skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's sad to hear. I really love living in a Place.
According to wikipedia, the city of Hangzhou, where his company is based, has per capita GDP of $14,972 USD. 14,972 / 12 / 20 = 62.83. A very rough figure, but gives some general idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou

[edit] 2009 figure, probably higher now.
"liquid fuel for electric cars" -- what if we used refined petroleum as a secondary energy source? we probably wouldn't even need a large electric motor any more.
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Ingenious I think! A fun way to learn!
Loads of great insight from people. One thing I'd add is that you may be better off moving away and pursuing what makes you happy and fulfilled. Additionally, there's a much better chance you'll get back on your feet financially doing this (you don't say how much debt is 'massive', so it's hard to judge that).

Two things you can't do. You can't help someone who doesn't want your help. And you can't help someone from a position of weakness. It's much easier to help people financially from a position of financial strength and stability, and easier to help someone emotionally from a position of emotional strength. Whatever your intentions are, you can't be effective until you're squared away with yourself first.

Good luck.
Social Media Study: 60% Say LinkedIn Is Most Important Social Network
Ask HN: Dashboard Stats
We are planning on setting a dashboard for info about our business. We are going to have the usual revenue, visitors, customer types and bugs displayed. I was curious as to what other startups were displaying to see if there was anything that we could possibly add that might be good to see.
the resources they extract from others labor

The meme that capitalism is exploitation should be considered harmful. In market societies, money is (in general) not forcibly extracted and trade certainly doesn't happen (in general) at the expense of others.
From http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/what-you-need-to-k...

"If there is a match found in the iTunes Store catalog, that track is automatically and immediately added to your iCloud store in 256Kbps, DRM-free iTunes Plus format. Even if you have a crappy 128Kbps mp3 rip, if iTunes Match can identify it, you'll immediately have access to the iTunes Plus version."

"If you don't renew the yearly $25 subscription, your iCloud store goes away. iTunes purchases will still be available to all devices, and anything that you have downloaded from iCloud to you devices you keep. This includes iTunes Plus versions you have chosen to replace older, lower quality rips in your main iTunes library. Apple explained that replacing those lower-quality rips is optional."
Edge cases can also be served by rentals though. If you could rent an oven or a bathroom as easily as you could rent a car, your home may be designed differently.
It sound more like he is describing Chrome OS, actually.
After having gone through the entire thread I wish I have your patience.
I found that the introduction to MIX (MMIX in the latest editions) at the beginning was hard to get through. I pick up TAOCP as a reference once in a while, and I agree that later parts of it are much more readable.
As far as I can tell, the suggestion that they might as well soon go about outlawing bartering is a sound one. Neither bartering nor bitcoins use US minted currency, both cannot be traced unless the participants volunteer that information, and both arguably can be used for "tax evasion". I'm not trained in tax law, but it wouldn't really surprise me if legally citizens were mandated to report barters on their taxes.

The IRS, unsurprisingly, is way ahead of you on this one

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html

and in fact you are obliged to report bartering income on your US taxes. Bartering, of course, remains perfectly legal, as long as you report it on your taxes.

Of course the IRS doesn't bother to enforce this on small-scale bartering. But if you set up a large-scale bartering network then they would. If you went one step further and threw in an intermediary system of "credits" so that transactions could take place indirectly (instead of swapping pigs for goats you swap pigs for credits and credits for goats) then they'd consider that as minting currency and take a rather dim view.
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The "Effectiveness of Science Videos" video does not imply that the proposed form of educational videos help students retain information past taking a test. The study provided simply states that students did better on the test after watching the "misconception first" video format than the traditional science video format.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
What exactly protects web developers from this problem? Badly written AJAX-based code could do this just as easily as client software. Web development isn't a magic cure-all and it certainly doesn't protect you from the problem described in this post.
From the article: "The tech supposedly makes the batteries up to ten times more efficient than their traditional counterparts, and even more importantly, the new tech is cheaper to produce."
> earning revenue in the form of taxes

What good are taxes for asset forfeiture beneficiaries and the prison guards' unions?
Given that the guy that wrote this article was clearly not very versed in Go and made some pretty basic mistakes, I'm not sure how you can say he is part of whatever "Go folks" conspiracy you are claiming.
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I think a combination of CSS reset[1] and CSS base[2] is the best way to go. Use CSS reset to remove all styles, and then use a standard CSS base to set a new set of defaults. That way you can easily distinguish between what styles are used for resetting, and which are actually meant for styling.

YUI does a really good job with this.

[1]http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/cssreset/
[2]http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/cssbase/
What percentage of users do this, that you can tell? If its 3% of users, it might not even be worth it.

That being said, why not allow a few registrations per IP address (versus 1). You'd hate to punish possible paying clients by preventing them from signing up for your service because someone else on the same IP did the same thing.

Finally, it may be worth it to send an email to the people you notice and ask how you can improve the product. It would let them know that you know what they are doing, but you still want them as paying customers, not to punish them or push them away.
It's more of early adapters (1997) vs. mainstream (2012).

The first is much more techy. And the latter is much greater in numbers.

Apple wasn't even a blimp on the radar screen back in 1997. Now they are a continent.
Send me a message at t at art-is-t.me with your contact info.

I'm not in the same position that you are, but let's take time and fix your problem somehow. I hope that we find a way.

Let's work on something stupid, do anything different.

You can trust me.
I have a netflix account but I still use redbox from time to time. It's nice picking up groceries and a movie on a Friday night. The $1.50 is pocket change and means a movie night doesn't have to be scheduled a week ahead of time.
Lojban illustrates perfectly that logic is not the most important feature of a language (since no one wants to, or perhaps even can, learn it to fluency). Arika Okrent deals with this in her (truly excellent) book In The Land Of Invented Languages.
That's more of a feature than a bug.

The opposite can be true too, I expected to get tanked at CMU and did pretty well (3.65 gpa, senior thesis, going to Facebook). If I'd gone to Ohio State like the majority of my peers from High School (Hilliard Darby High School has sent a whopping two people to top tier engineering schools (CMU and MIT) and none to Harvard) and even gotten a 4.0, I never would have believed I was more than a "talented state school kid."

At the end of the day, it's on you to put yourself in the most challenging situation you can possibly survive so that you can learn the most. Sheltering one's fragile ego never did much for anyone in the long run.
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Hey everyone! After 2 months of hard work making tons of changes and bug fixes, we finally just relaunched Venturocket today. If you already signed up for a beta, you should have received an email explaining the major changes. Either way, we'd love for you to check it out and help spread the word!

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I didn't say 'forcibly'. One way or the other, it's about others labor and assets being concentrated in the hands of people who squander them.
"New idea: A table on Wikipedia of software and the rights you give up by using it, compared to Free software and the rights you retain."

IMO, an obscure table on Wikipedia is not going to make anyone stop using software. EULAs were designed to make people "click through," and even if they DID read them, they generally wouldn't care if the software did what they needed it to do. I propose instead that whoever is interested in making Free software that they make quality software that people want to use. Apache, Firefox, and FileZilla are good examples of this (ok FileZilla may be stretching it, but see below). GIMP and OpenOffice are not.

Personally, I will jump through some hoops to get stuff working, but if it seems like it's going to be a time-sink just to edit a photo, open a .docx file or some other trivial task, I'm going to download and use whatever gets me there faster. I might get downvoted for saying this, but I'm just not going to waste my time configuring half-baked software when there are quality commercial alternatives available (and same goes in reverse, in the case of Apache, for example).
Bad example; life insurance is a service.
now I find myself needing an ocarnia .... thanks
... or "why you should never try to fool a million-people audience"

The obvious way to get images for hardware that doesn't run yet is to hire a game publisher partner to tweak a current offering into what it would look like on the new hardware.
ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/191/

For reference, I became reasonably fluent at reading and writing lojban. I think it's fantastic, but in the end there were few people to communicate with, no decent reading material, and too many other calls on my time.

I have a couple of ideas for web apps to help bootstrap lojban, but again, no time.

Shame, really. I like it.
How does more utility == more freedom?

I can lend physical books to friends, I can sell them when I'm done with them, I can buy them cheap from others who are done with them. That's freedom. And that's what the books I have the opportunity to buy on my Kindle lack (ability to lend some Kindle books in a lame way aside).

No matter how many more books I have on the Kindle because ebooks are cheaper, the only freedom I have with them are to read them on devices that Amazon decides to support and to lend my whole Kindle to someone to let them read something.
It is the fruits of their own labor. I agree this is a very large topic, and it's not really possible to discuss it here without spending all day composing.

It's more about personal responsibility and ethics than an economic system.
It's not really a herd mentality issue, it's more like if I'm going to quit my already boring job to start a company, I need to be passionate with what my new company is going to do. Maybe most entrepreneurial devs aren't into niche retail software, they'd rather write something that's directly useful to them... like a to-do list.
This is not just the Google method. It is also the Facebook, Twitter, and probably Quora method, where you defer thinking about monetisation in order to first better define your product and gain many users.

And in fact it's only obvious in hindsight that this method worked for Google. For a long time before they came up with AdWords they were burning through cash with no clear idea of how to generate profits. Their VC's were rather nervous at this.
Dynamic method invocation in Go
I, for one, would love to see you enlighten us about how you reached that colorful conclusion?

What exactly did you read to get there?
I agree. One correction though you are confusing Khan with Kahn. There is a difference.
yeah, I agree. I tried it and it was very interesting but the interaction was very bad. For instance, you can't peek then close and think ... once you peek you have to open all the way or it will move to next question.

I appreciate the imaginativeness of it but it isn't really an enjoyable interface for long term use.
I have worked in advertising so I wouldn't think I am naive about it.

The difference is what kind of claims you are making and what you are trying to make people do.

Public campaigns is often about discouraging people from no buying certain things.
Advertising in general is about getting people to buy things.

It's easier to get people to go to mcDonalds than it is to make them drop mcDonalds.
> Just normalize elements you want to normalize

In other words, manually do a reset. You can't say reset is unnecessary and then say first thing, just do a reset.
That's up to the author, but if you promise to delete it from all your devices, it's fine with me.
The numbers posted by this survey of 3000 people seems ridiculous.

"Fifty-three percent frequently or occasionally use social networks to provide feedback to a brand or retailer."

There is no way that number accurately reflects the larger social network user base. They must have interviewed self important social network douchebags.
The "termination" one highlights a particularly absurd aspect of the EULA. You are supposed to do something specific on termination of the license, but they aren't required to tell you it's terminated?
Banks in Germany are required to use two-step authentification and one-time passwords for money transfers. Measures like this would have prevented that 'hack'.

I actually lived in the US for a while and the so called security of American banks was completely incredible to me. It is true, Steam, Battle.net and Google accounts are significantly better protcted than the US bank accounts I had access to.
Also, gas tanks could be a lot bigger without ruining cars. Things would be slightly less efficient, but if the solution is just being reused then pumping thirty gallons at once might not be the end of the world (as opposed to the ten that currently fit in my tank). If the solution weighs as much as gasoline, then that's an extra 120 lbs when the tank is full, which is a lot, but it's <5% extra.
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I am saying that all there are no right way to tell a story.

No matter what history book you read it is excluding more things than it is including. That doesn't mean that you can't say factual wrong things. But the perspective of a history book can never be without an agenda nor without a perspective.
When fear strikes, remember that you can't lose what you don't have
You have two separate and unrelated issues here.

1. Your last venture failed.

2. You have to take care of your elderly parents, apparently in an obscure small town hundreds of miles from any tech or cultural center.

The first issue, business failure, is normal and not a problem at all. Entrepreneurs deal with failure. Either get on the horse again, or switch to a corporate job with a steady paycheck. Either choice is a valid one.

The second issue, elderly caretaking, if you don't want to do this, given that it sounds like they object to you being there, don't do it then. Let the rest of the family deal with them.

If despite this you are still committed to staying with the parents, then the obvious solution is to either do remote design work, or to start your own company. You are not going to be taking care of the parents 24 hours a day, this leaves much free time to create a product while enjoying low living expenses. Congratulations, you're a start up with almost no overhead.

If you prefer to take the corporate job to resolve issue #1, and still want to take care of the parents, then they will have to move to the city where your new high paying corporate job will be. If they are going to be dependent on you to take care of them, then you get to make the calls.
That is correct. Sometimes, I cannot find a clear place to 'hook' a comment into a discussion. I then tend to make a top-level comment. I should have made it clear that my response wasn't aimed at your text.
employee stock pool is a bit low -- should be 20% and up.
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What is the best way to go about starting to learn programming if you do work a 9-5? I am finishing school and paying for a website to be designed right now but would love to learn more...
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I enjoyed Gigerenzer's Gut Feelings quite a bit. I was afraid from the title that it would be Gladwell-ized into mush, but came away quite happy that it wasn't. As a counterpoint to K&T it's very good, less because of any disagreement in their findings, and more for the difference in perspective on the whole subject.
relocate close but not too close to your parents, and get a desk job where you actually have 50% free time to do whatever you want, start or contribute to some open-source software, rebuild your life for a few years then get back in the game, if you ever want to!
It sounds like you're treating an Apple building downtown differently than any other skyscraper. It's still just a big tower filled with people. Are you saying that SF is literally bursting at the seams and that it can't support another big office tower? What about the giant Transbay development plan? If you're going to stuff 12,000+ people anywhere, it's better to do it in an already dense area to take advantage of efficiencies.

Green Metropolis is an interesting read about big cities and sustainability: http://www.amazon.com/Green-Metropolis-Smaller-Driving-Susta...
Didn't some politicians try to shut down Paypal in its early days? I remember that from reading The Paypal Wars.
Without lambdas you use functors.
Actually I think it could be a reasonable example in one sense: it gets us on to the question of "what is the difference between a good and a service, anyway"?

A physical book is undeniably a good. But what about an eBook? An eBook is arguably a service -- you pay for the right to have a the words of the physical book show up on your little screen.
I have been doing this for some time. Not with Dropbox but sync'ing the encrypted files to my own server with rsync.

Install "Cryptkeeper" on Linux to have an tray icon to more conveniently mount and unmount.
I second this. I'm currently guilty of doing exactly what the OP is describing. The free tier was slightly too small for my needs, so I'm using two accounts for development. When I'm ready to use the service in production, I will gladly signup for a paid account.
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"We should be immersing students in good code. We should be burying them in idiom after idiom after idiom, allowing them to acquire the ability to program without explanation."

^ bingo.
Ironically one of our best bets for efreedoms is from the efforts of authoritarian countries looking to protect local industries from US content behemoths.
I don't pull all nighters on purpose, but if I have insomnia anyway I'll sometimes spend a while coding before trying to get to sleep again.
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Do you know all of the operators as well? All of the special variables? A significant portion of the regex syntax? The four different ways to call subroutines and the effects that each method has? The list goes on and on and on.

I work with about a dozen Perl developers and there are only a couple of us that know a significant portion of the language. Problems occur when someone uses a less common piece of syntax and no one else knows what it does. Everyone has their favorite ways to do things and people tend to have very strong preferences. This makes for code that is much more difficult to understand.

English is a far more complex topic. I am not sure where to even begin. I do think that it helps for a group of people to share a common set of language prescriptions.
Ask HN: Do people still use make_resourceful?
Just curious if people are still using make_resourceful in their new rails apps. The project hasn't seen much updating lately and I was curious if people became unlazy and started doing CRUD themselves.

https://github.com/hcatlin/make_resourceful
In my opinion, if you can't resell an ebook when you no longer want it, then you never really owned it; you licensed it. I don't have a problem with that but normal people rarely seem to understand this before spending their money.

(Personally, I don't think ebook companies should even be allowed to use the term "buy" with their books since that is not what you are actually doing; instead of "buy this book" it should say "license this book".)
How about this revolutionary idea: don't connect if you've got nothing to send. That way, the first power event sends the logs, and the next several hundred do nothing! Timeouts work great too. Don't send a log if you've just sent one in the last hour. Yeah, the android is acting weird here, but the problem is defiantly the application logic.
I've found Chinese Oolongs to be insanely easy to brew if you use a temperature controlled kettle and set a timer. English black teas are even easier. I had an Earl Grey last night that survived being forgotten for 10 minutes while I was chatting.

Side note: I've managed to duplicate the flavor of regular lipton by brewing Bai Hao for about an hour and then reheating it in a microwave. (I didn't brew it that long on purpose.)
The author argues that good code should be written for people.

If good code were written only for people there'd be no quicksort. No fast implementations of FFT. Probably no fast versions of memcpy. The reason is that coding is not primarily about writing for other people. Look at Donald Knuth's code. Extremely well-written, yet certainly doesn't stand on its own. And there are certainly design decisions that optimize for both asymptotic complexity and small constant factors.

My point is that analogizing this to books does no one any favors at all. We're having a conversation on the merits, w/o having to allude to neither haikus nor novels, nor gerands, nor foreshadowing.

Programming is difficult, even for code that "only works" (you'd be a billionaire if you could find a way to quickly produce code that "only works"). It has little more in common with writing than tarot cards -- which also are made to be read by humans.
On a related note, I received a (regular, handwritten) mail from Donald Knuth today, in reply to an email in which I reported some (what I thought were) small errors in TAOCP (which turned out not to be errors afterall - so no reward check for me :).

I found one of his comments on my email funny. I started by saying "I am reading your book with great interest, at the same time hunting for small errors." He wrote next to it: "so why don't you start hunting for the big ones?". Inspiring on many levels :)
Do different screenreaders act the same? I mentioned Jaws because it was the one that kept coming up in terms of accessibility for the blind.
Actually, I have a harder time finding people that still see libraries as necessary. The internet has pretty much met everyone's need for the information and entertainment the library provided, and then some.
It depends what your clients are doing. I've written perl servers (using epoll) that can cope with 300k concurrent connections, as long as they're not all talking at once. I've written perl servers coping with 50k concurrent connections where they are all talking at once too. And v8 is MUCH faster than Perl.
That makes me wonder why they use it on the free, public domain books that Amazon snarfed from Project Gutenburg.
Is there danger of it not being renewed?