spending and the military-industrial complex as much as anyone, but saying that innovations in killing never help the economy is just patently false.
I wrote Love a personal thank you letter after I read LKD :-)
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He has THREE. Don't forget the Amoeba book "Distributed Operating Systems" (not sure if it's in print though.)
I would be very interested in hearing a professional flash developer's response to this article. Larkin is asserting that the "MochiAds + FlashGameLicense" route is a well-marketed way for you to make money for MochiAds and FlashGameLicense, but not much for yourself. Instead, he proposes that the freemium model can produce much higher returns to the developer.
So putting your iphone on the dash where there is no cellular reception and using it as a standalone gps won't work like the typical car GPS?
Excellent source for anyone who is planning to be his/her own boss. Not only is it great for business structuring, but you will also learn:

How businesses came to develop
The do and don't
Business terms and jargon
How to make a presentable business plan
Etc..

Most importantly those sources will teach you to think like a businessman/woman, to raise questions which you haven't thought before, and most importantly save you lots of wasted time and money.
There are about 50 repairs in the Atlantic each year. The cables are damaged by anchors and fishing lines and even things like shark bites and whale entanglements.
Yes. Not a wonderful choice for career opportunities unless you enjoy competing with millions of native bilinguals, by the way.
OS security is something that really aught to be discussed separately from OS texts. I mean, not all OSes are multiprogramming or need security. Earlier version of his Operating Systems book taught MS DOS, along with others, for example.

Security exposition is something best left to a separate text, and Matt Bishop's fat book does a good job (not the thin watered down one.)
So what do you think of ETF's? From what little I've read, that seems like a pretty good way of doing index investing.
Of course, data synchronization is never automagic—the dirty little secret of all distributed systems. Merging is hard!
Minix is hiring driver developers and kernel hackers.
There are no jobs and population is increasing. The multinats have shipped and are shipping as many jobs as possible overseas.

I am deeply pessimistic about America's future in the next 20 years or so. I do not see anything good happening, and this depresses me greatly.
Bogleheads have known this for thirty years now. Buy index funds, people. Defaulting to Fidelity & etc 2 percent fee funds, like many do in their 401ks, will cost you literally millions over your lifetime.
I've been here for over 6 years. These articles were amusing two years ago mostly due to the novelty of reading negative editorials about the city; you'd never get that from local papers here.

That being said, there's nothing in the article that isn't common knowledge in this region.
I was not too long ago told by a business guy that it was generous of him to offer me even a small fraction of 1% of some web-based service I would be building. Because he had cash, connections, etc. The problem with that logic (which was not completely without merit) is that while I could build the entire site/service 100% by myself without him, he could NOT do the equivalent by himself. So he needed me more than I needed him. (He didn't need me, literally, but he'd need somebody else to build it for him. So he would have to give that somebody something in exchange.) And you don't actually need a lot of cash or connections to get the particular service in question off the ground. Cash always helps, sure. And connections help, sure. But in theory I could build the entire thing myself, start with 100% equity and control and 0 politics, and then only later when it became useful to leverage industry connections to do bizdev and land sales and affiliate deals, would he become useful to me, and thus at that point it could make sense for me to grant him some equity in compensation.

In fact, I feel increasingly we live in a world now where a hacker/entrepreneur hybrid can just go build some web technology or SaaS by themselves in relative stealth mode, retain 100% equity, and then later maybe give up 10% to a designer to make it look purty and another 10% to a bizdev guy, and maybe maybe another 10-20% to a cash investor (and outside cash may not always be necessary or desirable anyway), and the hacker/entrepreneur still retains the largest share and majority control. There are 2 secret ingrediants here, which is probably why it doesn't happen more: 1. the hacker must be really good and talented not just average Joe code monkey; and 2. he must also have business/entrepreneur skills/knowledge. If he lacks either or both of these things he's not going to have the capability and leverage to pull this scenario off. But for those that do, watch out.
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My font settings are Helvetica 12 for the Standard Font, and Monaco 10 for the fixed width.
Jamba Juice is a well-known example of the "just build next to a Starbucks" philosophy... even when Starbucks weren't everywhere.
Reading up on tech news helps as you run into tech debates such as html5 vs. flash. There are free MIT classes on opencourseware that have helped me bridge the tech gap. I've taken a few courses on the site on my own time and I still can't program very well but it has helped me better understand the theories and challenges of developing software. This helps when you're communicating with developers.

I think a big issue is understanding the software development process. I would check out "Inspired" by Marty Cagan and a lighter (more anecdotal) read in "Dreaming in Code".
The best way is to develop an interest in coding and learning how to actually code.
Of course, the problem is not to know which books you must read, there are aplenty o' those, but how to stop reading books that are not must reads.
I really like this question. As a technical guy, I struggled a lot to come up with an adequate answer as a business-minded friend and I were discussing this. We almost became co-founders.

I'll be interested in what others' experiences entailed. But for us, I think we deemed it simply necessary for you to have a good idea of the technical side of things. You don't need to code and interest in learning to code isn't needed. But when I talk about topics regarding code, you should at least have an idea of what I'm referring to; you are, after all, aspiring to work in a technical project.

So when I refer to something like vim or memory control, you should have at least a vague idea of what I'm referring to. Brush up on that. Read a lot on technology.

A good person that came up in the discussion as an example was Steve Jobs. In many ways, he wouldn't be seen as the technical partner (at least when compared to Woz), but he does seem to know and understand the overall idea behind some of the hardware he mentions, which is vital.
They're good - gotta watch out for your effective expense ratio, which is the amount of commission you pay for the trade (depends on your brokerage house and the ETF) divided by the years you plan to own it, added to the ETF's own existing expense ratio. So net net, buy in larger chunks, or find one of the no-commission-ETF houses.

Also, and it sounds like you are, you need to be familiar / comfortable with limit orders or market orders. That sometimes can scare folks who are used to not-very-time-sensitive daily-priced mutual funds.
I absolutely love historious. I've using it for about a month now and I can't imagine life without it.

I like the fact that you don't need to sign in with the bookmarklet (contrasted with instapaper).

The incredibly clean interface is another draw for me. A lot of these other sites are all "web 2.0"ish and to me it's bothersome.

I don't really like the chromium extension. I dunno, I think it's kinda useless seeing as though it's off to the side, whereas the bookmarklet is right on top of what I'm viewing. Also I like the notification window of the bookmarklet better than the extension. The window when a "page has already been indexed" on the extension is a bit annoying.
I'd like to see maybe a keyboard shortcut for the extension, I think that would make it killer.

A couple things that I would like would be to search through a time range, also better browser integration would be nice. i.e. having pages show up under the autocomplete. The ability to select multiple items would be nice. Having a text only view (a la instapaper, readability). Also I wish there was a shorter url, I always spell historious wrong.

thanks!
In CouchDB's document model this manifests itself as the challenge of of deciding how to split the results of user interactions across documents. Eg: don't store comments on the blog post document, keep them on their own documents, as they have different update patters. Of course this pattern doesn't answer everything, but it gets the vast middle of use cases.