skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many people here, I work for a software company. We develop business automation software. Perhaps unlike most though, I'm closer to the bottom line (Sales Engineer), and are more closely tuned in to the types of business conversations our customers have when they are thinking about whether to buy our software.

Often times, the conversation revolves around the fact that the software we sell makes the average worker so ridiculously productive that often times they start being able to do the work of two people. They no longer have to spend time searching for important documents or worry about replacing lost/damaged ones, or pushing paper documents from one department to the other, or waiting for a certain supervisor to come back from a business trip so that they can sign off on stuff. For most knowledge workers this translates to at least a couple of hours of productivity gains everyday, if not more.

What do businesses do with these productivity gains? From what we have seen, the overwhelming majority use the opportunity to lay off workers they no longer need. The reason is simple: their company addresses a certain amount of customer demand, and if they can meet that demand with half the workforce then why not lay off the rest and become more profitable?

Over the years, this phenomenon has led me to the conclusion that the main problem with the economy is lack of consumer demand. If consumer demand was increasing, then companies would hire more employees despite the efficiency gains they get from automation. Or, at the very least, they would be less prone to lay people off, because their existing workforce would be more able to handle the demand by becoming more productive.

Traditionally, the main source of consumer demand in America has been the middle-class. If we find a way to bring that back, everybody wins.
It's difficult to compare population densities between cities because city boundaries don't mean the same thing. E.g. Brooklyn is part of New York, while Oakland isn't part of San Francisco, but Brooklyn and Oakland have similar geographic functions.

See my calculation here, for Chicago (using 2000 numbers): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak1exuXV7898dDR...

As of 2000, about 871,000 people (one San Francisco) lived in Chicago neighborhoods cumulatively as dense as the Mission (~25k/square mile). About 2.4 million people (three San Franciscos) lived in neighborhoods cumulatively as dense as San Francisco (~17K/square mile). Put another way, if San Francisco (~47 square miles) was as dense as the densest 47 square miles of Chicago, it would have 23,500 people per square mile and 1.1 million people.

Chicago is officially much less dense than San Francisco because the way the boundaries are defined, the city proper stretches 20 miles along the lake shore, two-thirds of the way to Gary, Indiana. San Francisco, meanwhile, ends quite abruptly part-way down the Peninsula. But if you look at the population density weighted by the populations of neighborhoods, Chicago is more dense.

Interestingly, Chicago has no reason to be so dense. Aside from the lake, it's flat, easily-built land as far as the eye can see. It's just that historically Chicago has had lax zoning regulation and that has resulted in more density.
Three-Year Hunt Nabs Hacker Who Popularized Cybercrime
Stub like a surgeon, spy like James Bond with REST-assured (2012)
I'm not sure this is completely correct.

Browsers do multiple requests at once, so trying to squeeze everything into as few requests as possible could make things slower as you lose the parallelism.

I would think it would be better to try and make all your requests a similar size. 3x100kb will probably be faster than 1x300kb
When conditions change, and the community would be better served if some of those restrictions were changed, is it easier to change municipal zoning codes, or to change individual contracts and deed restrictions?

From what I've seen, it's nearly impossible to change deed restrictions; even restrictions like "you can't sell to african-americans" stay on the books, but just become unenforceable. At least with zoning laws, it's possible (if hard) to de-clutter them.
Patch review vs diff review, revisited
I have no idea what my response was about. As I said, I was pretty sick that day. Sorry you had to type all this stuff to explain to me that I'm a moron. :)
I think it is, based on the fact that (as I mentioned in the GP) wealth follows a powerlaw distribution. I don't see why options wouldn't follow this trend, particularly because market cap of companies in an economy also follows a powerlaw. These are the two factors involved in options.
Same here. Exercised at $3, never sold. They went down to $0.02 and more recently back up to $0.40. Could have made a lot had I bought at $0.02. I regularly tell myself to just sell the damn things so I can stop looking at the ticker.
It's not clear that the players actually got to keep the stuff. Several articles state that they were stripped of their ill gotten gains, including this one by the devs themselves: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/72972
That's the question they're asking -- albeit in a flawed way, IMO. "Is there a relationship between psychopathy and programming language, phone selection, sex, age, etc?"

They've packaged some pretty standard questions (probably) based on DSM IV criteria that they think will tell them how psychopathic the survey responder is, then they're going to correlate that data with the demographic information at the bottom to say: "Look, Android/iPhone users are, on average, eleventy percent more psychotic than iPhone/Android users!"

It will be dumb, and only people who repost stupid text-on-image-wisdom stuff to their Facebook wall will believe it has any bearing on reality.
Imagine a race of technologically advanced religious zealots. Now imagine that their god has tasked them with converting everyone in the universe and kill any who refuse. If you're having trouble, just imaging a Catholic Space Crusade or an Islamic Space Jihad, it's the next "logical" step. I'd be pretty afraid of aliens with that kind of mindset.
Regardless of what others have said, I think using these in special circumstances is perfect. They are quirky, fun, and well designed. I look forward to using them in a fun design in the future.

My favorites are (1) Upload, (2) Chrome, (3) Android, (4) and the Spinners. Thank you very much!
Congratulations! You discovered spamming! It's super effective.
But I have to wait for the gas to refill, the car can charge itself overnight.
Just check the 'top' articles on /r/news once a week. You could probably script something to tweet a link if the number of votes exceeded some sufficient threshold, and then you wouldn't even have to check Reddit.

I personally just check Google News once every morning for about 30 seconds.
I actually am determined to write a book on this topic, and I have managed to get a nice list of big HN celebs (and others) onboard for the project.

Most of the material will be based on interviews with these people.

Hopefully I will have found a SaaS idea of my own as well before I start writing the book, so I can practice what the book preaches :)

Here's the sign up page for the book: http://howtofindsaasideas.com/

Feel free to send me ideas for the book as well.
Silly. they just distorted the balance when they inserted a God figure giving out prizes to entice war. (maybe they wanted more wars happening?)

if they left the real world analogy (you blow up a ship with an item, you get that item) then it would never have happened. but since they've added 'reward points' for the value of items in the ships you destroy, that offseted the balance because, well, it's silly.
Oh, Christ. Start-up wankery has its place, but something to keep in mind: there's nothing that makes working for a start-up the be-all, end-all of a meaningful life.

You complain about people just wanting to exist and live and enjoy time with their friends and family? And that they don't have grand dreams of starting a business, running it, doing a bunch of shit that's secondary to their actual interests?

Here's the thing: no one should have to start their own business to be successful in life. Not all people are cut out for it. And just because you're a 20-something guy who's willing to spend 60-80 hours a week working to change the world with a social networking site for cat photographers so that some VC can make bank doesn't mean that other people are somehow inferior because they don't want to.

Not everyone can be a special snowflake, and that's fine. Some people want to work a 9 to 5 job and then head home to cook dinner with their loved ones. In the past that's been possible, but increasingly for our generation it's becoming harder and harder. And that's a societal failure.
Ask HN: What is the best day to announce new feature?
Hi, we are about to announce some new features to our platform and I was curious if anyone had any data regarding best day (and time of day if available) of the week to announce a new software feature. TIA
> I assure you that the Marxist (or rather Bolshevik) revolution in Russia in 1917 wasn't caused by "wage slavery".

Sure it was. Wage slavery -> the work of Marx (alone and with and Engels) -> core of the propaganda basis for the Bolshevik revolution (with suitable adaptations to be applied in a something other than an industrialized, democratic, capitalist environment.)

Now, it wasn't a proximate cause, but...

Aside from that, I suppose, you could look at the generally-less-violent process by which virtually every state even approximately meeting the necessary preconditions for Communism in Marx's work has adopted a substantial subset of the platform laid out in the Communist Manifesto as a form of "Marxist revolution" that is more like the Green Revolution or the Industrial Revolution than the Bolshevik Revolution; in that case, "wage slavery" was more of a proximate cause than it was of any of the various violent revolutions driven by Leninism/Stalinism/Maoism, et al.
But does anyone want to live in Pleasanton or Napa? (I wouldn't know, just curious)
That's only in the presence of proof either way, of which there isn't any.

The 'common sense' legislation that's been proposed may or may not help the problem, but there is no guarantee that either would occur. It's been proven over and again that there's no single bit of legislation that would have prevented the Newtown massacre, except for any legislation that would have prevented anyone in Adam Lanza's sphere of influence from having any firearms or weapons whatsoever. Further, considering the aim of the current crop of legislation is aimed at preventing firearms categorized as 'assault weapons' from sale, which account for a miniscule percentage of crimes, it seems misdirected.

More to the point though, is whether or not firearm legislation does anything for the good. Criminals vastly prefer unarmed victims. Making it such that less of the populace is less armed might sound like a good solution, but has not proven to be.

Kennesaw, GA is an extremely strong counterpoint. In 1981, they enacted a law encouraging every household to own a gun. Between the year the law was passed and the following year, crime had dropped something like 80%. In the 25 years that followed, they were able to celebrate the township's 25th anniversary of being murder free. Perhaps more interestingly than that is that it didn't prevent crime at all, but seems to have displaced it rather effectively. Crime around Kennesaw, GA is higher than crime in Kennesaw, GA, and is even higher than Georgia at large. This suggests, to me at least, that criminals will still be criminals, and crime will still occur, but where criminals know there is an armed populace, they'll seek out greener pastures.

Further, most mass killings occur in "gun free zones". The Aurora, CO theater shooter bypassed a number of closer or larger theaters to seek out one further from his house that specifically banned guns from being held on the premises. We can't ask him, obviously, because he's dead, but this suggests that he sought out the area where he was likely to go longest without being stopped, and also suggests that law-abiding citizens not intent on performing crime, generally obey the law, as there was nobody there armed to stop him.

So, while I don't necessarily begrudge you the complaints you have, that doesn't necessarily indicate that regulation would, in fact, do any good whatsoever, and could actually contribute to the problem.

Another counterpoint, is that one of the least likely demographics to commit any form of crime, but especially armed crimes, are people registered for concealed carry.
> then just prop Glass up on the top of your head

This would give fascinating insight into a topic most people ignore: cieling fixtures.

Also, would provide great longitudina personalized weather data, to determine if rainclouds really do follow some people around.
Reality is not as straightforward as the Convention, which is pretty loose anyway (who defines that territory, government and capacity?). There are in fact two very different schools of thought on what creates statehood:

http://www.lawteacher.net/constitutional-law/essays/declarat...
Real Quick: Just wondering, what if you made a browser extension that replaced all the links a user saw on every page they visited to affiliates links from Amazon and Ebay? Would that work?
Ask HN: Why not start a pay-for-advice service at YC?
I'm curious, why YC community can't open a pay-for-advice service, for non-YC funded companies? I'm sitting on a startup, and I could really use some paid advice.

YC got a wonderful traction, thanks to HN, yet such a terrific opportunity goes unnoticed!

My suggestion:
1. Advice should be divided per function, like Legal, Financial, Technical.

2. The price should be for startups, lower than market price of these services separately.

what do you think my fellow HN users?
Totally. The market, and a dozen or two dead people, typically sorts this stuff out. So what's the problem?
> given little freedom relative to their skillset.

When I worked for Ford, I would overhear conversations like this:

Manager: Customers are complaining, the pedal is to hard to press on the Town Car.

Engineer: The pedal is too fucking soft as is. If we make it any softer, people won't know if they are even pressing it.

Manager: Just make it softer. It is showing up as a problem on the TGW report.
You do that. Nobody wants Quebec.
@fuzzwah

I meant as you are replying inline. e.g. http://www.taigeair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Edit-Subj...

I tried hitting shift+r but it just looks like inline reply in a new window.

Obviously I use email a lot and care a lot about gmail.
But that isn't W=1
You can't mock HTTP responses, the responses mock you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/6508102407/in/set-721...
I've always found arbitrage to be the best way to earn money in mmo's. I used to buy up all levels of cheap green items in the wow auction house, according to exact limits i came up with and stored in a spreadsheet. then i would disenchant them and sell the byproduct.

It was time consuming, but i made a lot of money and it took a long time before anyone else figured it out and joined in. the problem was it only took a few people on a server to skew the prices of the masses. but by then i had a lordship and manor in every city in the eastern kingdoms.
Banks and governments are concerned about bitcoin, i.e. they want to take their cut. I take this as a sign that this means bitcoin is here to stay (or at least the big banks and the government think so).
I must have scanned the blog post too quickly. Thanks for the clarification.
It'd be good to get the gmail team's thoughts on this.
If it helps, I bought Conrad Barski's Land of Lisp and Steven Levy's Hackers (25th anniversary edition).
> AND we need more H-1B's? This guy's a real piece of work. We already have the ability to bring in extraordinary talent. We don't need 50,000 more outsource firm slots.

Being on the hiring side of things, America needs all the talent it can get. Hiring good software engineers is seriously hard.

Maybe the problem is just connecting people with jobs, but given the low unemployment rate in the tech sector, I really doubt it.

Having to interview 5 candidates before finding one who just knows how malloc works isn't fun.

Indeed, one of our high quality engineers had to be sent back to his home country after his work visa expired, we are hoping to get him in on H-1B, and I believe he got approved, but now we have to sit and wait for government wheels to churn.

America should make it as easy as possible for highly motivated and talented individuals to come here. Jobs, heck, entire new industries will be created.

Isn't that the entire lesson from start-up culture? Get talented highly motivated people together, let them achieve their dreams (with someone who knows business and finances overseeing things!), and the economy will grow.
I think it's difficult to do any sound prediction. Once you reach a certain level of civilization advancement, I think everything is different, a little bit like you couldn't compare our civilization with the first human beings fighting for food.
uggh. 3.5 hrs? I know it's a small form factor (no space for big honking battery), but 3.5 hrs isn't a whole lot. How easy is it to turn it off? And is 3.5 hrs at "full-bore, pictures of everything, GPS, etc" usage level? Of course, we'll get a nice context-less blurb via Gruber when it comes to Google bashing :).
Empty soda or beer cans full of oxygen and acetylene, yee haw. It sends the can tens of feet into the air, makes a loud bang like a gunshot, and makes grown men giggle like little girls.
I made a boatload of money on EverQuest (and WoW) with a similar arbitrage "scam."

In older versions of EQ there was a Bazaar zone where you could see the price of all the goods around.
For this scam I would find some item that is fairly rare for two reasons:

A) so most users don't know its true price, and
B) because rare items would be more likely to have a particular price spread: A couple items for sale for around their true price, and a couple items for sale for far above that. I don't know why there were always people trying to sell items for 10 or 20 times the item's actual value, but it was common.

I would buy up all instances of the item at its normal, lower price, so now the market looked like the item was legitimately valued at this much larger price. Then I would loudly try to sell it for multiples of what I bought it for. People would see that I'm trying to sell for ~half of what the rest of the market is selling it for, so it must be a good deal!

edit: I don't believe this was illegal according to Sony or Blizzard, and besides, how would they prove I was doing this maliciously?
It wouldn't matter if you had control over it. but 3Gb of those are for useless S-apps (S-suggest, S-store, whatever) that you will NEVER open. in fact, those are the apps that if you do open, you curse the mistake and close.

samsung is the Acer of mobiles. Other brands used to do that to branded phones and you would find att or verizon bloatware. now you are not free even if you buy unlocked.
Sometimes the worship of the startup culture gets to be a bit much... there's nothing inherently more valuable about making your own startup than there is in working for someone else, and you also forgot to add "money" to the list of things that drive the YC crowd.

We're basically still inside of a global economic recession and no amount of drive and passion can fix that for everybody. There are certainly some edge cases who can make entrepreneurship work but when you have 25% unemployment for a certain age group you have to assume that there's something else in play beyond a lack of motivation.
Step 3: Profit

I wish them well, but the "profit" part still remains to be seen for both SpaceX and Tesla Motors.
From Microsoft’s site:

The 64 GB Surface Pro has approximately 30 GB storage available for user content

The 128 GB Surface Pro has approximately 89 GB storage available for user content

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/storage

(Note that this information is not given on the Surface Pro specs page.)
The big killer here, especially on 3G/LTE, is latency not throughput. Here in Vancouver, I can get 40Mbit down on LTE, but my ping is in the 300s.

Here's a pretty good post on how latency dominates page load speed after a certain point: http://www.igvita.com/2012/07/19/latency-the-new-web-perform...

By bundling resources, we reduce the number of requests, and the number of round trips.

Disclaimer: I work at Mobify with Peter who authored the post.
Hardly sounds like a scam to me. Arbitrage is inherently risky.
reminds me of when i accidentally started a fire in study hall ...
Taking cocaine does not imply you'll become an addict and it will control your life. Many high functioning drug users never get in trouble with drug use, but we never hear those stories.

People can become alcoholics, and some people are more susceptible to it, that doesn't make everyone an alcoholic.

A much more effective strategy is education and regulated legal supply. People require licenses to sell, and potentially to use, and tax the harms in order to provide health resources for the people that do get in trouble.

It'll be cheaper, and fewer people will die.
What Nothingness Feels Like: The Sensory Deprivation Tank
The overall message is stop worrying so much about the locations of other people's genitals.
A Python snippet almanac for scientific computing and data visualization.
We've already had our first Google Maps "war". http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/the-first-go...
I didn't think this was a problem, because the Samsung Galaxy S4 has a micro-SD slot. However, the article says that apps CANNOT be installed on micro-SD. Is this a recent thing? Does anyone know why they'd do that?
this is similar to ISP's claiming: Unlimited Internet/Download, and still saying "subject to Fair Usage Policy"

This is BS, I would not buy a Samsung phone, when I can do it. Company policy towards such issues, reflects it overall approach to quality delivery to customers.

My friend was actually asking my opinion the other day, I would tell him to choose Iphone5
this is similar to ISP's claiming: Unlimited Internet/Download, and still saying "subject to Fair Usage Policy"

This is BS, I would not buy a Samsung phone, when I can do it. Company policy towards such issues, reflects it overall approach to quality delivery to customers.
Dan Ariely has written about research around this topic: http://danariely.com/2009/08/05/the-trouble-with-cold-hard-c...
I think the juxtaposition of the terms was intended by the commenter.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5613920

Original Link: http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-well-never-meet-ali...
Elon Musk: The People Who Mocked Our Last Leasing Deal Were Right
Then sell it as a "Surface Pro 30 GB (tablet only)", not "Surface Pro 64 GB (tablet only)": http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productI...
Why I Unfriended Everyone on Facebook
Don't blame women for your insecurity and inability to function in this world.
This is a general Android thing, not a Samsung thing. It has to do with the way Honeycomb and above handle internal storage and external SD cards. It just doesn't come up that often because so few new phones have SD card slots anymore.
The other reviews e.g. Scoble, say 3.5 hours of active use, full day at typical usage levels.
Seriously I don't want to inline pictures sometimes. And guess what? If you delete it? You don't know if the picture is still attached because there is no visual feedback. Try it.

1. hit c
2. drag a picture into email
3. delete picture from email body
4. now i don't know if it's in attachment still or just removed from body.
That sounds downright Georgist. I like it!
Ah. That makes much more sense.