skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He still paid the $500. If he was keeping current on his taxes, and the house was not an attractive nuisiance, there is no reason they should be demolished. If they were condemned, he should have been compensated for them.

There is no reason he should have to make the house "nice", it should simply be habitable. It shouldn't leak, the walls should not be structurally unsound (in my town that is among other things defined as more than 30* out of plumb), there should be adequate egress, and in the winter months working heat.

The only thing he seemed to have a problem with was working heat; but was going to have a professional come and fix it. The town then prevented him from fixing it before the hearing; pretty much ensuring that the tenant couldn't live there and he would lose.

There should be a much higher burden of proof on the governments part, before someone is relieved of their property or its productive use.
"While it's technically breaking the law, its no more so than AirBnb and Uber/Lyft. And the demand is just as high if not more."

That's is absolutely not correct. Please do not compare individual countries' custom law to your local city's taxi law or hotel code. Lying on custom declaration form is an imprisonable offense in most countries.

When it's an informal practice it works because it's hard to prove and there is no paper trail. But when it's a real company doing the service all the customers data has a paper trail to it with financial records for each transaction, involving the monetary amount paid by the customer, received by the carrier, earned by the company, etc. It's literally a prosecutor's wet dream.

At least in China, these kind of organized smuggling rings do exist, but they exist very much underground with no paper trail, because if caught, the ring leaders (founders of Backpack in this case) would be subject to from prison terms to execution depends on the amount of tax they evaded.
Brooklyn man wins $125K after he was arrested for recording stop-and-frisk
Funny that, just purchased one of those fake iPhones. Looks and feels the same, runs an android OS that replicates iOS perfectly. Pretty good fake if you ask me. The lower price genuine android phones will dominate the lower priced foreign markets in my opinion.
Yes but it's very experimental: https://github.com/google/dart-tagtree/
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Absolutely, there are issues. I was mostly commenting on the GPs "they are never going to be viable but for a small portion of our energy needs". They are viable already, for substantial parts of our load.

And you put your finger straight on one of the largest sources of trouble for the US - the existing grid. That's why I believe the way forward is decentralized power. Cut out the grid. Generate and consume very locally.

There are still many issues that need to be solved there, storage being probably the large one. But I'm more hopeful about that than reforming the US grid with its entrenched players.
I think you'd be interested in reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Specifically, he addresses CEO's as well as the stock market. I think equating Ballmer's leaving of Microsoft to the stock market success is coincidental at best.
Some years back I was in the position of managing a few systems for a nonprofit. It had been awarded equipment through a donation program. Some of this was usable. Some ... was not. One particular item turned out to be such a white elephant that it was literally more sensible to try to sell it and replace it with something more economical. Which other branches of the nonprofit were doing, though I never convinced the GM of ours to do.

Equipment that's not actually usable isn't an asset.

(And yes, I'm keeping this all pretty intentionally vague.)
> Funds frequently return capital or close to new money in order to stay below their investment capacity.

The point is they are not open to investment once you have historical evidence that they are "good".

> Funds also sometimes charge less than the maximum they can get away with for various reasons.

The only reason I can think of is to increase investment. But that will happen even for minimal excess return.

> Moreover, you are ignoring the very real excess profits that are made on the way to this hypothetical equilibrium. Berkshire Hathaway shares aren't going to make you rich if you buy them today, but I'm guessing the people who bought them in 1970 don't care.

Obviously there are excess returns the question is if they can be reliably identified before hand and are accessible.

Are you invested in hedge funds? Which ones do you think are good now?
That's a really good video! Any idea what the final budget was? Would be interesting to know how much companies dish out for that sort of thing
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I would also love to find that information out. I want to start a simple manufacturing business as I know there is a big market for the product in my home country. But I would be worried about not speaking the language and all the special loops you might have to jump through, such as playing of all the locals.
Thanks. I am not sure if this also captures their margin trading.
The DOD gives this shit away (to our rural towns and cities) so they can consider it in use and order more from contractors, which gives more cash to the lobbyists and contractors. Rinse and repeat. It's very straightforward.
Yeah, I've had a situation several times when friends/coworkers were forgetting about .pl part when sending mails to me.

Anyway, so you're the guy who's taking my nickname on all the services, forcing me to add _PL or .pl everywhere?!... :D. Nice to finally meet you!
This is the right answer. You can establish (own) a US LLC irrespective of any Visa you hold (or don't hold) in US or live in another country. You just can't work for LLC in US if you don't have a Visa that authorizes you to work in US and/or for that LLC. But you can work for LLC in a different country.

Once your LLC has employees/revenue and can convince INS of LLC being legitimate ongoing business and not a shell to get you work authorization, you can have your LLC sponsor you for a work authorization.

Potential workaround: Don't draw a salary from your LLC. Hire contractors to do most of the work and pay them from LLC. Travel to foreign destinations time to time and classify them as business trips for 'working for LLC'.
What I don't get about this is, this is a non-hacking topic. An outside discussion. So why is my post, obviously in jest, inappropriate?
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It's much harder to program humans to do what we want them to do.(My wife has it figured out though).
Also, less time on road means less cost for society of being stuck in traffic.

Although, most risk of accident numbers I've seen are based on miles driven. I wonder which is the most important thing for frequency -- time, or miles.
If it happened today: "OMG WE HAVE GOTTEN SO VIOLENT." Nope. We just have the Internet.

Interesting story.
Why is that preferable? I'm not even convinced a uuid is appropriate to solve the problem.
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If this is your mindset, then you've made a choice to value having children over other things like free time and disposable income. Perfectly valid.

Other people do not share your priorities.
I agree with you, and I don't think patents themselves are the issue. It is the vast number of bad patents that are being approved and used as leverage against those that can't financially defend themselves.

If an R&D firm have spent millions developing (inventing) a new method of transportation, then they should be able to have that method patented. But I'd argue that "swipe to unlock" is not an invention and should definitely not be patented.

The transfer, sale, and collection of patents is fine as far as I'm concerned. That isn't the part that's broken.

Frivolous patent suits are only possible because there are frivolous patents being approved.
My prediction - in 4 year:

backpackbang will dodge the bullets and be valued 300mln

Biotech & Nuclear will continue research. One will yield value.

Rest will pivot, acquihire or die.
They have a thing called a stingray which can impersonate a real cell tower for the purpose of gaining information about the phones in range. That would be a very effective way to create a list of phones to temporarily disable.
Is that true? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Cx9YB6c8-0E/Uge2R8X49tI/AAAAAAAAan...
Thanks for putting together this incredible resource. I started programming about 8 years ago, making games in high school, and I owe a lot of my early learning to your site.
Wow, I'm really impressed with your blog post, what an interesting story! I think we have very similar writing/reading styles because I find it incredibly easy to read your posts.

From your more recent blog posts I can tell you made the right decision. Hope you're keeping well.
In every single thread about traffic I've seen, someone posts this. This is just not true at all in congested roads, and means that there is less traffic throughput since one lane can't be used. On a 5-lane (per direction) 65mph freeway road, if the right 4 lanes are going 20mph, then you are passing in the left lane. When it congests to 20mph in the leftmost lane, is everyone required to get out of it?
It's an incredible resource. We leaned heavily on the hexagon section specifically in the creation of Hexiled (http://hexiledgame.com) - we marvelled each day at how comprehensive and helpful it was. The interactive diagrams throughout that section are visually simple but still very cool:

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
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There are better batteries...
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Thanks kyro. We'll get some blog posts back up!
They do have a business pertinent to those patents! Just not to the inventions covered by said patents...
Philosophizing?
A secondary market for patents is fantastic. There are secondary markets for everything. The banking/venture system is designed to allocate scarce resources as efficiently as possible - why wouldn't the same thing exist for inventions?

The real problem IMO is that patents are being issued for frivolous ideas. If patents really represented inventions of value, then the secondary market should be correctly allocating those patents to the right people. Unfortunately, patents do not represent inventions of value, because what we see is the secondary market identifying "infringements" everywhere, so it's more profitable to extort.

If there are so many infringements, how is the patent possibly novel?
Hadn't heard about container-optimized VMs. They seem to have very overlapping goals with CoreOS.

Having choice is generally a good thing, but it makes the water a little murky given how similar the goals seem :).

Have you had a chance to play around with CoreOS + Docker on compute engine?
There are a few people who've done calculations of the EROEI (energy returned on energy input) of various renewable energy technologies, most notably the guy who came up with the term, Charles A.S. Hall. I've had a few discussions with him on this.

Wind power has a modestly high EROEI, around 18. For solar PV, his numbers are far lower -- around 2.6. The problem comes in when you account for whether there's a minimum EROEI necessary to sustain an advanced civilization, and just what that might be. Hall's view is that it's around 6-10, after which you pretty much fall off a cliff -- you've got to get a sufficient return on your energy investment to make other economic activity possible.

For the synfuel path I discussed, the point is that there are a few things for which having hydrocarbons (liquid or gas) is really, really useful, and as I've noted elsewhere in this discussion, there's simply not enough net biological productivity ("photosynthetic ceiling" to use Jared Diamond's term, or HANNP, human appropriation of net primary productivity, another formulation) to provide fuels in the quantities humans are presently accustomed to -- some of the acreage requirement estimates get stunningly large and rapidly:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2cvap7/the_intr...

In particular (the table on that page is a bit prettier than it will appear here on HN):

Crop Yield (gal/acre-yr) Acres required (millions)
soybeans 50 5,670
canola 100 2,835
canola 300 945
algae 1000 283
algae (high est) 10,000 28

Note that total arable land in the US is about 410 million acres, and total land area of the US is 2.4 billion acres. You'd have to overplant the US twice to get enough fuel-from-crops via soybeans.

Note that "rare earths" aren't actually all that rare, though there are plenty of minerals which are limited in abundance:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/267901/global_r...

As for synfuels: since you're converting surplus generating capacity, your marginal energy cost is nil. Even assuming you're building capacity specific to the need, what you're trading is a non-storable, non-mobile, non-dispatchable form of energy for one which has all of those properties. That can be a good trade.

The fact that it's a drop-in replacement for the existing energy system is an added bonus.

Will it work? I really don't know, though the answer to that question's been occupying me for some time.
So awesome that I've been tracking most of these companies without even realizing they were YC affiliated over the last few months. Love the Zenamins- what a great idea. I've been obsessed with Product Hunt. Seriously. I call it "The Vortex". I hope they all succeed.
The cliche among hedge fund guys is to be "long term greedy" not "short term greedy", which explains why some funds try to be more investor friendly with fees. You also have flukes like Berkshire that seem to have undercharged simply out of benevolence. I don't really discuss my investments much, but I mostly do not invest in hedge funds for reasons of tax efficiency--a restriction that doesn't apply to many institutional investors. The one fund I am invested in has significantly outperformed with low risk during my holding period. The funds that I would invest in are small funds that probably no one here has heard of.
You already have the National Guard out in Missouri, and they have Blackhawk helicopters which have chain guns as their standard armament.

The idea that in the US civil militias could really hold their own against the state is an absurd fiction.

Unless significant portions of the armed forces defected to join an uprising and managed to take their equipment with them, then it would be very one sided.

The militias will have hand guns and rifles, the state has everything up to and including nukes.

There is a probably apocryphal quote attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto, that if you tried to invade the mainland US, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. Isoroku Yamamoto was born in 1884.

War has progressed since then.

Satellites can look behind every blade of grass and let you know where the rifles are, then you can send in the drones while you sit back in your bunker and sip tea.
Hey Solomon!

I'm glad you're making libcontainer, but I'm still not sure what Sandstorm would gain from it. At the end of the day, most of the work going into libcontainer is all about making containerization totally transparent to the app and supporting a wide range of Linux platform features. These are obviously key features of Docker and useful to many other uses of containers, but simply not a goal for us. E.g. I see selinux and apparmor mentioned in libcontainer's code, but Sandstorm's security model does not need nor want them. For our case, a couple dozen syscalls to set up our container is really all we need. Sandstorm's own code base actually even contains three different components that set up different kinds of containers, but we don't share code between them because there's just not much worth sharing.
The Pax Romana was probably a big part of that. During that time a person could reasonably expect to travel through most of the Roman Empire without running into anything worse than local thieves and without having to deal with national borders.

Both before and after that time period in Western Europe, in contrast, any long-distance travel was likely to run into wars of expansion or civil wars, local warlords, or so on.
I agree here, the problem is with the author's contrived example. This domain problem can easily exist within a relational database, rest, soap or even snail mail.

The problem is a poor domain model and should be fixed there and not by adding an overly complex cache or state object storage solution that seems to only apply in a REST model. If the domain model is fixed then REST, soap, RDBMS or anything else becomes trivial.
For those interested I highly recommend the documentary "Let the Fire Burn".

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2119463/
Let me guess. Was it actually a white elephant?
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I would love to read something about how the police didn't kill someone. It seems like most of the people that help other people are "strangers" - are there any kinds of statistics on how often the police actually help? I'd imagine that situations like domestic abuse are cases when they're really successful but other than that it often seems like the police cause real problems that tear people apart.
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"Let the Fire Burn" documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9eCA0bIezA
And yet, for the last 40 years, I've been able to get a pizza delivered to my house within a half hour window from a provider with miniscule market share for way less than $20.
Sublime Text 3 Beta was announced in January of 2013. It's safe to call it vaporware at this point.
Backpack isn't "kinda" illegal, gray-area, like AirBnB or Uber. It's straight-up, completely illegal. And this isn't municipality-level policies it's up against, it's customs and border, national law.

I can't see any future where they don't get shut down.
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I feel like I'm missing something. Isn't the derivative of a constant just defined to be 0? Why does the definition in the article restrict it to primes?
I was a kid living in the Philly area when it happened. It got lots of local TV coverage of course and it honestly did feel quite crazy having a military like action against a house in Philly, but it never seemed to go much beyond that after it was all over. IIRC it was Mayor Goode who called the action, and being african-american, maybe that helped keep racial tensions down. I can only surmise if it was today that there would be much longer lasting coverage and repercussions.
You are right. I suppose I meant to say its no more unethical (in my opinion) than Airbnb or Uber.
Updating your editor, adding plugins, or changing to a new editor is never an issue of "fully capable" or "good enough". It's always whether there are new ways to save time.

Lots of people thought editors were "fully capable" before the "go-to any symbol" functionality was introduced (possibly by Sublime). Now they can't live without it.

But besides all that, Sublime has lots of bugs that impact daily work. If it were in bug-fix mode, where plugins were adding new features, that would be fine. That's not the case.
That's a strange URL for a gif.
"Theorem"?? What an awful name for a retail business!
There are places in which maximum and minimum speed limits are posted. Or at least were. It's a plot device in The Andromeda Strain.
Christianity wouldn't have spread nearly as quickly or as far if it hadn't been able to piggyback on the Roman Empire's infrastructure. On the flip side, after Rome's political influence left most of Europe, the parallel church structure was still there to help maintain civilization at least a little bit during the barbarian invasions and general collapse.

[Leaving out Mithraism, which also spread in similar ways, as well as any discussion of what exactly constitutes "barbarian" vs. "civilization" since it gets fuzzier the closer you look.]
And their victims.
Atom is awesome, but I agree that the plugins aren't mature enough yet.
Having been at Microsoft in the past, I always remember this infamous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
> I think dogpiling Intellectual Ventures is striking at the branches, and not at the root.

Unfortunately the branches are protecting the roots with millions of dollars in lobbying [1]...

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/paten...
That couldn't possibly be because bad news makes headlines a lot more than good news does, could it? Mundane things don't make the news so why would a cop not killing someone make the news?
Netbeans is fantastic for PHP editing, except the go-to-anything functionality is terrible out of the box. Even after configuring, it's not as good as ST. Other than that, it's excellent.
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I fell like it is common, not sure I would say it is typical. I avoid it at all costs. Usually, if I complete the project the and the host company doesn't like it, I don't get any feedback on the code and my time gets mostly wasted. If companies would give some degree of feedback on the code I'd be more into it. "No" isn't the kind of feedback that I value.

I try to stick closer to companies that have a balanced interview process and a smaller live coding challenge, think 20-45 min can really suss out a person's technical level anyways.

Just my $.02
iOS Projects: Can I help clients realize what they're actually asking for?
I do lots of freelance iOS work, and I've noticed that people approach me with "Ideas" that they would like implemented, but they are not fleshed out at all. For example, I get a request for a "textbook sales app which acts as a marketplace for students to buy and sell textbooks", with no business plan or specs whatsoever. How do I encourage more thought out plans, and what tools do I point the prospective clients to? in terms of user interaction/ stories/ design?
prices are not the same within EU. There is an opportunity here.
The good thing about REST is that the limited vocabulary enforces good design practices, but it doesn't save you from fundamental problems.

On the article, that would be the conceptual mistake of considering the price is an attribute of the product, which in turn would require a second request to retrieve, then breaking the atomicity of having all the necessary state in a single request.

To solve that, he proposed a "database over REST", where the main resources act like an index - thus increasing the abstraction by one notch and moving some complexity to the client. This doesn't solve a problem inherent to REST, but rather a conceptual problem that applies to all data systems, which is how to maintain and recall states in an atomic way.
Sure, a big player could implement this model, but they may not take the risk or make the investment if their current model is successful.

Also, it certainly doesn't mean they'll put Kash out of business if they do (and if the Kash team succeeds). For example, I don't expect Amazon Local Register to put Square out of business.
I dont get Myhrvold. He was wealthy beyond all get-out and, judging by his educational background, was probably intellectually curious at one point in his existence. Why would he direct the fall/winter of his life energy into this bullshit?
Did you ever find a service for this?
If driver manually overridden the speed setting, then yes.

In case of other accidents -- pays insurance (and their pricing will be the best indication of how safe these cars are).
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Shaming us for it is not helpful.