skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always liked the idea of "learning or earning" whereby if you become unemployed you get a welfare benefit to study for 3, 6 or 12 months in university or vocational training and then guided through improving your CV and then you hit the job market again. But I come from, and live in, various countries where there is decent welfare, universal healthcare and deferred interest-free loans or token fee university education so that's in place more or less anyway although it could be formalized and streamlined more. A lot of infrastructure would need to be put in place for such a system to work in the USA.
What happened is that I took a risk, and let's just say I lost even more than before. I had to move in with my parents, and I think that's what really changed my attitude. Because before, I was just hanging on. Like, every month I made just enough to get by, so there was no reason not to wake up, go work, then download movies from the piratebay and watch tv shows and waste half the day.

But then I did this thing and could not afford to that. So I moved in with my parents, and I was just so ashamed that I would wake up early in the morning and work till late at night every single day, weekends and weekdays. When I had saved enough to move back out and get my own place, somehow that attitude just stuck and really, if you just work really long days, money comes. Wake up early, work till night, don't have too many friends, don't watch TV and within a year you can afford most anything.
Unsourced claim here: saw somewhere that about 75% of the cost of medication goes to advertising. We're taught to believe that it's the R&D that's the expense, but it's not; it's advertising.
Groklaw on the Bilksi decision
Gee, thanks, Maddox[1]. ;-)

[1] - (WARNING: Not safe for work.) http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule
I couldn't emphasize more, I hate it when websites do this. What are they possibly thinking! GRR it really grinds my gears.
Because the facts were incomplete in this given situation and instinct is an important facet of survival (be it your life or your sanity).
Family, friends, school, jobs and culture. (Where culture serves to strengthen group ties formed by family, friends, school and jobs.)
This still assumes a lot. It assumes the lib is in a maven rep, it assumes use of lien which isn't standard like gems at this point, and let's be honest, maven is a beast compared to gems.

You said that clojure is as easy as ruby for a noob. The simple fact is that it isn't, and you've essentially admitted as much.
There is nothing inherently wrong with consumption. Any strong economy must have a balance of consumption and savings (investment). Without consumption there is no income for businesses, and without investment there is no growth of businesses. Depending on the economic situation it can be beneficial for the government/Fed to either encourage increased consumption or investment. Giving poor people money is an excellent way to increase consumption because poor people tend to spend most of their income rather than save. In our current economic situation, with consumers cutting spending and thus causing businesses to cut production and jobs, giving away money to poor people would help to increase consumption and thus put people back to work. This is why government's around the world passed stimulus packages in the wake of the financial crisis. So don't demonize people for spending money, it's an essential part of our economy.
Fifa 2010 world cup’s techno safari-A look
How engaged should scientists be in policy?
You'd be my hero if you included tabs/chords. Your interface would be a great addition to what's otherwise a cesspool.
The part of Java that I hate is having to read a whole lot of documentation about features and libraries that I do not want to use, and will strive not to use, and that I may not even have to use, and that the best critics agree are ugly as sin and overdesigned and counterproductive, but which I still need to understand because they're the standards.

Which Java features and libraries do you need to learn how to use (even if you never need to use them) to get started in Clojure?

I ask this as someone who is completely unfamiliar with Clojure, not to be snarky. But from everything I've read, it has always sounded to me like you could get started in Clojure without knowing anything more about the Java environment other than the fact that your code is running of a JVM.
I would say "don't think he wants to do it" is more precisely "don't think he thinks he can do it". Speaking with those in charities helping the long term unemployed, I've heard the "I won't be able to/can't do this" phrase much more than "I don't want to do it". It seems to be more about self-belief and confidence than motivation. After all, no-one wants to be poorer than the norm and without work.
In what universe does this phone cost $1k or more?
The premise is bad as it assumes corporations have to act within today's legal framework, when in fact that's a human created framework, and when they did that changed how they'd worked until that date.

Corporations existed for decades with the public good at their heart (and were chartered for a specific, public oriented purpose). They were enterprises designed to create a good (or goods) that small businesses run in the sole-proprietorship could not, such as railroads, public works, and social institutions.

It is merely by a perversion of this, given by a gilded age supreme court decision, do we get the "You have to make profit or you can get sued" companies of today. This could entirely be changed via another supreme court decision or remaking the corporate sphere to allow non-money centric organizations.
There are many unspoken social rules surrounding money that I think both of you are overlooking. Possibly a main reason they haven't taken your money is that they realize that there is very good chance that they'll lose it all and have nothing to show at the end. They probably fear that the potential negative consequences this will have on your long term relationship is too great to risk taking the money.
I'm going to suggest Washington state. There is no income tax, the sales tax is reasonable, and you may find the rain helps you stay focused on coding. I would suggest somewhere around Bellingham, WA - you would be 90 mins north of Seattle and 90 mins south of Vancouver, BC.
Is philosophy irrelevant to general public?
That's actually a great idea! Now to find a tabs API (or build it into the site myself)

By the way, I find Ultimate-guitar.com to be pretty good most of the time.
The most obvious reason:

They are not stupid enough to think they will succeed.
Bill of Materials is not equal to cost but it wouldn't be a Techcrunch headline otherwise.
Working as a web developer in the education sector, this gives me a great deal cautious hope for the future. About 90% of our visitors use IE because they are students in the classroom.
in India

This may not translate well into the U.S., since India has a history of a strong caste system that enforced poverty. "Things could be different" was not true for the Harijans.
Much more than that. It explicitly exists to manage the news, to coordinate stories and to achieve "epistemic closure" of competing narratives (i.e. to shut down discussion of the inconvenient, as he tried to do by describing Congresscritter Bob Etheridge's assault of a "student" on the street questioner as a "hug" and then shifted the focus to the "Who Are You?" question).

Discussion of that based on leaked Weigel Journolist emails WRT to two incidents can be found e.g. here: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/25/the-overlooked-story-f...

It also serves as a method to connect young liberals to older ones for jobs, etc. As the Instapundit reports from a journalist reader of his blog:

"A friend who was on the List and works at a major newspaper told me recently, and I quote verbatim: “Journolist was basically a jobs program for liberals in DC.” This person said that it was used to link up the older, more established set with the younger up-and-comers, all to better staff newspapers, magazines, and institutions with liberals. And it is worth adding that this was said by a very liberal person who was not speaking the least bit apologetically."

(http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/101932/)

One can imagine the howls of protest of the existential threat to the Republic such a list would generate ... if it was populated by conservatives.
It's not always about physical survival. As for loosing the revolution, it's the other way around ;-)
Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization
What about entrepreneurs (who are currently getting hurt by inflation falling below the long term trend)? Why do they deserve to be punished while people holding cash don't?
or Ted Kaczynski?
I think we would all be better off just using an elastic ip address, and not using the dynamic address for public websites.

Also, the same problem applies to normal servers where the webserver is configured to show the website for the ip address, kind of like:

http://174.132.225.106/

which google also has picked up:

http://www.google.dk/search?q=site:174.132.225.106
I'd recommend SVG+VML...making an image chart startup may be a little like going into the horse-and-buggy industry just as the Model T is coming out.
Being remote might work but there are lots of Bay Area startups which won't let you work remotely - the only option is to move to USA but then there's the H-1B hell; so they just won't hire any foreigners.

Even Google, Y! and other big companies don't normally let you work remotely. There are of course some exceptions (superstar programmers like Lars Bak can usually do whatever they want because well they're superstars).
Suppose you get X bee stings (problems) in one day, and you have a bee string rate of Y per day normally. If you can only afford to buy cures at a rate of Z per day (let's be optimistic and assume it's greater then Y) it will take you X-(Z-Y) days to cure all your bee stings.

Now, a bee sting sucks, but it doesn't kill you. In fact, life without any bee stings is, let's say, Q times better then with. Yet, the difference between 1 bee sting and N bee stings is pretty much nil, they all hurt. The only real benefit occurs when you cross the threshold that lets you have no bee stings at the end of each day.

The theory, as I understand it, proposes that given a big enough X, a person with a small (Z-Y), won't bother with curing bee stings, regardless of Q.
Well, he did defend Rand Paul after the latter won his nomination and that's the best guess for the motive behind Weigel defenestration.

He's a liberal with some libertarian preferences, much as I'm a conservative with some libertarian and paleoconservative preferences.

He also was employed by Reason for a while, although one commentator to a Weigel thread archly noted that if you're in favor of marijuana decriminalization anything else goes on that magazine (which is I'm sure an exaggeration, but I dropped my subscription to it after a year or two in the late '90s because it was weak tea at best).
I don't know what it's like in the US, but here in Sweden unemployment is a high risk low return program to scam. You have to show up to regular meetings and show that you are actively looking for work, and if you're really unlucky the unemployment office will actually find you a job that you have to take or risk loosing unemployment. So as such you are much better scamming things like medical disability, which is at least as much money but a lot less work on your part.
Maybe in the future, but it sure seems like a disincentive to working. I would prefer we implement a flat-rate tax on income filed as individuals and not as a family. Something like a 20/20 (first 20k exempt then 20% of the rest). I am not sure about the actual numbers (sounds like a big data crunch through the IRS income reporting would be good).

Regardless of policy, it is very important to get as many people in the mode "I am paying for this government" so that fiscal responsibility is desired by most as opposed to a handout mentality.
While true - Clojure,with it's java dependencies, is a good few notches harder to figure out by brute force - or at least it feels that way.

I picked up Ruby basics in a weekend of hacking around. I know there are still some things to figure out re: gems and big project management... but none feel insurmountable.

Python - same deal.

Clojure, on the other hand - has all this buzz on the net, but it's just that-much-more-complex to make even a seasoned language n00b a bit put-off.
(if you don't have your head firmly around the java build process and basic librarires, it's hard to get past the repl in clojure)
It doesn't cost $188 to make; it costs $188 for a buckets of parts :)

the 32GB iPhone 3GS used to retail in Australia for around US$850 ex tax. Assuming Apple's usual margin of 20-30% (let's say 30), and allowing another $50/unit for support/warranty issues, that puts the cost at something like $560 each.
But were you still working for $900 month? You had to to make some additional change after you moved out again otherwise, regardless of your financial cushion, you would have fallen back into the same cycle. Did you change jobs? Re-evaluate and improve upon your current (past) skill-set while living w/ your parents? Go back to school?
You do not understand the fallacy of argument from authority. I did not engage in this. If you think what I did was an example of the fallacy of argument from authority then you must think that people who insist that the person who performs their heart surgery be a heart surgeon are also engaging in this fallacy.
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It's completely broken when viewed in Flock :(
IPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million
"But ultimately, he believes, the strength of his arguments is less in how they fit with the economic work that's been done to date on poverty - much of which he is suspicious of anyway - but in how familiar they feel to all of us, rich or poor."

I love this statement. I'm absolutely sure that the majority of theories to do with psychology/economics are based on intuition, much more than they are based on "hard facts" (because it's very hard to get hard data on these kinds of things). I'm happy he at least admits it.
I find it more impressive they were able to manage a culture full of alpha dogs and make a productive business out of it. I wouldn't consider this type of culture as one to implement in my own company.
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Dang, I did not know that. Thanks.
So many? isn't youtube the only one with a successful exit? I know linked in probably will, but the rest are unproven.
Right! But I still miss days when my turbo civic did nice burnouts.. I am getting older =)) And yeah - I broke 5 engines trying it to make it reliable daily driver turbo honda civic car. Didn't worked =) At least at low level budget.. Pretty close in comparison to WP serious site - until you redo it completely leaving only shell, you will not get right product. =)
Yes, you can find inexpensive land in the Santa Cruz mountains, but you have to be a little careful. One common reason why the land is cheap is that there is no pre-existing well or other easy access to water. If you have to drill a well, it can cost many thousands of dollars, and there is no guarantee of success.
The thing is, there's a difference between the poverty of a hunter-gatherer and the poverty of an urban family.

Some of it is being barefoot in a paved world covered with broken glass, but a lot more is connected to the enduring effects of poverty. A child raised in poverty then has fewer barriers to overcome- in fat times, even the worst hunter could be eating as well as the best. To say they're both in poverty because they lack shoes and clothing they don't need is missing the point.

Today, you have a huge number of knock on effects from e.g., lack of good schooling and "poverty decreasing" social networks that practically turn poverty into a personal attribute rather than a temporary state.
Need more description on the first page. Maybe the 4 easy steps from the other page?
1. Avoid copywriters. I know I'm contradicting someone else's comment, but copywriters don't help. What does help? Tracking software, split testing, and data. The copy writer could give you some copy that any logical person thinks would work, not knowing that statistically, it's not something people would ever click on. So, use the money you would spend on a copywriter and put it into more split testing.

So:
-Split text your ads.
-Use tracking software to do it.
-Don't assume you know what will work. Let the data decide (not a copywriter).
The exact degree of economic mobility might be a point of contention, but I see very little merit in the statement that "very few Americans get out of poverty" or "The American Everyman is very likely to die in the class into which he was born." The data says otherwise.
GMail predates GWT by at least 2 years.
This means that more and more people get attracted by easiness of WP installation (directly or through hosting panel). That's all. It doesn't mean that a lot of serious non-blog-sites run under WP.
A good point that Prof. George makes is that people do not raise similar issues with other similarly hard to understand realms, say physics or mathematics.

"The difference persists in part because to wonder about philosophical issues is an occupational hazard of being human in a way in which wondering about falling balls is not. Philosophical questions can present themselves to us with an immediacy, even an urgency, that can seem to demand a correspondingly accessible answer. High philosophy usually fails to deliver such accessibility and so the dismay that borders on a sense of betrayal."

Immediacy indeed! Suppose you are asked if you want to stop your father's pacemaker because he no longer knows who he is (this was a recent article in NYT). Or you have a premature baby with birth defects and you are asked if you want to "let her go" (happened to a close friend). Is it OK if I betray my wife just once (probably occurred to most of us)? I can list ten more from my immediate life, I bet you can do, too.

Of course, the problem people have with philosophy is that it provides no answers! It's a way to analyze problems, not answer them. Therefore it differs from all other sciences (does not use the scientific method) and mathematics (is not an axiomatic system, except for logic). This is why, so many people turn to religious fluff: the answers provided are not great but at least your question gets answered.
Really great idea, but most advanced whiteboard cleanup software includes perspective correction and things like that.. As far as I can tell this just is a color-scale modifier and sharpener.

However the idea behind the service, whiteboard cleanup via email, is pretty sound. I would love to have this with features that allow me to send the pic along with list of 'end product' recipients.

Need some https secured site as well for sensitive whiteboard snaps.
There would still be a comparatively huge variance in soccer if refereeing were perfect. Would chess be better if a random piece is removed at the start of the game? Perhaps it would if a grandmaster is playing against a newbie. But in a match between two top players? I don't think so.
Do not feed the troll.
That's a great question, and one that it's hard to find a clear answer to - and it's exactly the kind of thing that deters n00b programmers from jumping on the language.

I want to learn clojure, I don't really grok Java, and I'm not sure where to start - I don't have a clear explanation of how my clojure project fits into the JVM and how to build everything.

I wish examples would start without the repl, and instead write a simple "Hello world", turn it into a jar, and then expand on that, and then introduce the concept of the repl for iterative programming.

A clear explanation of where Clojure libraries sit in relation to Java libraries would help too.....
Twitter is the Vuvuzela of the Internet
Same on the iPhone
Yeah this seems like a great phase one offering. I'd love to see the features you describe plus maybe some line cleanup (make boxes into boxes), maybe OCR (with PDF return type), etc...
Lock-free vs. wait-free concurrency
MDs do research all the time. Some MDs are also phDs. Marshall himself was a doctor/researcher.
Summary: the court ruled narrowly on the patent in question (over-broad), while punting on the actual issue of "business methods" patents. Result (for everyone but the actual litigants in this case): no change from the status quo.
Expanding vocabulary when reading online is a huge advantage. A dictionary and wikipedia is just a click away.
If accessing your web server via .amazonaws.com does not make sense for you, why not just block (whether 403 or 404) all HTTP requests with a Host: *.amazonaws.com header, rather than messing around with rewrites and robots.txt?
This statement is deceptive -- it conflates movement into the second and middle quintiles.

The second quintile of American income is still very, very poor: $18k-$35k of household income. The median household is three people, with only one wage earner. (The second quintile of individual, wage-earner, income tops out at less than $25k.)

Movement from abject poverty into the second quintile is quite common. (Movement in the other direction is also common.) Going from zero to one wage-earner in a household can make that difference. Moving from destitution up to the middle (3rd) quintile is a much more difficult road.
Must all jobs create long term value and serve a basic human need?

I guess pretty much every job would serve a basic human need (to be employed) to someone who needs to be employed in order to make ends meet.

I guess what I'm trying to get at it is that your post read like someone trying to apply what they thought the world should be like and not how it actually is.

For example, if we have an excess of farmers that would be cleared up in the market as those not making enough income to continue being farmers would pack up and leave the occupation or try to get loans to maintain their employment long enough to weather the current conditions. The only time I see problems in employment is when an entity steps in to maintain a job when the market is already dismissing it.
My gut reaction to this article is that it mistakes a short-term trend for a long-term one. It seems to me that apps are a response to two factors: 1) Current browsers are not able to make use of all the added hardware going into mobile devices (though this is slowly changing). 2) Apple has been able to succeed with the App Store because they have an established relationship with customers through iTunes. It's almost frictionless to buy apps as if one is buying a cup of coffee. Nobody has managed to crack this nut in the general sense for web applications through the browser. You might pay a dollar for a game in the App Store, but most people are not going to enter their credit card info and address into some random flash game website for the exact same game. That's too much friction for something that has such a low value, and there's too much downside that they will do something sneaky with your info. Anyone who solves that issue in the general sense for web apps (if it's solvable) will make a killing.
Well... If you include the money you'll spend for being in contract for the next two years, you're probably well over $1000. But, I don't think the OP was trying to say the down payment on the phone alone costs $1000.
Thanks, and yes, the mvp was basic pic cleanup via email. Things like user accounts and on-line storage are on the plan.

As far as forwarding, how would you like that to work? Configure on the site? Put them in the Subject line? To keep down on spam I'd have to require an account for that kind of feature.

Thanks for trying it out.

Kyle