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nonchalance··on Tweetbot 3
PG: can you make HN show the subdomain for apple.com links (or just for itunes.apple.com )?
nonchalance··on Twitter to offer 70M shares priced at $17-$20 to raise up to $1.4B in IPO
They may have been advised to be a bit more conservative, given how FB IPO went
nonchalance··on Show HN: Code Climate for JavaScript
Many of the complaints are due to the opinion that the braceless if is bad:

    if(foo) bar();
I understand why you may think

    if(foo) { bar(); }
is better, but it's unnatural for most people
nonchalance··on A Python-Powered Budget Spreadsheet
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Python_as_a_macro_language#S... has a sample hello world script that can be run as a macro

But I agree in general that the documentation is paltry. Good opportunity for an interested person to do some more digging, write a few blog posts and possibly contribute to the documentation :)

nonchalance··on Show HN: Code Climate for JavaScript
There are some issues which make me question the usefulness for a javascript project:

For browser-based scripts, usually a minified and an unminified version are made available. That unminified version is usually the product of a script that concatenates other, smaller scripts. This leads to a perceived high level of duplication (because, after all, they are the same functions and code). For whatever reason, even in private mode, the exclude patterns are not followed.

Also, the linter is much more aggressive than jshint/jslint (in many cases, for no good reason). For example, in a function whose sole purpose is to do bit twiddling (interpreting a set of bytes as an IEEE 754 double), the linter complains `Unexpected use of '&'`. (the original line was `c3 = (e3 & 3) << 6 | e4;`). Akin to JSHint flags, there should be flags to control the linter.

nonchalance··on Airbnb a big boost to NYC economy, study finds
If you are staying for a day or two, you most likely would go out and eat your meals (including breakfast). For longer stays, especially with kitchen access, you probably would buy cereal, milk, juice, and other items. If you are estimating the cost of food based on average or median restaurant, you aren't capturing the true dynamics (note: as they said in the report, the average stay is close to a week in length)
nonchalance··on A Python-Powered Budget Spreadsheet
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Scripting
nonchalance··on A Python-Powered Budget Spreadsheet
> Not sure why estebank's comment was downvoted

I gave an upvote. I suspect others downvoted the comment because it spoke well of Resolver One, which is competing in the same space as DataNitro (a YC company).

nonchalance··on Airbnb a big boost to NYC economy, study finds
The problem is that the underlying "facts" are really misinterpretations.

> 62 percent of Airbnb hosts say Airbnb helped them stay in their homes

The statement seems to suggest that most people wouldn't be able to afford their homes if it weren't for airbnb, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the question they posed. If you asked "would you be able to afford your home or apartment without airbnb?", then you'd see far less than 62%.

> Airbnb visitors stay on average 6.4 nights (compared to 3.9 for hotel guests) and spend $880 at NYC businesses (compared to $690 for average New York visitors).

The monies paid to rent a hotel room is money paid to a NYC business and is omitted from this count. If it were counted, using the average stay numbers people contribute more to the economy by staying at the hotel than with airbnb.

Another looming question is whether you should count new yorkers who use airbnb to stay in other places. this study doesn't consider that factor at all, and it's likely that the loss to the NYC economy due to those people exceeds the gain due to others coming into the city.

nonchalance··on Airbnb a big boost to NYC economy, study finds
Apple put out similar hand-wavey figures last year: https://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/

I think the point boils down to:

1) dollars paid to hosts are counted towards the city economy (ostensibly most of those would be spent in the city) -- this is direct

2) renters need to eat etc, and those monies should be counted to the economic activity -- this is indirect

nonchalance··on Airbnb a big boost to NYC economy, study finds
I suspect the full paper includes much of that hand-wavey obviously-biased goodness that we expect from Fox News: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2011/12/14/im-better...
nonchalance··on I want Square Cash to ask Google Wallet out for drinks.
> [The beautiful, gorgeous product] would solve every monetary exchange hurdle with masterful, dashing perfection.

I wish the author actually described his/her conception of this panacea. It's possible that "paypal's decade-long fumbling" reflects the reality that the perfect product does not exist.

nonchalance··on Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?
I suspect that most people here who hate Microsoft still use products like Excel (for which there is no good competitor :) And maybe that's part of the reason for the hate: for all the problems, there are a few indispensable products that keep us coming back to windows and office and other Microsoft products.
nonchalance··on Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz
McDonalds never claimed that their food could be consumed to the exclusion of every other possible food. They offer breakfast options, but none of their marketing made the claim that eating at McDonalds every day was recommended.

On the other hand, soylent is making the claim that it's healthy to use soylent as a complete replacement for food. Thus, the standards are much higher in terms of truth in marketing.

nonchalance··on What happened to Priceonomics?
the article used the cringeworthy misspelling homogenious
nonchalance··on What happened to Priceonomics?
> After all the VC money flushed out, the bootstrapper is still standing. :)

Generally, the bootstrapper focuses on building a sustainable business early on (whereas the VC-funded startups try until the wellspring dries up)

nonchalance··on Last Minute Y Combinator Application Guide - Apply in 30 Minutes
he's now known as snoopzilla
nonchalance··on Post-mortem of a Dead-on-Arrival SaaS Product
I apologize in advance if I sound snarky, but I (and I suspect many others here) hadn't heard of Marginalia until today. How much did you spend on ads and where did you advertise?
nonchalance··on Lisphp: A Lisp Dialect Written in PHP
> the number of those competent enough to write a LISP in PHP is precisely nil.

There are many people competent enough to write a lisp in PHP, but most are working for companies that still work with PHP (of which there are many, including some pretty high-profile companies)

nonchalance··on A Crash Course In Awk
I hope it's shorter :) 60 chars:

    !($1%3){$2="Fizz"}!($1%5){$2=$2 "Buzz"}!$2{$2=$1}{print $2}
nonchalance··on A Crash Course In Awk
A correct FizzBuzz in awk (the version in the article doesn't print numbers in the general case):

    $ seq 1 100 | awk '!($1%3){printf "Fizz";p=1}!($1%5){printf "Buzz";p=1}!p{printf $1}{printf "\n";p=0}'
nonchalance··on Why we revert to original titles
> we're not about to read every article submitted to HN.

How many articles reach the front page per day? I'd imagine it is a small percentage of the total

nonchalance··on Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings
Berkshire Hathaway class A is current 175821/sh :) extreme example.

But my point was that, while market cap is all that matters, people still fixate on round numbers

nonchalance··on Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings
$1000/sh seems like a more momentous headline than $330B market cap.

On the other hand, It's more likely that we see the headline "$1T company" than "$3030.30/sh"

nonchalance··on Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings
It could be because the plus500.co.uk is manifestly UK (and people saying otherwise are probably based in the US).
nonchalance··on Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings
>Youtube UI gets worse every time they update it. They cancelled the RSS reader. The email UI keeps getting worse and featuring more ads.

Those concerns are completely unrelated to their algorithm. I doubt they want to maintain many Youtube UIs.

nonchalance··on Why the Hell Are We Teaching Excel to 11 Year Olds?
Excel isn't just about "boring office tasks"! There's a whole website devoted to games built in excel: http://www.excelgames.com/ (my favorite is http://carywalkin.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/version-1-3-ar... )
nonchalance··on Union Square Ventures' new website
How would that work? Wouldn't it essentially be replying to a master tweet from the website (assuming the website auto-tweeted new submissions, something that many sites do now)?
nonchalance··on Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian
I suspect there's space in the news sphere for something with the transparency of wikileaks and the mainstream credibility of the guardian / al jazeera / NYT
nonchalance··on GoDaddy acquires Media Temple
Is there a reason to use pastebin rather than other services for these types of "anonymous" posts?
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