skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent for my 1 bedroom/1 bath, 1000 sq ft. loft in SF: $3200
Mortgage for my 2 bed/1 bath, 1200 sq ft. home in Oak: $1900*

We had to pay ~$70k in closing costs, so it isn't /easy/ to just go and buy something, but one possible lesson is that if you spend your whole life renting you are subject to the whims of your landlord (especially if you don't have rent control) and could end up paying a lot more for a place to live then you would if you had bought. Of course, the buy to rent numbers alternate back and forth depending on market conditions, so that doesn't hold true all the time.

* - Lots of confounding variables here though. SF vs. Oakland, $650 a month for property taxes aren't accounted for in the monthly mortgage cost. But we have a 40'x 50' yard, a garage, no shared walls, easier parking, etc. So it's an individual choice, but even all in my house is much cheaper than an equivalent rental unit in SF (maybe even if you factor in a new roof every 20 years, other maintanence, etc...at least in these market conditions.)
I don't think you can have both - super-happy and super-smart. But otherwise, yes. I see no problems with you creating super-smart children that will be able to wipe out all the stupid ones. Who knows, maybe this is the only way to save humanity from AI menace ;)
Google to developers: We're sick of ugly design
Ovfconverter should be able to go both ways and translate the configuration to and from what you want. Naturally there are some limitations, as not all hypervisors support what other hypervisors support, visa versa.

https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/
> The majority of HN users are thoughtful and nice. It's clear from the data that they reliably downvote jerks and trolls

I have to say, I'm a bit confused now. Aren't "trolls" the sorts of comments that are supposed to be flagged[0]? (I understand that spam is meant to be flagged, but HN gets very few true spam comments[1]).

What is the difference between downvoting and flagging for comments specifically - and more importantly, what comments should be downvoted?

I've read conflicting arguments (both sides quoting pg, incidentally) that disagree on whether or not downvotes should be used to signify disagreement, or whether one should downvote comments that are on-topic but have little substance (ie, most one-liners).

[0] I guess this depends on your definition of "troll", but I think a well-executed troll is similar to Poe's law: the reader can't tell whether the commenter is being flippant/rude or sincere. In other words, it's just enough to bait someone into responding, without realizing immediately that it's a worthless comment.

[1] eg, ads for substances one ingests to change the size of a particular masculine organ, or (less blatantly) direct promotions for off-topic products.
Why a Clinkle executive quit after 24 hours
There might be another way to look at it in terms of overall risk appetite:

- when maintaining a traditional venture, innovate more on tech to attract more talent and interest. (Microsoft Azure folks, Basecamp (formerly 37signals))

- when innovating in something game changing, don't take huge risks on plumbing. (Facebook, Craigslist)
Does the average comment score still have some effect on placement among siblings within a thread? I had noticed that in the past.
Successful start-ups existed before Accelerators/Incubators became the thing. Find creative ways to hack your personal accelerator, including funding. Nothing beats good, regular dialog with potential users/buyers.
If this startup hadn't panned out, I don't know what I was going to do. Thinking about having a staged breakdown so I could live off my parents money while still raging in Mission and eating burritos and Thai. Longer term goal, channel that startup burnout into something more meaning-full like opening some profitable franchise, like yogurt or cookies and doing rails gigs on the side.

god I feel sorry for the poor saps still in the grind.
The WSJ article is pretty damn light, and is just an update of a May 2013 article.

Original source publication:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590914...
Love this sam! And good luck to Tyler.
Maybe this is covered in the New Yorker article marklabedz linked to, but I'm curious what their solution to quartering winds was. (They mention welding as a part of the solution but don't go into more detail.)
Some of us never left...
Back when I was running a web development company, I toyed with this idea a few times, but couldn't find a way to do it and not lose money. Hope your experience is different. Good luck!
We're hard-wired for Lisp. Broca's area 44,45 and 47 are responsible for processing hierarchical structures.[1] That's why it's so easy to reason about Lisp code.

[1] http://www.letras.ufrj.br/poslinguistica/recursion/papers/17...
That's fair, and I used the phrase "a lot of" intentionally vaguely. Yes, I'm thinking of calls into the system or common system libraries (like openssl), but also things like graphics libraries, e.g. sdl or glut. Certainly there are more pure-Rust turtles standing on one another than is the case in most languages, but the bottom turtle is still C.

Edit: Servo's src/support directory is a good example of my general sense that large Rust projects still tend to rely on a good deal of C libraries:

https://github.com/mozilla/servo/tree/master/src/support
So I'm mostly curious why this isn't just basically serf 2.0. Looking at serf I never really felt like it had much use in the basic form it took, with no ability to advertise extra details about the nodes in a dynamic fashion. Consul seems to build onto serf the things that serf needed to become really useful, so seems more like a successor to serf than a parallel project.

It seems like the right thing to do here would be to take the lessons of building consul into making serf something more like a library on which to build other things rather than a service in its own right.
FFTW.
Portray them as victims if it helps your world view, but I will not lose any sleep over their fines that will never be repaid.
Things should be better now!
It's not far off my predictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6923758

Though I'm far less funny about it.
An identical twin is a clone. Do you have anything against identical twins?
I found the answer in the Wikipedia article[1]:

> For the next three months, a construction crew welded two-inch-thick steel plates over each of the skyscraper's 200 bolted joints during the night, after each work day, almost unknown to the general public.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center
Yeah, I'd also love to see a separate "save" feature and split out "upvote" from "save". I upvote a lot of stories just to put them in the "read this later" list (which is how I view "saved stories") when I might not other upvote them and give them an explicit endorsement.
[HIDE] on reddit will remove these stories and comments from your view.
I too noticed the quality of the report. I know what it is and what it is for as soon as I start reading. Well laid out, succinct, contact details and further links for each item.

It's all very encouraging.
Confession: I used s-expressions only because even I could figure out how to parse that. I didn't appreciate Lisp in any meaningful sense.

Fast forward to a few years ago. I wanted to learn a lisp, finally. I gravitated toward Scheme. PLT Scheme seemed like the best choice. Today it's known as Racket.
I couldn't have put it better, thank you!
There are some additional negative consequences that are neither readily apparent nor easy to measure.

Think about if you were trying to run a competitor to Solyndra. You would not be able to hire qualified engineers, because your subsidized competitor does not need to care about what the market will bear.

You could say that the solar market worldwide has been a boondoggle because of these government subsidy price wars, as you note yourself. All that has resulted is a lot of junk equipment that can only be manufactured at a loss when you factor in all the layers of production.

Accounting performs a business function that many modern people like to ignore. Perhaps because math is scary, or accounting as a concept has become politically unpopular in America. Accounting matters even in technology research and development. It tells you whether or not the underlying market and societal conditions can actually support a particular project or not.

Extended losses on a process inform managers that that process must either be reformed or eliminated. Government does not operate based on profit-loss accounting, but on the dead-reckoning decisions made by political leaders and bureaucrats.

Voters are not relevant to this because almost none of them know what a solar panel is, how it works, or anything else relevant to energy issues. Almost no voters make decisions based on such issues. Almost no voters are even vaguely informed of the issues in general.

Projects that do not use accounting to improve the decision-making process fall prey to corruption and cost over-runs in a systematically predictable way. This is what happened to Solyndra. I don't blame the people in charge. I don't even blame the politicians who commissioned the project. Our intellectual culture has decayed in such a systematic way so that no one with social status even recognizes that it has.
So even though you acknowledge that the taxation system is unfair, and that it's due to a corrupt system. Despite the fact that this corrupt crony-capitalist system involves two actors, corporations and government, for some reason, you only blame the government?

Just because there may be a better system that exists out there in the abstract, where government is less centralized, and thus potentially less vulnerable to corruption, it seems like quite a bizarre leap of logic to exonerate one of the two main actors in the existing corrupt system.

Can you explain your logic please?
We're going to release new markup that Kevin has designed that is more mobile-friendly. (Sorry, I don't have an ETA, but we're working on it.) When it comes out, please let us know if this is still a problem.
Interesting, what happened that made you lose money? Were you pouring more time into the projects than you were getting paid for?
Perhaps not a good thing to admit:

I have a couple of handles* on HN. One of them is this one, which has enough karma to downvote, and the other has too little karma to downvote. After being really thoroughly raked over the coals for a time, I began mostly logging in under my other handle in part because some people had been really horrible to me and I found myself going "YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE -- DOWNVOTE!" I didn't like interacting with the site that way and was also worried it would have negative consequences for me personally, especially since pg was not handling things in a transparent manner and there was no clear, easy way to get with a mod and sort anything out. I returned to active use of this handle at a point where I was less bitter and also the culture seemed less toxic and I no longer felt like I was just being consistently shit on, all the time. So that isn't an issue for me anymore.

And my main point is that moderating is a human thing. Karma and other technical tools are just that -- tools. There are no magic solutions. Algorithms and what not have their uses but we are all human and building community is more about how people treat each other and making judgment calls and all that then about any specific technical anything.

* This is not a secret and there is no reason to believe they cannot be readily connected to each other -- it was not done to fool anyone here, it was done for other reasons.
I like the idea, but:

$2,345 / (40 * 3) = $19.5416666667/hr

I guess if you're just starting, that's decent money, but I don't think I could run with the same idea myself. I'd probably need to add a 1 to the front of your number.
I don't support massive surveillance dragnets, but I also find it laughable to suppose that the USA is the only country that has them.

At the same time, the author seems to be insinuating that Snowden was a Russian agent. If that's true why didn't he go to Russia very quickly? Why did he try to go to Hong Kong and South America first?

It also eludes dealing with the question of whether the NSA's programs are good or justifiable. Just because other people do it too doesn't mean it's a good thing.
I don't think JackFr sees a problem with giving grant money to an R&D company. JackFr is most likely referring to tax breaks, subsidies, and other assistance that government gives to non-R&D companies in order to prop them up. A few examples:

Agricultural subsidies for big agricultural companies

Starbucks gets real estate deals that smaller cafes cannot. That's why there is a frickin' Starbucks on every street corner.

Bank bailouts

In those cases, government is actively picking economic winners and losers, not funding basic research.
Fair enough. My intention was to avoid attacking the original quotation while still maintaining the actual translation.
I actually thought Slashdot's way of doing it was quite effective, especially the idea of rolling moderators.
It's never been clear to me how deeply the thermodynamic quantities are really connected to time. For example there could be a state in which entropy (or entanglement) increased from left to right in space, yet it wouldn't mean that time flows from left to right.
I don't see what that specifically has to do with Lisp. Virtually every programming language in use has a recursive hierarchical structure.
I don't think I agree with this. Remember that downvotes on SO only have a cost when they're cast on answers, not questions, and that cost is a fraction of the gain from an upvote (1/2 for suggested edits to 1/10 answers).

It makes sense for downvotes to be free on questions and expensive on answers because questions are low effort while answers are high effort, and the community wants to encourage more answers.

On HN, everything is low effort, and everything is worth 1 point. Also, our problem with comments isn't that we don't have enough, it's that we have too many low effort/factually incorrect/abusive/spammy comments that we need to discourage. So it makes sense to keep downvotes free.
This doesn't work right. Deuteron doesn't fuse correctly in all the situations.
OT but tangential any magical realism authors to read? So far, I got Marquez, Jorge Louis Borges and Murakami. And preferably recommendation should be good to provide philosophical consolation to a code monkey worker-bee in the capitalist society.
Downvoting is still abused IMO; people who simply disagree with you will downvote without explanation.

If they wanted to make an adjustment to the downvote karma threshold, I would suggest "require comment with down-vote" would be an interesting thing to test.
I think that the real problem is that developers believe that they will find it difficult before they try it, rather than actually finding it difficult when they eventually do try it.

That is pretty much what I meant. But given that the language expressions people are exposed to in their lives before LISP inherently aren't going to look like LISP, this a "marketing problem" that isn't going to go away. LISP doesn't look like natural language, that won't change and will always be hard for people to get over.
I wonder if it's possible to do an AMA or something here? There's clearly a market need and a lot of folks have felt burned. I bet HN would be interested to know that you taught yourself to code and have been one of the main devs on Picturelife.
Sorry for the snark. For the items mentioned in the GP (strollers, etc) where there are a few well-known brand names/models, CL is going to be very hard to beat:

-pricing is rational and stable. In such markets, people just know 'what stuff goes for'.
-where the savings of buying used is >$100, then the transactional costs of an email, a couple texts, a trip to the ATM, and a short drive are worth it to a lot of people.
-no taxes, fees, waiting for your money, account signup, email subscriptions, app downloads, etc. etc.
Not so strange when you realize the amount money flowing to the breeders or their dominance over staple crop seed. US soybean area is expected to be about 83.6m acres. Patented soybean seed costs roughly 35 $/ac more than non-patented. That's close to 3 billion revenue to patent holders in a single year (patented seed has >90% market share).

Just to be clear, I'm not opposed to GMO. It could be a valid and safe breeding technique. The campaign to brand it as dangerous or evil is without scientific basis. However, I am very much against the patenting of genes, genetic traits, seeds, etc.
No hard 'J's in many languages (Like Slavic languages). It's pronounced 'y'. Anyone have a list?
Lemmeguesswithoutclicking... Mariana Mazzucato?
I like that idea, and I don't think a multiple downvote system would have to be hard to implement. It would take very little change to the site, for example, to promote a system in which we flag for spam, downvote for irrelevance, and reply to posts we perceive as factually incorrect.
>So I guess MLK should have just accepted the current state of affairs, and Anne Frank should have just turned herself in?

Comparing the civil rights movement to taxi regulations is ridiculous. If that's the best you can do it should tell you a lot about the strength of your argument.

>"Arbitrary" doesn't just mean "random". It also means "based on whim". There is no contradiction.

It means: "based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system." If there is a reason it is not arbitrary.
Bingo. In fact I remember using QEMU briefly some years before virtualization or "VMWare" was even a widely-known term, and that was only because of my interest in the emulation scene at the time.
Different people define failure in different ways.

In business, if you fail, your assets are liquidated and recycled or transferred to your former competitors, your customers go elsewhere, and you lose the ability to command economic resources.

In government, if your contract fails, your company/team/department/bureau/whatever still exists, and is still eligible to fail again the next year. There might be a reshuffling of personnel, if anyone is watching, but there is no real penalty for failing to deliver.

The important thing about business failure is that resources are reallocated away from the people who created the failure towards those less likely to fail (in the same way). This mechanism is not usually present with government.
One new experiment we're currently working on is something like that for stories. If it works for stories, we may try a variation for comments.
Good Idea. But your own website looks little lame. Hope you update it soon.
Facts are like "f*** you"'s, sometimes.

(Sorry about using code-formatting; asterisks are apparently used to denote italic text.)
"It's clear from the data that they reliably downvote jerks and trolls"

Most people know what a jerk is. Perhaps though you (and others) could define what a troll is for the purpose of interpreting this statement. (Of course I know the online definition [1] but think that there seems to be much latitude in "extraneous, or off-topic messages" or "starting arguments".)

Specifically also from [1]:

"Application of the term troll is subjective. Some readers may characterize a post as trolling, while others may regard the same post as a legitimate contribution to the discussion, even if controversial."

While as mentioned I know what a jerk is, I can also see very easily someone throwing out "troll" to stifle someone else in more or less a parental way. That is to nominalize something as simply not important or worth even of discussion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
To be honest, I said 3 weeks just to be safe (the old rule of doubling what you think you need). The plan was also to work on multiple projects in parallel.

You're right though, I am just starting off, and already feel a bit guilty asking for anything north of $5k.
You should post this reddit.com/r/startups or /entrepreneur

This is like the one venue for most people CAN build out their ideas.
I've been playing a really similar game called Tic Tactics, the only difference seems to be you can play in a won square until it's completely full then it becomes a free move. Not sure what overall difference that makes to tactics but it's interesting they made that small change. A big difference is taking a board doesn't give your opponent a free move, which improves late game a lot.

Actually it also starts the game with 9 moves each which makes things interesting, any collisions match and you can't take three in a row or the middle tile.
Stating that this reasoning is always a falacy is in itself "coulda woulda shoulda" "falacy".

Strict reasoning is hard.
Rfs 11: kill YC
Everything is in the title
Well we kind of know some details at least[1]:

Mario strayed. He fell in love with a beautiful Swedish air stewardess whom he met while travelling. He left his wife and moved to Stockholm.

Distraught, his wife Patricia went to see her husband's best friend, Gabriel. After discussing the matter with his wife, Mercedes, he advised Patricia to divorce Mario. And then he consoled her. No one else quite knows what form this consolation took... Eventually Mario returned to his wife, who told him of Gabriel's advice to her, and of his consolation.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/10/the-nobe...
You are doing the wrong calculation. He isn't claiming to spend 40 hours a week on the prototype. This could be done in spare time, taking advantage of time that is probably netting $0/hr, and in many cases probably can be done in less than 120 hours (especially if he locked down the technology stack)
If you apply thought and patience rather than treat it like a quick draw weapon, the results are better. For example, just a tree I walked past in London...

http://i.imgur.com/BphXWFN.jpg

The chunk of glass on the front is pretty important too.
I have a feeling you'll be inundated, but I'll be reaching out to you shortly.
It was an old church. The chuch allowed the Citicorp building to be built around it, which ended up being above it.

EDIT: spelling
It can't possibly come back to bite them. Everyone who cares already knows that it's a lie, inside Russia or not. Oh, no, you caught them in a lie! Whatever will they do?? They'll probably do the same thing they did when the world caught them in the several lies relating to their invasion of Crimea...
This is not actually a fix for SiriProxy because it intercepts requests to Google, not Siri. They use Siri for speech-to-text only and then do their own command processing.
I'm about to drop out 2 classes shy from my bachelor's... for the second time. I've been fighting depression for the past decade, and I relapsed again this semester.

Gaming was my coping mechanism in the past, but I haven't played games for over 5 years now. It's merely a symptom, there are plenty of other coping mechanisms available.
Consider the relationship between Chromebooks and METAL.

(I'm typing this from my Pixel...)