skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're different from their traditional competitors in that they increase the utilization of one's pre-owned assets.

That's actually not a difference from their traditional competitors, in that (to the extent that the uses weren't actually illegal at the time) agent-intermediated rentals for already-owned assets weren't new things when these apps started doing it, and also because these apps aren't specific to "pre-owned" assets, and in fact drive asset purchases dedicated to rental through the apps. (And, in any case, rental-through-an-agent doesn't become "sharing" just because you owned the property you chose to rent out before you decided to rent it out.)
When I'm in town, there is only a bus every 30 mins home.

If I'm in the pub, I don't care what time it is now, I care how many minutes it is to the next bus home.

I want a watch face that just has 2 or 3 numbers, number of minutes to next few buses home.

The last bus of the night should be highlighted quite a lot, with alarms for that.
You're probably about as happy as you were with less/different stuff (unless you were poor enough to be anxious about making ends meet), but maybe you're unusual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

On average, happiness peaks at age 20, declines until age 50, and then starts to inch up again ( http://www.economist.com/node/17722567 ).
I don't know about linux, but I've heard that they made lots of improvements in Coverity after running it against FreeBSD (we were one of the first large codebases they inspected); most notably in false-positive reduction, since it provided them with an opportunity to see lots of idioms which are correct but potentially confusing to a static analysis tool.
I've been using Dweet for some time on a lot of different fun and hacky projects, I just wanted to say good job!
> Yes, fine, but my point is: pretending that these men rose to become business magnates despite lacking wealth and background is completely incorrect.

Not so, and certainly not so in the case of Steve Jobs, an orphan. Each of the stories is of someone who certainly wouldn't have succeeded to the degree they did without personal qualities that transcended their origins, rather than family wealth, the original argument. Richard Branson didn't build his present empire by buying it with his family's money -- he created it out of his wits. Elon Musk is another story of the same kind -- it's hyperbolic to argue that he became successful because of inherited wealth as opposed to personal ingenuity and drive.

> Even the lowest of them started within the professional upper-middle class (roughly where you and I probably are), which is already most of the way up the class scale, in percentile terms.

But this isn't about class -- it might be about genetics, and it certainly isn't about family money, the original offered explanation. For these stories, class and family background are correlations, not causes.

What we're talking about here are stories of exceptional success with no obvious cause apart from personal drive and ingenuity. They can't be dismissed as resulting from high birth or privilege -- it would be more consistent with logic to examine them on their self-evident merits.
Bitcoin is obviously useless and will surely never be of any use to anybody ever.

/s
The origin of laughter, smiles and tears
I love the map interface – especially how you show pictures and group close ones at high zoom levels.

It'd be nice if you gave us the ability to zoom in and out of our own free will. I managed to double-click zoom a bunch of times and it took me ages to get back out of a small village on the coast of Italy.
So just to make sure I understand, when BitFinex offers leverage trading, are they betting that the price of Bitcoin won't go up as high as the folks asking for leverage think it'll go?

If not, why do people offer leveraged trading? Just for the interest? A fee?
> If I want to make more, I take on more projects.

Or you can increase the transactions per customer. You don't have to have more projects/clients to make more money. There are only so many projects you'll be able to work on.

However, if you already have 10 - 15 customers, and you increase the # of transactions per customer, you can reach 7 figure revenue per year.
> Is Java the Cobol of tomorrow and Go the Java of the future?

If so, does that make Go the COBOL of the day after tomorrow?
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I'm hearing a bit of Impostor syndrome there...sometimes just bringing this to a conscious level can help counteract it.

I find that it also helps to remind myself that life is managed not cured.

So you're working a non startup gig for a while - there is zero shame as that. If you've got your heart set on a startup long term then see it as a tactical retreat whilst you gather your strength and evaluate options. Chance are it might just help you - sometimes its better to bid your time and attack from a position of strength than charge at the problem blindly.
To be fair, if you believe in evolution, thinking of things in terms of improvement is very subjective. Evolution isn't selecting for improvement, it's selecting for survival, which may or may not be correlated with your vision of improvement. Think of cockroaches.

From a christian perspective, the natural discontent stems from the fallen nature of man. You're worldly accomplishments will never be able to satisfy that discontentment, as the two areas are unrelated.
You realize Bitcoin and the USD are quite different things, right? One has its price regulated artificially by creating more of it, while the other depends solely on the whims of the free market. And besides, Bitcoin is much smaller, and therefore it fluctuates the same way startups' stock fluctuates.

So one could say this: If a startup's stock flucuates like this, it's the most normal thing in the world. But if it happens to Bitcoin, it's something we should criticize!
Link to the actual extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/biotool/aenbjmfdhg...
Of course you can use forward secrecy (PFS) and ephemeral keys with PGP/GPG/GnuPG. I've been doing that for ages. Any public / private key system is able to do that. Simply generate new key pairs and send the new signed public key when ever that's necessary. I've blogged about that several years ago, when someone claimed that it can't be done. You can freely select if you want to rotate keys on every message, daily or so.
How about: They won the exploding-market lottery by being in the right place and executing well? Just another bunch of upper-middle-class white boys who could get into all the right clubs is another part of it.
Is this necessarily?

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Is there a relationship between one's ability to emphathize with others, and one's ability to plan for the future?

If we think of our future selves as other people, maybe the folks who can't think of other people's feelings very well also have a hard time planning for their future selves.
Why save? It's actually a provably bad idea to save money when the rich/government are actively undermining your savings and livelihood. Better to enjoy your money or try to actually invest it (note, not the same as saving).
I think its more of the ADHD never think about the future at all issue.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! An update is on the way in the next couple of days I hope.
A 10% swing in minutes is out of character even for Bitcoin.
Not at the moment, but it can certainly be added.

I assume you mean some kind of pipelining so that if multiple requests that have the same signature come through then only one gets executed and the response is shared amongst all the requesting clients without them ever touching the underlying application?
Despite enjoying my work for the most part, I'm willing to trade less than 25% of my time.

Typical hours worked in a year: 2000

52 weeks - 2 weeks vacation/sick/holiday (most have more) * 40 =2000 hrs

2000 / (365*24)=.228

Seems fair.
Awesome! The fact that he is requesting music is very interesting because you have made a device much more accessible than an iPod.

Listening to the music from their youth is shown anecdotally to have a HUGE impact on people with dementia and Alzheimer’s[1]. But often iPods are too much for these people to manage, maybe a simpler device (such as yours) could be used in this space?

[1]http://musicandmemory.org/
Without trying to poke holes in your economic assumptions (which I think I could), giving your kid 15K a year seems a lot less valuable than teaching them self reliance, logical reasoning, frugality, a love of education/learning, work ethic, etc.

You can do all of those things without being a rich parent, and there is at least anecdotal evidence that a trust fund impairs someones ability to learn these things.

The idea that teaching a kid to make their own way in the world is cruel seems downright backwards to me...
Man, I hope it's still written in CL...
The Artist of the Unbreakable Code (2013)
Consult your history--even in the event where going there was a choice, there are many, many ways to rig the game so that it becomes economically infeasible to leave again.

You also assume that people have free choice; when you're near flat broke, it's easy to miss your other options.
It doesn't have grammaticalisation of time, is what was meant.

It's obviously got at least one word for the future ("tomorrow"), which is kind of like having a library function strcat instead of just +

Also, English doesn't have a future tense, so there's that.
Yahoo is a perfect example of a company that has had its foot in basically every great opportunity on the web. And yet, it sucks at basically all of them.

The best thing to have happened to the Internet is Yahoo being priced out of acquiring Google and Facebook during their early stages. Its pretty clear what would have been made of them under Yahoo's roof.
The problem is rather hard. If Google manages to catch "only" 99.9% of spam links and does not penalize the receiving site for those, the 20 000 spam links mentioned in the post would still add 20 links' worth of PageRank. As you point out, crappy links can be made to count for less; but creating spam links is really cheap, so they would need to count for very little to stop spammers.

And stopping spammers is good - fighting web spam is (was) a major effort for e.g. forum operators.
What's in your toolbox? Why the browser wars are so last decade
Why would you blame minimum wage for this problem if you weren't implying we should reform or abolish it?

Also, the process of proposal and rebuttal you describe has another name: Debate. And the constant rebutting is why it works so well. You attack the other side's idea while defending your own and the best ideas survive the process.
brace yourself, next year is going to be rocky. But Yahoo will survive.

we've found the periodicity of the startup groundhog loop.
Interestingly, this is the first time I've seen such a hedge bet so blatant.
Yep. All the distributed systems I've worked with devolve into a bad reimplementation of part of Erlang.
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> One has its price regulated artificially by creating more of it

Not on these scales. Artificial adjustments to the dollar happen on month increments, possibly days.

> while the other depends solely on the whims of the free market

Free is relative, the Bitcoin market is still too small to be isolated from manipulation.

> same way startups' stock fluctuates

Care to quote a startup stock that is traded decently (Bitcoin isn't a penny stock) and has a 10% dip in minutes that isn't newsworthy for anyone interested in that stock?

Because I can bet anyone following it would find it newsworthy.
> It's actually a provably bad idea to save money when the rich/government are actively undermining your savings and livelihood.

This is like arguing that it's pointless to breathe because we'll all end up dead anyway. Even in the face of governmental mischief and deliberate inflation, saving or investing money may still represent the best of competing choices.

I emphasize I'm not talking about a bank savings account -- that's really a losing proposition.
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Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life

http://biblehub.com/nasb/john/14.htm
Intracranial hypertension.
With no minimum wage, an employer who offers the absolute worst in predictability would have to offer a higher wage than the same sort of work with predictability-as-a-benefit. Similarly, an employer who offers lots of employee-friendly flexibility – you can always leave early, no penalties for refusing an offered shift, etc – could pay less.

People then get compensated for what they care most about, not what a legislature has decreed as the only acceptable wage rate. They'd also tend to sort into the workplaces that best fit their circumstances. Social surplus is maximized.

A wage floor prevents these sorts of adjustments, because it creates a surplus of hours-offered at the higher wage, while eliminating other hours-demanded. (For example, it's no longer economical to have 3 registers open, or to check on the restrooms hourly, or to bring customers their own orders as opposed to having them picked up, or to have someone wandering the store floor for issues/questions.) Thus the hours available can be rationed out as an inducement for other, harder-to-regulate concessions.

So while the wage floor makes employers (who continue to employ) pay more, in that one dimension, it strengthens their powers of control/coercion is most others.

The absolute best system for employees is tight labor markets, where if anything about the job is bad – wage, hours, respect – they can walk across the street for another job-on-offer at about the same wage with a better mix of everything. That best system is sabotaged by lots of well-intended restrictions on employment relationships, so we only see it occasionally, during transient booms and in boom regions (like, recently, North Dakota).
Right, it can point and deploy to any Windows Server that has an OctopusDeploy tentacle (deploy agent) installed on it.
Has there been fluctuations like this due to algorithmic trading of BTC yet?
"I know for a fact that I want to run my own business and attain financial freedom"

This is really cool to have that mindset. I'm also building my own business right now while I'm working for another startup.

But are you sure that this is what you want? Why do you want this? Will it make you happier? If so, why? So many people are on the top and yet they are unhappy.

I _know_ I will be downvoted for this, but I can only suggest you to pray about it. My rationale for praying is simply this:

1. If God doesn't exist, I only lost a couple of minutes.

2. If God does exist and what's told about him in the Bible is true, he will hear me.

There's nothing much to lose in both case. Only a potential win. I prayed all my life and I saw answers to them so often.
I can assure you God loves you and he really cares about your future. Ask him about it. :-)

God bless.
I did a similar thing some time ago adding rigid body collisions on the asteroids, which makes the game way harder.

https://github.com/santialbo/Asteroids

play here: https://rawgit.com/santialbo/Asteroids/master/default.htm
What if things were good when you had your child, then it all went to hell?

Life is unpredictable.
While you are of course right trivially about the sheer amount of information, I'm not so sure about the useless part. Right now a lot of consumer protection and activism is driven by someone trying to sift through similar information and then make a lot of noise about their findings. That is also inefficient in a way that favors certain kinds of players in the marketplace.

For instance, if I knew the producer of certain items, I might decide to buy directly from them instead of through a middleman, such as a grocery store, but now there are all kinds of barriers to doing just that. Furthermore, if I could somehow contact the coffee farmer who grew my coffee beans, then I could also ask him for a particular kind of bean that I might prefer. This is less efficient in the production sense than shipping everything in large batches, but might be more efficient in the sense of getting what I want. It is quite common when shopping for furniture to find exactly what you want, except too wide, narrow, high, etc. Having it hand-made in the west would be prohibitively expensive, perhaps 10x of the price of the item, so we settle for the one which is not quite right. But if there was a simple mechanism for ordering the modified item from the original developing world producer then that might be very useful.

I guess the question is not whether we could make marketplaces more visible to better know whom our elves are. The question is whether we want to.
it seems someone changed the password...
Why would you suggest something that's such a bad idea? If you're trying to be funny, it's not very.
"Why would you blame minimum wage for this problem if you weren't implying we should reform or abolish it?"

Seriously? It's possible to think that something causes a problem while still thinking that it's a net gain. Is that concept actually foreign to you? Do you truly think that you must either see no faults in something or you must think it should be changed?

Debate involves a mutual discussion. The process I describe, where a person "rebuts" something that was never said, is not debate, it's simple argument.
Are online stores as simple as blog + inventory + accepting credit cards?

I don't mean the platform is simple. Or that implementing a store builder is simple. But the concept and the interface from the end user (store owner) point of view. Basically, if you can create a Tumbler or Wordpress blog and have a list of products, can you have a store?

It would seem so.

Pretty amazing how tech can remove frictions. And yet my cable box still uses as much electricity as my fridge and the remote has more buttons that a small plane.
Is it immoral to buy nice shoes?
Correct, but it is actually other users offering the leverage. Bitfinex created a P2P market for it. If you offer your USD as leverage then you receive interest.
>>> There's really not much "choice" in browsers anymore.

As a web developer, this is actually something that's good for my industry. What I don't need is more choices in browsers, more quirks I need to know and more issues to deal with across a multitude of platforms.

Sure, it's getting better. However, I hardly see a day in the near future where you can code something once and it works perfectly across every single browser.
I remember it, but I also remember Twitter's contribution to it be largely overblown PR.
Well they didn't choose to be born so leaving them with the option of killing themselves or spending most of their lives doing things they don't enjoy just to stay alive seems cruel to me.

I would hope I could teach them all of those things you outlined and have them be happy and productive on their own terms, not some other rich guy's.
Ah true, didn't catch that. Saw angular & HTML5
> why do people offer leveraged trading

Bitfenix doesn't provide the leverage, they use other trades to provide it.

Those traders get hourly interest for participating.

If you have a balance and you don't want to use it, loaning it out can make some money you wouldn't otherwise get.

It is similar to loans but on a shorter window.
Is this built on top of Mechanical Turk? Whenever I see something listed as "manual" my mind immediately goes there.
If you go to BFXdata.com you can see historical graphs for it. Bitfinex reports their leveraged volume every hour.

Here's a screenshot of what you are looking for: https://i.imgur.com/SvSFYMK.png

edit1: I also added that graph to the post.
This is called a liquidity trap and it's well-studied in finance circles. Basically, in order to have a well-functioning market, you need a roughly balanced number of sellers and buyers at any point.

If an external event triggers enough parties' simultaneous need to sell, it can suck all the buy orders out of the market, causing the price to fall lower and lower as the sellers have to submit ever-lower prices to find willing buyers. The event creates a positive feedback loop as sellers go lower and lower to find buyers, leading to sharp, discontinuous movements in price.

The ultimate answer to this is tons of market depth/liquidity, but absent that, exchanges have "circuit-breaker" policies in place that cause trading to halt if prices move too much, too quickly.

Ultimately, ensuring an orderly market is a massive challenge that shouldn't be taken lightly.

EDIT: Child is correct, I think liquidity traps are from macro, but same idea - not enough buyers, too many sellers.
This is not a definition of "actual" startups, just of those who have an imperative to grow "massively fast", usually because they have taken external, primarily VC, funding.

A startup is a new business that is still investigating what kind of product it is going to sell, and to which audience.
> But had you successfully created a startup, you would be able to spend even more time with your kids.

Sounds like they gave it a try and it didn't work out.

> Furthermore, if you were actually doing something you enjoy that 8-6 time slot, 5 days a week, wouldn't be a waste of time.

I didn't see where they called it a waste of time or didn't enjoy it?
On the flip side, founding a company can actually give you more time back, depending on the company. I started a consulting biz last year, and have a ton more vacation, slack days by choice, evenings and weekends than I did when working my previous full time job.
I virtually never see metion of ZeroC ICE and OpenSplice/DDS. These seem like very well thought out and solid solutions for making distributed systems. Everybody seems to go on about thrift and REST and ZeroMQ and so forth, when I would much rather use DDS or ICE. The other approaches seem to amount to homebrewing your own approximation of these technologies much of the time.
It's good to follow one's dreams. But there is a line between living in the moment, on one side, and not planning for the future, on the other. Youngsters are in for a rough ride later on if they are too romantic about practicalities and do not take well-conceived steps towards financial independence later in life. This is true whether they have it in them to become superstars or are simply hoping to do what they do well.
I created my own: https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch
This made me chuckle: "download the following Notepad file: 20000-XRumer-Forum-Profile-Backlinks-Dofollow.txt"
That line sounds nice, but I don't think it makes sense if you break it down. You are basically saying that discontent people reproduce more than content people. Is there any evidence of that?
> Also, English doesn't have a future tense, so there's that.

Has happened, is happening, will happen?

http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/future_tense.htm
> With WebKit and Gecko being used by the majority of open-source browsers

Blink is not WebKit just as WebKit is not KHTML.
dude, yahoo pool tho?
> To the inexperienced, this may look just like any green screen. But it meant much more.

Reminds me of "Black Triangles": http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745