skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there are certain industries which seem to perform better when the government enters as a competitor. e.g. healthcare, postal services, police forces, military, media, communication networks... many things which we often take for granted.

As outlined by others, market liquidity is beneficial to everyone, not just bankers, but market-making driven solely by profit leads to trouble (as evidenced by recent events). This parallels other nationalized industries (such as healthcare and police forces), and I expect that the benefits other pseudo-nationalized industries have seen would extend to market-making as well.
moral hazard
As an aside, the author's clarification [1] of the many terms related to the UK, Britain, etc. are very enlightening.

[1] http://qntm.org/uk
I'm sure the comparison has already been made on another thread, but Airbnb looks to be very similar to Couchsurfing in certain important ways. If the question is "how can Airbnb (re)build trust?", a valid answer would be "in a similar way to how Couchsurfing has."

Although perhaps I'm missing some critical difference between the two.
"Smart" match is a pile of shit, and anyone reading the manual description for it should conclude the same. You can't know what it does unless you can remember the details of a 23-item table.

It's undergoing major revision, and not a minute too soon.
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United States Treasury Statement for July 29.
My impression is that they utilize a second conversion stage that is essentially a conventional solar cell. So the sequence is: heat => light => electricity. The novelty is the design of the first conversion stage, which is specifically tuned to produce wavelengths that can be efficiently converted by the second stage solar cell. As opposed to just burning the butane and running a solar panel off of the firelight.
Yeah, same here, I would be driving down from Santa Maria and my Saturdays are pretty busy.

Thanks.
After Horror Stories, Airbnb Unveils New Policies
You only have a 50% chance of this being correct.

Replace "average" with "median" and you're at 100%.
I think the email textbox is too small. For example, "johndoe@gmail.com" doesn't fit without scrolling.
I would guess that HN traffic has increased. Time for pg to increase the cache size again.
It was a misunderstanding of their market entirely. The Eve player-base is incredibly pissy.
Anyone else think bringing on a 10 year veteran of eBay support is a bad idea. I don't know of a single case in which I heard eBay helped the end user in support.

eBay is probably on the top 5 of worst customer support experiences of any dot com.
Of course the theory doesn't hold for everything. It would be simple to make your meaning clearer here by splitting it into individual sentences. :)

Is there a particular project you have in mind here, or is it just a general statement?
"Smug" might be a better word. Fairly sinister lighting, too. The photo was definitely the first thing I noticed.
Gas is over $4 per gallon, and people drive longer distances due to housing issues and the decline of public transportation. I drop $100 every time I go to whole foods, and I go a few times a week.

Gas was $1-2 per gal until fairly recently (a few years ago), and food has gone up in both price and demanded quality.

2001-2007 was the majority of the increase, but that is due to the recession 2008-2011 and ongoing, at least outside tech.

I agree the big commodity bubble was a bit of an exception, but if you took away the recession, headline inflation, if not core, would be way up.
I cant believe this is posted on Hacker news...

Everything is not so simple; we use their (amazing) products, we pay by clicking ads. And it is useful for society as a whole (Google, Twitter and Facebook).

I am 100% sure that not even half of the programmers who work at Google are working in the "deliver ads" area. Many of them are working in a little piece of something that does something that someone else is going to find really useful... just like millions of people in earth!
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they'll only cover past damage that has already been reported

I thought they said it was the first time it happened?

Anyway, better late than never.
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william gibson...
Damn! me.com/move isn't working yet.
Excellent resource! Thanks for sharing.
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http://www.millennialmedia.com/about-millennialmedia/careers...
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It was my impression too that the photo could be appropriate.

EDIT: I've edited my comment to make it more constructive. Brian, I think you are doing a great job with AirBNB and handling this situation. Please take these comments as constructive criticism regarding the photo (in this particular situation).
Not sure why you think they couldn't go to land. It is much easier to enter the US as a tourist or on a short-term visa than to get a work visa to live and work here. I think that coders living on a ship that isn't legally part of the US could still enter regularly on a tourist visa for meetings.
Maybe she honestly did underestimate the effort of porting software -- especially something that someone else has written -- to another platform. Or she just misspoke. It's hard to draw any firm conclusions from the little bit of information contained in that interview.
And as usual, the title itself is very assuming.
"But this is not what Google does, or am I missing something" <-- Google in specific doesnt do anything like that now, but Google and the other sites can change their terms of service from under us (I dont think people knew five years ago that Facebook ads would use our likeness or would change their terms to allow them to do so by default). For all the talk of Google "does no evil", they are still a company and, push come to shove, could change their terms.

"Moreover, if you feel bothered by the way they handle things, why don't you just stop using them?" <-- as explained in my example, I can't stop prospective clients or employers using google. I certainly can stop myself, but the damage happens when others see it
They are not giving any money yet, just offering in case something happens and there was always making money on it so this doesn't change much. Also, i'm not a lawyer but subletting is a breaching of your contract (lease) not something illegal it's just something between the renter and his landlord. And it's not even clear to me that it's really subletting as you still live there and have stuff there you are just not present at the time.
Tagline (Spin): Google Uses .01% of the World's Electricity to Directly Impact 50% of the World's Population
Nice work @Bromly, solving the local events space in a cool way.
> Yet everyone seems to argue against this model when we're talking about Comcast.

That's because people have become used to receiving enormous subsidies from the clueless unwashed masses, and that kind of self-interest almost always takes priority over recognizing that paying $50/month for downloading 500GB of porn while your neighbor pays $50/month for downloading e-mail just isn't fair.

> That doesn't work, for the reasons I pointed out. Some heavy users will pay a little more, but some will not. They'll simply cut back or leave. Very few would be willing to pay the massive fees that they would incur. So the net result is a massive drop in revenue. You can't just reprice everything and expect usage patterns to remain the same.

I simply don't believe you when you say it doesn't work. Other industries are able to charge for use without a massive collapse in revenues as you state. I don't see why a massive drop in revenue needs to happen. I don't expect usage patterns to stay the same at all, I merely expect the new usage patterns, when applied to sanely structured new prices, to result in similar revenue.
I pretty much agree with your first three points. As to the last, though, I think it's pointed out a problem with the industry. Airbnb has separated themselves with a huge reason to go with them over craigslist, and that market is not going to go away.
I wonder how many unnecessary car trips Google prevents. It certainly spares me from going to the library for an hour searching for a single fact.

Exercises like these seldom take your most valuable resource into account. Your time.
He's right about eclipse. After you learn it the productivity boost is tremendous. I'm sure lots of dev environments are like this.
Planet Money did a piece using lots of clips from the This American Life episode, where someone 'doubts' that it's IV, but that they're still an interested party.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-pat...
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes has gone from a project almost a joke potentially great tragedy of science fiction be presented Planet of the Apes prequel which offers some more information about the plot of the film
I lived a few blocks from the one in Springfield, MO when it was built. It just doesn't feel right at first. But I haven't heard of any problems and it seems to serve its purpose.
I believe the point he's making (which I don't nessecarily agree with) is that he's right about the changes in direction, but he tries to estimate the result in the context of what currently exists.

So for example, he got it right that mobile games would be big, but they were big on iOS which didn't exist at the time he tried to make use of it.

Nd he was right that relational databases would decline. At at the time not relational meant XML. He couldn't predict the NoSQL of today, because that just didn't exist.

Personally, I think that argument is just retroactively applying meanings that weren't there, however.
iCloud beta
Yeah, we had this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832164
Drop the hustler and keep the hustle
Thanks for the HN code Kyle. I heard you talking about Forrst at the lunch Noah put together right before SXSW, and I heard you got some funding soon after. Congrats!

Quick problem though: I accidentally tied the wrong Twitter account to my account and can't find where to change it (under "Find Your Twitter Friends").
If you read a patent, you or your company becomes liable for triple damages, since it is considered willful infringement. Since you can't know what patents you might already be accidentally "infringing", the sane policy is to avoid reading or learning about any patents. This is explicit policy at many technology companies.
Not only that, there's a bus that goes to Dulwich Library, which I was obligated to snap a picture of when I was visiting London.
My concern is the other way. Duplication or balance bugs can make it very easy to suddenly produce an influx of goods and devalue (in real currency) other player holdings.
Ask HN: How Long To Stay in Boring Job?
Hi, everyone -

About eight months ago, I started a job at a defense contractor that I was extremely excited about, at first. I foolishly thought that the defense world built a lot of cool stuff, which I've since found is only true if you're an aeronautical engineer. The software is bog-standard in my limited experience. I'm working on a system that displays data onto a Google Earth globe from many feeds. When I was interviewing I was told that there would be substantial amounts of work coming up in Flex to replace a Swing based UI that is getting clunky and difficult to maintain. This excited me because I haven't got any Flex experience, and since my Java is pretty solid, I figured this would be a great chance to build the resume and add something more modern.

I found out recently that, not only is the Swing UI staying, but Flex development is not going to happen and the program is going into what's called "operations and maintenance" mode. There will be bug fixes and minor enhancements but no new development. The project is deemed "finished", and most of the good engineers who built it are moving on. Since I already know Java, and none of the work has been terribly difficult, I feel like I'm wasting my time. Due to the nature of defense work, I'm not even allowed to clean up other code unless it is directly connected to a specific bug record.

Within the company, I'm not allowed to transfer until I've been in my current role for two years, so if I stay here it looks like I'm stuck for a while with the dregs of the team who chose to stay behind and make time on this project. This, frankly, pisses me off, because it's a waste of time and talent that I feel I could put to greater use elsewhere. I stayed at my previous job for 4 years, and was in school before then, so I don't think I'm a job-hopper.

What's my best course of action at this point? Should I tell my manager that this isn't what I signed up for and ask for the transfer restriction to be ignored? Should I go get another offer (I have friends at Mapquest and Amazon who have both asked me for a resume) and explain to them why I left this company so soon? Would this sort of thing be seen as legitimate grounds to leave a job so soon after starting?

Thanks.
"it's tacky to give cash as a gift."

Ouch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelope
Does anyone know what the performance of this on windows (maybe with PyPy?) is compared to MSys Git or Cygwin.

If it's pretty good there should be some mileage in making a reasonable git client for windows based on this.
If you want to stick to perl, you might want to check out http://pdl.perl.org/ if you haven't already. You can do a fair amount of scientific computing with it.

Among other things it overloads the basic operators, so $a+$b will do the right thing, even if $a and %b are matrices/images, so it is very easy to "read" if you are a perl person already.
I think this is a great response to what happened.

I hope EJ's third blog post is more positive.

=]
"genuine demand" is a true scotsman fallacy waiting to happen. Purchases are revealed preferences. That people have incoherent preferences doesn't mean you get to pontificate about what they should have.
They're making money off the links, using referrals
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Another stat is that they use less than 1% of the energy of all datacenters on Earth. That's pretty impressive for the Internet company.
Possibility for remote (+-1 hour timezone diff) ?
I work with phpBB, and felt a little awkward stepping forth and saying this, so I'm glad somebody did.

phpBB3 has had a couple tiny problems, but nothing that could be used to attack users of a site or propagate an issue.
Al Qaeda could confirm Bin Laden's death in order to protect Bin Laden from future assassination attempts.

Whether Bin Laden is killed or not - is not clear.

But what is clear is that US government has muddy operation on their hands. They clearly hiding something about that story.

They intentionally killed main witness (Osama) even though it wouldn't be any harder to capture him alive.

The reason of why there are no photos is also not clear.
The Durability of Vinyl Banners
Vinyl banners continue to attract customers and help many organizations on their quest to rule over all potential consumers. Other than having vinyl banners, this material is used on nearly everything now including stickers, wall decals, car decals and much more, which just goes to show its resilience.
Don't let them get you down, Brian.
Something like that is not exactly core functionality. It could be a situation where hg-git runs purely in Python for everything that it 'needs' to do, and will optionally use the native commands for other git functionality.
Potentially. We are also starting offices in many candian towns.
Massachusetts has the worst drivers in the the country - that is a fact - MA has the highest accident rate in the US. I blame the roads. Every intersection in MA is unique - there are no idioms. Take a look at these two intersections with 4 lane roads that were recently "fixed"

Just keep moving or you will be stuck for hours:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=42.361501,-71.070455&spn=0.00...

Something for everyone: overpass, circle, and jug handles:

http://maps.google.com/?ll=42.24915,-71.171166&spn=0.002...
Case Study: Gathering Users with a Once-Off Web App
>That negative press means nothing anymore.

Good luck communicating their policy revisions to those who read of the AirBnB horror story on USA Today.
It's really unattractive. Your text boxes look like buttons, probably due to the dropping of a hard border, the centred label, and the use of the unconventional yellow colour. This is a situation that's only made worse by the fact that the actual "Sleep On It" button looks identical to the text boxes, except for its background colour. Why would you make two widgets with entirely different uses look the same?

The entire site feels cramped. The layout of the actual entry form is frankly bizarre. Why would you wedge a check box in between two text boxes?

There's more, but I'm too lazy to keep going... take this back to the lab.
Question: Why don't people transition to Perl 6?
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I think this is progress, but I'm still wary. The following 3 things are still question marks for me:

1. Who is underwriting this insurance and–most importantly–is it still valid for hosts who are technically breaking the law of their city/county/state?

2. Are we sure this policy wont make these situations more common or targets for fraud? I'm thinking of bank heist movies where they always say "don't worry, your money is insured by the federal government" ...

3. What about guests? If I were to guess, I'd say the next big AirBnB scandal will be "guest attacked by host's dog" or "guest slips in host's shower, breaking rib". Who's going to cover that?
German geniuses hit 800Mbps with light bulb WLAN
So many single/double char operators which need to be memorised with Perl, before you can start comprehending the programs.

Nonsense. All you have to know is how to identify operators and how to use the documentation. The Modern Perl book covers that in a page or two.
I hesitated to even bring it up because I didn't know how to say it without it sounding like a personal attack, but FWIW, I didn't mean it as one.

We all have photos taken of us that convey personalities that aren't really our own. I don't think you're a douche, but the photo gives that impression a bit.
mostly it looks really bad... but sometimes it surprises you with a logo :)
BART developers get 1 percent time
As seen here: http://bart.gov/schedules/developers/gtfs.aspx
By the way you describe the industry, it looks like there aren't a ton of opportunities you find interesting even if you can ignore the transfer restriction.

My answer to your title question is "as long as it takes for you to get a better job". If the situation is as you describe it then no-one would blame you for leaving so soon after starting.
And gizmodo, lifehacker.
For me, it doesn't have all the libraries I use in Perl 5 whether as libraries or core features.
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1) Men are very aggressive, I would assume it needs to be something like 1:1.5 men:women ratio. But I do not have statistics.

2) Try it out with some market research!

3) Any sort of matching is going to fail if the data is not reliable. If I truthfully put 1.8m. Someone puts 1.9m when they're 1.7m. How do you determine that my input is true? Especially that since due to OkCupid, everyone is now automatically assuming the person is actually ~0.2m shorter. So if you put me and the other person together. The 1.9m person wins?

4) I can't tell if you have a plan for this. But a website that depends on a feedback loop seriously needs to overcome it somehow. Even PlentyOfFish for all the errors when I registered, I still tried to use it.
Oh, sorry for delay in response, but original iPad. It was the full version too.
It's perfectly safe to read expired patents or patents that you otherwise have a right to. That's supposed to be why they exist, actually. The question is whether you've read expired patents to learn about the inventions in there or if you've ever actually used the knowledge in a patent your company has licensed (rather than just use it as a CYA).

I believe the OP's hypothesis is that software patents don't serve the patent system's primary purpose of disseminating useful knowledge, and he wants to test this.
The concept is good although it needs more perfection.

Right now it appears to be a subset of what several reminder apps (e.g. my Outlook) can already do. Actually what I do in these scenarios is stick a post-it note on my screen.
The competitive advantage of your solution is obviously how functionality is streamlined for the sleep-on-it scenario.

Using your service is too much of a hassle at this point to replace my usual solutions (Outlook, post-it note, ...). Mastering the use case is the key difficulty in this exercise.
Think about how people already solve this problem and figure out how your product can make it better.
GUI improvements have already been mentioned, but if you are serious about it, think about mobile applications or at least a mobile web site, other means of notification (twitter?), multiple reminders (until the decision is solved), etc.
When I was working in finance I used to read patents filed by exchanges so I could figure out how their matching algorithms worked, but never to find out how to solve a particular problem.
> the examiners sometimes slip up

The examiners often slip up. That is really the nub of the problem. The examiners are incentivized to close cases, not to make the right decisions. So if you badger an examiner enough you can get them to sign off on just about anything, e.g. U.S. patents 6368227 and 7126691.