skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickable: http://prespredict.com
A ton of people in this conversation are making a ton of assumptions about the reasons for taxi medallions and the effects that they have on the ecosystem and marketplace. Given that I doubt any of us run cab companies, this seems silly: more homework is needed. ;P

It seems like there is a a whitepaper that, in three parts, went into some detail on the situation in NYC, examining the causes and pulling apart the proposed solutions, for various of the complaints people have about the system.

http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/taxi1.htm "Factors of Production in a Regulated Industry: New York Taxi Drivers and the Price for Better Service"

http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/taxi2.htm "Villain or Bogeyman? New York's Taxi Medallion System"

http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/taxi3.htm "Fixing New York City Taxi Service"
This isn't a zero-sum game; just launch it :)
The Linguistics of Webservices
Do you really think that LinkedIn could completely redesign their entire site in 3 weeks? I consider that completely outside the realm of possibility.
So now, with full screen interfaces only, we need to create artwork and a UI scaled and designed separately for:

1. iPhone/iPod 640×960 at 326ppi

2. iPad dimensions 1024x768 at 132PPI

3. Retina iPad 2048×1536 at 264PPI

4. iPad mini at 1024x768, but smaller pixels and yet expected same physical size controls, so interface has to be redone again specific for this one.

5. Whatever is after that.

That's a lot of design variations and things to support for one program that for most developers is going to sell for between 99 cents and $2.99.
Few people want a smaller iPad. Many people, however, want a larger iPhone. I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't get that.
Shoot us an e-mail.
No, what is more probable is that the hardware was different enough to need to change it. iPhone3g and iPhone 3GS had different hardware and software that some apps Bly worked for the 3GS. Going to the iPhone 4 had retina display which makes a big difference.

iPad 2 had 2 cameras and FaceTime which changed the experience of the device. The mistake they made wih the ipad3 was that it came we a better display and that is what people wanted but they didn't signify he difference in the product name.

The reason this wasn't as important for the MacBooks is your everyday layman end user couldn't tell large differences between iterations other than body style which doesn't really change its capability all that much. Apple doesn't emphasize mobile specs so those differences wouldn't stand out as much as hardware and feature set.
There never is a True Scotsman.
It's a tightrope, for sure, and it can be hard to see when you're in the middle of it.
Money is not why Mozilla made this decision.

For anyone working on software at the scale Mozilla is, this truth will be recognizable: focus can be a lot more important than financing.

Mozilla has and will continue to invest heavily in projects which have no or minimal revenue associated with them. Sustainability matters, of course, but there is no rule that every project or product must be individually sustainable.
It falls short simply by not being online and requiring an app. Though it might be possible to do the decryption in javascript, I hadn't thought of that.
How does roundcube compare with Zimbra?
I always looked at PHP as the sane alternative to ASP. Not sure GO is ideal as a drop in replacement by design. Seems like chap just wanted an excuse.

Now I'm doing a project which leans towards python and in some aspects C - that does seem to be more pandaring towards doing it in GO. But if it was a production project and not a fun project then I'd hold back from looking at GO, but it's a fun one so I'm looking at it and finding it very suitable alternative to python/C in this case. Still sussing out a nice IDE but I'm in no rush.

But for a PHP project I'd say PHP may be a better fit for cases were you use PHP as a ASP alternative. Lets that how I see it, though I'm no PHP guru, let alone ASP.
> GitHub is essentially a web interface to a single open-source DVCS.

Maybe I'm missing something, but does GitHub support something other than Git?

> The switching costs to using another [...] Git hosting provider are minimal.

$ git clone git://github.com/jbarham/stathat-line-counter.git
$ cd stathat-line-counter/
$ git remote add bitbucket ssh://git@bitbucket.org/jbarham/stathat-line-counter.git
$ git push -u bitbucket master

See, it's not so hard.

> There are no barriers to entry since Git is and always will be free.

http://git-scm.com/downloads

> yields on 10-year Treasuries are currently under 2%

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5ETNX

I've worked in investment management. I know that investors with $100 million to throw around don't have a lot of good places to put their money. No pressure. Good luck.
I used the mood, age, and sex api for a kinect project I was working on. Please sign me up.
To people saying it makes sense, because Macbooks don't have numbers:

It's different, because Macbooks have specs instead. A certain amount of GHz, memory, disk space, HD or SSD, particular ports... the relevant information is in the specifications, which are generally included in advertisements. The model itself doesn't matter so much -- especially because people can upgrade specific aspects of individual models.

But iPads/iPhones don't "have" specs, which is a conscious decision on Apple's part. Who knows how much RAM it has, or what its processor speed is? And they're not upgradeable. You can't choose more RAM. So you need some kind of identifier to figure out what the performance is like. Hence, iPhone 3GS or 4 or 4S.

"New iPad" is just stupid, as proven by the point that everyone has wound up calling it the iPad 3 anyways. It's as stupid as if Microsoft called Windows 8 "new Windows" or Toyota stopped giving year names to their cars. Just ask: what comes after "new iPad"? I can't even guess.
AT&T Speech API Gives Developers the Power of AT&T WATSON
This is a bit of a hobbyhorse of mine. I'd like to see a bluetooth handset that snaps onto your wrist when you're not talking on it.

It could display the time/caller ID/SMSes/notifications like the Pebble, but when a call comes in that you'd like to answer, you'd grasp the "watch face" which would somehow cause the band to unclasp and straighten.

Given that there are bluetooth headsets smaller than a watch, I'm sure it would be possible to build. The trick would be finding an "unclasp and straighten" mechanism that would be reliable, cheap, and unlikely to pinch you when you hang up.
Yeah, people spend too much time watching success stories and not enough time actually creating projects. I stopped watching mixergy all together for this same reason. I tend to listen to more variety shows while I'm driving now. But my main issue with Mixergy is that it can actually get kinda cheesy after a while. Somehow I feel like they overact their role, kinda closer to the telemarketer vibe. It seems like it's a show for the "Let's squeeze some milk out of this cow" people, actually caring for the milk not the experience.
Github is a private company that delivers on what it promises, it provides git hosting and tools around it. I don't think they are required to tell you anything about what they plan to do with said money.
I can dig it, but you know that CL is extremely fast, right? Even in the oft-lamented interface, it's easy to go to the right place. Everybody can figure out Craigslist.
Users regularly express frustration with the inaccurate way Windows calculates time estimates on file transfers and the fact that you can't add or remove files in the queue without using a third party application like Teracopy.
It's being marketed as a database technology, but from a game development perspective it sounds more like "Engine" technology. The lines are admittedly blurry sometimes, but this doesn't seem to offer durability of data, which is what I think of when someone says "database" in the context of MMO servers. That said, the problems this is solving are important problems for any MMO server engine.

Requiring a JVM be embedded in your server is probably not going to go over well with many game developers. It's not initially going over well with me, but if I were currently trying to solve this problem, I would at least want to run some benchmarks against it.

I guess the big question I have is, how would this make existing MMOs better? If we take WoW as an example, dumping everyone into a single realm (shard) would solve the problem of wanting to play with your friends, who are on different realms. But 200x as many players competing for kills or standing around the auction house aren't going to make the game better. Most of your time would still be spent in instances, with a maximum of 25 players (40 if you go back in time - a case whre less massive was deemed more fun). And that's ignoring the problem of actually rendering that much stuff on the client.

I don't mean to sound overly critical, I could find ways to use this, but I'm not sure they're marketing it very well to MMO developers. Maybe the Eve guys would like it, but other than that game, I'm not sure the scaling problems MMOs have are the same scaling problems that this solves.
India to collect biometric data of all visitors from UK, US and Pakistan
Only briefly. :)
I was thinking about this recently. A watch's secondary function is telling time; its primary function is looking good.
Can you provide any more info as to how that works?
I think this blog article provides a lot of great concrete actionable advice for evaluating startup jobs. How do HNers feel about the advice?
Really good article. In India you don't 'live' you 'survive' every day. Hehe. (I'm an Indian btw)
> an argument could be made that it was a net positive

Net positive? Sounds like some kind of value theory. Which "net positive" are you talking about? Can't argue something you don't understand..
Interesting to have cables going there, but no cables (yet) going to research stations in Antartica.
In this case, a direct link to the site (http://paralleluniverse.co/) would be better. There is actual information there. To be fair, the first two words of the TC article were a link to the site. Signal to Noise over the first couple words of that article is quite high!
I am not a fan of this writer. Firstly, TokyoFlash's watches which are "similar to reading an abacus or calculating Roman numerals" are just binary watches. Secondly, watches are amazing. Its not just about knowing the time when ever you need to by simply looking down, but its about the craftsmanship that goes into a well made watch. Its about the aesthetic pleasures of a beautiful piece of jewellery which unlike most, actually caries a function.

Watches might be evolving, but in the same way that forms of self expression are evolving. Nearly everyone wants something to set them apart, and some people use a completely un-ordinary watch to do so.
Yup, exactly. My blackberry is synced via GPS. I doubt a watch could do better than that, so I don't wear a watch now. When I can afford a super expensive watch that signals my transformation from a douchebag to an obscenely rich douchebag, that is when I will wear a watch!
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Some people prefer BitBucket because it offers free private repos.
Just to clarify.....

If I am working on an older version, I don't expect you to backport bugfixes of CTAN packages. However, if I am asking for help because latex won't run without extra configuration because it says it is too old, getting an idea of how to fix it instead of being reflexively told "upgrade" would be nice. In the end when that happened to me I had to figure it out on my own.

Here's the thing "that's a bug that was more recently fixed. You might try going about this in a different way." is perfectly valid support for server software. It would even be enough to say "that package seems to work for me on a newer version."

But when it comes to running LaTeX and there is a time-bomb in the program, it is nice to know how to get around it in an automated, non-interactive environment.
nice! That's a wicked idea!
It's a safely Republican district; if Smith was to be defeated, it would have been in the GOP primary. (He cruised to victory over two challengers from more libertarian/tech-friendly backgrounds.)
Thanks you for writing this, I'm on my tablet so it would have been difficult. My thoughts EXACTLY!!! In fact this seems like Google trying to take advantage of PHP getting some bad PR recently and pointing people to use Go and inadvertently, Apps Engine.
Paypal hates everyone, not just developers.
Yay, parroting a line about statically typed languages saving them from themselves. Typing and ahead of time compilation are fantastic tools for optimizing your executable, but I wish people would stop insisting that they write code with less bugs because the compiler made sure an apple was not an orange. Every statically typed language I've worked in had some form of generics to step around the inflexibility of static typing.
There is no abstract measure of an 'efficient market'. The efficiency of markets can only be regarded in the context of the utility they create for their participants (direct and as externalities).
I guess my point was, without a settings option to re-set this, it's an incomplete feature. It works for a very narrow scenario, but not for the vast diversity of scenarios that the real world will bring. For instance, your code has a fairly large bug... if the user sets chrome as the default, then at some later point they delete chrome, it won't open urls anymore.

I would definitely encourage you to polish up that gist into some kind of easily incorporated module (a category on UIApplication, perhaps?)... the more people who start doing this sort of thing, the more pressure there will be on Apple to enable this the "right" way.
Why not take this idea in a more comprehensive direction: a donation supported site with API to register your app as consuming specific mime-types, so any compliant app wanting a producer of emails for instance, could grab a list from this site and then ask the user which they prefer, out of those apps they have installed (since those apps would all phone home to the server and say "user foo@bar.com has installed app Y on device with MAC ID M".
My iPad has lots of rarely-used apps in it, as do most of my friends'. I haven't used Chrome enough to decide if I want to keep it or not, the mere fact that it exists shouldn't indicate preference.
Nope. iOS 6 adds auto layout to Interface Builder and Core Layout to the runtime. You'll either start at the largest resolution and setup constraints as the screen size shrinks or at the smallest resolution and do the opposite.
Not when your outlining a iPad mini using the same resolution as the original iPad. In that case there is no more work than is already involved.

Nothing stopping you doing your graphics at a higher resolution and working in that then scalling down.

Also the harder it gets then the less competition, which for you a developer has to be good if people are put of by having to design/do work.
Where can you find bookmarking with archiving for free? (don't say archive.org)

You have to add the $25/year archival users to that number too.
The standard for qualified immunity is that bureaucrats are protected "insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." So if there was a case with publicity, after which that fact changes, then qualified immunity would not apply.

However an obscure case decided in a superior court 30 years ago does not provide sufficient publicity to reverse the fact that reasonable people don't know about the third amendment. So it would in all likelihood apply again.

Incidentally this is not my line of reasoning. I got it from In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights In Action by Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman. Given that they were lawyers writing on a legal topic, I'm inclined to accept their reasoning.
Disagree.

The HN discussion on the Nexus had many users coming out of the woodwork discussing how they wanted to buy one, touting the virtues of the size. In SV, I also know of other techies who regularly use a laptop but rarely use their iPad (or choose not to buy one). The iPad is slightly too big to carry comfortably in bed or on a couch to read while the iPhone is too small. And since I already have a 13' Macbook (soon to be Air), there isn't much that a 10' iPad has over it with regards to portability and function.

I wouldn't want a bigger iPhone (even though I know it's going to happen) because it already seems bigger than I'd like for a pocket phone.
eh, I think naming a motorcycle "death machine" would be... redundant? silly? I mean, the statistics show pretty clearly that it's one of the most dangerous ways to travel. Even so, you do see people dressing up motorcycles with skulls and German military decorations, as if the fact that it is by it's nature a dangerous machine was not enough by itself.

The Ryno, on the other hand, has no such statistics. For all I know, it's as safe as a segwey. And, if the problem they are trying to overcome is the nerd factor of the segway, and if, in fact, it isn't dangerous (I have no idea) then I think making the name sound a bit more dangerous might make sense, in the same way that putting a HD logo and some 'iron cross' accessories on a pickup makes it easier to sell.
Rumors from inside the supply chain, as reported in the Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230414120457750...

and Bloomberg:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-03/here-comes-nexus-7-...

Not sourced to named people, of course.
2010: "The reason we [won't] make a 7-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit that price point, it's because we think the screen is too small to express the software [..]It is meaningless, unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size. Apple's done extensive user-testing [..] This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps."

2012: Nexus 7 is introduced by Google

later: Apple "defines" the market by releasing a smaller iPad
Indeed. I use both and have to say that there's nothing killer about both of them. I have my private projects on bitbucket, but feature wise they are interchangeable.
A16Z betting on Enterprise-tization of SaaS.

I.e. second leg of the current trend, when successful SaaS companies will offer products, which can be install on-premises.

In case of github it's Github for Your Firewall.
Just wanted to say, great job on the Chrome app.

Only 2 things I don't like about it:

1) Getting at bookmarks requires too many clicks.

2) Sometimes my bookmarks get rearranged on the desktop after I use them in iOS.

Otherwise, great job. Syncing my browser history/bookmarks/passwords is great. And it feels more snappy than Safari, which I didn't think was even technically possible.
I finally singed up yesterday. Couldn't be happier with it.
PHP is a sane alternative to ASP? Do you mean ASP.net written in VB, or using webforms or something? I take it you haven't actually experienced firsthand the glaring inconsistencies and bizarre behaviour present in PHP's core language features, because it's a far cry to call php 'sane' in comparison to ASP//C#.
0 comments and 23 points? What's up with this? This seems like very compelling content to me.
Kickstarter: Concerts Are Better with WeGlow
While I do not currently work on ultra-low latency spatial databases (more like milliseconds), I have in the past and so have some idea of what is out there. :-) I am not all that familiar with the design of your system so I was mostly working off the scale numbers offered.

The best example I can think of is an ultra-low latency in-memory prototype I designed in 2009 on a parallel cluster. The working set was several billion irregular 3-cubes ranging in (metaphorical) size from birds to hurricanes. The average CPU cost of an access operation was sub-microsecond so the latency was mostly interconnect related (which was a slow but proper low-latency supercomputing fabric). The current work I do uses complex geodetic polygons geometries so the computational cost of operations is quite a bit more but the actual computational cost of the access method is below the noise floor of the network fabric.

You are correct though that if you are mostly dealing with tracking points or cubes then in-memory is sufficient to hold many applications. It is the sensing data that really kills you... :-)
I had a demo of this api in a few weeks. luckily face.com is allowing developers to extend access beyond the initial date it has set forth. to apply go here: http://developers.face.com/extension-request/ you have to be logged in.
I'd love to have any info on this as well. I tried learning a little clojure to mess with light table, and I loved it. Aching to have instant feedback from my js too.
Was ClojureScript really used? For what?
Here you go!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier#Doped_fiber_a...
Is this really true? How many "large online retailers" can you name that have been able to pinpoint an exact shipping date months in advance of the actual release of a product? Apple sure doesn't; they get around this by not even announcing a product until they can pretty much release it immediately.

In fact, as far as I can tell, Google is meeting the standards set by the electronics industry. Heck, in the gaming world, I have known people to put in their credit card details and preorder a game that's supposed to be out in six months, and then wait for a full year before seeing it ship.

Yes, for products that have been released already, it would make sense to demand a shipping date. This is not one of those products. They've given him a much better promise than many companies have in the history of not-yet-released electronic items. Once it's been more than three weeks, maybe we can start to wonder.
All sensible web programming environments have a stateless programming model

By default, Go doesn't. The default HTTP server in Go works by calling into your code via a callback, and you are free to maintain any state you wish across requests.[1]

I don't consider this a problem in Go, because the good module system and scoping rules mean that global state is explicit and obvious, and a good concurrency model means that accessing global state can be done safely. Global state can be useful and performant, so I'm glad Go lets you take advantage of it, but it might rule it out as a "sensible web programming environment" by your definition.

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ListenAndServe
Thinking too small - for a $100M raise to make sense, valuation has to be $1B or higher, and need a 10x total market for VCs to be interested. So $10B to $100B is the target, and they need very large goals to justify it.

[Edit - I guessed $1B-$10B valuation; WSJ says unnamed source cites $750M. If true, congratulations to A16Z, they got a steal.]

Most of github's mission is removing friction in collaboration around code.

Following this theme, likely expansions: removing transactional overhead to add liquidity to the development market ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem ) which is badly inelastic in the face of great demand. Less audacious, they may just domainate the recruiting market.

Still on the theme, continuing to push on the need to colocate to be productive - online editing, tools in support of code review, user testing, in-app feedback, platform building/distribution.

Build farms, integration tooling, and support markets also seem plausible but more difficult to see (in the current market) how they could get sufficient uptake to justify the target valuation.

One more, less optimistic: IP/patent/code provenance - lots of money attached to those things.
Don't Make Your Code "More Testable"