skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Y'know... that little "K" abbreviation on the end is a pretty important detail. I skimmed the article about three times, thinking to myself: "600 users... Really? Big deal."

It wouldn't hurt to actually emphasize "600,000" by explicitly expressing all of the zeroes.
I don't work there, but you should check out Cloudinary. They're doing some really cool stuff.
Evgeny Morozov is just a poor man's Malcolm Gladwell, and one focused solely on being contrarian to anything future-thinking, which makes him a darling for old media.

Here's a recent interview with him from Gawker:
http://gawker.com/5990608/a-discussion-with-evgeny-morozov-s...

Here's he talks about something he thinks he read on Hacker News:

http://gawker.com/5990608/?post=58282779
> I don't think we should ban them. But boy most of tech blogs would SO MUCH benefit from being ridiculed. Do you read the stuff they publish? I recall seeing a headline - on Hacker News, I think - on how "Uber will disrupt racism." I mean, what on earth is this? The Onion is less funny.

While I have no doubt that there are some HNers who are "Yes, startups can fix ANYTHING", I had a feeling that most HNers were not so credulous. So I did a search for "Uber" and "racism":

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=uber+racis...

Turns out the headline he mocked was from Reason magazine ("How market forces undermine racism: Uber Cab Edition").

But it figures that someone like Morozov who reflexively shits on anything Google or any tech giant tries to do would not be bothered to conduct a simple Internet search before making a mocking assertion
The first Tesla Model S has crashed - held up really well, no injuries
A couple suggestions for this code:

- Couldn't it be simpler without the linked-list queue? Use an array: the first ndispatched are for calls that have been invoked; they each hold either the corresponding result or undefined if not yet resolved by their callback. The rest of the array holds arguments objects for pending calls. When it's time to notify, this array is the results array.

- The 2-space indent plus fairly deep nesting makes it hard to see where the 'main story' starts and ends, at least for me. 4-space indent goes better with this nested style.
Thanks, I've tried my best :)
The interface is better for listening to music (I hope). Also, the search is run on Spotify so you only get music results.
I switched and like it so far. The Old Reader was my first choice in switching, but was too slow to update and display.

Feedly seems to be doing a good job of balancing the new UI features and focusing on the backend replacement.

Any idea how they will make money in the future?
Thanks for the ideas about podcasts! And I better tell my work about being out of commission hmm..
Sort of OT:

Michael, have you read Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister? He writes powerfully about economics, incentives, and culture as they relate to management. I think his book would give you a lot to think about, and you'd find plenty both to learn and to argue against. His focus is a "firm" structured on the partner/associate model. I'd love to see more people thinking about and experimenting with that model for software developers. I think it offers many similarities to what you admire about Github and Valve. And perhaps it is a model where Steve Jobs could find a place.
For your next run you should shop around for a different tube supplier, it's a huge portion of your unit cost (24%) and I bet you can drop its price by at least half.
Why the rush? I'm still using google reader and won't switch until maybe 1-2 weeks before the shutdown. Then I'll see what's available and decide.
Me - I went to the Old Reader - running very well.

http://theoldreader.com
DOJ goes overboard with a car compartment hacker.
If you're in the NYC area, you should come to our next CoderDojo session (free programming classes for kids, I'm the NYC co-founder): http://coderdojonyc.com/

If you're somewhere else, definitely take a look at http://coderdojo.com/ and see if there is any Dojo near you.
I didn't say it would "destroy the gaming industry." I said, "It would destroy the gaming industry as we know it." Meaning that it could radically change the economics and the way we play and consume games.
How low do you think it will crash when the bubble bursts? Do you think it will recover again, like it did last time, or do you this time it will stay low?
Why Is Java Preferred to Other Languages as a Building Block?
Yes it is intentional. Sorry for the confusion, we're working on organizing the articles better.
Property rights are a fiction invented and enforced by society. Therefore, it's not inappropriate for society to occasionally have opinions on how property should work.

Some of the ways people handle their property is detrimental to society. If enough people do it, hoarding capital is one of them.
Would the crystalline form even be a viable drug? Don't drugs have to be soluble in order to circulate in the blood stream?

Is the beta cystalline form the same chemical formula as the soluble form?
Javascript Framework Redux - thanks, but no thanks for now
Interesting- But in that case the problem (probably) is that you have to pay super high taxes when you sell land (or they wouldn't have such weird arrangements.) This is a separate issue from the deflationary aspects of land I think.
I believe the resulting situation is not what you should blame agile for. Shitty code created by shitty developers. No exceptions.
$1M per bitcoin is $10T in money supply with 10M bitcoins. The current USD money supply is $2.7T. I suspect $10T is around the entire world money supply.
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No. Research would still be done by private companies. But we would pay them directly with money, instead of with an artificial monopoly. It's not free market anyway.

These companies could focus on pure research, and leave manufacturing to others. Their income would be more predictable too.

Cost could be shared among countries, proportional to their wealth. Research is very expensive, but it's a fixed cost. No reason to reinvent the wheel twice.

No more "convincing" doctors with "gifts" to use their products. No more money wasted on publicity. No more fake studies to boost sales.

Effort could be aimed towards deadly, rare or specially awful diseases, instead of profitable ones.

I guess patent lawyers would lose.

This system is far from perfect, as we know there is a lot of corruption in getting government contracts. But I still think it would be an improvement on what we have today. Medical research is already very difficult. No reason to make things worse with an outdated, inefficient and sometimes just outright evil funding mechanism.
Guess they really like Helvetica:

font-family: "Helvetica", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
Have you considered the possibility that you're suffering from sleep apnea?
Yeah, I'm sure that's what the marketing department's first choice was.

I think this entire line of discussion is coming from a place of thinking way too much about it. Tinmark's cofounder's answer above is exactly what I was going to say. There's nothing dishonest about and below the headline there are 3 lines of text that very clearly state what a user would be getting. There's nothing ambiguous about the explanation.
I'm pretty certain it's not a joke.

If it is, it's obvious that the instawallet guys have no business handling your money.
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Remotes from Easter Europe are ok?
I would debate whether those traits make for sure-fire great decision making. That sounds more like the kind of guy you stick in the corner by himself and let him go at it to see what he comes up with. A person with a lack of deference to authority may not be good at maintaining his authority. Being of an independent mindset may not mix well with a team.
Your ad hominem attack against me is not appreciated, nor is your attempt to treat me as a category and stereotype rather than a real person behind a keyboard.

Like others here, I make it a general rule to read everything, and even consulting other sources, before commenting. Like others here also, I had not the time nor the inclination to go through the entirety of a 16,000 word behemoth of writing when the first 8,000 words were rote reptitions of a single point already copiously made within 1,000 words. Being no stranger to long-form writing, and seeing no visible structure to the work that would suggest it's going anywhere besides more reptition of the same point, I gave up - like others here did.

A basic modicum of civility is desirable, and this includes blatant labeling and name-calling.
I sort of understand the value people see in Morozov as a counterweight to tech's occasional fatuousness, but this wasn't a good article. As someone who is morally (if not intellectually) coming from a similar place as him, I found myself getting progressively more and more unhappy with the article the farther I got; it became a caricature of a point that deserves to be made more carefully.
I wanted to feel comfortable with wherever I moved and learn the lay of the land.
Don't worry its just PSASS [1]

[1] Post Segmented Architecture Stress Syndrome
In the common scenario where my supplier screws me over on Ebay, I can put a "cancel order" on my credit card. I have no such recourse to do that with Bitcoins.

Bitcoins offer no consumer protection right now. Once exchanged, the other party holds the money.
Interesting that instawallet goes down on the day the BTC:USD hits 106 on Mt. Gox
> If so, then is a successful BTC economy just a different gold standard (and all its associated problems)?

The main problem with gold standards, is that governments don't like them, because it makes it really hard to fund wars and other expenditures. Eventually, this leads to gold confiscations [1], and the effective end of a gold standard. Bitcoin solves this by being resilient to confiscation, and also by having a value transfer mechanism built-in, so that you don't need to replace gold with paper receipts for the sake of convenience.

In essence, bitcoin has all the upsides of a gold standard, with none of the downsides.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
One of the more adorable April fools jokes, that's for certain.
I prescribe more "apps" than drugs now: smartphone the future of medicine?
>Most of all, sleep is something worth experimenting with.

Yep.

Through experimentation, I've become a believer in ritual to prepare for and wake from bed as well as napping.

My sweet spot seems to be 8 hour sleep with a 40 minute nap round 13:00. If I had to choose, I'd take less sleep overnight before losing the midday nap.

Prior to experimenting, I was "sure" I functioned optimally at about 6 hours per night. Looking back, I expect it wasn't the specific duration that helped, just consistency.

Also, I second the breathe-right strip.
I am sorry no one, absolutely no one on this planet, can beat my favorite site by Govind Tiwari:

http://govindtiwari.blogspot.in/

And this is (gulps) his site, genuinely.
A remarkable mathematical morning
A morning of astonishing mathematical discoveries at the Aperiodical.
...because it is. Either that, or the startup needs a copy-editor immediately.
I'm one of them. As I just read, Feedly in the only titles or whole document mode is almost no different from Google Reader.
I disagree- I think that there are a lot of interns out there who don't have the right information in order to optimize their search for internships.

I learned computer science a lot later than many of my peers, I stumbled around a lot in the startup world before being able to intern at one of the more well-known companies in the valley- this was only after I had learned many lessons and been rejected or not even contacted by many companies because I didn't know how to present myself in a format that made recruiters want to contact me.

Any resource that helps potential interns to learn more about recruiting in the valley- from finding an internship to choosing an internship- is a good one.
Why don't old people understand that the brakes don't make the car go forward?

They always claim they hit the brake and never say "I thought I hit the brakes, but must have hit the gas."
OpenBSD includes ZFS
> Looking at whether something is a "thing" or "not" is not a particularly useful basis for deciding what kinds of things should be turned into property.

But that is not the criterion now. The criterion is resource. That's why bandwidth is a property, and can be bought, sold or utilized just like a piece of land.

> The rational thing to do is look at the economic properties of various kinds of things, and grant property rights based on economic phenomena.

That is one of the many approaches. "Rational" has nothing to do with it. It depends on what principles you are deriving your rationality from. Starting with my own principles, what you proposed is not rational. Quite apart from that, you do agree that laws and regulations have economic properties too, right? Why can't we buy and sell those?

I'm fairly confident the Kinsella article that @icebraining linked to covers the basis of rights and patents. I can't confirm it because the document is not loading at the moment.
The author invents new words regularly in this article.

Stephen King's "On Writing" talks about this, and I'm paraphrasing:

"Writers who invent words are bad writers."
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Linux- and Mac-native ports, a forthcoming gamey 'career mode', and the ability to send up multiple spacecraft to dock with each other and do all sorts of concurrent space-stuff (Orbiter might have this by now, it's while since I looked at it).

The chance to build, launch, and crash your very own space jalopy ought to be worth the price of admission on it's own, though!
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Here’s Why You Hate Your Cable Company
"My question is, what then will happen when Bitcoin stabilizes, that is, when the time to new coin mined approaches practically infinity? Let's assume the global economy grows at 4% per year. Do Bitcoin's proponents believe a constant 4% deflation rate will be somehow compatible with capitalism? Why lend, why build new companies, when simply storing it is more than enough? Take shocks such as bubbles and demand-side crises. Could a economy based on Bitcoin survive them, and not crash inevitably into a deflationary spiral? I claim it won't."

This makes the assumption that people won't make their own forks of bitcoin. If there's a shortage of bitcoins, and not enough is being mined to meet demand, I think that will give more incentive to people to make their own forks of the currency. Maybe will see various communities forming their own currencies for their own trading purposes.
Read about namecoin here: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
It works perfectly as an open DNS p2p system, a decentralized p2p magnet tracker (think pirate bay but impossible to shut down), secure online voting, plenty of other possible uses.

There's also PPcoin a low energy coin compatible with BTC miners that's getting more popular.

Another advantage to Litecoin is you don't see it in the news everyday with the words 'Drugs' and 'Blackmarket' beside it, meaning correspondent banks will still deal with you if you want to set up an exchange whereas a lot of banks now are dumping bitcoin startups out of paranoia
I build web trading apps for banks. Big, big javascript apps that stream prices and handle trades. Not the kind of apps that require shakespearean spam though...
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> Gold is a piss poor investment.

Relative to what? The USD?

http://pricedingold.com/us-dollar/

Real estate?

http://pragcap.com/real-estate-gold-ratio-falls-to-30-year-l...

Gold is an asset that holds its purchasing power pretty well. It is what it is. It is not however a "piss poor" investment.
Bitcoin is like a startup. If it works, it's worth a tremendous amount. If it doesn't, it's worth nearly nothing.

Right now its proponents are valuing it like a tech startup stock- what's its potential future value?

Its opponents have already decided it will fail.

Either side may be right at this point, though bitcoin has more going for it than it did six months ago.

To me, the trend is currently towards "it's going to work", so I think it's worth a gamble. But it's definitely a gamble.

I think cryptocurrency is without question a force for the future. It makes exchanging money too easy and too fast for it not to eventually dominate economic systems. Economies/companies that don't use it will be at a disadvantage.

What's in doubt for me is whether bitcoin will be the winner of the cryptocurrency market.
I wonder how they count it? Because I definitely signed up, imported my feeds, and gave it a try. But I've stopped using it because it requires a browser extension/plugin which I find irritating. Am I counted in the 3 million?
Man this housing advice is really pretentious -- only live in Mountain View or SF with an internship salary? Good luck unless you have a trustfund.

Get a place in Berkeley or the nicer places in Oakland and you'll have a great experience and can BART into the city in 15 minutes.
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Pyramid, Django, Spring Framework

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Mobile for Android using AIR or Unity3D.

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Really cool to see the numbers and congrats on making the product!

One nit to emphasize the value in basic accounting knowledge for others when going down the manufacturing route: it's $11.37 _gross_ margin (aka gross profit, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_margin ), not _net_ profit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_Margin ). While this may sound silly and academic, net confers a sense of finality -- it includes all costs, marketing, discounts to sell remnant inventory, depreciations... everything. Learning this distinction will also introduce you to inventory management, promotion cycles, and all sorts of other crazy business skills to help you get to the next level in building a game business. There are hundreds of years of wisdom built up about manufacturing that all has to funnel through.... accounting...

For example, having >50% net profit is fantastic for manufacturing! Having >50% gross profit is on par for low-scale, specialty products. Jon's 11.37 is a gross profit and on par. Knowing nothing about this specific market, the standard advice in this case is to focus on growing the market rather than reducing costs at this point. (This is a business-model version of the 'don't scale prematurely' mantra you hear in tech considering his price of $20/game doesn't seem insane).

Back-of-the-envelope calculations show the gross revenue for all 333 sets is $6,660. Assuming he's included all costs, this means:

Revenue: $6,660
Costs: $4,660
==================
Net Profit: $2,000

Which means a net profit of $6/set, a little more than 25% of the sale. Depending on how aggressively he wants the market, he should offer discounts to influential or trend-setting groups of people in the 25% range.

Another way to look at this business is he would get a return of $2,000 for $4,660 in capital (since he has 1 production run), or 50% ROI... also not too shabby (if sold at retail price).

And yet another way to look at this is manufacturing the product over 8 hours yields $2000, or $250/hour... better than most. It's unclear how much time he spent on the admin and design tasks, but since this is a labor of love... let's assume it was leisure time and free :) It also means a second production run may get him an economy scale from re-using the design and website assets for even more $$$/hour.

All-in-all, this looks great across the board, and I wish the Jon the best of luck in bringing Space Dice to the world!
I'm not sure about the customer loses but when he requests a refund, we don't receive a cent of it. For us it's 100% money back. People do that quite often. And it's not trolling.
Yes, it's long. No, I didn't finish it - yet. I fully intend to. I thought it would be a relatively quick read and then it turned out to be more of an intellectual exercise than I anticipated. Still, it kept me interested enough to make me want to go back and read more. Even though I took it all with a grain of salt, I started viewing O'Reilley from a different perspective - maybe not so much different as more complex. And his view of Silicon Valley was certainly a breath of fresh air compared to what normally makes it through the media filters.
> Isn't that exactly what you want when you upgrade?

Isn't it exactly what happens when you upgrade your Windows 7 machine to Windows 8?

As for http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/..., lots of interesting results happen when projects can't be declared failures (because it would be a career limiting move: BACEN is a branch of the executive and analogous to the Fed in the US). And no, the bank in question no longer exists. It was Banco Santos.
I would point out that outside of London this is not exactly common.
From 2003 to 2013, the price of AAPL rose from $11/share to over $400/share.

Rapid price increase doesn't always mean "bubble". Sometimes innovative things are created.
Did you have to jump through any hoops to get that PGA data?
If they paid for the clinical trial then there should be some sort of protection for the person who paid. Otherwise it will be impossible to expand what a drug is used for after the patent expires.
There are also two icons labeled "supernova" at the bottom of the page, which seems like a mistake. Good luck!
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A note on everyday usability
Well the obvious and well-know difference is that land is naturally scarce, but patents are just artificial scarcity.

But it doesn't really matter. What matters is: Does it work?.

Private land works. Mostly. With a few caveats. There are a few awful stories about this also. Usually "goverments and friend monopolists" are to blame, too.

Do patents work? Not sure. Sometimes maybe. In mathematics (software patents) they don't. In medicine we see this problem, and many others.

Are they the best system we could conceive? Hardly.
Canada has long had great incentives for firms seeking to employ engineering talent (as long as your firm is already in Canada). It's about time we reduced boundaries for founders to come here and take advantage of the inexpensive engineering talent.
Ah, interesting, I should have looked deeper. Well they're both almost certainly based on java NIO then, which once again leads us to epoll and friends.
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