skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything we do as human beings (pretty much) is all about people. So think in people terms, not purely resource or financial terms.

People like proximity, they like being able to pop in and see other people. Distance is friction from a business point of view. Just as we see friction in applications as bad, so do business people see friction in business as bad. Distance is friction.

I'm bootstrapping in the UK, I love SF and would love to be there (at least part of the year!), there are a lot of advantages to having that much contact with other startups.

However, interestingly I notice that people who do what suits them best often seem to overcome geographic and financial obstacles. So I certainly wouldn't want to recommend or even suggest one way as better than the other.

You've got to balance what's right for you with what is right for others.

On a completely different note it would be great if we could swap the word 'funded' with debt everywhere it's used :-) The two words have very different connotations but mean the same thing (unless someone is just willing to GIVE you money :)) I think the word debt helps people to make more sober judgements.
It stands for Multiple Listing Service. Essentially, it's the database used to manage listing information about a property which has been entered by the realtor handling the sale of a property. In the "old days" you could really only find out about properties for sale by looking in the newspapers, or speaking with a realtor who could search for-sale properties in these databases. There are thousands of them in the United States, and you generally need to have a realtor's license to gain access to your local MLS.

MLS's can choose to syndicate their data to third-parties using services like ListHub or Point2 - but usually stipulate that the data must always point back to the listing agent so they stay part of the selling process.

Companies like Zillow and Trulia have challenged this model. Increasingly, they've become the de-facto starting-point for real estate research. They've built more-user-friendly interfaces, and surfaced public-records information along with property listings in order to present a more-compelling way to buy and sell houses. Furthermore, they've done this while positioning themselves as advertising companies so as not to upset realtors or make them feel as-if they're being cut out of the process.

The big complaint realtors have had with Zillow and Trulia usually centers around two concepts. One is "stale" data. The typical claim is that once data is syndicated from an MLS through a syndicator like ListHub to a site like Zillow things may have changed on-the-ground and the data may be stale. Another complaint is that Zillow's business model is built on the backs of the work realtors have done. They source all the information, and Zillow earns money from redistributing that data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_listing_service
As you can imagine we're getting a big load of traffic on release day. Which is fine; we have many servers hosting these containers. Some new ones are being spawned as the traffic increases. What we're finding now, though, is that we need to tune our load balancing logic, especially for the scenario where many new users show up. This requires the use of some other metrics than the "normal" scenario with many users leaving their workspace for several hours and then coming back. Right now there is one host in particular that has more users on it than it reasonably should. But, in short, we're working on making it better :)
I was thinking this very thing. Once you decide to support all cars, then you need to build in the smarts to automatically measure and the database of models is no longer needed.
How Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes became software titans
The one thing you can't teach an entrepreneur
Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi
Thanks again for taking the time to go line by line.

> Already removed the NSA wording. It's amazing how many people it spooked.

> It's safe to say we're going to stay away from referencing other government agencies.

> I answered this in your other comment, on the other thread, but we're only using USPS.

> Offering some sort of en-route layer to our product seems likely. There will always be a weakest link when it comes to data security (proving your social for some, your data being stored in the cloud for others, etc.) and the fact that you're shipping the drive to us is ours. We'll work on making this as much as a non-issue as the business model allows.

> The service that your hospital has is exactly what big corporations can afford. We're filling a gap for companies that are not there yet.

Shoot me an email at alex@destroyer.io with your address and I'll send a Destroyer.io sticker your way (if you trust me with your address :). The feedback here has been great, and the goal is to offer a service that makes everyone feel safe, this thread definitely pushes us in that direction.
The real estate market is huge and inefficient, a ripe opportunity for technologists to capitalize on. But I don't understand what Zillow brings to the table. Do they have any plan beyond their current business model (advertising)?

As a consumer, I think I should oppose Zillow. They seem to just take public data, present it nicely, and slather it with advertisements. Real estate agents play the same heavy-handed role they always have, except now they have to give some of their profits to Zillow else lose visibility to their competitors.

I'm more excited about Redfin. Redfin makes shopping for a home closer to the self-service experience it should be, with agents dealing in higher volume with lower margins playing a lighter role. Unlike Zillow, Redfin seems to make that market more efficient, and I think that's the bigger opportunity for capitalization.
His essays were collected into a book. One copy of the book is in the Fort Vancouver Regional Library system. Also, I somehow managed to find and read his entire blog a couple years ago. His writing is not completely lost in time.
The commission is subject to market forces. There are a number of agents in my area (South Bay) that will accept a $5,000 flat fee.

A good agent really shines when you get into "unusual" situations, by providing you with good advice when the way is not clear. If you buy and sell houses a few times you will see some of these situations.
It's a whole different thing, but they moved a 340 ton rock across Los Angeles County a few years ago. I have some pictures from when they parked it a few blocks away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitated_Mass
One of these days I'll do something like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1jg15u/so_i_actu...
Depends on what you call "cheap" hahahaha
Ctrl-w as “backward-kill-word” is a Unixism from the classic Unix TTY, you can’t blame Emacs for that one.
Doesn't MaidSafe have some kind of cryptocurrency? You should have to pay for any resources you use.
Harvard Extension School is an adult education program, like night classes. Your teachers may be Harvard faculty (but never were in the 7 classes I took there), and the other students are not Harvard undergrads. Also there is no application: they take anyone with a credit card. (There may be an application if you want to earn a degree rather than just take desultory classes; I don't know.) That's all not to say the classes aren't very good, but it's not the same as "getting into Harvard."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078355

Also, it used to say this:

Microsoft has changed as a company
and is becoming more open in the way
that we collaborate with others.

Will it change?
This practise is in my opinion SO wrong.
There is a saying: "... as humanly possible" in other words people make mistakes !
It would be really interesting to hear Seth's former co-founders response to this well written piece.
While I agree that was the case for a rather long time, I have recently been surprised to see a marked improvement in Burger King's offering (in the UK at least). The stores are clean, the food is better - to the point where it was actually much nicer than McDonalds.

I only noticed maybe seven or eight months ago when it was the only place available for a quick meal, but I've been back once since, at the other end of the country, and it was also good.

I suspect these things are a bit cyclical.
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This is probably not great advice, because the state and federal IRS (reasonably) get pissed when you misclassify FTEs as contractors, and there are penalties if they decide that's happened.
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The Navier-Stokes equations are also hard to solve, that does not stop fluids from obeying them.
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This comparison is impossible to do in any quantifiable sense. The cost savings for leaving SF are quantitative (low rent. lower taxes. etc). The perks for staying in SF are much more abstract (better networking. increased visibility). I don't mean to imply the SF perks aren't worth it, but they will only be quantifiable in hindsight at best.
unless issuing a takedown request necessitates full criminal prosecution

It is my understanding, however, that the article has been taken down.
RPi B+ and I2S DACs will not work directly anymore: changed GPIOs and pinmux different now.
I did the Rasbian Kernel Patch and with four jumper wires - it works:
http://www.tjaekel.com/T-DAC/raspi_Bplus.html

Even with latest Rasbian image (June 2014) - without Kernel Patch I2S does not work (and RPi B+ will hang).
Change three bytes in a kernel module and all fine.
Weirdly, I feel for the IRS here.

Early on in the days of the Internet, I would actually call up spammers and try to help them understand why they should stop. 80% of the people were confused small businesspeople who were glad somebody gave them the straight scoop. 20% were weasels who would say or do anything as long as it got them what they wanted.

After a few decades of bullshit excuses from irredeemable idiots, I would also end up in the "fuck you, pay me" category. Because nothing short of being as inevitable as death would be enough to get inveterate weasels to actually pay, and nobody wants to be jerked around by weasels.

It sucks for the rest of us, though, because it turns reasonable mistakes like this into land mines.
I used "valid" very loosely – I mean roughly, useful for describing typical data in a way that helps catch bugs without impeding usability.

One of my issues with algebraic types is the awkwardness of describing enumerable arrays and sets. Both end up being represented as some kind of binary tree. (I say "enumerable" because obviously functions can easily represent non-enumerable arrays and sets.) Relational types can describe both trivially.

I'm sure relational types have weaknesses likewise (though I can't think of any off the top of my head). A non-parametric relational type system – which doesn't permit field values to themselves be relations, such as in SQL – has obvious difficulties specifying recurrent structures. (You can of course flatten these using pointers, but without dependent constraints you can't catch bugs.)
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here's the implied reference: "Unlike any other western country..."
When I bought my house, I didn’t use an agent at all. Luckily I had rented in the area for about 5 years prior, so I already new the area pretty well.

When I began talking pricing on the house, the FIRST thing out of the realtors mouth was “Since you aren’t using an agent we can knock $x off the price of the house” that was before and negotiating had started, and before I made any offer.

And to even sweeten the deal more, the selling realtor was the owner of the house I ended up buying, so there was no commission for the seller to add into the price really. Needless to say, after negotiating we got the house much cheaper than equivalent houses were selling for.
The way it works is : seller pay 5%-6% of commission to his agent. Seller agent then posts what the buyer agent will get. Buyer agent will get equal or more, as he to do more legwork.

now interesting part:

a buyer can negotiate with his agent to get some of the commission a buyer agent gets in range of 1.5%-2%. But buyer has to work with smaller agents, not affiliated with big firms : century 21. There is glut of agents, and you can get the deal. (me and some of my friends have)

needless to say : you have to do lot of legwork : finding house urself, and just the agent to do the paperwork.

Same goes with seller : he has to give 3% for buyer agent, but for his agent (seller agent) he can negotiate to 1% - 1.5% (know of that happening too)

while looking for a next house, I just made a aggregator to scrape multiple sites and let me know when new house is available in bay area. (http://www.twikstik.com/ : running on appengine)
Perhaps the copies of data are geographically placed to minimize distance to within 20ms. Just a thought - I have no actual data to support that assumption.
It's all fun and games until the government decides you're hosting child porn on your computer, even if you didn't put it there.

So, they'll have to come up with some means of centralized censorship, which is going to hack off the devout civil libertarians who would initially support it. And the vast majority of internet users aren't going to care until someone tries to explain to them how the internet is using their resources for storage.

Then the fun starts.
I assume it knows it is "your car" by the location where it dropped it, not by reading license plates or some other form of id. This would make moving cars around a little trickier, though I guess you could always keep the latest location.

I wonder if it optimizes for your return. This is, if a person is not returning until 5 days from now, maybe that car can be moved farther out in the parking lot to make room for cars of people who are returning "soon."

Basically, all cars would be placed "far away" and then slowly move to the front.

Maybe it's a "small" airport and this is not needed.
I don't know about your experience, but I've bought two houses and sold one.

In each case, having a real estate agent to act as my "agent" when negotiating with the buyer/seller proved to be valuable. He/she understands real home values and selling trends through experience, not through algorithms. He/she also can spot warning signs for a property, usually has plenty of good vendor contacts, and can guide a buyer or seller through fairly complicated process.

I would absolutely recommend hiring an agent for a first-time home buyer or seller.

However when it comes to just "finding" property to show you; I agree agents and the MLS are becoming obsolete. In fact the second house we bought we had picked out before hiring our agent. So I'm all for open listing and open data.
Decriminalising sex work would cut HIV infections by a third
Show HN: Chameleon Colour Converter
Hi! I've just released my first OS X app on the app store. It's a quick and simple status bar app, built for developers who need to change colours quickly and easily between Hex/RGB and also need to find different shades of a colour.

It's available at http://chameleon-app.com

There's plenty of features planned for the next release - different colour conversions (HSL/HSB) and the ability to create colour schemes too.

Hope you like it!
Any news on when one will be able to install Windows on a machine with an existing Linux partition and not have the installer overwrite it?
Which still sounds wrong to me. I'd expect "You're not allowed to breathe oxygen" or "You're not allowed to have oxygen".

So I guess it's "allowed" which is being used in a way I'm unfamiliar with.
Amazing to see the journey of a a blogger & company I have admired for the past 15 years. His blog was one of those inspirations for me to want to start building my own business. Big fan of Trello here. Many congratulations.
Next time it wouldn't hurt to share your son's wonder and just enjoy such amazing aspects of the world!
Documenting the history of the Agricultural Holocaust
Integrating JSX live reload into your React workflow
I think this mistake had a cascade effect on the other ones. If you remove this one, a lot of other ones should be manageable.
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I also took a few Harvard Extension School classes (mostly Greek and Latin, but also Distributed Computing). I didn't earn a degree, just took a few things that interested me. It's on my resume as Harvard Extension School, and I have to actively correct people who think it's more than it is. My jokey way of putting it is that HES "takes anyone with a credit card." What's really embarrassing is when someone introduces me as someone who "went to Harvard." They were great classes, especially the ancient Greek, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to learn what I did, but it's not like I did my undergrad there. I fact I applied and didn't get in. :-)
I don't really blame the add-on Makers since they have to pay Heroku's markup and then their own.
It's called vaperware and it's part of a lean strategy (that way you only build what people actually want). It's extremely common, in fact I believe New Relic was founded using this type of strategy. Take this with a grain of salt because this is an old passing memory of mine, but I believe Lew Cirne called up business owners and sold a bunch of them on the original new relic product before even developing it.

I don't think it is necessarily unethical if you know that you can do it (so long as you can deliver before they start paying), if it is some sort of technology that you aren't sure is possible or not that is certainly different.
The interesting part for me was that the posted speed limit only really changes the behaviour of the slowest drivers - the 10% who "identify the speed limit sign and drive at or near that limit".

Bringing their speed up to match the rest of us reduces the variance in speed; and minimizing the spread of speeds is a key to safety.
There's no way to do that.
I agree, these extreme case scenarios are theoretically possible, though extremely unlikely.

Like I mentioned in my answer to your other comment, shipping is the weakest link (or biggest risk) of our company. We'll do our best to figure out ways to make customers comfortable with shipping their drives to us.
Riding Uber in Lagos
In the Freenet model, the local cache is encrypted, and you don't have the decryption key.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet#Technical_design
No, it doesn't. The intersection of New Yorker readers and people who already possess Bitcoin would be infinitesimally small.

This would, in fact, mean "Open a Coinbase account, scan your drivers license and passport, link your bank account, do the two-small-deposits thing, initiate a transfer, wait the first-time-purchaser waiting period, and then read the article. Weeks later."
Why is it tough to grow outside of SF? There are plenty of successful internet businesses that are not based in San Francisco.
On the flip side I'm sure you've heard the phrase "nothing gets done until someone sells something."

There's a lot of cases where you are certain you can build what the customer needs, but you can't spend resources on it until you have a sale in hand.
Yeah, looking at the behavior of the machine I figured something like this was going on. It doesn't help either you ops team either having made front page on HN =)

That said, poking around I realized I can create and edit projects on my own server. I just spun up a 2G droplet on digital ocean and was playing around with the SSH connector and i am beyond impressed. Ideally I'd prefer to manage my own system resources, but being able to drop in and work on my project from any browser on hardware that I can control, upgrade and allocate is very nice and feels more sustainable at least for my case.
> It will take quite a few years for that to trickle down to retail investors and potential franchisees.

You might be right, but I would make the observation that markets seem to be capable of changing a lot faster today. I think anyone investing in consumer segments like retail and fast food should be open to the possibility that meaningful trend shifts can occur and businesses can rise and fall relatively quickly (on the order of a few years as opposed to a decade or more).
You can't know.
At (insert swear word here) last!

"The classpath can also include Maven coordinates, and Gosu will automatically resolve and download them at runtime:

#! /path/to/gosu
classpath "../src,org.gosu-lang.gosu:sparkgs:0.1.0"

print( "Here is a library object: ${new SweetLibraryObject()}")

"

Been writing java for 14 years and I've never had a nice way to run scripts.

Now if you can work natively (tougher than folk think) with JSON I'd be very happy indeed. That would include supporting fully de-typed data not nasty schema based data binding. I've switched to NodeJS/JS because they speak the language of the web (not JS, but JSON). But I can't see why other languages can't learn to.
> Fog Creek, which was founded in 2000 and is owned by employees

What happens to the Fog Creek employees? Do they have a stake in the new companies?
for me one of the important feature is the ability run in a terminal over ssh on a slow link.
Zillow and Trulia make the majority of their revenue selling preferential placement of realtor profiles and selling consumer leads to these realtors.

For Zillow 2014 Q1 it was $46.2M realtor revenue, $7.1M mortgage leads and $12.9M display advertising. Only about 20% of their revenue comes from ads.
Show HN: How I bypassed Exchange security on Android
I was messing around with AOSPA, wanted to figure out a way to bypass the encryption requirement to get exchange mails.
Initially I thought I would have to modify the Email app or the part where the OS the administrative provisioning.
But as it turns out all I had to do was comment out 8 lines of code

private int getEncryptionStatus() {
/*String status = SystemProperties.get("ro.crypto.state", "unsupported");
if ("encrypted".equalsIgnoreCase(status)) {
return DevicePolicyManager.ENCRYPTION_STATUS_ACTIVE;
} else if ("unencrypted".equalsIgnoreCase(status)) {
return DevicePolicyManager.ENCRYPTION_STATUS_INACTIVE;
} else {
return DevicePolicyManager.ENCRYPTION_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED;
}*/
return DevicePolicyManager.ENCRYPTION_STATUS_ACTIVE;
}

So now the OS always thinks that its encrypted, and it doesn't ask for the encryption password on boot as that is done by a separate module.

Source - https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/services/java/com/android/server/DevicePolicyManagerService.java Line 2592
I never thought of Zillow being the bigger company until I compared their listings to Trulia's. Looks like Zillow has been acquiring other real estate sites like crazy over the past few years to get to where they are now. Pretty impressive. However I feel like the Zestimates are still not very accurate. Not even sure how they get those estimates. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Also, I wonder how long it will be until Amazon acquires Zillow and 'homes' will be listed in departments.
Parallel MCMC implementations exist. My favorite is emcee - http://dan.iel.fm/emcee/current/ which has excellent support for parallelism.

Derail aside - I completely agree that lying about features is horrendous and I'd never ever work for a boss that did this on a regular basis.
Damn I wish I had this like 6 months ago when I was trying to find a new space. However, we are very happy now at Runway!