skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. All this massive discussions about creating new money somehow ingnores the elephant in the room: If banks with too much leverage would actually be able to default people will suddenly notice the problem and check their bank's reserves before opening a deposit or something like that (in historical timeframes, i.e. years ...).

Now the problem is obviously that everyone who went along for the ride, hoping for the best will go bust, too. Among them the top 0.1% (or at least a large part, you need to substract the Warren Buffet type). Obviously the rich and powerful don't like becoming poor and deprived of power, so the bailout themselves via the gov't/fed.

And as a strawmen they set up the crumbling 401k savings of the 99.9% normals.

An aside: I seriously wonder what would have happend if the gov't would have continued to let banks default. I don't think it'd be much worse than the Marshall plan for Germany with it's complete reset of the (liquid) wealth after WW2. And that went really well. And for a bit of fairness, resetting the clock every 80 (because people tend to forget the last utter economic catastrophe) probably won't hurt.
Nice work. The first thing I tried was to drag the corner of the TV, to make it bigger. Is it possible to add this feature?
Intro to CS is intro to CS.

Intro to programming is something different.

And there is a difference between the two, and the courses should not be conflated.
I wonder how this will come to market and how privacy will be protected. I know purchasing a test chip is not the same as confirming HIV positive but it is a data point, just as pregnancy tests are. If it's OTC do you have to consider how easy it is to track?
A javascript, DOM-based window manager would be a worthy project for someone with the skills to do so. All prefs stored in JSON or somesuch. Separate from a browser to avoid frame-busting-busting-busting. Leave (and encourage) the styling and hacka-clicka-bility the users themselves. Twill happen eventually ... I'd just like it now :(
> Nobody is talking about overthrowing the patent system except for maybe people on HN

Everyone I know /patent lawyers included/ has said that the system is broken.

It's a cold war; everyone's got to have nukes, just in case the other guy uses them. Then some upstart like PRNK, ahem I mean /Lodsys/, comes along, lobs one into someone's applecart, and suddenly ICBMs are flying everywhere.

What we have here, gentlemen, is a mind shaft gap.
> If google simply wanted to be immune to claims from the Novell patents, they could have joined the group and saved money (vs. bidding by themselves against the group.)

But what if they wished to grant immunity to Android manufacturers, but the group did not want them to?
Why does who run js in the UI thread?

As far as I know, every browser will exhibit this behavior. I haven't tested it though.

How do you propose easily marshalling js events back to the UI thread if you ran it on a separate thread?
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Is this not polyfillable with some add-on? I am sure I read that somewhere.
Good idea and great execution.

What else can this type of app be applied to?
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From what I've seen now, including being a mark of Groupon's, I think that Groupon amounts mainly to preying on small businesses that don't quite have the nous to realise that it's a bad deal to give up all your profits to Groupon (or whoever) in order to win an enlarged customer base filled with bargain hunters who cost you everytime you serve them. Hyperbole for sure but not that far off I think.
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The title in the nature.com report includes "in the developing world", so I wonder if this will be one of those products that doesn't really get targetted towards US/EU - where, while we may not have HIV problems anywhere near as bad as in Africa, but a $1 15 minute test would still be insanely useful.
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I was a bit annoyed to find it was an article about a book that came out 9 months ago ... and was discussed to death at the time.
While I appreciate the effort to bring attention to the serious differences between the simply well-off and the astonishingly-rich-and-powerful, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around some of this:

"While income and lifestyle are all relative, an after-tax income between $6.6k and $8.3k per month today will hardly buy the fantasy lifestyles that Americans see on TV and would consider 'rich.' In many areas in California or the East Coast, this positions one squarely in the hard working upper-middle class, and strict budgeting will be essential. An income of $190k post tax or $15.8k per month will certainly buy a nice lifestyle but is far from rich."

What in the hell?

Where I come from, six figures is rich, period. I grew up in a household whose yearly income was a bit over $100,000 (pre-tax), and had no delusions about my place in the economy. Sure, weren't "free from financial worry," but we nonetheless could afford the occasional vacation and a new or semi-new car when we needed it.

My significant other comes from a place where $50,000 each year (pre-tax) is considered rich (and this in the apparently-mythical California, no less). She grew up with a pre-tax annual income of less than $10,000.

While it's inaccurate an potentially damaging to misrepresent the degree to which it truly is the super-rich that benefit most dramatically from our economy, it also seems just as potentially damaging to write as though we really are all in the middle-class. This article seems to utterly silence the existence of poverty and the working class in order to make its point.

Maybe I just come from one of those strange parts of the country where we still have backwards things like "industry" and a "proletariat." I suspect, however, there's a lot more folks from places like where I'm from than places like the strange utopia this guy lives in.

Uh, </end_rant>?
You know what would be a fantastic sub-market for this? Bars and clubs in college towns. Regardless of whether you believe 1-nighters are moral or not, they're going to keep happening. Might as well promote safety and reduce the spread of STIs.

Edit: I don't mean this should be an alternative to traditional protection. It just adds another layer of certainty.
Although the OP does not speculate about it, my guess is that the noise of city living is the only important mechanism by which city living interferes with my mental state.
This is certainly the sensible way. But with legal contracts it's not enough to be sensible. The author is supposed to specify. The times I've contacted authors to ask about their desired attribution they've never contacted me back (only about half-a-dozen times now).
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I received: "The Websense category 'Malicious Web Sites' is filtered."
Like others have said, it's more about what the icon represents. A window (maybe a document) or an application. I prefer the application metaphor more than the window metaphor. I've come to like this since I don't always need to see all my windows to access a running application.

That said, there is plenty of other questioning that can arise like, does one close the application when all windows are gone? Tricky.
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I have two LED bulbs like this by Philips. The 12.5w (60w replacement) and the 17w (75w replacement). I like them both a lot, and think both brightness and light quality are good enough for everyday use. Bonus: They apparently don't attract bugs because they produce less UV light than incandescents.
Even if they don't intend to market this to the US I will do whatever I can to see that it is easily available here.
> The bank now has $100 - all your money. But your checking account says $100, and the loanee's checking account says $80, for a total of $180

you should learn about accounting. the loanee also has an $80 debt to the bank. no money is created. in fact, even if the bank didn't exist, in your fantasy land, basically everyone would be "money counterfeiters".

let's construct a scenario. when you loan your aunt $100, you give her $100, and then you sign a little contract with her indicating she owes you $100. you now have an asset worth $100 (the contract), and she now has a fresh $100 bill. oh my god, you just magically created $100! you're a counterfeiter!

when you deposit money in a bank, you loan them your money, which they then loan out. your checking account is essentially a low risk, pooled, variably timed bond that you buy from the bank.

i have a question for you though. do you believe in free markets? if so, then why do you oppose fractional reserve banking, which, at its fundamental core, is a contractual agreement between two parties?
See here:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/philips-ambientled-l...
Are you involved in the project?
Is there a way to filter to show only the Public Domain icons without opening each shadow box individually?
That's my reason and I'm certainly not ashamed by it even if there are a few starry-eyed fools here on this board. I program for money. Not to be on the cover of hipster hacker. I program with passion to the best of my ability, for money.
I speculate it would do more harm than good. Safe sex practices are important even if you have a means of lowering the risk of HIV.
A 6% false positive rate? You don't want anyone taking this without probable cause then, else you're going to get a metric crap-ton of people going to their doctor's and having to have a full workup done.

Edit to clarify: My point was that just because it was cheap doesn't mean it'll ever be sold to the public. Apart from anything else, consider the psychological impact of discovering you (may) have HIV from a test kit you picked up from next to the Oreos on a whim.
I could foresee these items being purchased in bulk by individuals. At the $1 price point Bachelors and Bachelorettes around the world might purchase these as frequently as Condoms.
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Maybe a $5/$10 price tag North America could help keep the price around $1 in Africa.
Does anyone know of a similarly good service which works in Europe? I normally use skyscanner.net, but while it does the job, it's one of those headache-inducing websites the articles talks about.
Interesting. I never thought of this feature as 'intimate'.
Most of the time I was annoyed, seeing the other one type

o n e c h a r a t a t i m e

I prefer waiting for a full line, that (hopefully) makes sense. And I try to convince myself that the person I'm chatting with right now isn't slow as molasses, he just takes a moment of time to think before typing a well-considered reply.
has anyone started reading the AIMA? maybe we should set up a study group?
Disclaimer: I didn't read the article.

Bet: I bet they didn't mention that most of these people were "too smart" for college (even ivy league ones).
Thank you. Many of the comments here make it sound like the sky is falling. It's nice to hear from someone involved in the decision.
Or how about the employment rates and mean income of both drop outs and graduates since "running a company" isn't something that is on everyone's todo list. I'm positive that study has been done.
I don't actually own one, but the datasheet[1] for the dimming circuit uses a 120 kilohertz flyback transformer.

1: http://www.cypress.com/?docID=25961
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The front-end work on my project is sucking the joy out of coding. Pretty soon I won't have any hair left.

If you can design and you know html/css, please get in touch. In exchange I can work on an existing site for you or help build something from scratch. I'm proficient in ruby (rails, sinatra), python (django) and javascript.

my hn username @ gmail

EDIT: added frameworks I know
Huh? Short term capital gains rates are 35%. (I assume that's what you mean by "moves money around".)

Long term cap gains rates are lower, but that compensates for the fact that the company you bought was also paying taxes in the meantime.
No.

Innovation in practical use medical technologies is one of my personal passions and frequently on the receiving end of my philanthropy.
Ah, VMS PHONE.

Where the other party's typing skills (or lack thereof) are on full display.

As for the character-at-a-time display, iChat can provide something like that. On Mac OS X circa 10.6, select iChat > Accounts > select an account > and check the Send text as I type checkbox.
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The retail bank in no way makes Joe Average far richer than he already is by his own efforts.

And I don't think those Russian billionaires invested in Facebook just because they were yawning at the thought of depositing the money in a bank and the boring routine of such a transaction.

They all expect huge capital gains and the pump-and-dump institutional machinery of Wall Street is the instrumental system for this.
"So you're going to argue both sides of the question? You're really going to argue that every trick in the book has been tried, and that the amount that non-lying economists recommended to spend wasn't feasible?"

Actually, they're all of a kind. One of my core problems with Keynesianism is that you must treat "government investment opportunities" like any other resource; you've got low hanging fruit, where you put in a dollar and get $4 in wealth back, you've got a series of barely-above-break-even, then a sea of places you can put a dollar and get back $0.75. You can't just assume that because you've spent a dollar under duress you're getting more than a dollar back in value; economics is built on that but the logic only holds when one is freely choosing to spend the dollar because you expect to get more than a dollar back.

Keynesianism isn't about just spending wildly, it's all about spending where you get over-unity results, and even if I believed in the power of a massive centralized authority to correct determine where those opportunities are (which I don't), there's a huge problem with that, which is that we already spent a large number of those dollars on those over-unity projects. We don't hang around in the boom times and let our roads go to pot on purpose so that when the recession comes we have good investment opportunities for stimulus. It is unlikely that that is even a good idea. So the goverment is trying to stimulate into a market where the low-hanging fruit is mostly gone anyways.

Maybe this works in 1930. Maybe this works in the Third World. In a developed country there's [feasible] no way to PRODUCTIVELY spend three trillion dollars. Now... UNproductive spending we can do, but even under the dictates of Keynesianism that's a bad idea! Sucking a dollar out of the economy (as debt or taxes) to get back $0.75 in value is simply a straight-up net loss.

I find the theory that government spending is producing a lot of net loss of wealth dovetails rather nicely with the real economic results we are experiencing, as opposed to the predictions of those who are implementing this policy.

21st century Keynesianism has some enormous leaps of logic in it that I have not been able to follow wherein it is simply assumed that the government can find things to spend that are stimulative. I'm not even sure where this stuff is supposed to come from, even in theory. You can't even just wave around the word "crumbling infrastructure" because you can't just wave a wand and make everybody a construction worker, so you're bounded there.

Every trick was tried, and that only got us a hundred billion or so, so our politicians just kept spending more anyhow. Guess what? It's disastrous, not stimulative, and as far as I can tell, even Keynes would have said so in advance.
Isn't that HP webOS?
I'm wondering whether it would be possible, with access to Google search data, to statistically find areas ripe for demand harvesting (eg. people search for X and can't find it).
If you do some searching around you will find 3% to 5% false positive for blood test is not uncommon.
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Is that alot of cash to whitelabel the CMS as your own? I don't think so.
Except this does not test for all kinds of other STIs.
And everyone looking for money from the government makes the same argument about their own field being in the "general interest".

"Science and Engineering" isn't looking for funding, it's a specific group (universities) looking for funding from the government, so it's a special interest.
This is true of most tests. When he likelihood of a false positive is significant in relation to the expected incidence, you need corroboration such as symptoms developing before choosing to run the tests.

Sidebar: This is misunderstood by people criticizing doctors who refuse to run tests without corroborating evidence. It's not just the money/scarce resources, it's the problem of false positives dominating actual positives.
I really don't think that is a good idea.
If people believe they won't get AIDS, which is the scariest STI, they'll be less likely to use protection, which will increase the spread of things like chlamydia (which has only minor side effects, like possible infertility) . Also, I bet the error rate goes up to a scary level once you have it being self-administered by drunk people.
I have a much simpler reason - there's money in it.

Besides, stick around long enough and you realize it's not the language or platform, it's the process behind the creation that deserves the most focus. Strive for perfection in that and you'll get much greater return on your mental investment.
Sync XHR should hang the page while waiting for the response. It should not hang the whole browser, but it should pause rendering and event processing on the page - i.e. cause the page to be unresponsive. Otherwise it wouldn't be synchronous.

A different issue is whether the synchronous mode of XHR was a good idea in the first place. But what's done is done.
FB and GTalk DO use XMPP. I also imagine that AIM, MSN, and Skype all have some sort of a XMPP implementation as well since they all can talk to FB.
IIRC Google does support federation. At least with Google Apps for Domains, you can add some records to your DNS that enable federation for your domain.
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Although Fitbit doesn’t explicitly acknowledge this in its marketing materials, the gadget makes you feel bad about yourself.

that's exactly why i still wear my fitbit. i initially bought it just to track my sleep patterns, but now i wear it every day and make a conscious effort to walk more than i would otherwise because "the fitbit is watching me".

related plug: i made a fitbit low battery notification tool with their api and twilio. it will pull your battery info every hour and send you a text message and/or e-mail when your battery gets low. http://fitbit.jcs.org
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While I enjoy a good yarn as much as the next guy, the logic doesn't follow.

GDP per capita is simply total GDP divided by the population. GDP is made up of Consumption, Investment, Government Spending, and Net Exports. A large porportion of any of those factors can increase GDP.

Government Spending in France, a component of GDP, was 53% in 2001 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_France#Rise_and_decl...). Without doing a deeper online search, it might even be higher today.

Government Spending should not be seen as a good long-term item to focus on to increase GDP. If their metric of "Productivity" is based largely on Govt. Spending, which it is, then that's not sustainable in the long-term, and will change drastically in the future.
I agree. I do find it odd that they are changing things in one direction rather than making it optional or spinning off another project. Personally, I look forward to change even now, since computers are far from perfect.
It's not a flaw in IE it's the same in all browsers they use one thread for javascript and UI updates. IE10 will have Web Workers which can be used to prevent this but using Web Workers still involves programmers making their code work async which is the point of this post.
It's from 2008 and it runs Windows Mobile 6.1, not Windows Phone 7
It's a huge opportunity waiting to happen. If you add Easyjet and the other discount airlines, and then add trains in for close cities, it would be a huge hit.

For example, I live in Nice and wanted to go to Malta. The ticket was 200 Euros. But I found I could take a train for two hours and go from Marseille via RyanAir for 20 euros.

The same is true for Last Minute deals. Czechs will spend twice as much for, say, a week in Egypt as a German in a city two hours away by train (Prague - Dresden).
I think, for a lot of people, "civility" means "ritualized groveling before people more powerful than themselves", and they're unwilling to make it anything more than completely optional.
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I haven't, but I should. Everyone I know who's read it says it's great.
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I'm actually not defending this particular accounting method since I expect they've filed proper paperwork that explains all their income, expenditures, profit, taxes, etc.

What I'm defending Groupon against (not that they need me) is the ridiculous pot shots at their business model as of late and that somehow they're trying to scam people (You'll probably see a few show up in the comments today).

They've grown a phenomenal amount of revenue faster than anyone ever has before and they've apparently spent quite a bit of money to acquire e-mail subscribers. Groupon is a stupendous outlier when it comes to all businesses before it and the biggest question people have is whether or not the business is sustainable. When these significant marketing costs go away, this should be a very solid business.
After all this negative press, I'm really curious how much of a pop Groupon's IPO will have.
Some of those are problems, but many of them are "I would present this material differently."
I hope I'm not unfounded in saying that there seems to be a trend developing where we're trying to ply out of CSS novel and interesting ways to define the behavior of a page. But doesn't that parallel the issues surrounding visually oriented markup in HTML (i.e. defining the font, background color, etc.)? HTML is for structure, CSS for presentation, and Javascript for behavior, no?

Apart from my concern, the results are impressive as well as appealing.
When the top income tax was 91% (from 1951-1964), the capital gain tax was 25%. So while doctors and small businessmen pay >50% tax on earned income the uber rich paid 25%
Sorry if I misinterpreted, but I think he was implying that the iPhone and iPad are more expensive when he says the users are "willing to pay more money for a better experience."
As a recent college student, take your paternalism and shove it. I want this.
That was my first thought actually. Problem is, do you want to be the company who holds the liability of a false negative?

How do you manage that risk? Otherwise, yes a wallet STD test would be a fantastic little thing to have available in "hook up spots"
You misread my post - or I was just not clear enough.

I KNOW that they use XMPP. That's why I listed them. But both don't (as far as I know) support the multi user chat extension, the whole point of my answer.

What I wanted to say was this: I don't use the MUC in XMPP (a lot) instead of IRC, because it's just not used anywhere. Google, Facebook, could hopefully "just" add it to their existing chat infrastructure.

Better?