skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My friend from college has been shuttling between MIT and Lawrence Livermore for a few years now (he does particle detection for the nuclear fusion experiments). Having talked to him at length, I'm convinced that while a career at the lab may not be as flashy as some of the best careers across the bay, it would be an absolutely wonderful way to live life and contribute to the world through science.

I'm not nearly smart enough to work there, but boy do I look up to those who do!
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a solution? I don't think there is a problem to solve. I do think allowing FDI in e-commerce can only help the Indian consumer (not to mention the economy, because it will result in more hiring, more exit options for e-commerce startups etc)
Grandfather in current mortgages?
Republican Party hires Facebook engineering manager as first CTO
Yes, human relationships are a real drag on the economy.
how many page views/month and uniques? is there a list of most trafficked Derby apps out there?
Doing that would absolutely wreck the economy. Like, black swan systemic failure wreck.

The mortgage tax deduction provides a huge amount of what turns out to be disposable income for the middle and lower-middle class. Take that away, and the ripples in the economy would be massive. Similarly, all current house prices would be trimmed by at least 20%, and most likely more than that due to how the tax deduction is able to help with principal payments. If we have another 20% trim of house prices across the board, you're looking at -- at the very least -- a return of the great recession. As mortgage rates are already at their lowest point, there's not much further down they can go to compensate for the sudden lack of demand that will occur.

Spending money gone. House price chopped in half, sending more people underwater. Mortgage interest rates nowhere to go. That's a trifecta of disaster.
Why not rent it? If you got it really cheap just rent it for the cost of the property taxes.
For those that waited years to get into the private beta, it is now open to everyone!

SpyParty is a really fun and unique game, I'm looking forward to seeing the game and its community (which is one of the best I have ever seen) continue to grow and develop.
The only tool that I have found to help with those kinds of problems is a human being and lots of hard work. The more short cuts you try to take, the worse it will be for you in the end.
Hear, hear. How dare the serfs even think about owning their own home. They should be grateful to the merciful overlords for the opportunity to rent crappy overpriced and cramped housing where they can't nail things to the wall or have a dog. Not to mention the ever present threat of eviction by sale.

That's what popped into my head when I read that post. But I lived in Cambridge, MA long enough to have a chip or two on my shoulder. :-)
I agree those numbers are too artificial.

Does it count organized Government led Drone attacks incl. "collateral damage" or targets in the US and other countries?

What about unpublished or unpopular genocides, mass murders and deaths as direct cause of corrupted politicians? People don't only die in 3rd world countries. How many poeple died because of fracking in the USA? How many died, because of corruption in the medical system, yes here in our 1st world country. Deaths because of corruption in the organ transplantation system.

I am sure that there are millions of souls that these statistics do no good.
If I read their about page right, they only check your mail a few times a week (3x), then if you decide you do want a specific piece of mail they've scanned they will send it back to you. So you still end up checking your mail waiting for the returned item and having to filter through any junk mail that hasn't been picked up yet. This is not something I would pay for or even do for free.
and at good prices. Earlier I sometimes had to call Rajkamal and order over phone and used to pay VPP.
Looks like Samsung got denied on all the current models and can prohibit the importation of only the iPhone 4 and earlier models.

Meanwhile Apple is still trying to get the courts to ban the import of the Samsung's 2011 Galaxy Nexus based on the case last year.

Well, at least the plodding and ridiculously slow pace of justice is a good thing for once. If it takes two years to ban a model of smart phone, they'll never manage to ban one that's important in the market.
You'd have to have a pretty sizeable home before you start itemizing for mortgage interest and not take the standard deduction. I disagree.
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Battlestar Galactica is incredible.
My team has been using phabricator for a while now and it is a really wonderful tool for doing code reviews and repository browsing and linking. It's also has a nice paste app.

The only downside is that occasionally nagios will squawk about no more free memory on the box and we'll see some of the PHP processing using upwards of 5GB RAM.
Could you expand on be "huge issues" caused by secondary sales? I'm having trouble thinking of any. The most common criticism I've heard is that secondary sales can make it difficult for the company to maintain a fiction about their common share price, but that amounts to a tax dodge anyway. Love to hear some concrete thoughts on the matter.
> No, not just for the implementers. For the users too.

You haven't bothered to address option types. This sort of unqualified assertion may lead people to believe Go's questionable design decisions were, in fact, made out of ignorance.

A language with null references is exactly like a language with option types, where every reference value is by default optional.

Removing this default does not increase complexity for the user. Conversely, it allows the user to write less code and enjoy more safety, which is clearly a complexity decrease.
Is your criticism of Go based on actual experience using it, or simply the fact that it lacks certain features that you deem critical in a modern programming language?
The solution is to build more houses. Right now homeowners have an incentive to keep housing stock low (cf. NIMBY).

If more people were renters, there would be more of an economic incentive for more affordable housing.
It is almost identical to 'Combinator', another WP HN app. No login, posting or replying functionality... which is why I'm writing this from my android phone! I do appreciate the cleaner typography and the links in comment actually work (combinator doesn't fix links). It's good, but not as complete as what is available on Android.
We just blogged about how you can build a Parse web app with the Express web framework within the browser.

http://blog.nitrous.io/2013/06/04/build-parse-web-apps-in-th...

We're still in private beta, but we will be moving to public beta very soon. If you want an invite sooner, ping us on Twitter at @NitrousIO.
The article is definitely great - but it never said what happened with the stranger outside his apartment!
I was told this and I tell others: If you have to move to take a new job, don't buy. If, however, you can reasonably map a career (or, say, 10 years of it) without moving, the system is set up to reward home ownership (particularly for US-ians I think). It's not an investment, although it has aspects of one. It's not a boat anchor either, but can serve as a good approximation in down times. Just be #!*&% careful when committing serious coin to the man.
I thought about this and I can construct some logic to support his phrasing.

Suppose we figure out how to end aging, but people continue to die at the same mortality rate as the 25-34 year old group. That's roughly 1/1000 per year.

(999/1000)^692 = 0.5

If we could nudge that mortality rate down a bit, 800 seems like a pretty good ballpark estimate.
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Renting includes a number of financial and legal responsibilities.

Bad tenants can be a nightmare. I don't really want to risk having to deal with that drama.

Right now I'm thinking I'll just have to sell the house at a loss. Not really so bad. It won't be a tremendous loss and I have lived in 3 years. I guess in the end it would have been the same had I just rented.

Previous to this I did rent for a long time and hated that.

I really am serious about the van thing.
well... at least the metro is making progress.
P2P file sharing in the browser
There's also http://www.sharefest.me which was on google io13
www.sebastianmarshall.com - he is doing it
I imagine having a small pony bottle in with him would be enough to return to the surface safely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_bottle
> Whether a vegetarian should eat the young of another species harvested before birth is another question [...]

Unless you are talking about Balut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)), the eggs we are eating are usually not fertilized. So it's not `eating the young'.
Well, mine is always on. :-)
There's also http://www.sharefest.me - p2p file sharing web app which featured on google io13
"hg histedit" is almost exactly the same as "git rebase -i", right down to the UI.
Oh, so really it only goes into bankers' pockets?

I feel much better now.
Frankly, I think that's exactly what I'm never worried about - especially not for my personal projects.
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>It's so bad that I really have a hard time figuring out who wins from the deduction. Except for the banks, of course.

It's really pretty much just the banks. You get some other movement around the edges though. For example, it promotes urban sprawl, because the higher home prices make more new home construction in the suburbs cost effective, which can be to the benefit of construction companies. And people who move from areas with higher housing prices to areas with lower housing prices benefit to the detriment of those who do the opposite, because the windfall they get when they sell their home is larger than it would be otherwise -- which again promotes urban sprawl, because it increases the financial incentive for existing urbanites to move to the suburbs, and creates a similar effect for renters because higher real estate prices mean higher rents but the renters don't get the deduction so they have to move farther away from the cities to find affordable rental properties.
To me, Twitter Bootstrap was important because it was the first time I added visual elements without having to hack the existing CSS. Most things I needed were already generalized and well documented.

Contrasting this to working on every one of the dozens of web projects I have been on. It was night and day. One was finding a kindred spirit and the other a train wreck. CSS is always the broken window code base of any project. TB was the first experience where it made enough sense that I didn't need to break more windows to get things to work.
What do you use a massive /etc/hosts file?
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Sencha CEO: HTML5 Poised for Big Things
Aiding the enemy is a separate offense than treason, and a less serious one. Bradley Manning is actually being charged with aiding the enemy, but is not being charged with treason.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your insights. Good read.
Beacon Power produces 25KWh flywheels priced at around $1000 /Wh.

Is that really a $25mil flywheel? Or should that have been $1000/KWh?

For mobile uses (automobiles, etc.) these problems are compounded.

I'm probably demonstrating considerable mechanical naivety with this question, but could you balance multiple flywheels in different directions and orientations to mitigate these problems?
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Was this recorded above a club? :P
Please at international addresses! I have been looking for a service like this!
Always copy/scan the filled out title before you give it to them, at least then there's some proof you transferred ownership.
Will Berlin follow New York and rule Airbnb-style sites illegal?
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ITC Finds Apple Violates Samsung Patent, Issues Limited Import Ban
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The standard deduction for a single filer is "only" $6,100. It doesn't take a very large mortgage to combine with real estate taxes and other potential deductions (State Income tax/Sales Tax) to move you out of the standard deduction category.

When I've had a mortgage, I've never taken the standard deduction. When I've not had a mortgage, I've never itemized.
Pros and cons of opening iOS to third-party developers
This is one of those technical things that makes little or no difference to a customer.

They'll probably get to it eventually.
From what I have heard secondhand he is very bright and very arrogant. This is what you should expect from him. The question is whether he is an exemplar or an outlier.
Why haven't cash-strapped American schools embraced open source?
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5823345)

A web search for some sentences in the abstract returns some useful hits for the paper online. Someone else posted (after you had posted) a link to the full paper.

Here's a nice PDF. (http://www.piie.com/publications/wp/wp13-3.pdf)
Not really, because you can take a sales tax deduction if you itemize. Sales tax deduction + mortgage interest deduction probably gets you over the hump. If you're in a state with property taxes you can deduct those as well when you itemize.
It wouldn't surprise me if most of the folks making $100K+ on their apps are spending double or triple that for development across multiple apps to produce a hit.

This isn't all that different from other hit-driven industries like music or video games.

The exception may be in apps that serve a profitable niche and have little to no competition. But the problem there is it's difficult to stay on top when the marketplace is becoming crowded with fast followers. There are ways to defend against this, but it will involve building a brand outside of the App Store, which can take considerable investment.
Cash-on-delivery already solves most of what you are trying to say. Flipkart and many other sites are already very successful implementing this model.

These days anybody who can order things through internet, actually orders things through the internet.

Just wondering if you are an Indian or if you are staying India?
This is a striking contrast to recent news of Amazon's expansion of their grocery delivery system to Los Angeles. How do they justify offering grocery delivery services in a city with such poor urban planning?
They have a neat status page similar to GitHub's: http://status.bitbucket.org/
Awesome.! Thanks for the link
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This is already happening. Some ecomm sites have tied up with a coffee chain here in India and doing NFC&QR code based item image display and allowing people to order them with their mobiles.
This is one of those services that makes me sit down and think: "what can I build on top of this?", kind of like how patio11 said he wrote down everything he could think of to build on top of Twilio when he first heard of it. [1]

I'll have to brainstorm with my notebook tonight.

[1] not the exact quote, but close https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112615
2 years ago I taught myself how to code and design. Figuring out how to set up my environment alone almost killed me. There were just so many cryptic commands that had to be done that weren't exactly english. Then I found the Rails 1 click installer, and it literally did just that. Next I saw the beauty of git push heroku master. Now my page was on the web. It was amazing. To seasoned programmers it might not seem that difficult, but to those who are entering this new world, a few steps and a wiki can start to get confusing, especially if something goes wrong or the person skips a step. Overall the environments for code still have bad UX and I can't wait till someone makes it as easy as the 1 click experience I had.
I stumbled upon that calculator after writing one of my own one afternoon; it's cool!

Another key factor: house price appreciation and your ROI of capital. If house prices (adj. for inflation) don't rise much (as last 100 yrs or even 40 have shown) and you can make several percentage points above inflation on investing what you would have put into a down-payment, it doesn't matter how long you live in the home.

It's all in what kinda SWAGs you make. The default values in the NYtimes calculator are 1100/mo equiv. for $172k, but based on price to rent ratios here in Austin (near 20? http://www.deptofnumbers.com/affordability/texas/austin/) that home price would be near $250k
The NYT article linked to in the comments section has much more detail:

Challenge to Dogma on Owning a Home http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/business/homeownership-may...
Hey Fakeer,

Do you have an idea (or know someone who does) as to

1. How is the Shipping Label (with tracking# if that's feasible) generated?

2. Which are the major couriers picking up the packages from the small ecommerce shop locations and delivering them?

3. Is the Indian Post Office a major player at all (in the US, the USPS is the largest ecommerce delivery company...bigger than UPS, FedEx and DHL combined)
It probably depends.

If the phones are already manufactured and can't be sold, two years after release or not, it would be a big hit... right in the moneys.
I enjoy using Go, otherwise I wouldn't waste energy discussing it.
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I don't think this is surprising at all. Apple's allegations against Samsung were largely visual and easy for the layperson to understand. It makes sense that Apple's position would carry more weight in the mainstream media.
If you want to see the work being done done on this, http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/ has nightly builds of the Australis UX overhaul. It's still hugely WIP though
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Adding hg support would be kinda awkward given their name.
Pivotal Tracker is significantly better. We switched to Jira about six months ago and it has been very painful. The worst parts of my week are when I have to interact with Jira. Our sprint planning meetings used to be pleasant using Tracker because it helps guide things toward an effective agile workflow while mostly staying out of the way. Now that we use Jira, half of our planning meetings are spent fighting with the software rather than actually planning.
s/urban planning/less restrictive zoning/

LA has great transportation bones and layouts (http://www.humantransit.org/2010/03/los-angeles-the-transit-...), but it cannot densify, so it's stuck at a bad level of too dense for cars to work well but not dense enough to be primarily transit based. Metro LA is denser than metro Boston, SF, or Chicago.
I find it interesting that the patent being infringed by Apple was a standard essential patent. Given that Motorola has been having so much difficulty going after Microsoft over FRAND patents, I'm surprised Samsung's lawyers were able to pull this off.
It looks beautiful in Windows and OSX.

It looks less awful than the current theme in Linux, thanks to the menu button (which usually occupies the position of the leftmost tab in Linux and isn't even orange) being moved to the same location as where Chrome has it. But there still seems to be a lot of wasted space in the titlebar of the Linux theme.

I remember reading that this is because certain opendesktop UI guidelines (can't remember which one) prohibit apps from encroaching on the window chrome. But Chrome doesn't care and puts tabs at the top of the chrome anyway, and this is quite useful because you can just push the mouse to the top edge of the screen to click on a tab. With a thick titlebar occupying the edge, on the other hand, you need to aim more carefully.
You can't just generate energy from nothing. A flywheel stores energy, it doesn't create it. So yes, they got something wrong.
Maybe selling the used parts to us South Americans :)

Cars here (Uruguay) are so expensive, we try to maintain them forever

An old article (from 1969!!!) illustrates the point:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1...

"The official position is that car owning is a sumptuary sin." It still is, and so new cars are taxed about 100%. Take any U.S. car, triple its price, and that's the cost in Uruguay. Old cars (2005 and older) can be five to ten times more expensive than in the U.S. (my 2002 small Renault Twingo sells for U$ 9.000)
Is there something "going on" with DNS DDOS right now, or have I just happened to notice several in the last few days? cloudns.net, EasyDNS, and now dnsimple.com - all in the last week...
Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home (w/ Video)
The article just says OMGPOP is being shut down. Does that mean forward development is ending, or apps like Draw Something will also be shuttered?

Does anyone know?
It's a good thing both of these products are almost end-of-life.
> A language with null references is exactly like a language with option types, where every reference value is by default optional.

Yes.

> Removing this default does not increase complexity for the user.

Yes, it does. They need to be aware of the semantics of the option mechanism, how to specify whether a type is optional, and when that is appropriate. They must also perform checks when converting values from optional to non-optional types.

In Go the choice is made for you: reference types may be nil.
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Except of course it was rounded corners. Rounded corners.
Intriguing and promising idea. I think the most interesting market here is angels; the bigger firms already get a good look at the most promising deals. If the execution proves successful, Mattermark should become accredited investor and ask for a small number of shares per deal in each VC (or angel's) fund in lieu of a subscription fee.
I work for an insurance company. Many of the cars we declare as "totaled" are nothing of the sort, only they need a few very expensive accessories, or the original equipment is too expensive - but aftermarket or used parts, which we cannot use (the company policy and contract is only replacing with original parts on newer cars), would make the car perfectly fit for driving again. The main culprits are airbags and electronics.
I've been a Bitbucket member since 2009 and have an open source project (since 2010) as well as a few private repos. I've had users signing up simply to open issues and communicate with me. Works like a charm.

They've always been top-notch but with git support and Atlassian's rising profile in the git community they're really starting to gain traction. I hope they keep up the good work.
Chinese is hardly present on Twitter because of censorship in China and competition within China from Chinese-language microblogging services (which are very influential within China).
Why I'm minus on Google plus
There are many reasons. Biggest is competition works wonders for consumers.

Secondly, It creates an environment where a lot can be learn't from others.

The current environment for start ups in India is in large part due to inspiration, effect and to an extent competition from the silicon valley.
To be honest, I really don't care about the UI on Linux so much as the terrible lag. For whatever reason, Mozilla just can't get its shit together when it comes to fixing lag on Linux. For this reason alone, I continue to use Chrome, even though I'd love to move back to Firefox and get all the customizability that it's known for.
Ask HN: Do you pass processing fees onto the customer?
If a user is purchasing a product or service from you either via paypal, stripe or some other method, do you pass on the transaction fee (ex 2.9% + 30c) to the user?

Its the cost of doing business for me and my company - but I want to see/hear others opinions on this
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