skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The clever bit is that they are using taxi routes to predict traffic patterns rather than just looking at where the traffic jams happen. They've demonstrated that creating direct routes which correspond to taxi routes does much to alleviate congestion.
post-PC future? lol
TCL (Tinycore) 4.0 released
Yes, they pretty opposite.

Objects should have identity and can be distinguished by identity alone. They are not referentially transparent because of that. In "x = new O(); f(x,x)" you cannot substitute "new O()" into both occurrences of x.

Functional values do not have identity and you cannot tell apart 2 and 1+1. Functional values are referentially transparent. In "x = 1; y = x+x" you can change x to 1 in the definition of y.
I'm not sure the HN title of this posting does the article justice. What caught my eye was that a retired doctor interviews hundreds of poor Third World 'customers' to get an idea what they need. Then he has low-tech, low-cost products developed, and figures out how to get local people to manufacture, market, and sell the products.
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I do believe them that lower prices are not feasible while they are reselling Amazon S3... this GDrive rumor might be the push Dropbox needs to bite the bullet and buy their own servers.
haha, that's what I get for staying up late.
http://delicious.com/figital/stacks would take you to everything you'd tagged as "stacks." I'm not sure there's a way around that without changing the tag urls to something like http://delicious.com/figital/tags/tagname
My girlfriend inflicted this one on me last night:

There was a young bard of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan
When they said it was so,
He replied, "Yes, I know,
But I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."
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Wow nice article, I was wondering if I was charging too much for my recent bid. Good to see other people are charging in that range.
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“Photography allowed” sign
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This Goldman Sachs? http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/goldman-sachs-draws-u...

They're cutting the size of their coffee cups to save money, hardly secret rulers of the world stuff, is it?

This guy was just saying exactly what BBC viewers wanted to hear... That it was the evil bankers fault, not people taking out more mortgage than they could afford.
I setup a blog to chronicle my adventure of trying to design, develop, and launch a product in seven days. This is my first rails application, so I'll include information on the tools I'm using and where I am finding sources of information. I'll also post costs along the way.
The article says boric acid (used for cockroach as well as ant control) is relatively safe for humans, cheap, effective, and “it kills in so many ways that there’s never been resistance to it."
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I know that Rusty Klophaus (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RKlophaus) has done a really good job organizing the DC/MD Hacker News meetups.

He's got contact info in his profile, but the meat behind it seems to be Meetup + HN post and a request for upvotes.
You've got a good point about the false sense of security. But the main problem is that Faceobook makes it too easy to make information public and too hard to manage my view into that information. If I could see and edit the info Facebook makes available to other people, I would be much more comfortable.

Also, I feel like Facebook isn't just storing my info, but is actively trying to get me to add more info. I feel like I'm being milked for personal information.
MS washes its hands of the UEFI/Linux mess
I'm still wondering how much of what the trader said was motivated by a desire to raise his profile for his after-dinner speaking engagements.

His name's Alessio Rastani, and he's got the basics already set up for some social media fun:

https://www.facebook.com/alessiorastani

http://twitter.com/#!/alessiorastani
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I wonder if Google offered to buy Dropbox at any point. Regardless, it's still possible that they would purchase Dropbox for their existing user base, mindshare and tech, as they did with Youtube although they already had a competing Google Video service.
This guy sounds a lot like a Yes Men intervention.
They seem to be moving in that direction. The Google+ application on my phone offers instant uploading of pictures and videos to google+ already which I find rather useful.
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I guess it won't take too much effort to get the Google username from that screenshot and just ask the guy ... any volunteers ?
They used different toxins in different tests, a modern bacterial toxin targeting mosquitos, and then simply boric acid, about which they say: … and it kills in so many ways that there’s never been resistance to it. Some authorities think there never will be.

Maybe it will select for mosquitos that will avoid the fake nectar, but that can be rotated and the mosquitos need to feed on nectar.

They inadvertently tested the boric acid on the local human population when they used fermented juice in the bait pitchers. It proved largely harmless to humans who drink jugs of random, poisoned alcohol they find laying around.
The guys know better than me but with all Amazon's price reductions, 100Gb/year comes to $44.40. There are transfer costs on top of that however there are no longer transfer fees IN to S3 and I would guess that the OUT bandwidth is primarily generated by a small number of files on your machine and probably stays pretty linear past a certain point.

I think those prices were the cheapest viable at the start but it feels like there are more competitive ones now (and that's assuming they're not building their own cheaper datacentres).
That's (Explorer, Finder, Dolphin, Nautilus) in (Windows, OS X, KDE, Gnome).

Or you could go with (Seafood) for (Linux) ;).
Bing tv adverts suggested that Google wasn't providing user friendly search results. So maybe there is some huddle of people who just can't cope with Google?
You should have kept reading to the next sentence. teej said that web traffic is declining as users shift to mobile use of Facebook.
This Goldman Sachs? [link]

They're cutting the size of their coffee cups to save money, hardly secret rulers of the world stuff, is it?

That's the same Goldman Sachs that made a profit of $2.7 billion in the first quarter of this year alone:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/apr/19/goldman-sachs...
Sure thing. HN is for things that hackers find interesting, not just programming or startups. Things that are self-referential or “meta” have a strong presence in Hacker culture, Gödel-Escher-Bach and Lisp being totemic examples. Humor is, well, pleasing, and meta-humour combines something pleasing with a nod to something interesting. Finally, creating or dissecting meta-jokes has a hacking aspect to it. What is the structure of this joke? How does it work? What does it say about other jokes? These questions are interesting in their own right.

Humour can be a very serious subject. Why do human laugh? What is the social purpose of telling jokes? Is it important? Or is it a “bug in the system” that we exploit? What is going on in the brain when we laugh at the punch line of a joke? Is it the same thing that goes on when we observe the “switch” ending of a movie like “The Sixth Sense” or “The Sting?”

Or you can just laugh at the jokes and move along :-)
It is easy to read and full of things that sound very obvious in hindsight (but often the 'obvious' things are those things that are important).

I love that he emphasizes the right things like vision plus a scientific approach (hypothesis and innovation accounting).

It goes beyond agile & lean software development best practices and adds customer oriented business concepts on top so you get a great framework for product development.

If your aim is to deliver great software products and satisfy your customer then the approach he describes is the best way I can think of to achieve your goal.

disclaimer: I am currently building a product influenced by the lean startup movement: http://www.blossom.io
I keep having problems with Dropbox lately, with files that aren't synced and lots of conflicted copies. Not sure why but made me realize that Dropbox has been offering pretty much the same service for years now. Granted, the service was great from the beginning but: are they improving enough to remain competitive?
I'm not qualified to judge whether or not it's true, but if you actually read the article, they address this concern directly:

Boric acid is much less expensive than Spinosad. It is also about as harmless to humans as table salt is. It is a chief ingredient in Silly Putty. Dr. Schlein said he had heard that some Malians sampled the alcoholic bait brew, with no ill effects.

But it kills insects that eat it. It is common in cockroach control; when a thin layer is spread on floors, cockroaches take it in when they preen their feet.

“You can buy it by the truckload,” Dr. Christensen said. “And it kills in so many ways that there’s never been resistance to it. Some authorities think there never will be.”
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Google branded SIM card
All right. What we have here is a Google branded SIM card with an S. Nexus
I do wish that there had been an easier forum to speak to startup founders who were looking for developers etc. to join their startups (even a simple sheet/board of paper stating who's looking, and what they're looking for would have been good).
Nope. Bad logic.

I love Dropbox, but welcome to capitalism. Dropbox could exit to Google in an instant. They could have for years. The only reason they haven't is because they want to maximize the risk adjusted returns for their shareholders.

Since Google can't aquire Dropbox at a reasonable price, yet finds it necessary to have this type of service built into their offering, they are more than ok to compete.
oh yeah Dropbox innovated. Allowing anyone to login to any account without a password? Novel!
Did he actually provide any direct critiques of the Lean Startup methodology? As I understood, he just said "don't go too fast", which isn't in any way at odds with being a Lean Startup.
While pretty, this really messes up screen readers: as each letter gets wrapped in a span, the letters are read out one at a time.
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Next line "Some authorities think there never will be."

It's still possible they'll get resistant one way or another. The article claims 10% survived. This doesn't mean they're resistant to the dye/boric acid, it probably just means they never tried the bait. It's possible they'll become resistant to the bait (i.e. the bait won't attract them anymore).
Google needs to provide very simple native syncing apps that are equivalent to or better then Dropbox's and at the same time support several different platforms out of the gate to draw people away from Dropbox.
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As internet is playing an important role in our lives so everything must be designed to be compatible with it. All those devices or machines that were just simple machines are now either replaces or u
And put them at the top. So that I know the context of what I'm considering reading.
This man is described as an "independent market trader" in the attached article. His twitter profile ( http://twitter.com/#!/alessiorastani ) describes him as a "Keynote speaker" and a "Mentor and dedicated to helping others succeed". That doesn't exactly inspire much confidence. In fact, it is pretty obvious that he has set out to make a name for himself through this controversy.

Furthermore, he has obviously bet heavily on a near-term market crash. He's now financially and emotionally invested in a market crash, so of course he will be confident that it's going to happen. And if his doomsday video circulates the internet and makes a dent, however tiny, in investor sentiment then he has also effectively pushed the market (in a very tiny way) toward his goal.

Take a look at one of his recent tweets: "I've been waiting for this stock market crash for 3 years. #finance #economy"

The world economy is in trouble, no doubt, but let's remain reasonable and rational here. Spend enough time around financial types, and you can always find a doomsayer like this man in any sort of economy.
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Sounds very reasonable, I am definitely going to up my rates, but if you've worked with someone before with cheaper rates, how do I try and up my rates?

As for a dynamic site, I mainly use Wordpress as my CMS of choice, usually great for clients as they find it pretty straight forward to go in and add/update content, add pages etc.

Another thing I have found now that I am working full-time is the absolute top-most importance for proper functional specs, as well as proper bug tracking software, emailing constant changes gets to be a real pain, and pretty hard for you to track which ones have actually been done.
When you think long-term, to me you can't escape the fact that SC is a small suburban community when compared to a mega-city like NYC. SC started out with a big advantage due to Stanford, and NYC has had large disadvantages to overcome in the past 4 decades due to crime, the collapse of the manufacturing sector, etc. (I read somewhere that until the early 70's NYC had more manufacturing jobs than Detroit due to textiles, etc., which really puts the speed of the shift in NYC's economy in perspective.) NYC has largely solved these disadvantages - it is now a very safe place to live and has an economy based on services, which means it is stocked full of smart ambitious people.

When people are what's important, whether they are customers, engineers, or whatever else, how can a suburb compete? To me it seems analgous to the fact that the tiny island of England could never sustain dominance over the world in the face of competition with a much larger and more diverse America.
The best way to prevent these kind of bugs is to change your programming style. Always inserting { } for if-statements, even for one liners, is a programming style, and helps eliminate this specific bug. You will pick up these things as you write programs, or by looking at other peoples code.
Has amazon developed an interface for administering Route 53 domains? Relying on 3rd party interfaces has always been the real deal breaker with Route 53 for me.
An introduction to MVC that's easy...
Americans get too much healthcare, their docs say
Sprawl works well to reduce traffic only if the sprawl develops well enough so there's no real reason for people to travel between regions regularly. Otherwise, it'll most definitely increase traffic. Why wouldn't it? Increasingly large population spread over an increasingly large area, with all the traffic only going in a few specific directions.
Any company - big or small - is going to enter markets where they think they can make an impact. I don't think it's about being nice to smaller companies (and BTW, Dropbox isn't that small any more). It's about what's the best fit for users, and having the market decide the winner. If Google make a product that can't compete with Dropbox's ease of use, they'll flounder, as have many Google products in the past (Buzz, Notebook, Dodgeball, Lively, Answers and so on). Sure - big companies have advantages of scale and cross-promotion, but small companies have advantages of speed and lack of bureaucracy.

Competition is good for users, and arguably good for companies too. Nice just doesn't come into it.
Google doesn't necessarily squeeze out all competitors in any industry they enter, but they do raise awareness. In some sense this is great for Dropbox because I would guess well under 50% of computer users even know cloud storage services like this exist...but many more will if Google enters the market.

The problem, of course, is if they all learn about it through gmail and Google captures them all, but I think that underestimates Dropbox's ability to counter.

Lastly, don't discount human laziness aiding Dropbox customer retention - time is a switching cost here.
So when do the people get a voice in Washington?
A few people are reporting that it is in fact a hoax: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/bbcs_goldman_sachs_rule...
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I completely agree -it's not and that's what makes it magic.

However it's only not "simply backup" for about 10Gb of your files. For files you don't sync onto other machines it is by definition simply backup. Moreover it's the backup service that you're considering in your mind when weighing the buying decision of whether to spend an extra $100/year on it. It's not $100/year more of seamless multi-machine syncing.

I can only speak from my own experience but while, as a consumer it was the usability of the software that hooked me, it's the backup I pay for. That may not be the case for a business but it is for me.
That's true. I think they'll much faster start smelling and becoming repulsed by boric acid, however, than they will start avoiding fake nectar.

Which is practically the same as being resistant.
This could really have a positive effect on world wide health and I applaud the Gates foundation for taking on such lofty goals.

Question though, despite absolutely loving the idea of a mosquito free world, is there a consequence to eliminating mosquitoes from the food chain?
It's a complete rewrite, but I'm still surprised they missed so many basic features. It's rather frustrating to use.

* No iPhone version of the site anymore.

* Links are bookmarked as soon as you click the bookmarklet, not when you click save on in the popup window.

* No suggest-as-you-type tags when using the bookmarket.

* Both http://delicious.com and http://www.delicious.com exist, and you can be signed in on one but not the other. There are also links on one that redirect to the other.

* If you are logged out, clicking on the bookmarklet pulls up the site's registration screen in a new window. This window does not have horizontal scrollbars and is not wide enough to see the login link.

* For some reason there's no hand cursor on mouse-over of links.
It's like that thread about the guy who ran simulations to figure out the optimal way to board planes. Even if it's true, not gonna happen, 1st class pay partly for the right to board first. Exactly the same type of situation.
Can't wait until this is possible in real-time.
It may be obvious for electric and electronics engineers, but thank you for introducing me to this concept. Through Wikipedia, I found some very interesting applications. 1-bit camera ( http://dsp.rice.edu/cscamera ) particularly.
That's one number taken out of context. With a market cap of $50Bn, there are plenty of companies with comparable numbers.

Not sure why my comment was downvoted, if the secret of ruling the world is using smaller coffee cups, anyone can do it...
Yeah, and that $2.7 billion in profit is after paying ridiculous compensation to most of the firm. Chew on that.
Combine with OnStar's ubiquitous capture of private car driving, and maybe we already have the data in America?
Google isn't entering this market though; they're already in it. This is merely rebranding a feature of Docs as its own product. Which makes sense, because files are not a subset of documents, documents are a subset of files. This probably has more to do with Larry Page's emphasis on product focus.

And I don't think this kills Dropbox at all. This is classic capitalism. Dropbox's competitive advantage is that they can completely focus on cloud storage, whereas the Google team is likely working on a half dozen or more other projects simultaneously. Dropbox is already tied into many apps, and has excellent features such as the ability to run your website from it. This does mean that Dropbox has to improve their efficiency to drop prices; they don't have to match GDrive but they have to come close.
ClickFraud as punishment
I don't click on website ads (I find them mostly annoying and not usually relevant) but recently, I've found myself occasionally clicking the ads of companies that annoy me or have demonstrated particularly bad or unethical customer service.

In my head I get the small satisfaction of knowing I've cost them a tiny amount of cash. A follow on thought is what would happen if this were common behaviour? It would be an effective way of punishing (through cost) companies who are unethical / take advantage of their customers and give a lot of power back to consumers.
That's one interpretation, but Greenspun never says what happened when he tried to use the correct function; after all, his Scheme program seems to have been complete at one point, which means that rewriting in Lisp was not more "practical" as such.

His point about the Lisp program being smaller is interesting, but still entirely anecdotal: we know nothing about the program, and for all we know, Greenspun was a Scheme novice at the time of the story.

I have a deep dislike for anecdotal "X vs. Y" stories because they don't shed any light on anything; they're just glib, cheap observations that make for a good story (albeit in this case, not that good).
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If you were in attendance last night, what did you think?
That could work, hopefully it's a 1 way sync though. I don't want all of the contents of my cloud storage to be pulled down to my server.
It seems as though we expect no adverse consequences to their total elimination: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
I don't know why so many people here feel compelled to act so rude towards potential clients. Why do people get so defensive when it comes to their pricing that they have to offer the prospect analogies instead of direct answers? We all know the pricing is relative to the project. If you're tired of getting emails from people asking how much a site is, don't be afraid to state your minimum price on your site. Setting up pricing filters is good - being rude to those that may be ignorant to our process is not. You might say "Well they should do research!", but their google queries will be met by articles spouting equally obscure analogies on what a site could cost.
We're upgrading to 5.12.4 right now, so if you do decide to vote with your feet, feel free to message me...
That's pretty neat. I use boric acid for restoring rotted wood in my old 1800's house. It's been well known for a long time to stop insects.

You can actually buy rods of the stuff to insert into rotting (or in danger of rotting) wooden beams (such as a beam in the foundation of an old house that gets too wet). When the wood gets wet the beam spreads and stops any further mold rot or insects (roaches, ants) from harming it. It's amazing stuff really.

For other rotting pieces of wood you can create better mixtures with other easily available ingredients and sort of "paint" with the stuff.
In the global sense, sure, apply to whatever.

However, if you actually want to get an investment, you should probably know that the investor actually wants to invest in the kind of company you run.

Considering the quote from "How to Start a Startup" in the piece, it's not clear that Paul Graham thinks startups and Open Source are compatible.

So, that's why I asked.
Oh please. The HN dream is riches beyond imagination just for making a website. Pot meet kettle.