skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One more: the taxi fleet model (fewer cars) makes it easier to replace cars with newer models, which tend to include more environmentally friendly technology.
I think I may have only bought the Donkey Kong Country series of games for the Wii VC. It worked well enough, but I imagine that there were indeed issues with the emulation on the Wii. I didn't do any research on it so I couldn't comment on that either.

The one thing I realized after the last few years is that you can't count on game companies to do backwards compatibility forever. Microsoft (understandably) gave up on patching the 360 over and over again to expand the original Xbox library of playable games on the 360, and Sony stopped selling the PS3 models that had the PS2 hardware directly on-board(not to mention "Other OS" support, but I digress).
Could probably be done using a usb bluetooth dongle assuming your car is newish and supports a2dp.
A major difference between Facebook ads and TV ads is that Facebook doesn't completely interrupt your content viewing for several minutes at a time in order to show you an ad - they're easy enough for your brain to filter right out.
No, you misunderstand.

High growth is not a ponzi scheme. High growth with no value is. Going flat is fine, Google did that.

Losing a lot of traffic because people stop using your worthless site entirely is bad. Groupon will do that.
Facebook is a ponzi scheme, but for a different reason. Look at the sky high valuation. Facebook is not worth $100 billion, not even close. The only reason the valuation got so high is because Facebook's "future valuation" has been "sold" to us ever since they got to a $20 billion valuation or so. So some investors bought Facebook shares, then made a big deal about it to others, and then the others bought at higher valuation, and so on. Even now, they keep doing this.
Interracial marriage was certainly illegal for a while and anyone arguing that it should have stayed that way would probably be deemed a racist, right?

If marriage is supposed to have something to do with love (which hasn't always been the case historically), saying that someone can't marry another person they love because of their race is a racist law. Given such a law, you could say "No one has the right to marry someone of another race, it's not just black people!" That would be missing the point.

Saying someone can't marry another person they love because of their sexual orientation is almost exactly the same thing.
The idea of someone skipping a CS degree to learn some Ruby on Rails and start as a web developer makes me ill. It's classic short-term thinking: web development (in Rails, in particular) is today's hotness, but tomorrow it'll be something else. Since I've started coding, I've watched the waxing and waning of so many technology hype cycles that it makes me dizzy: Hypercard, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, Win32, Windows MFC, Perl, PHP, Flash, Flex...and now iOS, Android, Javascript, etc. And you know what? This, too, shall pass. For every New Hotness, there's and Old Hotness, and there will be fans of the New Hotness who will be making fun of the cult of the Old Hotness, and how its vision of the future was laughably wrong. This is as predictable as the seasons.

Deep knowledge of general CS concepts -- the things emphasized by a good CS program -- are what allow an engineer to survive the fad-driven cycles that dominate this industry. Because ultimately, there's always a new generation of cheap, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed 20-somethings who know the latest fad better than you do. Yet there are surprisingly few people who can create new recommendation algorithms or build massively parallel systems that scale to thousands of nodes without downtime.

Nearly everyone who complains about CS degrees being a waste of time is complaining that college isn't a vocational school. And, it's not -- but that's a feature, not a bug.
Does MySQL(InnoDB) allow you to cluster on something other than the PK?

Big advantage in that option (Postgres, MSSQL, Oracle).
Up here in Seattle the glut of open tech/programmer positions are at Amazon. I don't know if it's growth or their "bar raiser" policy slowing down their hiring.
It reminds me more of the tourist attraction that promises to show you a creek that runs uphill. The kids scream from the backseat to see it, dad caves and turns in and pays $5 for parking. Kid gets disappointed and as an adult vows to never waste his own children's time.
Thanks a ton for checking out the post!

But I wasn't trying to make a point about simplifying anything. I definitely wasn't trying to say Step 1 obsess over something. Step 2. Profit. Coudal is a master at marketing and both he and Draplin have a tremendous reach into groups of people that helped get the ball rolling on these notebooks.

The point was merely that I've noticed that many of the people who I admire the most creatively seem to take "loves" and "interests" and made obsessions of them.

Aaron has taken a "love for vintage stuff" and turned it into quite an awesome collection. Which then turned into inspiration for his design/identity work for clients, and eventually it became the source of a great and well designed product idea. A lot of us could probably learn from this, and go much deeper into something that merely interests us in order to find better ideas.
Perhaps the problem with Facebook is relying on click throughs as a measurement of success for ads. If Facebook is more of a consumption site, then the ads should be more tailored for eyeball count rather then click count.
From MIT Entrepreneur to Tea Party Leader: The Thomas Massie Story
Isn't he renouncing US citizenship because Singapore doesn't allow dual citizenship? Was keeping US citizenship while living there even an option for him?
Well, according to the article, Anderson didn't personally disagree with its politics. That's what makes it interesting to me.

> "Nick, I personally share your disgust at the growth in inequality in the US, and would love to have found a way to give people a clearer mindset on the issue, without stoking a tedious partisan rehash of all the arguments we hear every day in the mainstream media.
Computing experts unveil superefficient ‘inexact’ chip
> So, who decides what's worthwhile?

If only we had a method whereby members of our society on their own and through businesses could express how much they value products and services being offered by others.

Hmm... I think I'll invent such a system as my next project. Like with any cool project, I should give it a name first and maybe churn out some T-Shirts before I get going on the details.

For a name, I think I'll call it "CapITal1sm!". I still need to come up with all the rules of how it should work. I'll set up a blog and let you all know how it goes. ;)
If I had to guess I'd say a very large portion of Google Ad Words revenue is made up of Funny Shirts. Or San Francisco Dog Walkers or Faucet Sales in Portland.

You're digging yourself into a hole with this position. Very successful advertising businesses are built on small niche advertisers. (valpak anyone?)

The question for Facebook is whether there's enough of these successful advertisers to make a 100B business.
I'm sure that there will still be plenty of multi-passenger cars.

But to your point, most people who drive trucks actually use the bed maybe a dozen times a year, and many people who have high occupancy vehicles take far more trips with only themselves or 1 additional passenger than they do fully loaded.

Single occupancy vehicles aren't practical for most people because they need a larger car some of the time, but if you don't own it you're free to request whatever vehicle you need right then.

Going to work by yourself--lightweight single occupancy. Picking up the kids--minivan.
Congrats on the launch. Please bring this to Seattle!
"Firstly, I too find it depressing what a lot of us are working on [2] [3]. The fact that SpaceX can revolutionize launch costs for less money than was spent on Instagram is sobering and depressing."

This is what resonates with me most. Whether or not we are in a bubble, there certainly is more air than substance.
We're not talking about citizens paying taxes. We're talking about ex-citizens. I seem to recall hearing something about "no taxation without representation" somewhere before.
Are these things fast enough to run MAME? I'd love to build a mini MAME cabinet with one of these.
Wow, great link!
That was true a decade ago but, starting around 2008 and forward, that's just not the case anymore. Macs are good and still popular but they are not what powers "virtually all pro digital music stuff" in 2012.
I wish "Positive feedback cycle fuelled by new advertisers' naivete" had a better acronym. PFCFBNAN doesn't have the ring I was hoping it would.
I'm far from expert yet on this, but as I understand it depends on whether you are the one bringing the product into the country or not.

For example if I were to go to an anime expo in the US to sell candy there, then I would need to clear the customs and comply with FDA regulations such as the list of ingredients that have to appear in the packages.

But when I am situated here in Japan and people order things from me from all over the world, then they are the ones who are clearing the customs. However when the shipments are really small, customs is not a problem for the person receiving them and many countries have limits where you never need to deal with customs if the order size is small enough.
no, man, you don't understand: this is the genius of economy 3.0, where we all make money by sitting on our ass playing xbox 360 and selling farmville ads for funny, made-in-china t-shirts.
No, Your example is wrong factually. It is not George Soros, but his cofounder in original Quantum Fund, Jim Rogers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers. We need to do fact checking before we write down anything.

George Soros is alive and kicking living in Upper East Side, Manhattan; Bedford, Westchester county; and East Hampton, Suffolk county. If you are lucky you can bump into him very often in Bloomberg Headquarter. And George Soros is also a proponent for Buffett Rules.
Be interesting to go through Chuckie's list of Top 100 corporate donors and figure out which ones are using "Double Irish" and similar schemes to avoid taxes.

Maybe he should refuse money from such companies? (will not happen of course!)
Agreed. You have sections 'Introduction', 'Vision', 'Motivation', 'Goals', 'Anti-Goals', 'Emacsy Features' and 'How you can help?'. You're missing 'Plan'.

Tell me what you'll do with my $50 and I'm in.
This looks really awesome. I can't wait until it's available in Los Angeles.
Facebook should have earnings of around $1B this year. A $100B valuation (100P/E) is high (very high) but within the realm of possibility.

I'd expect their market cap to settle between 30-45B within around 6 months (unless they launch some revolutionary ad or product stream - but wouldn't they do that pre-IPO?)
You're criticizing my paraphrase of DHH, not my actual point. That point was "companies with a huge number of users are valuable, either as eventual cash cows or as strategic acquisitions, but at best following that route is a risky strategy." So you can see that I'm not judging at all: I have no problem with the high valuations of Instagram, Pinterest, etc. Growth companies with millions of users are hugely valuable even if they aren't currently making any money. (This is a point on which DHH and I respectfully disagree.)

If you want to follow a high-variance strategy, there's nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is expecting that your new startup has a reasonable chance of being the next Instapintora. If you want to build a sustainable business, lower-variance strategies (which typically aim to become profitable quickly) are a better bet. I dealt with these issues explicitly in a talk I gave at LA RubyConf in 2011, which you can find here: http://youtu.be/j0jT98ZXh5M

P.S. My tutorial for an "aged" technology is only step 1 in a four-step plan for world domination; steps 2-4 are much higher-variance. Stayed tuned.
Huh? George Soros is currently a US citizen, no?

And, anyway, it seems like a more-or-less solved problem with the Exit Tax.
Even worse, you mean. It breaks the standard navigational tools, so after I had hit pagedown several times, I pressed a right-arrow once to shift the page slightly and it skipped me all the way back to the top. It happened again later when I absent-mindedly pressed the right arrow again. This is totally broken.
Everyme (YC S11) Adds Android, A Web App, and Instagram Integration
Chris Anderson just tweeted this link to a blog post explaining the story from his side. The taped talk is linked from there. http://bit.ly/KU2Rmu
For me, when I watch movies I want to choose from the latest releases, I don't watch that often so its simply not a suitable substitute to watch an older (usually at least 10 years older, if using Netflix) movie.. For TV shows, however, I'm much more willing to watch what I consider to be a "suboptimal" choice, since its shorter. I think a lot of consumers share my sentiment in this, however I can see how if you watch a lot of movies it would be too expensive with Amazon's offering.
How about just "bubble"?
Ask HN: Should I respond to a tech blog that trashed my startup & trial partner?
I sent a tip to a major tech blog and they decided to write about my beta test. I was never told the article was part of a critique my startup piece, which it was. The writer made claims about my startup that were completely unfounded and to make matters worse, the blog trashed my b2b partner. It seemed like she was making her bones, and trying to be intentionally provocative to get eyeballs, off my back.<p>What should I do? Respond or forget about
What? No.

Intel doesn't support USB3 yet. USB3 devices aren't even yet widespread. Since space is at a premium in the Airs, Apple obviously doesn't add an extra USB3 chip in them just to support what still is a niche feature.

Ivy Bridge does bring USB3 support. If the next generation of MacBooks (coming this summer) doesn't support USB3 you get to make your claim that Apple is trying to force Thunderbolt as a mass market technology. But no second earlier.
I really like this idea! i just worry about unintended consequences. Is it possible that some of the people in this CapITal1sm thingy will create products and services that provide short-term temporary value at the expense of long-term value?

Just to give a hypothetical example, could someone create a product that, when consumed, confers temporary euphoria but poisons the user with tar and carbon monoxide, eventually creating lung cancer?

How do we “value” such a product/ If it generates billions of dollars worth of “value,” is it worthwhile?
I'm finding it very difficult to really understand the question and how it relates to your text/comments. Are you talking about trolls? Or spammers? Or both? There's a ton of info on the web about both.
Consumer Startups without Revenue are Products, not Businesses
> Facebook ads. They are worthless.
On the other hand, each page request uses a lot of bandwidth, and it's more difficult to split the load efficiently according to actual usage. A good compromise might be to load the first five or six pictures, and only load successive ones once the user has scrolled down past the first few.
Where did you hear this? Its hard to believe given that they've expanded to so many devices now, I could only see this if they were bought out, in which case I think another competitor would arise.
TED and inequality: The real story
$74 Android 4.0 PC on a stick
This is why I firmly believe that the "Give stuff away for free + advertising = $$$" model will fail. People need to sell products, for money. That's what I'm going to do with my startup. Consumers will be customers, not the product.
Rapid-fire debugging thoughts
The Facebook Offering: How It Compares
Maybe just "bubble" instead?
New, Surprising Facts About iPhone Security
ZTE Working On Patch to Fix Android "Backdoor"
Hiring senior Drupal developer/ cofounder
We’re looking for a Drupal rockstar to help shape a lifestyle with us by taking DINKlife to the next level. We are the first and only lifestyle services brand for couples without kids - DINKs (Dual Income No Kids).
Our mission? Help 130MM+ global DINKs make the most of their time without kids by being the first to deliver relevant local groups, events, deals, and content (the stuff that exists for every other life-stage).
We launched DINKlife.com BETA last year as a testing ground for our initial concept and the platform from which to build future products. With 75k BETA visitors under our belt we’re ready to take this to the next level by building the remaining products, launching fully, and initiating acquisition marketing.
We are generating ad revenue now, with more revenue streams coming with future products.
The founding team of 3 consists of 2 business/brand strategy folks (including myself with a background at Accenture) and a guru in digital marketing that was named top 10 in the industry last year. More about us: http://www.dinklife.com/about-us

What we’re looking for:
1.Backend Drupal programming and front end HTML (BETA site is on source controlled on Pantheon with test/dev/live)
2.Bay-area based
3.Committed hustler that speaks “DINK” and has the potential to join our side to lead the mission

We’re fired up about creating a relationship with someone that could potentially take a lead and ownership in the company.

Checkout the BETA site and these links to get a good feel for what we’re about:
http://www.dinklife.com/topic/trends-news/dinklife-public-service-announcement-video
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Interested? Contact me at cory@dinklife.com and let’s get the dialogue started.
He doesn't live here and isn't a citizen. The number of non-native, former citizens who end up to be instant billionaires has to be a very small group (likely a party of 1)... To make any law that addresses it is inane.
Facebook is sitting on top of a tons of personal data that is incredibly valuable to marketers. They currently don't share this information, but if the "Ponzi Scheme" were to start crumbling all they have to do is give more access to data.

Suppose your spouse's birthday is coming up, Amazon targets you with a "<name>'s birthday is coming up, here is something she/he likes". As simple as that.
Here's a thought-

His actions provided massive value to the US, creating an enormous amount of wealth that did not previously exist and adding to the nation's assets.

Far from exacting a price on a community, his actions have paid off quite handsomely for the community.
Most people choose public transportation to avoid the agony of commuter traffic (mine is ~2hrs per day). Not only is it time consuming but you can't do anything else during that time other than get bored. If I had a self driving car, I could work during the commute, making the incentive for taking the train much lower.

It would take much analysis and user studies to see if effects like this that encourage people to drive more or car sharing effects will dominate. But reducing air pollution definitely is not a foregone conclusion.
Specifically noted...
I've used the beta for several months and it's been great. I just ordered lunch with it, minutes ago actually. You can track my order live https://postmat.es/97MJQ6Is

It makes great use of smartphone gps technology and the estimates have been pretty accurate. I like things that are organized and predictable, very much like Uber.
Facebook isn't like the yellow pages, your viewers aren't hot and ready to buy or looking actively shopping. Ads on Facebook (while target-able) should be used for brand building and recognition. Don't expect immediate sales or active clicking. Purchase and spend with this in mind and weigh it against your marketing goals and strategy.
Slightly off-topic, but is there a way to bet against Facebook? If one were to accept the premise that Facebook is Ponzi-like, would it be possible to make money off its assumedly forthcoming collapse (indirectly, as collateral of the collapse, not in a way that actively seeks to harm other parties)? I ask because it seems as though the only actionable intelligence from this line of reasoning is to stay away from Facebook, with no mention of a way that such knowledge can be turned to further advantage.
High growth with no value is.

No its not a Ponzi Scheme is a type of fraud where the con man pays out early investors from proceeds from later investors.
What I saw in Zuckerberg's bungalow
They took Spdy and dropped priorities, settings and other ill-conceived parts from it and made compression and encryption optional.

So they prioritized different things. That doesn't make it much better.

As an aside, where is the Microsoft reference implementation of Speed+Mobility? Where is their browser support for it? This, like so many Microsoft initiatives, seems primarily intended to delay and divert an initiative to make the web better.
He'll get a refund if it decreases. I'm sure of it.
Because you go to Google when you want a dog walker or new faucet, you don't go to Facebook.
Yes! It would be fascinating.

I went to Moscow and Leningrad in 1986. Just buying things - you queue to point at what you want and then you get a ticket. You take the ticket to a second queue, to pay for the item and get a receipt. You join a third queue with your receipt to collect the item.

I'd love to read more about that time, especially from people who lived there.
The Euro faces, if not demise, then a near-certain restructuring that will ripple through global financial markets. China is also showing blemishes on its shiny economy, which was entirely foreseeable given their rather suspicious pegging at an 8% growth in GDP year on year. It won't collapse, but it will definitely cool considerably as even the politburo can't continue to justify building cities with no one in them just to pad GDP.
Coroner: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s wife died due to hanging.
Apple's Datacenters to Run on 100% Renewable Energy
This is neat. It's one of the better git first-look overviews I've seen. Also the poster has one of the best HN usernames I've seen, so double neat.
I agree with Perla and have found the same to be true in my experience. I would agree with him implication though, that the reason those ads work is because they themselves have sketchy business models. Think about what you see a lot of on FB: paid higher education, ebook/seminar stuff, gimmicks, apps, t-shirts. In other words: high margin crap. It works because they can play the hot potato game, passing the loss on to the buyer (just as FB did to them). GM didn't have success and neither did American Apparel or most other brands because they make and sell real things with real business models.
Use dereference if you want know what hiding behind short link.
The TED talk TED doesn’t want you to hear
Follow steps from here http://docs.kinesis.io/installation.
I agree with mendable, I feel like your service is very convenient, much more so than having friends send you things.
MIT Creates Amazing UI From Levitating Orbs
AFAIU, the upcoming browser-to-browser networking in RTCWeb will be SCTP over DTLS over UDP.
Jonkee is right. Intent to purchase is the difference