skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The non-driver issue is a big one. I believe I have read that typically on third of the population don't drive, either because they are too young, too old, or have some sort of disability. This doesn't include those who are poor enough that keeping a car is a major expense.

The ways we have used zoning (minimum lot sizes and setbacks, and putting housing over here and work and shopping way the hell over there), and engineering our roads to make automobiling as quick as possible, has disenfranchised a large part of our population.
I watched it. You should do the same. May not be the best movie that you've ever seen, but I thought that it was good.
A half hour of gentle exercise with changing scenery is better for relieving my stress than sitting in my home. YMMV, of course.
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Working in Germany, the really sad part for me is seeing how TÜV and Lufthansa, of all companies, blindly bought into his shenanigans. This should tell you how absolutely clueless people were about all things IT, Internet and PC back then.
Well, brainfuck questions in general aren't all that useful, whether you do them on the board or take it home. But if you can't do basic stuff on a whiteboard or a sheet of paper, that's a red flag to me.

But, I'm biased. I would never do a take home interview shrug
Chinese Workers’ Problems - pure politics and economics
ACTA will Not pass as European Union law
http://m.forbes.pl/mobile/artykul/wydarzenia/wydarzenia/ets--acta-wbrew-karcie-praw-podstawowych,23630,1,none

Sorry for poor translation job, but in short it looks like this:

EU human rights bill FORBIDS invigilation of customers by ISPs - so this is against current EU law - rules by European Justice Tribunal.

"Tribunal noted that consumer rights security is superior to anything else compared to the ACTA law." - "Trybunał stwierdził nadrzędności ochrony konsumenta wynikającej z Karty Praw Podstawowych UE".
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It's a slightly more complicated startup and highly seasonal so we haven't really gone down the MVP route. I only joined the team in November though when they started looking at implementation.

It's true - I suspect the 5 year plan is going to change a LOT (it's really only for the investors) - but I think that there should be reasonably certain longevity provided the last stages of setup work (if that was useful for the domain choice). Like you say though, we are really mainly focusing on the shorter term at the minute.

Hopefully it works!

Thanks for the help!
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Hey Tommy! Im Tjerk your former collegae.

Anyway nice article. However your conclusions are not well founded. For example. what if majority of the traffic to your Gift Certificate Factory came from a website that went offline at the point in the graph. Then there is a different correlation.

Also i have never seen a huge drop like that. Are you sure there are no other reasons for the drop?

The peak for your MBI site might also be because some other guy linked to it from a favority website. This is often the cause for spikes like that.

Just saying, that the conclusions you make might feel right, you can never be sure with only the graphs. So its a bit of speculation.
> Its 2009 revenue from gas taxes (after diversions) was about $1.5 billion.

Not so fast - you dont get to ignore diversions.

Also, you're ignoring other car-taxes, from registration, to sales tax (I don't know if Texas has both sales and gas taxes, but CA does), to sales tax on car stuff. (No cars, no sales tax on car stuff.)

Also, car use is pretty much universal, so there can't be a significant amount of money going from non-car users to car subsidies. It's car uses paying, even when it isn't labelled a "car tax".

"Mass transit" subsidies are mostly money from "not users".

Two "mistakes", both in the same direction....
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I'm sure they'll piss a bunch of people off when the inevitably raise prices again. However, in 6 months when those people realize that cable still sucks and there is no viable competition they'll sign back up.

If netflix cost exactly the same thing as cable I would happily pay because they distributes content in a way that is convenient for me and they don't run commercials to subsidize their income at the cost of my enjoyment.
"Intermingled commercial and residential" was the phrase Jane Jacobs threw around.

If you visit a city like New York, you'll notice that everything is zoned a bit differently; heck, it looks like it hasn't been zoned at all. Most residential buildings have a store of some kind in the first floor. Consequently, in a city with intermingled commercial and residential buildings, you're never more than a block or three from a grocery or a drug store, and generally never more than a block from a coffee shop or a deli.

Doing your grocery shopping via mass transit is insane. That's why in a city where 75% of the population uses mass transit as their primary form of transportation, you don't. You just walk across the the street.
>The flip side of that is everyone with a Mac and a Canon 5D thinks he's Stanley Kubrick, so it's harder to spot real talent.

This is the only point I disagree with. I don't care how much more accessible the tech gets it's still about te storyline, the acting and cinematography.
Serendipity incarnate. I'm just moving something to symfony2 and this is something I'd been considering adding to my project, you may have just saved me weeks of my life.
Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable
To the contrary. The purchase included all of Moto Mobility, which is the STB / Phone side of Moto, and must also include patents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility
> before talking to normal human beings

This scared me and makes me feel as if we believe 'normal human beings' are party members from 1984.

> The sacred principles of Ingsoc. Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? And what way of knowing that the dominion of the Party would not endure for ever? Like an answer, the three slogans on the white face of the Ministry of Truth came back to him: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Motorola Mobility still makes devices, e.g. Droid.

Third quarter numbers: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-58XVPR/165679343...
This reminds me of a study that compared Hartford, New Haven, and Cambridge:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/11/17/parking-dat...

Basically, all 3 cities had been steadily increasing the number of parking spots they had, until Cambridge deviated and banned creating new parking spots. Cambridge grew much faster than the other two after this change was made, and the chart correlated fairly closely. This may have been because of rent-control or other issues but the case for parking rules is strong.
Depends on the goal.

- Is it retribution? Then corporal punishment is an easier and cheaper solution. It's also arguably more humane than jail/prison.

- Is it to protect society? A thief has to steal a lot to do more damage than he'd cost as a prisoner.

- Is the goal to deterrence? That's fine, but prison sentences only really work as deterrence for premeditated crimes, and thieves are typically addicts of some sort.

The whole justice problem isn't that easy, and just throwing everybody in jail is a pretty bad idea. They do that in the USA and the results are horrific.
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That's generally a good strategy for beating the crowd at speculating. The problem is knowing when you are following or beating the crowd. The other problem is timing it right. Normally when 'everyone knows' that tech stock, property, or gold is a good investment, it's not a good time to invest in it.
> $20,000 - $30,000 people spend to own a car

Yearly? That seems high. My car is paid off and I pay nothing for parking (other than whatever portion of my steep Baltimore City property taxes pays for it).

Anyway, let's say I drive 8000 miles in a year, my car gets 30 mpg and gas is $4 a gallon. 8000/30=267 gallons * 4 = $1068 per year on gas.

My car's paid off, but I bought it 5 years ago for $10k, so let's just amortize that evenly per year, and assume it will die at the end of the year, and say I paid $2k per year for it.

My maintenance in the past year has been minimal; I think my greatest cost was replacing a headlamp. (knock on wood). Let's say $250 just to be conservative.

Let's add another $250 for government taxes, fees, etc.

Therefore, in the last year, my car cost me about 1068+2000+250+250 = $3568, nearly an order of magnitude less than your assessment.
>As a Swiss citizen I'm not buying it!

Drop the nationalism, the world will become a better place.
I have been programming only since the millennium(i.e 11 years) and already feel really...really...tired...... but that may just be my laziness....
Maybe it's time for distributions to slim down considerably to the point where they really only contain everything that's needed for the system to run on its own.

All end-user software (with all their dependencies - disk space is cheap nowadays) would then be installed directly from the vendors - as it's done on every other OS on the planet.

I run Debian/XFCE, for two main reasons. One is proper focus-follows-mouse support (why I stopped using Gnome, well before they started their current "look like a designed-for-touchscreen shell" insanity). The other is that I can use apt-get/aptitude to install just about anything, whenever I want (why I don't just use Windows).

You might notice that that second reason is being copied by the smartphone people with their app stores.
The point of distribution packages once was that they would allow for easy updates of your environment without you having to go through the hassle of self-compiling whenever an update (security!) is required and to auto-install dependencies as needed.

That's not what distribution packages are for. The point of distribution packages is to run other packages in the distribution written in that language. That doesn't mean your own app should use the distribution package, unless you're planning on shipping it with your distribution.

For example, Debian ships with Perl because most of Debian's toolchain is written in Perl. That means feature updates of Perl carry risk with little benefit; the packages work fine with the old version of Perl, but new versions of Perl may deprecate features that they're using. So you can't just upgrade Perl because you want to; your OS won't boot anymore if you do. If you have your own copy of Perl for your application, you can upgrade it (and required modules) whenever you want, and your OS is unaffected. You derive more benefit from newer Perls than Debian does, because you are working on your Perl app every day. Debian's app already works, and maintaining stability is more important than having access to new features.
I agree - I did this a long time ago; while it's fun to go through logs sometimes, I prefer to weed-out the general bombardment. My hits dropped from about 90 a day to 0 (after 6 months).
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While living in Philadelphia, we got very used to seeing the ubiquitous Philly Car Share maroon cars. They partner with public and private enterprises for preferred parking spaces at a variety of venues. A good section of the front row of parking at IKEA was reserved for car-share. Its a great system and one noticeably absent from my current midwestern city.
Thank you for this extra information.

It goes without saying that the internet was not a one-man creation. You said it.
About £0.50 per payment, regardless of size. Certainly quite affordable, I chickened because the terms and conditions if you're handling payments for others was grey area at best, and it was hard to determine what regulations would apply for a cash-holding transaction-middleman.

They also only process direct debits monthly, and the payment needs to be advised weeks in advance, so the debtor can object. Fine for recurring memberships etc., not really suitable for one-off payments.

Finally, there's a deeply entrenched national debit-ish card, run by the same nominally private sector entity running direct debits. They essentially write their own rules for the entire sector in Denmark, and I wasn't really too keen on going up against them. So perfect match for the schlepp-essay :)
or if you are only using it to visit your grandma on the other side of the country, maybe just rent a car for a couple days? or if you have a car that is paid for leave it on the outskirts where it is cheaper and take transit to it?
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You can read more about the Polish eruption here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3502200

And here's some more footage from the protests: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511980
D'oh!!
Backbone.js localStorage + remote sync
We needed to use localStorage as a cache for a project, so we forked Backbone.localStorage (https://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage)
Cars need lots of land for parking because they spend most of their time idle, because people find it cheaper to own their own car than to use taxicabs. Also, people buy the largest car they could plausibly need, unless they buy more than one. Individuals' strong identification with the car they drive further contributes to excessive size and power.

Automated taxis solve the problem. They will spend much less time idle, can be parked more compactly, don't need to be parked near a destination, and can have a size distribution that matches the needs of individual trips (i.e., mostly very small.) If they're cheap enough, then they'll be widely used, and wait times will be small. Because they will be automated, they can be taken in and out of service very quickly, and there will always be about the right number available. Also, they'll be much safer for cyclists and pedestrians to share the road with, and they'll use less of the existing road space, allowing us to add and widen bike lanes throughout our cities.
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Creating stuff is always exciting. Programming is just a means for doing that.
No .. but it would damn cool if such hardware existed. Does it?
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This is pretty cool.

Do you plan to continue working on hellepoll? I liked the idea and would love to see it developed further.
You forgot the asterisk and the list of limitations, bugs and "features" that are like bugs in that they cause problems, only were done intentionally.
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I agree. 21 years elapsed since I started.

I cut my teeth on Z80 assembly at the age of 11 by building my own computer from stuff I could get my hands on (discarded and broken RM380Z and some VIC20's for RAM) and books from the library.

I feel there's too much hardware compexity and software abstraction these days, most of which is impenetrable. The complexity is a result of making the layers of abstraction fast. It takes the old feel of immediate power away. Even knocking stuff out in C is just stringing libraries together.

I wish we were closer to the hardware again. I also wish the hardware was simple enough to fit in my head and was elegant.
Great article and insight.

FYI mrsync is confusingly named since it doesn’t actually use the rsync algorithm it performs multicast file transfer. (The whole file is sent not just the deltas).

I’ve always thought it would be cool if someone added rsync capabilities on top of bittorrent. I’m not sure Etsy would see any benefit but I bet Twitter with their murder server deploy would.
Thousands march in Poland over Acta Internet treaty
Do people find arguing fun enough to do on its own?
First: Google can't just acquire anything. Dropbox and Github both would have to agree to sell their companies to Google first and I don't see either one of them interested in that, especially Github.

Second SPYW doesn't have anything to do with Google buying companies. It's an opt-in program between a company and Google as to how Google can index their site. Because of that, I can't see companies like Dropbox or Github, even if they opted for SPYW to index private information. They would ultimately have control of that.

So basically what I got from the article is that you don't understand SPYW or how acquisitions work...
Windows Vista was a large jump in resource usage. At the time Microsoft was building it, it was expected that Intel would bring the Netburst architecture to at least 4 GHz in the near future. They didn't, and the next release of Windows is not so careless on resources. Coincidence?
We signed up again. Where our previous plan was "Keep a Netflix subscription and tell our friends about it", our current mode is, "This is the cheapest way to watch the existing episodes of TV series _____, then we'll cancel again."
Don't get me wrong, I totally agree with you on the design part.

But what I'm trying to figure out is if design and a REST API are the only 2 things where GoCardless outexecutes competitors. Especially since direct debit clearly isn't something new and there are other players in the field that offer a much broader support for different kinds of payment methods.
>In their brightest expectations I don't think they see themselves making money with it.

If MS defeated Android there is no question that they would raise the price of the licensing fee. Since they won't MS is faced with the reality that, while they are making money now, these patents won't last forever.
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Is it really worth posting links to HN to Launchrock holding pages?
That's not his wife. It's a well-known german "model" called Janina Youssefian.
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That mode of living only works if you primarily travel _within_ the city or to a few well-connected cities in the region.

Travelling from Amsterdam to places without a train station kinda sucks. In some cases, even travelling to places _with_ a train station takes almost twice as long by public transport.
Not to my knowledge, but similar approaches have existed for a long time now e.g. RSA SecurID [0]. One day I'm going to set up my Yubikey to perform a similar purpose, but my motivation levels correlate with my paranoia :)

[0] http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1156
Well, he rented that yacht. And maybe part of the reason he feels the needs to do those things is because he has lower self-esteem due to his weight?
"as long as they..."

See, that's exactly why we don't allow password based authentication. While you can enforce strong passwords, you can't enforce that the user choose a password that is unique to your system, because you cannot know where else they may use this password.

The recent Dreamhost security disclosure is a great example. What are the chances that a contractor is using the same password for a Dreamhost shell account as they are my server? Pretty high, in my experience.

By disallowing password authentication, and requiring SSH-key auth, and requiring that contractors use a passphrase with their SSH-key, I have decreased the chances of a random break-in significantly.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514232 - ACTA will NOT pass as of now since it's in validation of Basic Human Rights Bill, so it looks with exception of Poland and Czech EU is safe, but i have high hopes that our (polish) parliament will not ratify the document.
Pure functional programming (HASKELL) inspires me very much.
Well, also Cambridge is right next to a much larger city. This seems like it might have more to do with it.
Gnucash or Moneydance.
Pretty darn funny! "He had his first exit when he was like 9."
That would create lots of restrictions Microsoft wasn't comfortable with

The most likely scenario was that Microsoft would have been broken up, which while it was unwanted by Gates would have likely led to a much more valuable set of combined parts today. Microsoft was the #1 software engineering powerhouse, but they always managed to sabotage their own efforts (force integration where it was detrimental, alignment to a core strategy that often meant that they saw themselves as their biggest competitor, etc).

If Microsoft didn't help Apple, and Apple hypothetically disappeared, today we would likely have a lot more mini-Microsofts in our lives.
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He stole other people's work and made business out of it. You are not magically allowed to steal* from corporations.

*I personally don't classify downloading other people's work as stealing, but building a huge business from it is totally different matter.

And it's totally not the point of the article, anyway.
I can't believe there are Debian/Ubuntu folks still not using "aptitude". Or that it's not installed by default.
> Effectivally he is not storing things to the DB he is logging them to the DB in case of a program crash. To speed things up he stores his entire data set in RAM client side.

At this point its not worth even using a database. I'm currently working on an experimental framework at Smarkets where we just write events directly to disk and do everything else in memory (with the occasional snapshot to speed recovery). If all goes well it will be open-sourced in a few weeks.

LMAX have taken this idea to extremes and have some mind-blowing benchmarks - http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
Before we had our own business (necessitating a vehicle) we spent a couple of years without a car - for 2 people it was always cheaper (sometimes quite a lot) to hire a car than it was to take the train. Such a shame as I generally love travelling by train.
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