skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One may argue that Europe went too far with their "social" expenses (hence, the current financial meltdown).

I'm not sure Greece in particular went too far, as such; isn't the problem that they've got a massive epidemic of tax evasion, and no political will to tackle it? If they were enforcing the tax laws on the books, maybe they'd have the money to pay for the services they're providing.

>So, we "saved" on a silly, cheap follow-up, but ended up spending a huge amount later. And guess what? These patients can't pay their bill anyhow, so we have to write the expense off.

Hear, hear.
Anyone who listened to the shows last year knows Dan was working with Black Pixel on the 5by5 app. Why that fell through we won't know, but this app is clearly the result of that.
Hehe, somehow HN didn't detected that's already here.
Linux supports 2 with no problem. I'm using a second computer and synergy for the 3rd.
A Precise CSS3 Color Table
Those shirts are now collector's items, probably.
Say I decide to buy a new set of speakers. Do I tweet that I'm looking for speakers? Do I announce on facebook that I'm looking for speakers? Or do I just start googling?

Twitter and Facebook might occasionally be clued in about some of my purchases, but google is in on virtually all of my purchases that are considered while I'm at a computer. They're first past the post and privy to a much higher percentage of what I buy.
Accidental Release: Goldman Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
> But it seems to me that paying taxes on money recovered for you by a legal system is a fair price for the service.

Basically, you can use the US court system even if you never once set foot in the US, and never had a US passport - as long as the party you are suing is bound by US law. Theoretically, the outcome should be the same.

I'm not sure what the tax consequences are, but in general, if you get a remedy from the court, the tax is the same as the original transaction (possibly none).
John seemed really pissed off during the last 2 mins on episode 90. Seems like that t-shirt announcement was the final straw.

It's a shame. Dan gives John structure. On the new Talk Show John's rambling all over the place. Sad.
There's no freemium model when you're building rocket ships.
Innovation can come from unlikely places, especially when people connect and come together. I don't think social is just about where the money is, I think it can be powerful force in the way we live our lives and also a source for future innovation. I'm not just talking about Facebook, but tools that bring the world a lot closer together.

I wonder if people criticized the telephone as much when people instead of "working" spent time chatting on the phone with their friends. Sure there will be people who waste time doing that, but I think in broader terms, it will help open up communication channels, enable new collaborations, allow a free exchange of ideas, and also lead to more innovation. It's just hard to see where things are going, but I would bet that they are headed in a positive direction.
That's the beauty for those of us that enjoy programming and enjoy being able to use the computer the way that we want to. I would argue that the majority of people don't mind depending on people to write programs for them because they assume it isn't their skill set. To pull the plumber metaphor again, I don't have to know how my toilet works in order to flush the handle, but the guy who makes it better understand what's going on in there.
This Robot Makes Its Own Custom Tools Out of Glue
There's also similar things going on around 40. Any chance they tried to hold the round 10?
Crashes my chrome tab.
Happy API: Send text...see if it's happy or not.
Facebook has a lot of data about what you say you like, but Google has a lot more data about what you actually like. Hope you really didn't bet your retirement.
Yes, But Will Anyone Actually BUY an Apple HDTV?
Wait until the engineers leave to become VCs.
Some other coverage:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/18/facebook-acquires-karma/

http://gigaom.com/2012/05/18/facebook-buys-karma-app/

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/05/18/facebook-not-busy-enou...
Betting one's retirement on a single security seems like a bad strategy regardless of how successful it's likely to be. I'm hoping the title is just hyperbole.
No, sir.

Speculating is about what you think will happen.

Buying stocks in a business is about buying into something that has shown to be profitable, and stable. Enough to exchange your hard-earned money for it.

Read "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham to gain a better picture of what investing really is.
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Living Room Interior Design and picture for larger image Landed & commercial Interior Design Admin office.Living room is one of the most important rooms while thinking of the interior design ideas of your house.
For HTML5 apps, the "app store" concept is just a red herring.
It quite possibly would have if the underwriters hadn't been propping it up. Next week, when they stop buying up shares to keep it at $38, will be the real test.
Exactly -- if you composite into a buffer without an alpha channel (such as the final frame buffer) you are cool. If you want the destination to be able to alpha composite further on, you have trouble/complexity.
I'm just really happy that this made it to the front page of hacker news.
Pardon my ignorance, but what do the quoted numbers mean?
I've never clicked on the ads in Facebook. I've clicked on more ads while using Google. When I'm looking to buy something, I use Google. As with tworats, I do hope he's not actually planning on retiring with Facebook stock. Privacy laws could easily render the data that we give to Facebook off-limits.
Here is a song I made it with. I used an apple mouse and webkit.
http://soundcloud.com/joshua-herman/whatwgsong
How does YC do it then ? From far away it looks like investing in an idea or a team.

Don't understand me wrong, I'm also convinced bootstrapping is the preferred way to go if we can afford it.
Facebook Makes First Post-IPO Acquisition: Karma
> At the very least a good course in discrete mathematics is a good start

I believe that the best starting point to get to incompleteness is formal logic. This is the basic set of concepts that lets us make terms, statements and finally proofs the subject of formal mathematical study, thus tying the loop (formally mathematically defined reasoning about formally mathematically defined reasoning :-) ) that leads to Goedels proof.

Discrete mathematics is helpful but it is rather low level, the core concepts in incompleteness come from formal logic.
On a day where a company has IPOed, for it to be close to the IPO price on the close is a comparative failure. When you float a company your underwriters will generally float at a price which is slightly under what's perceived to be the true value - this is mostly to ensure that the shares get sold (i.e. the VC firms and investors when the company was private get to make their profit from selling their shares), and because it generally ensures that the price will go up on the IPO which makes the company look better.

Saying that +$0.23 in a day means $230 per 1000 days makes no sense at all. What happens on one day, especially when it's the IPO day, has no bearing at all on what will happen in the next trading day - or at least the open to close difference doesn't tell you anything, the volatility along with some other numbers (at my last firm we called them skew, mom and dad but they're all numbers which indicate the directionality of the vol surface) might give you some indications.

My gut feeling, and this is based on the time I've spent in the financial world and especially with options traders, is that today was good for pre-IPO investors who wanted to sell out of their positions, but that any retail investors who bought in on the IPO are going to regret it in the medium term - not least of which because the balance sheet just doesn't support the market cap.
I have to assume so. Leverage is presumably allowable though.

Once you're in the business of storing mechanical energy, you haven't solved the problem of sustained human-powered flight and you're really just a technology epoch away from using a motor and a capacitor.
Daring Fireball just started up their shirts again. Coincidence?
I got to disagree. Not in the part that Facebook was important to Arab Spring and reconnect people long seen. I desagree in the part that rockets doesn't give benefits.

Rockets and all 'complicated' science, push the human race forward. Your cellphone is only able to connect to the internet because of the rockets that were send to the atmosphere, long time ago. Better than me, I have to people to talk about this.

Read Science and Culture, by Thomas Huxley : How often have we not been told that the study of physical science is incompetent to confer culture; that it touches none of the higher problems of life; and, what is worse, that the continual devotion to scientific studies tends to generate a narrow and bigoted belief in the applicability of scientific methods to the search after truth of all kinds. How frequently one has reason to observe that no reply to a troublesome argument tells so well as calling its author a "mere scientific specialist." And, as I am afraid it is not permissible to speak of this form of opposition to scientific education in the past tense; may we not expect to be told that this, not only omission, but prohibition, of "mere literary instruction and education" is a patent example of scientific narrow-mindedness? source: http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Best/HuxleyScienceC...

And the great Neil deGrasse Tyson , in the pretty "We stopped Dreaming": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIZU8cQWXc
Yes, thank you.

The search feature on HN is not as good as it could be.
Just more gossip, but the first thing that comes to mind whenever I think of @Mike_FTW is "Fuck You, Pay Me". Which in principle isn't bad, but ...
Every black hole contains a new universe
Microsoft talks about the user experience in Windows 8
Where Microsoft used to primarily focus on reducing memory consumption, now we are also laser-focused on improving battery life while still delivering a fast and fluid user experience.

If Microsoft's previos focus on reducing memory consumption produced prior versions of windows, their new focus on increasing battery life should produce Windows 8 tablets that last a half an hour, tops.

While I'm at it, in general, fuck Windows 8. The UI may be nice, but Microsoft is taking such a massive power dump on developers and users alike with this turkey that they have a tough road ahead of them if they want to even get within spitting distance of the iPad in terms of mindshare.
To clarify, I'm not suggesting that it's not mission critical, just that I don't believe that that kind of process is actually making things any safer.
The after-hours charts are interesting. The stock price is bouncing around the $38.23 range (+/- $0.03), but even marketwatch.com is showing some jumps up to the $40 range.
Amalur was done by a different studio (Big Huge Games) which they acquired 2 years ago.
38 Studio are working on a MMO for 6 years and nothing to show...
I'm pretty disappointed with this move. I was getting a little tired of the Talk Show on 5By5 but it was still enjoyable because Dan brought humor and structure to the show.

I remember when Let's Make Mistakes split off and formed a new podcast network it felt odd to me at the time, like they used 5By5 to get some initial audience and then took them for themselves. For some reason it fit with the impression I get that Mike Monteiro is an asshole.

With this move I am done with the Talk Show. I just dont care any more.
> On the other, the shape of the daily curve looks like it was supported at that level artificially.

Facebook's too big to fail!
Facebook was not made with intent to spur political unrest, thats a side effect, a collateral.

And anyhow, the effect on arab spring of social media such as facebook is highly overstated, as one rebel said in an interview "We turned to facebook and twitter only after we had destroyed 90% of the police stations in our town."
Hayek Was Right: Why Cloud Computing Proves the Power of Markets
Are you a man or a woman? Further, do you work in tech or don't you? There is certainly something fishy about you and your style of argumentation. Your rhetoric also reminds me of women. Sure, cold hard facts are "ugly". What's next, calling me "mean"?

BTW, isn't it funny how fashions change? Two years ago you read comments like, "(...) another researcher concludes that only "boys" are stupid enough to go into a field that's globally-fungible, where entry-level salaries are declining, and it's common to think that staying up all night for a company-paid pizza is a good deal.'"": http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/17/2043254/Not-Enough-W...

Since IT is hot again, and the economy otherwise depressed, suddenly the feminists fire up their PR machine and want to get some of their sisters into cushy (so they think) office jobs. But why aren't there any initiatives to get more women into, say, plumbing, firefighting, or the military?

I smell hypocrisy.
We've debated this point to death. By your argument, advertising on TV should be a failure, since people watch TV to be entertained, not to buy stuff right away. And still, 99% of TV shows are paid for by commercials. How come?
This is sad news. Dan was the one who balanced Gruber's cockiness. Oh well, though, 5by5 will be fine with its other good shows. Oh John Siracusa, please don't leave!
After several months of silence, a new resounding dump in Middle East.

I don't even really know where to begin... but I have to congratulate you about your honesty about excretory functions.
The Overstock CEO has this to comment: http://www.deepcapture.com/joe-floren-screws-the-pooch/ (tl;dr: Ha-Ha!).
Sensationalist headline. Bad mistake.
It would be interesting to know who paid how much of the app development. I hope Dan Benjamin did not get screwed by Gruber, the Mule Radio Network AND Black Pixel …
I got the sense that Amalur was an acquisition from reading Wikipedia.
Yeah, like Confederate currency.
The memory reductions in 7 were pretty drastic. Give some credit where it's due.
There's only one. 5by5's app is for listening to live broadcasts of shows on their network.

Presumably, they were previously working with BlackPixel to do a podcasting app for the 5by5 shows, which was never released. The Mule Radio app appears to be a re-branded version of that unreleased app.

According to this tweet by Dan Benjamin about adding podcasting to the 5by5 app, he feels other apps already do it better. This may have been the reason why they scuttled their own podcasting app and went with a live broadcast app instead:

https://twitter.com/#!/danbenjamin/status/203466535107440640
Here are the last ten seconds in the history of The Talk Show on 5by5:

Benjamin: "We'll be back regular time next week, right?"
Gruber: "I guess so."
Benjamin: "Ok. Thanks John."
Gruber: "Adios."
Speaking of 'asshole', name and logo of the Ass, ehmm, Mule Radio Network are certainly a match! ;)
very clean, i like
I was calling out Lotuses as not being that expensive.
For a long time, Google had similar monetization challenges. It was only after Adsense that they really started making money. I imagine FB's pricing reflects the expectation that they'll find a way to make serious cash, although I'm not overly optimistic on that front.
An old post of mine that I've been thinking about more lately due to the discussion about mobile being a difficult area for Facebook. Also sorry about the title, I was sick that week and had recently watched Clue.
Why isn't this illegal stock price manipulation?
HTC Desire C Pictures and hands-on
No need to speculate in that direction. These are big companies and smart people—I'm sure they came to an agreement. I just found the whole thing odd.
I supported 'The Talk Show' on 5by5 via Instacast and Flattr. What's the Mule Radio Network's on Flattr?
Self tracking (how technology can help your health)
Teaser trailer of the game available here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9nvnrP0j8U&feature=youtu...

Disclaimer: I'm an employee.
In a field overpopulated by males at a rate of about 9:1

Intriguing. Where did you get this statistic on folk qualified to speak on integrating UX and Agile? It's a fairly narrow field that I'm intimately familiar with and I've never come across a gender breakdown.

Oh wait... the Agile 2012 submission process is an open one... so I can just go look to see what sessions were submitted.

Of the 51 session proposals submitted to the UX stage there were 19 female and 40 male speakers (this adds up to more than 51 because some sessions had multiple speakers) - so judging by submissions that ratio is 2:1. If we only look at the primary speaker of each session we have a 8/5 split. So, statistically, the men don't come off too badly. Good for us boys.

If you're worried about a gender bias in the CFP then you can find an example at http://www.ixda.org/node/31640 - they were sent to many other places but were all pretty much variations on the same theme.

The session reviews and session submissions are public. Just register at http://submit2012.agilealliance.org/ and browse around. If you detected a bias that has caused us to reject an excellent submission please let me know. Wouldn't want that. We try an make the submission process better each year.

One way that the Agile 20XX conferences differ from many others is that we have a public review process. The review panel gives feedback on proposals - and submitters have a chance to clarify and improve their session proposals. I'm too lazy to go through the history of each session to see whether women were more likely to improve their sessions based on feedback. Can't say I noticed any difference at the time - but it's possible that may explain the difference.

[Edit: Hmmm... it might be a factor at that. More men submitted at the last minute when there wasn't enough time for submissions to be updated after the reviewers feedback - so they lost out on a couple of potential feedback loops.]

I had no idea a woman was four times as valuable as a man...

Or maybe it's just that we try quite hard not to say things like this.

[Edit: removed one unnecessarily harsh word]
Adsense is a $10b a year segment not based on intent - it's based on advertising you see when you are on random pages on the internet (like the New York Times).

Facebook will know what you want better than Google: they track you across multiple retail sites, see what you are looking at and even get structured data volunteered to them about that stuff.
You can't possibly think I was saying scientific progress isn't good, right? We're comparing the positive impact of Facebook and SpaceX to date.
C# or Java?
"When I began my career in the late 80s and early 90s, MBAs ran most of the best new technology companies."

Not exactly. By 1993, MBAs were already starting to turn AOL into the "how much can we milk you before you'll walk away?" behemoth it became. They'd tried to weasel out of our promise of a "lifetime 20% discount" for charter members, they'd rounded up in some directions and down in others, and they'd literally removed the "Sign Off" button from the toolbar because we billed by the hour, and --

Well, I'll let the MBA tell you.

"We needed to drop one icon because of space/look and feel and it made sense to us out of all the other functionality to drop exit. In addition, some folks were uncomfortable with how visible the ability to get out of the service was--all in keeping with our philosophy to keep them online for that one additional minute :)"
Looks like Facebook is using their new IPO money wisely.
No its not. Over allotments are to stabilize the lack of sellers above the offering price and to raise additional capital for the issuer. It could be a reason for the price returning to $38 but most likely that was not why either. The buys at $38 can be explained by other factors like orders from people or funds who did not get all or any of their requested allotments and had resting orders at 38.
Overall the markets are skittish and the price range is high based on current earnings but there is so much potential future earnings, I think we will see much higher prices if not right away some time in 2013.
Pure Storage: You Know You Want Flash, Right? 
Funny video mocking traditional disk.
The top comment has shifted place.
Ask HN: Making the most of a cofounder-seeking trip to the BA
Got my MVP made, and my business is ready to go. So far it’s just me.

And I need to snag a co-founder. Someone who doesn’t have to be technical, but who knows people, and can get people to open their checkbooks on occasion. A business guy (or girl).

Everyone I talk to tells me there’s 10 of these people for every technical person, and 10 technical people for every technical person who doesn’t need proof-of-concept funding or a brilliant business idea.

Nonetheless, I’ve given up on finding a business cofounder in my community. My network’s tapped out. So I need to grow my network out of state. Might as well do it where everybody else does it for dotcom startups. I’ll be happy to pull up stakes and live “La Dura Vita” in the BA; just want to be in a position to gain traction before I do.

So a trip is in order, but I want my time in the bay area to be well spent. Meeting new people whenever possible is great; having little to do but see the sights and code, I can do here at home.

I’m planning on finding startup events on MeetUp, hanging around Palo Alto, and hopefully attending at least one in-person founder dating event. Can anyone recommend the best monthly occasions to be sure to hit for an out-of-town founder?
Sure, 20% of Facebook's valuation but also 1/2 of Facebook's revenues.

Facebook still has a lot to prove, but they also have a lot more opportunity to improve.
Note: I listen to Talk Show only occasionally, I'm more of Hypercritical guy.

So, Dan wanted an iOS app for some time now (year? more?) - and he was working with Black Pixel (http://blackpixel.com) on that.

We don't know exactly why, but that app was never released - Dan stopped talking about it (I'm not actually sure about this, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.). Recently, he (again, not sure) wrote new app - that's what's on App Store as 5by5 app.

Parts of "old" app were apparently reused by Black Pixel while working on Mule Radio app (also by Black Pixel.).
Stupid question: How much money did Facebook (the company) actually raise? A lot of shares where sold but not all of that money goes to Facebook. It goes to whomever was selling those shares.
I just checked and Facebook gives you the option to buy ads per click, around $0.25 per click in my category. So why does it even matter if it has a low CTR? If the user didn't click, you didn't pay for it anyway. If the user does click, well there's your intent.

From my point of view as an advertiser, how is the CTR even relevant? Why do I care if google has 1% CTR and Facebook has 0,1%? If you assume both has the same cost per click. And I spend $100 on each. I'll still get the exact same amount of people clicking my ads on both.

Why does everyone keep repeating that facebook ads are only for branding, there's no intent, CTR is low? Doesn't the pay per click auction makes all of these irrelevant?
I wrote another post about pragmatic metaprogramming in ruby
> things that have a material effect on people's quality of life. As opposed to Facebook.

As much as I dislike Facebook, there is some scientific evidence that increasing one's social ties produces measurable improvements to health, including longevity. If Facebook increases social connectivity, which in my limited experience it does, it's not a stretch to suggest that it could materially improve one's quality of life.

My money's still on google though for the long run ...