skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is from pyOhio hosted by Ohio State University in case anyone is curious.

(http://pyohio.org/)
On resisting shiny objects (blog vs. Google+)
More like: not all models of teaching require grades.
I don't understand why saying your education has failed you is considered offensive. In the US we say that about high schoolers all the time but it's a knock on the education system not the students.
As of two days ago, GPGMail plugin doesn't work with Lion.

100% dealbreaker for me.

(And when it does, I'll gladly upgrade!).
Can anyone explain how this differs from the MIMO radios what have been around for years?
But will it matter? The more automated the production of essentials become, the less expensive they become. As a result, we may get to a point that the world economy is all about trading natural resources that go to providing people with their essentials. People can then build their own wants beyond that in a way similar to bartering.

The problem, of course, is the 10-20 years between "there are too few jobs" and "everything we need is available" and governments need to actively work to support populations through it. Unfortunately, very, very few governments seem to be able to look to the future.
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You could argue that in the skill level required to transition from destroyed jobs to created has changed. When the economy transitioned from farming to manufacturing a farmer could begin working in a factory with little training. Now automation is beginning to eliminate jobs at some skill levels. For these displaced workers to find new jobs years of training could be required. If the rate that jobs are being eliminated is greater than the rate that workers can train for newly created jobs and reenter the workforce then there could be a larger percentage of unemployed workers than has been seen historically.
The pertinent part of US statute is 35 USC 271(e)(1).

I wasn't fully cognisant of the Madey vs Duke decision but it does address the situation of attempting to hide commercial action behind a guise of scientific experiment. The "philosophical inquiry" (sic) surely covers experiment that is not motivated by commercial interests.

They've gone too far IMO, the German position appears to hold most closely to the purpose of the patent system where they are more liberal in allowing commercially motivated experiment (and rightly), how else can improvements and developments be made.

Merck vs Integra appears to reverse this to some extent but is specific to the area of FDA testing and is thus quite hard to apply generally IMO.

As far as the European/UK position most states appear to follow the once proposed but unimplemented CPC Art.27(b) and thus have statutory exemptions for research use.

In particular in the UK, Patents Act as amended, SS60(5) states that use of a patent is not infringing if:

(a) it's for personal use
(b) it's done for experiment
...

See for example the MPP, www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-060.pdf. The 2006 Gowers Review gave as it's first recommendation that this section should be clarified to make it clear that research was an allowed, non-infringing, activity.
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You're cheating; you didn't give me your full name. That's because it doesn't matter in communities outside your close group of friends. And the more i know about you, the more i 'm bound to apply my racist stereotypes to you. What if I am a persian who supports Ahmad18stan? I think there are better ways to have spirited discussions than saying "real names solve everything"; They don't, we should be able to do better with an efficient text filter. The internet is revolutionary because it is flat. Personal name weight, honorary knighthoods, twitter followers or criminal past should not weigh on someone's opinion.
But you have to pay a company to "post it", don't you?
There's nothing to stop you trivially scripting either of these. I expect Thunderbird or Mail can run scripts on incoming email, so you could have a printing, archiving, grepping, forwarding email account, if you liked.
Personal opinion: it's at least partly genetic. I think about how human societies evolved. You needed a few leaders and a majority of hunters/gatherers/soldiers. A few people are born with more drive, ambition, intellectual curiosity, call it what you will. The majority are content to be told what to do, in exchange for having their basic needs and security taken care of. Its fundamentally the same thing that leads to "alpha" wolves in a pack.
Airbnb isn’t resting when it comes to rolling out new security features
It's difficult for me to buy Tyler Cowen's thesis that all of the huge gains in marginal productivity have been tapped. If you're a developer, you tend to see incomprehensible inefficiency everywhere, especially if you consult for larger organizations or work on applications that involve human collaboration. I think a more probable explanation for "The Great Stagflation" is the unprecedented level of market intervention and regulation that did not exist during the industrial revolution.
Entrepreneurs:  how many jobs do you think you're going to create?
Actually, this can be broken down a bit more: How many people do you want or need to hire directly? And how many net jobs do you think your business will create/destroy in the larger economy?

How much does your business's impact on employment influence your thinking and day-to-day activity?
> The person who grows up being intellectually curious will have a big heads up in the job market since they will have acquired more information than the other applicants.

I unfortunately do not agree with you. Despite how much it kills me to admit this, intellectual curiosity (at least in the legal world) is more of a cancer... you don't want people who will bury themselves learning as much as they can about a topic. This mindset is discordant with the concept of deadlines, because it's almost impossible to estimate the duration of something that is by definition factorial in complexity. As such, employers in fields so heavily dictated by deadlines are not looking for people who thrive on learning...they're looking for people who thrive on completing the task that they're assigned--even if it means suppressing their intrinsic desire to learn in favor of an extrinsic motivator: $$$.
While sad, this doesn't surprise me in the least. I reported probably half a dozen vulnerabilities, none of which I believe were ever fixed. I tried to stress the impact of the vulnerabilities (which ranged from CSRF to XSS to, I believe, SQLi, although I can't recall whether that was MyBitcoin or elsewhere) and it just didn't sink in.

If you're going to deal with money in any way, please for the love of god, think about security. Even if you're not going to have an external security test, at least internalize the OWASP Top 10, how to recognize and discover them, and their mitigations.
The EFF wruteup...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hija...

...makes it clearer the affiliate-payments scam, making these redirected searches look like paid clickthroughs, is central to the Paxfire approach. That's clearly fraudulent, and not equivalent to the Google tracking. (If they were just collecting interest/trsffic/targeting info, then the equivalence I suggested above would apply.)
In the early 19th century, the Luddites protested (and destroyed) automated looms that could be operated by cheap, relatively unskilled labor.
You've excised the first part of that line of 35 USC that says something to the effect of "not withstanding that set out elsewhere in this statute".

The UK SS60 does the same thing, "Subject to the provisions of this section" (SS60(1)) means that you have to read the whole part, even down to UKPA Section 60(5) which makes it clear that experiment and personal use are allowed (not withstanding bad caselaw to the contrary that someone may raise??).
I'm torn. On the one hand, my understanding is that the concept of a Montessori school is based on the notion of exploratory learning for young children, and there was an article recently that remarked on the unusually high rate of Montessori-schooled individuals in places of power. So there is some sort of lesson to be drawn from this idea, namely: send your kids to a Montessori school.

But I don't like the characterization of the preferred drive for approval in writing from an adult as a "cancer", and I think it obscures the fact that at some point grades and such will become important because society is going to have to sort them, and grades are just the sorting mechanism.

I think that for each socio-economic stratum there is going to be some optimal transition age which puts the students in the best position to succeed, make money, have families, found companies, make great art, heal people better, make scientific discoveries, etc... and ultimately have more kids.

Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-...
You're confusing job killers with net job killers, a distinction pg clearly makes in his post.
Thank you for that. ZatAoMM (whoa acronym) has always been on my list to read, but this little excerpt has helped to propel it near to the top of my list.

So thank you muchly!
The reason why America doesn't have more good jobs is that America is no longer the preferred place to run capital-intensive businesses that can employ large numbers of semi-skilled workers at high wages. For a large part of the 20th century, America was the best place to locate high-tech factories. Cadillacs were built in Detroit. Now Apple iphones are built in Shenzhen.

The Americans that 40 years ago would be engaged in building and running factories employing hundreds and thousands of semi-skilled workers (requiring millions of dollars of capital), are now employing tens of high-skilled workers (requiring thousands of dollars of capital.)

In short, the capital per entrepreneur ratio in America has dropped. As a result, entrepreneurs are employing fewer people.
Even if it was backed, up, the attacker would simply have transferred the BTC to a different wallet so they couldn't be recovered.

I mean, if you could, then you could duplicate BTC. lol That would be some flaw.
He obviously has a list to learn from. That's 'everything' in this context.
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An alternative anecdote: I often received poor marks in school because I was curious about learning things that were unrelated to what was being taught at the given time.

I distinctly remember sitting in high school math class solving some mathematical problems that were to be taught later because it was interesting and applicable to my learning needs at that point in time. The topic the teacher wanted to teach that day was not applicable to the problems I needed to solve at that moment, so it made no sense to learn it on that very day.

If marks had been a concern of mine, I would have had to have given my teachers at least some attention, taking time away from my education.
They just say that but in fact you can mount the desk anywhere. They assume you'll mount the 2 smaller surfaces above the main one but I mounted them underneath. The side rails have uniformly shaped mounting holes along the entire surface, top to bottom.
The market segment was still alive and well as of 2000, bigger than ever, and technically you can still buy SPARCs and POWER workstations.
High value goods mostly, the same thing the US builds. China is a powerhouse of simpler things (though improving); Germany does the complex stuff (automobiles, machine tools, bullet trains, etc.)

On a related note, US is also a manufacturing powerhouse still. Its manufacturing GDP per capita is only about 20% below Germany - and absolutely it is the largest in the world by far (using nominal conversion rates). It though is producing far higher value per employee than Germany, and astronomically higher than China.
Actually besides airport taxiing and unexpected events there's no reason to have humans in the cockpit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
I think there's a chicken-and-egg issue here, as most websites are designed with left or top navigation.

It's also dependent on the subject matter and expectations of the subjects. Alfred Yarbus did eye tracking studies in the 60s that show that there is no "default" saccade path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking
Technology is essential to economic growth. When you accomplish a task with fewer resources and less labor, you have extra resources.

You can take those extra resources and spend it on something else or lend it to someone else to spend on something else. There is no loss of jobs over all. The jobs have just moved.

This is a process that has been going on forever. And its responsible for the high standard of living enjoyed by industrialized societies.

Its only because of technology and the capital it has created that enable workers to get high wages. If wages didn't rise, workers would have a strong incentive to compete with their employers. They can borrow money and buy the same technology. This is exactly what goes on in Silicon Valley. And everywhere else in the world.

The current dearth of jobs in many fields is the result of the collapse of the housing bubble and government policies that impair recovery, not being able to do more with less.
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United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
it will not replace jobs that need to happen in person.

I think we'll soon see robots take many of those jobs.

And yes, I'm frequently ridiculed for that opinion. But I really think it will happen during my (late) lifetime.
This comment would imply the cause was wealth disparity. What were the rich doing to exploit the poor (other than not giving them money).
So you're saying that a Facebook account should probably be added to the list of Fundamental Human Needs? Because anything not on that list is a want, and you do not (yet) have a right to have your wants the way you want them.
It is a cancer and I could care less how useful grades are to society. I treat society like it treats me, a mark on a piece of paper somewhere. I'm not a grade I'm a person. If not having a great means society can't sort me then all the better, I don't want to be anywhere near the people who care to be sorted.
> Perhaps net total jobs is still on the rise, but the rate of population growth is that much faster than the rate of jobs created.

The rate of population growth is declining, especially in developed nations. The UN estimates that the world population will peak at ~9B in the 2050s and then begin falling. Also, the demographic balance is changing because there will be fewer young people in the job market.

So perhaps the jobs/people ratio will improve, but these same demographic changes (and increasing life expectancy) pose big questions about fewer workers supporting healthcare and government services for more older people.
Ah - you're interested in releasing press releases, not generating them.

I would start contacting relevant blogs / bloggers directly. If you can get it picked up in a few major channels, it will echo. Posting to HN can also be a good method. In either case, it helps to have a good presentation with some appropriate media content so that it's easy to prepare a compelling article about it.
Where's the octopus?
I don't believe that technology has suddenly killed millions of jobs.

No, it's fear. Banks are afraid to lend, and so SMBs can't expand. Corporations, sitting on trillions of dollars, are afraid to hire because they think it's too risky.

Catch-22.
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Then it's fair game to say you should have an apostrophe after "jig."
Well, population growth has also been the case all along (for centuries), so the "why now?" question would be the same. Increased population is also an increase in consumers.
> PG, what probability would you assign to the propositions "This time things are different" (empirically: the jobs won't come back 5 years from now) vs. "This time things are not different" (empirically: the jobs will come back 5 years from now)? Warning, if your probabilities are extreme enough, someone might want to bet you on it.

What odds would you bet on?

I'll lay you 10:1 that world GDP continues to trend up barring WWIII or other force majeure type event.

Some nations will net lose though. The American currency trades at roughly +25% worldwide due to stability/prestige, and the recent administrations are really doing all they can to undermine both of those. So, American could net lose jobs and net lose GDP (implausible, but possible). But worldwide? Massive increases.

So anyways, what odds on what proposition are you looking for, and what timeline? We're both semi-public figures, I reckon we'd both be good for the money :)

(Rest of the comment is insightful and huge fan of your work, rationality, HPMOR, etc, etc, etc. But I'll lay favorable odds on "this time is not different")

Edit: To clarify, I'm disputing this from the article as I think PG is: "Our new economy is shrinking because technology leads to efficiency over growth." I don't think it is. World GDP continues to massively increase. I also think if America would get out of making financial fuckery the top government and private priority and get back into the entrepreneurship/production/hardwork then the USA will continue to do quite well, too.
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From a purely technical perspective, how do you build a voting mechanism like this? What common tools/languages are involved?

Disclaimer: I'm a student trying to learn front-end interactive design.
Continuous assessment should happen every time someone's teaching. This is "formative assessment", and is essential for informing teaching practice. That doesn't mean you give the students grades.
U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P
Check out the book "punished by rewards". Also explains why achievements in video games are such a bad idea.
The accident involved three Priuses and two Accords. How California!
It's a wonderful book. I read it before I'd been exposed to too much other philosophy and I thought it was the greatest thing that had ever been written. Then in college I started reading a lot of other philosophy and didn't ever quite reach the same passionate reaction I had with ZAMM. It's both engaging and deep.
Another anecdote: when I was young, I just wanted to be on top in class - that kept me busy, but might would have killed my curiosity.

Just in time, I changed to a high school for five years where we could visit voluntary courses in biology, electronics, math, sports, computer sciences, chemistry, drama and everything - no marks. We would even come to school before our first regular class, just to listen to a teacher philosophizing about some travelling salesman problem (we were about 13) and similar miracles from a math perspective. This school cultivated an atmosphere of both curiosity and competition - and could actually deliver - half of our teachers were PhDs - most of them eager to teach, learn, experiment and messing up labs until sunset.
When will people learn that trusting a (possibly unreliable) third party with your money was exactly the sort of thing that bitcoin was supposed to obviate?
Regarding 3), I would guess that re-education always seems more difficult initially and the hurdles are reduced overtime. It must seem have seemed impossible that a farmer would be able to operate a machine in a factory, initially. Also, there are always new people entering the work force that are being educated under the new paradigm.

These days it appears that a lot of effort and innovation is focused on creating services that encourage the 'democratization of software development' which allows traditionally non-technical people to more easily create software and online services. Think Heroku, dotCloud, Twilio, etc. This innovation will continue to lower the barriers of entry into the new economy and allow normals to build.

When you hear people say 'this time it's different' it almost never is.
Great! I love amateur-designed security protocols!
Looks like the online wallet niche just got a little more breathing room...
Not too crazy valuation. They only have 25M users, which by most web standards is not "that that" much. It is fair to say every user is worth $40.00/year. Dropbox goes mobile and becomes a default backup/sync app on Android and Iphone, add $1B. Dropbox becomes the place where I dump all my data, my own API, and lets services have access to different parts depending on settings, add $1B. Dropbox becomes mainstream and reaches 100M users, add $2B, .....
It's not! Just use the latest Apache. It works great. I have 30 domains on a single IP, all under SSL.
And by "they", you mean you, right? You are the CEO of Betable.
Warren Buffett knows a thing or two about the outlook for jobs. Here's what he said on July 8, 2011:
“We will come back big time on employment when residential construction comes back...it's not going to be 5 years from now...you will be surprised in my view how fast employment changes when that happens...I think in a few years we'll see unemployment at 6%"

Full interview here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/72140684/
The closure articles are a perfect reason for merging threads on HN. One of these appears weekly!
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Has the US ever not had a AAA credit rating from S&P (until now)?
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JVM

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Front-end:

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Could you please share a link to the article ?
Has always had AAA rating since the start of sovereign ratings. Look out below.
from the press release:

"The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. "
From the article: "illicit relations between a female cop and a police officer"

...are female cops not police officers? Are police officers never female? I hope I'm missing some detail in terminology because this smacks of sexism on the part of the author.
So that's what the Ann Rand utopia looks like...
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Many PR people, and other very public people, like movie actors, use pseudonyms. For privacy, marketing, or sometimes even to get a unique key, as in Screen Actors Guild.

Natalie Portman is not really Natalie Portman.
well, naturally, we are seeing why banks exist. Because people need a safe place to put their money.
I'm torn. I think the post has a point, but in my experience (as a teacher and as a student) the people who complain most vociferously about grades also tend to be the people who get the lowest grades. More importantly, the correlation between grades and competence isn't perfect -- but it's also much higher than zero. Most of the people I've met in the valley have earned fantastic grades, at the best universities. You can argue that this is mere correlation or selection bias, but regardless of the reason, the relationship still exists.

To paraphrase Churchill: grades are the worst system of measuring accomplishment, except for all the others we've tried.