skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess Netflix On-Demand, Facebook stalking, and FarmVille do their job in cheaply entertaining us!

Seriously though, murders are a distant leap from idle teenage mischief, but I have to believe people commit fewer crimes when they have more to lose. If someone is reasonably happy with his day-to-day life, why risk disrupting it?

Now for a really big leap-of-faith: maybe social media opens our eyes to how other people perceive their lives. As stated in Paul B's "open as in water" blog post, Facebook and Twitter have shown more people that they aren't alone in their miseries; and that there are lots of little joys in life!

Last wild theory: cyber bullying is on the rise, but at least that's less deadly than physical confrontation.
DotCloud acquires Duostack, rolls out MongoDB support
Microsoft Unveils Mango, the Latest Version of Windows Phone
Ask HN: Freelancing vs agency role as a summer job
As a student (pre University) I've been doing freelance web dev in the summer to raise cash for a few years now, and starting at Uni in October I felt it'd be good to get a job in an agency for a few months. I'm pretty strong across the full stack, though some skills like source control/etc I'm only really experienced using individually.

To cut to the chase, I've been offered the equivalent of £11k/year for a full working week for 2 months. It's less than I could expect to make via freelancing even before travel costs. I want to look attractive when I finish Uni to potential employers, but on the other hand I want to actually make plenty of money rather than a wage you could probably land in an unskilled job.

Any advice on how to go about trying to raise this with them, and on getting an agency role vs just staying freelance? They've mentioned the possibility of freelance or contract work, so that may still be on the cards if I decline.
Seeing as Wine has reached version 1.0 and DNF has gone gold, anything could happen. Next thing you know, GNU Hurd stable will be released.
Wikipedia chart of the "unsustainable" decline in administrator participation:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Wikimedia_Editor...

This relates to how much editorial attention each article can get as the number of articles grows. This has implications for Wikipedia's goal

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

of improving content quality.
Demographics: most crime is committed by groups of young men. Fewer groups of young men, less crime.

Also, eventually your civilization collapses.

So it's a tradeoff.
Yes. My impression is that it's the same kinda-sorta successfully as Unladen Swallow - pretty good, but nothing like LuaJIT2, V8 or SpiderMonkey.
Microsoft is no longer a growth company

Ah, but it could be. There are plenty of other markets left to dominate under Microsoft's general heading of "we make software for stuff", especially if they don't mind making hardware too (see Zune, Xbox).

If they're worried about the tablet market, why not create their own tablet? Why did they make one attempt at the iPod market and then give up? Why aren't they pushing their Windows Mobile harder? Why aren't they doing more to go toe-to-toe with Apple? They have fifty billion dollars in cash, why not do something with it?
I guess I should have written more if I wanted to be taken seriously. Crime, like everything else, takes time. If you play video games 4 hours a day, that's 4 hours a day that you are neither able to shoot people, nor are you outside to be shot. Given that the demos likely to commit crimes and play video games overlap so strongly, this has to be considered.
I had a stint where I bought and tried to read a few dozen cheap $8-$14 Dover math books. There is a reason most of these books were not revised and republished before their copyright expired and they became Doverable, and it is not because they were perfect originally. Poor 1940s typesetting, only the barest sketches of images, and linguistic quirks that are not present in modern language.
The recommended booms from my high school and college courses were much better.
Of course, 90% of everything is crap, so
there logged be a few gems in there.

The $3 copies of Plato et al were better than the math books.
The abortion correlation has been thoroughly dismantled. There were even straight-up mathematical errors in the initial claimed correlation.

http://www.isteve.com/abortion.htm

That this claim is still so often credulously repeated tells you something about how tied to reality the chattering classes are.

The above referenced Steve Sailer also offers a decent unempirical hypothesis about the decline of crime: Technology has made it way harder to do much bad stuff without getting caught. Cell phones and surveillance cameras and better police tech make crime much riskier than it was.

I also suspect everybody's fatter, older, and more couch-potato than they used to be. Obese slobs with 200 channels are too lazy to go gang-banging.
The thing I never get is this… If the idea is so amazing, then you should be able to find funding to hire incredible developers to build it. If it's not that amazing, but you're convinced you're creative, then use that creativity to find the developers you need.

"Idea guy seeking developer" usually means "I think I have a get rich quick scheme."
They've also mentioned the removal of lead from paint and gasoline:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2007/07/09/lead-and-crime/
Looks interesting, however I really dislike iTunes' "everything under then sun" motto. If you are looking for something much more lightweight for playing music, check out mpd http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki . There is a really nice Mac mpd client called Theremin: http://theremin.sigterm.eu/
I think people will adopt garbage collection when it is available for iOS. It is just easier to write without when you might use your libraries in both an iOS and OS X product.
Adam Wiggins and the untold story of the early pivot at Heroku (YC W08)
NSString *myString = @"This is a" @" string.";

Adjacent string constants are concatenated by the preprocessor. Otherwise, I don't think it's too much hassle to call stringByAppendingString:.
No at one time you definitely could select the direction, and I did the same thing, deleting the collection on the PC.
I used to subscribe. It's not bad: gives a nice overview of different businesses each month. But I let the sub. lapse after two years because it wasn't worth it. However, I did go to one of their (free) conferences and it was pretty good.
He is saying:

'When the crime rates go up, police say "we are encouraging more victims to come forward', and when crime rates go down, police say "this is due to the work of the police" '
What is the publicized formula for success?

Generally something along the lines of 'work hard, work smart, be persistent.'

Why is Warren Buffet the only one with his level of investment success?

No one knows; that's the point of the article. It could be pure chance. Put 1000 people in a room and have them each flip a coin for double or nothing, and in the end you will likely have a person who has made 1000x their original investment. Should we laud the winner's coin-flipping ability?
Horribly annoying that on their website, when I click play on a video then close the popup, the video keeps playing! I tried to view a few clips and they were all playing in the background. Had to re-open the video again and manually press the pause button to stop them.

Otherwise, it looks very similar to DoubleTwist but with the addition of syncing iOS devices. Wish it could drop some of the bloat (for example the torrent client) to make it more compelling. It is very tough though to make things more simplified.

I know everyone has their gripes with iTunes, but it is very tough to have an interface that is complex enough to combine local management of music, management of apps, music, and videos on a device, a store and still allow the user the power to make decisions about individual songs, etc.

I think Apple should diverge them and have the device syncing component as a separate program entirely, but tightly integrated so it can nab playlists, podcasts, etc. from iTunes.

I hear iTunes is horrible on Windows, but on Mac it's not too bad and I can't think of many ways they could really optimize it without stripping features that would piss off a lot of users.
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I know that's an off the cuff one-liner, but this idea has gotten some serious consideration. Particularly vis a vis the availability of online porn and the decline in rape. For example, the paper "Porn Up, Rape Down":

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013

(Note, this idea is not uncontroversial.)
To take what a lot of people are saying a little further - having the idea isn't enough, they need to be asking what do they bring to the project in terms of execution.

Do they have sales, marketing or account management experience? Knowledge of the particular market the product might operate in? Experience setting up and or running a company? An understanding of process change and implementation of supporting services or whatever else is relevant?

You need to sell not just your idea but also yourselves.

Developers can have ideas but there are a bunch of things we're either not good at, don't get experience of or don't enjoy. If you really want to appeal to a developer then tell them how you can fill that gap.

And please, make it a real gap, not one you've got based on some stereotype which may or may not apply to the person you're speaking to.
I like ruby but really don't like the selection syntax mapping used http://www.macruby.org/documentation/tutorial.html

It doesn't nest as well and you have to look at two different syntaxes to see one selector. I kinda wish they had done something like object.[selector:value selector2:value2]
Translate mobile images ..kinda cool..
This one is actually fast AND accurate.
I wonder how much equity of that 3B YC owns. Even at 5% (150M), that's a pretty solid return for 5M invested -- even if still mostly illiquid.
I think the quote is basically saying that the police claim an increase in crime rates is largely because more victims are coming forward instead of holding back, but when crime rates go down the police say it's because they are reducing crime. It seems to imply that when crime rates go down you could also question whether that's just because fewer victims are coming forward (or whether police are misrepresenting crimes to make the numbers look better).
Why doesn't he team up with the Winklevoss twins? I am sure the can find some smart but naive undergrad programmer who can code up their ideas and let them keep all the money. (Sorry about the sarcasm.... couldn't resist....)
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> "YC has invested a total of around $5 million"

It's incredible to think of the value that has been added to so many companies for the price of a single large series A.
That dude is a hardcore racist. Unless you want his rep rubbing off on you might want to find another reference.
Firefox has always done a good job of handling updates. It is not in the background, but it is painless and automatic once you agree to upgrade. It will never be anything like IE6 - how many people do you see using Firefox 2? or even 3.0?

The upgrade to 5 isn't much different than going from 3.8 to 3.16. Mainly, they've changed their numbering scheme, so there's no reason to make a big deal about it.
Would folks please edit the titles to remove the blog name, author, and other meta-text leaving only the actual post title? There are some exceptions, of course, but I suggest that for a post like this, the title ought to be just "Tall and Narrow." Thanks for listening!

Please flag and/or remove this post if the request really doesn't belong in the discussion. Even if you agree with my request!
If PDFs are that important to you, why not just use the external PDF viewer of your choice?
This would be interesting to see in the context of average value per company and also compared to the value of companies from other tech incubators.
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Which is actually the greatest feature of Miro. There are a lot of interesting feeds flying around the Miro bittorrent network. For example all confreaks conference videos.
Some bridge nodes are blocked in China as well.
Classic: Simon says how to write a paper and give a talk:

Overview page:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

PDF slideshow:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
Or April 1st.
Some valid points in here, for sure.

Look at Groupon's month-over-month decreasing revenue for evidence.

Is there actual evidence of this? Groupon is private, so how would we know? (Real question, not rhetorical.)
Why cant we find "our guy"??
So startup looking for "our guy", the right developer to take on our great idea. I cant begin to describe my frustration with trying to find someone. This is not just another equity job, we have some seed money and we have all the right connections to Angel and VC investors. Through all of our networking and interviewing, we still have not been able to find "our guy". Some developers thought the idea was too big and turned it down because its not their niche, others dont have time, etc. My intentions were never to ask HN for for this as I thought I would be able to find someone easily, but I wanted to reach out to all of you to see if you have any advice or if anyone is interested in hearing more.

UPDATE

The idea is a new travel site. We need help getting our vision to beta. We can offer a contracted cost with milestones plus equity depending on your level of experience and your current work load.

contact dmlevi[AT]GMAIL
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Why should they care about their stock price?

Ultimately, they should care about the stock price because raising the stock price (or, more directly, the value of the company) is what we (the shareholders) pay them (the management) for.

"Here you go" say the shareholders (via the board) to the management. "Here's a freaking huge salary. Now go find ways to make my company bigger."

That doesn't mean they should care about day-to-day fluctuations in the share price, but certainly ensuring long-term growth in the share price is exactly what we're paying 'em to do.

(And I don't know why I used "we" all through there, because I'm not actually a MSFT shareholder.)
So right before the end of civilization, there will be a brief period of relative peace?
Does a great UX thwart collaboration?
These are such lazy articles to write.
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The campaign begins where its predecessor left off, and there is a new ultra violent terrorists in the scene. Once again, you play a few different soldiers as part of effort to make the world a safer place
I'm thinking third party, API consuming developers specifically. Not that you don't care or dislike these people, only that there that does not appear to be a role for API consumers in the business plans of these companies any longer.
you're either living in Emacs, or playing with fart apps all day.

You've just given me a great idea for a new emacs extension.
I was speaking specifically of the United States. I don't know of any state in the union that isn't democratic.

I know Texas' redistricting shenanigans are sleazy, but it's still a democracy.
There are plenty of other markets left to dominate under Microsoft's general heading of "we make software for stuff", especially if they don't mind making hardware too.

There are tons of connectivity issues they can solve, or help solve through 3rd parties. This is also what Near Field comms are about.
That's such a deceiving graph. It started off at 910, then went up to 1010 and then down to 850. It's not that big of a big deal. That graph makes it look like it's the equivalent of the Great Depression.

There's rarely any reason to mark your y-axis from an arbitrary starting point, unless your purpose is to manipulate people (wikipedia admins missing on wikipedia?).
What idea guys don't understand, is that words will never be able to describe the full picture, and if such words existed, no one would read the hundreds or thousands of pages that comprise them.
Excellent point, but I think you could just say cheap electronic entertainment. The Internet, torrents, Netflix, and video games in particular could be a huge factor in the crime rate. They are (relatively) cheap, ubiquitous, and huge time sinks.
I don't know anything about this guy. However when you say "[t]hat dude is a hardcore racist" you're making a very strong claim about his character.

Could you point us to some evidence of your claim?
Actually, the itunes link is pointing to the German store:

http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/watchlaterapp/id423572879?mt=...

Here's a clickable link to the English store:

http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/watchlaterapp/id423572879?mt=...
Oh I just read the heading 'iTunes replacement', installed it and plugged in my iPhone to see how it behaves; and ta-da nothing happens! My mistake that I did not read the features, but whatever, why do we want to call it an iTunes replacement when it can't even sync
It's a great day for the dotCloud and duostack communities! Both teams are lurking on HN to answer questions.

We're only getting started folks!
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Well, let them get their way, and the whole internet will crumble and become useless for everyone (see Directive 10-289).

I personally, am prepared to walk away. I grew up with BBSs and 2400bps dialup, only one user at a time connecting. It was not horrible. I remeber downloading .gl video files over dialup, too. This level of communication is completely feasible today without relying on any corporate or government owned network.

We can start anew and create a network controlled by the citizens of the world. We may not have HD video at first, but we can have Twitter and a Lynx resurgence....

...or live together in a secluded valley in Colorado, protected by an air-wave reflection device.
It's amazing how much you can do when you start unbreaking things.

Edit: That was excessively brief. So many parts about the whole investment cycle were broken. Some are marginally less broken now. Having a negotiation between a fresh engineering graduate who does not know what "pre-money valuation" means and the principal of a firm with 9 figures under management, and expecting that negotiation to produce an equitable or efficient outcome, is broken. Contacting angels serially is broken. Using who has attended a dinner party with your buddies as the most efficient screening method available for predicting skill with conversion rate optimization is broken. Investment outcomes where the company succeeds and founders do not end up rich is broken. The work culture in Silicon Valley is insanely broken. etc, etc

YC has unbroken some of these. It turns out that an application process and a few weeks with a team scalably works as a decently efficient proxy for success. It turns out founders can be taught what pre-money valuation means and when they know this they get screwed less often. It turns out that spending half of one's time raising money is, as expected, just a deadweight loss.
Trye, but unfortunately no one can match Chrome teams ability to rapidly ratchet version numbers.
Chrome is is in a weird spot where they "had to" rapidly catch up to MS, but now it is awkward to shoot ahead to version 20 or 30. Presumably his is why they started downplaying version numbers once they caught up.

I wonder if Google is now committed to never break the Eextensions API now. To their credit, Android has done a great job with API compatibility over versions, not breaking old apps. Maybe Chrome can too, and dropping version numbers has raised the bar for software quality, just like forcing auto-upgrades has.

The whole thing is a bit silly.

This post composed in emacs 23. (Not really)
Maybe a brief description of "your idea" would be helpful for the discussion?
That would be somewhat ironic considering that starting over so many times is supposedly why DNF never got released in the first place...
I'm reminded of the wonderful (sadly now defunct) web comic "The Life of Riley" in which this is a major, ongoing plot arc.

Starting here: http://www.pyrocam.com/life-of-riley/comic.php?strip=25 and continuing throughout the entire 600+ comics of the series. That particular plot arc follows Dan, the artist, who unlocks his technical side, eventually ascending to demigodhood by learning to leverage both types of creation.

If you want an amusing distraction, it's worth a read. (Also interesting to see references to some of the other major web comics of the day... many of which are now long gone.)
> 2. Task-keepers using pen and paper are not adding a new system to their workflow since they already need to use pen and paper for something

Am i the only one, who doesn't have a paper and pen at all? The only pen i own, is a small one from Victorinox swiss card (http://www.swissarmy.com/MultiTools/Pages/Product.aspx?categ...)
I'm not a big RMS fan, but I'd pay to see him talk.

He's accomplished far more than perhaps anyone on HN. Like it or not, he started and nurtured all this (Free Software/OSS).
That sounds rather optimistic, given that it's hard to even make solar cells pay for their own manufacturing cost when you stick 'em on Earth, let alone launch 'em into space. And there's not that much more sunlight in space.
is there a video of this interview?
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Unfortunately, this isn't just a question of interpretation. Legally, there's no differentiation between those two categories. One is more ethically problematic than the other for sure, but you're just as screwed having either on your computer. You can see this most clearly in sexting cases against high school students. You can still get on the sex offender registry for sending a picture of yourself to your boyfriend or girlfriend and there's tons of stuff like that on /b/.
Microsoft pays dividends, at least.
It's been a long time, but I believe Ada provides the ability for the first 4 and I would bet you could define the last two in it.
On path to riches, no sign of fluffy majors
It would probably be less than 5% since they typically come in at 6% and get diluted along the way when VCs come in later.
So you're making a comment to say that you no longer care for FPS...I don't quite get it. That's like saying the release of Starcraft 2 was a waste because some SC1/BW players got tired of RTS, or gaming in general.
Looks good and I just signed up. Is there a list of the 20+video platforms available somewhere? Also, is there a chance you'll support mixergy (both free and paid accounts) in the future?
Too bad gearbox took over it, would have been better if 3D Realms could finish the game.

It's also disappointing they didn't accomplished a stunning graphic after more than 12 years of development.

Regardless of the graphic it's almost the only game of his kind and I still expecting a good gameplay with many jokes.

Hail to the king baby.
Back in the early days of iTunes, I bought an iPod Mini and synced it on a Windows machine. Occasionally, I would sync my iPod, and something like 20 songs would disappear (purchased and non-purchased). This happened without warning, with alarming frequency.

This was a known bug as late as iTunes 7, which would sometimes disregard the "Automatic Media Folder Management" setting, do it anyways, and sometimes files/folders.
I get lost like you do, and I'm sure we're not alone. In the same spirit as TaskPaper, check out this to-do list app called I Do Lists:

http://eightthumbs.com/idolists/

It let's you make lists and check off items. That's all!
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