skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what point in using the service is the $30 fee required? I would be even more hesitant to spam my friends if I hadn't been using the system for a while and been convinced of its efficacy.
I don't know what to think here. There seems to be some very obvious issues with his analysis that he didn't even mention. Now this is a very qualified guy so I hesitate to point these out but I can't help but think his agenda (to calm people) is clouding the issue.

I'll run down the list...

1. The government has goosed numbers that are used to caclulate GDP like the CPI. See here: http://tinyurl.com/3rxzxhs

2. Unemployment is calculated differently today because we factor out "discouraged workers". See here where Motley Fool put 2009 Unemployment closer to 17.5% : http://tinyurl.com/3lappx9

3. Yes the FDIC prevented people's savings from disappearing when the banks hit crisis mode and that prevented the banks from going out of business. But the wealth destruction still happened. All we did is shift it from the banks to the Federal Government thereby saving the banks (who wouldn't have survived with that much debt) while burdening the general populace for decades to come.

I'm not saying he's wrong as much as I'm saying he clearly had an agenda here and is making the argument for that agenda without giving the other side of the coin. If you don't believe me ask yourself this: Why didn't he use GNP in his first comparison? We still calculate GNP and using GNP now vs GNP in the 30s (when that's all we tracked) makes a lot more sense than using GDP now and retroactively calculating GDP in the 30s.

But economists agree GDP is more forgiving and makes the nation look wealthier in a global market than GNP would (since most manufacturing was still done domestically in the 30s). So again there seems to be an agenda here.
Mostly PHP/Mysql, but I've built an photo blogging Android app and a iphone app with login, xml parse, form submission.
"According to comScore, non-travel/auto/gas/food e-commerce sales represented just 7.1% of total retail sales in the US in Q2 2010. But, significantly, online sales have grown at an annualized rate of 9.7% since 2006 (vs. the 2.3% annualized decline in total retail sales over that same period, which includes the Great Recession). Leading online retailers, like Amazon.com, are growing even faster—30% per year for the past several years. This growth in e-commerce should only accelerate."

http://www.adventurista.com/2010/09/bessemers-top-10-laws-of...
Or you can do what I do and still send a few text messages just not enough that a 10$-20$ per month plan is cheaper.
I think the title should be modified to show that it also handles CoffeeScript to Javascript which for me makes it an even more powerful utility.
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I think because the request is asking for content type JSON but the Facebook response comes back as javascript with a for (;;); at the beginning. The content types don't match so jQuery invokes the error callback.
What happens if your death coincides with the death of one of your secret holders (I.e. you and your mom die in a car accident)?
I generally agree with you, but I felt this one post was much more interesting than your run of the mill "Why I quit ...". He talks about the decision process and how he tried to make a decision in a systematic way. I think that's interesting since making decisions about your own life is often hard and people mostly don't even attempt a rational approach here, they just follow whatever the strongest impulse they had. Most authors of the "How I quit" posts just announce they quit and then add some more or less coherent after the fact justifications.

I'm not necessarily saying that this author's methodology is great, or that the goal of making life decisions in such rational, principled manner is even attainable, but it's still interesting that he tried and what he writes about it.
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Squatter is a derogatory term which has played well in the media. It implies no right to the property. That isn't the case with most domains. You register the name, you pay for it. It's your name. The usage of squatting got it's start basically with people doing typos or grabbing famous names (panavision.com) who basically had no right at all to a famous trademark and were trying to extort money. It simply doesn't apply to a name like dnacafe.com in this particular situation. There is of course a company called dnamededcafe.com and it would be possible to start a cafe somewhere called dnacafe.com that has no affiliation with dnalounge.com. And dnalounge.com clearly calls itself dna lounge in it's logo. Not dna cafe.
I disagree with you. Like with Jonathan's Card there should have been someone there at the airport to take the steak from him, and fly it to a more needy country.
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This could be a breakthrough technology for robotics and AI. For years it has looked liked a new computer architecture would be required to let robots make all of the complex decisions in real-time that humans take for granted, especially in the realm of perception.

If these chips can do what they say they can (well), I can't wait to see how they change robotics!
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Thanks for that. I know a little about ancient-style table-layout web dev, but didn't know what the "proper way" of laying out that site would have been.
That headline also applies to installing any Android application.
It's a little annoying that every big tech company has solved this problem in house in their own way. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft all have internal build systems that do basically the same things.
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IBM creates chip that mimics brain function
I appreciate the blurb but my point is Amazon.com will not be selling gasoline over the internet. Nor will your monthly Costco run be replaced by a giant insulated box delivered by UPS.

Yes online retail is a small and growing portion of the retail sales market and the market is large but it is not as large as some might think.
Why do you think we'd have more for cars?
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putting a "i died, sorry!" message on any sort of automated system would be colossally stupid (unless you plan to kill yourself, i guess). just have it send out a message saying something like "this is an automated message: i have been unreachable by email for the last 52 days. maybe something is wrong - give me a call"
A Call for New Measures of Asperger’s and Schizotypy
I complained about Virgin Media (the only cable company in the UK) on Twitter and my blog a couple of years back - the next morning I had a call from the PA of the CEO to sort out my grievance. At the time I had perhaps 70 Twitter followers and ~300 readers of my blog.

While I'm sure follower numbers have something to do with it, it's not necessarily everything.
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/250/
What makes SaaS companies successful
Completely off-topic, but - like it or not - business runs on Excel. I certainly don't because I have to deal with it on a day to day basis. There's simply no convincing them to move to another format. Excel is the defacto "move numbers and data around" file format in the organization I work for.
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if you are worried that your email provider will go out of service without notice, you should get a different email provider.
The thing most people miss about gamification is that most games suck, and likely, so will your new gamified whathaveyou.

Gamification is the new forums.
Some ideas :

1.Add some kind of copy that describes what the site is doing

2.Include free apps for WindowsPhone and Blackberry
>>(safe) REPL backdoor into my long-running Perl apps.

Is it on CPAN?
related yes, but not directly involved. cars.com is advertising because you still drive to the dealership to buy the car. You research appliances or siding online but you get them at HomeDepot. You print your grocery coupons from a website but you buy your milk/cheese/eggs/cereal/etc. from $LocalGrocer. And as mentioned elsewhere, you will not be buying gasoline over the internet anytime soon.
What milestones are needed to raise a Series A?
> Unemployment is calculated differently today because we factor out "discouraged workers"

The author addresses that:

> Even by the highest estimates - which include people discouraged from looking for a job, thus not registered as unemployed - the jobless rate reached around 16 to 17 percent.
I don't want to be too pedantic, but I thought you might want to know "discrete" is not a verb.
Devil's advocate: Perhaps promoting unlimited SMS can mitigate the move to iMessage and equivalents?

SMS at current prices is going to go. It can't compete with internet-based solutions like iMessage and BBM, especially in regions with many small countries like Europe or Asia where international fees can be quite restrictive. (This is why Skype became so popular in Europe.)
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The number of people applying for the H1B for the last two years is LESS than the number of H1-B vacancies available.
People just dont want to come to the US anymore at least not skilled workers from India and China like they used to.
Some nits:

* "Deep Crack" and Distributed.net came after DES was fatally injured by differential and linear cryptanalysis.

* At no point was the only alternative to the broken DES "Triple-DES"; we had (for instance) IDEA since 1991, which is what PGP used.

* Speed isn't the biggest reason we ditched DES-EDE; the tiny block size and key size restrictions are bigger reasons. Similarly, "at least as strong as Triple-DES" is misleading; nobody was satisfied with Triple-DES' security bounds.

Just nits. The AES math stuff is great. But don't go trying to use any of this; this is just a fraction of the detail you need to safely use an AES library.
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Like I mentioned on Twitter, if you don't like the new plans, you can always switch to T-Mobile. Oh, wait...
It's more efficient for someone to deliver that box from Costco to several houses close to each other than it is for several people to all drive to Costco. When most people visited several stores then driving into town was more efficient but the big box stores really change that equation.

EX: Giant home delivery is not free, but compare how much it costs to drive to the store and do the shopping yourself and it quickly comes out significantly ahead.
I think talking about dollar amounts is a bit silly. What's the maximum acceptable dollar value for a lunch meeting, per person? $100? $200? $500?

Further, what if those who pay for the lunch meetings feel that it was worth any price? How are you going to convince them they are wasting their money if a webcam chat wouldn't actually be a replacement in their eyes, and if they don't care about the dollar amount spent on lunch?
please also email me about this issue at raphim@gmx.com
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2. Unemployment is calculated differently today because we factor out "discouraged workers". See here where Motley Fool put 2009 Unemployment closer to 17.5% : http://tinyurl.com/3lappx9
...

I think he covered this here:
"Even by the highest estimates — which include people discouraged from looking for a job, thus not registered as unemployed — the jobless rate reached around 16 to 17 percent. It’s a jobs disaster, to be sure, but not the same scale as the Great Depression."
It's javascript. Read the source before running it. The obfuscated gook that's 80% of the script has 0 diffs from jQuery as downloaded at jQuery.com; and the rest of the script is easy to verify in 5 minutes.

It's also a great habit to get into. Reading source code is invaluable in understanding and learning. And it is a skill that can be cultivated just like others. For example, the Prey project is an invaluable piece of software, except it's potentially extremely sensitive. Probably worth reading the source first.

You also start to get very well versed in the "usual way of doing things", especially if it's a language/paradigm you're not programming daily in.
Very possible. We have a sheet of paper on the wall where we tally the number of times that IE has been the bane of our existence. I think that piece of paper keeps a number of profanities out of our source code and stylesheets.
Not a depression - a liquidation. It will be painful.
True but this was only about values. Changing values is not the most you can do with dynamic languages at runtime. In Python it is possible to create a completely new method implementation at runtime.

Not to say that dynamically changing code at runtime is totally impossible in C - buffer overflow attacks do exactly that.
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This is massive news. I met Vinod in SF when I was leaving the bay area, partly for visa reasons. Now it seems I can return with a company of my own, if it's set up the right way.

However, having spent 6 months fighting USCIS, I'm a little sceptical about it translating well into practice.
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Squatter is a derogatory term, and I would lump in anyone who intentionally buys a domain with no intent to use it other than to sell it at an increased profit margin. I guess you and me differ here, you may think it's okay and perhaps it's the market at play, but I think it's just sleazy way to make money. Squatting has made it nearly impossible to come up with a decent brand. This is just my opinion, you don't have to agree with it and you're well within your right to squat on domains, but you can't really argue semantics here when it's entirely opinionated.
I don't have your extension installed, but if I did I wouldn't have a problem with this (provided I knew about it). I understand you have to make some $$$, and really affiliate links don't hurt me at all/change my price.
Microsoft Confirms Windows 8 App Store
Many comments already on both the previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898229

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899299
It was funny to found Skynet & John Connor references in the readers comments.
It's also pretty funny that if someone makes/invents a system with Skynet capabilities, there is a posibility that they will name it Skynet. Thus making the terminator series a self fulfilling prophecy!!!!
The best alternative is AMO; the testers are extremely helpful, explaining the problems and giving tips and links to help you improve the extension.
Show HN: The Winter is Coming. What will HN community do?
In the spirit of the stock market performance Today - Just a little stunt from the LinkFindr team - hope you all enjoy it :)
"Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."
It also gives you an URL for the screen shot which is really useful IMHO.
There are two differences with real estate:

- real estate "squatters" provide liquidity for property owners (this is theoretically possible in domains, but I've never heard it claimed to be a common case)

- lack of homesteading

When "new territory" opened up (in the US), people could be granted chunks of land if they improved the land, making productive use of the property for some time (homesteading). They could then file a claim for the land and have it deeded to them for continued ownership, resale, etc.

That initial productive use is lacking in domain squatting. No one has "improved" the claimed domain name or made productive use of it. The squatter has only filed a claim for it, hoping for a profit.
It is notoriously difficult to get people onboard on marketplaces (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898589). By asking people to pay a subscription, you are making it even more difficult!

I don't know what you're testing with this fake landing page. There is clearly a need for marketplaces as Craigslist, Ebay, Airbnb, Etsy etc have shown. It's just difficult to execute.

You need to be clear if you want to build a marketplace or not. If the answer is yes, then you need to build something small but useful and figure out a way to get users.

You will have the luxury to solve the spam problem once you have any traction at all.
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... which would seem to provide a $240/year incentive to just use iMessage, or twitter, or any IM system.

Assuming your conversation partners can keep tabs on what system to use. Your Android pals can't iMessage you, and using Google Talk or another IM service on an iPhone has always felt a little kludgy.

Sounds to me it's designed to drive you to one of two choices: either pay $20/month for a service you don't need, or cut it out altogether and pay 20c every time you get an SMS from someone who can't use iMessage/Twitter/Facebook messaging.

At 20c/message it doesn't take long before you end up paying as much or more than you would've been paying under an SMS plan.
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Well, here are a few quotes from the article that seem to target students who have more than a bachelor degree:

"So much so that, for some subjects, employers now require at least a Master's degree."

"I think CS and SE lecturers could learn a thing or two from me about writing good software."

"Many of the CS graduates I know suck as software developers, too."

"Hiring a computer science graduate for a programming role is, to me at least, like hiring a theoretical physicist to fix your car. "

"Just as there are countless CS graduates who have a theoretical grasp of compiler design but have never design a language or implemented a compiler."
Your point (and jabits below) is valid but my issue is he didn't spell out the fact that "discouraged workers" were counted in the Great Depression. Also (if you follow the link provided) you'll see we didn't hit the 20%+ numbers until 4 years after the crash and by that measure we still have over a year.

I concede we're talking semantics I just think a more accurate way to say it would be "unemployment rose above 20% in the Great Depression while by that same standard we're only at around 17%". Rather than comparing their 20% to our 10% and then mentioning the real unemployment rate as an addendum.
Well in Denmark at least there are several online groceries doing very well with delivery directly to the door.

Also services like Waitersonwheels and in Europe justeat.com deliver restaurant food directly to your door.

With regards to cars the it's the transaction between buyer and seller thats important.

I also seem to remember that several homedepot shops in europe are doing pretty well.

With regards to gazoline then sure but that still leaves a lot of other areas well served.

I think you are setting up some fake boundaries with regards to what constitute e-commerce in most of those areas.
Tell HN: Feedback Desired - Time Clock Software
My New Project - Sipen Time Clock Software: http://www.sipen.com

I had a project in the past that was simple time clock software. I have redesigned it, and I am going to start charging for it. I wrote the application from scratch, and it was quite a bit of work compared to the original.

It can be found at http://www.sipen.com if you would like to check it out. If anyone can provide feedback, it would be appreciated. It is still in 'beta' basically because there are small bugs I may need to fix. Any input (negative or positive) would be appreciated.
Dummy account? Along with the other 3 that were created in the past hour?
You know all that stuff that you strip out when you send content to mobile devices? Just get rid of it. What makes you think everyone does want to see that cruft on desktops, notebooks, or tablets?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922041
Note for Australians: These tweaks to the rules almost certainly apply to E3 visas, which would allow you to go to the States with your opposite-sex married partner, and they'd then be allowed to work in any job without further approval from the federal government.

(Through an odd quirk of a US immigration directive, it also allows you to take your non-US same sex partner to the States, but they aren't allowed to work in any capacity. It must be about the only place where US immigration recognizes same-sex relationships.)
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Thanks for the comments guys. I just thought I would clarify one thing. My values list is sorted by most important to least and then certain values, including "being adored by society" is circled in red.

Now, that's an important distinction. The ones circled in red mean they are in conflict with "truth" and therefore is a value I have to work to eliminate from my life.

I believe that everyone has values such as these, where for one reason or another, you've learned to value it even at a subconscious level -- the best you can do is write it down, acknowledge it, and then work to eliminate it.
Perhaps, but I don't believe that $20 a month will be easily swallowed during a time of low consumer confidence.
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Oh, and just to make you aware, I have not added the client features yet. (I am planning to allow you to add clients so you can create invoices and print them or send them via email.) Cumulative daily totals are also created for the timestamp viewing page, but I have not pushed the hourly totals live yet.
Let's suppose your talking about an executive making 20 million a year who spends 2 days traveling for that lunch. 20,000,000 * 2 / 365 = 109,589$. Granted he can get some stuff done while traveling, but it's also far less than what he could do in the office and it will ofen take more than 2 days once you include jetlag etc. I have no problem saying that handshake could be worth 10k, but once the numbers start growing you start talking about someone’s full time salary for a year and I have trouble thinking that handshake is of that magnitude.
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Google employees have on average 20 more IQ points than Motorola employees
not before they've installed them they don't.
That's why I love the Zappos story at http://consumerist.com/2007/10/zappos-sends-you-flowers.html - customer service for a "normal" like me, not the person that runs HARO & has a huge following.
Allowing individuals to sign up via their Facebook accounts, Google, etc. has already been considered, and I am going to implement that in the future.
More like over zealous fans of the original author. And, of course, the original author of the post. I believe new accounts don't have up votes though, so I don't think they can "game the system" if you're worried.
Or, for ~30 with shipping, you could get one of [these](http://www.dealextreme.com/p/personal-cell-phone-signal-bloc...). I have one, it's awesome.
Great PR. You know who else would have done this, and you wouldn't have bothered to even tweet or write a blog post about it? Your mother.

Sounds like a best seller in the making to me, "Everything I learned about PR I learned from my mom."
Even better - this is for new contracts. People can always just not sign up for AT&T in the first place!
For now, provided the merger doesn't go through. And provided you're not under contract with AT&T.
What do you mean by "uneeded things"?

Why have you linked to the GitHub front page?
Hi,
This is Joel, the developer of awesome screenshot the article mentioned.
First of all, I apologize for what I did for it in the last version a day ago.

I'd like to share with you my intension for this amazon + google search feature.

1) It's from my need. When I search some shopping items from google, I always want to check them in amazon also.

2) It can help us make small mount of money.

3) I provide an option to disable it.

However, I did it in a wrong way. I should did it like this:
1) Disable it by default.
2) Ask user's permission to enable it
3) Tell users why we add it.

I did it wrong but still respect users. This feature exists only one day and I removed it in the new version(3.2.1).