skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accessible read on banking: http://mises.org/mysteryofbanking/mysteryofbanking.pdf

I have always found the "back stories" on how/why our economy came into existence to be "pulled out of thin air". I just started reading this new book: http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1933633867
I'm only about 1/3 the way into it, but so far impressed.
Is making up another Google & Facebook really hard?
No, the original link is correct -- about 27% of people of 25 have a college degree of BA or higher. If you extend the age (say to 30 or 35), you don't see much difference.

"go to [some] college" (68%) and "graduate from college by age 25" (27%) are COMPLETELY different statistics. Lots and lots of working class people graduate with decent grades, go to the local state college, don't fit in (or party too much), and drop out.

And going to 3.5 years of college and dropping out versus a BA makes a HUGE difference in career outcomes later -- it is a discontinuous jump.
When I talk about shares/options, I am serious. I am not trying to con you to be a low-paid slave. I want to share our prosperity and success with you when the time comes.

Does this mean employees get stock options, or are they promised to get stock options?
This is an almighty big deal. I missed it (everyone was talking about distributed computing), but what Hadoop's done is make conventional BI providers look increasingly unimpressive. Systems like Storm are going to do the same - as the Twitter Engineering blog post points out - to CEP.
They can fix that in post now.
Augh! Try not to spend too much time on that slide puzzle :P http://i.imgur.com/za6IN.png
You may mean "convex hull"; you should be able to find 2D and 3D algorithms easily (Wikipedia?).

Graphically:

X--X X-X X--X--X-X
| | / / | /
X X- | X X |
\ --X \ --X
X--/ X--/

Possible polygon Convex hull
based on the points of the points
marked X marked X
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Same for me. For example, I like using git gui or tortoisehg when doing complex commits as those tools enable me to find, inspect and select all necessary files faster than typing a command for each file/task. For examining recent log entries or switching branches, pushing etc., I prefer the cli. For complex file tasks I use mc, which is a nice hybrid solution between a gui and a bare cli.
Finding the convex hull of a collection of points is a studied problem, so you can use an existing solution:

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

Alternatively, willvarfar's approach is faster for large n, but the polygon won't be as pretty.
I'm a huge Sagan fan, and while I agree that Tyson doesn't have quite the same charisma, he does have a charisma of his own.

The big question I have is, being on a major network owned by a well-known conservative mogul, will the show be able to take the same stance on religion as its original incarnation. Will Tyson be allowed to refer to religion as, "a reassuring fable?"

For the sake of the integrity of a successor to Cosmos, I certainly hope so.
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For music, you should try a proper music player, like MPD and ncmpcpp. It has a music database, playlists and all that stuff.
Seriously, it would be interesting to see your code. As an Erlang inventor/developer it would be interesting to see how the language is actually used and how that relates to the problems people have.

I agree that not having Erlang competence in your company IS a good reason to change language.
it is human nature to support ideas that make you happy. nobody wants to be told that their country's economic system is failing. people love to be told that everything is peachy and they have nothing to worry about. attempting to educate people about a gloomy topic is just going to make them dislike you as well.
mises.org has a lot of economic and political theory, and it ties both together rather well.
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actually if you look at the patents (not the trademark claims), they are not "mobile". Touchscreen != mobile. IM != mobile. Etc.
Oh Graeber's book is out! Lovely! I have been passing around his essay by the same name for some time now. Should be a good intro to the book http://blog.longnow.org/2010/04/22/debt-the-first-five-thous...

I would also recommend anything by David Harvey. Start out with this animated version of one of his talks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
Then move on to his Capital vol. 1 lecture series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBazR59SZXk There is also a book format of his reading guide
...one of those things is Google may not be appropriately organized to operate in some of the markets it has chosen to enter...

Uh, Google is organized enough to create a profitable OS which well on the way to becoming the dominant smart phone OS in the world.

"Appropriately" here would mean that "organized to join the patent mafia"?
"functors" in c++, ML, haskell, prolog
Two more sites: I use http://economistsview.typepad.com/ to get a summary of opinions and links to other sources, and I understand there are now some finance videos/courses at http://khanacadmey.org under the Banking/Money section (I haven't vetted them yet).
Where's the difference?
i didn't find Planet Earth to be nearly as compelling as David Attenborough's Life of Mammals/Birds/Insects. the former was constantly trying to wow me with its photography (with narration reminding me to be wowed), while the latter had more profound things to say about ecology and evolution.
and 1 more source: http://www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf
Where is that at? I grew up in Peru outside of Auburn, went to school in Auburn.
Wealth of Nations, seriously. Over two hundred years ago Adam Smith laid out the important concepts.
Austrian school covers many disciplines -- economics, history, law, politics etc. One can reasonably disagree with their views on, say, economics science, but calling it all just "politics" is simply an incorrect portrayal of what they do.
What frustrates me the most about your blog is the fact that when I want to know what the heck Minutebox is, the link doesn't really work.
No mention of microdata?

http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/

As someone who has had serious reservations about the so-called semantic web being highjacked by academics who are out of touch with actual web development, I gotta give props to Hixie & co. for the microdata spec.

Granted microdata is almost certainly the least sexy part of HTML5 but it might be worth mentioning.
I dunno, I have seen him several times on Real Time with Bill Mahr and he does a fine job of holding his own on the panel. He even gave a couple of passionate rants that had the audience cheering last night.
Where did you get the info that it was 27% of people aged 25 (i.e., excluding people older)? I would be very interested to know more. It bolded right in the original article that it's 25+: "Only 27.5% of the U.S population 25 and older has a bachelors degree."
This is an honourable position to take. Unfortunately, it still leaves you stuck not being able to pay people wages they require for financial stability.
Use of a computer shouldn't be a visual experience for most tasks. You have a mental model of what's going on, and then poke stuff to verify the model and to affect state.

> However, teaching the average person to use a new
> piece of software is near impossible without
> utilizing their incredible brain power for visual
> recognition.

This is a good point. Visual recognition helps with the first hurdle of learning.

But when users encounter complexity they'll look for their GUI tool to reach the right standard. GUI approaches don't scale well to complexity. You end up with industries surrounding successful GUI software to help people deal with what is now a constricting user interaction model.

There are other models to consider than GUI or CLI. The Bloomberg model offers discoverable, keyboard-driven interaction but nicely-formatted feedback. It's easy to teach too.
As I said, we may not be satisfied with the control, but isolation is in fact a type of control.
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Yet surprisingly it explains the shitstorm we have today better than most textbooks based on monetarist, keynesian, or efficient market theorists.
I'm generally with Seth Godin when he says that the two elements that make a great presentation are respect and love:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/the-two-elem...

What makes Carl Sagan so good is that he has an extraordinary amount of love for the audience. It's pretty clear that this stems from his use of empathogenic drugs like cannabis. (Or at least, it would be extremely rare for someone to be able to project that much love and empathy for others without the use of psychedelics or empathogens, at least in western society.)

edit: I would define charisma more as the ability to make yourself loveable, which is basically the opposite of what Sagan does so well.
There's no clean way to separate the two at the macroeconomic level. I see Keynesianism as very political now, too; the empirical evidence that it is correct is very much lacking compared to how many devotees it has.
To the best of my knowledge, there's no way to do this. Which is good, because I'd be very annoyed if you added me without explicit consent.

Also, there are few general social networks, and there are good reasons for that.
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The federal reserve banks have some good resources, but I would go through these in this order:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/default.htm >> http://www.federalreserve.gov/pf/pf.htm

http://www.khanacademy.org/#current-economics >> http://www.khanacademy.org/#banking-and-money

http://research.stlouisfed.org/

To qualify this, I do have a B.S. degree in Econ.

[ADDED]: An important component of risk analysis is political risk (but it is often overlooked in discussions dealing with the U.S. due to the perception that it is most stable alternative). There is a fine Wikipedia article that discusses this, and in light of the recent downgrade, may help explain things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_risk
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Disagree. Neil is an amazing speaker and educator on science. I'd say the best since Carl Sagan. Like Carl, I'd be willing to sit down and listen to him talk about anything he wanted, for hours and hours, with the same sense of wonder and inspiration.

If Carl was a poet, Neil is an orator. Here's a great example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQhNZENMG1o

Sure I'd love to have Carl back to do Cosmos II as well, but unfortunately that isn't possible.
This almost sounds like a No True Scotsman, but I don't think it is, if you perform this text replacement:

s/really using/exploiting the unique advantages offered by/
Those mises.org people are neo-confederate crypto-racists. It's great if you're interested in the economics of feudalism.
There is a little bit of good information in there, but his theories of value are terrible. When you read this do yourself a favor and research the subjective theory of value as well. It describes the real world far better than the labor theory of value.
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What's the source for your number?

The original article is about all people "25 and older", not "25".

The census data he's quoting is "Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2005-2009":

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
Show me in the book where that's true.
I am a dev over at Stack Overflow, and built my other startup (Alikewise) on ASP.net MVC. My reasons for choosing the platform, like Atwood & Spolsky's, is that it's what I knew. The skills of the team outweigh the (largely subtle) differences between platforms.

An upside for us is that we've been able to get crazy performance as we've grown. All of Stack Exchange runs on around a dozen servers, all underutilized.

An exception I might offer is node.js -- it's really quite different and may be the right thing for a certain type of high-throughput, message-driven app.

(Happy to answer q's, matt@stackoverflow.com)
Tyson tweeted out yesterday: "Simple Logic: Worried that FOX viewers don't know, think, or care about science? That's why COSMOS belongs on FOX."

It's being written by the same writers (aside from Carl) as the first one, and produced by Seth MacFarlane, someone who doesn't take shit from FOX. Tyson also doesn't seem like a guy who would corrupt his morals, he knows the value of scientific passion.

FOX isn't Fox News, so don't worry too much. I'm not, at least.
You an accomplish italics/quotes using asterisks, like so
But since they wrote an interpreter for Lisp in C++, they couldn't have been that afraid, at least not all of them

Another interpretation is that this is like the “comb-over” syndrome. How does a middle-aged man end up with a comb-over, given that everybody knows it’s a lame look? The answer is that it creeps up on him day by day, there is no one moment in time when he asks himself, “Should I comb my hair over?”

Likewise, whenever you see a Greenspunned[1] system, there is rarely a moment in time when some bright and ambitious person decided that the right thing to do was to sit down and implement half of Common Lisp. Instead, they make a series of small daily decisions (add this, change that, add such-and-such a feature, whoops, to fix that bug we need to do this...) that end up accreting into an interpreter for Lisp.

I don’t know the whole story, perhaps they did decide to write such an interpreter right from the start. But it could be that they initially decided to write something very small and specific, but wound up with a comb-over.

[1]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Greenspun%27s...
I don't think it's a tautology, just getting too hand-wavy on an important point.

What does it mean to really use a programming language? I take it to mean that your task aligns with the strengths of the language. I can use the butt of a screwdriver to drive in a nail, but hammers certainly are better at the task. Programming languages are similar, but defining the strengths of the languages and the needs of your task are monstrously more complex.

One strength, and weakness, of Lisp is its malleability. The language itself can be turned into almost anything you want or need. If your purpose is to demonstrate possibility, few tools are better. At this point you can really use Lisp, because at this point you are free to exercise the strengths that only Lisp has.

Once that possibility is known, though, this strength becomes a form of weakness. The project should now move with purpose, methodically exploring the problem space. You draw attention, hopefully money, and with it more team members. What was a single vision wrought in code now must be the coordinated effort of a large group. You can no longer really use Lisp because the group is too large and sharing the knowledge of a newly built language feature takes more time than the feature saves. So, you stop really using Lisp and just use it, carefully selecting the subset of tools that allow people to work together.

Or, you rewrite, in some language whose strengths are more in line with the needs of your now larger project. Then you are really using that language. I don't see tautology or contradiction here, only shifting requirements that we fail to acknowledge.
It is often sensible to fail to believe in something in the absence of evidence for that something.
I would disagree with your statement about religion, on the grounds that Cosmos itself is inherently religious. The word religion just means the search for our origins, which is exactly what Cosmos (and science in general) is all about. There is nothing supernatural or mythological implied, and the failure of rational, scientifically-oriented people to embrace the term only further encourages its abuse by extremists.
A meta-comment on the answers to this question: For various reasons, a disproportionate number of HN commenters are fans of "Austrian School" economics. You'll see links to papers from mises.org, books by Murray Rothbard, etc. Without passing judgment on any of this work, if you're new to economics it would probably be helpful for you to understand that it's outside the mainstream.

To answer your question more directly (although only partially): Wikipedia is quite good on the major economic concepts and figures. I'd imagine that the Wikipedia article on any of the subjects you mentioned would be a good, brief, thoroughly hyperlinked starting point. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation, for example.
I'd suggest e-mailing students from the school network as a marketing strategy, providing them with a Facebook Connect link, and hoping they'll be interested enough to sign up.
Yes, if it's a good fit.
Are ‘hopeless’ startups our best hope for sustainable jobs?
It's no use to throw rocks at you people. I guess it's not so much the fact you 50 and 60-somethings are relatively very well off by profiting from the situation until now that makes people angry (hey, a lot of you worked hard as well for it), it's the fact a lot of you are so cavalier and casual about it, and like to dangle that fact in front of our noses all the time.

In any case, I do hope you enjoy the fact you're rich, at the expense of your own children. Well played I guess.

If you haven't got any children, perhaps you need to be kind to that girl changing your shit-filled diaper in the elderly home.
What does margin have to do with it?
Why is using the money efficiently important?
What is your definition of efficiency?

Lets assume he is dirt poor, rather than broke. Everyone needs food and groceries. If he spends the food-stamps on food, he will likely spend the money that he would have spent on groceries on something else. By giving food stamps, you've given him a surplus of money, so he'll buy something that he needs but can do without, or a luxury good that he wants.

Lets assume now he is rich. We give him a tax break equivalent to the food-stamps (or even the same food stamps). He's already buying everything he wants and putting some in the bank. With the food stamps, he is able to put more in the bank. If the money is in the bank, it can be loaned to the poor guy, but it is actually (eventually) taking money out of the economy when it is loaned... the poor guy has to eventually pay it back to the bank with a few % interest.... it isn't actually getting 'spent' on anything.
Economics is a value-free science, in that it analyses real-life processes and policy implications _without_ prescribing what specific goals are to be pursued by the policy makers.

Politics (unlike _political science_, arguably) is all about promoting specific values and fulfilling special interests. It's not necessarily "bad", it is just not what economics is about. Economics provides the tools for analyzing what _means_ are appropriate (or not) for attaining some or other ends, but the latter lie outside of the scope of economics as a science.
He said, "A good chunk of the post-9/11 air patrols in North America were flown by allied aircraft."

The article says:

" Five NATO planes have arrived at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma"

and:

"Most of the United States' 30 AWACS, based at Tinker, have been flying around-the-clock surveillance of U.S. airspace..."

In my opinion, the phrase, "a good chunk of" is dubious. In a few minutes of Googling, I could find no indication of how many missions (if any) those NATO planes flew.
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Is this an argument claiming something can't ever happen, not because its impossible, but because its -bloody hard-?

That's a ridiculous argument...and remember, the example was ridiculous, talking about a world where only 10% of people had jobs: People would build -very difficult- things to find employment. (incidentally, we're all of us doing harder(cognitively) things than our ancestors to find employment today.)
Is that a big deal? I've laughed at plenty of jokes the Simpsons have thrown at Rupert Murdoch and FOX.
Where is this setting now?

Edit: Found it in Friends -> some arrow button on the top-right -> Sync contacts -> Enable. So you can go there if you want to enable/disable the feature.

When I installed the app, Facebook didn't even ask me if I wanted to enable it. I actually manually typed all of my contacts instead. I wish I knew about it before :(
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Learning Lisp - Why?
No.

Let's say you are sitting at your desk and your boss asks you to code a solution to a problem, let's call it Problem Zebra.

If you flip open your laptop, roll a die labeled with 6 programming languages that you know, and then write code in whatever language you roll, that solves Problem Zebra, that is "using a language".

If you flip open your laptop, and before you start typing you think, "I need to solve Problem Zebra, which is a type of Mammal Problem, and Language Y is often used to solve Mammal Problems because the designers of Y added constructs A and B specifically to help solve Mammal Problems (because that's the genre of problems they focus on at work)," and then you write code in Language Y and use A and B, that is "really using a language".
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I refuse to get dragged into a silly debate about semantics; the context of my use of the word religion is quite clear and is well-accepted meaning as the word relates to organized religions which believe in the mythological.
You are being naive, by thinking that if Google says it's "open source" it has no leverage with it. "Open source" is a very misleading label Google also uses here. Google owns Android, they make Android - how can anyone break this by modifying it?
I wonder what life would be like if salaries were publicized in the same way as professional athletes.

I've had situations where extremely intelligent and productive fellow employees left the company because they found out someone else of the same level was making a lot more than they were. And by the time they offer a raise, the employee has already emotionally moved onto other pastures.

I'll admit that when I found out someone else was making a lot more despite putting in less hours, my motivation within the company dropped dramatically and I put in my notice a few days later. It's not that my only motivation was money but I lost a lot of respect for mgmt.

I do think the argument is funny sometimes. I'm not saying that the author believes this, but I've seen other owners come across like, "we're not trying to be greedy... we really don't have much money." Okay, so then why not tell me what everyone is earning and owns so that I know where I fit in? Oh right... you want to get away with the minimal amount you can get paying me.
I think I'm most blown away by Seth MacFarlane's involvement in putting this together. I didn't know the guy had such a deep respect for science and a desire to impact our understanding of it.
Oh so Google is offering stuff free because it's being nice! Very funny. I guess MS was also then being nice by offering IE for free to everyone? They did it because they were nice, not because they wanted to have everyone who offered non-free alternatives marginalized and killed, right?
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Data > anecdote, but in my book anecdote > bald assertion.
True, I expect there's not one and only resource. I'd like to know of quality resources from different models, even contradictory ones.

By just reading the news I learn about facts but not about underlying processes, root causes etc.

Not about why it is necessary to bail out Greece with different scenarios that could play out if we don't do it.
Thanks for the link mark!
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