skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rental market in Manhattan simply isn't comparable to the rest of the US. The average cost of a 3bdr apartment in the center of Berlin is, from casual Google research, almost exactly the same in USD as a 3bdr apartment in the middle of Chicago. Chicago, in turn, is more expensive than Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Columbus, Omaha, &c &c.
Feynman famously bashes recall with his "map of a cat" story (web copied, emphasis added):

The next paper selected for me was by Adrian and Bronk. They demonstrated that nerve impulses were sharp, single-pulse phenomena. They had done experiments with cats in which they had measured voltages on nerves.

I began to read the paper. It kept talking about extensors and flexors, the gastrocnemius muscle, and so on. This and that muscle were named, but I hadn’t the foggiest idea of where they were located in relation to the nerves or to the cat. So I went to the librarian in the biology section and asked her if she could find me a map of the cat.

“A map of the cat , sir?” she asked, horrified. “You mean a zoological chart !” From then on there were rumors about some dumb biology graduate student who was looking for a “map of the cat.”

When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.

The other students in the class interrupt me: “We know all that!”

“Oh,” I say, “you do ? Then no wonder I can catch up with you so fast after you’ve had four years of biology.” They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.
Don't let actual research statistics and my actual argument (US v Germany, not Berlin v NYC) get in the way of your life experience.

Honestly, it's not that hard to actually gather the statistics and muster an argument based on evidence. Every major metro area tracks these numbers.

Having just replied to another comment with 4 minutes of Google research to establish the rough parity between the cost of the Berlin rental market with that of Chicago, the third largest city in the US, I'm comfortable supposing right back at you that you're wrong, and that housing in Germany simply isn't significantly cheaper than it is in the US, despite the fact that it is the single largest component of the typical cost of living and the fact that on average Germans earn less than Americans.

And, sorry, no, I'm talking about major metro, not suburbs.
He must be on AT&T.

I don't have these problems.
I'm positive he can't ;-)
Reversing Android Apps 101
hacker news will probably be over run by wannabe mark zuckerbergs.
while completely agree with your point, the emergence of such corporate biggies can damage some local small businesses, I would like to present a different side of the same argument (can't help being a devil's advocate :)).

Such big companies and the services that only such big companies can provide have also enabled the development of many new businesses. Its usually those who are complacent and could not adapt to the new business realities who usually get destroyed.
i'm partner at an interactive agency in germany and i was wondering how much development work in the u.s. costs. we are billing our customers 80-100eur per hour (109-136usd). experienced freelancers (frontend/backend devs) bill between 35 and 60 eur per hour (47-81 usd).
is that comparable to the states?
just by way of illustration, see the difference in graphics between civ1 and civ2, which were both basically square tilemaps with a limited number of different terrain squares.
It would have been funny for the Google guys to send George Bell a really nice bottle of wine on the Google IPO date with a note that said "Thanks George...we couldn't have done it without you."

Or would this have just been mean?
Doubt it. He may have used a chapter of text to explain something, but who he explained it to probably could understand it in a chapter of text.
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remind me again - what is the purpose of huge (and powerful and expensive) building permit departments and long waits for a permit?
Ask HN: What is the best keyword tool for AdWords?
Wordstream? Wordtracker? Something else?
I work on Jazz mostly, but older Jazz. Which means I play a lot of scales. :-)
I wonder what effect this will have in a memory constrained environment on say webOS.

The original Palm Pre only has 256MB of RAM and had plenty of "out of mem issues" prior to homebrew adding compcache
Server costs are minimal; about what hosting any other website with similar traffic would be. He is not hosting the game servers for it, just an authentication server.
Don't know about that, a large part of the boom in Ireland was founded on the construction industry, fuelled by an oversupply of cheap credit. As far as I know its service industry (and exports in general) are holding up pretty well.
The site doesn't seem to be loading. This seems to be the norm across the entire node.js landscape. 9/10 of the blog posts, tutorials, competitions and demo apps I try to access while learning node.js are offline or broken. It does not inspire confidence in the stack that the early adopters can't keep their sites online for even a few weeks. Can you not set-it-and-forget-it like throwing up a PHP script on a server?
Why aren't faxes obsolete?

They are.

The new, advanced use for your old fax line is as a platform for the new, dedicated POTS voice lines that are coming in to obsolete your unreliable legacy mobile phone...

(this is Scott Adams, after all)
as far as your "indirect strategy" comment goes, this is something that i have been thinking about. on the one hand it's extremely inefficient to try to build great wealth in order to get a date; on the other hand, sublimated sex drive can be a powerful impetus... known colluder dave mcclure, for example, says that a good reason to start a startup is that "you can't get laid".
US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth
I understand that it definitely isn't the case, was really just making a joke about the fact that someone who strikes it rich turns down a normal job right after.
Forget About the Turing Test
In the few large company environments I've worked at, banking up unused vacation days was actively discouraged; it's an accounting problem (accrued days have to be paid on separation). That, plus the fact that virtually every established company has policies restricting year-to-year carryover of vacation, suggests that the "culture of presenteeism" idea, while compelling, is not actually suppressing actual vacations.
Some other tricks that were not touched upon in the article, but which may apply depending on the nature of your traffic:

1) If you have lots of short connections and you want to tune the amount of time that the kernel will keep half-closed connections around then you can play around with changing the values of net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout, net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse, net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle, and net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets.

2) If you have a modern NIC then you probably need to tweak the txqueuelen in your ifconfig options.

3) If you are get hits from a large number of random browsers then sometimes setting net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save and net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf to turn off cacheing of flow metrics helps.

4) Increase net.core.somaxconn to increase your listen queue size.

5) If you have a local firewall like iptables in place make sure you increase net.ipv4.ip_conntrack_max, direct your high-traffic ports to the NOTRACK table, and play around with all of the various net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_* settings.
LLC: easy to setup, vesting/equity can be tricky, pass through taxes.
C-Corp: harder (more expensive) to setup, vesting/equity relatively easy, double-taxation.

If you can swing it, I think the "right" way would be to setup a C-Corp so you've got all your ducks in a row from the get-go -- you won't need to worry about restructuring if you ever add staff/funding in the future, one of you decides to leave, etc.

If nothing else, I strongly recommend that you setup this new product outside the existing company that the consulting is done under. (I have direct experience with this as one of the companies I'm advising had to deal with this mess recently when they wanted to give out equity to employees, deal with investors, etc.)
What features needed by this site are unsupported by Firefox? It looks like it works with Webkit browsers only? Also, what is the offline storage needed for? As a Firefox user, it seems incongruous that the website tells me it won't work with my browser - but I still get a Firefox message that the website is requesting offline data storage.
Not as much as I wanted. Last trip, on a fact-finding mission, we ended up spending a lot of time wandering around Manhattan, and doing some touristy stuff, and in general being exhausted.

We're going to live in Brooklyn for sure. My girlfriend likes Brighton Beach, and I'm from Russia, originally, so I wouldn't mind living there. We also heard great things about that hipster part of town whose name I forget.

We should probably combine forces somehow.
...which is exactly why the "iOS Development Environment" metaphor works! Think of it the other way round: OS X is just iOS with a lot more exposed to the user.
These numbers don't take the lifetime of the houses into account. Without having actual data I would say German houses have a higher lifetime than US counterparts. In Europe, and especially in Germany, houses are usually built not for a decade, but for multiple decades (more robust houses, better insulation etc.). I am not sure if this also applies to most American houses. Do the numbers then still reflect the actual price?
I agree, I think the marketers failed at their own game (understanding their audience and selling themselves) today/yesterday. They sidestepped questions like politicians. If they had understood their audience, they'd have known this would not work, that details and direct answers matter.

As it is, they just revealed Microsoft's "feature" model—i.e., we only implement technology that is popular now ... on websites that are built around the lowest common denominator of web technology. IE6.

I stand by my statement that the programmers seem well-intentioned and honest (direct, even), where the marketers are clearly avoiding tough questions.
I beg to differ: struggling to learn is not fun, practice and homework are not fun, learning something that seems pointless is not fun.

Learning without the above constraints is fun.
You still don't need many of those $350k days before you can comfortably "retire" (or whatever we're calling it when you have enough money to live off it forever)
He's also going to pay roughly 60% of everything he's made so far in taxes.
The example holds for Hamburg, and is pretty close for Munich or Frankfurt. (I've spent four years working in Baden-Württemberg and four in Berlin.) Tech salaries are just a lot lower in Germany. In comparison, in the US, there are a number of cities where wages are pretty close to Silicon Valley. I believe NYC is a bit higher. If you want to compare finance to finance, I assure you that salaries in New York are higher than they are in Frankfurt.
And in general, I'm more interested in the complaints anyway. "Great place to live, landlord quick to respond, quiet street" is a lot less useful to me than "TOILET SPEWS ROACHES EVERY TUESDAY AT 3PM".
I'll get down voted for this but IMO, how can we trust a VPS provider if it goes down when it hits HN?
If you take some time to read a fair number of reviews of a fair number of apartments, you can get a good idea of how much people bitch about a normal apartment vs a shitty apartment.

Example: there's an apartment near where I live which looks like a great deal on paper, but on some internet review site there were lots of complaints about how there are hidden fees for things like parking, and how the apartments aren't insulated so you end up with a huge heating bill. I didn't see those complaints with other apartments, so I think they're legit.
Possibly if Boeing decided to step into the A318 market, then it could be a go

It's that what the 737-600 is for?
You could leave an e-mail address, as well.
Just so you know it loaded fine for me and the blog is running wordpress not node.
1) The grandparent argument that being employed would be great because of health care benefits assumes that the creator of Minecraft lives in the US. If he had bothered to read the first sentence of the actual article, he would have discovered that this is not the case. In this place, we read the articles before commenting.

2) What 15% fees? Health care in Sweden is financed through regional income tax.
Thanks, I think I fixed it but the ticket is kind of vague:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/tktview/08a86ff3098eae91d8c...

Update it for me if I didn't understand what you think should be done.
> someone just was murdered in it

I never understood why this icked someone out (unless they were murdered by a random drive-by - that indicates a local crime problem).

I'd LOVE to find a place that wasn't renting because someone died in it - I wouldn't care in the least, and the rent would be low.
I'm going to reply to this with a copypaste from what I said in response to a similar question on reddit:

That’s an excellent question. While I thought of this solution as well, I choose not to use it. Here are three key reasons I choose to do it this way instead:

Speed

While it can be argued that serving the files statically will cause an increase in speed, due to the script itself not being loaded, this is questionable. Google does not do 304 negotiations, and uses cache-control: no-cache when serving static files. These default settings will increase the amount of requests sent to GAE, and cause the browser to do more work, and handle more bandwidth for any user who loads a page more than once. My solution supports 304 negotiations on both sides of the cache.

Control

Serving the files statically gives up control of the HTTP headers. SymPullCDN forwards all headers from the origin. By using the static file handlers you give up the ability to control some important headers, such as Cache-Control and Expires.

Usability

I’m using SymPullCDN side-by-side with wordpress. It’s caching files from my origin, and wordpress is sending all requests for /wp-include/, /wp-content/, and /s/ (static files) to SymPullCDN. If I change the template, add static files to the site, or do anything else (installing plugins, for instance) I don’t want to have to investigate which files are in my origin that are not on the cache side, download them to my laptop and upload them to google. Having the cache downloading from my origin is a crucial usability issue for me.

At the end of the day, this is something I wrote for myself, to meet the needs I have; however, I feel others might find useful, so I released it to GitHub and did a little write up about it.
I think the parents point was that health care in Europe is substantially cheaper than in the US. We pay similar rates of tax to in the US, but get Healthcare in that as well.
I think this qualifies as one of those First World Problems....
This sounds a lot like a concentrated, high-speed version of what I read happened with Sun. I have only read articles here and there about it though; anybody know a good analysis of Sun's problems?
On the iPhone?

Dunno - here in good old Europe, mobile telephony still works.
Hi paulsingh - thanks for the input. Agreed on setting it up outside the existing company that the consulting is done.

If we did it in the C-Corp, do you have any advice for how to handle the equity? Do both founders vest into it over time?

Not implying this would happen as both parties are relatively reasonable in this situation, but in situations where the companies aren't split equally, what's to prevent the majority stakeholder from diluting the minority stakeholder to nothing or to change the terms of the agreements themselves?
Decorator to capture screenshots of failing functional tests
Mono Project's Miguel de Icaza Talks iPhone Development
How to Trick an Online Scammer Into Carving a Computer Out of Wood
can't say i'd blame him, in digg's heyday, it was likely worth a good bit more.
Are these factors new, though? Because for a while there, cellphones seemed to be a working technology.
I work for SpyFu. We can get you interesting keywords since we know what everybody's buying. I'm not too familiar with other tools TBH, but am pretty sure Wordstream take more of a similar words approach. So both can yield good ideas. Also Google's keyword generator is very good although they have somewhat of a conflict of interest, at least in the short term to get you to buy words that are profitable for them rather than you.

I also recommend not broad matching, and just using the words you specifically pick. Stay away from short terms, i.e. "backup" and go for one's like "complete backup". Also, don't use the content network for things you want people to take action on. If people are taking action, they're much more likely searching than browsing a page and clicking adsense. There are exceptions like video games and appeals to do other leisurely things in which the content network is actually better. Think about your users and where you're likely to find them. :)
They have 14 airports so far, only 3 of which are international, so >10 domestic :)

In all seriousness, they've only been flying for three years. Give 'em time.
Show HN: Koi - a programming language that teaches language implementation.
But this is not method chaining, that's simple function nesting, and can easily be done as:

$string = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z]+/","_", trim(upper($string)));

Or am I missing your point?
1/3rd might be high, but easily 1/4th. The only major metro areas they're missing are Denver, Chicago, and Atlanta.
People search for "mark" and "zynga" not "how do I kill my co-founder and get his equity?"

I didn't see any searches that seemed in any way sensitive. Are there any?
Clearly not, considering the price should reflect the future revenue opportunities.
I was comparing Manhattan to Berlin. Who gives a fuck about Omaha or Chicago?
I'm curious how that works out for you.
While I'm sympathetic to this worry about crowdsourcing (which Jonathan Zittrain has been writing and speaking about for years), I'm still optimistic that the architecture of ecosystems like Mechanical Turk can protect people from exploitation. And hopefully the market will set fair compensation per task (although I don't think it has yet).
"While he was personally willing to take this offer, the Digg board decided to turn it down."
He wanted to accept it.
Actually, PHP is not a programming language. It's a templating language gone bazooka.
Because they measure productivity in an unAmerican way.
Four types of scientists
Good tips. The only thing I would recommend against is setting net.core.somaxconn too high - a too large backlog at a time when your server is already resource constrained might just push it over the brink.
A good question. Shrinking TCP buffer sizes can have a negative performance impact when sending large amounts of data; our use case was keeping track of a large number of mostly silent connections, and so we benefit from the smaller memory footprint.
Not necessarily. All it requires is that people simply don't like being startled, nothing more is required than that.
Ask HN: Please review our site | version 1
Hello HN: The site I am asking for you to review is:

www.votetocracy.com

Votetocracy is a site where citizens vote on bills in congress and send votes to their reps. Citizen's votes are tallied against the votes of Congress and displayed as agreements or disagreements.

We are looking for feedback on usability:
Can you find bills that you would be interested in?

Feedback on:
The concept. Are you interested in politics enough to vote on these bills? If your not interested in politics - but are interested in decisions congress makes that effect your life - would you vote on bills?

The business model will not be revealed until version 2 so we are not really looking for feedback on that aspect.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Does it... um... do anything? I can swim and chat.

Nice motion, and quite pretty, but I expect it to do something more. * shrug * must be because I've played Flow.
It was actually created for a (for fun/ego) contest. People had such a positive reaction to the early version that he just continued to build onto it.

He also is responsible for Left 4k Dead (another contest entry) if you remember that from a year or so ago.
fair enough, although i think most people thought they would do better than they have.
On the contrary — it's enterely because of the graphics style and atomically destructible environment. Voxels are hard.
WebOS, Android, and hacking: which is more open?
Since you may want to raise money, a Delaware Corp, with shares vesting over time for both A and B seems like a good fit. As far as profit splits go, that can be set forth in the bylaws however you want. A buyout option provision seems like a good idea too.
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For those curious, yes those are tadpoles, and "Rumpetroll" is the Norwegian word for tadpole.
Same. Properly cleaned, what do I care. One day, I am going to die in my apartment, too.
However, the question here would be: could you deliberately design an architecture without walls, using only thermal gradients—defining areas of public use and congregation solely based on heat?

I'm pretty sure there's something called "night"
A related point is that if you are paying taxes and receiving services from the government, then they are not free. They are being paid for by your taxes (possibly subsidized to a degree by other tax payers), and depending on how much you are taxed you may be subsidizing others as well as paying for your own.
I'm also moving to NYC in about a month. My girlfriend and I went up a little bit ago to check out neighborhoods.

It really depends on what you are looking for. We stayed in Williamsburg for the duration of our trip (about 5 days) to get a feel for it, as lots of people recommended it. It turns out we didn't really like it (nothing bad per se, just not what we're looking for).

We settled on Lower East Side, as it best represents what we're looking for.

To handle the issue of apartment hunting while not living there, we're going to end up just using airbnb to find a monthly rental, move our stuff up and put it in storage (we're moving from DC), and hopefully will be able to find a place easier by being there.
Thanks for the link! I remember as a newbie learning Clojure, being puzzled by why (-> 5 #(+ % 4)) didn't work as expected.
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It also feels good to hear it from someone who can appreciate the issue, since internally all we hear is pressure from partners who are chomping at the bit for full i18n.
Yeah generators are awesome. +1 for a chapter on them with small sprinkles of functional programming.
I tried typing /turboboost and /lightningbolt and it did nothing. I was a little let down. Still, it's a good demo of some new technologies.

You can make your own fun though. I swam past a bunch of other tadpoles yelling "Don't go that way! MONSTERS!!!"
TechCrunch and the importance of good writing
"great artists ship"

I was having a hard time grasping the fact that they have three problems to manage (OS-wise): evangelizing BB 6.0 (for torch sales), keeping older versions of BlackBerry OS, and now Declaring that the QNX-based OS is the future.
that is correct, billmonk appears to be dying.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685382
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Are you using the Hacker Friends extension in chrome?

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mkdhfabjcebcgnpg...
Awk can also be faster than (naively written) C++. http://anyall.org/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-and...