skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you have revenue/cost numbers, things with auto-prioritze themselves.

Quick SEO nitpick (and one more #ToDo item for you ;)

On bottom of home page, you have direct links to City/Neighborhood listings with relevant anchor text but all target pages (Search results) have just the title "Office Space Search" I would make them "<City/Neighborhood>+Office Spaces"
I met some partygoers in Budapest once who told of a similar tale.

They went into the wrong bar apparently, and upon leaving were told that they forgot to pay the cover charge. Which was $100 a head apparently.

So they grabbed one of the men and literally started beating him in front of the partygoers until they all emptied their debit cards into the ATM at the door of the club.
There's always someone on the other side of a trade.
It may have started to happen to us already -- I'm sure there are a few people here who have gotten lost in the World of Warcraft dimension for a time.
Right, and thanks to all that time studying it is very likely that whatever is in the pond is nothing new. Which is kind of the point of the article. Whatever is in the pond is most likely nothing we haven't seen before. Now, studying the depths of the Arctic is a different matter. Are you saying that we are so rare (just like Arctic species hundreds of meters below ice) that aliens will rush to study us?

The whole point is that we are probably average, just like the life in the pond is probably average, which is the reason nobody will put us on their priority list.
I would hesitate to generalise from the behaviour of students to make sweeping statements about the behaviour of large companies run by groups of atypical individuals.
Marco likes to rant about other app devs selling out their users for a buck. I believe Marco believes that he's somehow different.
Perhaps tied to the fact that devs often feel as though they have been hustled by "business" folk in the past.
It is simple supply and demand, you either need a bigger market for the labor you are seeking or you need to offer more money to "purchase" the employment you desire.

This is kind of an insane problem to have, with a clear solution. I'm not sure what it is about startups that makes them think that basic economics don't apply to them?
To be fair, I didn't really want to write the post back in 2010 but I was convinced to do so. I was and still am pretty happy simply not using Maven :)
Not going to disagree (because, really, it isn't worth it) but I thought my original title brought a little more emphasis to how cheap S3 is- as the OP demonstrated, I'm not sure that's so widely known.
Thanks, that makes sense. The shorter the slang the easier for them to slur the words out of their mouths.
I see plenty of insightful comments here but no one acknowledging the conclusion.

>It’s funny because the evening started out with a lady giving a speech about how the IT industry is alienating women. But for some girls, it feels like women are alienating the girls who want to be in IT.

How many of these articles/talks put the impetus on changing women alienating women from tech? How likely are you to see some twitter post about girls like this acting "not cool" even though it's a widespread problem? Feminist discourse is usually 1 dimensional. More often than not it's only interested in black and white narratives where women are victims and men are perpetrators. In the few cases where other women are shown as the problem they are framed as victims of patriarchal socialization not responsible for their behavior.
Except it would be extremely unlikely for us to be the first new species such a space-faring civilization would be coming into contact with.

At galactic scale, there's not much difference between a Mars cockroach and a regular cockroach.
> Truth has always been an absolute defence

No, not always. In English common law truth was originally only a defense in civil libel cases. But it was possible to convict persons of criminal libel, even if the writings were proven true (since it was technically considered as being a breach of the peace as opposed to mere defamation).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel_Act_1843
If the cache isn't required to provide a good experience to 1 lone user, then I would call it premature optimization.
Agreed. Even though the site says "requires a credit card" as some type of security measure, it doesn't secure anything. What are the chances that if your locked item is opened, you would trace the theft back to this service to notify them?

Slim. You'd have to catch the perpetrator first and then figure out how he got a key.

99.99999% of people don't even know a service like this exists let alone to check if their house key was duplicated there before it got robbed.
But it's trivially true that any "mental" state can at least be modulated by brain chemistry. Unless you posit some kind of free-floating mind that operates magically, all mental states supervene on physical, biological processes, whether we're talking about depression or programming ability or personality or food preferences.
Have you guys looked into Bitcoin at all? Any plans on integrating it in the future?
The replacement is FBWebDialogs, and it's not beta.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/send-requests-us...

The definitive list of properties for the request dialog is documented here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/reque...
I always thought that Firebase and Backlift (Both are YC backed as well by the way) are doing something very similar, never had the chance to analyze the differences seriously though.

Edit: a "Firebase vs Parse" question on Quora [0] (it's the first answer, no login required) made me realize that Parse is much more "mobile first" (tm), with a "full service" for mobile apps, whereas Firebase is taking "just" a subset (a very big subset) of data persistence, authentication and data security (e.g. server-less apps, which can be used in also in Mobile apps, but things like push notifications etc are more "role your own")

[0] http://www.quora.com/Firebase/How-does-Firebase-differ-from-...
Thank you! That was really nice feedback. I'm glad you liked it
Leaving out live events, streaming, satellite, etc makes this a joke of a chart.

Spending has shifted, and how people enjoy music has shifted.

It'd be like claiming the VHS killed the drive-in movie business. That'd be wildly confusing what was actually going on in the market at the time by ignoring a lot of other data points.

Tell Madonna her album sales have been decimated. Oh wait, she's busy making tens of millions per tour with $150 tickets. This chart pretends none of that spending is occurring. People have a finite budget for music, as with anything.
>Not to mention your analogy is terrible. Those ponds aren't interesting to me because they are nothing special. They don't contain anything that we aren't constantly surrounded with everywhere. On the other hand in the galaxy, planets with life on it are special. And intelligent life even more so.

No - the whole point of the article is that they're not. Sure, it's a tiny proportion of planets. But in an unimaginably vast universe, there have got to be billions of them - and while there would surely be aliens who study some other civilizations, once you've seen a few million human-level civilizations you've seen them all. Analogy: even though four-leaf clover are rare and interesting as clover go, still the vast majority of four-leaf clover in the world have never been examined by a human.
"This argument is structurally similar to the argument that God exists because God is perfect, and a necessary attribute of perfection is existence. It begs the question."

No it doesn't. The hypothetical alien race remains hypothetical throughout the argument. Not so with the Ontological Proof.
You're right.

That's why you build another threshold-type learner and then apply logistic regression to convert the score produced by learner A into a probability score.

Then you can tune at the exact point of the precision-recall curve that maximizes business value.
I absolutely think it is.

Why add extra complexity into your system (and complexity which I've seen the smartest of engineers get wrong on the invalidation side just by overlooking one small detail) before you know your macro-level bottlenecks and product questions like "how many users will even use this feature"? Additionally caching can mask more serious systemic performance issues like missing database indices and accidental extra round trips to the database.

Better to focus on fundamentals and keep your code simple, then add caching only when it's needed.
Looks like one of them is released in 2011!

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/infamous-nt-k...
It depends.

I have a lot of fun toying with the market and writing apps to leverage APIs to make me money in game. If I'm station trading (Which I have been a lot- this is similar to playing the stock market in that you sit in one place and buy low sell high) your orders cannot be updated more than once every 5 minutes. I'll usually have EVE up on a monitor but I'm not paying much attention to it. I'll pop over to the game every 20-30 minutes and quickly update orders then head back to my coding project / a blog / etc.

I also have swings of near obsession where I'm really excited to play with something new to me. When I was learning about exploring I spent probably 6-7 hours in a row flying around and tracking down litle exploration sites.

I log in maybe 3-4 days a week, but only get a nice block (more than a half hour or so) of time maybe once a week. I'd say the game is up on a monitor and accessable to me probably 15 hours a week. I'm probably actually spending more like 5 hours a week actively engaged. Honestly I have probably spent the same time coding applications around the game as I have playing.

I started the game solo but have since realized that a couple friends also play but weren't vocal about it. Occasionally we'll play together but I don't have the time or desire to join a permanent group ("Corporation") yet so I've been playing lone wolf for the most part.

I believe you can start the game for free with a 14 day trial. There are also 21 day trials that are available if a current player reffers you. I've never done it so I'm not sure on the details on that though. Either way, you should get a good taste of what EVE can offer you after that period.
I wouldn't, but I can assure you there are lots of scientists on this planet who would care.

Your examples involve creatures that we already know about and have interacted with and "integrated" into our lives (one way or another).

But I suppose the counter-example is "it depends who finds us" -- if it's an intergalactic scientific exploration team of aliens, they'll probably be as nice as can be. If it's an intergalactic mining company, maybe not so much.

The equivalent here would be the contrast between a scientific expedition to explore new species in the Amazon Rainforest (i.e. people who would be benign and take an interest in new species) vs. a bulldozing crew out to find more land in those same rainforests ("Oh look, a bird. Ok boys chop down that tree").
well...it IS a chart by Time Warner...that comes directly from RIAA
... is not a business many high level hackers would be interested in at all.

If you don't see that that's fine ....

You sound very defensive about this, which leads to the flip side of your argument: any prospect who can't take the lightest of jabs at their pet platform is not a person many "high level" startups would be interested in at all.
It's almost like... people don't like shitty garbage that fills most albums...
> because that pretentious image is something we want to overcome

If this is true, you're very subtle about it.
He's not addressing the idea of von neumann probes. Just a species or self-replicating probe that spreads out in all directions using all resources.

Another option is an alien race seeing us as a potential competitor for resources after millions of years more development and wanting to stop us now.
Sorry, but you're arguing against no one. No one said she needed to make friends with girls because she's a girl. She clearly _wants_ to become friends with them. And it's unfortunate that she clearly wants to be friends with some people of her own gender, and yet has such a hard time of it because she's alienating the other girls and they're alienating her.
That's besides the point because you don't see Democratic politicians promoting the Ayn Rand philosophy, unlike a large number of Republicans.
Perhaps it's worth it to code a quick and dirty solution using JavaScript encryption. On your download page setup a script that would receive a given encrypted string, decrypt it with a provided key, and the use it to prepend to the download link. On the server, symbolically link the file on demand and send it to only one user, ip limited. This way the attack, though still can be automated, would require some code rewrite from that attacker, which might be beyond his/her abilities. Also, if the encryption algorithm is CPU intensive, then it wold require several seconds of CPU time per request from the attacker.

To make the decryption CPU intensive you may simply use any encryption algorithm you like, many are available as JS libraries, but instead of giving the entire decrypt key, skip the last 2 digits, and let the end user brut force the last 2 digits in the client via JS. That way there is a computational cost to each attack request.

Just some ideas off the top of my head. Not sure at the moment how to implement the server side part at the moment, but I am guessing that their are server side rules that allow you to easily set per ip access restrictions to folders or fils.

PS: please excuse spelling, typing this on my iPhone.
When people use derivatives to hedge their exposure to "bad things happening" and the market is not very liquid (i.e. BTC), arbitrage opportunities can persist. For example, if there is no buyer at an out-of-the-money option strike price I know is overpriced, then the market cannot correct itself even though I am "right." When these mis-pricings stick around for a while, the eventual corrections are often much more extreme. Derivatives reduce overall volatility when the spot market is mature and liquid, which is a far cry from MtGox right now.
"It might also have something to do with a sense of productivity feeding back into the depression but that's a different story."

I don't suffer from depression but FWIW I have noticed lack of productivity leading to a down mood in the same way simply accomplishing something (even getting the room cleaned up) can lead to an up mood.
>>There are people who are interested in the contents of those ponds, and they already have been studied.

But has every single pond been studied no matter its size. Do people rush to study a new discovered pond 5 meters in diameter? Is it that novel that people will rush to it? No, because there are millions of ponds just like it. That is who we are, a little pond maybe 1 meter in diameter (probably should call it a puddle), nothing extraordinary about it. There are a millions of other 1 meter ponds/puddles around the world, why would our pond/puddle be singled out? What is so special about our tiny pond/puddle? That is the point of the article. You are not thinking big enough.
The UK's lack of free speech is farcical... people doing jail time for offensive tweets, etc. And as for it protecting the truth, libel laws have been used to keep reporting the facts of corporate poluting, etc., out of the press.
Google Predicts Stock-Market Crashes, Study Suggests
They are enough to let you inside the car, though, which is enough for (I would assume) the majority of locksmith calls.
pretty sure scientists would care about a new breed of cockroach. So it would make sense for some alien scientists, or perhaps just undergrad science majors to come and check out life on different planets.
The non-intuitive nature of the distinction between physical artifacts and the information they contain seems to be the source of a lot of different problems.
This could be made much harder both for accidentally seeing the code and for copying if the usual keys got inverted. As in - make them round pipes like the gerda ones, but with holes on the inside instead of outside.

Not only would a photo of it be useless, they'd be also much harder to print (still fairly easy to cut though, but you'd have a hard time doing it manually - it would have to be done by a machine precisely measuring the movements in most cases).
Do you know of a source for data on that? I'm skeptical but not un-convinceable that total music spending is steady/up once you factor that kind of thing.
Currently enta.net, however I can't really recommend them (beyond the fact that they don't filter). I'm intending to switch to Andrews & Arnold as soon as FTTC is rolled out in my street, which is supposed to be real soon now.
> At galactic scale, there's not much difference between a Mars cockroach and a regular cockroach.

There's not much difference between one species and another here but we still study all of them in great detail.

Don't mistake your lack of intellectual curiosity about a certain subject as being a trait shared by everyone else. I don't care about football but that doesn't mean nobody else does.

Similarly, as I said already, if you're going to go cruising about the galaxy, you're going to put people on that ship who are interested in what they're going to find. Otherwise there's no point.
An itunes single might be more than 1/6th the cost of a CD single, but it's certainly less than 1/6th the cost of a CD album. In the CD days it made a lot more sense to buy albums - there was a physical overhead to acquiring and storing the CD, and many tracks weren't even available as singles.
We do this a lot in Python (use co-routines and generators to break out of callback chains and make async code look synchronous). See Twisted, Tulip, etc.

Cool article... didn't know about ComputerCraft. Looks neat. :)
Looking at the level of interest/affection we have for intelligent animals on our own planet isn't exactly reassuring.

We know/strongly suspect dolphins/whales/etc are intelligent. But we don't care enough about what they might have to say to really try to communicate them.

And we know gorillas are intelligent. We even know we can teach them to communicate on a simplistic level -- but we don't really do it. We just don't care to. Occasionally we take one from captivity, establish communication aaaand... leave it as a curiosity for some sub-set of under-funded researchers.

No-one's going into the jungle to liaise with the gorilla tribes, help them through their troubles, educate them, present them with technology, medicine, etc.

The best we've managed on either count, on a species-to-species level, is to start to try to raise their perceived value to a level greater than that of slight inconvenience. (To halt the wanton slaughter we were previously, casually and without much remorse, engaged in.)

So would aliens ever come to Earth to stock up their zoo or fill out an encyclopedic survey of the galaxy and its life? On-Earth experience suggests that part is near-guaranteed if they ever swing by.

Might they ever establish communication with a handful of such subjects, mostly to see if it could be done? Again on-Earth experience suggests that's also plausible-to-likely.

But would they ever establish "contact" as our culture defines it? On-Earth experience makes that look less likely than their visiting in the first place.

The only real hope we have for contact, is if the Aliens perceive themselves to be only marginally more advanced than ourselves [1]. But for that to be plausible starts to eat into the requirement/assumption that they be significantly more advanced than ourselves.

[1] more along the lines of Spaniard/Native American interactions, than human/gorilla.
Where did you see that CC fees are included? I really cannot see how they'd be viable if so. But if, man, that's a deal.
For some reason this made me think of gene mutation. Sometimes you get cancer, but sometimes you get beautiful evolution.

really great piece. Made me both hate myself and love myself a little more.
I heard that clang is now the default C compiler on OS X? clisp can't be built reliably with clang on x86_64 (clisp people on irc thought it was likely a bug in clang).

sbcl doesn't rely on the C compiler so you should have no problems building it on mac OS. Clozure CL was originally a CL specifically for the mac, so it definitely should work fine. SBCL seems to be the most popular open-source implementation, as it can generate extremely good code, often with just minimal type annotations.
Not to mention they may have religious or cultural reasons to contact/convert/kill any other form of intelligent life.
I apologize if my comment came off as spammy; I don't work for or represent Balanced. When someone launches a product that is similar to an existing product, particularly a YC startup's product, the existing product is relevant to the discussion. There are so many payments startups right now, each with its own niche. I think MangoPay and Balanced share a niche (online marketplaces), but Balanced targets the US while MangoPay seems to be targeting Europe.
It is the same reason why we insert random programming references into comments :P
Check out the behavioral finance literature, like the Shleifer book: http://www.amazon.com/Inefficient-Markets-Introduction-Behav...
Yeah my first thought on reading the article is that if enough actors cared about this they would redesign the standard for card readers so that the card goes flush into the reader without any protrusions (some are already like this) and then market this fact so that machines that aren't flat are viewed with suspicion, but I'm sure the costs to replace all the machines out there and do the marketing would be enormous at this point, and you would need buy-in from a ridiculous amount of companies so it is unlikely to happen.
I've heard of Wurm Online. I haven't played it.