skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes a high tenant turnover. From what I've seen, the opposite is true. I know people with downtown apartments that have had them since the 80s and only pay a couple of hundred bucks a month. It's difficult to evict someone; for example, if you buy a house that is rented and you want to move in yourself, you either need to wait most of a year or pay up $15,000 to the tenant, depending on their circumstances (if they have dependents who are old people or children in school, for example). If you buy property as an investment and want to evict the current tenants to charge a higher rent, you'd better a) have evidence they're breaking the lease and b) be prepared for a long appeals process.
China changes patent law in fight for cheaper drugs
Show HN: Video of Using the Sort-of-DIY Sit-Stand Treadmill Desk
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Did you mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXiiaprv3do ? ;)
Interesting anyway, if it's real. Is there a way to obtain the sourcecode or binaries anywhere?
Searching around, I find quite a lot of pages that mention NeXT's implementation of the OpenStep API for HP-UX, but none that mention that it's only the non-GUI parts. Are you sure?
> I work on Hadoop, and we do dip into assembly sometimes. It's very rare. One example is the CRC calculating code in HDFS.

Why aren't you using compiler vector operations for such case?

On the project I used to work on, we were building the infrastructure to perform real time data analysis for the data coming straight out of the accelerator.

We have written custom memory allocators, our own network stack and protocols, measured and optimized every operation in the years before the accelerator went live.

The code is massively parallel in core and cluster distributed.

No extra need for Assembly.
The freedom to do what you wish with your body is a pretty gigantic positive.

Also there's the pleasure of smoking weed for those who are into it. What's the positive affect french fries have on society?
Yes, there is a demo. It's in the header of the GitHub repository page.

I guess I should include a link the `README.md` file.
I'm in the wrong field..
Relevant: http://www.al6400.com/blog/2006/07/10/a-penny-doubled-everyd...
what is the software stack you're using? thank you.
The way I read it, he's referring to communication channels needed for everyone to be on the same page (see Metcalfe's law, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfes_law). Traditionally, with a homogeneous group of people, the count of communication channels will be O(n^2), as you can see in the images at the top of the wikipedia article, because everyone needs to talk to everyone else.

In this case, it's not homogeneous; there are n startups and m partners, but if every partner needs to know what's going on with every startup, you still have O(mn) communication channels. If, for example, you assigned n/m startups to each partner, the total communication channels needed would reduce to O(m+n). I believe pg is referring to something along those lines when he says he'd like to make it unnecessary for each partner to know what each startup is doing.
I was just thinking about this today. To interview a potential co-founder I'd have a meal with the person and their SO. Then I'd observe the dynamic between them. Does the potential co-founder treat the SO poorly? Or is it reversed? Ideally they treat each other well. But there's more subtle hints to observe. Do they interrupt each other? If so what's the fallout?

The point is to assess the person's "people skills." I think "people skills" or in general "emotional maturity" is by far the most important factor in someone you need to work with on an intense level. Be that co-founder, SO etc.
This is really far from true. There's a difference between the fact that anyone who really wants cannabis can get it, and the idea that it is very easy to get. Cigarettes are easy to get. Alcohol is easy to get. At most times of day, if I want a bottle of whisky or vodka, I can walk into a 7-11 and pick it up. I have only a vague idea of how I'd acquire an 8th.

(It is easier in Chicago for teenagers to get alcohol than weed; you just pay people on the street to get it for you. No, you cannot walk up to a random street person in Chicago and buy weed.)
I have no experience making millions of dollars from eBooks, but I can report that the final section is incorrect. I have sold books on leanpub.com to technically savvy users who apparently do pay for ebooks.

Twice I have tried to give away ebooks here on HN, and both times there were people who chose to pay even though the content was available free in PDF, iBook, and Kindle formats.
I don't think he's saying it's a bad thing. Sheesh.
This is one of those ideas that you wish someone executed but don't want to dedicate whole 2--5 years to it yourself.
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This is something I've always wondered about. If, as an example, you were moving from Seattle to SF and you told prospective employers you were looking for a salary of 137k from a prior salary of 95k based on cost of living data do you have any hope of landing a job with that expectation?

I'd be interested in hearing the experiences of anyone who has made a move like that and if they felt their increase in salary was on par, above, or below the change in cost of living.
In any case, hiding BitCoin should be much easier than hiding gold.
Could you explain the reasoning behind this statement?
People intoxicated with cannabis may be overestimating their impairment because smoking cannabis is a crime, which is a factor that is cancelled out by legalization. I know from hanging out with smokers that concern about degree of impairment tends to come up only when contact with law enforcement is a possibility.
Who uses a text editor that inserts whitespace into HTML? I am aware that some editors like to show indentation levels in HTML code, for various reasons, but for me HTML code is always more readable if it has no extra whitespace at all. Whitespace is not meaningful in HTML, and I always set my text editor (I have used various brands of text editor over the years) so that my HTML output has no extra whitespace. Why use an editor that adds whitespace in the first place?

AFTER EDIT: TazeTSchnitzel asks a fair question. I put each new major element on a new line. In general, I try to make paragraphs look like paragraphs, headings look like headings, and so on, with just newline whitespace but without leading whitespace before elements (which has annoyed me for the last few weeks in a website updating project I was working on). Thanks for asking the clarifying question.

FURTHER EDIT: Yes, thanks for the statement that indentation shows nested structure (which is what I guessed is the usual rationale for extra whitespace in HTML code). Despite that obviously sensible practice (which, after all, leads to the MEANINGFUL white space in Python code), I have seen plenty of examples of HTML pages that have unmatched tags even though they have so much whitespace that the "view source" view of the page is mostly off to the right of my screen. Agreeing that being able to view source code structure is important, may I suggest that as one reason to like Notepad++ as one of the many editor choices available to persons who write code? In the recent project I worked on updating, the original programmers had left many unmatched tags and inconsistent structures in the code, and I was able to strip out all the extraneous code AND fix the structure by using Notepad++ to find (for example) the beginning and ending div elements surrounding big, complicated blocks of code. Notepad++ shows code structure with structure lines overlaid on the raw source code view.
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This is actually a pretty interesting series of historical events period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Recreational_use_in_Chin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
From the original discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860729 there were two questions I want to address:

1. Is this a replacement for exercising or taking a break from work?

No! It is a replacement for me sitting on my ass when I do work. Exercise and taking breaks are good things and I should do more of both!

2. Surely you can't type reliably?

My wife took this video on my phone, to show that I can type and mouse reasonably comfortably. (No, I don't usually have five Emacs buffers filled with Hipster Ipsum text; this is a stand-in for actual code.)

Finally, note that there is a video of me transforming the desk to sitting here, so you see how easy it is: http://peterarm.tumblr.com/post/37062068688/transform-to-sit...
I don't know that it applies here, but sometimes it is better to not have a feature at all than to have it badly.
I just don't understand why, given all the other problems we have, marijuana is important enough to prohibit even if there were some benefit to doing so. It's clearly not a terrible scourge, even with zero benefit ascribed to reducing the scale of drug war, enforcement costs, civil liberties, civil war in Mexico, huge prison population, etc.

Especially once you factor in all the costs of prohibition, it makes no sense. If marijuana were legal today, it wouldn't be worth prohibiting; at most it might be worth requiring standard disclosures of THC percentages and maybe restricting to 18+, and specific driving or other professional restrictions.

Because it's banned, the whole issue gets attention way out of proportion to the actual importance.
"I would like to see a policy change that reduces drug use, especially by young people whose brain structures are still forming."

Legalization does that:

http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/28/study-says-its-easier-for-t...

http://ftp.iza.org/dp6592.pdf
One other nice part about supplying it as a big tiff is that you can push out a PNG and then with a little CSS you end up with a sprite sheet. I bought the colored ones: would be awesome if they came with a CSS file.
It would be rare to find someone who wanted to smoke pot and couldn't find some to buy. But, it must be said that legalization would increase bith the number of users as well as the total amount.

It legalization in some states is to be enacted, I would think that an accompanying set of regulations about where and how much can be used. The first problem is driving under influence, but then there is also the need for employers to be able to enforce drag-free workplaces ( current drug tests measure any usage, not just a current level of intoxication). then there's acceptable places of use - like cigarettes, most people won't want to eat a meal with someone taking up at the table next to them.

Finally, on the issue of taxation and importation - if you want to get the economic benefits then you need to get all protective and prevent imports,a nd you need to have a framework of regulating the strength so that people can get a consistent dose, in the same way you know how much two beers is going to affect you.

Ultimately prohibition isn't really working, but lurching to the other extreme quickly could have a lot of issues as well, which would be more likely to bring back the regulations? A gradual decriminlisation, accompanied with regulations on consumption and funding of education and health programs from the taxation revenue would be the best way to go.
we're seeing research into meth stopping major diseases

Citation?
I joined in 2006, and remember when it looked like that!
The phase portion isn't actually just the imaginary part, it's just the piece of information lost when one goes from real+imag -> magnitude, i.e. it's the argument of the complex number.
I think 50 is even a large number. YC's real value to investors is selectivity. As long YC maintains that brand, investors will continue to have a YC-biased perception making it easier for these startups to raise funding. The same selectivity makes getting into YC enticing as it validates them and their ideas. I'm sure the reason behind the cutback has been scalability ( I made that comment before and it made PG defensive a bit) however, the move ensures the longevity of YC's mystique.
I assume by decreasing the amount of startups interviewed in order to re-interview a few of the startups, you guys believe that you make more mistakes in the interview process than in the application review process. That is kind of surprising.
Have you tried setting navigator.media.enabled in about:config to true? This seems to be necessary in some versions of FF
Once I learned Python, Java and C++ took a backseat for me on anything that doesn't need to be fairly low level. Even for stuff that is low level I have learned enough of the python-c api to connect things up when I need to interface with c/c++ code. That's just me though... I write a lot of quick data processing code that would be a lot of string manipulation mess in those languages.

For writing operating systems, browsers, and other serious apps c/c++ is pretty much universal.
Is there any scientific evidence to suggest that marijuana use among young people is any more harmful than for other age groups? Or are claims like "I have seen too many people..." just a case of observation bias?
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artisticTalent = function(howMuchYouPractice, howAwareYouAreOfTheWorld);
I think not.

The language is too big [it's always odd to see some people say things like "the language is still too big", as if some recent effort has succeeded in making the language somewhat smaller, but not small enough... every recent effort has actually made the language bigger]

There are too many ways to write bad code and too few ways to navigate bad code. It's hard enough to pick up a big C# program and figure out what it does ... C++ is not easier.

I'm not sure why there's all this excitement over bit twiddling... every language lets you twiddle bits. I can only assume the cool feature here is mislabeled, and the authors are really excited about memory twiddling. Fair enough. It's fun to write code that touches data structures at a byte level. But it's not fun to read/fix someone's buggy byte manipulation code. If you're not writing a device driver, or your own compression library, then you should not do this.

Now, I am a big fan of people learning low-level system details, provided they do it with some small C program, or by doing a project for their OS or compilers class, or by maybe working on some open source project.

But anyone who chooses C++ when he doesn't need it reminds me of the kid who, rather than painting on paper, decides to paint on the carpet. You could do it. It's also probably a lot of fun. There's even the remote possibility that you'll improve the carpet. But you probably won't. You'll probably just make a mess. And it won't be fun to clean it up.
I wish there existed a popular config format that was somewhere between YAML and JSON. In my current nodejs project I sometimes use js files for config because js supports comments and is more lenient on syntax then JSON. I prefer using { } to group objects, rather then YAML indenting, but otherwise am okay with YAML and only don't use it because the parser is not part of Javascript or nodejs.
So people don't smoke and drive because they don't want to be caught doing something illegal. Seeing as DUI is still illegal in Washington, I don't see how this changes anything.

Unless you're saying that because cannabis is legal I'm going to think that a cop is more likely to let me go, or be less likely to check me or what? The legality of cannabis use doesn't change the likelihood of me getting pulled over, no?

Or am I misunderstanding where you're coming from?
Looks to me to be FPse [1] running on a rooted NST [2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emulator.f...

[2] To root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1675706 . It's not a simple process, sadly.
You write you code like this?

<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8><title>super-readable HTML</title></head><body><div id=container><h1>Title</h1><p>Lorem ipsum dolar sit amet.</p><hr><ul><li>List item</li><li>List item</li></ul><div id=main><div id=sidebar><ul><li>Sidebar item</li><li>Item 2</li></div><div id=main><div id=top><img src=file.png alt=""> This is some text</div><div id=form><form action=/><input type=text name=something><input type=submit></form></div><div id=content><div class=widget><div class=widgettop>thing</div><button class=widgetbtn>button</button></div></div></div></div></body></html>
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Market is semi-legal. How do you gain traction? Network effects (that whole traction thing (re: gaming/tuning Craiglist)), liability, etc.

Retrospective analysis biases "initial" perceptions post-facto.
I think that there's an element of that. People who are just joining yc for the name are there for the wrong reason.
So apparently in 2006 Germany passed an Equal Treatment Act [1], which prevents discrimination on various grounds, including racial or ethnic origin, sex or sexual orientation, disability and age. All of these are things that a photograph could tell you about. I'd be curious if in practice this has resulted in employees winning cases against employees. If so, and there's no legitimate employment-related reason to need a picture (such as when hiring a model), then if I were an employer I would hesitate to request one.

I also happen to believe that it's ethically correct and coincidentally, economically optimal to not discriminate on the basis of those factors, in addition to it being the law in Germany (and the US, where I'm from, apart from sexual orientation in some places). Avoiding asking for a picture is a good signal that you don't intend to discriminate in that way.

If there's a good argument for why a picture is helpful for making better employment decisions, I'd love to hear it.

[1] http://www.bakermckenzie.com/files/Uploads/Documents/Support...
Still, it doesn't have much of a presence in the Ask HN: "Who's Hiring" threads. Nor Dice.com or Monster...
Explicit is better than implicit. If you have to explain something you've probably written the JSON wrong.

You can always do this:

{
'people' : 10,
'desc': 'People who will attend'
}
I'm based in Europe and that's not really a far flung, rural region overall, but I have yet to receive a single inquiry through HN. On the other hand, just because I'm posting here as a "seeker" doesn't mean I'm actually out of a job - it just means I'd love to do some work within the HN community.

It might be interesting to know how many people actually got projects or jobs through this page. That would make it easier to benchmark my own listing.

For what it's worth, I don't believe there is any developer shortage at all, except maybe occasionally in unstable and hip niches.
Humans are capable of incredible self-deception a la Robert Trivers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/the-folly-of-...

You're most likely fighting your genes (or perhaps you're a mutant): maybe you'll win and maybe you won't. Here the _you_ I refer to here is that part which believes it has free will and can override the other (genetic) part.
Sometimes I'll upvote things, especially icon set which I don't have a need for right that second, as an ad-hoc bookmark so I can find it later under my "saved stories".
I'm calling it hyperindividualism and it's a distinctly American phenomenon. Everyone is reaching for fame and celebrity status but it's no longer attached to the prerequisite of accomplishment and distinction in one's work. Rather than hope to master a craft, people now hope to jump straight to the "being famous" part.
Maybe the other people in the networking class were either all very smart students that anyone would struggle to keep up with, or maybe they all had prior exposure to networking principles (eg. from LAN gaming).
Or how they treat the staff at a dinner. Many other routes vs making some people uncomfortable that you may "require" a dinner with a SO. If they don't have a SO, what, invite a friend to an interview?
>But, it must be said that legalization would increase bith the number of users as well as the total amount.

Again, that has not been the case when decriminalization of drugs has happened in other places.

Also, at least in the case of Washington, all of these issues are already accounted for (due to medical use laws, or new legislation) or are going to be accounted for by the board setup to oversee cannabis sales. (For brevity, instead of me listing them, just check the Wikipedia page and the bill itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Initiative_502#Provi...

>you need to have a framework of regulating the strength so that people can get a consistent dose, in the same way you know how much two beers is going to affect you.

Heh, I think the customers and providers will be wanting that as much as the government does. Ultimately though, I think it will vary because it's not like alcohol. Various types of alcohols have slightly different buzzes, but cannabis has a lot more components that vary more from type to type.
Thanks for that, appreciate the advice.
Under current definitions, any use = abuse.

He's just expecting usage to rise if it's legal.
You probably heard about it post-yc. It was initially a thing for renting out airbeds (airbedandbreakfast.com)
These APIs aren't available to iOS Safari, unfortunately.
Sub reddits are just Usenet on the web but worse, rather than anything social.

This may be why you are being downvoted, but:

Maybe if Reddit added a profile page with some social stuff (for paying users?) they could destroy Facebook.

Is of course very interesting, and probably much discussed at Reddit. Anonymity issues/pseudonyms is probably a determinant factor.
Many of these "burnouts" you associate with using cannabis are probably self-medicating, undiagnosed ADHD patients. There are many more adults with ADHD than are diagnosed, and of those diagnosed many are not on medication. Many mental problems are associated with substance abuse.

This contributes to the unfair characterization that it is the drugs themselves that are the primary problem.
I had some room-mates that were abusing weed often, which made reconsider my previous support for legalization. Or at least it should be very heavily regulated if legalized.

I learned the following from observation and having frank conversations with them (before that I expected recreational marijuana use to be like alcohol use):

* Weed is addictive, probably on the level of cigarettes. Sure plenty of people have tried tobacco and don't have the habit, but for people who develop it may be pretty hard to quit.

* People high on weed seem more pleasant and predictable than drunk people.

* Withdrawal seems to be unpleasant. Paranoia and restlessness.

* Decreasing returns - its harder to get high after a while, making you smoke more.

* They all admitted they feel damaged from continuous use - their thinking ability diminished after a few years and the habit costs them plenty of money. One girl smoked every day, even though she has reduced her use significantly and doesn't get high any more.

I really want a balanced approach to this. While not like heroin or cocaine, cannabis is definitely a drug. While banning its use is counterproductive, legalization shouldn't be done in a way encouraging use or minimizing the real dangers. People should be in the least informed before making a responsible choice. Maybe putting warning labels, banning use in public and banning advertisements in a good complement to a legalization.
It used to be "sleep on the floor during conferences on air mattresses, with the host providing airbeds". I personally would have had a hard time extrapolating from "surge capacity for huge numbers of people during events" to "routine spare-room or whole-house rental", which seems a lot more like homaway/vrbo/etc. to me., a good business. The former is more like couchsurfing combined with the Red Cross, and IMO not good as a business.