skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Author fails to make the distinction between two aspect of owning a house: for shelter and as an investment. These are two, although related, distinct aspects.

- Author fails to acknowledge that the point of making money an a house ('using it as investment') hinges on not rising prices, but prices that rise faster than inflation / COL, and/or inflation being above the mortgage rate the house was financed with. So no you're not 'just covering a short position', you're covering a short position and going long at the same time, with the same vehicle. But this is of course where the analogy falls apart. I posit that his analogy is unhelpful in understanding the role of a house in personal wealth management.
I think he did?
maybe the PlanetMoney podcast? The episodes they did with This American Life about the mortgage crisis back in like 2008-2010 were brilliant (imo), and then they bought their own CDO toxic asset in 2010, I think, and reported on it.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/418/t...
It's asking for the address of your website, not your email address (mydomain.com rather than me@mail.com).
It has notably poor performance for virtual machine disk images. These require large amount of in-place changes, which simply isn't what it's good for. I've not tried databases, but I imagine it could be bad for them, for the same reasons.
probably the "worst" joke I've read on HN... but still I can't stop laughing
I don't think that people who buy adult content are weak minded.

I think that they view "amateur" sites as a 'fantasy' portrayal of reality like television. Yes, TV shows and adult sites don't try to break the 4th wall but that's to be expected in a drama.
You should not underestimate the life changing effects (aka disruptive) the availability of cheap smartphones had for large groups of the population in Africa (where many still live on less than $2 a day).

Many for the first time could pay / receive money directly e.g. without a middleman who collects percentages - most people still don't have bank accounts and can now do their payments / get paid via smartphones.

They can now communicate (long distance - private, business, emergency, political), some started new businesses around these smartphones, some became rich (some even billionaires without the sleaze) and can now provide their families with a much more solid basis to survive. There are now more people with access to mobile phones than to electricity in many parts of Africa.

These smartphones are also having an impact on the daily lives of many in developed countries. Many of the smartphone payment systems that are available since recently / will become available soon have been field-tested in Africa.
From the original article:

Our iOS app “Files Pro” [Link] includes support for SkyDrive using the official Live SDK.
A few days ago our last update was rejected by the Apple review team because of the presence of the “Sign Up” button in the Live login authorisation page. According to Apple the presence of this button violates their guideline that[quote from Apple guideline]:

and also:

My iOS app “CloudMusic for SkyDrive” utilizes LiveConnect SDK for iOS to stream user’s audio content to iDevice. I have a “Sign In” button that invokes LiveConnectClient “login” method which shows Windows Live sign-in page in UIWebView. The app was rejected by Apple review team saying that “the log in interface must be native and not a link or a web view.” Is there any other way to login to SkyDrive?

So, my main problem is not just about payment(even though I think it is a problem as well), its more about how Apple wants to get a cut from every single little thing that have the possibility of making money from developers to the point of being [almost] unreasonable.

ah, btw, Windows Store allows 3rd party transaction processor. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj19359...
Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners. Larry Harris. http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructur...

This does a really good job of explaining how having people fulfilling different roles viz trader, dealer, investor results in being able to buy and sell whatever you want whenever you want. I wish I could send a copy to everyone who thinks flipping second-hand goods on Craigslist is arbitrage.
amazon + MS + dropbox should just bring the case to justice department.
You need 768MB of RAM for Android 4, and realistically a decent GPU. 256MB and the most basic $0.50 ARM chipset from Qualcomm [1][2] will get you up and running on Android 2.x.

1 - http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=a7225&c=qualcomm...
2 - http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/576095640/MSM7225.html
Remove Malicious code from Wordpress or Joomla
That is already happening but more along the lines of 1-2 of those charging stations per "village".
GraphBuilder a Java library for constructing graphs
Update on VLC's Fundraiser for Windows 8, RT and Phone
But no enforcement in the quiet zones? Then that is a simple failure of service level agreement and should be pursued through the normal complaint procedures. If an organisation says they do something, then they should do it!
Most major ad networks do not allow adult content on the pages where they advertise. This means that you lose both access to quality ads (that bring the user experience you desire) and you lose the higher CPM/CPC of better networks. This means that monetization is the difficult aspect, and "usability hell" is brought by oversaturation with ads to compensate.
Would be awesome if the article actually represents Sweden in any way. It doesn't. It takes a few fringe institutions and proposals and pass them as some kind of Swedish norm. They are not. It is true that gender equality is hotly debated and sought after here, but this article does not reflect reality.

The party Gudrun Schyman represents had 0.40% of the vote 2010; not passing the 4% bar for a mandate in the parliament.
Tanja Bergkvist is a vocal anti-feminist, and not just "a mother".
Your point is different than his, in that it's not actually a "disruptive technology", as there was no incumbent technology to disrupt. To your point - maybe it's disrupting the old dumbphones in the same way the iPhone did in the western world? Or simply disrupting the old ways of communicating (by mail, etc)?

Also, his point was that the "disruptive" word is what doesn't sound right here, as it sounds like "phones are disrupting the lives of Africans", which has a completely different meaning. I also kind of disagree with him here, because it's pretty obvious that Jimmy Wales was talking about technological disruption, and how it's a good thing, and not about "ruining people's lives", which I guess it's what someone else could understand from this title, but doesn't sound very likely.
YouPorn actually is a pretty complex (and scalable) system, you can check Eric's slides which he gave about this on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/shurastik/eric2012-12337839
Hi Jeff,

Thanks for pointing out virt-sandbox. I wasn't aware of it until now; it looks pretty interesting. Unfortunately the apps I would most like to sandbox, like pdf readers, don't seem likely to work with this approach, since it precludes interaction with X windows.

virt-sandbox does not seem to be available on my Linux distribution (SuSE), so, at least for me, it trivially can't replace jails :) On a more serious note, though, jails seem more appropriate for sandboxing daemon processes than for running one-off commands. I don't think virt-sandbox was designed for this role. In that sense, SELinux is more of a replacement for jails than virt-sandbox.
"life changing [..] (aka disruptive)"

Nope. Everything disruptive is life changing, but not everything life changing is disruptive.

1. To throw into confusion or disorder
2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of
3. To break or burst

The rest of your post may be true, but is utterly besides that point.
hiho, basically box2d-jquery is a jquery wrapper around box2dweb, it's quite simple to use

$("#some_element").box2d({'y-velocity':10});

it was fun to code, basically it

* creates absolute positioned clones of your selected elements https://gist.github.com/4051578
* and animates them usind CSS3 transforms / translate / rotate
* the values are calculated using box2dweb

i created it as i sponsor a javascript/jquery conference in my hometown (we need more dev-conferences here) and wanted to create something cool.

please fork it on github (zlib license) https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/box2d-jquery

update: more examples linked from github Readme.md
I'm recalling this from memory, but if I remember correctly, Apple's argument for the 30% charge when they first launched the app store is that traditionally you'd have to publish through a telco, and telcos used to charge way more than 50% of the revenue in order to place your application through their portal. Not sure how true that is but now, because of Apple, 30% seems to be the new standard.
What is the effect of later rounds of funding? Do you find that if there is a founder dispute/falling out that it usually happens before a Series A? If thats not the case, then would this mean that you are also encouraging companies to go for smaller rounds?
We tried aromatherapy and soothing water sounds - they helped immensely. Our productivity went up. Particularly effective were gingerbread aroma and brook sounds.
It is. And they don't even have to buy it for each home, as it's pretty pretty expensive for an average African, but at least for say one village. Certainly much better than travelling even longer distances. Africans will improve this one step at a time.
This isn't a "new way" for artists to make money. This is how one-hit wonders bank off their popular songs. Hasn't changed.
Exactly, we can consider that the 200k unit is not the same item as the 500k unit. Indeed, the price of "de luxe" units will decrease (but maybe there were not enough of them in the first place) and, unfortunately (for poorer people), the price of the "affordable" unit will raise.
Yes, very well done. I shall use it this week in teaching for the giggle factor. Seems to work perfectly in Opera 12.11 on Ubuntu Linux
I'm only saying this from experience developing storage systems that are yet unreleased. You can predict the lifespan of the SSD in the storage system if you give up many of the functions of the SSD controller and put them in software RAID.

If you're talking about most incredibly naive SSD storage systems available today (excluding violin memory and maybe xtreme/pure), then I agree with you.
I saw that presentation last week. What I found even more awesome than the presentation itself was that the presenters were Peter Samson and Steve Russell, the two MIT hackers who had written the software originally.
Avoiding Internet Surveillance/DPI
One does not invest in markets. One invests in assets, preferably productive assets.

If I drink milk, I can either continue to buy it at the store, or buy a cow. By investing in a milk-producing asset, I've made myself market neutral to milk prices. I'm pretty sure that a single cow would actually be more milk than I would consume, so I run into the inconvenience of the asset not trading in odd lots.

Housing has the nice feature that it can be conveniently bought and sold in units that match my consumption (unlike half-cows). I think the analogy of being short housing is apt as well, because housing is something I am pretty much certain to consume.
I have never seen an "X is down" link on Hacker News whose discussion has enriched my life. The Facebook one earlier turned into linking "lolz" Anonymous tweets and implying they were responsible, along with (sorry) a lot of armchair "investigation" by people who just discovered WHOIS last week.

Can we stop submitting these? This is three today.
Oh yeah. The problem is, that the questioner normally does not know, what his/her quick question means in terms of time lost for the maker (be it a writer, coder, anyone who makes things).

And in my experience educating them does not help, as long, as the managers are resistant. I had a lot experiences, were the managers came again and again with this sort of behavior and whatever I did to educate (or show) people, that I am in a "do not disturb"-moment was fruitless. Headphones == tap on shoulder. Hood of jacket == tap on shoulder + strange look.

If the culture, set by managers does not value makers, you are doomed. And educating managers, who live and breath a meeting, question work-style is really not easy. If a manger has never been a maker, you are lost. You won't change their minds.

Really, me? I have given up... as sad as it is.
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BioLite is amazing. In particular, I love this image: http://biolitestove.com/Media/HomeStove/Stories/Ghana-DSC_10...
If we're simulation, we're almost certainly emergent phenomena (laws of physics as we discovered them doesn't say anything about humans, they operate on much lower level of abstraction). Those, that run our simulation may even don't know we're there.

Imagine intelligent life evolved in huge game of life grid (it's possible assuming inteligence is turing-complete). We may look at the strange patterns and never know they are intelligent, never mind communicating with them, or decoding what they're up to from the patterns.
Probably what I'd write, for better or worse:

--snip--

Hi Recruiter,

Sorry if I came across as a pest - I really didn't mean to. Starting early was just an idea, I had no idea there might be legal issues with that. You can imagine that being in a visa situation like I am can make these matters rather urgent and stressful. I'd still really like to take the job, which I'm a great fit for. Hopefully you can empathize with my situation and we can get this thing done.

Let me know if you can still make this happen.

Thanks,

Throwaway

--snip--
Black Ink beta, we need your feedback
Hi, I’m Géraldine, co-founder of Bleank, an independent development studio. For the past two years we’ve been working on a generative art oriented painting program, Black Ink. The development is self-funded and we really need feedback, ideas and support from the community.

We’re still in beta but we already have a lot of very innovative features you won’t find in other digital painting solutions. And just last week, we released a very exciting new feature that allows you to customize your brushes in any way you like.
We need as much feedback as possible so if you’d like to give Black Ink a try, there is a free demo version waiting for you on our website: http://www.bleank.com/BlackInk-a115.html

For more details about the new version I’m also posting our latest press release: http://forum.bleank.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=43

Thank you.
Géraldine.
The opinion piece by Christina Hoff Sommers, a well known critic of contemporary feminism, has little basis in fact and has almost nothing to do with hacking. Boys will be boys is a terrible way to argue about this important issue. I am disappointed to see it here.
Yeah, it can't. I'm going with ZFS for the same reason.
Hey - I didn't see the post, as I was out on Monday and Sunday. If you're still interested in doing something, shoot me an email at contact.benaiahmischenko@gmail.com.
>it is useful to be nearby people you are working on a project with

I can think of a few reasons why I disagree with this.
- Your peak productivity can only be reached if you are not disturbed every five minutes from the work you are doing on your computer. We all know that focus is important, and indeed it is hard to focus in a noisy environment. I remember that the guys at GitHub have some kind of "no live talk" rule : if you need to speak to someone, do it on the internal chat room, even if he's litterally 1 meter away from you. It has several advantages : you can choose when you want to read messages and when you want to reply to them. If you're in the middle of a hardcore debugging session, you are free to continue. It also has the big advantage that chat can be recorded and reviewed and searched at a later date : live speech can't — or at least not easily.
- On the other hand, if you're in the phase of a project where you need a lot of interaction with other people and where it would be to cumbersome to do it via chat, like when you're trying to design your architecture, or when trying to agree on rules, specs, etc... Then just set up a meeting : that's what they are for.
This book is an absolute treasure, even with it's age, is still one of the best descriptions of troff/nroff.

One thing that I do find interesting, is that the book (on text processing, no less), that is 680 pages x 30 lines x 80 columns (plus some minimal line art) - which, in theory, is around 1.6 megabytes of data, weighs in at 28 MBytes in this PDF.

Regardless of the Irony, great book which the authors clearly put blood, sweat and tears into.
It doesn't deflate the article's premise.

There are 2 ways we can see your example. Living in 400sq m house when you only need 40sq m could be:

1) equivalent to living in a 40sq m apartment and owning a separate ~300 sq m house elsewhere but not renting it. Well, of course in this case you're losing money as long as you don't rent it. Even if the real estate prices go up and you finally sell the house years later, you need also to subtract the money you threw away by not renting it, or say, compare to the situation you didn't buy the extra house and instead invested the money on Treasuries.

2) Going back to one 400sq m house. Now of course one could claim one's using and enjoying the extra-space beyond the 40sq m. Later, after the housing price goes up, you sell it and buy a 40sq m apartment; but this means you're cutting down on your monthly consumption of housing. So this doesn't deflate the article's premise either.
The "Apple Tax" - America's costly obsession
Fully with you, except I LOL'ed about one thing: an assembler that only makes TWO passes? Ha hah! ;)

Yeah, I'm learning new tricks and have a newfound appreciation for those wireheads who always seemed hell bent on optimizing the crap out of code that I had already deployed .. definitely, returning to the 8bit mindset has made me a much, much better programmer. Whereas 'good enough' works most of the time, 95%, I've developed another sense, maybe borne from operating at the Mhz level, for when things could be 'just a little bit tighter', and I think that all came from a return to the Oric-1 and 6502 assembly ..

And yeah, totally with you on the Android phone being slow point of view. It infuririates me to no end to return to an Android project after 2 or 3 years and realize "oh shit, I have to be responsible for ALL of this crappy pile of code, just to get something up on the screen". Its one of the reasons I moved on from pure 100% Native development, to developing with things like MOAI (which I love) .. one set of code that runs on iOS/Android/Mac/Win/Linux/Chrome/&etc. is far better than having to have a full repository for each platform, different languages, different text files, all for doing the same purpose: putting a button up on the screen, or whatever.

A return to the 8bit scene can give even the most proud, arrogant developer, a reality adjustment to just how devolved we have become .. I yearn for a mobile platform that ships with its own compiler, or multi-pass assembler, at the very least .. ;)
Stephen Hawking wins £1.8m physics prize
I used to have that attitude, and Python is still my main language. But I do more and more stuff in shell now. Every project I write has a whole bunch of shell snippets now, which saves a ton of code and lowers the barrier to automation considerably.

If you're trying to write shell scripts in Python, they're going to be 3-5x longer. Bash is a higher level language than Python. Every tool has its place, and bash and Python are complementary.

Also I realize there is some useless ceremony in Python standard practice. Do you want to know what my Python test runner looks like now?

$ find . -name \*_test.py | sh -x -e

That's it... no BS. I don't know what people are using in the Python world these days but some of it has drifted toward "framework land".

Also, it's not very hard to make this parallel, whereas it is somewhat annoying in Python. And you don't have to worry about global variables polluting each other -- tests stay independent.

I test a big part of my C/C++ code with shell scripts as well.

So basically I find it very helpful to think of yourself as writing shell utilities in Python. Python's not your world. It's part of your world.
It's cool that they share this data, but that design reminds of the bad examples Edward Tufte includes in his The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Yeah I've been there since the GP32 days, and have Pandora #008 (the eighth one to ship) so I'm kinda lucky that way .. and yeah, the emu guys are really key to the Pandora scene, a bunch of them are still kicking out titles and optimizing things extremely tightly.

The Pandora really is a fabulous machine - maybe its too expensive - but to the HN crowd that shouldn't matter much. Its an amazing amount of power in my pocket, and with MOAI now onboard, I have the ability to use it to develop apps for Android and iOS and Windows, and so on, simply by ssh'ing to it and firing up vim. ;)
This is awesome. I'd really like for Android to become more accessible as a whole, because iOS is definitely better in that regard.
[disclaimer: I work on the Dart VM]

Dart is actually not statically typed: in production mode (which is default) type annotations are ignored completely, in checked mode they are translated to runtime type guards and not checked globally&statically during compilation. For more details please take a look at: http://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-dart-types/

Published benchmark scores are coming from the production mode. Even if you remove all type annotations performance will not change a bit.

In fact by design Dart VM does not use any information provided in type annotations to perform optimizations.
Microsoft Windows has already gone in same way. Piracy has actually made Windows so popular and inevitable also. You can not ignore and you can not live without Windows, atleast for now.
Here in India, computing is a Windows though the most of the PC are running on pirated Windows.
Piracy has it won benefits.
It is very interesting because it is a story about the longevity of hardware and software and how, in the end, the decision whether a platform is useful or not is up to the USER and nobody else.
That's not as true as it was.

10 years ago touring was purely a means to promote record sales and there were maybe a dozen acts who made money doing it (Madonna, the Rolling Stones and the like). Now it's flipping and touring is profitable for a lot more acts than it used to be.
Why not tell him the reasons, rather than saying "reasons exist, go look for them yourself"?
Thank you! I'd never heard of sox and it looks potentially useful and a lot of fun to play around with.