skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why people keep doing this startup every two months. Every two months somebody tries it and then discovers why it doesn't work.

For almost all the smaller buildings in New York (non-professionally managed), which is where you see these middlemen brokers:

* The brokers are given an exclusive by the landlords because the landlords are not professionals and often not in New York City. They don't want to do any work, they want the brokers to do the work of listing the apartment, showing the apartment, and checking the qualifications of the tenant.

* The landlord has to give the broker an exclusive otherwise the broker won't do the work, because the broker needs to get paid.

* Although the broker fee (normally 15% of first year rent) seems expensive and even extortionate to the typical fresh college grad renting their first apartment, the brokers as a whole are not making very much money, because they have to do an awful lot of work to get the exclusives (marketing themselves to landlords, so to speak) and an awful lot of work to coordinate keys, show apartments, etc. It is easy to see this because there is massive turnover in the broker business and almost all of the rental brokers you see in New York charging "extortionate" fees are, for the most part, broke.

* Which is why they seem so slimy: they're kinda desperate.

* A ton of apartments in New York are still under some form of rent control, especially the cheap ones in small buildings that kids want. That means that the maximum rent is set by law. So even if a tenant MIGHT be willing to pay a higher rent if they didn't have to pay the brokerage fee, they can't. The landlord of a $1800 rent stabilized apartment is going to get $1800/month whether they use a broker or not. So for this landlord, the broker is paid for by the tenant, and might as well be free. Considering how much work they do, and how much they charge, zero, it's a great deal for the landlord.

So every time one of these fresh-eyed college grads shows up in New York, decides that the rental brokers are making bank and need to be disintermediated, and writes an App that will Connect the Landlord Directly to the Tenant, no landlords sign up for it. The bottom line is that the brokerage function is not ripe for disruption because, slimy as it seems, there's just not that much money being made.
I would say that the government is more of a threat than terrorists.
Even "great" managers don't know what's going on in your personal or internal life unless you tell them.

And most managers are, statistically, going to fall into good/mediocre/poor categories, all of whom will doubly need you to tell them when something's up.
Are you free on August 6 from 6-9PM?

If so, I want to extend a special invitation to an event I'm co-hosting with my friend Charles Pridgen, featuring Y Combinator, Jopwell, and Mayvenn.

The following guest speakers have been confirmed:

Michael Seibel, Partner at Y Combinator
Porter Braswell, Co-founder and CEO at Jopwell
Danielle Leslie, Director of Revenue Growth at Mayvenn

Tickets are tax deductible and will support Black Founders (a 501(c)(3) organization). We will be at Hawthorne on 46 Geary and hope to see you there!
Serious question then - where do you trace this back to then? Companies abusing the freemium business model? Companies not having enough revenue to support their start-up?

Where do you think the internet started having to rely on advertising? I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it.
Yes because the average person has power over the central banks

Anyways it is sad being down-voted in technical forum by people who should better than most understand that bitcoin despite its faults is still a damned good online payment method especially when compared to existing alternatives.

It does everything the OP i replied to wants.

Anyways fuck this place, people use their votes as a way to not encourage conversation but as a punishment tool.
Google bows to inevitable, stops forcing Google+ logins on YouTubers
This is not only overblown, it is misguided. All banning does is make people continue in secret. In any event, research in that area will produce knowledge that is both useful for non-weapon purposes as well as weaponizable... The same as all knowledge that has ever existed.
It's social because you get shown which pointless apps your relatives and friends installed and reviewed when you use Google Play :-)
Generally true, but I've actually been hearing more and more of the actual song lately.
Oh, please. That's a distinction without a difference unless you're saying that German authors can't hire legal representation or assistants and must actively negotiate and manage each license solo.
Because you said server, and the solution is serverless. $8/month is still $8/month. I'd rather that anyone who was interested in my artistry just come and get it from me, directly. Remember the aim is to eradicate the middle man entirely. You have not done this in your position.
A fuel cell that carries only hydrogen and harvests oxygen from the atmosphere ... is viable. *

*the whole membrane degradation thing excluded
It wouldn't have to be after the fact. Firefox already has a little pop-up when sites want to get your location. The options are yes/no/never for this site.
Anyway you guys could open source your QLint tool?
> I believe that the more frequent case is when soldiers on the ground are having to make split second life and death decisions

Tha't ok, but I think you are assuming that the "good guys" are the only ones that would have access to this. Truth is that once one government start doing this, all the others will follow and even the organized crime would have access to that technology.
> Granted Manning is military and as such exempt from the due process required to citizens.

Weev got the same treatment.
Zellio – Open Source MCommerce Built with Meteor
"Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest"

How do you do this when secret courts can keep you silenced?
Hey guys, I've been working on this for a few months as I've been really interested in building mobile apps with Meteor. Through out the process of building this I had the intention of licensing the software and make some money off this project. But I've come to realize with the direction everything is going with mobile and shopping that releasing this as an open source project would have huge benefits for everyone. I plan on working on this consistently, but now hopefully have some great minds contribute as well.

The app has 2 parts:

The frontend/iOS app - https://github.com/404vanity/zellio

The admin panel - https://github.com/404vanity/zellioadmin

I'm currently setting up a demo for people to see, but if any one needs help deploying this to their server and building the app it self, let me know as I'd be happy to help!
Wimps and posers. Leave the hall!
He would almost certainly be put in jail as soon as he stepped foot on American Soil. In most circumstances someone could make bail awaiting trial, but considering that he'd been hiding in another country (and the government would argue that he might run off again) it would be very doubtful for him.

But then they would have a trial. It would likely take a very long time (and he would likely be in jail during it).

The term 'jury of his peers' means regular American citizens (not judges or other government officials). Sadly, the government has done a good job of convincing many people that all their spying on us is for our own safety. They'd just need to work to get 12 people that believed that (while Snowden's attorney's would work to get at least one that didn't). Though anyone that already (openly) had an opinion on his guilt or innocence wouldn't be allowed on the jury.

(note: this is assuming a civilian trial. I think they'd have a very hard time trying to give Snowden some sort of military tribunal)
"Septembering" should be the term for this phenomenon.
Dekatron as Internet speed indicator
Here's how Microsoft records Holographic video content for the HoloLens
True, though now that it's public they may start accounting for the potential cost of lawsuits within the next year.
How does it work? Can I write my snippets in my own editor?
You have to ask?

[Edit] I take that back. Is there a minority or better yet, a female to blame for all this?
Perhaps it is acceptable for the same way legal character attacks on individuals are acceptable. If you spread true and public information that results in financial harm for a person such as causing the loss of their job, are you responsible for the damages?

Say that you were once charged with some awful crime. I mean really really bad crime. A little later the police noticed it was actually forgotsusername who they were after, and you were let go and even given a public statement that it wasn't you. But say I pulled up the records of you originally being charged and put them up on a billboard. Let's say I even showed the part where you were let go. But the crime is so horrible, and some people are so jumpy and so strongly believe in the 'where there is smoke there must be fire' line of thinking that your employer decides you are just too much of a liability. Would you have a case against me?

(Granted this might depend purely upon local laws where you live, so maybe the question should be: should you have a case against me?)
Sprite_tm strikes again! Classic "Back of the Envelope"(tm) schematics, lots of solder, and some really cool ideas (heat bending the plex!)
It's more of an abstraction layer over operating systems than an operating system. Crippling APIs (try opening a datagram socket. or send icmp pings). No gpu-compute, no shared-state multithreading.

It doesn't manage hardware or anything like that.

People use browsers as if they were an operating system. That does not make it one.

It's like calling a java virtual machine an operating system.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair

You're putting all the responsibility on the consumer, and none on us, the technologists, the so-called innovators. Where are our innovative powers to come up with alternate busniness models? Where are our backbones to stand up against selling out the internet so that we can get rich quick?

Because that is what the advertising business model is: a get rich quick scheme. Undercut the straight up competitors that charge for their product by fooling consumers into thinking you're offering what the other guy is offering, but for free. Come on, who could turn down that?

Only the truth is it isn't free. We all pay in the end. The lunch is not only not free, it's costing us more and its loaded with toxic crap.

The saddest thing about Hacker News is that we all get behind radical things like FOSS (Bill Gates called it un-American) and Snowden[1], and fight SOPA and NSA violations of privacy, but because too many of our salaries depend on advertising revenue, our cognitive dissonance blinders go up lightning fast. You can already see it in the top comments to this post.

Admittedly I suck as a writer, but ever time I make my very strong case that advertising may be the primary evil of internet[2], I almost invariably receive a great number of silent downvotes. No one solidly counters my arguments, except to fall back on the utter bullshit that that advertising is great because it gives us the internet for free, which proves that they didn’t even read my argument.

Boykis is wrong in saying that things were fine in 2012. No, they were bad then, and the internet's original sin, relying on advertising, started long before that. It’s only that now it is accelerating toward a crescendo. It will get worse unless we do something about it.

-

[1] Today on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961527

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237
Just a scorpion being a scorpion.
> Basically if we would look at the wave function of the whole universe it would always behave in a Unitarian way.

There is absolutely no consensus on this. This is merely saying that you believe in Everett style interpretations, which have so far failed to explain the appearance of non-linear processes in quantum mechanics satisfactorily.

Decoherence does _not_ solve the quantum measurement problem. You can not derive the Born rule.

Basically what decoherence does for you is translate a quantum amplitude on the space of operators into a classical distribution on the spectrum of your coupling. It does not tell you why you are allowed to interpret this distribution as a probability distribution.
It does not tell you why you should be able to say that the state with higher amplitude is more likely to occur. In decoherence all states occur. So it is even unclear a priori what should be meant by the probability of a state occurring.

This is not my private opinion, this is the opinion of people like Zeh, who was instrumental in developing our current understanding of decoherence:

"[Decoherence] would explain why we never observe an apparatus pointing, say, to two different results, i.e. decoherence would provide a solution to the measurement problem of quantum mechanics. As pointed out by many authors, however (e.g. Adler 2003; Zeh 1995, pp. 14–15), this claim is not tenable."

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-decoherence/#SolMeaPro

Edit:
Note that this is not in defense of the correctness of the above paper.
There is a lot of focus and discussion around the $1.50 figure I mentioned, and perhaps I was wrong to include it in the post. The $1.50 is not the point. I would pay $1.50. I gladly pay for Pinboard, Newsblur, The New York Times, The Economist, The New Yorker, and many other online services that provide exponential value to me. And, as I mentioned in the post, I am more than happy to pay $10 a month for SoundCloud because I use it so much.

My point is that instead of even offering the option of a subscription, SoundCloud immediately went to ads that are annoying and hostile and started deleting music, forcing me to scramble to other options that are just as hostile (where hostile == "first world problem" of paying with a credit card to multiple unknown vendors) because music distribution online is broken.
Clearly MPAA aren't "Move Stars" but in this case, the MPAA interests are more clearly aligned with today's celebrities, then they are with Google.

It's a stretch, but one could imagine google's competitors piling on as well.
Chrome wasn't released 10 years ago.
I get to vote on the people who appoint the fed chief every so often. There is no mechanism, even theoretical, to put that democratic power in the hands of the citizen user of bitcoin.

Edit: Wow you changed your comment a lot in the edit!
What about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821 then ?
It will still run out after 75 years... So, sure, the grandkids will manage the estate for a decade before it expires. It doesn't say "the lifetime of the copyright holder at expiration," unless I've missed something.

If we're going to get silly, recent increases in lifetimes are also being followed by lower birth rates and parents having children older, so no it doesn't follow that three full lifetimes will be covered by these copyrights. I know copyright isn't popular here so I'll leave this be, but let's not get hyperbolic, please.
LinkedIn is neat 'cause it helps bad salespeople think they're important by collecting and counting all their contacts. Wheeee.
> But right now, it's being mainly used to target and neutralize actual foreign terrorist threats.

And civil liberties groups and charities. And foreign businesses in allied countries. And allied politicians.
Most importantly, anyone with knowledge of jury nullification [1] would not be allowed on the jury.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
How do you suggest we prevent any technology we create from getting used for everything it is suitable for? We'd have to start by not publishing any scientific results and never open source anything. Then we'd have to prevent industrial espionage as well as democratically elected law makers forcing us to reveal our secrets. It's different than with nuclear technology because AI is so versatile and so cheap.

And to wrap it all up, we'd have to stand by and watch as a medieval death cult like Islamic State overruns an entire region.

War is very rarely the right solution. Arguably, wars had a large part in creating IS in the first place, and I was very much against most recent wars. But for reasonably enlightened democratic nations not to have the capability to win a war if need be, ultimately means to be at the mercy of any insane barbaric ideology or religion that comes along.
Surpassingly low for Stripe. Here in Norway it is cheaper than in the US but still quite more expensive than other options (no set up costs though). 2.4% for local cards and 2.9% for international cards. And to charge in USD you need a US bank account otherwise you are hit with a 2% conversion fee (ridiculously high).
'Belonging to a generation is one of the lowest forms of solidarity'
-Harold Rosenberg
The problem I have with brokers and realtors is that they should charge either a flat hourly rate or a transaction rate. Lawyers, consultants, and software developers virtually all work on that model.

But brokers and realtors have conditioned the public into believing that a 3% or 10% commission on the transaction is "reasonable". Which is certainly not when you are buying a million dollar property or renting for $5k/month. Also, when realtors are making more in commissions than doctors are in salary, you can be sure the market is distorted, and ripe for innovation.
If we're talking about instances where "Courts usually believe their 'proof', no matter how bad it is," Prenda Law is not one I'd bring up.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/judge-finds-prend...
> I have doubts whether Edward Snowden would get a fair open trial, with a jury of his peers.

There's not really a lot of doubt. A trial under the Espionage Act is not a fair, open trial.
DHI Group plans to sell off Slashdot and Sourceforge
IPython Tips and Tricks
You really haven't noticed before now?
> But then they would have a trial. It would likely take a very long time (and he would likely be in jail during it).

Of note: the Espionage Act forbids a public interest or whistleblower defense. His conviction would be a foregone conclusion.
Two surprises that caught my eye were Azure beating AWS by more than 30% (416 projects to 307) and Unity3d smoking Unreal (1174 projects to 64 projects)
youtube-dl lets you scrape songs from soundcloud.

Something like AlexandriaP2P cuts out the middleman from this equation.

(disclaimer: I'm an alpha tester for AlexandriaP2P)
For a humorous take on the issue, see

http://www.supportkillerrobots.org/

Shameless plug, I wrote it on a lark.
You don't make a "very strong case", your post come off as ranty. Your analysis of why ads aren't discussed on terms that suit you better is, frankly, condescending and arrogant. Find any discussion of tracking or ads, and there will be lively discussion of blockers and plenty of posts that are very critical of advertising in general.

Those two points might serve better as a model of explanation of a few down votes than a grand conspiracy on behalf of advertising would.
Marathon stretches of dev time can be very productive.

You know that feeling when you leave the office at 11pm having finally sorted out that bug? Nothing beats that feeling, you sleep VERY well that night.

You know your limits better than anyone. Pull a few late ones, but not too many. If it still seems too much work or too hard, then tell stakeholders.
I really hope they do because I've been using Android since the G1 and am about to ditch it due to lack of updates being given to me on all the devices I have bought. Yes, I know that the manufacturers should push them out but I've got numerous devices including barely year-old Samsung devices (Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition) and they don't have recent Android versions. I also have an Android phone from Sony and my wife has a Samsung Android phone - no updates there!

(This is separate to the issue that there is ever-changing UI guidelines on Android making each app feel entirely different to another one which is like being in a nightmare and not being able to wake up or understand how it SHOULD behave).

As someone else said, you wouldn't be happy with a laptop that did not let you install Windows updates.

This is the same problem we have with Android, and I'm getting really tired of it and ready to jump ship. It's all very well saying Nexus devices will be updated but why distribute Android to all other manufacturers if they won't get or push out updates? I can't see anyone clapping for Microsoft if they just pushed out service packs and updates for the Surface exclusively.
You know how in the innovator's dilemma, the point at which the new innovator gets a foothold is also the point where the old firm has peak profits? I think there's a similar thing where the best time to user a particular service is when the service is least profitable.

That's what the 2012 nostalgia sounds like to me. Back when Twitter was hosting revolutions, but still having issues with uptime (not to mention revenue). And Project Loon was alive, but mostly getting mocked by both Wall Street and charities/nonprofits (With Bill Gates being the most visible).

I also suspect 2012-2014 was when SoundCloud had huge amounts of traffic and, without any way of making money, at its least profitable. I have no actual evidence of this.

Personally, Project Loon always sounded like some crazy way of getting more people to use Google than actual charity. Like some weird extrapolation from, "the more people that use the Internet, the more money Google makes" and "Google's reached market saturation in current markets, we need growth in developing countries"

Going off memory for all this. Sorry if I get some details wrong about Innovators Dilemma, Twitter in 2012, Project Loon and such.
It's a generation with a deeply internalized notion of opportunity cost. That and given most people care primarily about the actual music the ratio in effort to ship/rip a cd versus download a torrent is enormous.
This Is What Happens When Machines Dream
And this, everyone, is why using pay-per-view or pay-per-click ads online is so destructive.
Thanks, haven't heard of it before

http://usbrubberducky.com/
For the Record: The Relationship Between WIRED and Reddit
This is great. I see it as more about the aesthetics than about airtight security, anyway. As an aesthetic project, it's perfect. Well done.
Lrn to code on your iPhone
Ah I see, I thought you were urging Twitter on because you hold a portion of your portfolio in TWTR. I'm baffled as to how the market valued Twitter at $45 per share up from an IPO price of $26, implying $3bn in yearly revenue. I'd also love to figure out who "the market" is behind Twitter - institutional vs. casual.

On your last point - a private liquidity event, AKA raising an investment round and offering employees the option to sell back equity? Or, could the company step out of the way completely and let banks buy equity directly from employees? (I've never worked for a company in this situation so I have no idea what the laws would allow)
When is the NSA gonna face the consequences of its actions? All these people who lied under oath in front of congress and the American people, when are they gonna face the consequences of their actions?