skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big advantage I see from a weekend of coding is that (using the Funnel idea of work processes) you really move down the funnel very quickly to focus on a clear result (and then if it doesn't work, move back up the funnel until you see a better focus, or start a new funnel).

It would be a lot harder to pull that off fifteen times in a row (but the results would be great if you could)
I mean people aren't going to take a cut in the standard of living, and has that been to social contract all this time? That sounds like some plebeian system. I thought it was trying to equalize tax "burden", not some creepy subsidization program.
You and I aren't saying the same thing. The occasional 30 hour week is the consulting fact of life called "utilization rate". Consulting firms don't get to balance out utilization with overtime. You don't make up the 30 hour weeks with 50 hour weeks.

The firms I know that have a culture of semi-frequent 50-60 hour weeks pay OT rates for the off-hours work, regardless of prior utilization rates for those consultants. This is a manifestation of the classic consulting problem of "sales vs. delivery". It is not the consultant's problem if sales stuffs the calendar full of too much work to staff in a 40 hour week.
They should make that part social - let devs upload their own, rate them, etc. Github for Android patterns, sort of.
I've been doing this for at least 3 months now and haven't looked back or found any negative side-effect.
Running. Long distance running is my escape from everything. It's healthy, you can do it just about anywhere and it offers plenty of opportunities for mental games (breathing rhythms, altering your gait, some basic 'orienteering' if you don't plan out your course ahead of time).
I don't know how many customers Facebook has. Do you?

It's certainly less than the 30 million customers AOL had. (Customer defined as someone who pays for service).

Facebook has it's place for the people who like safe, controlled and easy. Like 30m AOL customers. MySpace was never safe, barely controlled and not really easy.

AOL lost out because its model was broken - most people found the winder web more interesting than it's curated pages. Facebook doesn't curate it's own pages. It's a microcosm of the web. It is not going to fail in the same way as AOL or MySpace.

I for one am happy for all this stuff to stay on Facebook, and for the wider web to contain the heavy-weight version.
There are other externalities with making a decision like that. Handset providers may look at it as a point in favor of not getting security updates out there rapidly--after all, most vulnerabilities are responsibly disclosed, and look, they seem to be holding back disclosures indefinitely since we never update, therefore, we never need to update.
Companies that put up facebook pages are just doing it because its easy and there is no cost associated with it. Nobody is depending on it and nobody will care much about it when the next big platform comes along.
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Interesting - by this definition, 80% of the US is (at least) middle class. After paying for food and shelter, the 20%-40% quintile has 42% of their income left over after paying for food and shelter. So it seems as if the problem you describe is very uncommon.

See table 1: http://www.bls.gov/cex/csxann08.pdf

(The bottom 20% are a funny case - they consume about 2x the listed income figures. The reason is that income does not include welfare, so we have no way of knowing how large or small income really is for this quintile.)
Back is great, but I wish there was a soft back.

Currently if you press home enough, you'll leave the app and probably go to the home screen. That's not friendly.

My idea for default behaviour would be the soft back: Takes you back through the app you're using, but won't leave the app. If you press back when you're as far back in the app as possible, you'd get a notification (vibration, LED flash, beep). Press back one more time (or twice) and you'd leave the app to whatever app you were on earlier.

Or simply disable backing out of an app and let the user press Home to return to the home screen, or hold down Home to bring up the multitasking menu.
It reminds me of the sci-fi concept of creating hyper-intelligent, benevolent AIs to run human life as optimally as possible. That's basically what capitalism attempts to do, except with hyper-wealth in place of hyper-intelligence.

As anyone who reads sci-fi knows, it's never long before the AIs figure out they can get along most 'optimally' without the humans there at all.
Clue: in the special theory of relativity, every inertial frame of reference sees itself as the slowest frame of reference. Therefore there is no unique slowest frame of reference.
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That sounds a lot better. :)

> At these students' ages a lot of the learning needs to be experience rather than theory.

I think that's true for programming in general regardless of age, unless the person's a genius. I watched a lecture on Skip Lists and totally understood the high-level view, but when it came to implementation it was more challenging than I thought. I likely would have slept through most of my digital electronics course if I didn't know we were doing labs leading to a 4-bit CPU.
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> I can't imagine why anyone -- users or developers -- would care what version number it's up to.

One reason is that while Chrome's UI may look much the same, its behaviour often changes significantly, and not always for the better.

They broke CSS3 rounded corners just as web designers were starting to use them instead of graphics.

They made a political decision to remove H.264 support just as the HTML5 video tag was starting to gain traction.

There is a reason technical communities develop standards. Unfortunately, the web development community has completely lost the plot in recent years. The W3C have become so slow and politicised that they have become irrelevant. The browser vendors are moving so fast that no-one can keep up.

No-one can actually use all of these state-of-the-art features in serious projects anyway, because they don't work in most browsers. As keen as web developers are for long-standing pain points to get fixed and to play with new toys, to get the job done you still have to use the old tried-and-tested techniques anyway as a fall-back for all the browsers that don't support the latest cool stuff. If you have to do that anyway, there isn't much point to using most of that cool stuff in the first place.
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Ask HN: Who is the best libertarian hacker you know?
To: All talented hackers looking to build a startup with a libertarian mission.
CC: All people who know such people (please forward this post).

I recently acquired the domain name judge.me and want to build an online court system, or more precisely, online judging market place (i.e. we build the market place, not the service).

I'm looking for a libertarian technical co-founder. Below I summarize the philosophy of this idea, my background and what I'm looking for in a technical co-founder.

The philosophy behind this idea is that "incentives change the world, technology changes incentives". Specifically, by building a market place for arbitration, we want to incentivize people to not use the government courts, lowering support for a democratic monopoly on justice along the way (but not explicitly). Think of it as building the 21th century equivalent of building the place where common law judges can hold their hearings and judge their cases.

My background is in strategy consulting but I consider myself an economist. I am well read in the relevant complexity theory and philosophy of law to the point where a philosophy of law professor told me my thinking on this topic is worthy of starting a phd. In short, I think I have the "incentives" part covered. I'm also learning Ruby on Rails and the related concepts (OO, MVC, TDD, CRUD, ...) so I can understand and help out the technical co-founder as much as possible.

The ideal technical co-founder loves to "think in technology", i.e. knows and can communicate all consequences and trade-offs in using certain technologies and methodologies. I'm currently leaning to building the site in Ruby on Rails and its related technologies, but ultimately this is to the technical co-founder to decide. Also, the co-founder should have an interest in libertarian thought, so the macro-economic consequences of what we'll be building are clear (and very motivating!) when I explain them (and we discuss them!). Last but not least, this person should not be under any contract that gives away the IP of the work (s)he does for judge.me.

If interested, please leave your contact details below so we can have a Skype video chat about this idea. When we decide to join forces, the goal should be to build a MVP as soon as possible, get feedback from the libertarian community and apply for YCombinator when we start to get traction.

If you know somebody who could be interested, please forward this post.

Hopefully this request will be the start of something beautiful. I honestly believe this idea can change the world and hope you do too.

Kind regards,
PJ
The system in the UK pretty much already does this and is ingenious.

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

For example this functionality is pretty much available on any UK e-commerce site:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/CraftyClicks/...
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I believe they're attempting to do this by separating some of the apps from the Android framework so that they can update them independently. Unfortunately, since Android is just so different from device to device, it'd be incredibly difficult to make a single change that can be given to all devices.

And there was a partial fix for this in 2.3 as the other poster has correctly noted, and Google believed they had fixed it, but it turns out that it is still exploitable.
"Answer those “I wonder” questions- one of my favorite parts of working at 37signals is watching products develop every day in Campfire and on Basecamp. While doing that, people occasionally start a sentence with “I wonder…”. I get to move from wondering to knowing, and that’s loads of fun to do."

Wait, what? He's rifling through people's live projects all day? Does that strike anyone else as unsettling?
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Can't speak for anyone else, but I downvoted for the condescending tone more than the opinion.
Surprised this didn't get ranked higher. This is kind of big news, especially since there are more android handsets than iphones nowadays.
I'd say do something like this.

Flat rate on initial signup + % of every recurring payment after (this way you can get away with giving them a smaller percent than if you just did straight %)

$20 on Initial signup and payment + 15% of recurring payments.
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I've been told the post office doesn't even use city/state info, when it finds a valid zip code. It's completely redundant.
A few comments for a future version:

1. When you are scanning a disk and you minimize of hide the app, put a progress indicator running in the dock and maybe bounce the icon when the scan is done. Think XCode when you are doing a long compile and you hide it.

2. Maybe color code sparse bundles a different color than blue? When I scanned the app showed me that 216gb was being used by my Time Machine .sparsebundle....maybe other users would have been very quick to remove it before they realized what was going on. Example /users/.jtsm/.jtsm.sparsebundle would be the path.

3. Bug: When I launched Space Gremlins the FIRST time no Volumes showed up for me, but quitting out of the app and going back in a second time Volumes showed up for me.

4. Bug: In Popular Places as I scroll right I have Music, Then a blank space, the Pictures. If I click the blank space is shows the silhouette of a folder icon with a label and nothing else. When I click on the blank space it brings up an empty scan window that says Location:Label Scan Rate: Label, Total Scanned: Label

contact me and I can sent you screen shots if you want.
How much more money do they have than the typical employee working at one of those auto-companies? :|
One possible solution (once income inequality becomes large enough) will be domestic labor. The low productivity individuals will become butlers/maids/personal assistants for the high productivity individuals. Why should a high skill person waste time doing their own laundry?

We could accelerate this process by allowing income spent on salaries to pass through the individual - i.e., if you earn $200k/year and spend $30k/year on a butler, your taxable income is only $170k. This already occurs in limited cases - domestic labor is often paid in cash off the books.
$30 vs. $130 might be an extreme case, but remember that you can't easily back out what a consultant should get paid from their bill rate. The bill rate doesn't just pay the consultant; it also pays the firm for shouldering project, schedule, and employee retention risk, and it also compensates the firm for the effort of recruiting and training new consultants.

There clearly is abuse (everything that can be abused in industry will be abused by someone). But you can't necessarily spot it from a simple comparison of bill rates and wages.
My initial reaction to this article was that I disagreed vehemently with most of his points. Upon further reflection, nothing he's talking about is applicable to anywhere I've worked, or anywhere in the industry I work in; so my disagreement doesn't really matter as I guess "consulting companies" apparently means different things to different people.

The only issue that presents itself in my industry regarding consulting is that it's basically a linear scaling revenue model, and the pitfalls around scheduling engagements.

My company's hourly rates for consulting are now about half of what they were 7 years ago, but it's still both immensely profitable and significantly cheaper than what the client would pay to hire someone to perform the requisite services.
AOL really screwed up MapQuest. They had:

- the largest market share in consumer free web maps (probably as recent as 4 years ago)

- the holy grail for marketers. The brand reached "verbing" status. People used to say "MapQuest it"

- a health paid API biz. But sold that part of the biz to Microsoft's MapPoint (I was a customer of this and they basicly said I was SOOL when it happened)

It is clear they screwed up MQ but I'm more hopeful with AOl's recent moves. They know their strength lies in making content and getting eyeballs and the companies they grow/acquire reflects that.
I had around 60, but was only able to effectively make use of 30 or so... maybe not even that. Extra "credits" don't really help when your major is already heavy on required courses.
This has happened before, in 2000 every one was directing you to their myspace page. In the mid 90's it was a AOL keyword, late 90's is was their website. Next will be twitter.
I never really had a problem with the universal back button. The app development on Android is very similar to web development. I'm used to using the back button often on my browser, it seems only natural to do it on my phone as well.
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Pirsig and Rand both embed their philosophy within fiction, thus leaving you befuddled and oddly unsatisfied: "Did I just read a philosophical treatise or fiction?"
I always thought they would check one against the other giving priority to the city if unmatched. Whenever I have to send something by mail I always stare for a few seconds at the address while wondering what would happen if they misread it...
Firefox 4 = Netscape 4? :)
As they say, fifth time is a charm!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604933

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553937

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189544

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991615
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While I agree to some extent I think that the physical appearance on touch devices is necessary. I think that a button needs to look like a button, because I can't just explore with my mouse and wait for a rollover effect to understand what's clickable. Also trial and error to find a link could be a pretty frustrating process.
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To me, the difference between "23 exabytes every 7 days" and "5 exabytes every 3 days" is pretty irrelevant.

I think a better quote would be "By 2003, mankind had generated a shitload of information. Now we generate a shitload every day."
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The cornerstone of originality within this book is how Pirsig introduces his philosophy of Quality. Yet, if you read ZAMM carefully, he never defines this term. Overall, a frustrating and thought-provoking read.
Why should full disclosure procedures be different just because it's a mobile phone?

To quote from Wikipedia: "In the case that a vendor is notified and a fix is not produced within a reasonable time, disclosure is generally made to the public." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_disclosure)

I think quite a majority of the security community agrees that full disclosure is quite a bit better than security through obscurity (where you have a security vulnerability, but you hope that your enemies don't learn about it).

There's no reason why it shouldn't be possible to upgrade/fix the software on handsets within a reasonable amount of time. So why treat this any different than any other piece of software?

If you want software vendors (and handset manufacturers) to fix security holes within a reasonable amount of time then full disclosure is one of the few ways how you can put pressure on them.
This is why I loved the Full Flat Absolute Black[1] and its brethren themes for Firefox back a few years ago, exclusively.

Sadly, the developer has not updated them in a long time (2008!), so one must go through the hackish method of updating the maxVersion by downloading, opening, and editing the addon oneself. Even with this, there are a few platforms it doesn't work on fully.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/full-flat-abs...
You mean aside from the press-and-hold on the Home button?
"lower the client's perception of risk"

That is a profound way to put it and certainly accounts for a lot of the premium that clients are willing to pay.
Yes. UI is one thing, but many devs out there are using these patterns and everyone reinvents the wheel to implement them.
This looks interesting. I've been using his masonry plugin for quite a while now and its worked out very well. Excited to see that masonry appears to hook into isotope as well.
Finally got the page to load, pressed submit and... "Thanks for your interest in Google I/O, but registration for this event is now sold out."
Why not do the Slackware move, and just skip straight to 7?
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Well, good thing that these businesses know that Samuel_Michon is just one data point, and what he does doesn't necessarily reflect the majority of the market.
How many of these UI patterns are already codified in Android's app framework? It would be cool if these identified patterns were presented in a mini-framework.
There's also this from the guys that did omnioutliner and omnigraffle and its free

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/
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LiveJournal blocks middle-click on some pages (but not all).
Exactly, the entire point of the quote was to get across the absurd magnitude of growth that we're seeing in a way that anybody can understand.

If you care enough about numbers and can figure out how to say it more accurately... more power to you I guess? Doesn't change the effectiveness of the quote though.
Does it matter? Isn't the point to read these ideas and to as with all good ideas they get told in many forms. As with art movements, perspective shifts and whole genres of the arts move in unison, from performing arts to fine art. Unless as is the case with some ideas, the medium is the message, then the format used, be it a nice comfortable paperback or a think hardcover text is of no importance.
Really? What signs do you see in NYC of heading back to those days? I live pretty fearlessly in most places, and I used to take the subway late, late at night all the time. The only dangerous places are really some parts of the Bronx.
> Do you notice every time they add fix bugs or improve performance on Google Maps? No - every time you open the app, you simply have the latest version.

Since you asked... not every time, but often. You see, it's apparent from my experiences that Google makes incremental changes to the live system.

So, somewhat frequently, I'll see mis-loaded pages. Sometimes I fire up the web inspector and see that someone's typoed a JavaScript function, or a CSS element. Very annoying. This happens with GMail and GMaps fairly often.
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It's not necessarily any worse than if the developer simply doesn't care enough to test it/update it. It might be better to use minVersion, then have plugins that use deprecated functions disabled.
The article basically states

"We at 37 signals try to collect and analyze data about our users to make our products better. We may share some of what we do in later posts."

It is being upvoted here on HN because it plants a good idea into people's heads:

"I've heard about this new trend about using data to optimize your app, and it turns out those cool 37s guys are doing it. Maybe I should too!"
Have you noticed much fallout from the recent redesign? It seems like there was a huge amount of outrage (mainly from organizers) [1], but I'm guessing that the lack of competitors means that meetup organizers are left with no viable alternatives.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/meetup-feels-the-wrath-of-t...
Kinda B.S. when they anticipated such a quick sellout to have the site crap out like that.
Free, YES but not quite in the same league as Space Gremlin. I think that Space Gremlin will have a lot going for it where people will pay for the app.
Mondo righteous! I'd love to offer to help, as I am very much a Libertarian (anarcho-capitalist, voluntaryist, market anarchist, whichever term you prefer), but I'm too tied up with projects now.

I'll definitely be a very interested spectator though, and will be rooting you on. I'd love to see this happen.

Edit: shared this link with all my Facebook friends, many of whom are Libertarians and at least a few of whom are hackers.
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I bought this morning, when do you anticipate 1.1? When did you submit the update? I thought that updates were generally processed a bit faster than brand new app submissions...
Sold out already?
This is free right? Is it also free/open source?