skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this "a used car loses 20-30% of it's value when it goes off the lot" thinking is that the used cars that people sell are statistically more likely to have problems than the new car that comes off the line.

A person less likely to sell his/her used car if it's running great.

Thus the "used car discount" adds in some % reduction due to it's selection being amongst a less healthy population of vehicles... probably not as much as 30-50%, but probably at least half that.
>I was slightly offput by this comment "the financial costs of moving (which are high - I've definitely spent hundreds on new drinking glasses alone!)"

Ummm... I bought new drinking glasses when I was moving out, because otherwise I'd have nothing to drink from.
Check this out:

http://hackerleague.org/
http://plancast.com/category/hackathons
good idea, will add it soon. thanks!
That shit cray!
"Chinese factory conditions are often horrible, and there's often a blatant disregard for human life and dignity. "

Yes, and Chinese businesses also put melamine in baby formula sold to Chinese families, that made hundreds or thousands of babies sick, and probably killed some.

Frankly, if the Chinese factories are disregarding human life and dignity, it's probably not something pushed on them by Western companies.

If anything, this kind of Chinese business ethics is something that will impede Western companies trying to clean up their supply chains.
Thank you for sharing the link. Her articles are not peer reviewed, and I don't think they would pass muster. She seems to blend evidence with anecdote to argue for a point. For example, lines such as "Increasingly, orthopedic clinics are seeing patients whose problems turn out to be solvable by simply terminating statin therapy, as evidenced by a recent report of three cases within a single year in one clinic, all of whom had normal creatine kinase levels, the usual indicator of muscle damage monitored with statin usage, and all of whom were "cured" by simply stopping statin therapy (Shyam Kumar et al., 2008)".

One case report does not bear the same weight as a randomized, controlled trial (of which there are now dozens). Yet that's the kind of stuff that's the basis for her argument. The reference about fructose in the next paragraph twists Vila's paper 180 degrees. Etc. I would be interested to see what would happen if she submitted this as a review paper. I sincerely doubt that it would get published, not because of her conclusions, but because of the way in which this paper mistreats evidence.
Django Class-Based-View Inspector - Classy CBV
Very functional app, many thanks to everyone on the team, but please find someone to do some art. The branding, website, and UI are all terrible.
Field (http://openendedgroup.com/field) is a development environment that embraces the ideas of "code space as canvas" and experimentation through instant feedback; I was immediately reminded of it while watching Victor's talk. Values are editable with GUI elements embedded inside the code, almost identically to this demonstration (see https://vimeo.com/3001412 for an example).
Fun. I would love a pause button, so that I can take a break - or look up the person's profile that it just showed me.
An interesting tidbit to those who do not know:
x86 allows for all memory accesses to use an addressing mode of base+{1,2,4,8}*index. This allows this particular optimization to be used with no performance cost for many normal accesses.
permalink: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/derman_on_theor.htm...
Perhaps I should have been more clear on reading the room: It is not a collective, 500 person room. There may be 15 people in the room, but only two or three attendees that actually matter. They must be seated in direct line-of-site to the presenter(s), and the presenters MUST pick up on queues:

- do they look bored?
- has he checked is iphone?
- did he knowingly look over to his #2

All subtle, but these things matter. Depending on the kind of presentation it can be like a poker game. Clients have a "tell" and it is crucial that the presenters / team pick up on it.

Teaching juniors to do that is part of mentorship, but that part of the teaching has changed. And it has been harder to teach...
This is not the fifties. Movies shouldn't be watched on tv.
Won't be backported (which would be sort of weird in any case... if you were going to actually go to the trouble of upgrading your copy of 3.2 by a minor version, you might as well just upgrade to 3.3), but they do address this in the PEP:

There are many existing Python communities that are prepared to put
up with the constraints imposed by the existing suite of porting
tools, or to update their Python 2 code bases sufficiently that the
problems are minimised.

This PEP is not for those communities. Instead, it is designed
specifically to help people that don't want to put up with those
difficulties.

However, since the proposal is for a comparatively small tweak to
the language syntax with no semantic changes, it is feasible to
support it as a third party import hook. While such an import hook
imposes some import time overhead, and requires additional steps
from each application that needs it to get the hook in place, it
allows applications that target Python 3.2 to use libraries and
frameworks that would otherwise only run on Python 3.3+ due to their
use of unicode literal prefixes.

One such import hook project is Vinay Sajip's uprefix [4].

For those that prefer to translate their code in advance rather than
converting on the fly at import time, Armin Ronacher is working on a
hook that runs at install time rather than during import [5].

Combining the two approaches is of course also possible. For
example, the import hook could be used for rapid edit-test cycles
during local development, but the install hook for continuous
integration tasks and deployment on Python 3.2.

The approaches described in this section may prove useful, for
example, for applications that wish to target Python 3 on the Ubuntu
12.04 LTS release, which will ship with Python 2.7 and 3.2 as
officially supported Python versions.
If you're on a Mac, take at look at Latexian [1]. It has a live preview pane, which works by recompiling the tex file in the background (incl. bibtex). And despite the ugly icon, the UI is pretty nice (if you run it in fullscreen, put the preview pane on the right side, turn off the toolbar and choose a nice font).

[1] http://tacosw.com/latexian/
The article was mainly referencing people in my position (young and no kids)...
Its much akin to Syndication on TV but when you see a large Warner Brother's logo in front of a show on the CW, it's easier to distinguish.
But what gives them a "moral obligation" to move? If moving is economically rational, let them move. If it's not, I see no reason they should be under obligation to move.
Not true, if you live in the city.
It does pause if you win the round. I could easily add a pause button, though. You also give me a good idea - I should make the names at the end of the round be links to their profile, too.
Don't?

I'd like to see some evidence of that. Don't get me wrong, I think the points raised are legitimate, and there is a future danger that people won't trust startups, but I'm yet to see any evidence that they don't right now.
Relevant: http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-article-generating-tho...
Your green arrow is pointing at "learn more" and not "allow" so the link takes me here https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
A 10 second pause at the end of the round is not enough for me to get a drink of water. A button would have helped me.
This is a wonderfully entitled piece.

No company owes you anything if you don't have a contract with them. No person should be indebted to "the users" so much that his/her career stagnates because of it.
Yes I am aware. I also noted that I am paid decently, maybe I should have made it clearer that I am paid decently for FL which is most certainly not the same in NY.
No it's not. Not for programmers.

But, whatever.
My point is fairly narrow: People love to blame Glass-Steagall, and yet consider the roll call of shame during the GFC: Northern Rock, Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Merryl Lynch, AIG, Lehman Brothers, HBOS, Fannie Mae, HBOS, Lloyds TSB. Every one of those is on the list for two reasons:

1) Being very large ("too big to fail").

2) Having done stupid things which would have been legal under the restrictions of Glass-Steagall. The details of what each did differ, but in every case the stupid actions did not cross a line between retail and investment arms, or retail and insurance arms.

I think that, if you review the list, it's screamingly obvious that size matters hugely, and any regulation reasonably expected to stop the "too big to fail" problem should be looked at very favourably. (Note: No such regulation has been passed, or seriously proposed.) And to a lesser degree, there are some good arguments to be made for bringing regulation of the "shadow banking" sector into line with the rest of the industry, extending deposit insurance to money market accounts[1], and possibly for reducing government involvement in the mortgage industry[2].

What's not obvious is why a regulation that banned something none of the entries on that list were doing would have helped. You say that it had a "chilling effect", but I'm sceptical. If it wasn't for Glass-Steagall, AIG wouldn't have decided to bet the farm on house price stability? Can you articulate any mechanism for how this might have occured?

(If only Citigroup or Wachovia had failed, there'd be an argument that Glass-Steagall repeal helped create "too big to fail" companies by allowing large specialized firms to merge into behomoth diversified firms - but of course, none of those diversified firms failed. If anything, there's a better argument for how Glass-Steagall repeal helped reduce the damage from the crisis.)

[1]: These factors were significantly involved in several of the largest bank failures.

[2]: From the point of view of the taxpayer, the most expensive failures all involved mortgages, most of all Fanny Mae. Abolishing the GSEs and walking back the bi-partisan multi-decade obsession with boosting home ownership rates seems sensible to me. Even today, the idea is highly controversial though.
I quoted the parts of the email that led me to that impression in the original post.
Chinese village governments are horribly corrupt. If a villager with a complaint against the local government goes to Beijing to get redress from the central government, the village often has goons and police who will abduct and imprison the villager for long periods, with all manner of maltreatment, including beatings.

The villagers might have been threatened, but it probably wasn't Apple who did it. The suppliers are probably lying to Apple about their environmental controls, then polluting to increase profits. So the supplier's owners or management, who might be important Party figures, or military officials, leans on the local officials, to lean on the villagers.
I mean, if you guess all three of the friends in the set, it stops the timer all-together. I will add similar logic to a button, as well.
Mentoring Organizations for Google Summer of Code 2012 Announced
What your banks don't close at 4pm? Every Danish bank that I know of does.
Have you considered making the community thing your only niche? For example you would have a way to embed a sales process entirely inside the forum. That's something I would use and find really cool
Cisco’s Bold Networking Start-Up
Yes, in Frankfurt it's fairly routine. The security is pretty high, and it gets even tenser at times, when some radical group announces threats and such. It's not only the airport, though; I've seen policemen with MP5s at the Frankfurt train station and once on the main shopping street in the city center, too.
hm, can't reproduce that here with the same setup... the address, latitude, longitude and zipcode returned from google's geocoding api must have been insanely long to exceed the 5MB quota. sorry that happened :(
Daisey tells horrifying stories including one of a guy with a useless and twisted hand from making iPads.

Those create a very impression different from the one that we're left with. I'd say that for the most part what Daisey adds beyond the official reports is his fabrications.
Study: Even a Little Red Meat Is Bad For You
Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD | NBC San Diego
Samsung looking to invest in RIM?
the real headline here is that you can turn around a bad beat with good intentions and proper follow-through. good job being forthright and correcting the problem, this american life. perhaps sony could learn from this example.
Hyperbolic headline. I'm not a bitcoin fan but read the post: it's just a property of the bitcoin cryptosystem that if one can destroy others coins then their own increase in value. It's not in itself a vulnerability by any means
Does that mean he appreciates that you flout the rules?
Depends on the kind of startup. A tech startup has certain advantages in people, funding and connections, but a tech startup doing software for oil-exploration, say, might be better located in Alaska.

And I would love to see the best start-up founder try his hand in Sudan, Russia or North Korea.
Are companies going to hire employees, then, who won't love their jobs with a burning passion?

Didn't think so.
what do you think about James Frey and Henry Blodget?

exactly.
No, you are the user. You're just not the customer.
This isn't what he's doing, but if you use an audio routing system like jackd on Linux or Soundflower on Mac OS X, you can capture audio output from one application (flash youtube videos, Skype, iTunes, etc.), mix it with your system input, route the superposition of both signals to Audacity, and record everything into the same stream. You can also use audio routing to mix a conversation into the input of an icecast server. That way you can stream a live Skype conversation mixed with music and sound effects into an Internet radio show while also recording and monitoring it.

http://jackaudio.org/

http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
True. There's a Laffer Curve of Search with a revenue-optimizing level of suck somewhere between 0% and 100%.
It's not so simple. As mentioned in the last paragraph, for example, Ubuntu LTS will release with Python 3.2. Backporting this feature to 3.2 will make it available to (updated and patched) Ubuntu LTS installs. NOT backporting this PEP could result in further delays in Python 3 adoption as people wait for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Oh yes, the math certainly turns out the same. I guess I should have been clearer in the last paragraph, that normalizing to 0 or some positive dollar value is more of an issue of mental framing, as though it makes sense to use the type of calculation that I outlined as a guide it's not an infallible one but rather a tool to be used in decision making.
That is a fair assertion- but, a perfect example for me is the online app picnik (picnik.com)that is going away because the team joined big G+

If Google offered to buy my startup, I'd likely sell too....MAYBE. But I wish there wa s away for these apps people fall in love with to live on after their creators leave
I would guess they did and that they were probably selected. It's just that the list is still incomplete (180 orgs selected, displaying less than 100 as of right now).
I can hardly believe that something like that would be possible in 88' Yugoslavia.

In 55 - yes, 70's? Maybe. 88? Sounds more like someplace behind the iron curtain.
i'd prefer them to spend the time making sure the button works correctly. why is the UI so odious?
RSA public exponent size
Sometimes a startup creates a product just to cash out and make money. Their agenda is often times quite obvious as their product does not solve any particular problems.

Sometimes a startup creates a product because they see a need for it, and then try to find a way to monetize it.

It's up to the user to understand which company to trust.
So wait, the "good reason" he gets credit is for not doing the thing that causes people to give people like him credit?

To me, this all sounds like the Fundamental Attribution Error. Kevin Rose is thought to have some special talent, when really all he did was get lucky, and really, not even lucky enough to get his investors paid. His subsequent failures would seem to support this.

However, we must have our stars and Time coverboys. I would say that the reason he keeps getting biz is directly related to his fame, and not so much his business acumen or skills. Call it Calcanis Syndrome.
If that is what he said; it's ridiculous.

Take a bare PCB, screen print it with solder paste (sometimes glue), run it through a pick and place machine (or a series of machines) then put it through a reflow oven. Once it comes out the oven you give it an auto test, and send it to have the rest of the components put on. (Some things will be damaged by heat, or can't be placed by machine. Examples include connectors on the "wrong side", but I guess massive machines have solved this problem.)

Note that in a huge factory you'd need few people for all the steps until the product finishes testing - most of it is automatic.

Even in tiny factory one person can keep a line running producing a lot of product by pushing a few buttons now and then, and moving boards from one machine to the next.

Having said that, a lot of stuff is done by hand; tiny coil winding and placement is one example.

EDIT:
Here's a UK documentary where youth went to a factory in the Philippines. The tech episode is ep5. I don't know if it's available online anywhere.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s6103)
I think one of the reasons why we don't notice it on desktops is because there are so few vertical lines. Basically, it's the window edges where it might be noticeable, when dragging windows sideways.

On the iPad, on the other hand, there are tons of horizontal lines in a table view, for example.

Also, I thought about the 60 Hz thing, and I think high frame rate is a bit of a red herring. After all, the lines actually are slanted; the higher the frame rate, the fewer degrees they're slanted at the same scroll speed, but whether we notice the slanting is independent of the frame rate.
In California, bank locations are often open 9am-6pm M-F. Many are open 9-4pm on Saturday as well.
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He said there were guards with guns: not true.
He said there were dorms with beds stacked high: not true.
He said he stood outside the Foxconn gate and met underage workers: not true.

In the last case, his claim made it sound as if underage workers were more common than they are, if he could just show up at the gate and meet some. Underage workers have been found, but they don't seem to be as common as Daisey would have you believe, so not a routine policy of hiring kids.
Walmart buys a Facebook-based calendar app to get a look at customers' dates
> I would consider any gun in the hands of another man 'big scary'. It doesn't really matter how big it is. He could be holding a small pistol - it can still kill me.

How about a gun in the hands of a woman?

Or, a car in the hands of a human?

Or, a match/lighter?

You're surrounded by people with things that can kill you (he says considering the lethal potential of desk stapler).
Stockpickr
Any chance you have a Motorola Droid (1st one) hanging around? I'd love to see how that screen compares. It was near-retina, at least by the look of it, and I think was AMOLED (since you mentioned the Nexus One).
Between free online services (Google, Facebook), extensive piracy (bitorrent), and the proliferation of free open source software, internet users have had it drilled into their heads to not pay for anything, ever. I'm in the 37 Signals camp - I think the creators of software and services need to charge for it, and users need to start paying for software they like.
Love it whenever one of these great free apps get major updates. Been using Audacity on and off for years.
I was a junior in college (summer of 07) and been working a disillusioning summer job as an undergraduate CompSci researcher when I first read about YCombinator and Justin.tv.

Knowing that there was a place out there for entrepreneurial geeks like me helped tipped the scales for me; YCombinator plus Hacker News itself has made me feel like I am not alone in trying to make it as a geek-entrepreneur and I am glad for it.

YC + HackerNews has made the tech world feel like a smaller, more accessible place for me.
Do you mean you changed the title? I certainly didn't as I'm now blocked from editing the title of my own submission. Also, the post seems to still be flagged.
Sorry for this harsh statement, but Guido should do an internship at Theo of OpenBSD. We can't just decide to move backward to support programmers stupidity.
It's a one-man monologue, but the thing is, Daisey was widely interviewed and published, restating his claims about what he "found" in China. Not just on stage and This American Life, but also a NY Times Op/Ed, and interviews on CBS, etc.
They also do retina scans. Even more annoying when I went to renew my green card they insisted on doing the finger print scans again, just in case they had changed since the last time or the numerous times they scanned them at the airport. My experiences renewing a green card https://plus.google.com/110166527124367568225/posts/ft4gp8i7...

There is such a marked difference between immigration in the rest of the world and the US. Short or non-existent queues, happy staff even when you arrive at 1am, handing out candy, not behind large barriers etc.
Warning: If you use git+Dropbox on a Mac (or have one joined anywhere), keep in mind that most Macs have case-insensitive filesystems.

What this means is checking out a git repo like the Linux kernel will not work. This drove me a little nuts until I figured out what happened (I'm an old school Unix guy so did not realize that HFS+ is case insensitive).
A simple way to show that your app is going to be around for the long haul is to charge users money for it, the founder of Pinboard, a paid bookmarking web app says it best:

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

While conducting the beta test for my selective link sharing-via-email digests tool, Handpick:

http://handpick.me

I asked my users whether they'd pay to support the app to run for the long haul. They love my app enough to say yes and were delighted that they could actually actively fund the operations and development.

Go on, try asking your users if they'd pay for your product. It's the best validation you can get!
It was only a matter of time before people stopped visiting these sites on their own. The digital content scene in India is much better than in the US.

In the US you pay for watching TV Series online on Netflix. Those series are sometimes delayed by months. In India most of the TV Shows are available to view on the next day on YouTube (http://youtube-global.blogspot.in/2012/03/19000-episodes-of-...)

In the US you pay for streaming music services like Spotify. On the other hand all of the Bollywood songs are available for unlimited free streaming on http://www.saavn.com. They even have a free iPhone/Android app with unlimited streaming (The app and websites use adverts as the main revenue stream.)