skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have they tested it in the rain?

Have they tested it in the snow?

Have they tested it driving on ice?

Does it know when its fuel gets low?

Can it tell when a head gasket blows and the engine is overheating?

Have they driven it on the highway?

Have they driven it on the countryside?

How does it treat cyclists?

How does it treat pedestrians?

How does it treat deer, squirrels, birds and other fauna on the road?

How does it respond to aggressive drivers?

Can it park?

Can it parallel park?

Does it know not to block the box?

Does it know what to do when a traffic light is out?

Does it know to pull over when emergency vehicles need to pass by?

Does it know how to merge?

Does it know how to avoid hanging out in other cars' blind spots?

Does it know that eighteen-wheelers have large blind spots ("If you can't see me, I can't see you")?

Does it know what to do when four cars come to a four-way stop intersection simultaneously? (Does anyone?)

Can it find parking?

Can it pick a parking spot that's far enough away from driveways and fire hydrants?

How much of the logic is dependent on the car it's installed for?

How much work is involved in installing it to a new car?

What does it do if it gets boxed in by FBI agents on the highway?

What does it do if debris knocks out the camera?

What does it do the if car in front of it starts fish-tailing on ice?
Seriously ahistorical. Was no one doing "science" before God died in the 19th century (as Nietzsche observed)?
This calls for another startup -- the funeral startup.

Weddings and funerals are businesses with huge markups. There is a lot of emotional attachment involved in both, and people will be willing to shell out enormous amounts of money on such events.
New Delhi (NCR), India

Typical monthly wage for a programmer / designer: $300 to $500

Monthly Expenses: $860

Apartment Rent + Utilities: $500
Internet (2 Mbps): $50
Food: $100
Public Transport (Taxi+Bus+Metro): $100 (Higher if you mostly use taxi, and $300/mo for car)
Coffee at a coffee shop: $60 ($2*30)
Entertainment: $50
I'm an IT journalist but get hit up mostly by PR people and bigger businesses, not startups and lone developers.

My advice is just to keep it brief, eliminate most of the PR crap and make a good presentation of what your product/service provides.

Keep it simple yet provide enough data. Also, use only their work e-mails, nothing private, and avoid phone calls if you can.
Is this the new jailbreak that apple can not stop?
This was not written by somebody who spent much time learning Lisp. This was written by somebody who gave up pretty quickly.

Quick summary/translation:

We want to be finished learning Lisp, and it makes us angry to encounter evidence to the contrary. Even though we can't yet code a simple loop, we know exactly the best way for you to help us, and it makes us mad if you try to steer us in a different direction. We're grown-ups now and don't ever want to be beginners at anything again.
It could be useful to have exclusive access to portions of the DOM, which would also allow most of the performance boosts which come from having them segmented. That way, a worker could render to a <canvas>, another could render to <audio>, and not have any concurrency issues involving the DOM.

In this setup, the current implementation of workers would simply be that the "main" thread has exclusive access to the entire DOM tree. It could be implemented and dropped in, and existing code would continue to work identically and uninterrupted.

But yes. Access to all DOM? PITA.
Gore's investment in carbon credits was originally part of him trying to put his money where his mouth was, not just pull a fast one on everyone. But you can always find a devil if you look long enough.
From $340m to nothing overnight
Starting a business in the United States is a little like pulling your own teeth while getting your fingernails trimmed with a wood chipper. The fact that it still ranks fourth overall just indicates how much worse most of the rest of the world is.

It's amazing to me that so many nations (the US included) seem to want it to be so difficult for people to succeed in business.
24h culture of silicon valley? Very very few things in the south bay are open even to 2300h...basically gas stations, a few grocery stores, and some fast food drive through. A lot of businesses close by 2000h, if not earlier.
Upgrading all my VirtualBox machines right now. :)
I'm curious if anyone has worked for a company in Singapore, done lots of business with one, or better yet started one. By these rankings and the stereotypes I've learned it basically seems like a capitalist's paradise, with practically the whole society being pro-business and a gigantic minority of the population (42% according to Wikipedia) being foreign workers/students.
"You can lease a high end Mercedes for the same monthly payment as buying a Honda Accord. It could be that a large portion of that 86% of luxury cars driven by non millionaires are leased."

...which makes the bottom line even more pathetic. You make your payment on the Honda Accord, and after a few years, you own it. It continues to be drivable, and the amortized cost of ownership begins to decline.

If you hop on the luxury-car leasing merry-go-round, then sure, you get to drive a new car every few years, but the payment never goes away. Meanwhile, you've almost certainly over-paid for the car relative to what it would have cost to buy up front.

When it comes to cars, the financially responsible question is not "4Runner or Lexus?"; it is: "can I live without one?"
Seriously doubt it, I think the submitter is the poster.

Username here: roschdal. Username there: AndreasRosdal. Roschdal here has freeciv in their profile, and AndreasRosdal mentions freeciv.
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
Sure they were, but as Carl Sagan said, "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." And this way of thinking is antithetical to the way of thinking that faith is based on.
In this case Zed made a design decision to have a common target format for the config (which I personally applaud).

Doing what you propose would only bring extra clutter to those who do not have the social problem that you propose to solve with the technology.

Explain the hypothetical boss it is a bit like an ELF format, but for configuration. He does not recompile every executable every time before running it, does he ?

Also, this is not the first time this design decision has been made - as a well-known example you can bring up Chrome and Firefox.

One thing where your suggestion does make sense is where one has to frequently re-edit the config file and restart the server. But that is solved by writing the shell scripts, not by cluttering the core code base, IMHO.
not a binary. Even the most robust science leaves plenty of room and paradox for people to believe in a Deity if they choose and participate in their community via religion if they please (not the same thing).
Others have noted another effect, that FB for them is becoming less interesting. All their (brighter) friends are "clamming up", and the remaining status messages and content from friends is becoming more infrequent and/or much less personal or simply interesting.

If I add in the effect you describe, it seems another disincentive to remain on FB. No good content, and you're constantly whipped to survey a changing privacy landscape for leaks and vulnerabilities.
I'm only peering with about 30-40 others. Throttling is possible but it's the same now after an ISP (and router) change. Not the forum for it, just thought people may not realise that a slow torrent doesn't necessarily mean that a direct dl would be slow.

Edit: Just tried latest Kubuntu torrent and let it settle for five mins, so far I'm on 1day 20hours remaining after bringing it down from 4days by adding a web seed. o_O . It is working, downloading and uploading, picking up and dropping peers etc..
For datacenter jobs, look up E2E Networks. They are a cool bunch and hiring as well.

http://e2enetworks.com/
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Indeed. Starting a business in Japan is a hurry-up and wait game. There was a recent panel sponsored by the ACCJ last month which invited several government officials to a panel discussion to inquire into why things were so burdensome and to come up with solutions. At the conclusion of the panel we had a long list of ways the 'start-up' process and culture of Japan could be improved-- among them was updating laws, making banking and related matters for small business (bank transfer fees) easier, encouraging the media to cover more entrepreneurs, and engaging college students in the start-up process more.

I'm a start-up founder based in Tokyo and the most popular questions I receive is, why are you founding a start-up focused on a market outside of Japan? Market research aside and my being American who will be returning to the US some time in the very near future, Japan is not the easiest company to start and run and successful small operation in. A Rank of #91 for such an advanced country is an indication of the system being broken and burdensome.
Apart from your first sentence, I completely agree with everything you said. My disagreement with your first is a partial one. What you describe is an ideal almost mythical free market. In such a market your arguments would hold true, if it existed.

The key here is as you said "I should be made to pay that nickel". Unfortunately free market forces alone will not make you do that. It will be in your interest to hold on to that nickel. It is here the free market proponents invoke goodness of human kind or some other force or argument external to the free market principles.

Another problem with the practice of free market is that corporations are typically structured to maximize, not the total value out of a resource, but the rate, i.e. the value extracted per unit time. It makes perfect sense for them because for several reasons (and also by way of force) they can keep the acquisition cost of a substitute resource very low.

Governments arent ideal either. But a (democratic) government is shaped by the amount of active interest a voter takes. So the control over it is much more direct in comparison.

Sans the two major loop-holes, free market is a damn good system.
I wonder how many millionaires just go over their head with the number 2 guard every couple of months.

On the other end of the spectrum, if you never cut your hair it stops growing somewhere around mid-back and looks fantastic if you invest in conditioner. Decent shampoo and conditioner is pretty cost-effective if you do this.
And the specific reason here (among the ones listed in that article) is almost certainly a lack of data. It's always helpful to estimate your necessary sample size prior to beginning your test, so you don't get too excited when results look odd before you get anywhere near the sample necessary to see an effect of a given size.
I would be fine with credit checks and criminal background checks being run on all final stage candidates, with consent. I hired a felon once and ended up losing seven figures. Not doing background checks on someone in a key position with access to customer information, etc. seems irresponsible.

A low credit score should not be a disqualifier, but should be explained. If someone had gotten divorced or medical expenses or something, that isn't a concern (and I would consider advancing money to clear it up for any clearance investigations later), but if it is due to gambling, drug, etc. addiction, I would be very dubious unless there were a way to show it was not an ongoing risk. (similarly, there are some criminal convictions I would consider benign or even slightly positive, and others which would be disqualifies)
But my point is that a very large fraction of these scientists were practicing Christans. They, somehow, managed to successfully maintain both these ways of thinking. Which suggests there is something seriously wrong with this item.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Put-clear-chat-history-back/14...

Technical directions on how to clear chat history in the new Facebook chat is in the Discussions and Notes.
I agree many people utterly fail, because I think that's largely because the past-time itself attracts those who have difficulties with addiction, time-management, and social interaction.

You list some things that make it really hard to live a normal life, but I disagree with some can offer counter-points to others.

You say there is little interaction with other people. This is true for many but doesn't have to be the case. I spend a lot of 'work time' talking with like-minded professionals, studying together or just daily banter. I probably have more social interaction through work than the time I worked in a small development company, and certainly more during my periods of (failing to) run startups.

You say working hours are partially out of your control, but with most forms of poker you can work any time of the day (literally any time in 24 hours, 7 days a week) - some times may be better than others, depending on the game you play. There's a lot to be done away from the table if the games are quiet. Compare this to the lack of flexibility with any other job: either a rigid 9-5, or at least restrictions on when business is to be done (conference calls, deadlines).

It can be stressful and tiring, but listening to some start-up stories here on HN, it can hardly compare! Some of you guys are working yourselves to death! Certainly you can put in long hours in poker, but it's a daily choice. The more hours at the table, the more money. I also believe that poker is actually fairly low-variance compared to other jobs, such as a running a start-up: Long days with long nights, hacking at weekends, all for a very high risk of failure months or even years down the line. With poker you can't count on a weekly (or even monthly) pay-check but in the long term, you cash in with regularity

Personally I like to work around 3 hours a day, 7 days a week. I might put in a short morning session, and a short evening session. Doing this it feels like I have all the day off to spend socialising, hacking on some pet project, relaxing. You don't have to hit the high-stakes to make a living from poker. In the "5-hour-work-week" concept of salary you earn very high, because I have no commute and flexibility to live anywhere in the world. I have moved continent 3 times in the last 3 years. I can jump on a plane and visit friends anywhere, and as long as I have an internet connection I know I can be there, on holiday and making money at the same time. And if you manage your time correctly, you should have time to fully develop other projects, be they startup ideas, or just other, more life-fulfilling hobbies.

There are certainly negatives to the job, but - at least to me - there's an overwhelming number of positives that many (including a lot of professionals) just don't focus on. If you take advantage of what the job has to offer there's no reason it should be the lonely, frustrating grind that many feel; quite the contrary.
I think that is a real key. That's what we (my wife and I) try to do.

It can be difficult at times, when we see others flaunting their awesome new stuff. We just remind each other that the default behaviour in society these days is to live beyond your means.

Not that we don't have nice stuff. But we limit it and pay cash.
I wonder what people will do with their money when they die? Spend all that money in after life?

As my father says: money is irrelevant - think about what you are going to think about your life on dead bed. And the other important saying is: don't think too much about how you spend your money think about how to create wealth.
Play with Google CSE and build niche search engine
http://www.google.com/cse/

I built a nifty search engine using Google CSE API over a weekend. It got over 30,000 unique visitors per day and made $2,000 per month.

It was probably one of the most advanced search engine built on Google CSE.
That was unnecessarily rude. What I've written is far from trolling, and it's irresponsible and uncharitable of you to call it that.

If you mean this [1], I have read the Krugman article on the stimulus' size. I'm sure Mr. Krugman's analyses are correct in the short term, although I suspect there's some question of how much you can increase GDP through government spending before other effects start working against you (like uncertainty about future taxes, decreasing ability of the country to borrow more money, etc.).

Regardless, like an ice bath is to a fever, this may treat one symptom, or even temporarily make things better, but it may also make things worse in the long run. There's nothing even remotely like a consensus that increased government spending and extra money for the poor is the correct solution to the current economic climate.

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/stimulus-arithme...
What they fail to mention in the article is that 75% of millionaires are bald.

(Yes, that stat is made up...)
What business model for the 100YL?
Paul Graham has written about the notion of the "hundred year language". I believe that the ideal 100YL will encompass every modern programming language use-case: interactive command-line interfaces (shells), systems administration & shell scripting, mathematical languages (Matlab/Mathematica), rapid prototyping (Python/Perl/Ruby), active content (JavaScript), and enterprise software (C#/Java).

Assume you could combine all these diverse use-cases and capabilities into a single programming language.

Is there a viable business model for such a language? Must it inherently be free to prosper as a language? What about free for noncommercial use, but put paid for for-profit use?

If you built such a language, how would you offer it to the world? Would you release it for free? Or would you try to build a business juggernaut?
I work in search advertising and 2-5% CTR is pretty much the range of organic traffic. Variables would of course be the quality of the ads and the quality of the traffic but that figure should be easy to reach.

Also the number of searches is low and the payout is high for what most people can expect to make on search traffic.

50 million searches a day isn't that much let alone per month. 35c cpcs are rare unless you get a good deal from a Tier 1 network which you almost certainly won't until 50 million searches a day is nothing.
Ranking for the G8 nations:

4 - United States

5 - United Kingdom

8 - Canada

15 - Japan

25 - Germany

31 - France

78 - Italy

120 - Russia

With the exception of Russia, which has its roots in communism, Italy is by far the worst G8 country you could start a business in.
Ten Theses on Tablets
Assume the BSD or Apache license:

Could the language have a not-for-profit entity devoted to managing the language, and license the use of the language commercially to a for-profit corporation dedicated to selling and supporting its use in industry?

Would this discourage open source contribution?
Looking for roommates in mountain View
I will go to Mountain view from a foreign country to find co founders for my startup, Im looking for some cheap room to share. Do you know someone interested?
Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience: Whooping cough in California
Dumaguete, Philippines

General expenses in USD (not necessarily mine because I'm detailing how to live cheaply here which is not my goal)

Rent: Two bedroom unfurnished house as low as $80 / month or upgrade to western standard furnished studio for approximately $230 / month.

Internet: $21 - $35 for 1 - 2 MBPS connection.

Electricity: Big variation on costs depending on your lifestyle. My bill is around $30 / month.

Food: Also hugely varies but it's pretty easy to live here on a bill of around $100 / month for one and more people gets cheaper per person.

And most importantly...

One bottle of San Miguel Pilsen (beer!) - approx $1 / bottle at the bar.
Most people are capable of behaving inconsistently, especially when it comes to identity issues like religion and politics.
No, it was the exact same page. It normalised after a few days, it was just a fluke.
Perhaps.

But if I flip a coin 10 times and get the queens face (I'm in the UK) 8 of those times, that doesn't mean I'll keep getting head.

It's been quite a lot of years since I was involved in the betting world now, but at the time I was constantly amazed at the amount of people that thought the Martingale system was a winner.
This is exactly what inspired my original thought.

I still can't find a place that provides all of this contact information in once place.

Any place that claims to be able to do this isn't transparent, you can't tell where they are sending it.
This (again) makes me wonder what Italy is doing in G8. Let's give China or Spain a shot.
I can't share the actual data, but the method of calculating the confidence was the standard formula from calculating the confidence for the Z-score as used in http://abtester.com/calculator/, Google Website optimiser, etc etc. The numbers did check out, it was just an unlikely fluke, which is why I don't trust the confidence interval as much as I used to...
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> The government is then deciding what you can and can't do because you may make an irresponsible and wrong decision. When will it end?

When most people will _not_ systematically fall into the same trap, get into bankruptcies or lose their homes. We are not talking isolated cases of a couple of idiots, but about 3m foreclosure listings (about 1 foreclosure listing for every 100 people in US).

So a couple hundred thousand people are totally stupid and deserve what they got, but when you talk about whole percentages of the population something else is going on.

Did people all of the sudden get stupid in the last 15 years? Somehow I doubt that.

Nobody minds the government telling them if they can drive, what kind of additions to the their house they can build, watching over so food companies don't sprinkle lead and arsenic in the food. Why can't the government also prevent them from getting stupid loans that, if not checked, nationally (or even globally) will lead to the supposed total collapse of the economy?

There is another general issue we have to deal with and that is the assumption that people are rational, autonomous agents. They will process information logically and make the best possible decision for themselves and their dependents. That sounds really good on paper or if one had to design an agent based AI world. In practice, it turns out, people are not rational. They lack critical thinking skills, they will make many decisions that will eventually hurt them, their dependents and their country.

The real answer is a better education system. But that is a long term solution (and we are already failing that US terribly). In short term I think it is acceptable for the govt. to play the role of a nanny. Otherwise we end up with bigger problems overall: poverty, huge income inequality, lots of sick people, lots of homeless people and lots of angry people.
Your comment reminded me of the saying, "work expands to fill the time allocated to it." Which means, I think, that, approximately speaking, if you assume it will take 100 people 1 year to solve a certain problem then that is probably about how long it will take. But if you instead say we only have 5 people and 1 month then, surprise surprise, you'll also have a solution too. Speaking in general terms, of course. You tend to need better people and less bureaucracy and friction in order for smaller teams and smaller time windows to be just as effective.
How to clear chat history in the new Facebook chat
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Put-clear-chat-history-back/148861775155334
Technical directions are in the Discussions and Notes.
True, but it's also a little misleading to make the unqualified claim that "you won't get rich as a teacher".