skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not one right rule to follow. It all depends on investment trends, the cost of maintenance, the competition for tenants.

In Australia, where 98% of people live on 2% of its land, buying can make sense because it is a hedge against travelling time. As population grows, competition becomes more intense for suburbs that are closer to the city, buying a plot means that you have got a shorter commute than future residents.

Ownership is also a hedge against rent rises. A retiree who is risk averse may find it better to own the property they live in rather than try to pay rent on a fixed pension.
I find that fast compile turnaround helps me stay engaged with the problem. Even a 30 second delay gives me time to get distracted by one of the temptations that surround us all. The ironic result is that I sometimes actually think less about what I'm doing when I have to tolerate these delays. Ideally, when I catch myself doing this, I make myself stop and think, but sometimes I'm tired and lack the patience.

On the other hand, in a fast-turnaround environment like Lisp, I can make three stupid mistakes in about a minute, and when I realize I'm thrashing, I still have all the context in my head to figure out what I should really do.
At some point, hopefully not too far away, retargeting will be considered a sin.
Skrebbel is right and wrong at the same time. It is true that court rulings do not define new legislation in the Dutch legal system[0], but he's wrong when he says judges don't consider court rulings. Especially rulings from higher courts (e.g. the "Hoge Raad", which literally means "High Council" and is our version of the Supreme Court, or European ECHR and ECJ) are important sources when interpreting the law. So there are some factual issues with what Skrebbel is saying, but the spirit of his post (that court rulings aren't as important as they are in Common Law systems) is correct, especially considering the fact that this is a ruling from a lower court.

Here is a quick translation of the relevant part of the Wikipedia article JCB_K linked:

Jurisprudence is a source of law in the Netherlands. Precedents created by Dutch jurisprudence are less strict than those from rulings from courts in the United Kingdom [and other Common Law system like the United States].

An example of the relevance of jurisprudence is the interpretation of legal terms that can be explained differently depending on your perspective. E.g. terms like "reasonable", "reasonable timeframe" and "carefully" [note that these terms are a bit hard to translate. I seem to have forgotten their exact counterparts in US legal lingo, but you get the gist of it]. Judges have the role of interpreting the meaning of terms like that when there is some ambiguity in the particular context.

Judges don't just make something up when interpreting the law: they use interpretation methods and methods of reasoning.

Interpretation methods:

1: grammatical,

2: legal history [e.g. looking at the logs from the parliament when discussing the law as it was proposed to figure out their reasoning]

3: systematic [in the context of the system of the law],

4: teleological [i.e. looking at the goal of the law].

Methods of reasoning:

1: A contrario: things that aren't mentioned specifically in the law are excluded. E.g. a law that is only [and specifically] about employment contracts, in which case freelance contracts are excluded.

2: analogy [note: analogical interpretation is disallowed in criminal law, which isn't mentioned by the Wikipedia article, due to article 1 of the Dutch penal code: "No fact is punishable other than from a preexisting written law" (loosely translated with "written" added for clarity).

IANAL, but from what I remember from my short stint in law school (I actually completed the courses relevant to this issue ;), the Wikipedia article is reasonably correct although some of the wordings are a bit unfortunate.

As to the matter at hand in the article being discussed here: I don't think I can say anything meaningful about it without actually seeing the exact text of the court ruling, because discussing it based on a article by a foreign journalist who may or may not have understood the legal implications correctly seems a bit precarious.

[0]: At least generally, there may be exceptions e.g. rulings of European courts that tend to have a little more maneuverability, but still derive their judgements from things like the ECHR.
It is retail and it is customer support. The minimum standard for acceptable human interaction is several sigma above observed behavior, unfortunately.
Video: Watch [from inside] as Japanese motorist's car is engulfed by the tsunami
Digg's fatal flaw seems to be their lack of an exit strategy. Digg avoided being acquired, didn't go public, nor did they take any serious risks to diversify their product offerings.
He mentions .NET in the same breath as the JVM because they're almost identically positioned and have almost identical capabilities.
That's absolutely right.

All discussions about the merits of investing in houses must be compared to something else that is available at the moment.

Cash may be king now, but one needs to always be aware of inflation.

I am surprised though at his figures for housing:

> Housing returned 0.4% per year from from 1890 to 2004.

I wonder where he got that from.

There are times when you can buy for less than the cost of replacement, due to rising cost of building materials, labour et c.
I too thought so at first, but after reflection I think it's worse.
Does anyone have a larger version of the last picture?
Does anyone know: did or would YC release a list of the universities accepted team members graduated from, or went to at time of acceptance?
I find AdSense ads (both on Google and on network sites) useful relatively often, I'd say I click one a week or so.
What a great example of everything that is wrong with tech journalism today.

If you title something "Why XXXX Happened," I figure you've got about 3 grafs to get to start your explanation. This article jumps from Arrington to Rose to Twitter without even starting to dig into how such a hot product "failed."

Stop obsessing over celebrity and focus on information and analysis.
Maybe a periodic table of subreddits would help?
Another possible deep sea oil spill? Matterhorn Seastar Oil Spill
I don't recall Team America being about carefully following international law and getting approval from the UN after the majority or regional governments ask for help. I guess I need to re-watch that movie.
My problem with Digg was that the community became hugely negative, at least it was when I got out. Nearly 2/3 of comments were getting knocked below 0 and like 9/10 submissions got downmodded to oblivion by (I'm guessing) bots. I knew people who would self-upmod using junk accounts simply to get their submission to stay at 1 long enough to actually get genuine mods.
If this grows in popularity I imagine they would have to change the name due to Facebook's pending trademark on "Face*".
I stopped using Digg a long time ago, but the nonchalant way Sarah throws 6 years of work from hard-working people at Digg really pisses me off.
Just out of curiosity what sort of site would that be? I would be really interested to hear of the use cases that cause a single powerful db server to be insufficient.

Of course over a certain scale this is normal, so im not interested in a site with 50 millions users, but cases where a single DB is not the best solution.
Right - Note, that those are rates per hour. Which means for the .8/Hour, you are seeing 19.2 mSv/Day. You hit that 100 mSv total in about a week. That's bad for two reasons, #1, it's exceeding the 100 mSv baseline, but also, I have to believe that getting that much radiation in a week, instead of a year, can't be good for you either.
Richard Feynman: Seeing Things
I can state unequivocally as an ex-IDG employee (IDG = Macworld, PCWorld, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, etc.) that Digg was a highly coveted yet nearly 99% failed tactic to turn tech news into instant traffic "success". But that 1 in a million chance of a "win" made everyone repeat that classic line from Dumb and Dumber, "So, you're saying I have a chance!"

Once a new story went out, particularly anything Apple related, all friends of the editor would be IM'ed within minutes to Digg It. Some editors had enormous posses at their disposal that they would leverage "occasionally" to get their story at least in the Hot Story block in the right-hand-column (which was probably the equivalent of being on HN's front page for 30 minutes or so).

You can understand why so many editors grew to hate Digg. It made them feel cheap about their "art", which had really become consumed by all things Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Digg was the drug dealer. That elusive front page was the ultimate high few could ever experience, but everyone kept trying to take a hit.
These are the same guys (Aaron Greenspan) who were involved in an early lawsuit w facebook already.
In case you're wondering whose annotations those are, IIRC, the marginalia are from Vinod Khosla.
Not gonna happen. FaceCash is ours.

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=7...
This is Paul.

Sorry, I don't blog much anymore.

And no, Dodgeit was not first. Roger and I emailed many many times, but he'll happily admit Mailinator preceded Dodgeit by about 6 months (even heard him say it on a podcast once). Not that it matters much.
My answer to How can I know if my web startup idea is worth launching?
There's a rich history of research into the nature and methods of problem solving (Polya et. al), the role of unconscious (e.g. walk away from the lab/tools) and so on. The more intractable the problem, the more it required being able to walk away from the tools (see anecdotal history about discovery of the structure of benzene for example).

The experience of "coding", with its quick feedback loop hypnotizes people into an unproductive leash. The nature of the problem, the language and tools either help or exacerbate.

My experience is that most hard problem solving needs at least three approaches - I paraphrase them as 1. Zoom Out, 2. Zoom In 3. Zoom away. Debuggers aside, I found that program construction in interpreted languages (my work was in Lisp) supported with a good toolset and modularity in design, allowed productive zoom-in, zoom-out whereas programming in "edit/compile/debug" languages even with the toolset and modularity required "zooming away" more often. Could be that the context switching cycle of edit/compile/debug is a cognitive tax that really hampers hard problem solving or when things are not working as expected.
http://www.beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/singlepage/bgipc....
I'd have to see their actual email before I decide whether you are over-reacting. If they actually wrote "Fu, it's your problem, etc." then no you aren't over-reacting at all. I very much doubt that I would summarize their email the same way, however.
Anyone else find it ironic that all the people flying out of Tokyo are exposing themselves to more radiation than those who remain there?
Hey, Stavrosk! Just a shout-out. Nice concept:

http://www.deadmansswitch.net/ -- add an SSL cert

JB
I received a few up-votes and "thanks" for this answer (which was also well received when reused for other similar questions on Quora) so I thought I'd share it here with the HN community as well.

It's basically personal beliefs and lessons I've learned along the way while building our new startup, Venturocket and I thought many here could relate.

Hopefully others will suggest additional points that I've left out.
Finally found: best way to discover granted Facebook app permissions
You gotta let me see something before I have to sign up for an account. Top lists, maybe?
I think you're right, the top-level control of reddit is gone but the users have almost completely taken over that role. Reddit recently blogged about how IAmA is now the most popular subreddit and it was entirely a creation of the community.

Reddit even has a strong female community which is rare for any of these sorts of sites; again that wasn't created by fiat from the company but generated by the users. Reddit just needs to keep the lights on and the leadership and passion of the community will keep it going.
Noble M600 4.4 V8 Supercar
As someone who grew up mesmerized as a little kid by a large framed work by Escher in our house, this is an awesome read. :)
How do you accept credit cards?
Hehe, actually yes. Don't get me started on Quora. :)
Feedback appreciated from Facebook API hackers!
Does that break Facebook comments and like buttons? (not that I'm complaining)
Middle East protests: Country by country
I'm not seeing a cash register - I'm seeing a personal payments system. For an online cash register check out http://vendhq.com/
Hah - I have a 16 page business plan outlining something very, very similar, dated 4/3/2008! Never did anything with it! I just pulled up that business plan to see the similarities and they are many. I was going to market initially to persons with certain health problems (diabetes, food allergies, etc...) and monetize via nutritionists and coupons like you mentioned. YourPantry was the name I came up with. Just goes to prove that no ideas are unique!

EDIT: The main diff in our approaches was that I was going to scan UPC codes - not any special hardware outside of a smart phone or a barcode scanner I looked at having contract manufactured (in 2008 not many had smart phones that could scan barcodes).
This is kiosk mode, so it's designed to let merchants place a kiosk in-store in order to decrease lines. It's a restricted version of the full application. You'll have to sign up your business to use the real thing.

https://www.facecash.com/kiosk.html?id=3587
Either through the merchant's Authorize.Net account or through manual entry of what was processed on an external swipe machine.

The point is to get everyone to take FaceCash, of course!
I had the same problem -- I posted a "Tell HN" that bombed, but that was probably because I posted it on Saturday morning on St. Patrick's Day weekend without realizing it.

There are definitely ways to game the system and post at times that will get you the biggest, most active audience... but in your case, I feel like the topic titles also made a difference: the first title asks for participation, but the second title says "Hey, look at this!"
As a facebook hacker, I'd be interesting in seeing what the instructional popups you made look like.

I think asking for the bare minimum as you need it is absolutely the way to go as tons of people bounce out of apps that need all kinds of permissions before they get to even see the app. I get sick of seeing apps that want offline publish access before I even know what the app is because the developers are lazy and just request all permissions available.
Whoops - now I'm seeing it - it the landing page. Is there anything actually behind there?

https://www.facecash.com/register.html
Seen on twitter:

"U.S. fires 110 tomahawk missiles, each costs $569,000. That's more than 5 years of NPR federal funding in less than an hour."

Anyone else think Ike was right about that military industrial complex?
> Some researchers have seized upon blogging as a great way to ... reach their peers ... I am sure the audience here knows of many ...

Will the audience with such knowledge kindly enlighten the rest of us?
This morning, I posted this - but no love! :-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344169
Yes, quite a bit, actually!
This is one thing you will never ever see happen to Google Chrome or stock Android browsers as Google is essentially a search marketing company.
I just don’t get LinkedIn, do you?
Doesn't mean Facebook wouldn't try.
Interestingly, as an avid poker player and sports better, I only bet big on sure things and bet small on the things I think won't pay out.
8 hours of work for a program like Ycomb is not a lot of work. You can find the time to do it. Plus, you could have shot the video with your camera phone and they would have been fine with it - as long as you were witty and accomplished the goal of the video.
Actually, there is https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr, but the JVM is still the preferred platform for Clojure (although I'm sure the CLR version would be picked up once someone comes around that cares enough or in the hypothetical event that Oracle would ruin the JVM platform somehow).
correct.

the pratt parser is just a way of implementing such a parser.

to be technical, it is a form of left-corner parsing
I'm just saying the validation is not required. There are different ways to ensure the IPN is valid.
Original PDF: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/files/Sarasvathy-En...

Thanks for linking this. It looks interesting.
I got disconnected after a couple minutes.
I liked the tenant-rent analogy xlarge:large:small::house:room:couch.

tl;dr version: The author is insinuating that Reddit doesn't have enough money to rent a house, so its renting a couch, and so it can't complain if the other occupants have an all-night rave party.
"It's actually the opposite - even a mundane part like the lug bolt you describe will go through several hardening processes, and post-processing for corrosion resistance. If not, you're asking for a huge failure on a critical part."

That's at least party due to the different design requirements and constraints that mass-produced for-profit engineers work under. That lawnmower wheel screw was specified not purely on the engineering requirements to "hold the wheel on", but on various other important-to-the-company-designing-them-for-sale requirements, probably including things like: use the cheapest fastener that we already keep in stock that'll do the job, use a fastener that will reliably last the length of the warranty period at the lowest cost, use a fastener that's compatible with out existing automated manufacturing tools. On top of that there will have been other decisions already made like "use an existing wheel assembly" and "ensure the mowers packaged size and weight fit in with existing supply chain logistics".

Once designers are freed from existing manufacturing industry constraints, I like to hope that one day we'll download a push-mower design from somewhere like Google Sketchup, where the designers were perfectly happy to "over engineer" critical components and where the design requirements might include ideas like "should last long enough to pass on to your grandchildren", and "will still be able to be repaired at the side of the road with a flatblade screwdriver and a rock".
Which python port are you using? Last time I looked all the python Readability code I could find was either incomplete, old, or buggy.
Bug: The "Back" button isn't removed after adding a nested item (e.g., Capuccino -> Large).

Also, you've got a typo on "Cappuccino" :)
They won't.
Two I have visited in the past:

Economics:
Baseline Scenario: http://baselinescenario.com/

Asian History:
Frog in a Well: http://www.froginawell.net/
Thanks, we'll look into it. And I'll try to find that typo!
+1.

I don't want to be able to make my own '83 Pinto, or to have the success or failure of my general purpose manufacturing tools to be judged on whether it's capable of producing an identical copy of an Aston Martin DB9.

I wonder how far away from being able to produce all the custom components needed to build a vehicle that'd run me round my neighbourhood in reasonable safety running off biodeisel with reasonable efficiency?
Forking Processes in Ruby and Randomness
cool app. From a conversion perspective, might want to try and show the product a bit more on the landing. Too much text for my taste. $0.02
That could be a nice marketing strategy.
Berita Terdepan - good news: Earthquake hits Sukabumi
Does this have anything to do with your certainty?
http://www.allfacebook.com/aaron-greenspan-facebook-2009-05
I think Ferfal often overstates things quite a bit.
You mean anti-establishment.
I've posted a "Looking for Technical Cofounder" post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342295. Project does involve machine learning algorithm. If you're local to the Bay Area, I'd be interested in connecting. My contact info is in my profile. I didn't happen to see any contact info listed in yours.
An indestructible, waterproof smartphone. I'd buy that.
oo-so
I believe I found a few bugs with the kiosk mode:

1. Items are not grouped together when the same item is added at a later time (or is this a feature?)

2. Updating an order changes the price but not the quantity.

3. When selecting the quantity of an item, there is no visual feedback to let you know what number you have clicked on. It's also not obvious that +10 means 11.

4. Orders that have more than 1 item do not contain bullet points.

See http://i.imgur.com/Onpkb.png for some examples.
This was within 10-20 seconds of playing with it, there are probably many more.
What makes the 'best' playlist??

You need to explain more about what the site does.
I have no idea how it is shared, how I get my playlists into the site, etc. etc.

I'm not willing to just go down the path because it is there, you have to interest me and lead me a bit.
Randall Munroe infographic puts radiation dosages in perspective
I like your points (3), (4) and (6). I thought (1) and (2) were true, but in a sort of vacuous sense... that is, you can ask yourself those questions, but - for most people - the answer will simply always be "yes" because people tend to fall in love with their own ideas. It's hard to be objective when asking yourself questions about yourself. Maybe some rare people can truly pull it off, but I like the emphasis on (a), external feedback, and (b) "does it scratch an itch?"

Short of doing some formal market research, or something like @sgblank's "Customer Development" stuff, I think those points are the best place to start.
ask for less from Facebook. I didn't even try it based on your permission requests. I'd recommend asking for just the minimum of what you need and then if they need to access a feature that requires more ask for it then. Do a progressive rights request or have some video explaining the service.

Right now with the simple design and just text most people won't offer you their Facebook rights.
how to do it in python: http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htm
When do you think is the best time to post?
I'll definitely be able to show you soon. We're finishing up a few final touches on our beta, but signup now and we'll send you a beta invite asap! We should be ready on Monday. http://feedtopic.com has a signup on the beta roadblock.

In the meantime, I can give you a quick description of what we have going on: each link that requires an extra permission not asked up front has a listener that will check what permissions are available. If it's missing a permission, we actually trigger a Facebox (from @defunkt's facebook lib). The Facebox defaults are really clean. Light overlay, slight shadow, nothing fancy. We put in different messages for different actions, one for example: "Yes you can like someone's post from FeedTopic! We need a new permission from Facebook to do this for you. Click the 'Add Permission' button to bring up Facebook's Permissions page". We have a button that looks SUPER clickable, like if you didn't click it you'd feel horrible because it has nice css gradients and looks like it's 3D. Underneath we have a message that says: "We won't publish anything without your direct permission to any part of Facebook, promise". Once you click the button, it will show you the FB permission prompt. yes, it's multiple steps, but it's clean and makes people feel really confident. BTW, liking something on feedtopic is probably the last thing people are going to the site for ;) It's just a small piece of info I can give away for now before the launch.
If you're arguing against standardization in parts - that's an uphill battle - sure once we have replicators it doesn't matter, but that's futurism.

I'm actively fighting for open source hardware and standards, but a big part of this is finding off the shelf components - look at Http://octopart.com for a good example of what this looks like.
"possible"