skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even arbitrage, since embedded in the price increase is the value of your hard physical labour in carrying heavy bottles around. Sure, you can make money doing sales and heavy lifting for markup, but it's not a strategy - its a self-employed service job.

A guesstimate of how many bottles you can reasonably expect to sell in an hour suggests that most of us on HN wouldn't consider it to be "decent coin" either. Although if the objective is to show the guy pestering you to buy things on that Thai beach is showing more entrepreneurial ability than some rocket scientists, Sebastian's choice of examples does that.
heh, thanks for the feedback, never really thought of this. I'll keep it in mind as I progress.
4chan would go bananas.
No matter how an estimate is provided or billing is done, defining "done" is still done in the exact same way: requirements document, change requests, acceptance testing.
Exactly the point the doctors used (without the statistics). Sure, it could have been coincidence but why say there was no chance it was a side effect? In fact, since her symptoms are a known side effect it is more likely it was not just a coincidence, not so?
Cordain has done a lot of great research in this area:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10489816
The first example with the social network buttons was probably his inspiration, and the variable name is a hold-over.

Also, with such a small code base as that, a minifier like Closure Compiler is pointless. I ran it on http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home with "Advanced" checked:

Original Size:	2.13KB (940 bytes gzipped)
Compiled Size:	1.28KB (660 bytes gzipped)
Sounds good to me! Looking forward to it.
There are many reasons dpkg is inappropriate:

0) It shouldn't require sudo access.

1) It must support multiple versions installed side-by-side for different users.

2) dpkg only supports a fraction of the potential users. package.el supports them all by virtue of inclusion in Emacs.
I thought this was going to be a puff piece before I opened it but the most interesting thing--and perhaps this is posted elsewhere and I merely missed it--is it has basic Facebook financials.

$2 billion revenue for $400 million profit gives a P/E ratio of 125. That is simply nuts.

Now I fully realize that the stockmarket is driven on the expectation of future value rather than the simpler view of the ability to produce income, which is why "growth" companies trade much higher than their P/Es but 125? That's like the height of the dot.com era pricing.

Remember at 600 million users, if you exclude those who are illiterate, have no access to computers or the internet, are infirm or simply too young, there's only so much bigger Facebook can actually get (given ~6 billion people on Earth you'd exclude at least half of them).

The counterargument to that is that Facebook has only scratched the surface of monetizing those users and I guess that might be true but I'm also of the opinion that there isn't as much room to monetize as some seem to think.

The usual MO for a VC-backed company is to go all out to build scale. They'll burn through millions of dollars to do it without concern for how to generate money. Why? Because once you have scale many things become easier, even possible.

Facebook has scale and can only generate $400 million in profit a year and only a 20% profit margin? That's less than impressive.
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Spam takes another hit: email authentication now available in Google Apps
I went to school to become an English teacher, but English courses at the collegiate level were intensely frustrating for the reasons you describe: vacuousness, self-aggrandizement, and a deliberate shift away from clarity and understandability.

Were it in my power, I'd have all students take courses in applied rhetoric. It's amazing how quickly all the bull goes away when everyone is able to see through it.

Again, I mostly agree with you, and would be okay with DI, by and large, if it were largely in flow-chart format.

The scripts I've seen (non-DI) are screenplays, and the schools that use these assess the teachers on their ability to memorize them. These scripts are blocked out down to 30-second intervals, which is ridiculous.

I work in a tutoring center which uses DI (in practice, if not in name), and I've seen great gains come from it. But every so often, it's necessary to break the script due to a larger issue at hand, one that the standardized diagnostic quizzes don't catch.

As an example, I had a student break down and start crying because she didn't understand how to multiply polynomials (and was in danger of failing her math course). After consoling her, we went all the way back to multiplying multi-digit numbers together, at which point I showed her how the multiplication algorithm works in expanded form (e.g. 123 * 256 = (100 + 20 + 3) * (200 + 50 + 6)), at which point she was able to see the parallel, and very quickly figured out multiplication of polynomials.

All the diagnostic quiz tested, though, was whether or not she could multiply, not whether or not she understood the algorithm. You could point to this and say "That's a failure of the diagnostic quiz", but I think it's probably more indicative of the impossibility of standards (whatever they may be) being completely and totally comprehensive and complete.
There are two things that make this particular case so interesting.

(1) Facebook is still technically a < 500 shareholder company, subject to a "special case" set of rules for reporting. In 1964, regulators started requiring companies with more than 499 shareholders to publicly report their financial results. (source: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/the-500-investor-thre...
) Facebook isn't there, but if EVER there were a case where this old-fashioned rule should not apply, it would be here. Goldman-Sachs IS (indirectly) benefiting from a "free" pool of money that comes from taxpayers. It's no longer a private-company issue.

(2) employee-owned shares typically do not count toward the 500-investor limit. But once those shares are sold on a private exchange — often after employees leave the company — they are no longer exempt. This is interesting because Facebook has "1700+" employees, which is far more than the kind of small "we need protection" private companies that the 1964 rule set out to protect.
I have actually used a slightly modified version of this recently. I added a few things to track line numbers and some more standardized output formatting. you can see it here:

https://github.com/lukesandberg/Regex/raw/master/tests/minun...

https://github.com/lukesandberg/Regex/raw/master/tests/minun...

all in all, if you want to get something working quickly with a simple c project this is the way to go.
Absolute rubbish, there is no such thing as a completely safe vaccine.
> We can make software do anything we want (almost).

We can build new software to do anything we want (if we know how to program). But some individual somewhere cannot have Google behave in some specific way. In that sense Google is very much a physical object of the world.
Trust me, US$10k would be a lot more realistic and would probably get you more clients too.
I think you missed the section of his letter stating that part of his decision was based on his internal desire to hurt others. He truly felt if unchecked his darkness would lead him to take life other than his own. His decision for him was not only a release from his torment, but a protection of others.

Rest well, Bill. I never knew you directly but after this insight into who you were, I do wish I had.
This varies a lot by vaccine. The typhoid-fever vaccine I took in 2003 has "trivial side effects" in the 90-in-100 range, I think --- namely, you feel sick for a few days.
I've been trying to clean those out, but if you see more big ones feel free to send them my way.
It's not brave, it just makes business sense and is a dick move. The OS you're running is just as good as the one you were running before. The applications you were running before are just as good as they are now.
3 great App Stores for your Web application
> its hard enough finding a good java programmer; imagine how difficult it would be to hire good Scala programmers from the small eclectic community of Scala programmers.

It seems likely that it's hard to find good Java programmers precisely _because_ the skilled devs are tired of Java and see Scala as a way out.
You don’t need that jQuery parameter (in fact, I think that makes it invalid JavaScript). ie.

jQuery(function($) {
// your code using $
});

You might be thinking of the recommended method of creating a closure, in which the code is executed immediately rather than upon page load:

(function($) {
// your code using $
})(jQuery);
It seems that it might be more helpful to whitelist sites. The web grows too quickly, and the mass of spam sites overwhelmingly so. If I had some way to blacklist sites, I'd end up spending a lot of time doing so. In fact, it could quickly take up most of my search time.

If, though, we could whitelist sites, it seems that results would get cleaner faster. I don't care about how many bad sites are out there, as long as helpful sites make it to the top. Plus, I typically use just a few sites to access reliable information anyway (the number's about 7, right?), so if I can whitelist results from those sites, I'll probably find my desired content more quickly.

What about the case when there are 30 spam sites listed before 1 good site? That hasn't happened too often for me. Instead, the results I'm looking for are usually just 4 or 5 spots down the front page, and very occasionally on the second page.

White listing seems like it would still be faster and easier for now.
Any chance that someone has started to terminate the botnet owners, rather than the botnets themselves?
People like me are already hitting octopart first (via browser plugin, even). I'll only move on to digikey if I don't find what I'm looking for, or I'm already buying things there and want to combine shipping.
There's no software trial mechanism in the App Store.

If your code isn't proprietary, you don't need that :D
haha, I love HN; One person saying how US$1k is toooo much and one going 10k is more realistic. I have already-built platforms which I build all my apps so it's relatively quick. Shifting my pricing to 10k would be kind of complicated, I'd have to buy a domain and tie in the hosting, resubmit to HN(afterwhich you guys would go..AH, this guy again!) so I'll just stick with 1k and see how it goes.

But of course, I wouldn't mind charging 10k, believe me ;)
I just told my wife: think of that button as being "Report Abuse".

She's been applying it ever since quite efficiently.
Couldnt we apply this argument to ANY company goldman invests in? So what is the call to action here? Goldman should not play bank and thus not lend money?
That's an extremely funny statement if it's meant to be ironic. Almost like "unless you are a %w[Politician, Clergyman, Philosopher] you have no business making up your own mind about %w[politics, religion, the meaning of life]."
I so wish people would write out "Rest in Peace."

I know the intent is not to be disrespectful in any way, but the letters RIP just seem so inappropriate for such a serious and important sentiment.
Yes. I long for the days of Winamp 2. But it's a losing battle...
Ask HN: What novel features would lend a new marketplace a competitive edge?
In the process of creating a new marketplace, I'm trying to think of novel features that would give the marketplace an advantage over existing ones.

One example I have considered is to be able to choose an arbitrary "basket" of services, and find the optimal set of providers of those services, for the customer's desired price and quality ranges.

I would greatly appreciate any other ideas!

Perhaps the following question will stir up your thinking: What annoyances have you experienced with online marketplaces, that could be fixed with novel features?

Thanks!
I think Turtledoveland is a fun app. Is it possible to sell a screensaver through the Mac App Store?
There is a pretty good desktop app store which drives a lot of impulse purchases: Steam. Sure, it's game specific, but they've done a very good job with it.
Ah, nice! That's a long history - you've held out better than some of the other tools I remember using for Palm, like CASL, HB++ and AppForge. (Also amusing that Palm got their start on the Newton, with Graffiti.)
http://www.jabs.org.uk/

Look at this site and their forum for a broader perspective on vaccines and side-effects. Some highly qualified people from both sides of the fence express opinions here.
Although I was initially skeptical about lombok's "let's hack the private compiler APIs", I must admit that their recent val hack is awesome:

http://projectlombok.org/features/val.html

I find it frustrating that these guys can hack in "val" but JDK7 has token crap like the "diamond operator".
All posters, except thrill, seem to have fundamentally misread the article. It isn't about Facebook or GS for that matter. Its concern is that several banks including GS have a "too big to fail" subsidy. That subsidy is an implied insurance against failure. Let's say you are GS management and you have two possible investment choices: 1) A safe boring sure thing financed with little leverage that will bring in somewhere between 5% and 10% yearly return, or 2) A speculative leveraged investment that would bankrupt the company if it failed, but would make 50% a year if it succeeds. Which would you do? If 2 fails, the taxpayers pick up the bill and you can try again, if it succeeds you get substantially richer. This isn't capitalism in the sense that you learned in school. It's crony capitalism of the sort that the US has always rightly criticized in "other" countries. It doesn't make it right when it's practiced in the US.
Yogi
If I may - I will highly suggest you read Power of Now - chunk at a time, randomly, start to end whatever fits your bill. I see the seeds of acceptance in you so may be you have already read it - if not, please do.
For the same reason people don't write everything in Javascript. It is not the global optimum language any more than any other language is, and there are tasks where it is easier in programmer terms to write in another language that can have stronger guarantees or a better DSL for some task or whatever than Javascript. As more and more stuff moves to the client an expanding range of client tasks falls under this category.
It would be actually easier to hire a good Scala than a good Java programmer because most Scala programmers are good. PG has an essay on this phenomenon somewhere.

I'm also not confident that Java will "catch up" to Scala. There's more to Scala than concurrency or functional programming. Type inference, first class objects, short syntax for FP, persistent datastructures, a better object system, etc.
Since you are familiar with SBCs, do you happen to know any other board with similar CPU and memory config but having RS232/RS485 Connections on them?
Instead they have a HUGE beg banner. Gah. It's like PBS donation mongering.
I think a better title would be: why are we pumping up the next bubble with debt rather than equity?

I don't really worry about Goldman Sachs or Facebook. They are both best of breed and they handle themselves very well. The real danger here is that we are entering an era where risk capital is being financed through the debt, rather than the equity, markets. This is entirely inappropriate as most risk capital is lost and the 10% or so that does return is supposed to make up for the other 90%. Can you imagine how bad the current financial crisis would be if 90% of real estate was not just underwater but completely worthless?
Ask HN: Are you a solo creator?
I know that YC prefers having a team of co-founders, but I've found that working solo is great for others me included!

Did you plan, design, and develop your own idea to launch? If so, I'd like to showcase your work on a new interview site I've started:

http://www.madebyone.com

Please email me: hello{at}madebyone.com and we'll get the interview rolling.
If you can buy gold with dollars lent to you at excessively low interest rates while the taxpayers shoulder the risk that gold prices might crash, that would be a viable way to take advantage of the situation.

But I was asking how to improve the situation. Does buying gold improve the situation in some way that is not obvious to me?
No really, can somebody explain why institutions like this are allowed to have such advantages over their competition?

That's easy: capturing of the political process by large entrenched players.
Million Dollar Consulting (http://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-Consulting-Updated-Prof...) suggests charging on value created (vs cost based pricing or time and materials). This may be a share of future revenue based on your work or a fancy sales pitch charging x% of the millions of dollars your work will save the client.
How The Recession Changed Us
I'm not sure splitting it up is the solution. But I 100% agree, it's become a bloated piece of crap. I've thought this for a long time now. Anyone have any alternatives, that aren't something like MythTV? I just want a lightweight multimedia app for my Mac (VLC doesn't have a great "library" feature, so that's a nogo for me... but something like VLC). VLC is my favorite app ever.
I use iTunes on Windows and Mac to manage a 300GB music collection. Never lost data, speed fine after first import and sync (to iPod an iPhone) works fine. I have auto sync off though, obviously.
It is common for people to prefer no child to a child with substantial medical problems. Hence embryo selection, prenatal genetic testing, abortion, adoption etc. When one considers that it is common for parents to know someone with an autistic child, and increasingly rare for a parent to even hear of a child dying of MM or R, a prophylactic vaccine can seem not to justify the potential risk.

To put it another way, even if a person believed that there was only a 1% chance that there was a 1% increase in risk of Autism due to the vaccine, that would still be significantly more risk than death from measles. Although epidemiology is a science, vaccine sales are a business, and it is not unreasonable to weigh pharma's economic interests in vaccines that scale to the degree that MMR does. Pharma is not in general a philanthropic endeavor and a healthy skepticism regarding their products is not unreasonable.
Our knowledge of health is ever-changing. The ADA has been wrong before and will be wrong again. When this happens the ADA will simply revise its position. This is to be expected.

This research has been around for 11 years and to my knowledge has gone unchallenged and mostly ignored:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10489816

Just like the research showing that diabetic complications could be averted via normalizing blood sugars in the 1970’s or that gluten could actually be an allergen and that celiac disease is a real condition in the 1990’s.

As a vegetarian or vegan you can definitely survive, but you won't thrive.
Ring in 2011 with Old School Apps
That's 2KB of code that depends on 180KB library just to rotate and fade few circles.

Nifty effect, but I don't see anything newsworthy about it. Can we stop the fascination with every thing that moves in a browser? DHTML is over a decade old now.
Browsers could/can show consistent pop-ups too (cf. http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/ & http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/desktop-...), and I hope the Web version of Twitter will support this soon.
Has someone actually made the case that Facebook is overvalued? My calculations suggest that its valuation is reasonable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2062222

That isn't to say, of course, that it's reasonable to finance buying its stock with implicitly-taxpayer-guaranteed loans. The calculations I linked above suggest that Goldman thinks there's a very large chance that this investment will turn out to be worthless.
I see. I am feeling very strongly about this, so, granted, the title may have had a bit more impact than warranted. However, I disagree with you in the following points:

1) You don't have to use the same title as the news topic. I don't understand your sprise that NYT would use such a title. The correct usage is to use quotation marks if the title is used verbatim.

2) The main point of the OP is not to delve into literary theory on the relationship between the "text" and the novel, etc., which is of academic interest (though I find that very interesting as well, having worked on stylometry for my thesis). The issue is exactly to "rehash the same social debates over again," you may be tired of these, and that's OK; but evidently they are utmost significance to a lot of non-academician people (have a look at user comments in the debate)

3) I still don't quite see why the "content doesn't match the title very well", since you haven't made it very clear which part of the title you found misleading. The word "bowdlerize" comes up in most of the comment pieces and in user comments, too, so this is clearly bowdlerization.

My intent is not to continue pointless back&forth but to understand the (potential) problem.
Learn a dependent-typed programming language like Agda or Epigram or Coq.
It doesn't break down entirely though. Imagine we were all restricted to C++ for writing desktop software (although that's nonsensical, it's the case with JS and the web) - wouldn't it be reasonable to start developing other languages that compile to C++?

If you can output JS that's fast enough, why not?
right, a key point of this method is that they are doing transfer learning from the general gmail population to each individual user. the reason for this is that the data from each user is small and sparse, and has relatively little statistical power.

you simply cannot do this on a desktop system unless you pull in data from other users. you might be able to do that but: bandwidth, privacy concerns, and you might find you have to do just as much work to get the same performance.
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College or not?
I've been amused by that for a while - in effect, Google is trying to destroy it's own business model. With perfect searches, there would be no need for ads.
They fire losing coaches but not bad teachers because sports players want to win. Students do not.
The Great Freemium vs Free Trial Debate
How about "Production Django hosting made easy"?
Scrum Much? Agile Development By the Numbers
Apple has specifically mentioned that no trialware or Lite version of app is allowed on Mac App Store, and advise developer to host such version on their own. Good move by Apple.
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Except that your point is factually wrong, which is why you tried to backtrack. You should have deleted your post while you had the chance.
I totally, completely and unconditionaly agree with your last point: it is absolutely in the best interests of Google to respond to every query with relevant results, however it's formulated.

If 99% of Google users ask Google questions like they would a person, then Google should be able to provide answers; that is true even if only 10% of users used it that way.

My point however is not about Google: it is about the user. The user would gain from learning how search engines work, and formulate their queries accordingly.

It's often stated that users shouldn't be bothered to learn how to use your service, because "they have more important things to do" and "there are other services to choose from".

This is good advice for businesses (common sense, really); it is bad business to expect users to dedicate time and effort to use your system.

But I have a hard time accepting that this is an excuse for users to ever learn anything. At the same time as it is Google's responsibility to serve users as best it can, it is each user's responsibility to try to improve their mastery of such tools.
The blacklist does not only have to affect me, just throw in the blacklists of my social graph too. These are the people I trust.