skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a great article debunking golden ratio woo linked from a comment here at some point in the past, and I can't find it for the life of me. I wish I still had it so I could send it to my designer friends that insist on using it everywhere.

EDIT: Found it! http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
I don't know what your criteria are, but I have some experience with this. I lived on Honshu Island for 5 months, Penang Island for 2 months, and Manhattan Island for 2 years. I recommend all three. The pitfalls: 1) the islands are somewhat expensive compared to many other islands, although there are inexpensive locations on all three 2) and they are somewhat noisy and distracting.
Here's Aaron Iba's version of the same concept (his app is called Spacetime): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-time/id508723489?mt=8&...
EDIT: I put this same description into the stackoverflow page with an image which might help visualize it.

I think one way to think about this is from a combinatorics viewpoint: how many possible combinations of sorted number orderings are there? If we give the combination 0,0,0,....,0 the code 0, and 0,0,0,...,1 the code 1, and 99999999, 99999999, ... 99999999 the code N, what is N? In other words, how big is the result space?

Well, one way to think about this is noticing that this is a bijection of the problem of finding the number of monotonic paths in an N x M grid, where N = 1,000,000 and M = 100,000,000. In other words, if you have a grid that is 1,000,000 wide and 100,000,000 tall, how many shortest paths from the bottom left to the top right are there? Shortest paths of course require you only ever either move right or up (if you were to move down or left you would be undoing previously accomplished progress). To see how this is a bijection of our number sorting problem, observe the following:

You can imagine any horizontal leg in our path as a number in our ordering, where the Y location of the leg represents the value (image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/aJp4b.png ). So if the path simply moves to the right all the way to the end, then jumps all the way to the top, that is equivalent to the ordering 0,0,0,...,0. if it instead begins by jumping all the way to the top and then moves to the right 1,000,000 times, that is equivalent to 99999999,99999999,..., 99999999. A path where it moves right once, then up once, then right one, then up once, etc to the very end (then necessarily jumps all the way to the top), is equivalent to 0,1,2,3,...,999999.

Luckily for us this problem has already been solved, such a grid has (N + M) Choose (M) paths:

(1,000,000 + 100,000,000) Choose (100,000,000) ~= 2.27 * 10^2436455

N thus equals 2.27 * 10^2436455, and so the code 0 represents 0,0,0,...,0 and the code 2.27 * 10^2436455 and some change represents 99999999,99999999,..., 99999999.

In order to store all the numbers from 0 to 2.27 * 10^2436455 you need lg2 (2.27 * 10^2436455) = 8.0937 * 10^6 bits.

1 megabyte = 8388608 bits > 8093700 bits

So it appears that we at least actually have enough room to store the result! Now of course the interesting bit is doing the sorting as the numbers stream in. Not sure the best approach to this is given we have 294908 bits remaining. I imagine an interesting technique would be to at each point assume that that is is the entire ordering, finding the code for that ordering, and then as you receive a new number going back and updating the previous code. Hand wave hand wave.
The movie.
I think mainly because it either becomes a time drain, that once you go without you usually realize you don't miss, or it's a waste of money (you only watch one or two things but are paying $100 a month). This whole simplify philosophy usually involves getting rid of anything with a yearly commitment, which cable often has (to get teaser rates).
Apple trying to get kids to leave college early?

"Loses job"? Do they mean "job opportunity"? He's a student.

And I'm sure he could get another offer if he set his mind to it. Though I'm not sure it's worth his time. Looking to the future, his talents might be better applied elsewhere.

Apple, at the rate they're going, is soon enough a lost cause. They might seem great today. But just wait.
Real world data show the opposite of what you're saying. The US spends more on health care than other developed countries with universal healthcare. You must know that, so what point are you trying to make here?
One part that really makes The Pirate Bay very efficient is their torrent tracker software. Unlike Python and PHP implementations, theirs is written in C, with very little dependencies. It's called OpenTracker — http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/. It's intended to run on a WLAN router; it's that efficient. Especially see the "Philosophy" section :)

Of course, other projects can also use this for very legal purposes. E.g. my http://driverpacks.net project uses torrents for distributing (legal!) downloads to avoid expensive server bills. The infrastructure is simple: a central OpenTracker instance, plus a few seedboxes (±$15/month) that get new files via rsync (to guarantee each file always has seeders), and voila: terabytes per day of traffic at ±$1/day.
Live stats at http://driverpacks.net/stats — powered by http://drupal.org/project/opentracker.

Hopefully this is useful for somebody :)
At first I was disappointed about this too. And then I remembered that Andreeseen also had his talk not televised at Intuit a year back (even though it was broadcast live -- just no recording).

And then I remembered: those guys ball so hard, people want to fine them.
Reminds me of the sleep sort that was on here a few months ago. If you don't care about the run time and your processor was fast enough it may be hacked to work.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort
Another one here - I know of a few others under 25 and on HN as well.
>Whenever you connect to a P2P system you are advertising your IP address publically, so it requires no conspiracy to get them and certainly no violation of privacy.

I'm not sure what your point is. Content holders have mostly stopped suing people, and the generally accepted reason for this is that it wasn't profitable to do so. My point is that it looks an awful lot like this program is the result of an effort to make that process profitable again, in which case we can expect the lawsuit engine to crank back up. If you'll recall, that engine ended up screwing over a lot of innocent people last time it was running, so you should be against that happening even if you think suing illegal filesharers is a good thing in principle.

Nobody's talking about a "conspiracy" in anything but the most pedantic and technical sense. What I'm talking about is simple dishonesty, which is something we have come to expect from the likes of the MPAA and RIAA.

As for the violation of privacy, that's a trickier subject, but not one that is important to my point. An open home WiFi with unsecured servers on it is advertised publicly too, but if you go and poke around someone's PC, you're still violating their privacy. IPs are exchanged on p2p services for the sake of communication, not identification. So pretending to be an ordinary peer so that you can find someone's identity (i.e. through a subpoena) is arguably a violation of their privacy (although obviously not an illegal one). Again though, this is a tangent that isn't really important to my point.

>They want to educate customers about not running open wireless networks etc so they find it more difficult to argue "oh, my wifi was open so it wasn't me".

As far as I know, that defense has never even been attempted in a copyright case in the US, and nobody really thinks it would work if it were. It has been used in a child pornography case, and the courts didn't go for it.

But even if that were the point, why would they need six strikes to tell you to close your WiFi?
Myhrvold just happened to be there. It also happens that he does spend a lot of time on tackling 'global good' problems. For example, they spent a great deal of money and time developing cheaper and more efficient refrigerators for transferring drugs, because surprisingly drugs go bad and poor underserved areas tend not to have refrigerators. They spent a lot of RND, and went against several WHO regulations which forced unnecessary extra costs, just to get to their goal.

Regardless, I think you're attacking a man mentioned in the article for something little related to the message of this article.
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The author mentions jQuery's broken promises implementation and how it prevents the excellent chaining feature. I definitely see how jQuery's implementation differs from the Promises/A spec. However, doesn't .pipe() in jQuery basically allow for the same chainability as .then() from Promises/A? Is there a difference I'm not aware of?
Don't Worry About Your Productivity, Worry About You
Not that it's terribly relevant but a clever reader may notice that a Promise is a monad that encapsulates and stands in place of some to-be-done operation.

The .then() method is this monad's bind operator. It allows you to chain a Promise through functions that do not have to know or care about how to accept promises as arguments.

Hopefully this might help Javascript programmers who are curious about the relevance of these esoteric functional programming ideas. They are in your language too! (just with less frightening names)
Who pays corporation taxes on sales? I thought that's what VAT was for. Isn't corporation tax based on profit? If the cost of goods sold and expenses were £795m, then £1.2m on £5m in profit would seem pretty reasonable.
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From the article:

> According to the Sunday Times, eBay had sales of £789m during 2010 in the UK at its four British subsidiaries. Using its worldwide profit margin of 23%, it would have made a profit in the UK of £181m, leading to corporation tax owed of £51m.

That's making a pretty big assumption, that Ebay's UK profit margin is the same as its worldwide profit margin.
>No, when the system you're interfacing to is itself a calendar/moleskin-notebook/radioknob, it is not "skeuomorphism" to present the user with a calendar/moleskin-notebook/radioknob interface.

That's the precise definition of skeuomorphism.

It's skeuomorphism not because it's a command line interface but because it's green and black, which is a nostalgia based design decision not a ux based one.

I can't remember exactly but there was some CRT based decision for earlier consoles to be green and black, that this console is aping it just screams skeuomorphism.
5 lessons from 3 years at a start-up
The hassle of having to purchase replacements for things you've left behind or thrown away starts to gnaw after a while, unless you have a large discretionary income and possibly assistants.

Things like tools and a box of bits make all the difference between something taking 5 minutes or potentially having to wait until after the weekend and a chunk of a day running around looking for things, or up to a week's wait for orders to come in from online.

Living in hotels makes it clear to me how much I hate being away from my stuff. So many simple things turn into major logistical and scheduling problems.
What issues would you have with your visa? Are you Iranian? Pakistani?

Don't worry about it. Nobody going there to live is having problems with visas. Living in Asia is very fluid. You don't have problems there. You simply plan A, plan B, etc. If plan A gets blocked, then you happily go with plan B while you work out plan A. Or maybe you go with plan C just for kicks. No matter what happens, you don't sweat much of anything. That's Asia. (I'm in the Philippines)
Maybe they're just looking for improvements in the way they do sorting? Asking questions like these in interviews might be a way to find people who could teach their code monkeys new tricks?

Or it might have just been some silly way to eliminate candidates for arbitrary reasons. The usual.

Anyway, sorting is a big deal I think. If you can do it faster even by just a little bit than everyone else, that's a competitive advantage. Just my personal opinion.
It depends on where the tumors are located. For metastasis brain tumors the life expectancy is approximately one year.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000769.htm
It's easy :

- I eat all my vegetables raw: apple, lettuce, tomatoes, red pepper... The only "non fresh" vegetables I buy (for convenience - can't find it raw where I live) is frozen broccoli which is perfectly unfrozen in the microwave, not steamed.

- besides vegetables, I mostly eat rice, eggs, fish and meat. Rice provides some glucids - and it cooks quite well in a microwave.

Fish is also easy to cook in a microwave - I loved boiled salmon with pastas, olive oil and goat cheese, but now most of the time I prefer canned mackerels because they come with a variety of sauces so I don't have to prepare them.

For meat, I've had decent result with frozen "cheap" (high fat) ground beef. I put it in a bowl- it releases grease when it's cooking in the microwave in a way that make it tasty to me (and the grease is left at the bottom of the bowl so it's easy to remove). It's not quite like boiled meat - closer to what a hamburger meat taste, and it's quick to prepare.

I know it's a weird diet.

In fact, I came to this diet not by any specific health concern but by time optimization. I like my meals to be quick and easy to prepare - if they need more than 6 minutes to prepare, I'm not interested. Cooking stuff takes time (heat transfer, etc), so most of the "cooking" was removed.

I then made my diet healthier, tweaking here and there (a bag of pop corn is quick to prepare, but maybe not that healthy) following various ideas. This caused some interesting changes - like raw eggs.

At the moment, I still keep the 6 minutes maximum limit every day, while eating was is generally considered healthy - basically it's a raw diet with varied vegetables each week, only with rice and meat being cooked. I add canned oily fish + frozen broccoli for the convenience, and I still do a bag of popcorn time to time.
If you can make another meme generator, then you can probably make a good dent in the world.

That's a shamefully bad cop-out to say you couldn't do any of these things:

http://freerice.com/
http://www.donorschoose.org/
http://www.shiftlabs.org/
http://www.sparked.com/
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They exist now!
A big part of the problem in the original article is that of TOO MUCH CARE being provided regardless of cost without much consideration for whether the care is worth providing. One plausible concern about adopting "universal care" in the US is that it will make a bad situation worse, even further insulating patients from the cost of the care provided to them and thus making it more likely that we waste effort on extremely expensive procedures that don't do any good.

Now, certainly one might IMAGINE putting rules in place such that this didn't happen, but that doesn't mean such rules will get put in place or will actually work as intended given our generally messed-up political process.
I've always wondered why the App Store was a web app. It seems really out of place considering its job is to distribute native apps.

On the other hand it has probably been the driving force to make mobile safari better.
Another 30yo with 2 kids reporting in - Unfortunately I don't think that there are any easy answers. Sure you can tweak your schedule (work on the train!) and there are always a few things you can cut (Turn off the TV!). However increasingly I'm accept two things:

1 - Whatever is happening, just go with it. Sometimes the kids are going to be sick, or its a great day for playing, or your in a super productive space with your business. I've found that I really just need to allow myself permission to do what needs doing at the moment, without feeling guilty about what I had planned to be doing.

2 - All those super important things you HAVE to finish. It probably won't matter if they don't get done. E-mails left un-answered. Dishes left in the sink. After a few years of this, I'm starting to realise that the world doesn't actually come to a screaming halt. I think the true trick is realising what is really important and what you can leave out for later.

It's funny but I think having kids has taught me these two things, which should apply very well to the startup world. It's kind of ironic that the 'stereotypical' startup founder is young, without kids. There are a lot of lessons to be learnt from children, and I think the maturity that has come with having kids has been a great help for me.
That has nothing to do with Techcrunch per se. People will find something else if TC dies. Big whoop.
Are you or anyone you know in the Bay Area?
I think this is basically right, but I'd point out that aid can include things like education and giving money to build infrastructure, which assist greatly with (2).
It looks like the only tax regime that is stable in terms of revenue is one with low corporate income tax and relatively high personal income tax.
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Can I download a video of the YC Startup School 2012 anywhere? 
Is there a legal torrent or the like? I missed the live stream unfortunately!
UI rendering and a sane threading model are two major steps that could end these premature HTML5 vs native debate.

I wait for the day when these debates are equivalent to arguments about programming language preference.
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Oh man, where do I start. I had my first kid when I was 21, to say it was unplanned is an understatement, but marriage soon followed and things have really worked out the last 6 years luckily. I now have 2 kids and I'm 27, I'm also a single income for my family. I've been working on my Bootstrapped Startup with four others guys for two years, while it does get painful sometimes what I end up doing the most to handle everything is put off sleep. I probably get 4-6 hours during the week and try to make up for it by getting 8-10 on the weekends, but that rarely works with children (It's hard to be mad when two little kids jump on your head to wake you up because they want to play). We have big updates coming in the future that will hopefully take the site into the limelight, but until then it's a daily struggle and I love it.
I think the most interesting thing is that this guy thinks he's hot shit and can't use an X.509 certificate?
I think that ship has already sailed.
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All the comments in this thread, this is the only one that is actually a good starting point for discussion and doesn't latch onto the "LOL MYRHVOLD GO AWAY".

The problem with the tech industry, as the article highlights, is that the focus is on building stuff for the sake of building it. A nyan cat generator? A social network for your dog's dog? Sure, throw 100+ hours into it, and maybe you'll get acquired by the 'social network for nyan cat generators'. The issue is that the tech industry more and more just serves itself, not because of the culture of funding but what I would think of is just familiarity. 100+ hours can go further elsewhere, but it's not necessarily the personal goal of that little coder.

Incremental steps only come when the larger incentives are in place. If you could flip a social enterprise (and not Facebook social, I mean for-a-better-world social), then people would be willing to spend 100 hours building apps for good.

The big dreamers are the ones who do it regardless of the fame, money, or glory.
The example I looked at wasn't green-and-black; it was a monospace font, cool light grey on warm dark grey, with a colored directory listing. In other words, an xterm.
My personal test for whether or not a possession is worth keeping is "do I know immediately why I haven't thrown in out?" If I struggle for even a few seconds to justify owning something, it goes on the first-to-go list when I do a purge or just feel like tidying.
> There is no question that native apps provide better UI's

This is was me talking about mobile. Then I went on to explain why. So I don't think I need to provide any examples there.

As for HTML5 on the desktop you can peruse the Chrome Web Store to find some good stuff. iCloud.com is actually an excellent example of HTML5 done right (for the most part).
Unfortunate that human doctors have to spend so much time doing paperwork
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I think that is indeed what he is saying. No it is not idiotic, because:
1) Religion is foolish and anti-progressive
2) Religion has a diminishing place in American culture
3) Everyone in America knows it, espeKorany the enlightened among us
4) Traditions of religious origin are silly, especially if they cause difficulty in one's life
5) We (the majority) do not care that much if your feelings are hurt because of a choice you make. Deal with it and move on
6) Stop dressing like people that scare the shit out of us by trying to kill us all... men women and children
7) The world's conservative Islamic community has brought this upon themselves... by being or supporting murderous psychopaths, by promoting mostly bullshit religious dogma that may not actually be part of the koran, and by being some of the most Xenophobic of all cultures the world has ever seen.
It depends on the lifestyle you want to lead - my wife and I aren't interested in having kids so we're able to get away with having less stuff. On the other hand, her sister has a son and it's quite obvious that you need a lot of stuff to make things easier - pram, cot, changing table, toys, books, etc.

As an aside, having an ipad seems to help keep the baby entertained with interactive books, music, TV shows, musical instruments like drums and pianos. I can see apps do away with many physical items the way digital music has done away with the CD - which I think is a positive thing as it reduces waste.
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> Offer the books to your local library. You can always visit them ;)

Incorrect. Donating is nearly the same as selling them.
Libraries don't lend donated books (in the common case), they dump them to a resell wholesaler for pennies on the dollar.

But still, better to pass your book along to someone who might read it, then to have it collect dust.
Why can't they change the tax law to tax these companies? I know it would be difficult, but it can't be impossible. These companies will always want to operate here.
> As an aside, having an ipad seems to help keep the baby entertained with interactive books, music, TV shows, musical instruments like drums and pianos.

I hope you change your mind if you have kids. Living life in a 7" box is sad.
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Heh, I even used to let our cat join in the odd conference call. When she was new and very talkative, if the meeting was dull I'd just hold the phone out so she could miaow at people.

Nobody ever mentioned it, though they must have noticed after the first couple of times...
> try to make up for it by getting 8-10 on the weekends, but that rarely works with children (It's hard to be mad when two little kids jump on your head to wake you up because they want to play).

Are my parents the only ones that locked their door at night? My brother and I couldn't wake them in the morning, because we couldn't get in. We learned at a very early age to entertain ourselves until Mom and Dad got up.

I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, I'm just saying that it seems like no one thinks of this solution. :)

I see this complaint quite often about the kids being bothersome in the morning and when I tell people about the "door lock" it seems to blow their mind.
One of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, US. Possibly San Juan Island itself, depending on your needs and what's on offer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Islands
I really need to read a woman's reaction to this article (will share with a few friends right away). If you can achieve this beyond a bachelor pad, the weed that you are smoking is indeed of very high quality.