skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Special relativity is a few formulas, not a "whole subfield of physics." But yes - I didn't really regard this as a serious scientific criticism.

I can present LR parsing in a lecture as well. However, if you had to understand LR parsing to write an HTML 5 app, there would be a lot fewer HTML 5 apps.

By "debugging" I didn't just mean tracing. I meant one of the most basic tasks of the programmer - interpreting and responding to error messages. Is there a single error message shown or explained in LYAH? If so, I missed it.

This is germane because, when a type system works perfectly, it appears magic by definition. When it issues you an error, however, you have to understand what went wrong. It is sometimes possible to do this without understanding the black box, but the skill is again recondite.

I refuse to believe that Haskell programmers are so godly that their programs work the first time they're typed in.
"Lost" Jobs interviews add dimension, perspective to his life story
The end game might be to send parts and robots to make the mining equipment itself on site. Rebellious human operators / colonists not required.
What are the chances of Stripe offering micropayments like Paypal? For charges of $1 or less. There are so many areas waiting for this, and Paypal just isn't friendly enough of a platform to try this direction.
If anybody else is curious, here's a discussion on the history and differences of A-G and Helvetica (plus Univers and Arial, both closely related):

http://www.freddesign.co.uk/2010/04/archive/the-differences-...
Coming soon: a James Cameron movie featuring real footage from a space mining operation interlaced with a rather stereotypical love story. Title: Avatanic.
In the past, when these endeavors were carried out by nation states, all the baggage of bureaucracy was along for the ride. Fast forward to today, and you have individuals with the imagination and the means to dream big. It's possible to undertake something insane -- like mining asteroids -- on your own.

I'm with you on the enthusiasm, but consider:

a) the history of previous innovations like railroads and flight. Private actors have always made big contributions, it's just that government was often an early client or monopoly grantor. The big projects that government finances and implements directly tend to be things like defense and infrastructure.

Edit: relatively low tech but large infrastructure - giant damns, highway systems, rural electrification. I've always thought of NASA as a half-defense project. But this is a tendency rather than an iron rule, the pendulum swings back and forth on public/private sector involvement.

b. Hell no, it's not possible to do these things on your own. you need a team (who share some executive power) and a pool of labor, and ideally you stay open enough (like Steve Jobs) to the innovative bubbles that bubble up from any part of your organization. An individual with sufficient capital and vision has the opportunity to overcome the economic inertia of a big project and get things moving, but to look at it as something you do 'on your own' is to fall into an ego trap right out of the gate. Extreme example of this: Muammar Gaddafi.

c. Bureaucracy is a side-product of organization. Government is bureaucratic because it has reasons to persist as an organization. But almost all commercial entities have bureaucracy of their own, proportional to the size and complexity of the organization. Bureaucracy can be annoying or inefficient, but it is not a bad thing in itself: it's just organizational infrastructure and an entirely rational division of labor. Naturally, there's a problem when the interests of individual bureaucrats or bureaux come into conflict with those of the organization as a whole, but that's often the result of an incomplete or inchoate conflict resolution process. In the right circumstances it can be an asset; the software company my wife works for originally threw its product together as an internal job-tracking tool for paper-based archive/records management. Nowadays what used to be its core business is outsourced to subcontractors.

The fulcrum of decision making was remarkably focused on a single point: him.

And yet the company has not undergone a dramatic collapse since his death. This is because he built a strong organizational infrastructure in which he played a central, but replaceable, role.

I don't know the end game for capitalism [...]

I don't believe there is one, any more than there's an end game for math or physics. Capitalism is in my view a phenomenon rather than a philosophy, as is communism (in the non-ideological sense of people doing things together for mutual benefit). As I get older I think a great deal of political conflict is the result of a confusion between means and ends, but that's another story.
Yes, but if you started a bakery to sell a new item that no one else was making and were first to market with it you might find early success. This in turn would allow you to make a subpar marble rye because people are coming to your bakery for your unique new pastry not the bread.
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This idea that there can only be one product in an area is wrong. For example, Harvest and SimpleTimer are not the only tools in that area — Amy Hoy's Freckle makes a pretty decent profit in the same area and with superficially the same demographic. As long as you have a unique spin on it that will resonate more with some subset of people and are willing to work your tail off, you've got a shot.
Ok, who is Steve Alibini? (I know who is is, b/c I looked him up, but he is anything but a household name).
We would have a lot to owe to Carnegie for developing this billionaire culture. Cheers!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie#On_wealth
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Came here to ask the same question. The name is familiar.

It might help to put in the link Avi Bryant, Creator of Seaside, joining Etsy.
OK, I agree that sane people could take the principled stand that it's not right to subjugate 3 pre-cogs to save the several hundred people murdered every year in Washington DC. But first, I don't think most people actually would. And second, there has got to be a way to convince 3 pre-cogs to do this work voluntarily, seeing as that you've got about of order a billion dollars (the economic value of 200 lives in the US) to work with.
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Absolutely!

The Kindle is a wonderful device that is already very good and doesn't improve enough to justify upgrading all the time like Apple devices. And it's very cheap, which makes selling old ones not very appealing.

I own a Kindle 3 (with a keyboard) and couldn't live without it. Even if I eventually buy a newer one I will keep that one to leave at home for example, or give to my kids. But sell it? Never.

This post is quite disappointing, as are most from Priceonomics. They are apparently trying to mimic the blogging strategy of OKCupid, but they're doing it very poorly.
Let's say the man invests all his money in a socks business. In the first case his socks business will demand 25k less. The maid will demand 25k more. I still see effect 0. I think the problem is people are not considering savings in the equation...
In this book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141035501/ the author says that solving simple math equations (addition,subtraction ,division) fast is much more stimulating than doing complex math.
I fail to understand this article because I think there are so many different topics the author touches on.. Innovation. Culture. Tech business and startups..

I think the author is conflating some of these concepts or just misunderstanding some. For instance, innovation. What does Facebook have to do with innovation? I'm sure there are a few innovative things they have done, but in my view the outline for the broad concept of what their social service accomplishes had been drawn clearly before their rise to dominance. They just did it better than most, and reached a critical mass in terms of user base.

If the author is simply bored of taking pictures on a phone and beaming them halfway around the world because it's now commonplace... I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you. There will be another shiny new toy invented that will be another great extension or augmentation of the human experience for you to enjoy in a few years, doubtlessly. So cheer up.

One thing I know is true: All of these things that are being built on the internet and the internet itself.. They are just different vehicles for human expression; they are all extensions of the human thought, the human environment; all facets of ourselves as a species.

I think the author of this article flounders about in coming up with what is "next" because they don't really understand the reasons why the successful products appeared in the first place:

Nobody at Facebook invented the idea that humans like to be in contact with each other.

Nobody at Pinterest came up with the idea that humans collect things that they find interesting. Humans have been doing that for as long as we've been around.

Nobody at Instagram invented the idea that humans are creatures who crave artistic expression. When we didn't have canvas or quill or a camera, we painted on cave walls.

All of these companies just fascilitated a need that was already there, whether people were concious of it or not. I would argue that these products were inevitable, it was just a matter of who would get there first.

If you want to try to answer the obtuse question of "What is next", a question that comes from a confused origin.... You only have to study human nature. That would be my answer. If the author is soliciting advise about the next hot startup to invest in, that's a totally different ballgame.
I second that and I'm not a technical guy
Why can't the next area of innovation be in education? I’m not talking solely about the transition from print to digital, but rather a complete reset on education with technology at its core rather than at the periphery? Rethink the status quo, with no sacred cows (teachers, buses, grades, testing, - even classrooms all up for grabs).

Imagine tablet devices or similar technology that provide individualized, adaptive teaching programs that exhibit techniques that allowed students to progress each at their own pace, using highly innovative and entertaining forms of education.

Imagine all progress (and regress) made by the student as a form of continual testing and as gates to increasingly more complex subjects, with programs that adapt to a student’s areas of weakness (and strengths), hitting at core concepts from different angles and in ways that appeal to that individuals ideal method of learning, until that student was able to progress to the next concept, or skip and then revisit once a complementary concepts is are understood that would augment that student’s ability to master the concept they skipped earlier.

Imagine technological innovation that allowed us to take a less linear approach to certain subjects, which is the only method today given the constraints of 1:* teacher:students and the invisible “bar” which forces certain students to move at the lowest common denominator pace, while taxing other students to keep, such as those that have difficulty learning in the cookie cutter way.

Imagine applications that blend multiple subjects (math, science, history), presenting the material not using your standard “preach at you” teaching technique, but instead using role-based or video game style interactive learning that makes the kid WANT to study, gets excited about the subject.

Envision a system where the best teachers become the product managers that formulate the logic and program flow for those innovative applications, and your run-of-the-mill teacher becomes a custodian for keeping things under control while the students interact with their devices, and of course, with each other, as social interaction is essential for their well-being as well.

Sure there would be many hurdles, not the least of these being teachers unions and the hurdle of changing centuries of preconceived notions of how education should be accomplished, but hey, the author asked for what the next revolutionary idea could be, and a transformation in education with technology at its core has my vote.
I've hit this 'can only link bank account to one PayPal account' problem a few times and it is very frustrating.

The way I operate my business and personal bank and PayPal accounts means I have to shuffle money around to work with this rule. Why, PayPal?
I'd watch it.
Maybe, maybe not, either way I don't think that's why it was phrased that way. I have no idea of the internals of the team, but I've seen the female terms used instead of the male terms more frequently when referencing software engineers than in other fields. It's just how some people write it.
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Your point is particularly relevant since SpaceX employs former NASA engineers and astronauts.
Ikea gets into the TV business
I don't understand that. You can't use an iPad to read where there is lots of light, so how do you not find the Kindle much more useful? Anywhere where there's sunlight the Kindle has no substitute...
Not counting for the political discussion after some ethical experts told publicly it's dangerous and wont work. He would have been trapped in PR nightmare and have burned at least his intial 100M$ just on lobbing to find a launch site.

Sometimes I love th US! (No irony in it)
Because I think the bar is too low, but I would want to be able to use my patents to defend myself or companies I like from aggression.

Put differently: In an ideal world there would be maybe 10 thousand patents awarded per year. Real, hardcore research patents, like the stuff Intel or GE would need to justify their insane research budgets. But if there are millions of patents out there every single one of us has broken them, we may as well patent stuff in order to have ammunition against shitty aggressive companies.
And that's just fine.
I'll corroborate the mobile facebook software problems. Even on a good wifi connection (i.e. I'm browsing happily on the very same device) it routinely takes 4-10 seconds for anything to show up.

I'm not sure I buy the "Facebook experience is anything but [linear]" point though. Certainly the web UI is broadly linear, and presented in the same order as the mobile app. The ability to "drill down" into comments is poorly implemented in mobile (especially when compared with G+, which has a great mobile app). But really, I think Facebook could improve this greatly with just some tuning.

I think the bigger problem, and one mentioned frequently elsewhere, is that the mobile app doesn't have the same ability to push revenue-producing content at the users. An ad or game or "suggestion" or whatnot in the sidebar is benign on the desktop. On mobile it's an annoyance.
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Nah, we just need more unobtainium :-)

(somebody had to say it)

But seriously, whatever rare-earths we find there, nobody will complain about open pit mining.

Like the old "Earth first" joke implies (... we'll strip mine the other planets later), it might be a good time to, well, start stripping potentially toxic chemicals from places we aren't trying to live in, since we pulled out much of the easy stuff here. (even if that's the opposite of the joke)

Perhaps lithium is easier to find on the lighter "chondrite" (non nickel/iron) type asteroids?
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Well first off Elon Musk was born a non-American. He moved to the US at age 19. So I highly doubt he believes people in other countries aren't innovative.

But he's not saying other places can't innovate. He's saying that running SpaceX in other places is not as likely to be succesful. Some percent of that might be political posturing (they are reliant on politicans supporting NASA buying from them, and on politicans not passing regulation to ban private space travel). But I bet the bulk of it is a true sentiment on his part.

In order to found a rocket company you need the freedom to launch rockets. Now, that's not something anyone can just do on a whim in the US, even advanced hobbyists need permits, but it's possible to get the permits. In some places it would be impossible for a private enterprise to get those.

You also need a pool of exceptionally good engineers to recruit from (both straight out of good colleges, and experienced). While some countries like China have some recent success, and others like Russia have a longer history, the US still has the most rocket engineers free to pickup and start at a new company. That's not something that is likely to change soon.
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Thanks for posting this. I wondered why a YC company would go the Kickstarter route instead of raising money. Now I know.

If VCs aren't worried, they aren't paying attention.
My guess is that they will only intend to ship back the very expensive/weight minerials/metals and will leave in space materials with more weight but use in future missions.

Once you establish materials in space, power plants in space, robots in space, it is a lot easier to move things further out.

The end game to me is having separation between heavy materials in space and on earth and only transporting the lightest and most valuable between the two. (humans/gold/diamonds) etc.
It's not a bad thing at all. I was hoping to convey your point about being able to tell where ideas come from but maybe I didn't so well.

Its one thing to steal an idea, use it as-is, remix it, whatever. That's fine. What's wrong is taking an idea and implementing it in a completely identical way. Like if someone took the source for MS Office, compiled it and just rebranded it then that's obvious theft. Of course the idea of a desktop publishing suite isn't something that can be stolen. There's a million ways to clone MS Office as far as the source is concerned so it's not theft so long as your implementation is unique to you. That's what I was getting at here. And the other thing is that I don't know if any law really could cover the kind of situation the article is about. It's just one of those things that's easy to spot when it's presented but hard to codify and describe.
Avibryant: Etsy is great, but with the reasoning, why not Kiva?
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Hey Phil, long time no see :)

The reason would be so that would have more ammo in their arsenal and would be untouchable by any real company (they would still be touchable by patent trolls, but that is a different issue).

As for licensing enforcement, simple I wouldn't enforce it! :) I would just enter as an ally with any unfortunate company that is getting sued by an aggressive company.

Furthermore, there are real benefits for being a patent originator, special visas, research grants, etc. But the fees are pretty hefty, especially if you want to do it world wide.

Twitter could morph into a patent shield for hire and split the defense fees with the originators.
Yes, their pricing seem to be even more transparent than typical airline fares. Stunning.

Imagine being able to order a satellite launch from a rocket company's web site. Select payload type. Select orbit. Select date and time. Checkout with Mark Zuckerberg's credit card.
In France, a Presidential candidate who advocates a 100% income tax on incomes over $300,000 is polling at 16% of the vote. Europe doesn't like Elon Musks. It's inequal :(
If you are transmitting the login information over SSL, I would assume that you already have SSL configured. Why not just serve the whole site over SSL constantly? That would fix this issue and provide better security by making it impossible for a MITM to redirect the login form to the HTTP version (or, if you are using an iframe, MITM the iframe over plain HTTP)
We're so excited to push harder and faster towards our Mission! :)
I have a lot of issues with what you just posted. Perhaps the biggest is enforcing a division between "best teachers" and "run-of-the-mill teachers" into a corporate project management of sorts. I'm not sure where you work, but just imagine if someone deemed you a "run-of-the-mill" employee and relegated you to watching people interact with tablets all day.

Some areas of life require a delicate moderation of technology, and education is one of them. Anyone who drools over education as a "start-up opportunity" likely hasn't done their research.
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It's a shame they haven't launched in the UK yet. I've been trying to keep up to date with how things are progressing but they only ever say that they are looking to expand, with no indication of a time frame etc. I might look into developing a little competition for them at this rate.
I think this only works when everyone involved is reasonably capable and experienced. Pure management numskulls that can't code themselves out of a while loop are never going to get it. No need for them in my little universe.

I've been in the game long enough to know just how funny it is to say "Here's the deadline for this project". Really? How in the world did you come up with that date? This isn't to say that one should not have a sense of how long something will take, but software projects are notoriously tough to estimate from just about every perspective.

I'm not sure what "load balancing" means. Are you asking about one person working more than another or the rate of code produced per unit time (say, per day)?
While some people may have various business reasons for wanting multiple PayPal accounts linked to one bank account, I've run into this problem for another reason that I imagine is even more common: I'm married. My wife and I both have PayPal accounts. But guess what, PayPal? We have but one bank account. You know... a joint account... like I'm sure a vast majority of married people have. What a stupid rule.
This wouldn't be a problem if you accepted Bitcoin. ;)
While working as a former economic researcher, my then-boss had a litmus test for analyzing studies: he would always try to identify an alternative explanation for any qualitative assertions made by the study. See midas's comment below for a great example of this. [0]

In economics -- hell, in any empirical field -- it's absurdly hard to draw qualitative conclusions. If you see these often, like in Priceonomics's blog posts, then you should have doubts.

I get Priceonomics is a YC company so we should cheer for them or something, but they're quickly picking up a reputation for making qualitative jumps using elementary work. You don't want to be in that position when you're in the business of analyzing data.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3859136
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That seems true if what you're implying is that it's human nature to cheat on contracts, renege on promises, and free-ride whenever possible. I concede that humans have those streaks, but I don't accept them.

As for the arc of technological improvement: it speaks very poorly of any YC company's ability to protect its customer data, too. Or of any HN reader's ability to retain control of their laptop. How do you feel about that?
Sorry, it was a sleepy comment in the early hours of the morning. I don't mean to present it as contrary to Seguin's article. It's simply a side-conversation about the (perceived) rising usage of the phrase by unskilled developers.
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