skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So don't offer discounts and avoid the swarm? I won't lie, a huge portion of my grocery spending is under coupon books and the like, or in the long term pattern matching when stuff is cheapest, but this is another case of, as an individual, I can exploit mechanisms in the system to be better off. And hell yes I will take advantage of any economic mechanism I can to save money.

You have to, or else you are less prosperous than your peers that don't. It is charity to spend more than you have to on something, and the end of the day bottom line of your business interactions isn't your personal concern. It might be a long term societal concern of unsustainability low prices strangling businesses but they can't increase them in the short term or their competitors, who are also suffocating, get all the customers.

So you can't blame people for swarming. It is a natural economic process, and I don't think it is as do or die as the grasshopper metaphor. Even my rich relatives will jump at discounts just to feel like they are "winning" or "saving".
Completely agree. I searched the article for airbnb to see if he ever expanded on that point.

Nope. He lumped them in with Groupon as if it were a foregone conclusion.
On Holistic Programming Languages (merits of AST editing over text)
Or, you know, just use Dropbox. And add encryption on top with these two commands:

mkdir ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe
encfs ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe

Yes, it's as easy as that. On OSX you'll have to 'brew install encfs' first.
We're too busy importing people with "masters degrees" from Indian and Chinese "universities". I'm pretty sure this is worth more points than having a degree from even an ivy league school.
I've yet to see a single, practical, simple end-to-end tutorial published for free (like the vast majority of the "rubbish" ones) that even uses SPL. Of course, I see snippets here and there of the iterator et al. But nothing comprehensive.

Forget a full on forum, if someone took the time to use best practices to build a MVC/P app as a reference, there would be plenty adopters. I don't mean something that "hides" work, I.E. A framework like Code Igniter. These just introduce more magic into code that doesn't actually teach the why and how.
Starbucks growth trajectory
I think there is more to physics than anyone has theorized so far.
Also, WA: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140
I like to think about the "Sharing Economy" kind of like the shift from physical servers to virtual servers. A similar set of principals come into play when you try to make better use of excess memory and CPU cycles VS when you try to make use of nights when your spare room is empty.
my list of free Linear algebra PDF's, the ones from UC-Davis, UCLA Brown and BYU are well done

http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~anne/linear_algebra/

http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~linear/linear.pdf

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs485/2006sp/LinAlg_Comple... (Dawkins notes that were recently pulled off lamar.edu site, gentle intro like Anton's)

http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~vandenbe/103/reader.pdf

http://www.math.brown.edu/%7Etreil/papers/LADW/LADW.pdf

https://math.byu.edu/~klkuttle/Linearalgebra.pdf

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also the 2 books that a lot of physics students use, Boas and Arfken et al (Links below are for older editions; buy one if they suit your needs)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/65695685/Mary-L-Boas-Mathematical-...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/84183760/Arfken-G-B-Weber-H-J-Math...
This is sort of a rip of the Economist story: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573104-internet-ever...

I do think it would be more appropriate to call it the
'renting economy' or the 'ending economy,' however. Sharing implies something more equitable than a straight business transaction.
http://www.killfoot.com

clickable
I've spoken with several start-up founders in Canada who have looked for investment. Many have moved to the US because they find that most investors here are only going to invest in something already making money. They are scared of market potential and helping to cultivate start-ups. It's a cultural thing and it won't change because we aren't American.
>> I don't live there, so maybe I'm missing something, but is Silicon Valley really something to glamorize and try to replicate?

Nope not really but you're in HN and most people here tend to think that Silicon Valley is like Mt. Olympus or something. There are a lot of startups out there that are very successful and not in Silicon Valley.
Loebner Prize 2013 Chat Test Transcripts
I would like to know why the Indian Sanskrit scholars refused to help NASA. My best guess is that they are wary of the possibilities of AI when expressed in such an efficient language.
Why discount those industries? If you eliminate legs and arms, I have essentially no limbs. But I get by...
Posted this on firespotting - there is definitely a small profitable business in your idea -
The icons! Those icons look great, for the most part. Still 'flat' while keeping the iOS personality.
We're in the middle of a long strike by our diplomats and consulate workers, which is pushing visa processing times far longer than they usually are. It should fix itself once they and the gov't reach a new deal and the backlog is dealt with.
Zabbix!
I don't want to put other developers off - when I talk about 'new car money' I'm not talking about earnings where I can afford a car and nothing else, just that I'm not out buying mansions in Beverly Hills (or Primrose Hill for those in the UK).

I didn't go in to this to make money, so the financial benefit has been a hugely pleasant surprise!
Hey Wyatt,

I would argue that you need two things for the average person (rather than the independently wealthy) to be an entrepreneur: limited liability and bankruptcy. Without limited liability, an entrepreneur would be saddled personally with the debt of a failed venture. Without being able to declare bankruptcy as a last resort, they would not be able to discharge the debt and start fresh. Instead, they would be a debt slave to their financiers until it is repaid, which could be for the rest of their lives.

That's a lot of risk for an entrepreneur to take on, and too much for all but the most reckless -- I know my wife would never let me do that -- or those with the ability to bootstrap the venture without debt or outside investment.
I agree but I suspect the choices are subscriptions or ads. As the Internet has matured the 'free' option is going away. Developers of course will be able to fund their own infrastructure (sort of a self subscribe model :-) but the 'free' internet is definitely going away.
In some databases, such as PostgreSQL, there is no difference between varchar(), varchar(N) and text.

http://www.depesz.com/2010/03/02/charx-vs-varcharx-vs-varcha...

And 7.8 MB really change practically nothing in the overall equation. 1 is a good point but badly argumented.
Whether it exists or not, someone should apply to YC with this idea just to give PG & co a good laugh.
Serial Port Scans Find More Than 100,000 Hackable Devices
Because it was a huge black box before I started - I'd never touched an IDE before.
>You can't replace bits of it, or use just parts of it.

You can replace pretty much everything. You need only systemd, systemd-udev and systemd-journald. Virtually everything else is optional. It also allows you to use syslog with journald. It allows you use use crond instead of the timer units. You could use ConsoleKit instead of systemd-logind as session manager... and so on and so forth.
From the Kickstarter Page:

"DeviceJS ties Javascript to the physical world, by providing hooks for protocols like IP, 6loWPAN, Bluetooth™, Zigbee™, RS-232, and devices such as the Belkin WeMo™ and Phillips Hue™ light bulbs. Because the system is centered on Javascript, it is very easy for anyone to extend."
In the long-term, I think you may look back at the 'replace the hard drive' statement as on par with Bill Gates 'a computer in every home'.

That's not possible, since your local storage will always be faster than a networked one.
Absolutely, but Google runs experiments all the time. If underwhoring would boost their CPC then those experiments will surface that fact. That it hasn't suggested to me that alternatives have cut into their margins. Since nobody likes to cede margin, they can either ride it into the ground (a common response) or change. Either way it will be different.
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. That stigma in dating is still alive and strong today, and Airbnb is still stigmatized for some of the younger people I know outside of Silicon Valley. Part of the article talks about trust, which is pretty important. Both couch-surfing and dating have lacked identity and trust, which makes it more comfortable. The last thing you want is for someone to axe murder you or spike your drink and not know who it was. If you get axe murdered, knowing who it was is your last concern, but at least it acts as an enormous deterrent. Identity is the reason places like Hacker News don't completely degrade to the rules of Crowd Psychology (well, most of the time).

That friend in Illinois was very uncomfortable with the idea of sleeping in some random person's house, and I didn't realize how absurd it sounded until I was listening to myself explain it to him and his very uncertain reaction. The reputation/trust element removes that "randomness." So much so that I won't book with listings that don't have any reviews, and I tell my friends the same thing.
So I started writing something about how we were supposed to get away from the awfulness of flash, and it's stupidities like long loading screens, with CSS3 and HTML5. But I viewed the source and this is flash. Well the loading screen is. You see it's currently downloaded 4Mb across 2 .swf files and it's only about... a third of the way through, although it's hard to tell on the "fill in the word" progress bar.

My third-world 2Mbit internet connection doesn't seem to be up to scratch. At least my web browser is if the browser checking code has already run. This is like c2001 except then we did "if (ie) {} else if (ns) { }"

I hate to complain without actually having seen the subject matter, but flash, loading screens and "if (chrome) else { fail }" is harking back to a bad past.

Edit: I think the download died at just under 5 Mb. I guess my 2Mb internet really isn't up to scratch.
Just in case this is useful to you one day: A travel visa is a normal, uncapitalized noun "visa". The capital "VISA" is a trademark of the credit card company. Neither is an acronym.
So, my startup is actually ramen profitable at the moment. I spoke with some local investors. The deal was to owe 30% equity in exchange for 10 enterprise clients (around $100/month)! Guess what, these are investors coming out of mining industry... Unfortunately, they don't care about the company, they care about their piece of the pie.

It's a pity.
No info for /u. And why it's not default?
"This is widely believed to be a losing proposition." - evidence? I don't know if you're a UK citizen or living in Scotland, but I'd love to explain some of the nuances of Scottish politics. They said, once upon a time, that the SNP would never have a majority leadership (due to the way that the electoral system was designed for the devolved parliament) in the Scottish parliament, but look what happened at the last Scottish general election.

Perhaps what the Scottish people don't like the idea of is the SNP becoming the governing party of Scotland. However, and this is frequently ignored by the unionist press in Scotland, the SNP would not necessarily be the ruling party. There would be a new general election to vote for a new Scottish government in an independent Scotland and that could be Labour, SNP, Tory, Democrat, Greens or whatever.

There is a huge amount of disinformation banded about by Cameron, Osborne and other unionist politicians about Scotland's capabilities.
My bad, I thought you were sourcing the article.
Thanks, if it wasn't for your comment I wouldn't have subscribed. On Feedly [0] he only has 2k subscribers. If anyone knows similar blogs like this, I'll like to know where I can find them. There really needs to be a Discovr [1] Blogs. It would be just as great if they get pinged and they say they're working on it :-). Currently I'm subscribed to H+ [2] and Singularity Hub [3]. I made a Reddit post asking the same question recently. [4]

[0] http://cloud.feedly.com/

[1] http://discovr.info/about/

[2] http://hplusmagazine.com/

[3] http://singularityhub.com/

[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/1iq9qx/
Similar in my case. Were most of the 57 just blogs, Facebook/Linkedin, company pages etc.? You could gain similar ranking by putting something out there. It is a good position to be in control. Maybe add a middle intial to be distinctive.
Sales of unnecessary products is simply a consequence of capitalism working properly. People create needs that didn't exist previously through marketing which is all most "health" advice on television (eg Dr Oz) or other media is. Legitimate nutritional deficiencies and cherry picked studies help fuel the marketing strategy. They get fantastic viral social media support from all the hypochondriacs, paranoid conspiracists and other health nuts who can't think critically and lack the scientific education to assess the marketing.

Some vitamins and vitamin analoques do have legitimate benefits as medication but best leave the dosing to a qualified health professional. Much better to eat a balanced diet with lots of vegetables, fruit and some whole protein. And get some sun in moderation if the climate supports it.
If he's not an industrial designer, then why is this an industrial design?

It's like you hand me an album of somebody scratching at a violin for 80 minutes and tell me that the point was the album art, he's "not a musician" and "not advertising himself as one", gosh.

Excuse us silly engineers that got distracted by the actual content of the damn link. Guess we didn't see the trees for the forest.

If the point is to have a portfolio piece as a visual designer, Make a brochure for something that already exists, or that is unique and doesn't exist. This is an uncanny valley of being unimaginative yet impossible and that distracts me (and many readers here) from everything else.
Interesting, does this allow for incremental updates while encrypted?
Can anyone explain what this means?

they always put lefts on values (like failed log-ins etc)
Canada's corporate tax rate is that low because of the much more attractive neighbour downstairs. It's a shame, because it really doesn't keep people/businesses from leaving Canada anyway.
As an AirBNB host, it would be very good for me if I was constantly full of people making one day stays and then disappearing forever.

Yes, it's like running a hotel with none of those bothersome permit, regulatory, or customer service issues.
Trivia: VISA is in fact a recursive acronym, much like GNU: Visa International Service Associaton.
Show HN: Thinkerous - Collaborative ideation and think tank
I don't know about this. On the one hand, it somewhat makes sense to redact the names of the people involved to protect them against the angry mob. On the other hand, shouldn't people be responsible for the consequences of their actions? They chose the course of action they thought was right. Why shouldn't they be held responsible?
Apple’s Dev Center Has Been Down Since Thursday
But the concentration is what counts here. After all, Silicon Valley is merely a region. You cannot compare it to the rest of the world.
The NSA doesn't want this video out there. | Indiegogo
This article is horribly written, seemingly by someone with no actual programming experience or knowledge, or even a basic command of English grammar.

I mean, this passage reads like timecube (up until the very end where it becomes somewhat more cogent):

Out of this came some learning such as, in terms of app
specific metrics such as ease and ‘fooplroofness’. Plus,
it emerged that “most graphs are useless”. Instead they
built dashboards to analyze the performance; they always
put lefts on values (like failed log-ins etc); and they
kept some slack such as: extra queries were memcached, and
delayed optimization of SQL queries.
Seems like every 6 months someone discovers SHODAN and we get another article like this.
What's this supposed to be?

You mean NASA is using this "Sanskrit language" to program AI? In which way? As a programming language? How does this even work as such?
Were there hidden fees that you didn't see? I filter by price and feedback, so I know the hosts are legit. The cleaning fees are shown on the listing. They show you response rate, so you know if the hosts are active or not. You won't always receive a response, but that's why I never message people who have no reviews or a low response rate. They may just be trying it out casually ("window shoppers"). My experiences have been very positive when I've used it--which isn't that often, but when I do, I no longer even consider hotels.
I had the opposite experience. I was moving to New York City, had been staying with a friend, decided it was high time to move out, and found a single bedroom in a really nice penthouse in east Williamsburg for the short term for... barely more than I was paying to commute to and from my friend's place in White Plains on the train. More convenient, too.

(Granted, it was something like a fifth-floor walk-up, and the neighborhood was a little gritty, but in the edgy-up-and-coming cool-if-you're-into-that sort of way and not the help-get-me-out-of-here fear-for-your-life drug-dealers-on-the-doorstep kind of way.)

I can only expect that I'd be out another few hundred bucks if I used a traditional hotel.
I don't know about Canada, but the US has very lenient bankruptcy laws and the importance of that to innovation (as you noted) cannot be understated.

BK law in the US one case where, because things work well, people take it for granted and assume the laws work well everywhere. (They don't.)

Europeans probably think the same about healthcare. (For those not in the know, U.S. healthcare is awful and insurance companies kill thousands per year.)
Well, there's two other things to consider: the opportunity cost of the time you spend couponing (vs taking your business to somewhere that offers everyday low prices and no coupons, like Trader Joes instead of Safeway in the supermarket sector), and the tragedy of the commons that results from unsustainably low prices. That's not just a long-term societal concern (ie not an individual's one), but a quite present one, because once margins fall too low for a small merchant to profit they'll rationally just exit the market. This leaves you as a consumer with less choice and competition than you had before, in addition to the increasingly bimodal income distribution that plays out over the longer timescale.
Looks like it was flash and then converted with Swiffy: https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/
That assume you're "always-on" the Internet.

Microsoft tried that assumption with the Xbox One, and we know how that went. :P
I think someone has read _Snowcrash_ one too many times. I can't find anything about this at NASA. Also, I think this might be a long standing urban legend, as I found evidence that NASA was supposed to do this as far back as 1986 (http://sanskritdocuments.org/news/subnews/NASASanskrit.txt).

Edit: add reference to 1986 reference.
For real....

If anyone wants the big talk HD gave on this, it was the keynote for 2012 DerbyCon.

Here's the slides.

https://speakerdeck.com/hdm/derbycon-2012-the-wild-west

It starts out really fluffy and eventually he gets to the good stuff (i.e. old grandmas computers from 1998 that are still online)
Hi, I'm Adam, the guy that made the game. I completely see where you're coming from, but in the article you'll read that my measure of success was making back the few hundred dollars I spent on art - so as far as I'm concerned I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams!

I understand that my success is another man's failure, and that's fine with me. The 'success' of Pumped 1 is funding the development of Pumped 2 - I actually have a budget this time! But it's definitely not a bootstrapped multi-million pound startup - just me making games about grown men on kids bikes! :)
I think the point is to draw attention to the nature of Canada's economy, not to discount it entirely.
Either that or TechCrunch is closing in on the Turing Test.
Yep rental economy. Internet lowering of transaction costs is enabling the unbundling of ownership rights to capital/durable goods. AirBnb, facilitating exchange by providing 'trust', which is reducing the asymmetric information between the two negotiating parties.
I use a thick case (OtterBox defender series iirc), and I'm sure that's what causing me the extra frustration. It's by no means a painful experience, though. I guess I wasn't properly separating my daily experience from the product's design :)
That comment, while accurate, was almost literally just rephrasing something already in the comment it replied to[1], yet presented it as some kind of rebuttal. It doesn't look like the poster had really read what they were replying to.

Personally, I think the "weird factor" around AirBNB will probably be harder to erode than the one around online dating. I think the existing hotel industry comes a lot closer to meeting a wide range of people's needs for accommodations than the standard informal "go out to a bar or meet people through mutual friends" thing does, and for someone like me, who travels fairly infrequently, I don't mind spending more once or twice a year to have that extra identity/trust from the known quantity of an actual hotel.

[1]"A lot of people were initially hesitant (and still are)"
I don't know about hard-working, but my impression after meeting the founders was that they were clueless stuffed-shirts who have no idea why their idea created a community of authentic enthusiasts - and they're desperately trying to cash out without killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I'm a bit of a long time lurker, but I just have to say that I'm genuinely incredibly proud for there to be a discussion about my game on hacker news - I'm not sure it's really the right place for it (I'm no startup), but I've screen-capped it nevertheless.
I would highly recommend the majority of you here to stay away from fashion shows and car conventions if this is your reaction to this concept.
Idea: A Paid Service For Owners To Scan AirBnB For Listings Of Their Properties
15 min, 3 times a week is enough to give you all the D you need. Not nearly enough sun to worry about skin cancer.
Exactly! Saying "airbnb is good" by itself is meaningless. It's a product of the context of experiences sustained over multiple interactions. If you're renting $500/night rooms in Upscale Town, USA, you'll probably love it like you love your $800 shoes and your $3000 jeans. If you're renting $40/night rooms in NYC, you'll probably hate it.

Irrational exuberance of startups around here tends to get out of hand. I get it. Everybody is the friend of a rich person and you want to promote them because you know them. hi-5's and bropong all around. Great. But they're still delusional. Gotta speak truth to ego-elevating unrestricted happiness. Life is pain, not million dollar post-exit condos in SF.
Actually a recursive backronym, according to Wikipedia, but unfortunately {{citation needed}}.
Instead of a C&D, have it track how much your tenants are Airbnbing their place for, then raise rent to that exact amount, minus a 5% cleaning & management fee that is theirs to keep.
It's an opportunity to kill what off?
Thanks! Great response. Too many people arguing about nothing. I wish I had those skills. I'm a software engineer and am in no way a designer. I've mucked with so many design tools throughout my career and it just never really clicked. I can't draw so that might be a contributing factor.

Anyway, dude has some skills.