skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are extremely insightful, but cheap labor (#5) should be moved up to #1. It could possibly stand alone. I know a lot of budding entrepreneurs and hackers who can survive on 20 hours a week at a typical job, which frees up so much time for work. I guarentee that each of these areas has done some sort of government speding other than the military, education, and life sciences sectors to boost it as well.
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I was surprised not to see Denver on the list. Unemployment in the Denver metro has been pretty good throughout. I can't imagine more money has been spent in Medical than at CU's new medical center (it's an enormous complex that is nearly constantly expanding).

Cost of living is higher I suppose. It certainly doesn't line up with my actual experience. I have extensive ties to Little Rock, and I just don't see any way that it's anyone can consider it a "stronger" city in any possible measure. Unemployment has been sky high, and continues to be a real challenge there (I have 5 or 6 college degree holding friends that have unemployed for more than 12 months). In Denver everyone I know has a job.

I'd love to see more about their methodology.
Semirelated question: are there any good interest groups, mailing lists, or forums for tech people working in the travel vertical? I've been doing travel-related stuff since 2004 and I still don't have any good industry contacts.
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*I forgot to include that I live in the Oklahoma City area, which is how I know the 20hr/wk people. Myself included.
Would also be interested in this as well. tlack, what do you do specifically?
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For what it's worth (and I know you don't care) each of those verses have a historic context in which they were invoked.

It's a hamfisted critique at best, and utterly ridiculous when you consider that it is being made by someone who has the good fortune not to see the violence being done in his own name.

Ignoring historical context for cheap political points is a rhetorical tool for deceivers, not hackers.
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But in order to keep that person you have to make a chaotic environment. Who wants to deliberately have crushing debt?

It's more like if you're already a loser, you can use some of that to your advantage by dragging someone else down with you.
I believe it is because the Milestone is on more than one carrier. Verizon and Motorola Worked together on the Droid's software and they streamlined the process because the Droid is only through Verizon, but the milestone is, for the most part, carrier independent. Even though it isn't to one single carrier I believe Motorola still works with carriers to make sure the phone updates don't brake anything. Also, Motorola have done their part with the Milestone by selling it, and they probably dont make any money with ongoing support, unlike verizon, who want to keep their contracted users happy.

Thats my opinion of it anyway. and i own a UK Milestone.
That's more cost-of-living than cheap labor is it not? When they're talking about cheap labor I suspect their not really talking about professionals either. The Baton Rouges, Little Rocks, and yes Oklahoma Cities of the world also have a much lower rate of college education in common. They have large swaths of blue collar workforce willing to work for cheap. I know, for instance, that a couple of overseas car manufacturers have opened up plants in Arkansas for this very reason.
I had a concentration in Human Geography in college. Essentially it was the analysis of populations as effected by economics, politics, the enviroment, space and place, and how they are all connected in explicit and implicit ways. With the exception of the public speaking aspect, I feel that course of study slightly encompasses the topic in the referred post.
I actually like Google Instant a lot. If I don't know exactly what I'm looking for - lets say I'm looking up some obscure HRESULT error handling thing, which I was - I can basically play with my query in real-time. It makes it much faster to do this kind of digging.
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Fresh off an internship myself, I can attest to the benefit of having a side project. Primary projects often do get hung up, and with nothing else to work on, interns are left venturing off into places unknown. Some predetermined side projects would prevent a lot of downtime, something that's vital when one only has ten or so weeks to work.
I think you are correct with that one. I was thinking cost to maintain as a freelance or entrepreneurial hacker rather than traditional laborers.
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It's nice to be optimistic, but we can't just assume that all of the problems we have today will be fixed be some 'mircale' technology tomorrow, so there is no need or drive to fix them now.
That's more-or-less the point of the two tracks. To put in in a frame that will be familiar to most of the readers here, the study of computability (computer science) is a fascinating theoretical pursuit that has some practical application in the real world, but that theoretical base is often glossed over in the rush to produce "qualified" programmers. Here, at least, the coder stream is in one track (with a sound theoretical base), while the mathematical and electrical engineering streams are in the other. There's nothing preventing a computer scientist from learning to code, nor is there anything keeping a diploma-toting programmer from pursuing mathematics further, it's just far less likely that a kid going into a computer science program is going to expect to emerge from the program as a code monkey or that one entering a programming stream will be wondering when the damned algebra is going to end.
Wow. After reading the OP's article and your follow up link... gah.

This hits terribly close to home in my recent (though now past) life.

Glad to be (largely) free of that though, these days.
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I like that -- one of my favorite TI-83 games. Here's my js1k entry (-:

http://js1k.com/demo/283
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I think we agree less than you think :)

We won't come up with some magic replacement for oil, unless ITER is successful, and we manage to adapt the fusion principle to a scale small enough for transportation use, but that's not something I would bet on at this stage.

More likely we'll see incremental change together with market forces reshape our society in a way that we can currently not predict.

My best guess would be more nuclear (pebble bed?), more solar, more wind, more oil from weird places and much more conservation efforts driven by prices that you can (probably) not imagine today.

In Europe a Gallon of gasoline sells for ~$6 today, imagine what would happen to the US if it had a gas prices that high.
Oh come on.

Silverlight let you do things like take a code fragment from HTML page, interpret it and let it execute commands against browser's DOM. (See: http://www.silverlight.net/learn/dynamic-languages/).

DojoX GFX (similar to Rapchaël) emulates even SVG drawing using Silverlight object.

And Flash let's you call any Javascript function from ActionScript and an ActionScript function from Javascript.

You must be dreaming up those walls. Or is it just FUD spreading?
I understand that Zynga is relatively good at what they do. But as a company I do not trust them at all. Just with the amount of spam advertising they do purely on Facebook it would not surprise me at all to see them sell your information to third parties.
As brought up in the Reddit thread, this is about getting the new version that has the fix into debian, not 'should we fix this or not.'
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Interested in this too.
"If somebody is investing time, resources, and energy into convincing you of your own worthlessness, that same somebody has revealed to you that they have a lot to lose if you don’t believe them. They’re protecting their own loss of power."

From related article: http://www.fugitivus.net/2010/06/10/on-interpersonal-badness...
It's a bit spooky when an article/link you've read a while back turns up on the front page of HN with quite some discussion around it.

Especially because the link is the :visited colour, and you have to go there just to confirm that what you'd read before remains the same :)
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Yes. This is exactly what the internet needs.
Wow. Several of my favorite app ideas explicitly prohibited. Especially disappointed about:

4.2 Apps that use location-based APIs for automatic or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft, or other devices will be rejected

11.3 Apps using IAP to purchase physical goods or goods and services used outside of the application will be rejected
I'd imagine this happens a lot with new ideas. Back in the day, people couldn't fathom having a mobile phone. Now, many people can't fathom not having the internet (myself included) where ever they go.
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The 2 rules they highlighted about location-based APIs stuck out to me:

> 4.2 Apps that use location-based APIs for automatic or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft, or other devices will be rejected

I'm not sure why that's there, first of all. Maybe they're afraid they'd be liable if the vehicle crashed?

Also, as I understand it, that doesn't prevent you from having directly control of a vehicle, like with buttons to change speed and tilting to turn it. Only if you want to use GPS or the like (so I guess sticking an iPhone in the autonomous vehicle and using those coordinates to help you steer it, or something).

> 4.3 Apps that use location-based APIs for dispatch, fleet management, or emergency services will be rejected

Once again, I have no idea why that's there. And those applications of location-based APIs seem like they'd be very useful. For example, Ubercab would probably count as using location-based APIs for fleet management.
I would be surprised if it was anymore than an ingenious marketing move by Rackspace. This nut job, with his gunslinger beard, has been the fastest growing piece of WORLD news this month so far. Obama, Petraeus, Clinton, The Pope, and even Angelina Jolie have shared their voice.

If I were the church's Gardener, I would've gone on the news and said the same thing too and my phone would be ringing off the hook.
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It really is a great community. The django-user mailing list and #django on freenode are very newbie-friendly. I would recommend lurking on both and picking up a lot of best practices by osmosis, then asking questions when you get in a bind.
Very interesting. This describes my coursework at Stanford almost exactly.

My major was STS (Science, Technology, and Society) with a minor in psychology. Then I studied sociology in grad school.

What I focused on was social influence, persuasion, and behavioral change. I took courses on negotiation, deception, cults, magic, minority influence, organizational development, group dynamics, arbitration, personality/social psychology, persuasive technology, and a ton more. I was a researcher in the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab for years.

And I mixed it with practical applications of negotiations in the field.

The coursework has helped me dramatically in understanding the motivations, attitudes, and behaviors of others.

I still remember one of my Comm professors talking about how other technical disciplines tend to look down on areas like psych/comm. She said something I'll never forget: "The value isn't in the difficulty of the material, but the usefulness."

I use my social psychology background in my work with people on iwillteachyoutoberich every day.
If you reverse the "shall not"s then this sounds like a fairly current Android developers guide.

I'm joking. I'm joking...
This seems like a semi-pointless change. Although craigslist might not return this feature, someone else will. As the internet tends to act like a hydra.
I think the AAA app uses the APIs for dispatch and emergency services. Odd
If you can squeeze it to under 1k you might want to add it to the js1k contest!
"Remember commercial UNIXes? Neither do I. Linux and Free/Open/NetBSD relegated them to a very tiny niche market."

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but OS X is a commercial UNIX and isn't what I would call a "very tiny niche market". Just sayin. :-)
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When I first watched the Google Chrome OS announcment, I was very excited. It could bring about a paradigm shift in computing that was started by the iPad. The web browser centric device (web touch or keyboard/mouse).

If this article is right, what is taking Google so long to bring it to market? They have the software, the hardware is a know quantity. There is some question about the wireless connectivity. (will the device follow the Kindle Model or the iPad model or just be wifi)
It looks like plenty of that could easily apply to any marketing education.
Has anyone ever put together a list of female YC founders and their companies? Also, is the trend for female YC founders to be solo-founders?
It is much easier to improve when you can look at a faster implementation and think hard about why they are faster.
I like what Fred Brooks says here, something along the lines of: Be prepared the throw the first one away since you will anyhow.
Agreed.

(Typical advisor compensation is 0.1%-2%, depending on the stage and the value provided.)
This seems like pretty twisted advice if you ask me. Maybe the only redeeming thing in the post is understanding power-hungry people so you don't fall for their traps. Though that's a bit depressing because sometimes what you study "to try to avoid" is what you become. <rant>As an example, some people study all the bad crap going on in the world, and they do it all the time. They study the power-brokers in high places doing shady deals. They look deeply into conspiracies -- some of which are probably true. They look at the deep and dark parts of the world; always justifying with things like, "if I don't understand these things how can I be a part of the solution?" Sometimes they get sucked in though to all the crap and they become some of the most depressing, annoying people. While it's true that you need to understand the dark parts of the system in order to fix them, it's important to remember balance.</rant>

edit: I suppose the relationship version of my example is those who are afraid to trust others and have happy relationships because they are focused on the dark and scary things that have happened to them in the past by those who have taken this post's advice and other similarly poor advice, or bad things that they've heard have happened to others, etc. Reminds me of something attributed to Shakespeare, “A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero only one.” It's almost always better to look at the bright side, because you will probably end up having a few great relationships, than to look at the negative, and definitely have none. Easier said than done....
there are two effects, the lean and the trail. A front-steering bike with trail is self-correcting through both effects. A rear-steering bike with trail will correct itself to a straight line as long is it is perfectly vertical, but will be unstable as soon as it leans. When it leans, it will go into a hard turn and collapse.
There are front-drive recumbents, but there are no rear-steering two-wheeled recumbents (it is possible to address the lack of lean stability on a tricycle configuration).
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ is one I can think of.
Ask HN: Who are your favourite essayists?
Like many people, I discovered HN after reading several of PG's essays. I'd like to hear HNers recommendations for other essayists, especially essayists who aren't the usual tech suspects (PG, Clay Shirky, etc).

For example, a favourite essayist of mine is
John McPhee, a long-time New Yorker staff writer. McPhee's writings don't seem to be online, but collections of his essays can be found in any good bookstore. I especially enjoyed "A Roomful of Hovings", a superb profile of a former curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and "The Curve of Binding Energy", a profile of Ted Taylor, one of the most brilliant designers in the US nuclear weapon program, and also the visionary behind Project Orion (using nuclear power for interplanetary travel). A good place to start is the "John McPhee Reader" (http://www.amazon.com/John-McPhee-Reader/dp/0374517193); I was skeptical when I picked it up on a friend's recommendation, but found that I couldn't put it down.
SEOcockpit: http://seocockpit.com is also good. They start at $10 /mnth. I've no affiliation with them whatsoever, but I've used the service.

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Many of the problems you name have little or nothing to do with lack of funding. You can't fix poverty by throwing money at it. At least, nobody has ever managed to do it.
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The link 404'd for me, but it works without the campaign_id:
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sorry mate, but Nokia did! 150 years old and 50% market share
2 suggestions:

1. Here are some good books on psychology (specifically behavioral change): http://astore.amazon.com/iwillteachyou-20?_encoding=UTF8&...

2. Hang out with persuasive friends. Try to understand the meta-lessons of what they do. You can ask them, but often people don't have cognitive access to explain what they do, so sometimes you'll just have to observe.

When you combine theory with practice, you can get powerful results.
Is that what amichail is asking? It sounds like he's wondering why they don't just show the results updating with every letter you type, while not even bothering to show the dropdown predictive list of queries you may be typing.
Complaining does not work. Competition does. Apple finally has some so they are making developers happy before they all leave for android. Android is getting damn well polished.
I'm not hopping between 2 arguments, I'm explaining how they meet the 55% bar, (85% of all paid app sales for all mobile phones are sold on the Apple AppStore, so they clearly are meeting marketshare requirements if the government wants to prosecute), and how they do actually have pricing power, which is merely responding to your arguments.

So you're saying if Toyota only ran on gas with a certain additive, and 85% of all gas sales were for Toyota cars, the company who had control of the additive wouldn't be possibly considered a monopoly?

The cost of the phone and the contract which locks you into a carrier makes this a much bigger deal then you think it is, and very possibly does give the FTC pause (among restraint of trade arguments as well).

I mean, this case was sustained past summary judgement: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-A...

And people in Washington were talking about investigating (although not necessarily on AT basis).http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCW...

You're trying to argue they're not a monopoly, and I'm saying it's at least close enough that could become a finding of fact for the judge/jury in a court case to decide, which is likely close enough to make the company back off its more onerous behaviors to avoid the expense of that sort of case.

I honestly think the restraint of trade issues are much bigger than the AT ones, but that wasn't what this thread was about.
Doesn't seem to work for me, presumably because the rest of my family have their language set to Swedish... :(
One of the most underrated elements in design, is simplicity.

I don't think it's very underrated anymore.
"I'm not really sure what WPFs future is. It's great technology, but the desktop is increasingly niche."

This scares me as someone who likes the idea of WPF, considering alternatives are javafx (not open either, but not being actively updated), and for, only recently adobe flex.

What do one use when they want to make a desktop app with decent ux that needs to talk to hardware? Go back to using java/swing? Native client (hah!)? Flex only started to support native processes a few months ago.

Ideally I'd love to see the ideas behind WPF open up a bit if support diminishes.
A good companion to bugmenot. Thanks :)
If it concerns the third world then it sounds like it'll be addressing infrastructure and survival. I hope this succeeds where others have failed.
Ask HN: Are there any investors that read HN?
Besides PG, are any HN readers investing in startups?
Well, it wasn't really 10-fold. Also, it didn't just mean buying more servers, as maybe most of the work was done in software: this is another feature made possible by the recent Caffeine expansion: http://mashable.com/2010/06/08/google-rolls-out-its-new-and-...
I'm an INTJ. INTJ wins these polls everywhere I've been on the internet. Allegedly only one percent or so of the population is INTJ.

This could be since my interests tend to attract lots of people like me, or because INTJ isn't actually that rare, or because internet forums as a whole attract a disproportionate number of INTJs. Perhaps the true reason is something else, though.
Please send me an email at your convenience. (The offer is still open to the OP if you can expand on this list.)
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Video Games Development is done exactly like that :)
A different way to say it might be "least practiced".
It's depressing how much of that matches up with personal experience.

My first job right out of school had points 1 through 9 covered. It was only when I managed to get out that I realized I was right on the edge of a burnout. After leaving I felt like a weight was lifted off of me and I could breathe again. It felt like I had been holding my breath for months.

I was lucky because on top of 1 through 9 they also massively underpaid so when someone else came along offering nearly twice as much for more interesting work (which never materialized but that's another story) it was easier to jump ship. 500-1000$ bonuses a few times a year will let you massively underpay naive people for quite a long time.

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The one point that I've seen at every single job I've ever had is a combination of "Things will be better when..." and "Keep real rewards distant.". The former is almost always used as a justification for reneging on vague allusions to future bonuses, promotions, team or personal growth or whatever.

I've grown cynical enough that anything promised (though it's rarely a promise, it's usually more of a comforting insinuation) for more than a month in the future I assume will never materialize. I'm almost always right.