skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They essentially reject math as a tool, and insist that unless you implement their preferred systems 100%, then they won't work at all

What? What Austrian has ever said that?

Austrian's very rarely deal with absolutes in the real world and mainly deal with relative analysis (If you go with X bad policy, these negative things can occur).

> then they won't work at all, and then explain all observed failures by claiming that it would have worked better if things had been pushed further.

What occurrences are you referencing when an Austrian got policy control?

> and quite frankly I see way too many words and far too little math coming out of their camp to buy any of it.

They reject the idea that maths is a useful tool in economics due to it being a social science.
Why is block level deduplication worse?
Clickable link:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
It's actually MS Sans Serif not even trying to hide the fact it's a ripoff. It's still in Windows 7 (don't know about 8), along with a TrueType version. Major differences between MS Sans Serif and Helvetica are the uppercase R and G. The overall typeface has a little more vertical stress. It's a way better ripoff than Arial; it's a shame Arial became so ubiquitous in that capacity.
Why the teenager next door has more sales than you
In the spirit of inquiry, I'm waiting for the other half of this story. These articles seem sensationalist. So what's the catch? Does it have to do with studies being pre-clinical and more likely to be wrong? Or is it that they're being held to a different level of scrutiny? Or the evidence shows correlation, but not statistical significance?

Or are things really this bad?
and then the only person who can do a charge-back if required is you...
Spain summons US ambassador over claim NSA tracked 60m calls a month
Chaitanya,

Congrats. That's quite a neat achievement! There seems to be a bunch of companies quietly plodding away and doing good like this out here.

Would love to see what kind of margins are you hitting, but I guess that would be asking for too much. Quick back-of-the-envelope scribble says you could probably be doing 1-1.5 cr in profit before taxes etc. etc..

A question you can answer: What kind of mix are you seeing in the customer base - digital/non-digital, SME/Large Enterprises?
How is that? My understanding is that lipid oxidation promotes insulin resistance itself.

If anything, and under the right dosage, sugar is protective.
It's also amusing that the top comment on this thread is a big rant about one specific customer service incident. Totally unrelated to the linked story, and as usual, not seeing the forest for the trees.
Thanks ccozan, I'm really not surprised that you or anyone else doubted me. It makes absolutely no sense to me why anyone would fabricate something like this, especially when it's quite clear he's far more experienced than me with his programming abilities! I guess it's something we'll never find out why. I appreciate everyone on here who has given me the time to respond to their queries and thankfully the truth has prevailed :) All the best.
Super Mario Bros. is easy with lexicographic orderings and time travel
I have one file - currently 12,000 lines long :)
One thing the (otherwise thorough) article doesn't mention is whether to provide a machine-readable schema for the API or not. Some integrators do seem fond of being able to generate stub client code automatically ...
This is an interesting technique that I hadn't considered before. I can see that it would be useful when traversing unfamiliar code. Will try it out next time.
The article states the UCT's have less admin costs but are still not as good as CCT.

Which is the point of admin costs, the money goes where's it's needed and not wasted.

This article is just about the fact UCT's are not a total waste of money, they are not the best way, but people are quite surprised they are better than just burning it.

Perhaps it can be used as food for thought for future CCT hybrids.
"On the basis of observation, Wilbur concluded that birds changed the angle of the ends of their wings to make their bodies roll right or left.[30] The brothers decided this would also be a good way for a flying machine to turn—to "bank" or "lean" into the turn just like a bird—and just like a person riding a bicycle, an experience with which they were thoroughly familiar."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
This may be the ocean’s most horrifying monster
Ask HN: How do I go about creating a simple discussion platform?
Hi folks,

My father has a non-profit org called Manthan (http://www.manthanindia.com/). They have a healthy amount of article sharing + discussion on their Facebook and Yahoo group. I'm looking to start off a segment for high schoolers, Manthan for Teenagers, and want to move that and the above to an independent discussion platform for various reasons.

What is a good (= easy, simple, clean) way to create a platform like HN? Are there existing solutions, possibly open source, that I could build off? Even a plug-in would work. I couldn't find anything myself.

Any help is appreciated!
That should be a laser lens as well.
I'm American and it took me until last year to learn that yogurt isn't sweet by default. 95% of the grocery store offerings are the sugary kind, and that's all I was ever exposed to as a kid, so I never noticed it. I spent years thinking I hated yogurt only to eventually discover that the unsweetened kind is really delicious. D:
YC Companies Might Be Worth $13.7B, Startups Getting Same Low Offers Since 2005
This is true, but it is also true for other sciences (eg meteorology, mentioned elsewhere).

I'm not sure what the solution to the untestable hypothesis problem is.
Nowhere does it mention being created by a 15 year old!
I think you're either misunderstanding me or how social security works. I'm only talking about replacing social security, not "these systems".

Everyone who gets a paycheck pays their 6% in social security, regardless of income level.
While this may defeat naive bots, it certainly won't be defeat bots that target your site specifically so I wouldn't say it qualifies as an alternative to CAPTCHAs.
Also there is a whole thread regarding its YC Application https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801503 - which sadly, the link itself is no longer available (404).

I assume many would be happy to read it though.
Feel sorry to hear your ordeal, however i am glad you are following it up with court summons. Please do write up a follow up article regarding this as and when you can
Yeah, Apple doesn't really invent stuff, they generally just come out with the same incremental technology improvements as every other company. They're mostly just good at combining components into aesthetically pleasing products, and then claiming to have invented every feature from scratch.

Its like if Mercedes Benz claimed "only we could come up with the idea of a steering wheel, seat belts and a motor" when announcing their new model vehicles every year.
Needs a clock in the background to hammer home the point to non-programmers that it can take an hour to get from the 1st to the 6th panel. Bosses take note: an hours work has disappeared.
>In a free market prices generally fall.

If we take the far-right Austrian definition of "free market" (meaning: a market in which the only functions of government are property and contract enforcement) then we have zero empirical evidence for much anything about free markets.

They've never existed.

Further, we don't even have solid evidence that hypothetical markets of that kind would be Pareto-optimal. They serve literally no function except that of ideology.
You'll actually be quite surprised to know that solutions have existed for a long time for PLM/CRM/ERP for various industry segments for SMEs in India.

One of the reasons why they have not done well is that the founders rarely have a technical background and the products are a torture to use. So, familiarity itself is not a problem.

The big issue is that the market needs to see tangible benefits without major turnaround times. That is impossible with even a relatively simple CRM/ERP product. It is hard (often impossible) sell to convince owners that it will take 3-months to complete the roll out.

The alternative is to no attempt a direct entry. Have a smaller product, or a modular feature in the main product, that they can use from day one and reap the benefits of. Get that buy-in and move laterally in pushing your main product.
I can think of no reason why this shouldn't work for any other device given enough camera megapixels and image quality. I might be wrong though.
Right now, at least in the United States, if you belong to, IIRC, the bottom 75% of the population by net worth, then you are in fact a net debtor, and inflation helps you more than it hurts.
Leaked White Nexus 5 &  Rumoured launch on November 1st
If you have X amount of money and Y goods/service, the ratio of money per unit of good/service is X/Y. Economic growth increases the amount of goods/services provided; tractors dig more holes than shovels, and so on. This means Y increases, and thus X/Y must decrease: the cost per unit of good/service decreases.
I used the B5 stapled recycled paper notebooks (UK store) for some work I did in the year 2000.

The paper is a nicely aged light brown with a gradient towards the edge now.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8403291/muji-b5-2000-cro...

Snap does not show the full gradient but you get the idea. Pages flexible, no cracking or anything.

Oddly enough, the pages in the squared version of the notebook are still bright white, no sign of ageing at all.
How MasterCard Helps Retailers Understand Their Consumers
I HATE 1% MILK. gdsgnf,dhjghld

I also really dislike sweet things, so I'm with you 100% on the rest of the content too. I'd probably like chocolate milk if it weren't so nauseatingly sugary.
"Neutral" reporting is a fantasy. None of us are capable of fully breaking away from our viewpoints, and editorial boards are made up of people who are biased.

How do you even define neutral in a way that does not simply justify a specific set of biases?

Something as simple as which news items you choose betrays huge biases: Do you write about the US government shutdown, or about the thousands of people dying of preventable diseases every day.

Word choices: Do you call something a coup, or a revolution? Do you call someone terrorists, or freedom fighters?

In many cases, there are many seemingly "neutral" choices, and many word choices that are technically correct, and what will seem "neutral" to you will be hopelessly politically slanted to others.

I'd much rather have media organizations of a variety of viewpoints that are honest about where they stand than someone that pretend to be objectively neutral.
Which is a problem of politics, not economics. There's a broad agreement that the bank bailouts should not have happened across most of the actual political spectrum. Only the vulgar neoliberals serving the interests of the capitalist class in government actually want to print money as bailout loans to banks, and yet Austrian "economists" and their Believers pretend that's the only alternative to a deflationary gold standard and total privatization of everything ever.
I am assuming when you mean digital, we got the leads online.

Digital:60%
Non-Digital:40%

SME:90%
Enterprises:10%

Obviously, though the number of Enterprise customers are less, their pie in the revenue is much more as they pay a lot :)
The comments given on HN back then were so much more constructive! I think I started reading HN about a year after this.
There is one nice way to push oneself in the zone faster: just open a broken test in your test suite, it will point you to the next step. [edited to clarify]
Since I've hit my limit on nytimes.com and can't read the article, I guess I'll have to wait until next month to find the answer.
RhoScript - a dense language designed for code golf
>The US dollar in particular has lost more than 90% of its value since abandoning the gold standard in the early 70s.

The supply and demand for gold have essentially nothing to do with real economic value.

Now, admittedly, you've drawn near to an actual critique of our current monetary system, but that would require you to critique capitalism itself, too. Here, let me do that for you:

Capitalism optimizes for the production and accumulation of capital. Therefore, the monetary base does actually matter, because money is the most liquid form of capital. Thus, capitalism will optimize society for the production and accumulation of money, however money is defined. Define money as some commodity, like gold, and you'll get people sailing across the world to rig up mining infrastructure and haul back a rock of zero ultimate worth, simply because that's the optimization criterion of the economy they live in. Admittedly, all that hauling and sailing does actually require getting something done, so you do see real economic development under such a system, but the same thing can be enforced with fiat currency via exchange-rate controls and the rest of the Bretton-Woods package (which was, in fact, deliberately concocted to make trade count more than finance!).

Whereas, in contrast, if you set the definition of money as being debt, your capitalist economy will become a debt-maximizing machine. Which is what we see now, since the early '70s when the capital controls, exchange-rate controls, trade regime, and gold standard of Bretton-Woods were all abandoned.

There.
http://slashcode.com/

This is the perl that powers slashdot, among other things. I'd say it's sufficiently HN-like to take a look at if that's what your would like.
Because you can't have control over a population like America without resorting to hatred and bigotry, plain and simple.

Time and again, we've seen that conspiracy theories OFTEN prove to be correct. Until that happens, however, it behooves the powers that be to draw lines in the sand - and calling someone a crackpot sure is a nice line.
Thanks! We are using AngularJS with UI-Router and Backbone 3. The backend is in Go, with a native language component for each of the languages that we support (currently Python/Go/JavaScript/Ruby).
Are finite simple groups specifically about polyhedra, or was that just used as an example?
Here: http://web.archive.org/web/20090725120431/http://files.getdr...
Because once you do that to one union shop, no union shop will work with you. To make it work, you need to have a critical mass on-board.
> And if you're American, then it would be doubly great because we haven't seen any political revolutions in America since its founding (though if you're American you probably won't, because Americans like complaining about their government and alienating themselves from it, but they tend to do very little to improve it; at the end of the day, they're just too docile).

Some notable events in American history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement
This scenario is a bit optimistic. I made a cartoon depicting my open plan office experience: http://imgur.com/fsv1cCq
they start hiding the news of the friend u don't interact with.
The Argument Machine
Government being responsible for social security is a pretty new idea. The charity driven system he describes was the main way of doing things through the 1900s.

Churches, professions (benevolent funds), and clubs (as in masons) looked first after their own, and their children, when they fell on hard times. That was what they were for. That was why they were so vital in society.

You remember in Oliver Twist, where child orphans not lucky enough to descend for a professional are put to work as pseudo slaves in a workhouse? You remember when they escape to work as thieves and probably prostitutes for an older gangmaster? Not in your production of the show?

Anyway, that's what a small state, and charity driven welfare looked like.
Wow, I didn't realize they were this simple to implement and reason about!
Interesting anecdote: an alumni of my university was chatting with me recently about his work at Google, essentially he replaced what he described as a "large, complex machine learning pipeline" with a "simple bloom filter" for displaying product results at the top of a search page if it determines you have searched for a product.

For example, if you search for "iPhone 5S", the filter determines whether to show something like this http://i.imgur.com/Dp3y1Gi.png (not sure if sponsored makes a difference here, possibly a bad example).
I would say that falsifying an existing publication should easily be at least as prestigious and funding-worthy as having made that publication in the first place.
This overfilling is pretty widespread across most nationalities just getting by in London, if you go by anecdotal evidence.

A friend of mine lives somewhere in North London (I believe it is Golders Green), paying 1300pounds a month for 2 and half room apartment, paying council tax and so on, all on a minimum wage as a porter which is around 1200 pounds a month(why he prefers being a porter over a Perl programmer that is one of his skills is another question).

If he were not subletting the room and half, there would be no way he would be able to work in London for a minimum wage. The situation is similar to most people working for minimum wage that he knows.

Still, I think this overfilling is a symptom not the cause of high property prices. This overfilling by the poor has always happened in big cities.
I was a little confused by this one - it feels like it's missing context.

Is the intended audience professional sales-people? In which country?

Are there fifteen year olds out there making $1,000/day selling cheap Chinese merchandise that they ordered through PayPal?
This is the kind of revelation that brings me back to hacker news!
Apple Campus Presentation: City of Cupertino
It's highly debatable as to who qualifies as a Google+ user. I want to believe that G+ is doing good, because it is a good product.
I regularly check it to read articles on technology and programming.
"What tools will you use to build your product? Python (top to bottom.)"

Yes.
from the conclusion:

> Although no difference was found between identifier styles with respect to accuracy, results indicate a significant improvement in time and lower visual effort with the underscore style. The interaction of Experience with Style indicates that novices benefit twice as much with respect to time, with the underscore style
Anything but a rick roll!
CoFounder wanted for Tandemio
Fair enough... I didn't actually take the time to look up statistics. Thanks :)
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> This is a stretch in my opinion.

How do things like "Obama is a Muslim!!" fit in? Or the bizarre conspiracy theories around the "crescent of embrace" having coded pro-Muslim signals? Or the ever popular "THE JEWS DID IT"?

They feel like they've created ill-will towards Jewish people, and Muslim people, and anyone who looks a bit like a Muslim.
It seemed to me like it's intended for people running a business who didn't grow up with the internet. Starting a business and making money from it now is much easier than 20/30 years ago.

>> "Are there fifteen year olds out there making $1,000/day selling cheap Chinese merchandise that they ordered through PayPal?"

I think this is just a made up example but I know people who have made decent money buying products from China and selling them on eBay.
Well, that explains the second part of the name. And the first, I guess.
The problem as I see it is a that "show HN" is simply "here what do you think of this". If I - as a sort-of web-designer - look at the page and see a problem with alignments, lack of call to action, poor SEO optimisation or something then I want to offer that up; that's what I think.

Generally HN isn't the best forum to offer these more trivial thoughts - you really want to say "what do you think of this concept" or "what do you think about how I've implemented {concept X}".

Usually then if there's something that looks wrong but is not appropriate for discussion - like a spelling mistake - I'll take a glance to see if there's a simple contact form and use that instead. Emailing seems too much trouble unless I'm hoping you'll ask me to do some work for you(!).

Ugliness of the launch page seems quite important however and as it's subjective it's a point that could be discussed or on which the votes would help gauge the importance of the point.

If you feel the details are fine, or don't need work, then ignore the comments. Ditto for this comment.
Some kids also just have 'it'. I'm the 30 year old and my girlfriend's brother is the 15 year old. He's been making money on the schoolground since long before high school. I didn't even start thinking sensibly about money until maybe a year ago.
Yep, but Tile costs $20 a piece. LoseProof is much simpler, cheaper & allows people to protect items of low physical value, but high personal worth – forever :)
Well, that depends on the government. All the way from the very basic necessities to keep citizens alive to a guaranteed minimum income and full health, education and other services.

I don't think that there is any right level for all countries.
He's an Austrian economist and yes he like all of them saw this coming in 2001 and maybe earlier.
I didn't say "no notable events". I said no political revolutions (although the civil war almost counts).
I remember having lots of fun with C as a teenager. This was in the early 90s. We wrote games and demos using mode 13h (320x200 1 byte/pixel) in DOS (thus pretty much bare metal).

Those were the days. I think it was the perfect way to get started with programming :-)
This discussion is devolving into pointless bickering about where you draw the line between science and technology.
If we stop being fussy about the definitions, it's pretty clear that some research/engineering is profitable in the short term and some is not. A lot of the work that is not profitable in the short term has potential long term benefits that are very important.
For me, the best sort of tiny break is reading a good book for a page or two. I think maybe because the two contexts are so distinct?
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The question is - is this:
A) The same mistake they made with the Nexus 5, that they haven't learned from.

B) A clever way of leaking the specs so that people are talking about it, without actually formally releasing the information.
Thanks!

No, was not asking about lead sourcing. More on the lines that I'd consider an e-commerce company a digital company, while I'd think of an FMCG company as primarily non-digital.

In digital companies, the product awareness tends to be higher, so product education is a smaller chunk of the sales process. It mostly boils down to commercials. Non-digital, education forms a big chunk. This results in different approaches/cycles -- is what I have seen. Thus the question :)
19th century America is close enough and the results astounded the entire world.
Awesome, thanks! let me take a look at it.
A FB type service needs to be more egalitarian; regulated; etc. Its almost like the cable company, water company, power company;
Evidence suggests that it they are correct but the part you are missing is that the whole point of the system is to bail out the large banks when their bets go bad. All in the name of the people. Whoever they ever are.
Nice, I'm from Bangalore.

Just wondering what ideas you have on start up's in the Space Industry.

Is there something specific you are aiming at?
The groups of symmetries of a finite object is always a finite group, and every finite group arises as such. However, not all of the objects are polyhedra, and in particular, not all of the objects are in 3 dimensions.

The monster is, for example, the symmetry group of an object in 196884 dimensions. It's not really a polyhedron.