skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been a big gamer. I have a short attention span and lose interest too quickly, but I loved Goldeneye 64. The N64 was my first games console (I got it soon after it came out, I think I was 7 at the time) and Goldeneye was the game that was bundled with it. In general there were some great N64 games. The were the obvious ones like Super Mario, Mission Impossible was another good one, but my favourite was Diddy Kong Racing. It was the only game I've ever got 'addicted' too. The N64's also one of the few pieces of tech I've held on to. Every now and then I hook it up and get another few weeks of fun out of it.
As someone who uses eBay to buy specific out-of-print books, I vastly prefer the Buy It Now option, as long as the price is reasonable. I'm not really looking for incredible bargains, so auctions are just annoying.

With some items you might not know how much they're worth, but it's easy enough to determine the going price of a used iPhone.
Here in Seattle, we don't burn coal. Ok I lied, 0.52% of our energy does actually come from coal. But 96% of it is hydro and wind: http://www.seattle.gov/light/fuelmix/
I think there are a lot of authors whose 3 day long first draft I'd buy and read especially in non-fiction.

For example, a three day scrawl by John Carmack about his latest thoughts and experiences with graphics technology would be ace. (I read an e-book collection of all his old .plan updates and while it was disjointed, it satisfied my lust for a geeky read.)
Any specific reason why they used Apache 1 instead of Apache 2. I guess the obvious answer would be security but, in what way?
Here's an album if you don't have an iPhone so you can check it out: http://imgur.com/a/GdCAC

You can favorite pics (save to app to view), save to device and share to FB, Twitter, Reddit, and Email. This is just a quick side-project we made, but it's turned out to be super addicting. Let me know what you guys and gals think!
I love the "cost of porting to other platforms" argument. I'd like to replace it with the "cost of delivering mushy web applications to customers who expect more". That cost is infinite, and you'll never get it back.
I don't remember the Facility having an invisible room. I tried Googling, but don't see anything. Can you explain?
I also have an appetite for such small "complex stuff distilled into a simple essence" books by people who've spent a long time researching and understanding the topics at hand. I find Wikipedia does the job admirably in most cases but certainly not all.
Ruby 2.0 on Rails
There's a lot of clever engineering that can be done when your battery doesn't need to be small enough to fit inside a phone or a laptop.
I think we have to be really careful about anthropomorphizing companies.

The CEO has to make rules, one of which is that they charge fees for all boxes so that people have no incentive to try to game the system. The rule must be consistent across the board. He or she also knows that the people implementing this rule will be low-paid and are not the right people to make the choice about what excuse to accept.

Further, he or she (the CEO) realizes that if your house is destroyed, you're going to put in an insurance claim, including possibly for any lost property belonging to services contracted to the house.

For this reason, they're not cutting you a break. They need a consistent policy that doesn't have any loopholes. It's not much different than computer security, actually. You eliminate ambiguity and make upstream rules.

That isn't to say it doesn't suck. Then again, it's a drop of suck in an ocean of suck. I've seen the pictures of some of the devastation and my heart goes out to the people there. If I thought they needed my services, I would give them a discount.

This brings me to the meat of this rambling post: go Consumerist style but instead of complaining to Comcast, offer it up to them as an opportunity. You mentioned how they often go out and do community initiatives. Suggest to them that they reach out to the recently devastated and offer a free cable hook-up and services with monthlies at the regular rate. You never know, it could work out for them, since all the devastated homes will need some kind of internet, and whoever makes it easiest may win over the harried homeowners.
Totally agree. I don't know that time or even refinement is what makes a great story. Yeah, the certainly don't hurt, but if you tell me the most amazing story ever and it's a little sloppy, I'm still probably going to think it's the most amazing story ever.
And then you have to sell the public on why you raised gas prices to help push forward your liberal agenda.
Bonanza.com (the site I've been building for about four years now) has become one of the largest non-eBay marketplaces by scooping up sellers like you & the OP. We're now up to 25,000 active sellers and 4 million listings by virtue of having seller-friendly policies.

Admittedly, there is enough gray area in marketplace transactions where determining "right and wrong" can sometimes prove difficult. But I like to think that we start from a neutral POV, rather than the "buyer is always right" mentality that eBay has increasingly gravitated toward.
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B okay. Remote is a potential too.

We're the experimental features team at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.

We're looking for full stack engineers, ideally with a bent towards frontend work, that can help us fix the experience of editing Wikipedia. Wikipedia has ~450 million monthly unique visitors, but only about 80,000 monthly contributors, and that enormous disparity is what we're working to correct.

Rather than describe all aspects of what we're doing, here's a blog post describing one of the projects on our plate, and how it relates to our general approach:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/24/fix-this-broken-workflo...

The post also includes links to apply, and some examples of what we've done in the past.
1. Plenty of CPUs have been built from discrete logic.

2. As soon as you start talking about complex printed items (including PCBs), you're necessitating either a trusted computational device to compile the design and drive the printer, or the ability to audit the output of the printer (eg read and understand the traces on a 2-layer PCB).
The fact that they only offer phone support is not a company doing its fair share to try to connect with me over problems. It's them putting up roadblocks to try to avoid having to deal with me. Given that, I don't feel I have the obligation to attempt to sit through their various roadblocks.

It was honestly far easier and satisfying to just give them the two bucks and then report the facts of my experience onto the internet.

Plus, with any luck someone thinking about selling on eBay in the future will run across this post, think twice, and be saved the trouble I was. So I feel pretty good about that too.
Because it's their box. Not yours.
What on earth is a "MM". I've been seeing this pop up on HN recently as a replacement for M (ie million or mega - they both mean * 10^6).

MM? Does it mean mega million (ie 10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12, otherwise known as a trillion)? If you take the SI system it might be megamoles perhaps?

If someone has a justifiable reason for using MM to represent million, I'd love to hear it.
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Regarding the negative comments, time alone is not an indicator of quality. The consumer doesn't care how long it took you to do something. In many instances, we don't even know the time it took. Some people take decades to produce work, while others take hours or days. The proof of value is always in the work itself.

There are countless examples of artists producing work at breakneck speeds; Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Frank Zappa, Issac Asimov, Alexandre Dumas, etc... I could go on and on.
Imagine if we were the other way around. Everyone was driving electric cars and someone was trying to get us on gas.

I charge my car every night. You're telling me I now have to drive to a "gas station" every time I need to recharge? And we need to ship gas all over the country now? And gas costs _how_ much!?

And then I also have to bring it into the shop every few months to "change the oil"?

And look at the thousands of moving parts! That thing is going to start breaking down after 5 years, tops. Look at all the scheduled maintenance? Shit, replacing just the timing belt will cost me thousands!

And if I turn it on in my garage it will literally kill me and my entire family? No other product I own is nearly that dangerous.

What a joke. I'm keeping my electric car.
tjic, it CAN be done. e.g. Michael Moorcock's "Write a novel in 3 days" or Lester Dent's pulp master plot

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/write-an-adventure-novel-in...

That being said, it's different for every project. Some subject matters / genres follow a certain cadence/form that can be fast tracked through.

Any research or period elements though tend to slow it down.

I do have some experience with writing/publishing :)

PS: my current book took me 4 years to finish :D
I wanted to provide somewhat of a counterpoint – I have been using e-bay (Australia) for about 7 years. I sell all kinds of stuff ranging from a broken bookcase for $1, which I didn’t want to haul to the tip, all the way up to a boat for $950. I also run a small business selling items via a website and my e-bay account [1][2].

Overall I’ve found my e-bay experience to be very positive. I’ve only had one person who I suspected of scamming me, when they claimed they didn’t receive the item I posted. The vast majority of users are just normal people looking to pick up a bargain. It helps that some of my items are pick up only and that I am not selling electronics.

Every few years an article like this pops up and I get concerned and start looking at other places to sell my products. What I inevitably find is that no other auction site has the users base that e-bay does, so my items inevitably don’t sell, or the price is significantly lower than what I would get on e-bay. It’s possible to build a better experience than e-bay, but up until now nobody has managed to do it.

Finally, I think what the writer of the article was looking for was an ‘unpaid item dispute’. He needed to open once against the original bidder, and if they didn’t don’t pay within a certain time limit, and then I believe e-bay will refund the fees. E-bay also records unpaid item disputes against buyers and will limit what they can do. [3]

[1] - http://myworld.ebay.com.au/sleemancorp

[2] - http://www.grafting-tool.com/magento/index.php/

[3] - http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/unpaid-items.html
My favorite trick is that the spawn sequences were not actually random. They would cycle predictably and only randomize if someone was too close to the respawn point.

Especially in levels like the bunker, if you hovered just a breadth out of distance in a two-player game, it was possible to wrack up multiple kills very easily and would often take an equally experienced player to even have a chance of making it to the nearest weapon in time.
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Noam Chomsky irritates me here's why - he's vague, so astonishingly vague that he can hide his uselessness within it.

> Chomsky derided researchers in machine learning who use purely statistical methods to produce behavior that mimics something in the world, but who don’t try to understand the meaning of that behavior. Chomsky compared such researchers to scientists who might study the dance made by a bee returning to the hive, and who could produce a statistically based simulation of such a dance without attempting to understand why the bee behaved that way.

-- http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-f...

What does that even mean?

> But the number of parameters in his theory continued to multiply, never quite catching up to the number of exceptions, until it was no longer clear that Chomsky’s theories were elegant anymore. In fact, one could argue that the state of Chomskyan linguistics is like the state of astronomy circa Copernicus: it wasn’t that the geocentric model didn’t work, but the theory required so many additional orbits-within-orbits that people were finally willing to accept a different way of doing things. AI endeavored for a long time to work with elegant logical representations of language, and it just proved impossible to enumerate all the rules, or pretend that humans consistently followed them. Norvig points out that basically all successful language-related AI programs now use statistical reasoning

> But his fundamental stance, which he calls the “algorithmic modeling culture,” is to believe that “nature’s black box cannot necessarily be described by a simple model.” He likens Chomsky’s quest for a more beautiful model to Platonic mysticism, and he compares Chomsky to Bill O’Reilly in his lack of satisfaction with answers that work. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that,” O’Reilly once said, apparently unsatisfied with physics as an explanation for anything.

-- http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-f...

AI went wrong when Chomsky came around with his rule based translation ideas that were hideously wrong and probably set us back 20 years - see here:

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

He's a more irritating linguistic version of Richard Dawkins (who doesn't have an active research career).

> Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek
At a startup, every contractor work counts.

Two cases where I'd accept reduced rate are:

1) You're into who we are and what we're doing, and potentially want to become a part of us. In this case we are testing each other out, and there is a mutual risk and cost as the startup will have to make extra effort figuring out how to work well with you.

2) We're mutually doing a favor, concurrently, or in the future. e.g., we're in the same field or town and we want the both of us to succeed to increase our pie; we're personal friends who've been helping each other.

Otherwise, I would not want anything other than your best work for my startup, and will pay the fair price for it.
Warning to YC applicants: We're going to restart HN tonight
So if you're editing your YC application in the application form (which I wouldn't recommend anyway), click regularly on the Save button at the bottom of the page.

We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks). Usually we do it at night and don't say anything about it, but since people might be editing YC applications, I thought I'd better issue a warning.

I haven't said when we're going to restart it, because I don't know. It shouldn't matter anyway; just don't depend on it.
You bid $22 on an item with a retail value of $20?

http://shoptheshelf.com/auctions/1
Welcome to 2008? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
Would love to see mongodb support.
> If you use simple models, you can only get simple insights

Economics also play a large part in how information is parsed. The advancement of AI outside of academia is largely dependent on what it's being used for and how it's being used. Where great strides are being made is in search because it can be monetised and the computational power required is commensurate with the number of users/frequency of use and ROI. A complex model that can provide better insights but limits the number of concurrent users isn't as useful in a commercial sense.
In a recent job interview I was asked to code a doubly linked list as part of the coding part of the interview. Linked lists are patented, did me implementing this break the law?
I'm not a fan of the SMG myself (or equivalents from other manufacturers) nor is anyone else I know. But it's not really because of any real performance metric. SMG is far better at changing gears than any of us mortals could accomplish. But it's just not fun.

If you didn't like yours for the same reason I don't know if you'd like the new iterations. You're still not doing the shifting yourself.

ps. Your project looks interesting and I signed up for the mailing list. The success page said an email had been sent but I haven't received anything. Not sure if there's a long delay or it's a bug.
I do not care if Comcast in business of making money or they have fiduciary responsibility to their stock holders. The timing is wrong and inappropriate esp. when people lives coule be in danger and their entire life saving is in jeopardy.

Comcast get a handle of this stupid situation.
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Sure, and the credit bureaus will not side with you. Because you actually do owe the debt.
No, the arguments are orthogonal. As such, getting into a point-by-point is of questionable merit. Its not that I don't understand what you are saying. To put it another way, economics is based on the premise of risk, not uncertainty. The two are significantly different. The purpose of political economy (ie, the orthogonal approach) is to box uncertainty and turn it into risk for a sub-space of actions. We can then set up markets to work efficienty in that sub-space where risk is a viable operating assumption. In a disaster situation, what was previously part of the subspace risk gets thrown back to uncertainty. In this case, if market-trading is suspended it is not-per-se evidence that "markets are broken". Its just evidence that they are misplaced for the time being. This may or may not make sense, at first glance. But it makes alot of sense when you think about it. There are lots of times when markets are not the best way to allocate goods (even in a market economy -- that is why we have firms). Unless you are comfortable with that idea, the rest of what I'm saying probably won't make sense in general.
"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."

― Christopher Hitchens
In which way is he vague? He basically reinvented a Turing Machine with human language and brought linguistics around to the idea that, yes, language isn't something that's vaguely "out there" tabula-rasa-style, it's built into our genetics at a very fundamental level. Fundamental enough that he tied linguistics DIRECTLY to math and from there to programming. The Chomsky Heirarchy is no joke.

Your link relating to statistical models is only a tiny, tiny part of Chomsky's fundamental arguments and even then is debatable.
There's something very odd about that video. It looks like the M5 is driven off the line from tickover which is not how you would launch it in practice. C.f. http://youtu.be/E-xVVPO8L8s
You can use it as an IDE but it’s not the Webshell’s job ! Our job is to make an “API mashup factory” for people which want to make fast applications based on APIs.

It would be impossible to make a lib which maintain all third party APIs (arround 8000 today), it’s for that we made it as a platform where everything is always working.

Please note that Webshell is an API too, and you can call scripts as a REST/JSON API.

“Sandbox API workflow” : we have a REPL prototyping part for helping you to see very fast a result of API scripting results, as for server side API (Facebook, Spotify...) as for Client side (GoogleMaps, Youtube player etc...)

After you have two choices.

- Make it again by yourself, with the different API protocols, Oauth1.0 or Oauth2.0 , manage rate limits and keep an eye for maintenance on all your APIs in your application.

- Or push the “create API” button on top right of the Webshell prototyping REPL, so generating a new API of your mashup, use it in production and share it with other developers which would like to use it too.

Our job is to keep an eye for you on API maintenance, easy Oauth integration, APIkeys and rate limit management, analytics.
We will be implement each feature step by step during the public beta.

Dependancy? We are an API like other APIs.
We behave like Back-end-as-as Service as Parse for example. You could do it yourself to not be dependant, but if you implement it fast for your application, with lot of integrated tools, you will keep it in production.

You can see us as a kind of API-as-a-service backend... ;)
"His ideas about language being part of the genome are fanciful nonsense."

Oh, so, linguistics is just magic then?
Why this is justified on Comcast's part: the equipment is rented, if it's lost due to a natural disaster then that's still on the renter unless you've insured for that loss otherwise. Note that it would make sense for Comcast to offer such insurance as a service fee, although it's likely this is covered through homeowners insurance.

Why this is dumb on Comcast's part: this is day 2? post Hurricane and now Comcast's greed is front and center in the national press. This is not smart, especially considering the relatively small amount of money at stake here. How much does Comcast spend on advertising? With this move they've basically erased the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars in advertising for far less value in return. No company wants a PR failure of this magnitude. Especially considering that Comcast is already one of the most hated companies in existence.

This was not a good move for Comcast and they are going to lose far more than they could possibly gain.
Toward a Culture of Pairing
Surprisingly realistic suggestion from the "radical" Richard Stallman.
OP here. Glad eBay is working out for you! Honestly, there are a lot of tools and useful techniques for sellers to get a positive experience, but they're just hidden or you only seem to learn them after you've gotten burned already. As a seller who hasn't been on eBay for many years though, it's just a very harsh experience filled with hidden pitfalls.

And I was able to submit unpaid item disputes successfully for the majority of the oustanding fees or I'd have been on the hook for closer to $70. However, there was a final $2 that they refused to refund because certain selling fees are un-refundable for some reason, and that's what I got stuck with in the end.
It's common in finance ... in theory it's supposed to mean "thousand thousand" but I think that's retroactive reasoning for something of a goofy abbreviation.
Heh, yeah in this first case the optimal economic choice would've been to bid, then lose the auction but get the 10% off code, then buy at slimfoldwallet.com for a price of $18. EDIT: But then again, one point of auctions is that the retail price is not necessarily perfect in the supply/demand curve, and there's nothing inherently wrong with paying a bit more if you value it more (For instance, maybe "I won the first ever shoptheshelf.com auction" was worth $2)

I bought one retail for $20 from his site. Love the Etsy tie-in. I was hesitant about giving payment info to a new auction site, but this helps the trust factor a lot. (May want to emphasize the seller info early on for this reason?)
it's clean and looks kinda cool..
I watched the video. My mind was not even vaguely blown. What's the big deal?
Would homeowners insurance cover the loss?
It comes from the financial industry, and means a million. M stands not for million or mega, but for mille, which is Latin for a thousand. So it is in fact 1000*1000 = 1,000,000.