skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, that is certainly relevant!

I tried to keep this writeup focused on comparing callback functions to coroutine event loops, especially regarding the differences in how they deal with state.

But I'll add a reference to task.js at the end, once I've tried it out.
For what it's worth, I just implemented this on the staging environment of https://www.biglittlepond.com. The one-line `render` call for the most recently collected items dropped from ~700 ms to ~50 ms. 25 items per page. This will be going into the production release later this week.

(This doesn't affect every page load, because I was caching the entire rendered view, as well, but for cache-rebuilds when an item is changed or added, this is -stellar-). Thanks, Nate.
At some point, the overhead cost of managing people whose labor is worth less than $7.25/hour is the predominant cost in employing them--at which point, you might as well just hire the person doing the oversight to do their job, or replace their labor with capital.

Minimum wage laws, at some level, prohibit useful employment. But every day the pool of people whose labor is effectively worthless--zero marginal product people, as Tyler Cowen calls them--is growing larger. Very few people, left or right, seem to want to confront this fact. Mostly because it's unpalatable: when horses' labor became uneconomic, we just turned them to glue. What do we do with people?
It's true. Now that he's wandered into a snowy wasteland from which nobody ever emerges, surely his San Francisco network will never get in touch with him again; even if they could (I guess there's always telegraphs and morse code here?), they'll be afraid of catching Yetis from him. Chicago has Yetis like NYC and SF have bedbugs.
Note: A New, Simple Encoding for Objects
And what role will Helena Bonham Carter play? ...they come as a pair, right?
Can they request chargebacks through their respective credit card companies? That seems like it's the easiest way to get their money back, although it's a bit old at this point.
The singularity was around before Kurzweil. Long before. He's a charlatan and has sullied the whole notion of the singularity. It bums me out every time I hear his name attached to the term.
Ask HN: How is the startup scene in China/Taiwan? Resources?
I'm reaching out to the community and those that are familiar with the startup scene in China/Taiwan. Are there alot of opportunities for English speakers that knows Mandarin as well? I'm an UI Designer to be specific.

Lately, I am getting the urge to know the country where I was born in but had always been hesitant since I know nothing about getting a job (and situation) in a startup there. So I'm wondering if anyone on HN know about how the startup scene is like in China/Taiwan, where are some good resources/people to talk to about it. Would appreciate if you could provide any pointers!

PS: I know Singapore is another hotspot but I am aiming for Taiwan / China specifically. I grew up in Malaysia and visited Singapore many times, but it still didn't have the 'home' feeling like Taiwan did (even though I never lived in Taiwan for an extended period of time. It's something about the atmosphere…)
Neat!

An arms race is shaping up between Kayak and Google.
That's the idealized assumption in a simple supply/demand, all-else-equal model, but there's actually little empirical evidence that minimum wages, at least at the level contemplated in the U.S., actually do have an impact on unemployment in the world world, except on part-time work by teenagers. So economists' consensus has weakened on that from what it was if you had polled them 30-40 years ago.

One among many possible positive effects of higher minimum wages is to shift the threshold at which it becomes profitable to upgrade low-tech processes to computerized ones, which can modernize sectors of the economy, and create some highly paid jobs [1]. Another positive effect is to redistribute more money to people in the remaining low-end jobs. But economies are complex and full of feedback loops, so those aren't really well established either.

[1] As an AI researcher, of course, this benefits me: humans undercutting us is one of our top problems with deploying research in the real world.
I think my statement was poorly worded. "These folks" = the project people.

In other words, they're obligated to refund $170k that they don't have anymore.

I've edited to reflect that.
Why is it implausible?
Not intentionally...can you unpack that a bit?
"Please phrase your blogpost title in the form of a search query string"
Correct. Which is why I prefaced my observation with "if [...]".

Obviously, if that isn't the case, then my point is moot.
Maybe without the ugly BlackBerry logo on the front, taking up most of the phone bezel.
The rare earth situation has already been solved. Mining has restarted in the US and US will likely be self-sufficient in REE in 2 years.
Yay! That's awesome. Thanks for that.
Apparently Kickstarter's terms do state that project creators are legally responsible for fulfilling their pledge rewards, though. If those aren't fulfilled, then backers are entitled to refunds from the project creator (at least as far as Kickstarter is concerned).

This seems to be meant to give some legal pressure on project creators without punishing them too much if their projects fail for whatever reason. It's interesting though that many projects (like this one) promise rewards that explicitly require the completion of their project, in effect making them completely liable for refunds.
Enjoyed this post :D
There is really no meaning of life.

All we do is an absurd, is chasing after the wind, the idea is not novel, read the book of Ecclesiastes to realize this question has been asked (and partially answered) many times by humans before.
Apart from syntax, I fail to see how this code:

getPhotos tags =
let photoList = send (lift requestTag tags) in
let photoSizes = send (lift requestOneFrom photoList) in
lift sizesToPhoto photoSizes

...is any clearer than the equivalent callback code:

function getPhoto(tag, handlerCallback) {
asyncGet(requestTag(tag), function(photoList) {
asyncGet(requestOneFrom(photoList), function(photoSizes) {
handlerCallback(sizesToPhoto(photoSizes));
});
});

In particular, you still have to nest the elm signals in 'let ... in' blocks.
How important is uptime to your start up?
Hi everyone - I'm an 8th grade student. I recently created iDMS for the students at my school. I've also created CiteIt (http://citeit.mihirgarimella.com) and a handful of other applications.

I know it's kind of useless for everyone else, but any feedback on iDMS would be great. Thanks!
So, Tumblr is down.
So you're only buying Apple products using the "Retina" branding from here on out? That is a pretty bizarre claim when you think about it for a number of reasons.
dig +trace www.tumblr.com

*snip*

tumblr.com. 300 IN SOA pdns1.ultradns.net. hostmaster.tumblr.com. 2012121602 86400 7200 604800 300
;; Received 108 bytes from 204.74.108.1#53(204.74.108.1) in 21 ms

Looks like their dns is down alright. You could try in your hosts file:

72.32.231.8 www.tumblr.com tumblr.com

The ip is from their whois info and appears to be giving the We're sorry error message.
You can't do chargebacks on purchases from 10 months ago.
Comparing Apples to Googles (to Bings to MapQuests)
Honestly, that makes it super easy to search for.
Is there a implementation on top of Google Voice, or a completely separate product?
So when backing something on Kickstarter you are guaranteed to get either the reward or your money back? I didn't know that.
I thought it was funny. I'd rather see funny comments, than no comments at all.
I agree with you, but for native development, I think I'd rather use a native language---something compiled like Go or D. I do love C# and Python for my own home projects, but for apps that I distribute to others, I don't want to have to ship half of my computer with my app. I'd like to separate logic from UI, write the shared logic, add a platform-specific UI (calling native OS APIs), add a few platform-specific features (provided by the native OS) so no platform-exclusive competitor has any advantage over me, compile and statically-link (only what I need, not a massive runtime) and ship. Like language localization, this process would be repeated for each attractive platform---small, fast, fully native on each platform but with most of the code shared across platforms.

You can do this today with C, but I'd sure rather work in something more modern but which didn't require dragging around half an OS worth of runtime infrastructure. Something more like Go or D, I imagine, if they ever get any traction as client ("desktop") languages.
If this piece is displayed publicly, such that anyone who is willing can work for minimum wage, what sort of artful, philosophical statement would be made when one enterprising individual attaches a solar powered motor to the crank?
I've never thought about that last point, but it makes a lot of sense. If it's the difference between getting most of the money or none of it, and the creators can afford to make up the difference, then in a lot of cases it might be rational to do that. That has to have happened at some point.
this could have some very scary implications for crowdfunding

One of the really interesting things about the entire kickstarter model has been how it doesn't seem so scary to people offering up a kickstarter project. I remember raising the first round of funding at a startup and how "real" it suddenly got when you had a big chunk of someone else's money and some serious expectations there. But I knew people in the dot-com days who got funded and almost immediately blew through their series A on re-designing their workspace and buying awesome chairs and video games for the cafeteria.

One of those weird childhood experiences that I got while growing up in Las Vegas was seeing people suddenly come into what they consider a "lot" of money. Some folks would get meticulous and figure out how long they could make it cover their current expenses, some would spend it in lavishly stupid ways for cheap thrills. The trick is that when you're walking around the models at a car dealership and you realize you could write a check for any car they had on the lot with no haggling, you don't succumb to that. You find the place were you assume you have no money available and work out what the best value is. Easy to say, hard to do.

A friend of mine from Sun cashed out his stock and asked me what he should go out and buy. I suggested he pay off his house. That would translate the money into a monthly 'benefit' in the form of one less bill to pay, and it would save him a ton over the life of the loan which seemed like a pretty reasonable rate of return. He did, and thought it was a really boring use of the windfall. Until 2001.
How about finding a co-founder to handle those things, while you handle development and architecture?
I know nothing about the situation, but I would hesitate to attribute to malice that which can easily be explained by inexperience.
The Industry 12 Days of Christmas Design Giveaway
Maybe true for a sole founder.

I was the technical co-founder. My job was to code, work with a few other people who code, and be the overall passionate guy about the quality of the code. I find it helps to have a stake holder in this position, you end up with better code, and someone who is going to take true ownership of the code.

My co-founder was a true marketing/selling machine. So it worked out for us I think.
[Ask HN] Does mashable.com use wordpress.org?
I was checking mashable.com and I was wondering if the news website uses wordpress.org as their framework, like for example techcrunch.com. How can I find this out?
Could someone refresh my memory on how Tumblr makes its revenue?
Real Mobile Innovation Might Be Happening Outside of Cupertino
Security Notifications for Google Accounts
I somewhat agree to an extent, my take on things is that a successful startup needs two founders; a technical founder to do the programming and a business development founder who possess's high amounts of confidence and a vision to push both the development and end goal of the startup.

Having said that, I'm currently a solo entrepreneur trying to balance work, life and startup all by my lonesome self because I don't know who or where to ask for help with my startup ideas with spending a lot of money.
What did you try in? MonoDevelop? I downloaded MonoDevelop and the trail for ANDROID this weekend and was able to make an android app with no issues for free. The limit basically being that I could only use the emulator and not test on a real device. I'm not sure how they limit the mac version though. If you want to check it out maybe try out the iOS or android trial which definitely lets you build.

Also you could try MonoMac which is almost the same thing, and is OpenSource. The Xamarin version is supposed to have Wider API coverage and do a bit more (for the cost).
REBOL 3 Source Code Released
Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (2008)
I struggle to think of a task that needs to be done by a human being that wouldn't be worth at least that.

Even hiring someone who was unskilled to do basic chores around my house would be freeing time up for me either to work at a higher rate (thus profit?) or gives me valuable relaxation time.
Unfortunately, I think that statement is written too loosely to hold up in court. It will be too easy for a lawyer to say "my client is both willing and able to fulfill these rewards, he just needs more time/money/etc". Unless there are more specific constraints in the full TOS (which I haven't looked at), this statement won't offer much protection to the backers.
I seriously had problems with my slowly but strongly built network when I moved from Boston to Charlotte. I still have plenty of references and people I can ask for help and technical problems, but in terms of finding permanent jobs or consulting gigs, location matters.
There are lots of jobs armless people can't perform, and hence cannot be hired for.
This reminds me of Microsof's "A year in the like" from last year...it seems the site is down so you cant make new ones.

It was kind of funny/corny. Here's a youtube video of someone who uploaded theirs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owCojITbuSo

I thought that the juxtaposition of the music with some of the content it chooses can be funny at times.
Offtopic: how did you get a .pk domain?
Mormons love to be asked this question
Http://www.monsters.fm/pages/heardonmonsters.html
Pure CSS, uses transparent PNG's... Can't say that I am not disappointed the whole thing wasn't used cleverly styled DIV's, I reckon it can be done.
Ask HN: Dealing with unsupportive parents - creating startup
HN-

I've been telling myself for many years now I've wanted to create a company of my own and get out of the corporate misery.

I am a software developer by trade, and have worked with a few startups in the past.

Recently (past 5 months) I have been working on an idea, that is already a proven business model, and working on everything myself from the business end to the technical (dev) end.

I've saved up atleast 6 months of money, in order to live at home, and work on my product. My parents do not want this and think I should get a product together first and then quit ... which seems the most logical until..

You factor in:
-I'm working full time (40 hours) + doing 12-15 hours of commuting per week . This part will only get worse as I am given more responsibility at work and need to work on call.

My question for you HN individuals is - how have you dealt with unsupportive (close) individuals to you Friends, family, etc. ?
Repo: https://github.com/rebol/r3
Onpage: Some messages cannot wait
The World's 5 Rarest Animals [video]
If you really want to know why don't you find out and then come back to tell us instead of making fatuous comments
That's pretty bad.

Admittedly, they update their zone very frequently (every time a user signs up/changes name/deletes themselves), but you'd think they would have an independent secondary DNS provider somewhere.
Why does it have to be solar powered?
CloudFlare. Seriously guys.
It could be the dawn of art gallery tennis.
This project will definitely have bad luck when it comes to google search results.
Sponsored posts, premium themes, promoted posts. Pretty sure they're far from profitable, but they're bringing some revenue in.

http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-make-money

http://www.businessinsider.com/tumblr-revenues-2012-9
Show HN: "Follow Me: Social Media Marketing Unleashed" Free Today At Amazon.com
The weight of data
They did look into it. But there was no arrest warrant issued so there mustn't have been much evidence.

He is acting erratically because he believes they want to take him in for questioning and suddenly find a reason to detain him indefinitely without evidence - as they have done with some of his associates (so he claims).
Grab a free copy, some interesting stuff in there...
> nothing can travel faster than light

That is a tautology (because the inverse is a paradox: If you prove something has travelled faster than light, that would invalidate the current definition of "faster.")
I have demanded a full refund!
To add to the excellent points made by the sibling comments, here's another reason why this logic doesn't necessarily apply:

Consider that, as the wage at the bottom end decreases, the supply of labor may actually increase, because people with low income may be looking for a second (or third) job, trying to work more hours to make up for their low income. In other words, the standard textbook picture of how supply and demand work need not apply to labor.

When that happens, the market for labor may never clear despite falling wages. And then everybody loses - even capitalists would lose, because low wages means low income means low spending means low revenue for firms means low profits for capitalists.
OK, that makes sense. I mean, for an independent developer, that sucks, because it's honestly not worth $399 to me (I'd be happy to pay for it in a corporate setting like we do for MonoTouch, because of the support stuff, but for personal-project stuff I just can't rationalize it), but I get the reasoning.

Is the licensing for MonoMac/MacCore remaining as-is?
Who’s Following Your Family?
A class action lawsuit over $200,000?

This is why crowdfunding is a bad idea. Even if you are a scam artist (which I am not saying potential defendant is).
Fantastic advice. I think you are definitely correct. Luckily I am design/product who can code (a bit), plus the added business and sales ability.
- Brand spotlights

- Sponsored radar posts (ads)

- Promoted posts (for all users)

- Premium theme shared revenue

- Selling access to data
One reason also very much overlooked is that the entire nuclear industry makes the majority of its money from fuel fabrication. Making the bundles of fuel rods for PWRs and BWRs is a recurring, reliable source of income for the lifetime of the plant and any innovation into thorium or other models would take away that cash cow.
Part of the text of your citation is available on google books. It seems like an academic memoir to me - lots of personal accounts, some quotes from period books on cheating, little else. Certainly not scientific. Here's a quote:

>>>Certainly not all - and probably not most - college students cheated and plagiarized.

It has neither data nor studies. It is Sue Carter Simmons' professional opinion.

That said, I agree with you that modern kids don't necessarily cheat more than non-modern kids do. I agree that parts of theologic's comment were directed at "modern kids" and the teachers of these modern kids. I can see how a reasonable person (you, stdbrouw) could infer that theologic was saying that modern kids have different cheating habits than non-modern kids. I submit that there is another reasonable person (myself) that does not infer that theologic was saying that modern kids have different cheating habits than non-modern kids. Let me explain:

>>> The best way to slow cheating is to not give an opportunity to cheat in the first place

This is the last line of theologic's comment. The proposed "best way to slow cheating" works equally well for modern and non-modern kids, it does not target either group.

The other references to modern kids inherently do not explicitly say anything about non-modern kids. There is no comparison or contrast, which leaves room for you and I to make our opposing inferences.

To be fair, if theologic had said something explicit about non-modern kids, I would tend to agree with your inference.
Well yeah, that's because most people who are making minimum wage are... teenagers working part-time. At its current level the US minimum wage has very little impact on anything, positive or negative. Very few jobs are worth so little, and most of them are being worked by immigrants who get paid under-the-table anyways.
Go here:

http://startupdigest.com

and subscribe to your location specific startup newsletters.
Let's give some stuff away! Any predications on who's gonna win? It's the time of giving.
Just for what it's worth, and speaking as an Olark employee, we don't, and don't plan to. But I totally get your concerns, and healthy skepticism is valuable.
But you can use Flash to build iOS applications, though. (Or, rather, ActionScript; there are a number of different tools that allow this.)
My first thought on reading this was, "Ah. 3825 works for one of them."
Thank you for taking the time to provide these tips and links. Lots of good info here that I'm sure I'll be referring back to in the not too distant future.
Ah, yes, of course... 'Learning To Be Me' is Egan's story, and the 'Ndoli Device' or 'Ndoli Jewel' appears in some of Egan's other stories as well. (I vaguely recall seeing the same term used elsewhere, maybe a Bear book, and thought it might be a specific allusion back to either Egan or some other common precursor.)
Given the option to legally cut their lower-tier employees' wages to zero tomorrow, I wonder how many companies would do so, and still expect those people to show up for work?

When horses' labor became uneconomic, we just turned them to glue. What do we do with people?

Force companies to pay a living wage.
For analytics and tag generation of libraries hosted by CDNJS, take a look at: http://www.scriptselect.com It's a weekend project I did a couple of weeks ago using d3 and backbone. You can select libraries, view selected library size, and copy the generated script tags for the libraries you've selected. Just a little tool to make using CDNJS a little more convenient. If there's enough demand, I'll add other CDNs.

Thanks to Ryan, Thomas, and CloudFlare for a very cool service!
Qt has amazing API documentation.
Even if I wasn't too late, that doesn't seem like it would be very nice. I can see how people may feel differently, but I think Kickstarter held up their end of the deal. You paid Kickstarter to fund this project and that's what they did.
I couldn't get bit.ly to replicate the behavior that the article claimed: shortening .gov URLs using 1.usa.gov. Anyone else have any luck?
Politics and the decline of a leading American STEM magnet school
Well, there is a difference between getting your money back and being entitled to your money back...
That hasn't stopped FTL travel from being a mainstay of science fiction, which is my point.
Cowboy style? Do you actually believe this? On what basis are you suggesting that medical errors are related to the reckless behaviour of doctors? Do you have some secret research that goes against the current thinking on medical errors and how they are system problems, not related to a given individual? Do you have any evidence that subservience to mythical machines will improve health care? Do you work in healthcare? Do you deal with doctors and patients?