skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are stupid questions that anybody could answer for him without without being a millionaire.

I would ask:

1) What are problems you are having right now that you need solved and are willing to pay money for (both for yourself personally and for your company)?

2) I think my value is not being fully realize in my current position. I have skills in X,Y, & Z. Can you think of a better way I can help the company get more value out of me as an employee?
Totally with you here. I'll play amongst the cars on my motorcycle, because I have superior acceleration, maneuverability, and awareness. I can see a problem coming and get out of the way before the driver even realizes they are putting me at risk. On a bicycle, I'd lose the advantage of acceleration; inside a velomobile, I'd further sacrifice the advantages of awareness and maneuverability. That sounds... scary.
By the way, you can download Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book from here (it's out of print now): http://orangetide.com/graphics_programming_black_book/
Yes, they can be subdivided by up to eight decimal places.
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I recall needing to insert the proper toll into the payphone before dialing a number. He's added some instructions to work around that old limitation, so you can dial the number first, then insert the coins.
Yes, you use fractions. In that respect it is different from pennies etc.
Why do you want to force people to use your style? That's pretty much against the hacker mindset.
That's how Wall Street works. You give money to Wall Street, and Wall Street in turn chooses to distribute the money to technology or research companies like Google or Merck (or even venture capital funds which in turn invest in start ups). Wall Street adds value by allocating resources.
Which is why I posted this -- I've seen the effect of a guarantee on sales and profit for a number of products, and the data I've seen suggests it would increase your revenue and profit.
Can you point to supporting documentation that indicates IAP is "meant for" that?
In theory, Wall Street should accrue value in two forms: as a tax for the liquidity they provide, and as compensation for the risk they take. It used to be that the investment banks were mainly middle-men, but increasingly they've also become essentially government-backed hedge funds. Unfortunately, they can use their position as middlemen to extra value from Main Street. Finance should not be like 10% of your GDP, unless you're Switzerland or another country that "exports" banking services. It doesn't produce value itself, it's just a tax on the rest of your economy necessary to ensure the availability of capital.
Maybe that's the reason...

As an aside, San Francisco is denser on paper than in real life because of how its borders are drawn relative to other cities. The core of Chicago fits the population of San Francisco into 31 square miles with an average density of 25,690 per square mile. 1.3 million people in Chicago live in a neighborhood with at least the average density of San Francisco, with a total average density of 22,240 per square mile. If you take a subset of Chicago neighborhoods with the same average density as San Francisco, it has about 2.4 million people.
Thank you so much for all of this feedback regarding the design of the site. I'll definitely be sure to incorporate some of this feedback when updating the site!
Put this together (quickly) so I can dev locally and upload new code with a single command: https://github.com/mikeycgto/nodewar-tools

My "species" code then uses grunt for all sorts of awesomeness (basic tests, concatenation of files and autoupload on save).
Why don't cell phones have a dialtone?
Nice :)

What is Gittip written in (I'm at work and can't do a ton of research into it)? I've been looking for something F/OSS I can help out with.
This "programming literacy" schtick is one of the most absurd pieces of pointless diatribe I have ever heard.

We're developers. We make. You buy. That's how it's worked for ages and ages and ages now.

You don't need to learn how to code to be computer literate.
What do with a project that has one user?
I have a small free link-saving service at http://scrooty.com/ that a friend of mine uses. I'd like to kill off the servers as they're the only one that uses it, but that seems rude.

I've showed them other projects but the user professes their love for Scrooty and only Scrooty. (I showed them Delicious, Historious, and like five other things)

User's unwilling to pay for the service, suggested advertising.

Any suggestions as to what I should do with this?
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Memorabilia market prices vary by the quality and history of the piece; pieces with "richer" history fetch higher prices. BitCoin behaves more like a commodity. I expect derivative instruments based on BitCoin mining rates any day now.
Might be revealing a profound misunderstanding, but isn't that just because of the reference point? If UTC+0 were the The Chatham Islands, then a few would.
it probably wouldn't even be that hard, actually - since you could model it pretty closely off of the Clojure one. Either way, though, it's definitely something that the plugin system will enable :)
Can you make polls like this and trollish comments into some kind of honey pot?

I propose two HN sites based upon basically the same underlying data. A "good" one, and a phantom one. Users who get honey potted end up in a phantom mode where any moderation or posting actions that they take affect only the phantom HN that they view. Phantoms can see the posts and moderation results of good users, but good users can't see the posts and results of phantom users.
To use one Zynga game as an example, it's great to get notifications from Words With Friends when it's my turn to play. The "you haven't played with <Facebook friend>! Start a game?" notifications, not so much.
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I came to the opposite conclusion last night and wrote about it here:

http://tomakefast.com/seo-vs-social-bots-vs-people-2617/

Essentially, SEO can really work against you if Google doesn't see your business the way you see your business. Google rarely gives anyone special treatment and once the algorithm makes up its mind, it's very slow to adapt unless you do something drastic (what I did last night) like take down entire domains that aren't getting the queries you want.

Part of my comment on the blog:

You'll change your tune when Google changes its algorithm.

You have one big point of failure on the left side of your chart. And let's be real, I bet Google is 98 percent of your "search engine" traffic. That you have no control over. Risky! Even worse if "partner website" is on the Google gravy train too.

Take it from me, someone who received millions of clicks from Google. Now I'm lucky to get 100 queries/day from them.

Some kind of social media presence is a hygiene factor. Also it's a given your SEO is working due to positive social signals.
Even if you paid more, the incentives are wrong. Managers are told (often by state legislatures) to go out and hit unrealistic return targets, because to lower the targets would mean the states have to fund the pension more. If they hit the target, they keep their job. If they miss their target, they get fired. What would you do?

This is also why state pensions like to jam money into alternative investments like hedge funds and venture. They're chasing yield.
I know several people who make a lot of money in trading, and I hear the liquidity argument constantly as the justification for their behavior. They describe the millions that they make as payment for all the 'value' that they've given to everyone; But, as an ignorant, I can't see how those millions could have come from anywhere than other (less informed) peoples' pockets.

Trading is a legitimately socially useful business, but it's winner-take-all. Yes, they provide liquidity and, in doing so, capture proportionately small amounts of money that other principals don't care about. If you need to move $25 million, are you going to notice a difference of a few hundred dollars that an arbitrageur collects (by taking the other side of a bid he judged to be 0.37 cents high? No. You want your trade to go off. Principals would lose money to the bid-ask spread no matter who's in the market; arbitrageurs narrow it by competing against each other.

So why do traders make so much money? Because they're better or more useful than software engineers? No. Because they steal it? No, not that either. Software engineers are seen by the business as cost centers, even in 90+ percent of startups and even at Google (closed allocation).

For traders, it's a different story. If Bob is a little better than Mark, Bob will get 100% of the business and Mark will get nothing. At this point, to do arbitrage you need to be thinking about microseconds. If Bob can execute in 75 mcs and Mark takes 100 mcs, then Bob is going to get all the trades. Trading shops must be meritocracies because they have no other option. If they can't hire good traders, then there's no reason to keep working.

Because trading is winner-take-all, trading houses put a lot of money back into compensation: 40 to 50 percent profit sharing (in a way that, outside of direct P&L roles, is subject to politically fucked-up performance just like everything else) is the norm. That'd be like a typical software company paying $250k-500k bonuses.

If we, as software engineers, want to make trading money (not the 5-10m outliers, but 250-1M, then we need to think about profit sharing-- http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle... -- instead of this startup equity that pays off in the distance future, and is subject to horrible terms). I believe that we, as a group, could be making what we're actually worth, but we'd have to convince businesses that we're as essential to their operations as traders are to trading houses and, thus far, we haven't done so.
I cringed when I read this headline on HN because I too worked for Lehman between 2006 and 2008. I felt the same way Nick did even around the same time (wanting to go back to making "real things"). However, lately I feel like I have come back somewhat full-circle. Many of the issues he complains about is rampant in almost of every industry.

For example, Groupon was basically taking advantage of unsophisticated small businesses. How much brain power in SV is devoted to tricking people to click on ads, "covert users" or become addicted to Zynga-style games? How many things are sold only because that company has the strongest name-brand even though better versions exist? Could you have sold the product for less than the customer paid and still make a profit?

You are almost always taking advantage of a customer in some ways but still providing a service or product that the customer ultimately wants. WS is just easy to pick on because they are the most blatant about this practice while at the same time protected by the government.
And I believe that they could be changed to divide even further if necessary in the future.
Feel free to email me at foundabusinessbook@gmail.com and I would be more than happy to work something out if you want to read it!
I asked this on Quora a couple of months ago: http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/Would-it-be-theoretically-possi...
You may be right - there are not many obvious practical uses...yet.

I'm leery of calling "hype" on new technology simply because practical uses are not immediately evident.

I remember reading that most people in the late 1800's couldn't imagine an economy that was based on jobs that were not related to some aspect of farming...

Edit: In the early days of Twitter, most people couldn't think of anything useful coming out of tweeting 140 characters.
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>I'm not saying Bitcoin doesn't have any advantages, but easier monitoring of fraud is not one of them.

I took that to be about whether the government will be successful in shutting Bitcoin down, not about fraud.

(Even then, I do not know what he means by "exponentially" -- I decided to assume it is an inexact, not-mathematically-valid use of the word.)
For all the money I am sure prolexic is getting paid, this certainly makes them look useless.
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If you don't like it (as neither you nor I do), then turn it off. Start a search, go to the "Search Settings" in the top right corner, then "Do not use personal search results".
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I love - absolutely just adore - that the DRM on the PDF copy I bought is having my name embedded in the cover. I can view it on my work desktop, my home laptop, my iPad, or my Nook without jumping through any hoops at all.
Careful there...GE recently bought a company that is "printing" metal jet engine parts:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/11/additive-m...
Which part of "I would argue" has hinted you that there's a supporting documentation? If you rewind back to the AppStore debut time and remember at how things worked then (and tens of years before that), it'd be the most plausible conjecture.
I worked at Lehman for 4+ years (left in 2008) and while I didn't feel so negative about work (I was more senior than the OP) I definitely was in a spot where I knew that if I kept at it for another 10-20 years -- no matter how much money I made -- I would feel like I wasted my time.

I went back to tech, and now I have a job where I'm still well paid by any reasonable standard, and I really enjoy what I work on and who I work with. Given how much of our lives we spend at work and thinking about work, it can be a mistake to overvalue compensation as an element in our career decisions.
I'm reminded of this paper [1].

1: Envy on Facebook: A Hidden Threat to Users’ Life
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Thank you so much for buying the book! I think your feedback regarding the landing page design and the design of the table of contents is great, and I will definitely incorporate it soon!
For some reason betterunix refuses to call a 51% attack a 51% attack which it makes it sound like he knows something that others don't.
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Your fantastic description/imagery prompted me to look this up :)

"A chance to see springbok antelopes, the most successful grazing animals in the Southern African Kalahari desert as they attempt to ward off a family of hungry cheetahs by jumping up to two metres into the air. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5Sru8gGSk
And another article on the farcial financial train choo choo! Btw, we need more perpetual motion, cold fusion, and red mercury investor stories posted too.
The part where you think you know Apple's intent, and the only possible way to know that is if they talked about it somewhere.
I have a similar project (http://www.twirlapp.com/) that only I and a friend of mine uses. The cost is pretty minimal for me to maintain since it's on a shared instance with a ton of my other projects so I just keep it up.

I do some occasional work when I need a break from everything else and I thought of open sourcing it but never really got around to it.
One legal theory behind patents is that they were a tool to incentivize immigration. It benefited the United States even before it was the United States, as people was encouraging to stay in the country during the duration of exclusivity, and gave the country a working model of the invention so people could learn. Before patents, many invention was treated as city or state secret.

I can recommend a very interesting talk by Professor Eben Moglen, who teach law history and actually read discussions that happened between the people who wrote and worked with the first implementation of the US patent law (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPzpBn-XGxw).
> I think saying that "your brain actively practices killing" is overstating it. It sure sounds good, but it's not even close to reality.

To support your point a little bit, some video game scholars, like Espen Aarseth, don't buy into the idea what the representations provide any relevancy:

[1]: "The "royal" theme of the traditional pieces is all but irrelevant to our understanding of chess. Likewise, the dimensions of Lara Croft's body, already analyzed to death by film theorists, are irrelevant to me as a player, because a different-looking body would not make me play differently (see sidebar). When I play, I don't even see her body, but see through it and past it."

While Aarseth has been quite extreme in his rejection of narrative, the main aspect of his argument is that gamers see the underlying constructs of the gameplay systems, and I think gamers choose whether to engage with the dressing that sits on top. Bioshock Infinite tells a story that you can listen to, but when you're playing you're not listening.

This explains the disconnect between players of GTA and observers. Those who observe and go "YOU KILLED THAT PROSTITUTE TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK AND YOU DON'T EVEN CARE" are viewing the game at the narrative level; whereas the gamers who do this are working at the mechanics level. It is a fallacy to then believe that those gamers are more susceptible to perform those actions they see at the narrative level in real life, as they were never there in the first place. The prostitutes aren't people, they're walking wallets. Bioshock tried to play with this idea with the Little Sisters, but I felt it ultimately failed, as the Little Sisters were sufficiently dehumanized that they looked a lot like walking health packs who would be put out of their misery. People who really do see others like this in real life already have a name; they're psychopathic. Fortunately, most people are not psychopathic :)

[1] http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/vigil...
That's just poor software by websites that hang when polling MtGox. Much better would be asynchronously grab MtGox's quote and cache the lastest value.
Yes, it is a creative process. I think that a better analogy is to a scientist though. Sometimes, scientists spend a lot of time thinking about what an experimental result means and planning out their next set of experiments. But oftentimes, they also have to crank through a bunch of experiments that they've planned. The more time they spend at that point, the further they get.
not quite as fast, but it's still up 300%for the year lol.
After living an extreme minimalistic life for 5 years during college (for almost a year, I didn't even have a bed), truly minimalistic living is only a fantasy that looks good when imagined. People get disillusioned about acquire material goods, and start to think that losing all these stuff would do them good. In reality, it won't change your life that radically as you've imagined. In fact, you're more likely to realized that things you have around you provide comfort and pleasant experience you normally take for granted. In North America, a dose of minimalism may help many people's lives today, but it won't change them very much.

You can read about how I lived in those 5 years in a bit more detail here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371702).
Transactions on the blockchain actually occur in "satoshi," (currently) the smallest divisible unit of a Bitcoin.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#What_do_I_call_the_various_de...
Mid-sized company usually has real assets and financials that can be used to evaluate its fundamental value. BitCoin valuation now is nothing more than shared dream, having no fundamentals whatsoever behind it.
still has a lot more to go before you get to the price levels people started chanting 'bubble' at.
Exactly. The 11kb WebP version shows visible degradation: http://f.cl.ly/items/140L0J3d203g410d0m3T/webp-colors.png

The same image can be made into a 13kb PNG (8-bit + imageoptim), without any complex trickery and 99.5% browser support: http://f.cl.ly/items/303H1k2c412s1o0m1b2m/webp-8.png
It's weird that his girlfriend made him live in a motorhome in her driveway.
That bitcoins are infinitely divisible is one of the ways in which problems associated with deflation are mitigated once the 21M bitcoin cap is reached.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Won.27t_loss_of_wallets_and_t...
Yes, if you suspect your child has any delays, programs like early start [1] are crucial in not only helping the child, but also helping you in dealing with any issues.

The only reason these programs aren't swamped with participants is because of the feared stigma and actually coming to grips with your child's differences.

[1] http://www.php.com/services/early-intervention-infants-toddl...
If your goal is a voxelized world, what's your reasoning for starting with the Q3 BSP strategy, and not something more like Voxlap?
According to this article, I have Aspergers.
Or maybe I'm a low functioning dyslexic.
Or maybe I'm a high functioning autistic.

Oh forget about it. I'm going back to work.
How many articles have been posted to HN now saying this exact same thing? We get it. Bitcoin is being treated as a commodity instead of a currency. However, the problem is not with the currency system but rather the people buying and selling BTC. Bitcoin itself has everything it needs to become a legitimate currency. The author also may not have realized that the coins are divisible (to 10^-8) and that all Bitcoins will be mined by 2140 (not 2040 as he claims).
Whether or not AppGratis was "rightfully" banned from the App Store is besides the point, IMO.

The problem here is that Apple is creating a confusing, inconsistent, and highly luck-based environment. This is in many ways similar to why entrepreneurship is often highly lacking in poorly governed countries.

Whether or not the rules are justifiable is a secondary concern to whether or not the rules are evenly and consistently applied. Apple wants a walled garden, fine, but we cannot have a walled garden where the majority of apps breaking the rules get away with it, and it's a random draw as to who gets the enforcement hammer.

If there's one thing that's poisonous to a healthy market it's uncertainty.
$0.01 / 0.00000001 BTC = $1,000,000/BTC

i.e. If BTC gets to be more than $1,000,000 apiece, this will be necessary to perform USD transactions down to the cent. Otherwise, it's not a problem
If that were true, why would gamers prefer games with better graphics? Why does Valve make a fortune selling virtual hats if no one cares how their character looks?