skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Condos built at breakneck pace to satisfy demand driven largely by spec rather than need, it's kind of hard to think of those as assets right now (figuratively speaking, of course). The biggest problem is that 'always-rising value' part - that was a complete myth, at least at the pace that was being seen and assumed would continue.

Businesses probably are fundamentally riskier, but there's probably a power distribution in there somewhere, where a few pay off like mad and offset everything else. I'm not advocating irresponsibly handing out business loans or anything like that, but if a bank has the choice between investing in a risky mortgage or a risky business, I guess I would hope they'd pick the business. Then again, I'm not really interested in buying a house anytime soon.
you're completely ignoring my original point. government money comes from somewhere.
I'd recommend a basic course on economics before going off on details.
http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf
I wonder if there are more parrot owners or oil painters? And which group requires the most help?

using https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal, 'parrot help' reported 58 searches in february and a search volume of 320.

'oil painting help' was also search 58 times in February, but only had a search volume of 73.

Based on those numbers, I'd assume that the parrot site is a bigger niche and should make more money.
I love Ubuntu on the server side, but on the desktop it always feels unfinished and I usually have to hack around to get something to work. I'm at the point in my life where futzing around to fix the basics isn't much fun.

OS X is polished and works really well. Sure, I have issues with it and Apple's control fetish, but since leaving Windows and Red Hat/Gentoo/Ubuntu/Debian I've been very happy.
He committed suicide at the age of 44 by shooting himself in the heart in Angeles National Forest in 1993.

This is a story with a sad ending. I wonder why he did it?
Congrats! However, Seems somewhat similar to ZumoDrive.
30% cut to Apple isn't a micropayment, which I define as tolerating small amounts without getting killed on overhead. You could just charge their credit card and get better rates. I wonder if they'll block services like http://tipjoy.com from working on the iphone.

This sounds like an awesome release though.
I broke one by accident when I was around 15, the total amount is about the size of a penny because the liquid is heavy and doesn't form a nice 'bubble' like water does.

IIRC I used a paper towel (whilst wearing rubber gloves, with the windows all open) to absorb the mercury and slid it into a plastic bottle and bagged it like 10 times before I went outside to make sure I wasn't exposed too long.

From my understanding they recommend all the precautions, not because like one drop will kill you, but because "it's better safe than sorry". You have an entire lifetime, just like you shouldn't be exposed to a huge dose of radiation, you shouldn't expose yourself to a huge dose of mercury, because fish contain mercury (and my lack of eating fish has likely balanced out any mercury I was actually ever exposed to) and if you eat tons of fish, sucking on broken thermometers and breaking florescent bulbs might just get enough mercury into you to make you nuts... although if you're purposefully exposing yourself to raw mercury to begin with I believe it's probably a moot point.
Students send weather balloon plus camera up to 100k feet.
My algorithm: pick the team with the highest seed. In the case of a tie, alphabetical order by city name.
Why we have difficulty recognizing faces in photo negatives
Whoosh.

Doing something is completely different than knowing about something. Parenting is likely the best way for a person to learn how to parent (though supplementing reading, mentoring, and so on will likely be even better), but reading a scientific study is going to give you a more accurate concept of the mental and emotional capabilities of children in general than your experiences parenting a single child (or several).

As the saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not data.
Costly? Really? Perhaps it takes some time, but the switch itself happens pretty quickly, if people are willing to put up with some hard times as they adjust.
Watch High Stakes Poker online
My policy is, until I see a text editor as good as
TextEdit on another operating system, I won't even
consider a comparison between the two.

You forgot to mention your first axiom:

1) Nothing is as good as TextMate.

Be realistic here: VI(M), Notepad++, and Emacs are all great text editors.
Wow, you really demolished that straw man you set up there. I'm not advocating child porn, nor anarchy, nor any other of your bizarre projections. Get a grip.

"child porn is wrong, that is objective reality."

Your proclamations of what is right or wrong have no place in "objective reality", my friend. Objective reality simply is.

"you're coming out in support of child porn to support your claim of freedom"

Well I didn't really mean to "come out in support of" it but why not, sure, for the sake of argument. And I presume you're "coming out" in favour of a world in which you can be thrown in jail at any time for the existence, on a computer under your control, of a copy of a photo you didn't take?
We're doing something similar to this at our office this year. The wrinkles are that it isn't a standard tournament bracket point structure, and nobody is sharing their algorithms.

The point structure is that each person picks 8 of the 64 teams. For every game that those 8 teams win, the person gets the team's seed added to their point total. This makes the team selection a very, very interesting exercise: pick a high seeded team and be very confident of getting a few points, or pick a lower seeded team and risk getting no points, but perhaps win the whole thing with that one team.

I bought a copy (price: one starbucks coffee) of 24 seasons worth of data from a dependable source (he knows i'll poison his next coffee if he made a mistake). Now the issue I'm grappling with is that he and I both know we have the same data, so a game theory element is added.

For those who are interested, it turns out that 3 seeds and 6 seeds have historically done fairly well, and I've cooked up some rationalizations that I like for why this might be the case, but then we'll just see what happens this time around.
Poll: Do you like zombie movies?
Simple question, are you pro zombie movies or against?

(this is a serious question)

The reason why I ask is I'm putting together a digital animation studio as my startup and I'm currently brainstorming ideas for a first show that can be produced with a minimal investment in human capital, using primarily a lot of open source software (which has advanced to the point where this kind of thing is possible)

I originally was discussing this concept here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=502705

Also, for the sake of intelligent discussion I've got a couple questions.

* Why do you like/hate this film genre, is there anything specific about it that you like/hate?

* What is your favourite Zombie films (for those pro-zombie)?

* For those pro-zombie, is there a specific style you like, eg Romero's horror, Zombie Comedy (Shaun of the dead)

* Is there anything else you'd like to add?

Thanks guys!
Just save the webpage as html, and send the html file. (I find safari does the best job here)
Cool.

If you want to enter this one as well, you don't have to share your algorithm.

I just think it will be more interesting if at least the winner does share.
Vietnam Vet, quit his job as a truck driver to be a motivational speaker which didn't work out, girlfriend of 15 years left him, only part-time employed as a security guard.

Looks like it was the 'Nam.
sigh It's frustrating - because - we all know - technically, this just won't work...

I'm sure their reasons are somewhat valid, if only that they are pandering to a small, scared part of the community. However, putting in place this sort of apparatus to do that - with seemingly no checks and measures - seems negligent in the extreme.

The government doesn't inspect every letter, every package, every phone conversation. That's just ludicrous. Instead they just police it.

For some reason, they think this will work with the Internet. It's an embarrassment as all it demonstrates is that the government is completely out of touch with technology.

I've written to my local rep several times. It usually a form reply. They say don't want to stop "legal" activity. This scares the hell out of me. Does that include technically illegal acts such as those against corporate interests? property? political dissent?

Frankly. It's not a tool I want in the hands of a government that seems to be prepared to barter almost anything in order to get legislation though. We've had the parliament held to ransom by crazy independents before (totally marginal, unrepresentative nutjobs on the whole). I hate to think what they will demand once they have this to play with.

I only wish this initiative would quietly die like everyone is mentioning - it still seems to kick on and on though.
If you don't mind a little uncertainty, you can get into events for very cheap by just showing up 30 minutes beforehand and walking up to scalpers and using this line:

"I'll give you half face value for two tickets."

Most of them will snort indignantly. One will eventually take you up on it. When I lived in Boston last year, I got great lodge seats about center court for the Celtics after a blizzard.

Sometimes a nice person will just give you tickets too - in NY, girlfriend and I regularly get great seats to the Mets. We bought a couple terrible seats once for like $10 each, then a nice older couple who had their friends flake on them gave us seats right behind homeplate for free. We were sitting a couple seats behind the managers' wife, who was yelling all kinds of things. We gave our cheap tickets to a couple young kids who were quite happy about that too.

I've never missed an event I just showed up for, and have always gotten in for less than face value as scalpers get desperate to move tickets. But I've never needed to see a particular event - the plan was always to go watch at a sports bar, or go catch a movie if we can't get in.

Edit: I'm in LA right now. If Japan advances to the semifinals in the WBC, I'll probably show up to Dodger Stadium and try this there too. Maybe will wind up paying face value for tickets there - but maybe not. Some scalper always buys too many tickets.
I do not think humanity would be better off if, to take this theory to its most extreme conclusion, the internet became a collection of sites whitelisted by the various governments around the world.
The saying is wrong:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369394
I think most people would rather start over with no possessions at all than drop almost everyone they know and try to make all new social connections. In fact, I think most people would rather start off with no net worth and their entire net worth in debt than do that.
Hate to be a party-pooper, but if you can send a balloon there, it's not outer space yet.
One dorm at a university (fau is commonly called "find another university") I went to had to be shut down in 1994 for decontamination, as some students stole mercury from one of the chemistry labs and played with it. I can't find how much it was on the web, but I seem to remember it being about 1 quart of mercury (about 25 pounds).
I could only imagine what would happen if the US did something similar...

We don't have a bill of rights, which is the big difference - naturally, goes deeper than that, though.
Customer Development - The Missing Piece
I have been a DreamHost customer for 6 years. DreamHost is great for hosting a simple, largely static site. I tried to host a Rails app on DreamHost a few years ago and my site would often have HTTP 500 errors due to DreamHost killing my processes. They've probably improved their Rails support since then, but I wouldn't expect too much. But for something simple, they are cheap and fast. Their web panel makes it easy to create MySQL databases, mail accounts, shell accounts, sub-domains, and so forth. I also host my personal IMAP mailbox with them. It has always been reliable and I've had very little downtime.

If I were writing a mission critical, performance sensitive web app there is no way I'd host it on DreamHost. But for my basic personal site and email DreamHost works well.
WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla in the ultimate CMS Smackdown
I know, but from a filtering perspective, it would be a nice tool, IMHO.
grin. sorry for sounding annoyed, that wasn't the idea (so much for being objective :)

Since you didn't mean to come out in support of child porn (which is what it sounded like you were doing, by proclaiming the government shouldn't be able to go after our bits) - I think it's been determined in this thread that having mistakenly had a copy of a photo on your computer doesn't make you a user, or prosecutable by law.

My point was that being associated with Child Pornography (user, distributor, creator) knowing that you're doing it willfully is wrong and should be prosecutable. Now I'm not sure whether we disagree.
More than 40 years ago.. This was some of the simulator technology they were using

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird#Flight_simulato...

The Link Simulator Company's SR-71 Flight Simulator was developed during 1963 – 1965 under a deep "black" security blanket because it and the team Link assigned to it were given access to CIA OXCART and USAF R-12 / SR-71 clearances, the complete list of names of classified vendors supplying parts and software that had to be simulated, the total aircraft performance envelope data and a government-produced satellite photo montage of almost the entire continental United States to provide optical imagery for the RSO's portion of the Flight Simulator. This later capability was mounted on a separate, large, rectangular glass plate (approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) by 12 feet (3.7 m) in size) over which moved an optical sighting head that traveled at the scaled speed and direction of the Blackbird during its simulated flight. Realistic and accurate images were then displayed in the Optical View Sight and SLR RCD (Radar Correlator Display) in the RSO cockpit. Imagery was not provided to the pilot's simulator, which like the RSO simulator, had translucent window panels with varying degrees of lighting to change a simulated flight from daylight to night flying conditions
Those who comprehend the absurdity of what is really a series of internet censorship proposals have been unable to publicly embarrass Stephen Conroy (our Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) to the extent required to kill this thing.

As such it remains largely outside of the public consciousness, and something between a bad joke and a nightmare for civil libertarians on the 'net. The possibility of there being a crime of hyperlinking in this country is closer to the "bad joke" side of that spectrum, but the more of these bad jokes we're subjected to the less humorous they become.

... Oh and also, there's supposed to be a freedom of political communication implied in our Constitution. Not sure what happened to that.
Yeah the whole thread of Sherlock Holmes quotes totally threw me... I knew reddit was bad... but that bad? Wow.
Just for another data point. I purchased the $25 Remember the milk subscription just so I could get the iPhone access. If you made this work with the iPhone I think you will create market share.

Maybe you could make it free for people unless they want the advanced features. The features could be sms/email notifications, more projects than x at a time, or whatever you might deem worth charging for. You will need to tweak the business model but so far the site looks clean and usable. Good job.
"And here I am, about to graduate university, and I am fairly certain that a medically oriented career is not for me. After years of lurking HN, reading TC"

Sorry, what's TC?
For what it's worth, this is a side project which has given me a lot of perspective on my professional work as well, but is certainly not a "start up" or otherwise intended to directly create revenue.
Makes no sense, you download every web page and every resource it links to (images, css, javascript) every single time you clink any link. All those files are saved on your hard drive, it's been downloaded automatically for you. If you don't download it, the browser can't display it.
Would you agree with the things that Gladwell says? Are the admissions processes that Byzantine?
The Art of Programming Embedded Systems (Jack Ganssle; Academic Press) is my favorite by far, but it may be out of print by now.
The Economic History of The Wizard of Oz
Resident Evil FTW!
TechCrunch traffic too much for Atherton; city drives it out
I also find that if you use your big E for something merely repulsive and ugly, what do you use when you get to Darfur?
Australia has always been far behind in terms of the Internet. My feeling is that most of the public here have hardly any idea what's going on with the censorship. It's hardly getting any major media coverage.

The saddest thing is that there's not much we can do about it at the moment.
Sorry - I was referring to non code-focused editors. The great thing about TextEdit is that it looks like Notepad when I launch it, and yet it has incredible support for design, typography, layout, and positioning. I can write most school papers in it, but it still looks and feels ultrasimple.

TextMate does some awesome stuff, from what I've heard, but it's much more focused on coding. TextEdit is more general-purpose, which is why it's my standard. Until another OS spends as much time making a kickass all-purpose editor, it probably hasn't got the level of detail that I want in my operating system.
Go Away. It's people like you that are starting to turn this site into another Reddit or _gasp_ Digg.

By the way, reading books might help. Tell your parents to fuck off as well. They sound like douchebags.
I'm guessing you're talking about the Milla Jovovich ones and not Resident Evil Degeneration right?
When they die of old age.
autocomplete on the project name would be a nice feature. something like @pro and then it brings up a list of projects that start with pro. You could also do the autocomplete of the other interesting things such as team members and time.

One complaint I hear all the time from people I have worked with is the lack of autocomplete features so this would be a big win for your usability.
Yeah. Do I get disqualified if I like the movies because of her, though? :-)

(Not sure why I got downvoted, but I did answer a legit question!)
Well obviously we want to know more about the procedure and why apps get rejected. We want to know what Apple's "moral" objections are and what values they're trying to impose. Its more a fear of some agenda (beyond no apps that don't work or do harm) that we may not agree with then stats.

It also doesn't hurt to know what your chances are to have trouble.
I'll be honest - Shaun of the Dead is the only one I've seen. I've always felt weird about zombie movies, because like Westerns, without having seen any they all feel very samey. So I wouldn't know where to start watching.
Wired Editor Chris Anderson's Free Will Be Free
Have you ever seen an OTAHD antenna? That's why.
What do all of you hear about QuestBridge

http://www.questbridge.org/index.html

in this regard? It appears that there is an effort now by colleges to look more proactively for another kind of prospective student.
"good parenting includes fucking your kids" - eh? I didn't read that in the article, i.e. that sexual molestation by parents was a significant source of revenue (that was done through one-upmanship, apparently); it was rather children who "posed naked" with the consent of parents.

I do think it's important to recognize a spectrum here; and also, rational discussion requires avoiding emotive language.
I voted no, because I don't really like zombie movies on balance. But I am a lover of film and cinema in general.

My beef with zombie movies is that they're usually cliche, and are going for "cheap scares" first and foremost. Often they're punctuated by gore for the sake of gore, and it's done tastelessly. Frequently there's a large cast that you feel no real attachment to and don't bond with, because they need lots of people to kill in a variety of ways.

But the upside: Apocalyptic scenarios in general give lots of options for plot and character development and interaction. I'd say take a look at something like Mad Max - it's a bit campy at times, but I remember some very interesting scenes. There was a relatively small cast that you developed some attachment to, and the sometimes slow pacing made the heavy action scenes really stand out.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a zombie movie with really exceptional acting and minimal cliches. (If someone who is a fan of this genre can recommend one, I'll check it out). What I'd want out of a zombie movie is focus on character development of just a few people who interact with a broken world. And the filmmaker resisting the temptation to have the "dumb, defiant, big-boobed blond girl who doesn't listen to the leader and thus gets impaled on a fence and eaten" - the zombie scenario itself isn't unsuitable for a good movie, but the execution in these films leaves a lot to be desired.

For inspiration into some unique elements, you might check out the first two Fallout games. It's been a few years and I've not checked out the third, but the first two had some interesting scenarios and plots. In particular, humans interacting with other humans during the apocalypse/zombies could lead to interesting dilemmas and development. In Fallout, the world had fallen apart, and yet there were still people being really petty and villainous instead of uniting. This jives with my understanding of human nature, and makes the games more interesting. Human/human conflicts amidst a zombie background could be a fascinating way to break from the cliches.
Not at all, I'm trying to discern what the specifics things people like most about zombie films. If it's because of a sexy female lead, then that's a valid point.

What was your opinion on the movements of the zombies? Do you prefer shambling zombies over say the faster movements of some of the other characters?
I have been told by aficionados that shaun of the dead's zombies are pretty good, authentic even.

In modern times there is a biozombie trend, when they aren't really "undead" so much as a sick human (eg I am Legend, 28 days later etc). I am not sure if it co-incides, but these biozombies seem to have enhanced reflexes, strength and hearing and speed etc... (whereas the old school ones were slow, sad things).
I would imagine the distinction lies in where it is stored, and whether there has been an intention to save it.

If you can get prosecuted just by having the material on your harddisk then it would be a problem for a lot of people - the article talks about sending out lots of spam with this stuff, which will be saved to our harddisk. Even if it goes in the spam folder and you never see it, it will still be on your harddrive.

It would be reasonable that there's a difference, otherwise more or less anyone could be indicted for child pornography.
Insurance is ok. Insurance is regulated.

Credit default swaps are derivatives. They were deregulated in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization... so as to be completely unregulated.

You can't insure 35 times your cash reserves, but you can issue just such a derivative.

Insurance was ok. Insurance gone mad in the form of derivatives literally tanked our economy.
Is There a Reverse Network Effect with Scale?
A thought: we are hot blooded fast living mammals that took over the earth pretty quickly. Is it possible that to a prehistoric reptilian species/race that in fact we are the zombies?