skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take a step back.

I didn't (intend to) take issue with any part of jessriedel's post. Clearly I misspoke in my reply and people were confused. My intent was to concede his point: I was not providing evidence about what unemployment looks like. I provided nothing more than my own opinion. We all agree on that.

And I'm truly not interested in trying to solve political problems on the internet, so I invited him to sate his own curiosity as to what unemployment looks like. You're either interested in the issue and thus need to do your own research or you're not. If I'd used Google to scare up a link or two, that should not be sufficient for any critical and skeptical thinker.

Feel free to disagree with my characterization of unemployment all you like. I invite you to. But please note that you only disagree with me, because I didn't provide any more evidence than Greenspun did.

And then hopefully you'll take a moment to wonder why you're complaining about my lack of evidence, but not Greenspun's.
I've thought about this too. Amazon sold millions of Kindles this past holiday shopping season.. Why? I personally know 6 people who got Kindles or Nooks in the last month.

It would be interesting to know what contributed to their 'overnight' success. Perhaps there's something magic about the $139 price point, which I suspect is about what a serious reader might spend on paper books every year anyway (Nobody has better data on this than Amazon)..

Also there weren't really any other big ticket, must have items this holiday season - no game consoles launching.

Like I said, it would be really interesting to know why this transition happened so suddenly, and why now..
What about the VS editor do you find confusion and painful? Not counting project-related issues (e.g. knowing what project settings to twiddle and how to do so can be difficult to figure out).
For me the most important thing was learning to add a 'j' at the end of each macro and running it multiple times. So lets say you want to crack open an array that looks like this:

$address = array(
'name' => '',
'line1' => '',
'line2' => '',
'state' => '',
'country' => '',
'postcode' => '',
);

That's a lot of commas and quotes etc. Nowadays I usually punch this into vim:

name
line1
line2
state
country
postcode

Then I start on the first line and record a macro that wraps that word in quotes, then appends hashrocket, quotes, comma, and then moves to the next line. Run the macro 5 times with 5@<register> and the you get your array.
Hmm...I agree to disagree. I think the best companies start with an idea. It may not be a product idea, but a goal (ie: let's bridge the gap between technology and social = facebook).

The best products aren't slapped together using existing solutions. They are built from the ground up to solve a problem. If your company is building a solution to solve a specific problem, you are a great company.
Cloud 2?
I found learning about things like caloric theory, and the ways it was dis-proven, in physics rather enlightening since it gives great insight into the evolution of scientific knowledge and the general workings of the scientific method.
"disclosure: I burned my boat"

made me laugh :) I burned mine too!
It was all of the above for me, quite a rare combination. I think I'm going to read the whole blog and I have no idea how I did not come across it before.
It's doable at Oxford as well, though not terribly common.
My point was that if you age adjust the numbers you no longer have the top 20% owning 90% of everything, you have the top 20% owning around 50% of everything, which is a lot less shocking.

Age adjusting these numbers takes it from "oh my god we live in an oligarchy!" to "meh, that's not so bad."

edit: I quickly glanced at the wikipedia article, I couldn't easily find any age vs. net worth numbers. I got my numbers from the Federal Reserve Consumer Finances Survey (it was titled something like that...)
I don't think that it is the benefits of unbridled consumption that have people down. It is true that we live in a time that has amazing medicine, food, and communication.

The problem is that the oil, plastic, space for garbage, fertilizer for food, etc - the resources that our "amazing world" depends on - may not be unlimited. The depression sets in when you realize that with adequate foresight we could have enough amazing to get the benefits but without running our society into the ground; if only people had such foresight.

For most of the "conspiracy-nut losers" I think that your conjecture about the rubes and the sages makes sense. But for the thoughtful minority who believe in technology and consumption but also fear the excess of greedy monopolists, there is a real pearl of concern, it seems.
Sony's Next Gen Hand Held
Apple's China store generates highest traffic/profit
Thanks for the fiddler tip - I also use Wireshark for most of my debugging needs and https always causes problems.
I think you may be mistaken

Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. Since the beginning of the year, for every 100 paperback books Amazon has sold, the Company has sold 115 Kindle books. Additionally, during this same time period the Company has sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books. This is across Amazon.com’s entire U.S. book business and includes sales of books where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the numbers even higher.
rosettacode.org perhaps.
I've seen the effects of "rational social planning" by the enlightened and would rather go with the flawed individual freedom crowd.
.NET

Personally, the god-awful slow file switching, frequently-incorrect highlighting, almost totally worthless JavaScript, ASP, and ASP server-side code support, XML comments with no built-in documentation builder nor viewer, text-column editing that's a total joke, and the always-helpful "too many warnings" error are my most recent peeves.

I hate VS. With a passion. I cannot believe that such a painful-to-use program is held up as the pinnacle of programming experiences.

So why do I use it? Because .NET defies logic; framework-wide intellisense is the only way to do anything in it. Give me almost any other language/framework and in a few days I can get by almost entirely with a programming text editor and occasional official-documentation browsing. Several months into .NET code, I still Google more than I MSDN, StackOverflow more than .NET-developer-blog, and the massive style inconsistencies between different sections of the library mean I cannot go into any new area without Visual Studio to hold my hand and kick me in the nuts.
Hmm what gives? Sony actually allowing android games to run on their device? Am I dreaming? Or is it just their ploy to get more android developers writing for them?
Scaling mysql to 25,000 INSERTS per second
The word "Socialcam" looks a lot like "Socialism."
But your vim has to be compiled with clipboard support. I use gvim for just this reason for all but basic editing (for which I just fire up vim).
Career Calculus -- Be a first derivative developer
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Hey Zachallaun,

Appreciate the feedback, new to hacker news and I titled it that way because of the sentence "What amazes me is how poorly crafted many of these presentations are." Apologize if it wasn't best practice.

Agree that the number 4 bullet seemed vague. The way I read "value" was "cheapness" rather than creating value-add, but I might be reading it wrong.
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Why would he say the opposite, that they are fiercely competing with Apple and Facebook?

If there aren't many reasons, then this statement is akin to the commonplace that someone stepped down to spend more time with his family. No doubt there are people who have genuinely stepped down for that reason, but nevertheless...
gvim has menus and the keyboard-reinforcing shortcut hints. Also, you can copy/paste with other windows (which is why I started using it over vim).
And this can run on all your cores (I don't know if it does as shown but it would be a command-line param to ghc if not), and is "async" without requiring the commandProcessor function to be broken into two or three separate functions by hand; instead it just says what it does and does what it says and you don't have to worry about it.
HTML5: FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE
On a somewhat related note, I have banned myself from Facebook for the past month now. I'm working full time on my startup and I felt that Facebook was a waste of precious time in my day.

And boy, was I right.

My productivity has been fantastic. I feel energized and motivated to work 16 hours a day. I honestly don't think I've ever been happier in my life.

I've come to realize that Facebook is a distraction...a distraction from your real life; what's actually important.

Yet over 1 in 4 pageviews in the US are hitting Facebook's website. Millions of people everyday are sitting in front of a screen trying to socialize online.

How sad does that sound??
A couple of ideas off the top of my head...

Location Groups:

-I might shop at 3 different grocery stores. Let me group them together and nickname them, so that when I arrive at any one of the locations, I am reminded of a task.

Traveling Salesman Tasks:

-Track my path taking habits. Bring up traffic data and the next time I'm headed on a path toward a location that's in my history, show me how bad traffic is along my path.

I have a ton more ideas but I suggest you stay simple like Dropbox. Personally, I think taskave is a niche tool in my GTD workflow. That's okay though. It fits those tasks that don't necessarily fit into a particular project or context (in the GTD sense of those words). I always bundle those under "miscellaneous" or "errands" and it gets old very fast. Keep it simple. You don't have to keep on adding features. Even the ones I mentioned above might be pushing it.
Offtopic, but do you find this especially offensive? (The GP's quote was "Yeah, we are getting raped either way").

If "fucked" was substituted for "raped", would you still be offended? What about "violated"? "shat on"? "murdered"?

I'm trying to determine whether it's the content of the metaphor, the language, or something else which is offensive. (FWIW, my friends use "raped" a lot, and I sense that some are offended by it, so I'm trying to distinguish why.)
You don't even need an idea at all. All you need is to find a crossroads where two fields intersect and that has not been discovered by anybody else. Those crossroads are discovered, not invented and every time a new field is made by someone with a new idea a thousand new crossroads instantly spring up.

Remember when 'on the internet' was the only thing changed in all those patent applications compared to what was going on before then? Suddenly appending 'on the internet' to something made it worth investigating. New fields open up all the time, if you're observing new findings in popular science it's very hard to not see opportunities enough for several lifetimes to scroll by in a single sitting of reading. Whether they're worth pursuing is another thing but the opportunities are there for the taking, no need to have a good idea or any at all to get off the ground.

Another way to start a great company that is pretty effective is to take an idea that already exists and simply do a better job of it.
That's where the wikipedia numbers come from. If you look at the 'distribution of wealth' heading, skip to the graph, and go to the big giant table, you'll see them.

And we're apparently just going to have to disagree, unless you can find some numbers and scale them yourself. I'm still not sure how age is a significant differentiator, and on top of that, it doesn't matter if the people who own everything are old or not. They still own everything.
And don't forget eclim, a Vim front-end for Eclipse (or an Eclipse back-end for Vim):

http://eclim.org/
I like and use it, but it's based on reverse-engineering Pandora's encryption keys, so every once in awhile (when Pandora changes the keys), it breaks the client, which is annoying.
The Indian UID project is very interesting to me, as the work they are doing is done on an enormous scale. There are other systems which reach this scale, and arguably are more complex than this (Facebook for example), but it is still impressive.

"By 2014, the government wants half of India’s population to be allotted UID numbers. To do that, the Authority will photograph a staggering 600 million Indians, scan 1.2 billion irises, collect six billion fingerprints and record 600 million addresses."

Read more: http://business.in.com/article/big-bet/uidai-inside-the-worl...

A friend of mine, Srikanth Nadhamuni, leads the technical development from the Indian government side and it is really rather interesting to talk about the implications for this system with him.

One aspect which doesn't get much coverage is that they are going to use the UID system to facilitate very inexpensive money transfers for people. This is in a country where a lot of people, maybe even most of them (hundreds of millions of people) don't actually have a bank account at all today.

Another aspect which is interesting is that the team started the development in a way which would be very familiar to many HN readers. They worked out of an apartment in Bangalore, where several team members lived as well as worked, in a true startup atmosphere. Software companies, like MS and Goggle would show up with teams and end up sitting around the kitchen table or on the spare bench from the hallway to participate in sessions where the project was being discussed.

They have software volunteers, expat-Indians, coming in from all over the world to work on the project, the top level people behave just like any other software startup entrepreneur you would expect, sitting up to 4am in the morning doing code reviews, walking into a room and asking: How's it going? Not the usual bureaucratic India you would expect.

If I wasn't working on what I work on right now I would probably have been a volunteer on the project myself, if they would have had me that is. :)
isn't speeding up and increasing the reach of bullying making bullying more powerful then? maybe a bad comparison: but isn't that like saying the truck didn't change the way we move stuff, it just allowed us to move more things, quicker.
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Facebook, on the other hand, "has clearly stated they don't want to get into the search business. Facebook users tend to use Google search. Facebook's ads business does not displace our advertising. I'm somewhat perplexed by the obsession because I don't think the facts support it. Things are going great for Google."

I'm not sure if this means Google still doesn't 'get' social. But I'm very disappointed to hear this...
If I am hungry and have no money for food I might be more motivated to go get a job.

If I have someone giving me money every week, that I can use to buy food, I might be less motivated to look for a job.
The real problem isn't even that they're charging by the gigabyte (although they are, and I strongly dislike it).

No, the REAL problem is that they preferentially exclude their own services from these charges/caps.

For example: If you get Bell's IPTV offering (in Canada), do you really think they're going to cap your consumption? What about Rogers on Demand? Is that subject to the same caps?

The answer is no, making their services more attractive than competitors like Netflix.

Ergo, the only solution is separation of concerns. Providers of pipe should not be providers of content. Ever.
> as long as you're only going to be coding on Windows.

In the past, I've used VS for editing PHP, which I then deployed to the server using a keyboard shortcut.

I understand what you're saying, but I want to point out that VS can be used as an editor even when the target platform isn't MS.
come on, we all know that at the end of the day you have to make money.
Tags are a great idea -- we've heard that from a few people now.

Thanks, jolan!
I'm curious as to why this necessitates a new app. Justin.tv is a pretty strong brand, why not wrap this functionality into the existing app?

Not that I would do it differently, there's dozens of reasons, but it's a blog post I would want to read.
I recognize the diversity of the human experience and I understand that not everybody would be happy living my ideal life. This respect for the choices of my fellow humans often puts me out of step with passionate idealists who feel contempt for folks who live in a manner outside their dogmatic parameters.

Living in Silicon Valley while growing up in the South East, being an Atheist and coming from a religious family, being a programmer and rubbing shoulders with MMA fighters and fans, and associating with Indians, Chinese, Europeans, Israelis, South Americans, and Africans in school has reduced my instinct to judge people who live according to systems of values different from mine. I guess I am broken in that way.
Web app helps cancer patients determine best treatment option
Thanks for your thoughts. We'd like to keep it simple, too.
It's administrative borders. Russia is considered a European country.
Welcome to the current world of web 2.0. Justin.tv will either figure out how to become profitable or will be bought out by an already profitable company. Probably the latter, but time will tell. Either way their technology is worth millions and that would be a hot sell.

I have a lot of respect for Justin.tv's founders/team. If you're going to be pessimistic, please be pessimistic because of a valid point. HN is a great community and I really enjoy the people who post on here...I want it to stay that way!
I'd drop you an email to say hi but your HN profile is empty :)
Firesheep doesn't steal passwords, it grabs cookies used for authentication. The distinction is important because with firesheep, simply putting your login page on https isn't sufficient.

Stealing passwords is of course also trivial, but to do that you need to force a situation where the user has to actually log in again (see Moxie Marlinspike's sslstrip..., which will nail the majority of people even if the site normally does use https for everything. Really bloody effective.)
Why not just wait and see what its all about before we knock it down? It could be a revolutionary new way of sharing experiences. I for one am optimistic.
The one position every startup needs- Secret Weapon #2
This was a just a quick blurb on my thoughts around HTML5 and how it impacts mobile from the perspective of the big boys. I definitely think that Facebook and Google come out stronger if the web and it's links keep working the way they do now. The nodes at the end of those links need to be more capable, but the web as a network is what needs to remain strong and open. The one ruler model that Apple has won't scale. The financial markets for one, from angel investors up to the public markets won't tolerate a 30% tax on innovation.
It's an incredibly fragmented market. There's plenty of competition, but the biggest players in property management software (http://www.realpage.com and http://www.yardi.com) have less than 10% of the market.
Do you think going to Babson made you a better entrepreneur? I know they have a good reputation as such, I was just wondering about your experience.
What a coincidence - I am in the middle of this book right now.

It is a fantastic book backed up with tangible examples (psychology studies, mainly), and if you are in the business of persuading customers, I suggest you grab a copy. It covers most of the content from the Psychology 331 (Social Psychology) course I took at university, and is a worthwhile read.
At last, public investors can get in on the PayPal mafia’s racket
Absolutely! Email me at ericsimons@es40.net :)
You* shouldn't trivialize a term and crime like "rape" - and doing it makes you look like a clueless, insensitive asshole, because there might be a rape victim who reads and hears you.

Feel free to say "fuck", "shit", etc. for all I care.

*The grammatically general "you".
Yep, I think consolidation in the Ruby IDE space will be a good thing. All the super elite people are using VIM / Emacs, and all the lazy people like me are still using Textmate. If RubyMine can develop a decent size community around it (with plugins, snippets, colors, etc), I'd definitely use it.

They really have to speed it up though. Feels like slogging through mud when compared to TextMate. Not sure if its possible given their java codebase.
Obama Barraged By Pot Questions For Youtube Town Hall
Killer Text: A Russian suicide bomber blows up by accident
If you're not sure what to do, then I'd suggest backing off. While I appreciate you want to find the cause you might be out of your depth. There's plenty of professional companies that could deal with something like this to audit the code for badware.

Disclaimer: I run one of said companies in Europe, but am not putting it forward here. If you're in the states you might want to give a company like Trustwave or Matasano a call.
They've been bought by AppCelerator so I highly doubt their longterm focus is going to be on Ruby. Will probably mainly be Javascript (to support Titanium Mobile)
I still didn't recognize any of them, but it probably says more about me than the programme or the entrepreneurs. Good luck!
Go to http://www.youtube.com/worldview to view questions and sort by "All Questions" to view top questions.
The scale of the application affects how much you can really do just by adding indexes to tables and throwing more hardware at it.

At a certain point, servers are only so fast and disks only so large and fast.
They should stick to products like this. I'm wondering what will happen to justin.tv after the upcoming UFC court case ? Or will the case go the way of Viacom vs. YouTube ?
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Long and Short of Calcium and Vitamin D
Sounds like many of the major social web companies (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) are going to be filing for IPOs within the next year or two...kind of peculiar, no?
You must consider too that many entrepreneurs start several businesses through out the course of their lives. For each attempt, an entrepreneur would increase his/her chances at attaining wealth by 5%, no?
Jeff Bezos: “We Had Our First $10 Billion Quarter”
Either they don't get it, or their external message is all you're hearing.

If they're not worried about Facebook, they're silly. If Facebook reinvents search (ie, search+trust-web = social search), Google just became Yahoo.
Nope, holidays, flights, hotels. Not controversial at all.