skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same line of thinking as SilasX. Conceptually, the change is that instead of deferring work to the last moment available, it is now done immediately. This is the very difference between lazy and eager computation. As I'm not a Haskeller, I didn't immediately realize the strong connotation with language features. Sorry for the confusion.
Researchers find crippling flaws in GPS using only $2500 equipment
Really I wish the Microsoft Surface keyboard case was available for iPad. Microsoft Surface sucks but the keyboard is the bomb
I'm surprised we don't see more discussion of house prices on sites such as this. In my opinion it is THE issue affecting our generation.

Specifically for HN, the high cost of housing severely restricts entrepreneurship. If you are paying 50% of your income on a rent or mortgage, you are of course less likely to start a business, and the cost of doing that business in terms of employees salaries and commercial rents make it less viable.

Also consider that your suppliers, and their suppliers, and their suppliers ad infinitum, all have the same high costs ultimately derived from high housing costs for their employees.

This all adds up across the country and the whole economy is made less competitive and agile as a result. With lower housing costs there would certainly be less unemployment.

The sad thing is that the even intelligent people are duped into believing the myth that high house prices are good for them. Clearly lower prices mean more disposable income, which is usually a good thing? Clearly high house prices barely benefit anyone as we all need a house, and the next house you buy would likely have gone up by a greater price than the one you have now? And yet we persist - 'we MUST get on the housing ladder' and we blame those nasty banks because 'they aren't lending any more' when all they are doing is scaling back lending multiples from the absurd back to the ridiculous.

All that high house prices achieve is to keep young people into debt serfdom, keeping us on a treadmill servicing massive mortgages for the same bricks our parents bought for 20% of the price. We really could be out doing something much more worthwhile.

Edit - you may wish to read this to put the madness of this credit bubble into perspective:
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=5...
Maybe they're sleeping on the job.
Didn't think about that. The second part is still valid though : having the electricity is the exception rather than the norm in most parts of Africa.
First off, sure, there are circumstances that make it difficult to seek alternative shelters, but the root poster in this thread said "the alternatives are not for everyone." If you have have kids, you're not gonna be couch surfing. The idea, however, is that for some people, alternative housing is definitely an option, and that point seems perfectly valid.

Secondly, there's no need to be negative in your reply. Some people might have different goals than you and it's not very kind to disparage them for that. There are people that don't continue their genetic lineage and have fulfilling lives. Perhaps you're just exaggerating to make a point, or the humor didn't quite convey over text and I'm just taking it too literally, but I don't see what you're trying to achieve with that harshness.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=is+down+site%3Anews.ycombina...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499893
Placing paths manually or having them auto-generated by the map editor is standard practice. It's mostly because it would be expensive/silly to calculate at runtime -- calculate it when it changes, save it in a format bots can parse; the bot AI still makes decisions based on that path. How is that different from first calculating it?
...can't Wigner's "unreasonable effectiveness" be explained in some way via the anthropic principle? (there should be a way to reason that intelligent life like us could only have evolved in an universe where predictions about physical systems can be made considering only a small subset of the initial condition variables, and also that "abstract mathematical ideas" could only appear in someone's mind from a sort of intuition of the universe's laws, so that the mathematicians' intuition can't come "out of the void" but is actually subconsciously "inspired" by the laws of nature at some level and this is why it explains them, and that what "feels" "simple and elegant" to a mathematician actually feels this way because it's in accordance with the universal laws of nature by witch his mind also works...)
>You can die alone in your office.

Unless you are RMS, you know, or otherwise really, really difficult to replace, the boss is unlikely to let you 'establish residence' in your office. The tax implications alone are complex. insurance, housing law, zoning law, man, it's a pain in the ass. I mean, I always was /that guy/ and I was a little annoyed the boss wouldn't let me live in the office, but now that I am the boss? I see why. It's cheaper to buy a cheap apartment than to deal with the bullshit.

that said, if I was single, I'd probably get a nice live-work place and let the chips fall where they may come audit time, just 'cause I think it'd be really cool and because some of those issues (like the 'establishing a residence' - you really don't want to have to call the sheriff and go through evictions when you fire the guy.) go away if the owner is the employee, too. but as I'm not single, yeah, having that separation of space (and having "my space") is pretty nice, too.
They did a bitchin' job on the website design. Absolutely nailed it, the deme page (https://www.singly.com/demo) literally made me say... "Wow".
As a matter of fact, freely usable Tyrian gfx are also available at that blog :)

http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/04/free-game-graphics-tyrian-...
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There is no percentage. Before you ship a product for the first time, it should do what is supposed to do. For example a todo list should be able to manage tasks. If it does that you can ship. Is it speedy, may be not, that is not essential.

Identify your core offer (easy to use todo list). Once you cover it you can ship. Everything else (marketing, security etc) can be done afterwards. + In the mean time you will gather feedback.
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Russia backs down on proposals to regulate the Internet
The idea seems to be, from within the simulation, detect artifacts of the simulation.

Seems like a sensible enough proposal to me. (That doesn't mean I think they will succeed).
It's a tough situation, but you may have come on a bit strong. By my count, you left 4 emails, once voice-mail, and had one conversation by phone in the span of less than 4 business days.

At this point, I don't think the relationship with that company is salvageable. I would try to move on. I assume you already turned down the other job offers? Depending on how you did it, you couldn't lose anything by emailing them again and letting them know you're still open to any opportunities that may be available.
Compiling the Absurd Box Scores from Space Jam
Marketplace on NPR interviewed an economist researching charity fundraising. Some highlights from the interview:

* 1-to-1 match works well, but increasing the match to 2-1 or 3-1 doesn't do any additional good.

* Raffles. If you're serious about raising money, offer people a prize. And just by doing that you end up increasing gifts by as much as 100 percent.

* "Once-and-done" policy: Since charities know it's annoying to constantly get solicitations in the mail, they give you a choice: if you send in some money today, and check a box opting out, we'll never bother you again. People who are given the once and done proposition, they not only give more money in that particular fund-raising drive, but they do not check the box. And in future months they end up giving more money that people who never received the once-and-done proposition.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/freakonomics-radio/wh...
Word about this problem is trickling out, slowly—I like to cite Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City and Ryan Avent's The Gated City on the subject—but I think a lot of people simply don't understand supply and demand.

One time in Seattle I was driving home a friend, who was in law school, and she complained that there was too much construction in the city, and that construction made it less affordable. I said that more units make the city less affordable than it would be otherwise, and she said that they were tearing down "affordable" housing to put up housing for "rich people."

I tried to explain that, if given space that had 12 units now has 200, the overall affordability rises, but she totally didn't or wouldn't get that point. It was a bit like the scene where the Martian and man meet in The Martian Chronicles. Except that I'm right and she isn't. But until more people connect supply restrictions with cost, we won't get (much) improvement.

(Side note: I just read this: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/12/10/brooklyn_is_c... on the subject.)
Brooklyn needs more housing units. So do many other places.
As a counterpoint, this letter from songwriter Tom Waits written over 10 years ago is a solid rebuttal to the practice of artists making money from commercials while giving away their copyrights for free. Here it goes - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/12/its-virus.html
It might be that at any given point of time, there are a lot of people who want or need to learn Unix. I already know Python, but I think there is value in learning the fundamentals of the Unix shell programs. I've spent the first five years of my career on Windows, am now on Linux, and this book looks like a useful resource.
The problem with applying that (very reasonable, in my opinion) argument to this discussion is that it invokes assumptions of benevolence, or even planning and/or intent.

Those things are largely irrelevant to the question of simulation. There should be no implicit assumption that a simulation must have any sort of "deity" behind it. Nothing with intent, purpose, planning, ethics, etc. It seems much more reasonable to me that such a simulation, if it is in fact the case, 1) arose "naturally", whatever that may mean, and 2) does not care about us. This universe, simulated or otherwise, does not care about humans. Why should we assume the proposed simulation does?
His previous comment history gives an idea as to why.

But yes, when I saw the title, I thought of Microsoft immediately. And looking at Singly's website, it seems their AppFabric product is very similar to some of the functions Microsoft's product offers. I'm really not sure what Singly was thinking.
I worked a lot of long hours last week to 977's '80s channel.

I don't always listen to '80s pop, but when I do, it's when I am doing the long late night hours. A habit that goes back to college.

"Land of Confusion" coming on the stream was a highlight of one of the nights. The more tired I got, the more the music was working for me,
not a fan of each those, but Java. I think it is easier to learn and especially as you come from python you will know how to avoid common misunderstandings. If you learn java, please, please, please don't learn from "thinking in java". This is one of the books with huge influence which is totally wrong in 99% of the times.
Lessons: From Side-Project to First Paying Customer
Offensive "Hack Back" Actions are High-Risk
Hours?! I want that to be minutes. Lemme know anything that could be smoother at k@singly.com :)
You won't learn finance specifics from those books, but they're all great recommendations.

In particular, everyone in this community should read When Genius Failed as a cautionary tale. It had a big impact on my world view. Here's a case where the best and brightest formed an accurate, contrarian hypothesis and executed on it perfectly, but were then blinded by their own cleverness and succumbed to hubris (the partners were leveraging their personal wealth to increase their stakes in their fund) and lost it all.
Trust me, I run a pyramid marketing scheme
So, what if BMW kicked the BMWCCA a few bills to make a "parody" video of their own?
Sorta lost me with these two bits.

Via.Me* is hands down the best for power users that need to post images to both Twitter and Facebook. Your photos also show up Pinterest-like on the app’s web page for leisurely desktop viewing. Below is Via.Me in a Twitter card.

* Disclosure: I work on the API at Via.Me.

I mean, why even?
No, but Apple might.
the downside comes when you need to raise money from VCs. if the larger VC -- which made a proxy investment via the angel scout -- does not invest in you again, it becomes a red flag for other investors. this grants the larger VC more leverage during negotiations because you effectively need the VC to participate, or else risk scaring away other VCs. this assumes the other VCs know the angel scout is a proxy for the larger VC.
Often, the initial distributor of a torrent has purchased it as well.

Is this really the case. Based on my, admittedly very limited, outsider view of the scene most distributors get their copy via review copies sent to the press or it's an inside job by someone working for one of the companies in the production chain. Having a pirate copy up before something is available in the store is a big deal in the pirate scene and that rather precludes buying a copy.
No it doesn't. I hate PHP with a passion, but there are lots of PHP devs out there who will welcome it if your project solves some problem they have, and they will contribute.

Don't change the language of your project just because of popularity. Use node, python, ruby only if the end result will be a significantly better then the current is. When I say significantly I mean compared to the time you will spend to convert it.

In terms, of end users, those that will actually use the dashboard. They don't care what language you use.
Okay, let's do some math. Apple has paid $6.5b to developers [1], which would make the App Store gross $9.3b. This means their operating budget is $2.8b.

About 49% of app revenue comes from IAP [3] rather than paid downloads, so let's assume that's still the case in our flat-fee world. We still need to come up with 51% ($1.4b) of our budget from paid downloads.

Users have downloaded 35 billion apps [1], but the free-paid ratio is somewhere between 11:1 to 15:1 [2]. This would put the number of paid downloads between 2.3b and 3b.

Result: Apple charges a flat fee between $.47-$.61 per paid app to maintain their current operating budget. A developer who is trying to stay below the $1 magical price point (most developers) is now making 50c or so, whereas they were making 70c before. Does this still sound like a good idea to you?

Just thinking it through logically, a flat fee is effectively a decrease on expensive purchases, and (if the books are to be balanced) must be matched by an increase on cheap purchases.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/10/23/apple-announces-35-bi...

[2] http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2012/09/18/distimo-u-s-consu...

[3] http://gigaom.com/2011/01/07/iphone-in-app-purchases-almost-...
Thank you. I can't count the times I've tried to explain this to people. The purpose of amazon's site is not that visitors think it's pretty, or even easy to use. It's to get you to buy as much as possible. And there's convincing evidence that it's quite successful in fulfilling that purpose.

Why do supermarkets put the most frequently sold items at the back, when it would be so much easier for customers if they were right by the entrance?
Netflix culture - seems a great place to work
> It seems like webOS, Meego, bada, and all these other OS's are going to end up in the footnotes of the smartphone revolution

If bada is on that list, so should Windows Phone be:

http://www.neowin.net/news/ouch-bada-os-market-share-larger-...
I honestly appreciate the efforts of Swedish people to promote equality, but they're a little misguided. Boys and girls just are different, and it's not only a matter of culture; in fact, I've always thought that cultural differences between men and women arose almost exclusively from biological differences that result in different behaviours (of course, each culture evolves those role differences in varied ways). Sociology sure has better insight to that than me.

The thing is, there are a lot of gender-neutral toys and games. Just not every one is. It's OK to me: the point of equality is not to remove differences, but to avoid mistreat and discrimination because of them.
That was the most fascinating thing I barely understood a word of that I read in a long time. Thanks!
Same here. Windows 8.
But that last portion "(net of interest and other costs)" is my argument. Interest, property taxes, capital gains taxes, real estate agent fees are all apart of the cost of owning and selling the asset and it usually adds up to quite a bit. Within the first 5 years even with a 3.5% loan you pay around 20% of your mortgage balance just in interest.
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There's a hidden MacBook Air in there too.
He shouldn't have to think about clearing an application's cache. Seriously, if that's something he's thinking about, someone, somewhere along the line, screwed up.
I heartily agree with this article - it's a bit of sanity that is much needed with all the push lately for extreme gender neutrality. The Swedish principles are currently being discussed here in Germany as well and are proving popular (though it most likely won't be as extreme for a while).

The flip side to all of this of course is the silly "LEGO Girl" product where they apparently forget that girls can (and do) build just as well as boys and instead market little Lego kitchens and household appliances instead of cool bricks.

But swinging from one sexist extreme to the other is not the way to go.
Just buy a different device. Jailbreaking isn't the best option as one day, they might just find a way of making it impossible.
Quick answers :

Technical analysis can give you a false sense of 'knowledge' - when you may only be picking up patterns in randomness. But it's very seductive in its certitude.

Gold : If the 'store of value' argument is obvious to you, it's also obvious to a lot of other people. The price of gold tends to balance out the two camps : Anyone who sells you gold believes (naturally) that the price is higher than can be justified (vs. other assets). Gold can certainly go up and down from here. People also used to believe that houses were a fantastic store of value ('everyone has to live somewhere') - that was only 6 years ago.

The typical trader's wisdom is that if a taxi driver (or some other version of 'the man in the street') offers an opinion about a 'sure thing' - run in the opposite direction. Currently, taxi drivers love gold. A few years ago, they had friends flipping condos. Before that it was internet stocks, etc...
I don't mean to be snarky, but you gave the answer in your question. "I have no proven idea and no team".

You did not mention a lack of skills or capital. If you have no team at this point, that means you will need a proven idea to convert your 'network' into believing team members. Eventually, you will need people skills to win your team/network (see "How to Win Friends and Influence People", required reading). This is barring making one of those best friends during some shared experience. You can do this side-by-side (note: it's not hard, just requires dedication. Which is hard for some people, I know). Which leaves...

How do I get a proven idea? (Read Paul Graham essays + Lean Startup)

I don't think any of the solutions you provided directly address that issue. Sure, do what you need to in order to survive/thrive. But I don't think those solutions are the most efficient ways to get a proven idea.

Also, there are different levels of ideas. One idea might require $100 million in capital and a large team, but it revolving around a new technology. Another might be a simple web app to make 10 people's live's easier/better that you can do in 4 hours/week. Start with the simple one if you don't think you're ready yet.
Except I think this is a terrible thing to highlight the differences. The user should never have to think about clearing the application cache, or what that even means, and in my experience on Android, you don't have to. I can't think of a single time I've had to outside of trying to reproduce a bug for my own app. The fact that his father had to think about it indicates that someone, somewhere along the line screwed up.
The button says "Go to [website]" but points to the same page.

I think this has a lot of potential, but it should be easier to offer better UI controls and testing. For example, I may want users to sign into a dummmy account or see specific pages. The home page of a website is rarely good enough to get meaningful impressions.
Here in Australia I'm quite bullish about commercial property. The residential market is garbage because people buy emotionally, and the market is therefore full of irrational actors. But the commercial market is boring and therefore full of investors who logically value any potential assets and don't pay too much for them (meaning you can still find decent returns).

Being a commercial land owner is great, as you've found yourself on the receiving end of.

And by the same token, your business customers no doubt pay you for a service and at the end of each month have nothing tangible to keep, which is kind of the same deal.

But I'll keep renting my residential house, let the owner subsidise my rent by taking a loss (negative gearing), and put my savings into commercial property where I receive enough to cover the interest on the loan and then some.
A lot of people think their house is their pension and they will downsize, but few people do.

A lot of old people simply don't want to leave their home, and of those that do, most people will prefer to stay in the same area near lifelong friends and family. As area tends to be a bigger element of the price than the size of the house, it's difficult to be release that much capital after taxes, costs of moving.

Also note that your parents lived through a massive and unprecedented credit bubble. Just because this happened over the last generation does not mean it will continue to happen. Quite the opposite, we'll be unwinding the excesss of that generation over the next 10-20 years.
Stanford CS184 - Startup Engineering (Winter 2013)
THe website will be startup.stanford.edu (it's not live yet)
"Any company that cannot discover an intrusion for a year sufficiently knows neither themselves, nor their enemy, and is not in a strong position to win a battle by going on the offensive against them."

Well that makes sense. If you've been pwned, it's likely that there are many aspects of the situation you don't understand, even after you realize the fact of your pwnage. Who can say that your "offensive" actions aren't exactly what your opponent desires, as he has led you to take part in his attacks on other victims? Do you consent that those victims "hack back" against your assets in response to your misguided actions?

It seems like we've heard about this sort of tactic for some time. It's like many other proposed IT "solutions" in that it's much easier to market than to provide.