skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, some parts of the economy are pretty much the same, do you know that people create fake scarcity all the time? Colanta, one of the big milk companies in the world actually throws tons of milk when it suits them, why? to avoid lowering the price of milk thanks to too much offer. And Market Manipulation is a very common practice in all industries, and even if it's illegal in most parts that's not enought to stop them, you can throw away a bunch of milk and say it was spoiled, who is going to say or proof otherwise?

The exact same thing happens with value; value is created itself by offer and demand, you can say that mining gold doesn't create any value for society, or you can say that it does, it completely depends on your definition of "value for society". Some may say that finding golp helps thousands of jewelries and jewelry makers, that it brings money in to multinational companies and so forth. But at the end of the day you could say the same about this kind of bots, you are moving money from people that have resources to spend on digital goods transfer to third world countries like Bulgaria. That it also helps to the entertainment, where a lot of trades happens all the time giving entropy to the ecosystem.
Google Docs URL parameters: minimum UI for sharing and presentations
It doesn't print cute little pictures. That seems like a missed opportunity.
> The reveal codes feature in WordPerfect probably had something to do with its initial popularity because it helped you to be sure that there wasn't text hidden in the document.

Reveal codes is essentially your browser's view source command, but with interactive editing (i.e., with live update of the WYSIWYG output). I never heard of it being used to check for hidden text, though I suppose that's possible. It is used to address formatting issues -- those annoying situations where the word processor is doing something unexpected, or if you want to know if the empty space is a set of spaces or a tab.
Khronos Announces Next Generation OpenGL Initiative
Will you eventually ship seeds overseas?
The condescending tone is completely uncalled for.
The most basic answer is: most bots inject some code into the running client, getting access to data structures and references. They read out the data from memory. Some do OCR, others use Library APIs to do that, some even hijack the network stack and talk to the servers themselves.

A decade ago, botting in a game called Ragnarok Online was huge. You can find a hint of how structured those communities were here: http://www.openkore.com/index.php/OpenKore
> More than 152 games are released for the PC per day.

Is that true? I'm sure far less than that are launched on Steam or in stores, unless you count every random demo or JS game someone uploads to the internet.
Shitty HTML and {hard science, hardware hacking, electrical engineering, kernel development, other no-nonsense efforts} seem to go hand in hand. I see it as a social signal not unlike someone wearing a T-shirt and jeans amid a bunch of suits. To me it says "we're a lot more concerned with doing something amazing than with chasing the latest design fads."
My entire adult life, I haven't known any of my neighbors, until recently.

One day about 8 months ago, we got a note on the door from new neighbors. They were having a "floor party" and invited everyone on the floor to their place.

Almost everyone on the floor, reluctantly went to the party expecting it to be awkward. We all ended up drunk and hanging out until 2 am. Turns out, pretty much everyone on the floor was a 20-30 something couple.

Flash forward to last night, we all had dinner together on the roof, and celebrated someones birthday. I'm close friends with a few of them.

Point is, someone just has to take the initiative. I'm now embarrassed I didn't do it sooner, as I'd live here for 3 years.
Venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz invests $50 mln in BuzzFeed
It's a tough call. :-)

Of course he recognises that talking to his family isn't about deciding whether he will hit the financial jackpot with his new gaming idea. It's not a business strategy meeting.

He is meeting his family to tell them that he is about to embark on another "Jackson Pollock" journey in his career where he'll likely lock himself in for days at end, throwing paint on the floor. This, without having anything to show on the proverbial "bacon front".

He is firstly preparing his family for this interpersonal and social change ... but most importantly he is asking them permission to fail. Yep, fail - not succeed.

Full respect for him. And for his family for understanding him. Wish him all the best!
@crigetti details are sparse both in the article and on your website. Quantum Computing is a pretty dear topic to me and so it'd be great to hear some more high level details on what it is Rigetti does. Merci Beaucoup.
electronic music (progressive house) definitely gets me going.
Nice try, blatant GoPro investor. GoPro isn't nearly as stable a mark as people give it credit for. It's not synonymous with a unique product or service so much as an invented product. This new Polaroid entrant will be dubbed the "cheap GoPro" so much, it'll become a "GoPro". Millions of moms all across the world will buy their sons and daughters the cheap GoPro. The more successful GoPro's competitors become - the more "GoPro" they become. Until everything is Kleenex and Xerox and nothing matters. Side note, I wish my beloved Zombie Kodak was as playful as Polaroid.
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163151

278 points, 107 comments
I cannot believe that even though his 2nd leason taken from game 1 was 'Making it too good... We added too many features and created too much content.'-that the next game branches in a billion ways and has open content and open world and huge scope. Are you kidding me?!! I think deep down he's hoping on crowdfunding the game dev after doing a proof of concept here- but if you're this much cash down the hole, why not heed your own advice, make a SMALL game, one in a genre you DO enjoy, recoup the initial investment and then do more?

He's setting himself up to get shot in the foot again. Even though he's getting exposure here for the next title, he so far has two failed titles and is working on a huge-scope third(which from what I've seen becomes too time heavy/resource intensive to build to completion for most devs to complete) and still, not an ounce of proof itll work out aside for two people, a friend and musician, saying theyd play the finished version.

To the dev: This is just crazy. Learn from your own mistakes!! Prove that you can actually make money for yourself in making games before of going down this third slippery slope- thus far you have not proven yourself as a good game developer. This is a go big or go home project for sure, and as much as I would like you to succeed after your failures, my bet's still on it hitting a 'go home' result.
>Finally

Contour was the original competitor to GoPro. In a lot of ways it was a superior product. The company went defunct for a while but recently has been brought back.
When I used to take public transport to work, I'd see lots of the same people every day but never spoke to any of them. They didn't speak to each other either.
DOM Comparator: A library to analyse and compare two HTML DOM trees
Sell on an exchange. The big ones have a monthly trade volume of 100k+ BTC ($50+ million): http://bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=30d Clearly $200k is a drop in the bucket for them.
Founder support
I think there are a few other reasons:

1. National businesses in many cases (though not all) want uniform regulations to ease doing business. So they lobby for federal preemption of state regulations. For example, car manufacturers don't want to have to meet 50 separate safety codes in order to sell cars nationwide, so they successfully lobbied for a federal code with express state preemption. Advocates of tort reform often have similar motivations: a key proposal of tort reform is to federalize product liability, because manufacturers dislike the current system where litigation will always end up being initiated in the most plaintiff-friendly county of the most plaintiff-friendly state.

2. The last time state vs. federal power came to the point of an outright test of strength, the federal government won. And what's worse for the states, its victory has in retrospect been very popular, which has done quite a bit to boost the popularity of federalization and stigmatize the slogan "states' rights". JFK sent troops to Alabama in 1963, removed the governor's control over the state national guard, and imposed federal law by force; and nowadays most people think he did the right thing.

3. People move around a lot, which makes it increasingly impractical to deal with things like social security or Medicare at the state level, when you might be born in one state, work in three others, and retire in a fifth. (This one is becoming a problem in Europe, too, and will probably lead to some kind of EU-standardized "portable pension" scheme in the medium-term future. An EU-wide health card has already been created, though its terms are not yet standardized.)
This is an interesting example of a market without speculators. Future demand will be high, but current demand is low, so production remains low. In a market with speculators this would lead to stockpiling in anticipation of price increases.
any music with a high BPM.
Further reading: http://engineering.wingify.com/dom-comparator/
What does this have with the GPs point?
Very low on details...but I guess that is to be expected.
As a fellow bootstrapper, congrats!

A few recommendations:

* I recommend A/B testing a pricing structure 3x what you currently charge. I'm guesstimating this to be the sweet spot, but I think you're underpricing significantly.

* Hire a professional designer to make the site look less amateurish.

* Advertise to web developers/consultancies. Again, I don't know too much about your customers, but I think marketing to web developers/consultancies will have a high ROI
In suburbs of Boston this is a very common thing. They are "all cash buyers" and often beat out regular folk who want to buy a home via a mortgage.
10 eCommerce Tools to Prevent Shopping-Cart Abandonment
you got a favorite one?
My biggest gripe with D3 was that the RMAH was not in HC mode. I made endless gold through the AH but sadly it could not be traded for cash.
@FiatLuxDave - Great questions, thank you! We are building quantum computing systems. We have a simulation-driven development process for the hardware, both the quantum and classical parts of the system, and that helps us keep costs down.

For challenge problems, that's a great idea. We're focused on applications to computational chemistry and machine learning, among others, right now.
I didn't have parental guidance, and I was more introverted at one time until I made a resolution to be more extroverted (and I'm still somewhat introverted, and happy I am too).

It's something that's 100% in your hands right now. Go out and meet people. Get yourself on a path to being someone who is more social and outgoing. There's nothing preventing you, with time, from having more (better) friends and being just as social as others. It's very human. Starting points can be Meetup groups, hobbies, co-workers, even pickup people if you want to meet girls/guys, it doesn't really matter... just start getting yourself out there, and practice turning acquaintances into friendships.
Reveal codes is why I'm convinced that my mother, who finds using a mouse difficult, never mind mysteriously-worded dialogue boxes and context-shifting menu ribbons, would have been quite happy authoring web pages in the era before font tags became unfashionable.

Its funny, I can think of very few obvious advances in word processors since the mid-90s, but loss of Reveal Codes is a definite backward step from WordPerfect for DOS, which is probably the first piece of software I ever used.
Famo.us 1-on-1 expert support on Codementor
Do mean that EU regulations require you to monitor the plants once you sell them? Possibly to prevent an enterprising young man from planting 1,000s of these in the woods behind his house in order to have the coolest rave ever?
Are you suggesting that people shouldn't have the flexibility to move easily if they get a new job/partner or have a change in circumstances? That's what happens if every home must be owner-occupied and there isn't a liquid rental market.

I moved to China a few years ago. I am glad that I was able to let my flat (to responsible tenants who have paid the rent on time for >3 years) and that I was able to rent an apartment in Beijing. Selling my flat in London and buying one on Beijing would have been impossible and, even if it had been possible, why should I invest in a property in Beijing just because I want to live here for a few years? And why should I sell my flat in London?

EDIT: s/chance/change
Open Data and Algorithmic Regulation
Fresh Ideas on Customer Onboarding
The best advice I've found is: try doing nothing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7864809

Not getting anything done out of anxiety you should be getting something done is a real problem a lot of people have. I sure had it at times. I would be more sympathetic to the author and try to understand the problem better before calling her names.
The article says that bass is the driving factor for the psychological boost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8157921
Skully AR-1: The World's Smartest Motorcycle Helmet
Here you go (note this is a 30 second exposure): http://cdn.optimizely.com/img/536610845/38f49c2ac92c415d824b...
I feel the same way about neighbors in my apartment building and deploy similar strategies. I think its a mild form of social anxiety.
Ask HN: Are PPC ads just legalized gambling for business?
With FB & Google raking in billions and no "odds & payout" disclosures required on their advertising services, they are just cleaning out advertisers IMO.

And yes, FB & Google are not alone. There are many other people offering ads with little chance of payout.

As a small business owner and fairly experienced online marketer, I still think most PPC ads are a ripoff, especially for non-sophisticated advertisers (I've had mild success w/ Reddit ads & FB ads FWIW).

The fact that Facebook will construct a crappy ad for you by scraping your site is alarming (do they still do this?).

It's like a casino offering to bring the black jack table into your room and play your hand for you (and ignoring the probabilities).

I'm just frustrated that there's not a lot of transparency on what you should expect in terms of payout when you advertise on these PPC sites.

The advertiser bears almost all the risk of the ad and can't get a refund if it totally bombs - which if FB is going to do the ad for me, why not offer a refund if it bombs?

The US government makes online gambling illegal but doesn't take a second look at PPC ads? Hypocrisy, IMO.

The isn't the most elegant prose I've written, but I want to see if others share my opinions and if there might be a good solution out there.
He also seems to get very much joy out of people accidentally losing money to him. It's like those ebay sellers who sell empty packaging.
We certainly hope so. Due to the divergence of regulations in different countries it will be on a country by country basis, most likely starting with Canada and Asia.
Saving to a SQLite database in your Android application
Theorem (YC S14) Aims To Be The Priceline For Fashion
Well, Intel can't slow down unilaterally - they have suppliers and a whole network of companies that depend on having everything on schedule. I guess they could slow down as long as they give a couple of years of warning, though.
I'm currently in the pre-preparation process for moving to another country, something you alluded to in your article.

Argentina is one of the places I've been considering. Can you point me to any resources you used to decide where to live, preparatory work, any gotchas, etc.?
Url changed from http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-square-2014-8, which points to this.
This is a good story. I'm facing the same experiences with a small web app I did (tool for travel agents). I currently have just Google ads but now it's at least paying the servers.

The interesting is that every business is different to growth. I really tried a lot of strategies and the only one that have really worked well was the cold email I sent for potential customers. This to me seems really annoying to do because it's almost like spam I think, but when you really knows your "personas" and you have a good product to them, they answer you with a big Thanks and you feels good, like doing a favor.

There is a very thin line that separates the spam and the mail marketing.

Another thing I learn is that users don't help you, very difficult to someone answer you when you ask feedbacks. They only answer you when they think they will gain something valuable in change. Same behavior in all countries I tested.

My biggest dream is my App give me enough profit to I get out of my regular job and work on this full time. Storemapper is really a inspirational and motivational case to me. Thanks for sharing.
This is the first post by 0xab after 1992 days of being a registered HN user. Imagine (a) the determination needed to not yield to temptation and post something over 5.5 years, and (b) how upsetting immigration is to someone as determined as this PhD for his first comment to be on immigration.
Increased luminosity per week comes from protein engineering the pathways in bacteria. We then test those improvements in plant leaves, which takes about four weeks, before inserting the full DNA in a plant which is the slow part which takes 6 months.
The Inner Guts of Bitbucket [video]
Great story! Congratulations. I love the time boxed goal of launching when you landed.
That's exactly what they require unfortunately. You have to know where they are planted and monitor the other plants in the area around them, obviously impossible for a consumer product!
I know it's awfully arbitrary. I make terrible analogies but indulge me.

I ask you to dig a hole and pay you 10$. I then pay you 10$ (or better still you pay me) to fill the whole. Was 20$ dollars worth of value created?

Company makes MMO that is only fun if you grind to level 60. Guy pays third world country citizen to play the game for him until he reaches level 60. You claim that is a good thing because it gave a job to someone in the third world. I put it to you that is madness akin to digging and filling holes over and over. The company could sell you a level 60 character at no cost to them (changing a few bits on a server) and give the money to the third world citizen in aid (obviously not going to happen) and nothing would change except he could do something productive rather than slave away at a PC 12 hours a day (like we do).
Several easy ways to do this.

First, you could send an email to existing customers telling them that you are raising prices but that you are grandfathering them in and their rate won't change. Danger here is that you then go on record and may never want/be able to raise prices without losing them. YMMV.

Second, change their monthly invoices to show that they WOULD be charged a higher rate if they weren't grandfathered in. Loyalty discount. If you don't want to show a discount on the invoice, just rename their pricing tier to "Loyal Customer - Pro Edition" (or whatever). This lets you do it stealth and leaves options open for price changes in the future.
The site wasn't loading so I could only go by the original comment. :-/
More details and a better story here. http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/08/116491/cancer-categories-re...
You mean, apart from answering his question?
Wow, really beautiful design here. Great work! Downloading the app now.
Making it too good. Sounds silly, but as a self-funded indie developer there was no one to tell us to stop, or not to add that feature. You get caught in a loop of “if I add this feature it will be more awesome, and more awesome games sell”.

I learned this the hard way. My business partner at the time summed it up as, "Every feature is a support call."

More stuff, even if you think it good, is more stuff that can go wrong, or introduce a subtle bug, or just not work correctly for someone, somewhere,
http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/kubrick-subway-newspapers...
What does time spent with your neighbours have to do with single women?
I think luxury cars tend to have worse controls, probably because they need to cover many more features, so they aren't very representative. If you want typical European controls, have a look at a run-off-the-mill Volkswagen, Renault, Opel or Ford with stick shift. Yes, American brands tend to be very well adapted to the market.
Used the same way the USG uses the word "Freedom"
(off-topic: dang, if you see this, can I ask you to reconsider HN's approach to downvoting? The arguments are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7963116)

Thanks.

(Edit: Great, more downvoting)
Hell, I most often actively avoid bumping into the people I live with.
Investigation into Death of Actor Robin Williams [pdf]
I think about WWE every day. The concept of getting over feels incredibly pertinent to launching a product.
We work with Arabidopsis. Arabidopsis is not very tasty but is not toxic either.
Thanks Ryan - appreciate it.
/me raises hand

Of course, we all code in Objectivist C ( http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c ) ;)

But seriously ... I'm actually surprised that there aren't more Objectivists on HN. There's a strong anti-authoritarian streak here, with an emphasis on rationality, independence and capitalism. Take a look at the list of objectivist virtues ( http://wiki.objectivismonline.net/Virtues ):

Rationality, Honesty, Integrity, Productivity, Independence, Pride, and Justice

That list describes a lot of people on HN.
Theorem (YC S14) aims to be the Priceline for fashion
Nope, purely naming coincidence... at the moment only aspiring to provide as excellent a development workspace as Cloud9IDE does.
My bias is to doubt that, but I could be convinced by data. Do you have any evidence that such usage is deliberate?
Mitigating Pairing Record Risks in Apple iOS Devices [pdf]
Some games like Dust have exploded in popularity through word of mouth. For the PC release, I'm sure Totalbiscuit sold thousands of units by himself.

In the PC ecosystem it is actually much easier to get by without advertising because this article does get something right, that if you can get the game in front of the right people they will advertise it for you through the youtube gaming scene at al. Look at Minecraft and how much advertising it had.

It just has to be insanely good and innovative enough to justify people giving a shit to spread it like wildfire, rather than play it as a weekend hobby and forget about it.
I don't really know what to expect, that's why I'd like to see details in the polling.

On the one hand, living in a denser part of the city, you might walk around more and see people on your way. But many people just plug in headphones and look at their phone while walking.

On the other hand, your points stand out as to why living in multi-family homes might be taxing on community-building.
8-track was a big flop outside of the US so didn't really get the ubiquity that competing formats did. To look at things another way: how many people can play HD-DVDs? It's only a few years old but suffered the same commercial failure as 8-track did in Europe. Yet most people still have easy access to a VHS players, audio cassette players and record decks despite those all being old technologies too.
Braintree GP surgery tells patients not to make social media comments