skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Even if it's legal, the fight over the legitimacy of US debt beyond the statutory limit reduces its value as a stable place to put one's money. It's arguably worse for the US to take this - admittedly clever - way out of the debt ceiling fight than to go through ugly (stupid, grandstanding, bullshitty) fight we need to have.

But, part of me wishes Obama would do this, just so i could marvel at the colossal brazenness it'd require; and, honestly, the entertainment value of congressional Republicans' incandescent fury and sputtering would be close to worth the whole debacle. Finally the GOP could talk about impeachment for reasons that venture into legitimate territory.
Not sure what you want to hear from us. If you want to learn to go through with things, just.. go through with them!
Hi, thanks a ton for the detailed response. Luckily I don't really need a Stats 101, so I don't think I'll mind him jumping around. If, of course, it does get a bother I know which course is right for me. Till then I'm also doing a bit of Thrun's Udacity Stats course on the side.

I would actually appreciate a list of resources in Python, that's what I like using most! I have downloaded a copy of "Think Stats", but haven't gone through it yet.
I guess I'm a square, but I'd really prefer not to cheat the rules just because I can probably get away with breaking them.
I am getting "Wrong password" trying with my own phone (iphone 4), using my wifi mac address (all caps, with :)
AFAIK, there aren't any carriers that officially allow tethering without an additional fee or special plan.
$ time seq 5000000 >/dev/null
1.10s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 1.107 total

There, my Mac Mini can push ~5M msgs/second!!1one

Do I get a pony now?

Seriously, what is this doing on HN and what on earth are people discussing?

If you want to brag with benchmarks then how about providing at least a remote clue about what you are measuring...
Because you won't always achieve them. If you value the end result, it will be all the more disappointing if you fail to achieve it.
Get started with Chef: Part one of a tutoring session.
Congrats! However, one thing that these type of articles don't report on is when it doesn't work or not quite as plain sailing. The 'success stories' are rare hence why they make better stories. An article I would like to see would be a compare and contrast, 2 similar products using similar 'lean' strategies, one is successful, and one is not. The compare and contrast narrative would be great for learning.
Why should Google support infinite scrolling? Because all the cool kids are doing it?

I hate infinite scrolling. I don't know why people think it's a good idea. If you like it, reply to this comment and tell me why, because I really, totally don't see the value in it.
Why the lightning plug had to be reversible
There's a great guide on The Verge forums about building a Steam Box on the cheap: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3706718/forget-the-ps4-an...

For all those gamers out there who are familiar with building their own gaming PCs, the Steam Box future is already here. There's currently a huge sale on Steam for games that use controllers. You can make it happen today.

And the value of having a fully functional HTPC cannot be overstated. You can watch any content you want, no compromises. YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, torrents, Usenet, it's all supported.
Nintendo might just be the one game company that can get away with inane DRM clauses because of their ridiculously strong IP (read: exclusive 1st party games and iconic characters).

In a way they're like Disney.
I just remembered a variation on a story in which you declare what your property is worth and get taxed on that. The reason not to lower the price is that anyone can buy it from you at that price.

Maybe you can declare the value of your IP and the government taxes you like 2% on it. I don't think this would really work but I'm tossing it out anyway.
where does the big data and data scientist fit into this .. if you believe it, some such as McKinsey & Co say "The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers and analysts with the skills to understand and make decisions based on the analysis of big data. " http://www.mckinsey.com/Features/Big_Data
I don't doubt what you are saying, but I just wanted to point out one thing: Postgres is amazingly forgiving, and performs incredibly with just basic adjustments to the default configuration. Give it a good amount of memory, and it will handle the vast majority of workloads extremely well. I have been using Postgres basically out of the box for a few years now for Data Warehousing purposes, and its performance is comparable to the tuned-and-managed Oracle servers that I am pulling from.

Reddit obviously is a different scenario, but most people don't work at Reddit.
Having moved 17 times, (3 times since age 30, and another coming in a few weeks), there is tremendous opportunity cost to moving. On the plus side, I am confident that I want to live in coastal California. I am confident I can make friends wherever I am and I enjoy a large network of friends. But I am tired of discovering the best pizza, best grocers, best place to get gas, best routes and detours to work. I am tired of my kids being stressed out in a new school, my wife looking for an optimal work-life balance. I wish I could raise my kids within 1000 miles of any family. I am glad for having lived a varied life so far, but in some ways I am amazed how unvaried varied can be, and the opportunity cost of that variety.
Rent is high and house price is absurd in SF Bay area. But there is a reason for this. You know supply and demand theory. If you want to put up for a longer commute then you can rent a relatively cheaper place in east bay or North bay and travel by BART. So it is not only the price. It is the tech community you will get and friends/connections you make.
Google regularly tests features like these, and has a lot of data with which to make decisions, versus positing that it is simply "ridiculous" that it isn't enabled.
You can still create a free Google Apps account, limited to a single user, through App Engine [1], Google just doesn't want to advertise this fact to everyone.

[1] - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/pVZfdeky-ow...
OK. So you're a wealthy business with a huge talent pool. You discover that your competitor is doing something that might annoy its market and create an opportunity for you.

Do you:

a. Improve your product in the space and make it so amazing that people flock to it and abandon your competitor, or

b. Run a marketing campaign with smear ads?

Hint: if you're a technology company, you choose the first.

I haven't been enthusiastic about Google Shopping in a long time. I'm not surprised they've decided to turn it into a bidding war. But, Microsoft still isn't offering something better.

...Huh. Why does this feel like politics all of a sudden?
Will your own email system have 99.9% uptime, two-step authentication, an amazing web interface, blazing speed, and IMAP/Exchange/POP3 access?
While I have a lot of respect for the SEC's increased crackdown on financial wrongdoing such as insider trading, this really seems like a stretch. Considering how quickly "internal" company memos are publicly disseminated, I don't see how a Facebook post to 200K fans can be considered anything but public.
This advice could probably go without saying, but if your startup is solving a problem, or saving someone time or money, then you definitely don't need bells and whistles to validate the need.

If you can distill your idea to its kernel of truth and launch that, and don't get customers, that's either a big marketing problem, or the market saying it doesn't need your solution. Adding in 'social features', or a more dynamic interface likely won't solve the problem that the product isn't useful to the people who should need it.

At that point, generally, it's a matter of either pivoting the idea into a utile state or moving onto the next idea altogether, and isn't worth fluffing up until you've reached a point of utility enough that at least some people are willing to pay for it.

If, on the other hand, you can get somebody's wallet open, then you should be able to scale it up. If there's one person whose problem you are solving, then there are almost certainly more that you can reach. At that point, it's worth running the idea down as far as you can, but at least you're making some money in the process.
This is fine if you don't know the market.

If you know the market is dying for your product, take your time and build it right the first time. Maybe someone else will get to Techcrunch faster (boohoo), but when they're doing their 3rd rewrite, you'll be sailing towards millions in golden doubloons on your beautifully crafted ship, laughing maniacally all the way.
My number is not from the US. Maybe you are creating the JID using the US country code + the phone number field instead of using the full number field?
I really don't understand the Wii U - the peripheral is basically a gimmick considering how much it weighs and the 3 hour battery life.

Nintendo knows they are going to get fucked in mobile from Android/iPhone games.

What are they going to do? What can they do? I mean aside from creating their own gamephone line, I don't think there is anywhere for them to escape.
Ask HN: Review my wish list side project, WishBooklet
Hello fellow HNers,

The holidays are coming and I thought I'd demonstrated my wish list website as it seems appropriate. Initially, this project started as an entry into a local web app competition(which I did not win). Since then, I've been working on this "side project" on my spare time. I designed it and programmed by myself. For the most part it's functional, except the "crowdfunding" functionality needs some work to fully work as I envisioned it. I am aware Amazon has a similar service, but I don't think they have crowdfunding?

The URL for my websites is http://www.wishbooklet.com/ For invite code you guys can use: pandora

Once you sign up you, I have a bookmarklet at http://www.wishbooklet.com/wish-it-button (still needs work, doesn't look that good, etc.)

I hope to hear your thoughts on it. :)

Thank you!

P.S. I'm looking to possibly moving to the Bay Area next month, if you know anyone hiring let me know, my email is in my profile. :)
If people at Google still know of you I strongly suspect it is because they have read one of your posts here. No offense intended, but this is far from the first time I have read a post by you detailing how you were kicked out of Google for what you claim to be speaking truth to power. It detracts from the very valid points you made earlier in your post.
If the post was available to non-Facebook users (and I assume it was, as that's the default "Public" category behaviour), then the SEC is really picking at straws here.
So that's what the SEC does...
But even Disney is signing deals with Netflix and buying star wars.

As a business, making business decisions, I don't know what Nintendo is thinking.
It's one thing to launch early, simple and test. It's a whole other issue with discovery.

Sure, it's easy to launch a webapp as your startup. But how will your first customers or users discover you?

A lot has been said about launching early or simple or lean. Not enough however, has been said about earliest discovery. It's sure easy to launch a startup to test when you have thousands of followers already. It's a whole other issue when you don't have any followers (not only on twitter, but everywhere on the internet.. the sum total of your audience)
I worked at a Fortune 500 company for five years. Shortly after I was hired, the department I was in got a new department head. He was relatively young. They introduced him and he gave some speech. He talked about setting goals and working his way up from the entry level job he started with.

That fits with something I read eons ago: That the 2% of people with financial goals tend to outperform the other 98% combined.
Not only that, but seeing as the locks don't communicate in any way besides the maintenance port, there's no way to know if they've been tripped without reading them at some regular interval.
It pays to be Geeky
Seriously? You're actually saying that a service[1] with millions of customers and still growing is "already unpopular"?

Show your work, please.

[1] http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/custo...
If I was sure who you were referring to I'd probably be using the arrows, but since I can't I'll just say that mtgox really did not address tptacek's points. Or at least not the main thrust of them which was that this memo was completely unsuited to the RSC at this time.
Just a guess but I think I saw better render script support for image filters mentioned as a recent feature.
Ask HN: Feedback on our startup
We're launching Bitmaker Labs in Toronto, it's a 9-week course focused on teaching beginners how to become web developers:

http://bitmakerlabs.com/

Our first two cohorts are both nearly full and we've had applicants from all over the world, including India, France, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and across Canada and the US.

We'd love any feedback you have on our website/course.
If you have 100Mb/s bandwidth, your theoretical limit (regardless of langauge) is 25600 packets/sec [1] and at roughly 290 (16b) req / chunked-pipelined packet, you are looking at 7.4+m req/s.

Of course, latency will suffer. You can't have both max throughput and min latency. It's a choice to be made.

[1]: assuming 4Kb packets
I decided fairly early on to not use my Google Apps account for my Google+ because I figured that in the future I'd want to have the ability to migrate elsewhere without losing all my Google+ stuff...
I guess. I check it every day. It's true that G+ is driven more by "interest communities" than by "friends and family links". Most of my activity there is reading and occasionally commenting on the posts of people more famous than I. So I think it's fair to say it hasn't achieved Facebook's level of success. Nor, perhaps, will it any time soon.

But again, I check it every day, which is the same thing I do with Facebook. If you want my eyeballs for an ad, either platform provides the same value. I'm probably not typical, but I'm not completely weird either.

I think you can only look at G+ as a success at this point. Just not a success on the scale of Google Search or Facebook.
We wrote [1] really briefly on that exact problem, which was one we faced. I'd like to expand on this, because I think you are 100% right. Launching is only half the battle.

[1] https://zapier.com/blog/2012/04/05/finding-early-customers-w...
Why is this advice so damn hard to follow? I guess it's our ego that stops us from launching before we have something that's fully polished. Or worse, our ego that stops us from ever putting something out in the wild just because it isn't perfect. I guess it's best just to follow the advice of Reid Hoffman, "If your not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." It certainly worked for him...

If it's our ego that stops us, maybe we just need a little assurance that a failure isn't the end of the world. So, has anyone ever been really burned by putting out something that wasn't ready-for primetime?
Clickable: http://bitmakerlabs.com/
I was disappointed that I couldn't play old Wii Virtual Console on the new Wii Touch Screen. You can't even navigate to any of your old games without using using a Wiimote. Why they couldn't put those games in along with the Wii U menu is baffling. Maybe I shouldn't expect it, but it's annoying as heck.
Clickable: http://www.wishbooklet.com/
Okay, one MacGyver solution -

Buy one user account - set up a ton of aliases. Set up filters to Gmail inboxes.

Yeah, that feels dirty... I know.
Growth Hacker of the Century
Congrats, this is another milestone.
Apple May Fall Another 20% on 'Panic Selling': Analyst
I do exactly that, bertjw@regeer.org. I've set up accounts for everyone else in the family, but most if not all just have it set up as a forwarder to another gmail account.
Have you considered using aliases in GApps? Different than the catch all, but allows you to setup specific email addresses. I use them for accounts, newsletters, etc and then create filters and labels in my one apps email.
Given the recent issues with Facebook not showing your updates to all your followers, but to merely a tiny fraction of them, I wonder how that would affect these things.
I've heard great things about this kid. It you're a startup looking for growth, hire him.
Sometimes when reading articles from HN I'll try to guess if the comments will be positive or negative. I guessed that these would be positive. I seem to of been wrong though... It seems like every other day there is an article on HN talking about "google down. no support!" and everyone is always saying the problem with Google products is that if something goes wrong you can't get help. I don't know if they offered 24/7 phone support before but to me, it sounded like this was new and they are focusing on offering a service with support and making sure it stays up and reliable for more serious businesses.
Computing with water droplets
He's hands down the best Growth Hacker I've ever met. He already has job offers from some of the most coveted tech companies, but I would encourage any startup to reach out to him if they want to increase their viral coefficient.
I'm aware of both django and flask, although flask I havent used.
But I was thinking of new, emergent technologies (not necessarily full-stack web frameworks like django), libraries, trends.

Django is already well established, and so is flask.
Straight boss. 10/10.
He is specifically stating that as of right now if you want to use Google AppEngine to send email you need to have a Google Apps account.

So after today (no more free accounts) if I want to set up example.com as a domain to send email from on my Google AppEngine webapp, I will have to fork over X amount of money a year to have those essentially non-existent users that are valid mailboxes.
Censorship is a must, says China's Nobel winner
It's a scam you discovered based on information that Google told you about how their site operates.

I'm not saying this is the best experience but "scam" isn't accurate either.
That is the best thing I have seen all day.
It's a change of two "percentage points," not 2%. With the right vocabulary, there's no ambiguity.
$50 "feels" like a lot because it's been given away free all this time. But our industry has spoiled us. We can hop from one free product to the next free product, but really we just need to determine if that one product is valuable enough to justify paying for it.

In the case of email, it's obviously valuable. While there are other options out there, ultimately you have to determine the cost of researching, testing, setting up, and switching over you and your employees. All this time is spent away from your money making activities.
Hangouts are the killer app of Google+. You're right that the "emergent" part doesn't really work well.

It's a really useful tool that works much better than skyping. I've had heaps friends join Google+ purely to be part of a video chat session we have to catchup.

But there really is a heap of potential here. I'm part of a language-learning study Google+ group that hosts weekly chat sessions. Unfortunately for us, the room is limited to 10 people (and two spots are taken up by the moderators), so most people would miss out.

I wish the group was able to create as many hangout sessions as needed, place a single moderator + native speakers into each session. Would be a seriously killer app among language-learners...

Maybe I should have a look at the API or something :P
I believe that you can accomplish what you need using domain aliases (which google apps for business makes use of). You can have up to 20 domain aliases that all point to one mailbox: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1...
I got the same feeling. Although I agree with some of the points made I think it was the way it was worded and the "-1's" that came off as really distasteful.
Congratulations on the launch -

I had a question though - what if people aren't carrying the stuff they are selling ON them at that time - then it's pointless right? (this is in a regular scenario and not a yard sale) Wouldn't it be much easier to just look for everyone selling an iPhone 5 in my suburb.
Facebook has a significant fraction of the world Internet population (about 41%). Google has far less (about 6%?). Growing as fast as Facebook is great (better than growing more slowly) but the marginal effort to acquire a user is much higher for Facebook than for Google. You can't compare the growth rate of Google+ to Facebook any more than you can compare Google's growth rate to Bing.
No. If your computer needs a restart, or an OS update, or a reformat, or got run over by a car you have downtime.

With Google Apps, you just keep going on your other laptop/tablet/smartphone/friend's computer/etc.
C to English
Does this support multiple people editing in realtime (like shared google docs)?
I read a meme some time back which asked, what is something that everyone has but rarely use it?

Answer: google+
Huh. Just want to point out that one of the main reasons we're using google apps at my company is that I use google apps for hosting my personal email. When it came time to make a decision on that, and I am the one who makes that decision, I chose google apps because it was already familiar to me.

Poor choice, imho. I'm curious what the actual overhead is for people like me. I have 1 account (as in: 1 email address) that is hosted by google apps. I was going to set up an account for one of my other domains, but not for $50/year. (Per account!)

So full snark here, but it was between google apps, and office 365. I chose GA because o my familiarity with it.

But look here, Microsoft's equivalent offering is free: https://domains.live.com/ I wonder what things will look like when we evaluate google apps next year?
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Couldn't you launder them through places like Silk Road? Set up a number of fake buyer/seller accounts and complete fake trades. I think the transactions go through a centralized escrow account which means they'd get mixed up with other people's? If you made your transactions equal in price to those of other users, it would make it pretty difficult to tell how the coins moved in and out.
A good example of when doing things the hard way pays off.

Processing natural language is difficult and not strictly necessary, but doing so is easy to appreciate and has clear benefits.
Only slightly disgusted.
I just read a couple of blog posts saying that there is a 500 user limit per domain on outlook.com. Is that right??
If the government wants to get you they will get you. Thats true on all levels.

The Charlie Moore quote, claiming a facebook post is basically a press release and saying the SEC may need to play catch up is what catches my attention here. I would suggest to play it safe and release a press release as well, but my guess is Hastings knew what he was doing.
Allow me to again share the writeup I did on my Steam Box

http://gist.io/4199804

w1ntermute, I think you've already seen this, but anyway... :)

As mahyarm mentions, NAS work just fine with an HTPC- I've actually installed several games to my NAS via iSCSI.
Per account.
ObamaNotBad.jpg!

We've also had some success with content strategy (blogging, guest blogging etc), but that was really time consuming and more stressful than writing software. Only the committed will prevail in that. Or cheating (like hiring university english students to write articles for you)

Long tail is hit/miss in my opinion. I use adplanning software all the time, and it really is a hit or miss