jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One answer is that the market forces tend to funnel all increases in income to landowners as rent.

I was not familiar with this theory until a few days ago, when someone here on HN linked to an online version (edited and abridged) of Henry George's Progress and Poverty [0]. I've been reading it since; its clarity is stunning: I feel as if a great veil has been lifted from my eyes. Whether I'll still feel that way in a few days, months, or years remains to be seen, but for the moment, Henry George has me eating out of the palm of his hand.

Whatever the general validity of his theory, it certainly seems to explain the SF Bay Area extremely well. Salaries here sound incredible to people outside the area, but then it costs so much more to live here as to deny the wage earner much of the benefit. Broadly, we can break the population into three groups. Renters, obviously, have to pay the market rents, which seem to rise inexorably. Those who bought houses here years ago, before the big increases in property values, and are still living in them, are the ones who can really enjoy the high salaries they can earn here. Those who bought property here more recently, on the other hand, have large mortgages, because someone who previously owned the property made a pile of money when they sold it. In effect, the mortgage is like rent being paid to whichever previous owner or owners saw the property appreciate.

George's theory starts with Ricardo's law of rent [1], which is a truism of classical economics (and another idea I was not aware of until just recently). One could say it takes that law to its logical conclusion.

EDITED to add: while George's theory has not been fully embraced by mainstream economics, it hasn't been completely rejected by any means. Joseph Stiglitz, Herbert Simon, and to some extent Milton Friedman are some of its adherents, and Hayek credits George with awakening his interest in economics. [2]

[0] http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
The logic, my friend, is that the result of hiding the scrollbars, is this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6247596

though, if you are on a mac, I can understand if you missed that whole post.
Most European salaries may be 1/2 the SF rates. But that is not a fair comparison. A Google engineer in Zurich, Switzerland makes almost as much as one in SF, at an also very high cost of living.
If you watch the video you'll see examples showing that law has essentially disappeared in the UK. I haven't watched TV for more than a decade so I was unaware of this, but it's clear that TV in the UK can now do product placement, even on the BBC.
> There's no way it's cheaper than planting trees and is probably orders of magnitude less efficient.

Do your cost and efficiency calculation include the opportunity cost of letting land sit "idle"?
But if you still need to keep your attention on the road, what is the actual gain?

What else can you be doing that gets past the distraction detection?
So when you don't know the difference between two things you assume there is no difference and not only disregard those better informed than you who claim otherwise, but try to tell them how simple their profession is?

Neither the tv mounts nor the testing machine were remotely close to statics class. For the seismic TV mounts, I had to make an economical laser cut sheet metal assembly which could be assembled in a field and still survive earthquakes. For the flexbeam tester, I had to design a machine that could survive millions of cycles while placed in an oven at high temperature to simulate the effects of 3 years of flight time in less than 1 year. To say it was just statics would be like saying software is just assigning variables.

Conversely, if you are a database person, that is an incredibly narrow skillset. Creating a database isn't a profession, it's not even a job, it's just a task. Yes a database guy can create a database for practically any kind of organization, and the structures guy can analyze a truss for any kind of organization. But the engineer who can only analyze trusses is fired.

Yes, an engineer must understand fundamental principles, but that is true of any profession. How can you set up a database without knowing the fundamentals of how a database works? How could an accountant manage money without knowing the fundamentals of transactions? How could a ditch digger dig a ditch if they don't understand the fundamentals of a shovel? Any job that requires no understanding whatsoever was automated away long ago. That said, most professions, engineers included, can treat many of these things as black boxes during day to day life. I don't know how any given solenoid valve is implemented, and I don't generally care beyond it being rated for my use case. Of course this can lead to problems - I once designed a big machine for scanning cars and the power cables wrapped around it made it act like a giant antennna interfering with the data cables to the cameras - that took a while to debug.

The world is a fascinating place, you would do well to learn about it instead of resting on assumptions.
Not disagreeing with any of your points, but there were probably very few LPs who were in one KPCB fund but not the other.
>"Depending on the age of her son it's a reasonable question to ask." //

This sort of phrase is not about her son at all. The statement is supposed to acquire the users agreement, as if the point is a truism, by demonstrating that even someone relatively naive to the field in question would be able to clearly see that the point is true - in this case that the laptop being used is antiquated.

2013 laptops aren't antiquated; no amount of "any fool can see" couching of that suggestion is going to convince me of that. It's just a badly judged piece of hyperbole by the writer.

Edit: here's a mediocre Dell from 2012, http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i15R-1633sLV-15-6-Inch-L... - could anyone who has ever seen a laptop before really be confused that it's a laptop?
Multiple returns. I've always thought just adding pointer params was kind of an ugly hack.

Function overloading and default parameters. They're just too nice not to have.

Closures and lambdas (mentioned)
> Why would you even want to BadExit his nodes?

To further malign him of course.
What if the argument was Groupon was local search?

From a revenue driving. Local Search > Search, Local Couponing > AdWords. Therefore, Groupon > Google.
I searched for "potato" and found 378 images
I was aiming for an example of a pretty sweet setup (SDD+Monitor+Chair), but I can see why using specific anchor texts would have been more user friendly.
Scored 20. Am ADD (whole family, all my children are). High functioning high-output person, whole family is.
Good point.

I guess the thing I would caution about is expanding fast vs. executing well. Hopefully they learn the lessons in the Yandex vs. Google and Amazon/Ebay vs. Tao Bao fights.

Facebook did execute on a very successful international strategy - but from my understanding they didn't need a billion dollars to do it. GroupOn's economics might be different - time will tell.
> Why do I say this? Apple converted me into an Apple buyer for life

I felt exactly the same after a few years with my Apple ][ more than twenty years ago. I was a die hard Apple fan back then.

But today's Steve Jobs scares me.

And now that Apple has shown its true colors (you know, "we can't have an app that mentions Android in our app store, sorry"), I'm certainly happy that Android is out there to give Apple a run for its money.

As for you being a "lifetime" fan... we will see. I'm pretty sure you will grow out of it at some point.
I think this is the shortest solution unless someone has sort mapped to hot-keys, which is unlikely.
I'd be interested to see how the average HN reader compares to the average person. On the one hand, the answers that pointed towards autism were answers that I would associate with "geek," but on the other hand, the answers that pointed away from autism were answers that I would associate with "entrepreneur."
Sure, I'll be there. Crossposting from reddit.
Looks good. Waiting for Argentina.
As crazy as this sounds... I've got no problems with being in an "ecosystem" as long as it can be run on any device. See Kindle for a perfect example -- I have it on my iPhone, iPad, desktop and my PaperWhite. Perfect.

Or Netflix: runs on everything. But if your "ecosystem" is limited to particular devices (see: iMessage, or the OP) then it may as well not exist as far as I'm concerned.

Hell, even Apple knew iTunes needed to run on Windows to matter. Eventually, anyway.
I don't have a Mac so can't compare, but on my machine (xUbuntu 13.10, Intel Core i70470K (not overclocked), Asus NVidia GTX 770 2GB GDDR5, 32GB Corsair Vengeance CL10, Corsair M500 SSD 960GB) it runs buttery smooth at full settings.

I'm using the NVidia latest stable drivers (from the NVidia website), which were a pain to install under *buntu.

It actually seems a lot smoother running natively compared to running under Wine. I can't put my finger on it. The frame rate under Wine seems OK. The image looked fine. But it didn't "feel" right.
The person who answered you isn't associated with GitHub and has been trolling the channel (and apparently you).
This is one of the reasons why Net Neutrality is so important.

Everybody and their brother wants to lock you in to their platform (whether it's a phone or an ISP) then split, differentiate, and bundle the product in so many complex ways you'll be lucky if you even understand what you're purchasing.

Cell phone companies have already done this. Airlines as well. So have insurance companies. They make money by farming the walled garden in such a way as to make it look like you have increased choices, but, mirabile dictu, all the choices end up with you paying more money each month.

Enough is enough.
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What do you mean? US citizens are fair game too.
You left out Tesla suing television show Top Gear for libel. (Which they lost despite the UK's infamously plaintiff-friendly libel laws.)
Ah yeah. I forgot that Buffer#fill() only returns "this" in master. I updated the example to fix this.
Researchers Find "Breathprints" Unique to Each Person
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-scientists-discover-breathprints-unique-to-each-person-040313
Swiss scientists have identified stable “breathprint” patterns similar to fingerprints that may advance personalized medicine.
Apple store blocks reddit? Any others?
It redirects to the apple homepage
Google Wave beta testing begins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/sep/30/google-wave-beta-testing
Google Wave, a browser-based tool combines email, instant messaging and real-time interaction, is one of the most anticipated products to emerge this year.
Small Kohana module to calculate USPS shipping rate
https://github.com/kureikain/sipy
A very small, buggy but lovely Kohana module to calculate shipping rate for USPS. It supports both of JSON and JSONP. I planned to add FedEx and UPS too. Then we can put it on http://sipy.pagodabox.com
I hope somebody can help on FedEx and UPS.
The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneur
http://www.socialhunt.net/blog/social-entrepreneurship/
What do you think if you are startup?
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Testing REST with multiple MIME types
http://www.baeldung.com/2013/01/18/testing-rest-with-multiple-mime-types/
This article will focus on testing a RESTful Service with multiple Media Types/representations.
The art of diffusion
http://blog.vctr.me/diffusion/
a 2d, interactive ray tracer
Tips For Shopping at an Electronics Retail Store 
http://ezapples.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/38/Default.aspx
Shopping at big electronic retail stores like Best Buy or Circuit City can be quite the hassle sometimes, especially when you're making a big purchase.
Statue of Liberty vs US debt ceiling in physical $100 bills
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html
Hurts to be a 'Merican these days.
E-Commerce fraud detection API
http://ipinfodb.com/fraud_detection.php
The API compares shipping / billing information with IP geolocation data for all countries. For USA and Canada, the API also confirm area code and postal/zip code information. It is very flexible, parameters weight can be set manually
How To Make Forum Marketing Effective - Great Tool
http://www.iyazam.com/effective-forum-marketing.html
A great tool to help improve your forum marketing.
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http://www.freetechexams.com/cisco-certification/ccie-security/ccie-security.html
Free Cisco CCIE Security 350-018 Certification Practice Exams (Practice Tests) and CCIE Study Guide to help Candidates to pass CCIE Exam on first attempt.
Yet another node.js Twitter clone
http://howler.adityabhatt.org
Made a twitter clone with node.js and mongodb as a learning exercise. Plan to add realtime updating with now.js next.

Some front-end code borrowed from https://github.com/tglines/nodrr

Turbulence.js is an API I'm building for handling realtime streams of arbitrary data-structures. Will open-source it as soon as it's polished.
Enabling Report a delivery sms on Android
http://tutorialnew.com/en/tutorial11.html
In this tutorial you will learn step by step how to enable the delivery report of the text message and end the doubts of the message recipient received or not...
Bias is Real
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
I was searching for quality news sources and found this article. I thought it looked interesting, so I thought I'd post it for comments.

But I'm also curious: what mass media news sources do you rely upon? I'm getting a little bored of the obvious like NYT, WSJ, BBC, etc., so bonus points for something eclectic.
IShuttr Camera Case turns your iPhone 4 into a point and shoot camera
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iShuttr is a camera case for the iPhone 4. Turn your iPhone into a real point and shoot camera with external buttons and a real flash! Visit www.ishuttr.com for more info.
A new social embedded chat service
http://www.embedded-chat.com/
A few weeks ago we launched this brand new social embedded chat service. If you want your website to become social give us a try ;-). As we are in closed beta you can install it totally for FREE.
HELP: MongoDB Sharding
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19950668/how-to-store-specific-data-in-particular-shard-and-the-rest-of-the-data-in-other
Could anyone please help with this?
Dean Kamen "Luke arm": a step up for upper amputees
http://www.disaboom.com/Video/assistivetechnology/mobility/new-prosthetic-changes-lives-for-upper-amputees.aspx?
Dean Kamen's company has developed a prototype prosthetic arm which is a significant improvement on existing prosthetics.
$7 To Get Better iPad Sound
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soundbender/soundbender-tm-magnetic-sound-enhancer-for-new-ipa
Rabbi creates a simple, cheap device to boost the sound from iPad speakers.
Short stroking may boost DB performance by 100%
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157.html
Decreases seek time by forcing data to outer sectors. They were able to get significant performance gains
Innovative flight search engine uses graphs to find the best flights
http://www.whichairline.com/news/Weve-just-launched-our-new-innovative-flight-search-engine
WhichAirline.com is an innovative flight search engine that takes all the hassle out of finding the best flights thanks to its visual interface. The website searches more than 100.000 routes and brings results from all low cost airlines including Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air.
Abacus OS a next Generation Operating System for IoT
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clickslide/abacus-microservers-create-and-host-apps-on-this
We've just launched a project on kickstarter for Abacus OS and our new class of device called microservers. With Abacus OS developers can create mobile applications between cloud services and local devices. API integration is done without code. Instead, we have an API form for integrating any API.
China Lays Claim to Fastest Supercomputer Title
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/tech/main6999307.shtml
A leading Chinese research center has built the world's fastest supercomputer, an industry announcement said Thursday, underscoring the country's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
6 Super Granny Powers You Didn’t Know About
http://www.areyoupop.com/blog/6-super-granny-powers/
Everybody has seen the video of the super granny beating a few bad guys with her powerful purse.

This made me wonder what other super powers super granny might have ...
read about the other super powers at areyoupop.com/blog
A better createElement function, 2nd arg is hash of attr's
https://gist.github.com/2878569
Would love to see this get into standards, so please upvote if you care about great standards!
Coding4Fun tutorial: creating a 3D WebGL procedural QRCode maze
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davrous/archive/2014/02/19/coding4fun-tutorial-creating-a-3d-webgl-procedural-qrcode-maze-with-babylon-js.aspx
Learn how to create a 3D Maze using Babylon.js/WebGL based on a dynamically generated QR Code.

Test the demo here: http://david.blob.core.windows.net/techdays2014/lovemaze/index.html

Useless but fun. :)
Mission Bit needs a logo designed
https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/mission-bit-needs-logo-237728
Mission Bit, a free computer programming school for youth living and schooling in the Mission SF, CA needs a logo designed. Submit your entries via 99designs. Contest ends in 24 hours.
Ask HN: Essay on naturals, rationals, irrationals, algebraics
A while ago, I chanced upon a light mathematical essay that made the case that algebraics were the next 'logical' step after irrational numbers.

As I remember it, it built up steadily from natural numbers to rational to irrational to algebraics using equations.

Sadly I lost the link. If anyone remembers reading something like this and has a link, I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks!

ps. This was a mathematician(?)'s personal site. There were others essays on Maths too.
Learn to build and deploy simple Go Web Apps, Part Four
http://blog.joshsoftware.com/2014/03/17/learn-to-build-and-deploy-simple-go-web-apps-part-four/
<i></i> Learn to build and deploy simple Go Web Apps, Final part <i></i><p>Here, we deploy our web app which accepts an address from the user and then displays a photo of the place at the address.<p>A fun app written in Go.<p>http://blog.joshsoftware.com/2014/03/17/learn-to-build-and-deploy-simple-go-web-apps-part-four/
Notifications now aboard - Design-Feedback & Prototyping Tool for teams
http://www.notism.io/
Get notified in RealTime about new notes, comments or uploads !
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Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32255149/wall_streets_bailout_hustle/print?
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash
Special Discounts for Startups and Freelancers – Cropfection
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Gmail Contacts and Mail Get Improved
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/11/gmail-contacts-and-mail-get-improved/
New gmail brings an improved interface which makes it easier to use, but no radical changes.
Java Puzzlers are asked in interviews
http://whyjava.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/java-puzzlers-are-asked-in-interviews/
This blog is about one of the question that i was asked in an interview two years back. I forgot this question but yesterday i again faced this question and this is a “java puzzler”.
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Show HN: Site Check Tool
http://fuchida.me
Yet another site status check tool, built using Twitter Boostrap, Flask and Requests.
Respecting Others Privacy
http://glamb0t.com/?p=93
I understand that Facebook is a phenomenon that many people enjoy on a daily basis. I was one of those people until I decided to cut it off in order to get more done. Shorty after I became very aware of my privacy and how Facebook is violating it everyday. The FTC is involved, many tech industry big wigs have plainly stated how Facebook treats their users as the product without their knowledge or consent. All of this doesn’t bother me as a non user until someone I know involves me in Facebook....
Resurrecting Tesla's Mystery Car
http://evworld.com/blogs/index.cfm?authorid=12&blogid=752&archive=1
As the story goes, he had the gasoline engine removed and replaced with a 80kW electric motor. He then installed a mysterious "black box" from which rods protruded. Wires connected the box to the motor, providing it with enough electric power to achieves speeds of over 90 mph.
Fox News left their root image directory for the browse option
http://www.irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=1318
Fox News one of the premier news website has a security flaw, in which they have left their images directory browse able
Show HN: Winners Win
http://www.winnerswin.com/
This is a project I'm developing right now. The basic motivation is to build a platform for winners and potential winners. Any comments or feedback are highly appreciated!
Sales Lessons Worth Remembering
http://www.taeradio.com/newsletter-articles/2009/10/5/sales-lessons-worth-remembering.html#article_jump
Basically, don't depend on a single charismatic CEO or salesperson to close the deal.
102 Minutes
http://www.behance.net/gallery/102-Minutes/2117824
A tribute to all who died on and since 9/11