jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> In fact, poor people would be significantly better off due to the increased income from UBI + higher wages

You're assuming two things that exclude each other. Wages will only rise if some people drop out of the workforce, lowering supply. Those who drop out then don't benefit from the raising wages, and only end up paying increased costs.

The likely result is a kind of bullwhip, where people drop out, prices and wages rise, the value of the UBI diminishes, this forces the people who dropped out right back into the shitty jobs they left a year or two prior, now with the relative prices of many goods jacked up until a new equilibrium is found. Depending on the UBI the new equilibrium may be better for them, it may be worse, but, as of now, some people will be forced to do those shitty jobs.

No amount of Government intervention will prevent low skilled labor from being low paid relative to other goods. Market competition just won't allow it.
Because Apple displays the processes to signal the build quality. And some build processes that enable them to use special materials - which doesn't imply that the materials are superior.
Might be nice to mention this is all through Facebook connect in the title. I have plenty of interest in something like this, but no interest in having a Facebook account.
Site crashed and I tweeted the big free and everything and I did not get a link to the video. It is not even in my app sumo account.
I like C++, but one valuable thing I took from FQA was a concrete example of how absurdly difficult C++ is to parse. Everyone "knows" how hard it is to parse C++, but this specific example was really eye-opening to me: it's a program which can have two completely different parse trees depending on the result of a sizeof() expression!

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/web-vs-c++.html#misfeature-3
http://searchyc.com/submissions/txt2re?sort=by_date

Previous submissions and discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149631 <- 5 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184482 <- 12 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670977 <- 15 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=946797 <- 0 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129978 <- 12 comments
I think it's a matter of perspective. We do this with enterprise software, except we don't call it a "time bomb".

"We've deployed your installation with a provisional, expiring license. We'll issue your permanent license once you've confirmed the software is installed and configured to your liking."

Then when they send the check, we send the license. It's never been a problem for any of the parties because we've always been very up front about how the process works. No surprises.
> Android devices commonly solve this by using an SD card that can be transferred to and from devices. My Nexus One has this hidden behind the battery, so practically speaking I'm not going to be without it.

How is this any different than plugging in a USB cord to sync? What are you shuttling the SD card between anyway (a PC I assume)? Physical media is not a good answer to "cutting the cord".
1. GReader (can't keep track of 200+ feeds every day so I've pruned it to a few dozen that I check every day and always sort by magic)

2. HN (for tech related news)

3. Curated newsletters (subscribed to Summify, Startup Reading List,and other email newsletters that curate news daily/weekly)

4. Zite (using it increasingly since it's machine learning algorithm is spot on)
Seems like you're right, http://seedcamp.com/pages/2010winners lists 13 companies. I can only assume the 14th is in stealth mode.

Never mind then, carry on!
My initial reaction too - though the phrase that triggered it for me was 'challenges the deeply entrenched idea that evolution progresses steadily forward'.

I am clueless about the identity of the demographic that holds this deeply entrenched idea, other than the vaguely labelled 'breathtakingly bewildered'.

When you say 'in a country where more than 50%' ... are you referring to the country that you're currently in, or the one I'm in, or the one where you assume most people who are reading this article are in, by the way?
An excellent project .. I'm already jealous and want one! :)

I think there is a lot of potential for machines like this to make a return to relevance in this day and age. I'm using my old 8-bit collection (still working) to teach my kids computing at the most basic level - I can sit them in front of our Oric Atmos battlestation, which in the 21st Century is fulfilling all the dreams of the 80's, and give them a few hours to figure out how to do things without worrying about dodgy Internet distractions, overly burdensome IDE installations, irrelevant tools and utils .. the thing just plain works, from power on until sunrise. And the kids have a blast with direct interaction - when they type something, something happens .. there's no waiting, no distractions. Still an excellent learning platform - and demonstrates just how arbitrary the value of computers is, in this day and age.

Old computers never die - their users do!
carousel switching buttons on the right hand side are not working, even in chrome.
I don't know that its inapplicable to todays education market, to be honest. You can learn a lot about computing with an old 8-bit machine that is completely lost on the modern developer.

Maybe if someone put LOAD81 into a small AVR-based, portable box similar to the one in the article, we'd have a new revolution in software development education. Too many times students of today leave the classroom thinking "the IDE will do all the work for me". This is a highly specious and unproductive mindset, imho .. solved by a little contact with micro-controllers and mini-tools.
That isn't really saying anything then, is it? Every form of employment requires people have transportation, and a way to clean their clothes, communicate etc. Those are societal obstacles to employment, not tech's barrier to employment.

The barriers applicable to a certain form of employment have to be unique to that form of employment, like the prerequisite of a college degree or institutional certification.
I only criticized the title of the HN post, because it differs from what what was written in the article.

What followed was what I observed from my personal experiences, and I did not say that my personal experiences necessary reflect the state of the whole of Japan, nor vice versa, or prove this article false. These are just my personal observations, which happen to be the opposite of what was stated in the article.

Also, in addition to the very small sample set (3000 out of millions, even if we are just considering the age group mentioned), it also provides little to no detail of the sample selected (location, marital status etc). IMHO this is article seems sensationalist to me, or just bad journalism (no links to concrete sources or data).
The editor in chief of the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, similar to the BBC) left the CBC two years ago and became the managing director of Al Jazeera English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Burman

That should give you a sense of how legitimate Al Jazeera has become.
Interesting. But doesn't answer any real questions. For--where did the engineer come from?
How is this different than using Layer 4 routing/load-balancing? If you are already scaling to multiple backends then you're probably likely to have access to more than 1 or 2 public facing IPs if you have to ensure everything inbound is on port 80. Just use sub-domains with different DNS A records. You listen on port 80 and then route to your backend application farm. The load balancers already have various means to monitor health on the backend and you can scale to 100Gbs speed already if you have the budget.

Check out LVS if you want open-source. HAProxy can handle this in a limited fashion. Then if you have gone big already then you can probably afford a Brocade ServerIron, Citrix Netscaler or F5 Big-IP.

Or am I missing something here?
San Francisco, CA

Square (https://squareup.com/jobs)

We're hiring for server engineering (ruby and javascript), site operations (unix, puppet and building out our datacenter), design (visual and ux) and support folks.

I'm on the server team, so I'll talk about that position. We're doing agile in a pretty serious way and using it to solve really interesting financial problems. We pair program almost 100% of the time, TDD always, and use Pivotal Tracker to schedule our iterations. We're using Rails, Resque, Cucumber, Rspec and Jasmine. The server team is tight knit and really a lot of fun.

We're looking for pragmatic software engineers to join us. Preferably people with Ruby experience. You must be excited about TDD and pairing. The mohawk thing on the job site is totally optional.
This is basically groupon for software. Surprised no one else has done this before...
At this size, you may need a hash-life to see it run at any speed. That's not as quick to write as a naive algorithm--but of course still doable.
> Microsoft's get's the majority of their users and revenue from enterprise level sales

And goverments and public institutions around the world
I'm so glad they have merged MU and Wordpress!

Now if I could just figure out how to get the darn thing to work properly.
like daveschappell says below, the problem (or one problem) is that their products don't match their marketing. Maybe Basecamp is really good for a specific niche, and maybe everyone knows that, but that's not how 37s positions it on their website.
What does Quora solve that other existing solutions don't?

http://www.mahalo.com/

http://www.formspring.me

http://vark.com/

http://answers.yahoo.com/

http://www.chacha.com/

...
As others have said, horribly misleading title. It has nothing to do with Ramadan! How about don't fly when you have some weird chemical on you that sets off airport security.
Tim Cook is a weak man.

Just ask vulture capitalist Carl Icahn, who tweeted this a few minutes ago.

https://twitter.com/Carl_C_Icahn/status/370615097963450368
Well my first thought was: if the pilot was unconscious he still was breathing.

So we just have to wait a little longer and must take into account the answer will never be found.
> And you want to wait a year to find out what happened to your loved ones?

"Your loved ones" died in an aircraft crash. They why of it matters less, and can wait for an accurate answer instead of rampant speculation.

As for the year time frame, it really can take up to a year to figure out. As you say, they're working from an incomplete puzzle. Perhaps the black box does say XYZ, but is that the whole story? They added a lot more security hardware to cockpit doors of late, was it suffering a malfunction? Or perhaps the copilot was panicking trying to figure out how to work around a malfunctioning button and froze up? Or he was knocked unconscious by the sudden descent? Many of these aircraft are 15+ years old at this point, an electrical fault is certainly not out of the question.

Speculation helps nobody but the press at this point.

PS. To the downvoters, please remember that we're barely two days into the investigation, and we're relying on "silence" and a third party report on very preliminary findings to jump to these conclusions.
Anything with `association` in it is a disgrace to my ears.
I don't think you've grasped 'rethink' here. The things you are describing are bandaids applied to current bad designs, and would be natural byproducts of better operating system planning.
Would love to see run-once, latency, and memory benchmarks. The benchmarks don't show many of the GC improvements, or track how quickly the JIT works for example.
GermanWings is the off shoot of Lufthansa. They're cheaper .. but they aren't exactly RyanAir.
Although I think connections help more than not, I think it's more nuanced than that. You have to have a story, something to convince people that they need your app. It has to capture peoples imagination, and it needs to be simple enough that the average user doesn't need to do anything to consume it. And the market needs to be ready for it. Too early is just as bad as too late.
Not saying that's never true, but in this specific case there's just no way Twitter went from zero to release with this app since meerkat launched. A company the size of Twitter doesn't do weekend hackathons for important launches like this. Not that I know of, at least.

Add to that the obviousness of this app, and bayesian chances are pretty high they just came up with it concurrently but were later with the release.

EDIT: It also explains why Twitter went so draconian on Meerkat.

EDIT2: But I'd have to add: yeah, Twitter's behavior is chilling. The way they cracked down on Meerkat, and now just try to play this launch off as if nothing happened, it's disingenuous. Just come out and say it, Twitter: you used your technically justified power over Meerkat to gain competitive advantage.

EDIT3: A friend tells me they didn't develop this app, they just bought it. Makes even more sense.
He actually had a typo there. It's 'cerezos', not 'cerizos'.
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Maybe not, but it goes through Steve's brain and stop there if he does not like it, and that has served Apple well.
That's not true. Non-"Google Experience" have plenty of access to all of the Android Google APIs, etc. If they didn't no apps that used Google Maps, Navigation, etc would work. The Google APIs are something that 3rd party apps rely on. Google restricting their availability would literally destroy the Market in one fell swoop.

The only thing that changes is whether or not they can print "Google" on the phone.
By "HTML design" do you mean the graphic design? In my eyes the site has an edgy, artsy, designer-y feel to it, are you put off by that? I found it more fun and exciting than YCombinator's or Seedcamp's sites or those of any VC I've ever seen (except maybe Sequoia). Of course an established investor/incubator/funding program doesn't need to rely on site design to communicate their awesomeness, but it seems like an obvious place to start differentiating and I don't agree that HackFwd's is "unappetizing" in any way.
Almost none of those people are known outside of tech circles.
Uh... so what? Are you saying people can only be famous for work they do in their free time?
Can't vouch for lighty (though I suppose the same applies) but nginx is much, much faster than Apache. nginx was designed with speed in mind, Apache with reliability[1] and extensibility.

[1] Apache's internal API is designed to make it difficult to leak memory or other resources, overrun buffers, etc.
I also noticed [0] listing Bloomberg as a source for an 8 million estimate, though its worth noting that these are still estimates.

[0] http://www.tgdaily.com/consumer-electronics-brief/53193-2010...
Well it's called 20 under 20. Slippery slope, etc.
I'm guessing it is missing the decimal point: 2.5 billion
I agree, I think the OS X is a major selling point for the Air. As well as the design (which is very Mac)
Sony LiveView controller for my Android - haven't played with it yet but hoping it's a good prototype of what might be increasingly common auxiliary controller for mobile devices.

Mongoose poop coffee beans.

Hopefully Metaprogramming Ruby but it's yet to arrive...

A Faith No More t-shirt that says, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUCKER".

Got Dance Central for my sister, for her xbox Kinect, it's awesome.

Happy days :)
This reads like the definition of sour grapes. Richard Branson has created multiple billion-dollar companies in different industries, but he's had some failures along the way! And he doesn't talk about them as much as his successes!
I run Windows full time on my MBP due to loving the hardware, and yet the Adamo is still not competitive for me. If I could get a 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM, I'd probably go for it over the MBA, but that isn't possible. Shame.
Location: FL, USA
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I enjoy writing code and learning new skills.

Confident in doing front end web development, but am open to backend or other roles. Will also learn whatever skills are needed that I don't already have.

Currently working on a 2 page website that incorporates ecommerce, being built with svelte will probably use a non-relational database.
If you can even begin to measure "sap[ping] the intellectual potential of humanity" then we should be talking about the most pointless brain-drain of our age - thousands of the most highly talented technical minds all being relegated to serving increasingly targeted ads.

Yes there is a huge economic incentive for these individuals to pursue this work, but I don't think its a stretch to say it cant be benefitting humanity overall in any real useful way.
While security by obscurity is not ideal, it is an additional hurdle. Apple knows that security flaws in their stuff is very valuable for both nefarious and state hackers, so the chances of someone finding an issue and reporting it to them to resolve it are kinda low.
50% seems reasonable and inline with living in California when you add up state (13%) and federal (37%) tax.

I think its good value in the UK compared compared to how little social benefit you see in the US yet still pay a massive amount of tax.
That's not a problem - when the stock is liquidated he would be taxed, no - the problem is that he's taxed differently and there are mechanisms in which that tax he pays is deducted, e.g. donating much of it to an organization he controls.
Okay, that's some wonky high brow elitism. I'm trying to break into fiction writing as a career and even though I'd like to prop up writing's value in society, you're going too far.

First off, everyone needs fun hobbies to distract them from their day to day. While many gravitate to hobbies similar to their career, it should never be a requirement. Its whatever recharges your batteries. However you achieve that, whether chess, reading, woodworking or nature walks, it doesn't matter. Again, as a fiction writer, the academic elitism of it really pisses me off. Not all entertainment needs to broaden your horizons. It first has to entertain and make you lose track of the miserable real world. Teaching you something is second on the list. Not first. Shoving the "it must enrich you or it's not art" is the most heinous elitist gatekeeping there is. This is the exact reason people dont like reading. Being told, "you're not reading the right books" turns people off, thus will never read said books.
you know how the stock market works?
That would be my first gut reaction too, but if it is as simple as downloading webpages, this is actually a really great solution. I suspect he used that when he built Milo, a now defunct startup sold to eBay where they had to update prices and inventory data regularly. A startup should make different choices than Google.
"that allow us to deprive ourselves of all experiences of true intensity or meaning"

It seems that people have a largely irrational, intense fear of something. Public speaking, heights, spiders - whatever your fear is if you embrace it you can still (safely) find that incredibly intense experience you are talking about. For me it was skydiving. I get sweaty palms even thinking about heights, going up in a plane with an open door was terrifying! Leaving it was incredible. If you're afraid of spiders, pick up a big one, public speaking? Join toastmasters. You don't need war to experience the thrill of death.
And incredibly irresponsible. No disaster recovery plan when your customer's lives depend on your service being up?

Seriously? I know there's HIPAA standards for securing sensitive health records, but aren't there standards for system up-times?
We are a monitoring company and are monitoring hundreds of cardiac patients at home.

If this is a serious post and there really is a service that monitors cardiac patients from home, first you would have to deal with the unreliability of in-home broadband connections. What if a router needs to be reset, or the DSL goes out? Even if you ignore that, you would expect that any server setup will go down at some time. It has happened to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and now AWS and PlayStation Network. I remember when Rackspace went down a few years back (a truck crashed into the transformer that powered the datacenter - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/11/13/truck...). All of Armenia was knocked offline when a woman cut a fiber optic line while digging for scrap metal. I'm not sure I'd trust the internet with any kind of life or death monitoring.
Your solution won't work because you can't solve for a and b if you are given (a xor b) and (a - b), consider an extra 3 and missing 2 will give 1 for both values, as will extra 5 and missing 4.
The article reads like current trends in higher education are as harmful as wearing high heels.
Sorry I don't agree with this. I delete code all the time. The difference is, when I write elegant code that I am proud of I save it. The majority of code I write is utility not elegant by comparison. This is like my art, or any art.