skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a tough price to get much closer to Manhattan. Stick with Queens neighborhoods - you'll be equally closer to your work, but in a better quality neighborhood compared to your Brooklyn options at that price. Astoria would be my choice, even if it's just to move closer and see what it's like - the N should get you to work in about an hour.

But, be aware that you may be more comfortable in a different situation than me, so you might enjoy a rougher neighborhood or an older apartment in Brooklyn as a trade-off for living within a certain distance from work.
A link to http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=[URL OF PAGE HERE]&t=[TITLE OF PAGE HERE] will send the user to the submitting link page, so they can just click on the submit button there. That's what the bookmarklet does. If a post has already been submitted, a resubmit counts as an upvote. Getting the comment count/number of upvotes it harder, as to my knowladge HN doesn't have an API for that.
Do you set yourself a goal of "Get X amount of karma on Hacker News"? If not, how do you ever comment? Are you just writing random words down?

Sometimes, people just do things because they want to do them. You don't need to invoke metacognition on every single element of your day, and in fact it's rather exhausting to do so.
The causes of each bubble are different. Some theorize that monetary expansion and a conversion of futures contracts for tulips into options contracts played a significant role in the tulip mania.

Government can stop bubbles, disease, cheating on one's spouse, failure to wash dishes and a thousand other sins by simply ending freedom. Big deal. Any kidnapper can do that.
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Will be nice when they release the new convertible notes they've been talking about and Paul G promised to release soon here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1657906
Who is this "average computer user"? Anybody that makes the jump to Linux has a reason to(and there many, not just tinkerers), otherwise they stick with a windows machine or pony up for a mac.
"Top producers inevitably knock the ball out of the park, and management says, “Oh no! These guys are making too much money,” so they change the comp plan."

Oh, yes. I've seen this happen too many times, and it's a company killer.
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what software do you use for your wiki?
after i read this, i decided i wouldn't be missing much if i just skimmed the rest
Thanks, Astoria is definitely awesome, it can be a little pricier though, no?
Tell HN: Denver Meetup of HN
We're throwing a meetup of HN fans in Denver, Colorado next week, on Thursday October 7th. If anyone is interested, please come join us. Ideally you live in Colorado but if you're just visiting, that's cool too. Very informal, just to say hello, chat, network, maybe enjoy a beer or two.

Starts at 6:30pm at the Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Denver, off 16th Street.

Myself and evo_9 are organizing it. A few of us will have an orange-and-white HN badge on our shirt, or standup card on a table, so you know what group to look for. If you can't make this one, there will be more in the future, at different times and locations so that everybody gets a chance to make it.

Please email me if you plan on coming, just so I know what to expect. Email in my HN profile.

Thanks, and I think we'll have fun!

Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Rock+Bottom+Brewery+16th+Denver&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Rock+Bottom+Brewery+16th&hnear=Denver,+CO&cid=0,0,1596894671961073906&ei=P52nTK_5I4KBlAfmxrm4DQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQnwIwAQ
A lot of banks offer OFX access, it's what stuff like Money and Quicken talk to. It's mostly read only, although I think there are a couple of banks that can do bill pay over OFX. This is pretty common knowledge if you're writing this kind of software.

Some vendors, like Ameritrade use different credentials for OFX.

Mint/Yodlee asked for front door passwords and security answers that give them the ability to trade securities and empty my account, rather than the OFX id/pin that would give them access to a standard API to retrieve transactions and balances. This made me seriously doubt their competence, and I never became a customer.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange for details.
Not to hijack the thread too much, but are there good resources on learning about algorithm correctness, complexity, recurrence relations, automata and proving techniques? At the moment I'm not doing so well in the proof by induction department, and the course material at UToronto is quite lousy.
Nytimes has a recent article about Livescribe and some more general points on note taking. http://nyti.ms/aW0qKA
To answer #1, three books I would consider must-reads are:

Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
He discusses the Technology Adoption Lifecycle and hi-tech marketing.
http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Geoffrey-Moore/dp/00605...

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
This Harvard business professor discusses what makes a disruptive innovation.
http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin...

Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Levinson
He discusses some scrappy techniques for promoting your businesses. Not all are applicable to web or hi-tech companies, but it can still spark some great ideas.
http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Marketing-4th-Inexpensive-St...
There might be some stipulation in the sale that you'd have to stay on for X months or years. Many people might have not wanted to agree to that.
>As long as I'm given more relevant content, feel free to use my publicly posted information.

Doesn't that way of putting it, though, make it sound a bit like you are actually making the decision to opt in?
Corporations are not people

The US Supreme Court has a slightly different opinion on that question.
Microsoft sues Motorola citing Android patent infringement
Ask HN: Good languages for closed-source desktop apps
Just wanted to get some opinions on this - if your goal is to write closed source, cross platform desktop apps, what are some good languages to consider?

I'm looking for a high-level, efficient language, but it needs to be able to compile to machine code. For example, while I love Python, I would eliminate it here because an app "frozen" by cx_freeze or py2exe can be decompiled into source without too much effort.
Genetic determinism isn't so clear, unfortunately. Humans having two legs is highly genetically determined, but that doesn't mean that variance in the number of legs is explained by genes; it's more likely to be environmental factors, like injuries.

Another factor is reversion to the mean. Two bright people are likely to have children dumber than them.
1. That's pretty much already the case (lobbyists are paid by someone, and that someone isn't the poor).

2. You make that sound like a bad thing, when it's not.

Given the categories listed on the receipt, which one of those would you really be upset if a rich person decided to put 51% of his taxes to? Medicaid? Pell Grants? How about the National Parks?

"If the wars are important to you, use your money to pay for it, stop using mine," is pretty much my philosophy. Having no control over where my taxes go makes me significantly less pleased with paying them.
Wow. This really jump-started and gave me the shock treatment I needed to get back on track. Wonderful stuff, a great read, and many lessons to be learned for the observer.
http://twitter.com/fernstrategy

Strategy, technology disruption, cloud computing, small device computing, online media
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I love the Khan Academy because I am finally grokking calculus... at the age of 37.
Sweet, thanks for organizing this mike and evo!
Greenpoint is pretty affordable, and it's just on the other side of the Willamsburg Bridge, so it's very close to lower Manhattan.

http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/aap/brk?query=greenpoin...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint,_Brooklyn
I'd like to highly recommend the Rhodia Meeting Book[1]. The front side of each page is broken up asymmetrically into three sections: a general date/description field, a notes section and an actions section. The back side of each page just has the notes and actions section. The books also come in two sizes: 9"x11.75" and a more svelte 6.5"x8.25" which I personally prefer.

I've found the simple division into notes and actions is enough and I can jump back and forth very quickly and clearly between the two of them. In addition, if you think of questions as actions, which 99% of the time they usually are (What types of tchotchkes will my boss appreciate a suitably subtle distance from bonus time?), than you're good to go. The remaining 1% of questions are usually more notes anyway (Am I ever going to be pretty?).

Like many preprinted notebooks, it's something that you could easily design yourself. But then people would think you're weird, or worse, poor. And I do find them quite fetching, especially the orange ones. Combined with a nice pen (I'm digging the new Sharpie "pens" that don't bleed through pages[2]) that clips handily into the spiral you have everything you could possibly want to build an empire. At least, that's what it feels like.

They're aren't available on Amazon with Prime or free shipping so I actually had to leave my cave and go to a Dick Blick art supply store to get them instead of dealing with some semi-anonymous online retailer.

[1] Flickr link: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=rhodia+meeting+book

[2] They still kinda bleed through pages, but only sometimes and barely. http://amzn.to/atbrsg
Am I the only one who saw this, went over to Qwiki and started drooling at how sci-fi it is?
Nginx versus SXE "Hello World"
Hard drive space is cheap but bandwidth less so. Having only one copy of a library makes downloading, installing, and updating your OS much easier.
Are the states actually run better, though? They seem pretty inept to me overall when it comes to things like economics, and are even worse than the federal government when it comes to things like civil liberties (we'd be totally screwed if the Bill of Rights hadn't been incorporated against the states).
I created a Fexl discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/fexl .

You can reach everything from http://fexl.com, including the Blog and Discussion group.
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High-level languages are hard to obfuscate. If you're going for difficulty in decompilation, you're pretty much stuck to low-level, non-interpreted languages.

.NET and Java are your best bets for relatively high-level desktop languages that are hard to decompile because since they're so widely used, obfuscation techniques are more advanced. But really if you want to create a difficult-to-decompile program, I think you're pretty much stuck with C or other non-interpreted, low-level languages (maybe try D?).
C++ and QT

http://qt.nokia.com/
Acquiring customers for $1 a pop is cheap. If customer lifetime value is < $1 then something is terribly wrong.
If you're on Hacker News, you probably are.
Generally speaking, two vulnerable apps is less than twice as bad as one vulnerable app - and if a centralized repository means that all of your apps are fixed sooner they its a big win.
No specific problem actually, was just trying to learn and understand, what if some one wants to implement large scale search system using lucene how one should go about it.
Also, all those options above look interesting, but I am also interested in what sort of thinking/ analysis should be done before you make a decision. In nutshell, I was looking for case studies/ blogs talking about implementing lucene in a distributed fashion. But thanks for your pointers.
Sounds similar to public companies paying for their own ratings agencies. I agree such a system seems like it could work for health and food safety; I'd like to see some real-world examples of a highly-functioning one in, say, another country.
I have no idea, but there are still some pages available at original server: http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/atomi/
Yeah, it isn't real. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3WGf9pX0A
I would give up on "cross platform" desktop apps and use whatever the native language is for the platform. For Windows, that's C#/.NET. For Mac, Objective C/Cocoa. For Linux, probably C/Gtk or C++/Qt.

The problem with cross-platform apps is that you end up programming to the least common denominator of the platforms you support, and your app never has the performance or look & feel that users expect. Contrast: uTorrent vs. Azureus, iChat vs. Pidgin, TextMate vs. jEdit, etc. In a hyper-competitive desktop space, that often means death. Giant companies like IBM (Eclipse) or Mozilla (Firefox) can get away with it because the scale of what they're doing is very difficult for a small startup to replicate, but most micro-ISVs can't.

Yes, this is one reason why developing desktop apps sucks.
Actually, looking back, the great memories are about the problems I have overcome, not the times when I was enjoying myself.
Oops, I did not realize that you are the same person who I had replied to till later. Well, I'll assume you aren't trolling then, but realize that many shared the sentiment for good reason (the comment was at 5 points surprisingly, before I made the last, very stupid reply). The reason would be that there have been thousands of wasted programmer hours due to discussions initiated by someone saying "rails can't scale", when they obviously don't know what they're talking about, so it does come off as trollish.

It became a something many said because of Twitter's scaling problems, which is probably how you heard about it. But later, it became clear and commonly accepted among the community that Twitter's scaling problems did not stem from rails itself, but other parts of its infrastructure. Saying "rails doesn't scale" really doesn't make too much sense, because scaling the application layer is arguably the easiest part of scaling: essentially you add more app servers, and load balance between them. The hard part is scaling the database etc.

In Twitter, at first they had a lot of issues because the queuing software they wrote wasn't great for their workloads and was pretty slow. And there are a ton of other moving parts as well in the application and the team must have kept hitting walls in all the various parts. They may have even had some rails issues at some point, but that's a far cry from saying it can't scale.

And anyways, if you want to keep it light weight, I'd use one of the smaller Ruby frameworks. You really can't go wrong with Sinatra.
Nosql db recommendation
I am working on a pet project that is going to generate a lot of data and I need to do natural language searches against it. any suggestions for a database? i am familiar with most sql databases and looking for advice about nosql dbs like cassandra, couch db, mongo db. also considering amazon simple db, and google big table.
Machine code can be decompiled too, even if not as cleanly. It would slow down efforts to make an unauthorized fork of the software as a whole, but anyone curious enough about individual bits and pieces could still see exactly what's happening. Closed source is really more of a legal block than a technical one.

Given that and the lack of popular, high-level languages that compile to machine code (C++ is the best I can come up with), I'd reconsider whether that's really a priority.
Dominick brought up Jews, not Sanchez. I find it odd that Stewart can insult anyone and anything and keep his job. Sanchez insults Prince John and loses his head.

For the record, I can't stand any of the talking heads on TV, including Colbert and Stewart.
Looks doable to me - http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/hhh?query=astoria&s... The good thing is that most places that could be listed as "Astoria" will be in a nice location, so you can concentrate on checking out the apartments instead of worrying that you'll get stuck in a bad neighborhood. Woodside, Sunnyside, and the other surrounding neighborhoods are nice, also.

Astoria has a lot of small, local real estate offices, so always check with them for some options, too.
Neil Alan Smith and all the other dependable and beneficial members of society who try do good without making waves or deriving fame, power, or wealth from it owe a great deal to that rare kind of journalism! I hope that my own contributions in life can be seen as such positive as Niel's were.
It's not that simple to do good and be appreciated in life even for seemingly very minute jobs like that of a dishwasher. Reminds me of the ferryman in Herman Hesse's Siddhartha. Wise, humble, happy.
Cool.

I have been programming in C for a while, and can't recall ever seeing main called recursively. Neat.
C++ with QT or wxWidgets is highly portable.

http://www.wxwidgets.org/
Check on craigslist. You'll find some decent deals for 1br along the 7/r lines in Queens. (I looked myself last month.) Just ignore all the spam, which is about 60% of them now unfortunately. Don't open any links from the post, it's sure to be spam or scam.

I haven't been in Ozone Park before, but since it's further away I assume the space is also larger for the price.

Here's the craigslist link I visited almost daily last month during my search. http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/nfa/que?query=&srch...
Something silly like 90% of people don't have concrete, achievable goals.

This is true. And much of the remaining ten percent have the goal of making the other ninety percent feel ashamed of that. ;)
all those components come with drivers provider by the vendor of that component for windows(mostly) machine only. Linux doing a great job catching on all those components but the thing is linux is mostly behind. if Vendors helps linux community a little we should be going hand in hand.
I have a sweet note/reference pipeline yet I don't get much accomplished afterwards.
I agree with everything nostrademons is saying, cross platfrom apps are bad. I did some java desktop apps about 4 or 5 years ago and the ui was awful. i think it's gotten a little better... but still, native app is going to look far superior.
I'd love an explanation of how BitTorrent for a TV device is a killer feature for any purpose other than "illegally obtain content". If that were to be an even remotely popular application on the AppleTV it would seriously jeopardize Apple's relationships with content providers and, by proxy, their ability to cater to their actually paying customers.
Tell HN: Early-bird registration closes for the MathsJam
A few people have been kind enough to ask, so I thought I'd post this. The MathsJam event I'm running in November (6 weeks to go!) has now closed early-bird registration. We have 54 full delegates, 4 day delegates, and 5 non-delegates. We have reached roughly half capacity already.

It looks like it will be easier to run the event than to give the money back ...
For a presidential election, you think this estimate is too high?
Ferengi rule of acquisition number 1: Once you have their money ... never give it back.

Clickable: http://www.mathsjam.com
Okay, now that you know... just start counting the number of times other people discover this for the first time and feel the urge to post it either here or on Reddit. Not that I blame you at all, this is pretty amazing stuff...

... but my count is 5.
Ask HN: Is it possible to work part time?
Hi! I've been working in technology for a long time, 20 years since I started my own little company in high school. For the last 6 years I've been privileged to work from home, mostly on open source software. This has involved a lot of travel and a LOT of hours of work per week, and the glamour of the dream career is fading. I want to simplify my life, cut my expenses, and work 2 or 3 days per week so that I can spend more time with my wife and daughter doing volunteer work and making a difference in the world. Everything I have learned about starting my own company or working at other companies points to making lots of money while working constantly, not making a small amount of money while working less. It seems like starting my own company is the only option, because every high tech company I've ever worked for wants people to work full time, and never hires part-timers.

Has anyone successfully moved to part time work, or started a company that allowed them to work 1000 hours a year instead of over 2000 hours a year?
You make plenty of generalizations here, and a lot of them are misleading. Nothing personal, but I'll point out where our opinions differ.

I think you had a rough time. Every factory that I am personally in contact with (it's a fair number across several countries) are significantly more professional in sampling, production and payments than what you describe. Sampling done at the place of production, no matter where in the world, should be measured in days.

There are plenty of good agents if you know the right places to look who handle a lot of the details for you. Obviously, the problem is finding the right guy. All your problems of solved issues like fit, patterns etc. are taken care of then. Something like pattern grading can be done in 5 minutes by anybody who has experience to 90% accuracy.

To say that a t-shirt takes a half hour to make is a bit naive. The amount of processing and handling that goes between picking cotton and packing a t-shirt is non-trivial. Even if you want to just limit yourself to the garment process, you are talking about fabric handling, cutting, sorting, stitching, checking and packing. This is a complex procedure.

> Unless you have a good contact at the other end, the first few runs will be horribly wrong, because people don't pay attention, particularly on new/small clients with low revenue. _This happens no matter where you have things made._

[emphasis mine]

This is not true. Again, work with a professional factory, and you should not have this problem.

> Finally, you get your garments shipped, and then you send them off to be dyed, screen-printed, tagged, and packaged.

Or...use a manufacturer who can do all of that for you. I'll admit that finding a world-class garment laundry outside of California is difficult, but I guarantee you that you can get a lot of the way there for dollars a garment cheaper if you look hard.

> Then you deliver them to the places you sold to, and then 3 months later they pay you. Note that this is the first time you see any money in this whole process..!

90 days payment terms is pretty bad. Most of the industry works on 30. Domestic business in a lot of Asia is 10-21 days from delivery. You should look into opening an L/C. The fee is not so bad and you get good security.
Nope, but then I saw them do the live demos from the audience and was pretty disappointed. The canned ones performed significantly better.
A curious melancholy infests the New Yorker’s profile. You wonder, for example, to what extent Zuckerberg actually possesses an interior life of his own. He doesn’t seem passionate about much in particular. At the age of 26, he bought a car but only after asking his friends for suggestions (he wanted something “safe, comfortable, not ostentatious” and ended up with an Acura TSX, which Wikipedia defines as “an entry-level luxury car”).

So, err... According to Wired, your interior life is best represented by your interest in cars?
Darn, and I thought it was going to be about Children of Men.
Alternatively, if you jumped around energetically enough (like a Klingon, say) you might generate the acoustic radiation pressure needed to make your own touchable hologram. Of course the two theories are not mutually exclusive.
This article is a bit of a slog (but well worth reading) -- I summarized the most interesting part to me (birthrates and why) here: http://quippd.com/show/4304/Where_have_all_Europes_babies_go...
What shoe?