skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a nit on GH issues: email vs web don't mix. Email formatting isn't rendered properly online (line breaks, "> " quoting) - and you can't edit an issue/comment online if you originally mailed it in (it's type is email, and that's it). Editing online is incredibly slow on small machines (zenmode is much faster, but you can't preview).
Amazon already sells a hell of a lot of clothing. I buy more stuff from them than anywhere else, actually.

I've even bought a couple of suits from them, and they were fine. It's not a problem as long as you measure carefully and plan on getting some alterations/hemming done locally (as you would with any off-the-rack suit).

Hey, that might be an idea. Amazon sends around someone to measure you, then you get a bespoke, tailor-made suit delivered in a week or so. Take that, Savile Row. :-)

Furniture could be handled with a good VR system -- something that lets you take a few dozen pictures of your living room from different angles, synthesizes a 3D model, and then lets you put a virtual piece of furniture in there.
World of Tanks dev drops "pay-to-win" purchases
While I think most people here agree that Zynga is a shitty and creatively bankrupt company for these and other reasons, OMGPOP actually got an amazing deal.

$180 million is more than 99.9999% of startups ever make. That's a good thing.

Hopefully the founders of OMGPOP got rewarded nicely and have the opportunity to work on whatever they want now.
Even if you work on several machines, having not to worry about whether they are turned on / are accessible from wherever you are is a huge plus. People tend to have laptops nowadays, which you don't necessarily think about as always on computers.
No, he thinks our parents only lived 8 years.
I think both companies need to just chill out and let the best man win instead of clawing at each other immaturely.
As a resident of Los Angeles, this seems anecdotally (which has the usual caveats) obvious to me. I saw home ownership lead to issues with employment within the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

There is a lot of "affordable" ($400K to $600K) single family homes in the San Fernando Valley, or towards Orange County, so I had a lot of coworkers buy homes in those areas. If you work in Venice, a house in Torrance is about a 45 minute commute by car. I know this will sound absurd to a lot of people in HN, but if you told a Los Angelan your commute to work was 45 minutes each way, they would say "that's pretty good."

However, if you bought a home in Torrance and live there and a company in downtown LA wants to hire you, even though you're only driving about another 8 miles or so, your commute will probably explode close to an hour and a half, and at least one day a week there'll be some clsuterfuck of an accident on one of the freeways, and you'll have the lovely experience of leaving your house at 8:00am and somehow still being late to your 10:00am stand-up meeting. Fun times!

So I saw home ownership cause former coworkers limit their economic mobility to within one section of one city. For them, it was an option to simply wait until a desirable job opened up in the areas with a bad-but-not-intolerable commute, or they were able to mitigate commutes by negotiating flexible hours with their employers (e.g. working 7am to 3pm, or 11am to 8pm, or only coming in 2-3 days a week, etc).

I recognize Los Angeles' traffic is about as bad as it gets as far as a home ownership "anchoring" someone, but if home ownership causes a reduction in mobility for professionals in a high-earning and high-demand field, I can only imagine the kind of impact it has on the rest of America.
Try getting even a relatively minor health problem like appendicitis and you can go through several times that much in one day. Healthcare would be much cheaper if only we didn't have to deal with all of the sick people.
I don't think Unix is quite what he had in mind. Not all simplicity comes from mastery.
This opinion is pretty behind the times. Like, two or three years behind the times.

Just a few examples of games that make the majority of their funds from virtual goods:

League of Legends(the most played game worldwide right now)
DotA 2/Team Fortress 2
Maple Story
Planetside 2

It's actually generating a huge amount of cash. WoW just wasn't ever set up for it, and still to this day sells around a total of 15-20 virtual goods products IN TOTAL. Most services that rely on it for revenue have that many at release, let alone years down the road and long into maturity.
Scripted Gets $4.5M To Build Out Its Online Marketplace For Freelance Writers
>>You need the product tomorrow?

If you are in a metro then you get the item shipped next day. I've shopped with Flipkart, Myntra etc and this has always been the norm and when usually it becomes 2-3 days it's because your stuff is being sent from a warehouse in another metro. As I live in B'lore Myntra has almost always done 1-day shipping or 2 at most.

You want your items to be shipped to a small town? There's a problem. You want to ship it to your parents in a very small town or rural area? Forget it!

There are other services like eBay India, which has recently, started 3-4 day shipping. Earlier for them it was 7-8 minimum as standard. Deal sites like SnapDeal etc follow the same minimum 7-8 days golden rule.

Sites like IndiaPlaza are plague. You get your stuff in months or fortnights and then you congratulate yourself.

The thing is there are so many options in India, even on smaller scales, for online shopping and people actively use them where they best deals. In USA when I try to buy sth, to get it via a friend who is coming form USA, I have more or less one option - Amazon!
In 2011, NYC cops stopped & frisked 106% of young black males
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Java EE 7 is final. Thoughts, Insights and further Pointers.
Most Indian online stores (Flipcart etc) has cash on delivery option.
If you're in the AWS eco-system you can consider OpsWorks -- which is much closer to a full PaaS.
Of course you can judge a country based on one law. Would you enter a country that had a law stating that if your first name was jason that they had the right to execute you? Singapore has shown it has been willing to enforce caning people over graffiti, so obviously laws have consequences. If some customs official doesnt like the way I look, he can throw a dime bag of weed in my suitcase on entrance to the country and have my life ended. So yeah, laws have life and death consequences.
“I was a Nazi, and here’s why”
Bottle.py on App Engine Guide
For growth, you should consider opening up an API

Besides the other recommendations to write more about yourself, have you considered accepting Bitcoin?
I was wondering when someone was going to do this. Though I wish this video had a more professional feel to it.
Read up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore
My personal experience hasn't been the same. I used to be really bad at writing, but through the school system forcing me to write I got significantly better. I think I'm pretty good now-a-days, though I'm a bit rusty.

Sure you get better at things you actually enjoy doing, but sometimes you need to force yourself or - in the case of children - be forced to do something over and over to learn. I think teachers try to make writing more interesting, but it can be a pretty hard thing to do. Most kids will hate it no matter what they write.
I seent it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_%28The_X-Files%29
Ha thanks. Admittedly, this was pretty rough and we're all new to this. None of us have any stage presence at all, but we had fun so we'll keep doing it :) As with anything, I suspect we'll get better the more we do it.

Put your e-mail in there and you'll get notified when we upload new ones.
You can also use the ipython notebook instead of qtconsole if for some reason you refuse install At on your system (I have a GTK using friend who so refuses).
I personally hope he drowns in it.
It's the beginning so I wouldn't say "the inventory disappoints me" outright. But it does. It's not a garage startup's inventory for haven's sake.

Two friends have started a sort of startup for books and movies and their inventory is comparable, though with a shitty interface for which I have shamed them many times.
Obviously I understood his point.

My point remains that the USA is much less accepting of science than most educated people in a bubble of similarly educated people will realize.
Don't miss Philip's point, "let’s always keep in mind that John Ioannidis would predict that a subsequent paper will find a different answer".

Anecdotally, my father has a pretty specialized job and got burned repeatedly in the housing market as he moved around for work. In his case it probably would have been a lot better for him if he'd rented almost every home he ever owned. In my case, I'm settling down with my family, friends, and extended family. I do not intend to move for another 20-30 years regardless of work. I think people should take this view seriously... if you want to stay where you are for 30 years and are willing do that despite potentially limited career (and financial) opportunities then owning a home makes sense (and managing your finances to enable this kind of lifestyle makes even more sense). If you want to pursue "the best" work or are concerned about financial security from employment you should consider not buying a home so you can remain flexible.

I obviously haven't read the paper, but the idea of home ownership negatively affecting employment is interesting.
An atomic clock with $10^{-18}$ instability
Doesn't a 30-year mortgage versus life-long rent make houses seem like even a better value if you're going to live significantly longer?
Ask HN: What are the most esoteric but useful sites on the web?
As an example, edge.org. It's not often talked about, but has some amazing ideas.
What's the protocol when the customer can't pay on delivery?
>its also why it is frequently used in fast food restaurants, because its gets people out the door faster

In design courses I was always taught that red and yellow are psychologically associated with hunger/food and this is why most fast food branding uses them [1]. I haven't seen any actual science behind this, it's always presented as fact.

I have personally encountered the color black being linked to death/unluckiness in Asia, as a new franchise of a major eCommerce company insisted I make their website's background white, instead of black like every other country's.

[1] http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/07/17/why-food-compani...
Apparently

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Software_Technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Technology_Development
The big deal of banning chewing gum is that it betrays a ridiculously authoritarian, controlling government. Any government concerned about such matters is obviously abusively intrusive on every level of citizen life: "The government maintained virtually unlimited powers to detain suspects without charge or judicial review, using the Internal Security Act and the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act. These laws have been used to incarcerate outspoken activists for prolonged periods without trial, as well as criminal suspects who should be charged under the penal code. In dealing with terrorism suspects, the government should use the criminal code to prosecute in accordance with international due process standards, Human Rights Watch said." http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/23/singapore-stop-hiding-beh...
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It's not really the same thing. Since Derby is natively rendering server side, it's blazingly fast. You get the best of both worlds, render the initial page load on the server, and then all subsequent loads are on the client (with the data being sent over the wire using websockets or browser channel). This means you're getting initial page loads in the 70-300 ms range whereas rendering via PhantomJS and then serving to the client is much slower and much more CPU intensive.

As far as I know, Meteor doesn't even serve those PhantomJS rendered pages to the average user - only to crawlers - presumably for the reasons above.
> Go's concurrency model still exists within a single process with a shared heap, which is very different to Erlang's model.

I've already mentioned Go doesn't have per-process heaps, and I consider this a step backwards from shared-nothing message passing.

I don't understand how can you argue that facilitating the threads-and-locks model leads to "simple code that is obviously correct". Writing correct multithreaded code is widely recognized to be difficult.

> The very notion of null references being inherently bad is highly contentious.

If by this you mean people keep[1] pointing[2] out[3] the problems with nulls, and other people keep ignoring them, then I fully agree. Otherwise, please direct me to a discussion offering a pro-null argument.

For code to be correct in the presence of null references, the programmer must remember to check every nullable value of uncertain status, without support from the compiler.

Alternatively, in a language with option types, only values explicitly marked as optional must be checked, and forgotten checks are pointed out by the compiler. Less code, more safety.

Tell me again, how does allowing null references lead to "simple code that is obviously correct"?

> If you don't have null pointers or [do have] generics, then you need a more complex type system.

Certainly. More complexity for the language implementers; less complexity for the language users.

1. http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/presentation/Null+Referenc...

2. http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/TTM-TheAskewWall-prin...

3. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/dissertation-cobbe.pdf
By this argument shouldn't marriage also lead to unemployment since you have to live near your spouses job as well and often can't relocate.
Articles like this are generally useless. Once and event has happened people can come up with all kind of explanations citing why the product failed. There is no wisdom in it.

This is not to say the article has nay false assertions but liking them to Zynga's failure may not have any lessons for you and me.
Maybe thinking global warming is a scam would be better example.

Better, yes. Good?

Depending on how you ask the question, between 2/3 and 3/4 of Americans believe in global warming. However that figure drops to under half of Republicans.

(Lest you think I'm merely insulting Republicans here, let me point out that most Democrats do not understand what economics 101 says about the effects of rent control. Both parties show a lot of ignorance about the world, merely different parts of it.)
"Energy bills would be essentially zero," he says. I'm not sure how this statement is accurate (or relevant). Flywheels do not produce energy, they store kinetic energy. Other comments...

(1) I seem to recall an automobile developed in the 60s or 70s by another National Lab that siphoned off stored power from a flywheel (driven by a smaller motor). IIRC, they had hellish issues with handling since the flywheel created gyro effects as the car turned. [Sorry, I couldn't find a link to the project. ]

(2) The failure modes for flywheels aren't pretty. This seems to be the big detractor from other technologies like the MIT microturbine [1]. You wouldn't want one of 'em to experience catastrophic failure when attached to the cellphone in your pants. To get sufficient shielding, you have to substantially up the weight of the power storage unit, thereby killing your power-to-weight ratios.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/microengines.html
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Riot games is making over $100m/year off virtual goods.

WoW never had tens of millions of subs. They peaked at 12m.
They made over 100k in the first day of selling their first virtual good (the infamous star pony). Their next MMO is rumored to be virtual good based model, based on the success they have seen in WoW and DIII.
(thank you for the willingness to write such a detailed response)

There exists a point on the memory management continuum where management starts being more automatic (gc) than manual (malloc/free). I would like to understand the forces surrounding this specific point, right before the scale tips towards automatic.

If you tried to build a dynamic language without automatic management, what would break and why?
Why? I know many Canadians would kill for mortgage interest tax deduction.
Excellent, thank you. I was just about to start trying to guess at some calculations myself. Exactly the response I had.
Does anyone have a .docx-version I can customize (as my company was not Incorporated in Delaware... I tried brute, without success: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20673425/misc/founder-fr...
Even a mediocre developer should be able to put together a workable prototype of a simple web app and/or API well within a single week, including setting up web servers, databases, and other basic infrastructure.

Experienced developers are often much faster and more efficient. This is especially true if they're using a language like Python that is quite suited to prototyping, and already offers so much pre-made functionality in the form of libraries and frameworks.

Many of us have learned to be very skeptical of these services that claim to allow software systems to be build rapidly. This often only holds true in a very, very small set of cases. Otherwise, the moment you try to do something unique or unusual, you'll hit one roadblock after another. It doesn't take long before the supposed "time-saving" or "effort-saving" service has wasted more time and effort than it would have taken to develop everything from scratch.
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Comparing Large Scale Queries
Thoughts on the writing This was during the Microsoft/Techstars accelerator in Seattle.
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Checking data against a shapefile in C#
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Children are a larger determinant of labor immobility.
http://www.appstate.edu/~cherrytl/papers/family_ties.pdf
Wait, what?!

Then what the hell is making that amazing and awe-inspiring American sound?
To be fair, most of the comments here are merely conjectures about what the paper might say
From my perspective, it's a huge giveaway to people who are already doing fine, which offends me, morally; and it distorts the housing market in dangerous and destructive ways. Aside from employer sponsored health insurance, it's the most pernicious bit of Federal social engineering.
Ask HN: What's Up With The Adjective "Beautiful"?
It seems like every week on HN, someone posts a new "beautiful" project. I don't know much about marketing, but I'm interested in what effect, if any, the word has psychologically. When I did a search for beautiful stories by relevance I saw this:

▲ Outbox – A beautiful inbox for postal mail
▲ Beautiful failures - accidental 3D Prints (images & book)
▲ Forecast.io (beautiful weather web UI/UX)
▲ Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby
▲ Beautiful Code: Another Level of Indirection
▲ Three Beautiful Quicksorts (2007)
▲ How to build a beautiful, sturdy standing desk for $30
▲ It’s a beautiful thing when free data meets free analytics

When I search, I rarely use adjectives and I never type in the world "beautiful". I don't search for "beautiful bootstrap login screen", I type "bootstrap login screen". I also don't search for "beautiful iOS socket library", I type "iOS socket library". In fact, putting "beautiful" in front of "iOS socket library" returns an incorrect 1st search result on Google. It feels as though search engines have taught me to be unemotional about my queries. Could I get some feedback on where this trend stemmed from and whether or not it actually matters?
"laptop running a sophisticated math program"

I wonder what that is?

Or is it just Mathematica or something?
Venice to Torrance is about 20 miles? Commuting great distances of 20-30 miles to work will hopefully be solved sometime in the latter half of the 21st century.

I don't think most people in America suffer in quite the same way. Ok, the NYC area can be that bad but most people use mass transit. Maybe there's room to make the roads even wider in CA?

Seriously, the problem is self-inflicted and was easily avoidable with some better urban planning 4-5 decades ago.
Perhaps because houses are often made of materials that are not wood? Stone and brick homes are almost never painted, thus setting a theme for homes that deviates from red. Houses are also rather small in comparison to barns. It could just be a matter of being able to afford other options at the smaller scale.
And it probably does. In many situations when one spouse has to move frequently for work or there is no liquid job market (e.g. military, postdocs, medical residents), another spouse find themselves unemployed or need a significant time before finding work which also contributes to unemployment numbers.
So is it implied that he tests on the surface by creating a vacuum inside the sub?
Because it is good for the individuals that get the break, but in sum is bad for eveybody.
1) It is a giveaway to wealthier households with plentiful credit, and 2) costs us $100B in lost revenue.
Congrats to bitbucket. Love it cause of the free private repos. However whenever I see bitbucket I remember this spooning video made by them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBjVTMUQY0
Funny that everybody is realizing this _now_ - not when Apple was suing others for Rounded Corner (TM)(R)(C).
Maybe cos they make money off it?
You made Rob Conery mad
Bob Yamamoto, a mechanical engineer and principal investigator on the project, compares working with Post to being around a college student with 60 years
of experience. Post, he says, exudes a level of enthusiasm that's hard to keep up with.

Wow. What an inspiration.

Reminds me of Dr. Hinohara, a physician and educator who has been contributing to the medical field since 1941 and remains active in the field today at the age of 101.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/shigeaki-hinohara-t...
Agreed, email is clunky.

Have you used the GitHub mobile apps though? I find it's a decent way to keep tabs on issues, add comments, etc., when one is away from a bigger computer. I see that as a big plus for GH.
> For code to be correct in the presence of null references, the programmer must remember to check every nullable value of uncertain status, without support from the compiler.

If you don't have null pointers then you need to push the responsibility for checking for initialization somewhere. You seem to be advocating that place is in the type system. That's fine, but you can't say it wouldn't make the type system more complex.

I see more Go code than probably anyone in the world, and I don't see anyone suffering from the scourge of null pointers, however bad people say they are. I think in certain contexts they can be problematic (SQL is a good example), but the concept of "nil" in Go is quite useful and easy to understand. For instance, unlike C++ it is quite valid to call a method on a nil receiver.

> Tell me again, how does allowing null references lead to "simple code that is obviously correct"?

It's a tradeoff. You get a simpler type system in exchange for null pointers.

> More complexity for the language implementers; less complexity for the language users.

No, not just for the implementers. For the users too.
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This calculator helps you decide if it is better to buy or rent.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

As you pointed it out, a key factor is how long you are going to remain in the house.