skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem and best of luck.
Yep, I think you make a good point. I still think 3% is too low for the person on the team who everyone else depends on to actually execute the product.
I'd be less worried about your son getting someone pregnant, than your daughter getting pregnant. I would think that it would be easier to force your son to be responsible for the child that he's fathered, than to be the girl's parents trying to force someone else's son to be responsible for the child he's fathered (especially if his parents are resistant or apathetic to the whole thing).
What is Market Segmentation?
I personally tend to agree with your points, but that aside what I was noticing is you and my parent basically arrive at opposite conclusions with a strong conviction in your beliefs, and "coincidentally" both of your POV's align with your primary, chosen form of transportation.

You both make some valid points; I don't use 'bias' to imply you are wrong. Rather, bias affects the process by which you examine and evaluate your points.
Parking garages are not lucrative. The cost to build a parking garage runs $20k-30k per parking space. Building one underground adds an additional $10k/space. In contrast, a parking stall on a flat slab is going to run only a few hundred dollars (in Denver, the cost for thick slabs you can park semis on runs about $800/parking stall).
What if you adopted a strategy of not caring? Honest thought experiment; not a rhetorical question.
> Another consequence, little noted, is that minimum wage laws in effect create a "mundane labor" based currency. Instead of fixing a dollar to a weight of gold, or floating the currency outright, the value of a dollar is fixed to ~8.3 minutes of menial work. A gallon of gas thus costs about a half-hour of work ... and regardless of what minimum wage is, supply-and-demand realities mean that a gallon of gas[1] will _always_ cost about a half-hour of menial work; raise the minimum wage by fiat, and the price at the pump will rise to match.

Why would that be the case unless the overall worldwide demand of gas was gated by the ability of minimum wage workers in a particular jurisdiction to buy gas? Even this, this would appear to assume that their demand was completely elastic, such that cheaper gas would cause them to buy enough more until it was that expensive again?

And why gas? Is the price of all staples (bread, milk, etc.) inescapably tied to the minimum wage? If so, I'd love to concrete evidence for that claim -- it seems like quite a surprising conclusion to me.
I don't think I've heard that kind of touchy-feely attachment to their vehicle of choice from even the most hippie-ish pro-cycling movements

Sure, that's because a bike doesn't promote emotional attachment, unlike a car. A cyclist enjoys biking, but he generally doesn't attribute that enjoyment to his bike -- he would just as happily swap for another, just as I'd throw out my old running shoes and buy a new pair.

Cars, however, promote more emotional bonding. I think because the car moves under its own power it feels more like it's alive. I press the accelerator, the car does what I tell it, and we form a bond just as a rider forms a bond with his horse. On a pushbike you're always keenly aware that it's you who is doing all the work, and the bike is just a tool.
Ask HN: Are you building iOS/android games? Need marketing help?
Hello HN,

I’m really excited about the future of mobile games and apps because I think the growth and opportunities are amazing. It’s something I’d love to be a part of, and I want to learn more about mobile app distribution and marketing. That’s why I’m willing to offer my time and work efforts FREE to a few lucky (and appropriately matching) HN devs or startups.

Here’s what I could do for you:

- Design, draft, or build your apps web landing pages with Photoshop/HTML/CSS (and create promotional images with the use of your fantastic game art).

- Setup a Facebook fan page with an attractive landing tab so you have FB lead-ins and a social presence

- Help craft your app store’s copy text to optimize the title and description space.

- Use Optimizely to run A/B test campaigns on landing page copy, buttons, and images

- Other ideas? What else do devs need help with that they don’t have time to do themselves?

I consider myself a marketer/hustler type and I have experience co-founding several popular web apps, driving viral traffic and signups on $0 budgets. My work has been covered on Techcrunch, CNET, TIME, CBS, Wired, and more. I last interned at Kontagent (Jan-May), a social gaming analytics provider. I’m currently looking to join a social / mobile game studio, but the search continues.

Interested? Email me at coryliu[at]gmail.com and tell me a bit about what you’re working on, and what you need help with.

My projects & resume: http://bit.ly/raW2Y4

Design portfolio: http://bit.ly/osbDEp

Thanks HN!
What This Famous Teenager’s 13th Birthday Means For You
Working at a company that maintains several forums; I've found that anything we say publicly can and will be construed to suit whatever agenda they aggrieved party wants to play into. There will always be claims of bias in moderation but all you can do is try to apply the same yard stick to everyone. And still hold feet to the fire when they break the community guidelines.
> Is your story missing something?

Yes, I should have noted that I was donating as a paid research subject and not specifically to a marrow bank or to an individual who needed a transplant.

I commented to explain that the marrow-withdrawal process itself is nothing to be concerned about, actually involving less discomfort than donating blood.
Of course we should all read critically. We already know that. Is there anything in particular that you think Hazlitt got wrong?
Chicago is as flat as a board. Reclaimed swamp.
In his "60 Minutes" interview, Assange acknowledged that governments and corporations have privacy rights as well. His position is that Wikileaks provides a way for whistle-blowers to publicize information that they feel is being ignored or suppressed by the authorities within the organization.

In other words, he describes Wikileaks as a last-resort channel for addressing institutional wrong-doing.
And all these things would happen way less if bikes were banned altogether.
Had I not read this I would not be aware of some of these very interesting projects. Thanks!
Clickable:

My projects & resume: http://bit.ly/raW2Y4

Design portfolio: http://bit.ly/osbDEp
So what does belong on the roads, oh paragon of wisdom?
1) clearly this is not the case. stretching much?

2) that would only be effecting your life through inaction. defunding wikileaks would have the same effect.
Apple Siri Privacy: Siri will know your gender, age, race/origin, mood, behavior
> Sweden only let one of its smaller banks go bankrupt

See, eg. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23k... , note the term "series of bank failures."

As for QE: Note there was a devaluation imposed by the exchange rate, and the peg evaporated. So you are correct that Riksbank did not print, but the QE was achieved by the currency markets.
EUR 1 trillion is the rumoured EFSF's firepower.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653063
I like to see them go on the record as saying that if we actually tried, they would not immediately turn around and start screaming about the 150,000 km^2 of Mother Earth we just converted to industrial land.

Oh, don't get me confused with a tree-hugger. I'm about as anti-greenie as you can get. I'm just here to do the mathematics.

I'm for whatever source of energy is cheapest.
Interesting take on potential disadvantages of eating local
Html2canvas - Screenshots with JavaScript
So the OP is ranting about cyclists running stop signs, but now we've decided it's OK for a delivery truck to block an entire street?

This is what annoys me most about drivers of cars: they are quick to criticize cyclists, but are very slow to criticize their own actions.
Yes, agreed. I do see how it's valid that some might find Wikileaks a lost cause now. I'm hopeful the baton can be successfully been passed on to other groups, regardless of how Wikileaks fares.
Sometimes It's What's Inside That Counts
"andrew's opinions made from his personal accounts on the web does not represent the opinion of panopta.com, its management, its affiliates, or any other of its employees. he's free to speak his mind online and when he does so, represents only himself. we know andrew can come off offensive at times unintentionally, but he means well and isn't trying to hurt anyone."
Yes, many SSD's use SATA.
Where do you live that people go 65 in a 60?

Where I'm from (Chicago/ Milwaukee) you're lucky if traffic's only going 70 in a 50/55.
Calligra provides the Engine for Harmattan Office on Nokia N9
Yes, this was made pre iOS5. I think we will need to tweak it a bit to handle that.
Yep you can use it both ways. To drive an existing page around you can use t.createWindow() and t.submitForm(), which give you a new window object and a jquery handle bound to that window object. http://testling.com/docs/#an-example-test
I've been thinking about your question for a day, and I'm really not sure. To me, this sort of thing is obvious. It's just how I think about Facebook. But some people are continually surprised at what Facebook knows about them, or what it can find out. And I don't know how to be more explicit with them.

In other words, I think that this sort of thing is implicit in using Facebook. But for some people, they're not. So do you remind them about this every time they do anything new? I don't know.
Love it! I think it summarizes a lot of the things I found about networking:

1. The best way to network is to be a regular. One time networking events typically don't lead to anything. Most people won't even remember your name.

2. Novices to networking expect miracles the first time they do it. It doesn't work that way. You can't build an "acquaintance" relationship in just one session.

3. Deviating from the article, it is my humble opinion that most people don't like networking because it involves dealing with strangers. Strangers are frightening because they are an unknown quantity. The first time you go to an event, you are in a room full of strangers. Eventually as you go to a second, third or fourth event, you get to know the former strangers and their interests and you start feeling much more comfortable.

4. You can't be an empty suit. By the second, third or fourth meeting people will figure it out.
Well everyone has a bias as everybody has a different perspective on the world. That you can't appreciate biking (through your own choice or no), makes yours particularly "thick" (in the context of biking).

I also think its not unusual for people in this thread to be able to drive, and thus the need to portray how bikers are seen largely unnecessary (in my view). Drivers are the majority, and even keen cyclists will probably be drivers too.

As an occasional cyclist, I get particularly annoyed with bad cyclists when I'm driving, as I feel they bring me down with them by association.
none of them are great
Because implicit in the formulation is that we aren't putting holes where people want them, or filling in holes people want filled in.

So would you feel better if it were a wealthy eccentric ordering the work? How about if we dressed the project up a bit and made it into a 40,000 sq ft home that gets visited a week or two out of the year? Or an ill-conceived manufacturing plant that gets shuttered before it ever opens? If those last two are OK, how about a democratically elected representative who wants your highway to run through his district? Are we talking now? The truth is that much of the activity in our economy is just as 'unnecessary' as your 10 guys digging and filling holes.

In fact, strictly speaking, none of it is necessary. Because we are not necessary. Taking efficiency to its logical conclusion, why shouldn't we simply terminate ourselves and save ourselves the inevitable end that awaits us according to the laws of physics?

The answer is: because we are not (nor should we be) morally guided by efficiency alone. Life is inefficient. Beauty is inefficient. And real-world economics (which includes politics) is inefficient. And if increased economic efficiency is creating a socially destabilizing imbalance in the distribution of wealth, then some counter-balancing politically-imposed 'inefficiencies' may well be in order.
One thing conventional economists (not just the hypercapitalist Austrians) ignore is bargaining power. It's fashionable to speak of employers and employees as if both were spheres with equal power. In reality of course, people rent themselves into something which is accurately called wage slavery, where they spend their time under someone's command, watching their tongues. The hotel owner is far more powerful than the room cleaner, and it's very common for bosses to steal wages. (After all, which one can dish out the humiliation while the other takes it?)

Another fallacy of mainstream economics is that markets exist without government. In reality, it is government which creates markets. And yet another fallacy is that markets do not have morality associated with them. Yet markets are intertwined with moral taboos about debt, even in cases where the powerless owe debts to the powerful. (Like with rotten healthcare systems.) David Graeber discusses the history interestingly in _Debt: The First 5000 Years_.

Since the linked article is right-wing, here's a left-wing one which discusses some of these fallacies. (http://www.zcommunications.org/debt-slavery-and-our-idea-of-...)

BTW, if I had to choose between being a well-paid coal miner and a significantly lesser-paid doctor, I'd choose the lower pay.
Paul Graham represents a brand bigger than himself. When you stop caring what you say to who, it has implications to all those companies that belong to that bigger brand, along with the brand itself.
I've noticed that cars run as many stop signs as cyclists. The rule is come to a complete stop and yield to your left. Cars treat the rule as "sort of lower your speed and yield to people that haven't stopped quite as much".

This is chaos. The cyclists are just doing what the other vehicles do.

(Also, you can't be surprised that there are cyclists on the Lakefront Trail. If they ride on the streets, their average speed goes down to approximately walking speed because the traffic lights are timed for people going 35, not 20. If I ride a Roosevelt / Damen / Fullerton / Wells loop, it takes well over an hour and a half and is about 12 miles. If I ride from the museum campus up to the end of the Lakefront Trail and back, that's 20 miles and only takes an hour. If you want to be safe as a pedestrian, either ban cyclists completely or ask for them to widen the trail. "Slower traffic keep right" largely works, it's just that the trail is very narrow in a few key places.

My solution is to avoid the trail if it's a day where people are going to be having picnics in the middle of the road, which is basically only warm weekend days after noon. Any other time, nobody uses the trail and it's perfectly safe for cyclists to ride fast on.)
I'll be conservative [aka lazy] and say that 1/2 your market salary is $30k.

That means that the company needs to be worth $1,000,000 for you to break even in the next year if there is no dilution and all your shares vest immediately.

And they will need to grow $1,000,000 a year, every year just for you to stay even...again with no dilution and full vesting.

One needs only to look at their offer and team composition to realize how little they value technical skills, and only a little imagination to predict how happily story ends.

My opinion, keep billing hourly.
Disclaimer: I work at Nodejitsu, but my words are my own.

> It's such a drag that HN comments now become news stories.

Oh, c'mon. This isn't like some quiet "just my buddies" forum. HN, whether you like it or not, is a place where "movers and shakers" communicate what's happening to them or what they think, so of course it's going to become news. It's like complaining that people actually pay attention to your tweets.

> I didn't even realize Heroku was the company they were claiming I'd banned them to help.

People may have insinuated that YC/HN was/is engaging in shill-esque activities (it's an easy thing to do), but I don't think anybody representing Nodejitsu made this claim, nor do I think they would if pressed.
"if you’re not sure, don’t."

This is a guideline that ethical people already follow. At least, until they've asked permission.

People who claim to be ethical will do things until they're told not to, claiming that if they weren't forbidden, it's not unethical.

The thing is, ethics doesn't care if you were forbidden or not. It's not about rules or laws. It's about doing what's right, and not doing what's not right.

Accidents happen, and I'm not saying they don't... But there's a huge difference between doing things that you know are harmful to another party (even though they haven't said so) and doing things that you don't realize are harmful.
I am just explaining the reasoning. Don't hate/downvote me for saying it ...

Silencing people's political opinions (even horrible evil people) is considered bad. This is why donations to these evil organizations is tolerated.

Wikileaks is being blacklisted not because of their political opinions, but because these organizations, rightly or wrongly, believe Wikileaks is threatening security of the nation, causing deaths of informers and collaborators in the Middle East. And last but not least, Wikileaks seems to be actively perusing leaks in banks and financial organizations. If you bite the hand that feeds you ...
It's a good first go but gameplay could be better. It's hard to make five card hands and a bit slow moving. Maybe any hand over two cards should disapear. Also dragging cards down from the top I often hit the pulldown screen in iOS5.

The important feedback is about your launch. You are going to be better off not having a pro and free version. Ship one free version. Do in app purchases to remove ads and try and get some kind of other in app purchase in the game (levels, other/card games). Preferably try and get consumable in app purchases in there too. If people want to pay give them that opportunity.

Finally, you are leaving SEO juice on the table by not implementing game center and iPad view controllers. Both of those things get you in categories on the app store that are smaller overall than the general listing. Also, entertainment is usually the best category to publish in for these types of games. Always, always release on a friday - having the app in the new releases list over the weekend helps and it's hard out there for a pimp.

Order of things I would fix:

1) Add game center (very easy)

2) Make it a universal app (iPad view controllers) it's not as much work as you think.

3) In app purchase and dump the paid version. No one is going to download that in significant numbers anyway - when you have a large install base you can maybe promote a paid version but it's just not worth it most of the time.

Hope this helps.
We pretty much have what you're describing already, except we use node.js-style require()s with browserify instead of AMD. You can write really simple unit tests and just execute them with a curl one-liner or you can write more integration-style tests for an existing app with t.createWindow() and t.submitForm().
I like "Sliding Snow Leopard." :)
New Android App - see traffic, non-traffic, and criminal records of anyone in PA
Details of Nokia's Windows phones leak
Why? Companies go right on selling Android and Chrome products when it makes sense for them to do so, but pay Microsoft royalties in order to license their IP. It was reported recently that half of all Android devices now generate a royalty to Microsoft, yet this doesn't seem to have harmed the popularity and overall market success of Android in the slightest.

As tactics go, this seems much less destructive to the technology industry than Apple's attempts to get products they believe use their IP banned outright.

Am I missing something?
This really bugs me. Why can't we have a normal range of emotions here? Yes, we are predisposed to enormously love our children. But it's just a massive bias, not an absolute requirement.

Acting like anything short of complete and unconditional love with absolutely no complaints or downside somehow means that there's something wrong with a person just suppresses completely legitimate feelings and makes it difficult for people to figure out how to deal with the inevitable problems and bad parts that will occur.
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From the Rough - Awesomely Interactive Movie Teaser Site
That's an actual _real_ use case of HTML5. Too bad the trailers are still powered by YouTube :/
>linking to Assanges own assertion that it's a smear campaign.

Good point. I read a lot about this when it was happening so my reflex was the point to the source, who I believe. Looking forward to an actual court case so some facts can become public.
I know I've purposefully been vague on details, but its a web based product and technically very challenging to do what we've pulled off so far. I've done a number of contracts for simple crud style apps, this is not one of them. If it was something like that I wouldn't even consider joining as it wouldn't keep me interested technically.
I've also put in 12-15 hours everyday, including weekends, to get things where they currently are at.
As someone who lives in a city without owning a car, I prefer expensive parking because that mean the space is used better (for me!).
Please give a padawan web developer feedback on my first application prototype
Hello everyone!

I have been working on a Chrome extension to help people organize the way they learn and research things online.

I am fairly new to web development and have had to learn a lot to put this together so that I can use it to help me learn some more. Infinite Loop of Learning.

I'd love to get some feedback on the concept, and whether this is something you might find useful.

I am a little bit nervous releasing something in to the wild in general, and specifically so early in the tool's development, but I know the Customer Development theory encourages this so I'm taking the plunge.

Please let me know if you're interested in taking a look and I will email you.

Thank you in advance for anyone who decides to take time out of their busy schedules to help.
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