skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been suspicious of this "spending is better than saving" mantra. I'm sure it's better in some situations, but I don't think it's better in general.

The point of an economy is not to spend money, it's to create more wealth for more people by allocating resources efficiently. If someone "hoards" money, and prices are stable, that person is effectively staying out of the resource-allocation business. It doesn't mean that there are fewer resources to allocate, it just means that other people are doing the allocating (even though those people collectively have less money because of "hoarders", prices are lower because of them, too).

You can make an argument that everyone needs to take part in efficiently allocating resources, and that makes a lot of sense. But to say that buying a bunch of consumer junk is a good way to do that is ridiculous (and bad for the environment).

A middle ground is to buy the things you need, a few things you want, and make conservative investments. That allows most individuals to mostly stay out of the resource allocation business, but still enjoy the benefits.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz fired, company up for sale
Two problems are the amount of boilerplate customization and wine&dining by high-cost sales guys to get deals. Both are not very startup-esque and leave a dirty feeling.
Here's the texture it uses (just from viewing source) - kind of interesting: http://alteredqualia.com/three/examples/obj/leeperrysmith/Ma...
I think the author's point is that the git internals (i.e. the .git folder) are simple; I don't think the author is disputing that the commands sitting on top of the git internals are sometimes horribly complicated.

The fact that the contents of the .git folder can be explained in ~2000 words (10 min of reading) is impressive--this would be impossible with a more complicated data model.

FWIW, compare:

http://www.google.com/search?q=what%20is%20in%20.svn%20folde...?

with

http://www.google.com/search?q=what%20is%20in%20.git%20folde...?

All the results for the svn search are about getting rid of these folders -- nothing explaining their contents.
Is this actually doing subsurface scattering or just taking normals that are barely in shadow and giving them a red glow? I can't tell which it is (and I'm not sure how I would visually.)
I'll chime in. I've been using them since 2007. For me, they're nice and straight-forward. They don't offer any bulk discounts (NN% off for 5 years, etc), but they do occasionally hold sales.

They also raised their rates a few times. When I first joined, they were $8.88/mo. Then they went to $9.29/mo, then $9.69/mo, and now $10.16/mo. Arguably, this may be one of their downsides, but I've never minded. I believe other registrars were also raising their rates around the same time too. (NOTE: prices include the ICANN fee.)
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Interesting concept.

I don't understand why this app needs to access my direct messages.

I'm gonna have to use a fake account.
The yahoo frontpage is still the starting destination for a large number of people. Without trying to draw conclusions about why people just like to use the frontpage as a jumping of place.
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Infochimps Acquires Tweet Curation Startup Keepstream
heroku has support for play, though it's not 2.0 yet. a free account might be a good workaround to your vps.
Critter is stronger than Stockfish
http://www.vlasak.biz/critter/

I think you're being too pessimistic. Even if high playing strength isn't achieved, using JS to do @home projects is huge, and putting it together in 48 hours is pretty sweet.
What risk? All the Bitcoin miners I know are patting each other on the back on how much mining their fancy GPU is doing. Risk: one or more graphics cards (that are also used to play videogames) and a slightly elevated electricity bill from leaving the computer on all day and night. There isn't a lot of effort or ingenuity going on here, just an information asymmetry.
Is there some statistics that proves there are less people worldwide doing work / employed today than say 50 years ago?
xrandr gives useful information on some cards. You can also try "nvidia-settings -q all" on nVidia boards (or try setting DynamicTwinView to false, see the nVidia docs).

As for the ambient lighting, I don't think it will once you use black electrical tape to attach the detector. TVs also usually aren't installed where subject to really bright light (e.g., direct sunlight) because then you can't see the screen.
> If you're doing animation in a first-pass UI, you're doing it wrong.

I have to disagree. If you are slapping in some animation eye candy after the fact, you are doing it wrong.

Animation's purpose is to explain the environment to the user. An environment void of animation has to use other metaphors to explain the surroundings, leading to completely different designs. At that point it is difficult to start to incorporate animation with real purpose.

It is not necessarily bad to design an interface without animations. Some computer systems cannot easily support animations. However, animations can give you some design liberties if animations are a core feature of your design; to add them later is too late.
When Bitcoin reaches supply maturity, there will be no more bitcoins to mine, making those that are currently held even more valuable, making those who hold them even more inclined to keep hoarding them, no?
"This application will not be able to:

Follow new people.

Update your profile.

Post Tweets for you.

Access your direct messages.

See your Twitter password."
Thanks for that list, it seems to me that this is the list all of the articles refer to.
Near Field Communication Will Make Our Daily Lives Better
Note that people treating the Swiss Franc as a commodity is harming the Swiss economy.

See http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/19/139791374/the-frid... and http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/06/140211340/swiss-to...
Too bad what he suggests requires skills that most people don't have, at least not yet. To achieve this utopic vision we need to drastically change our education from being job-driven towards being production-driven (e.g. teaching more practical programming to younger audiences, encouraging self-motivated thinking rather than homework burn-out). This is not an easy task.

I like his vision but I fail to see how it can work out. The reality is that people are lazy. While making stuff because you want to is awesome, most people would rather sit on the couch and consume. Its because they have to feed themselves and buy nice TVs that they go to work in the morning.
i found the pro git book a very good reading to understand git for the first time http://progit.org/book/
As time goes on, and technological abilities improve, more and more jobs will fall to "robots" or computerized replacements for real jobs. There will always be need for creative jobs, engineers, etc, but the non-skilled labor jobs will be less and less. I don't see how anyone could disagree that there is already a problem here, and in the future, there will be an even bigger problem. The only people able to get jobs will be educated/skilled. The lower class will grow lower and lower. Aside from that, in the "old days" women stayed at home and took care of the family. "Nowadays" women are going to work, and I think that is absolutely great! However, that is more people working, therefore less jobs available.

I'm sure we'll come up with a solution. Although I think the first step is admitting there is a problem. Innovation will come, it will just take time.

Imagine a self-sufficient world far more advanced than ours. Imagine a world that practically runs itself and leaves us to care for each other and blossom with nature. The only problem is, this imagination world would never be allowed by multinational corporations and big business. Wealth would be more evenly distributed, they can't have that.
"Net income in the first half of 2011 came to almost $500 million, according to the source, who wished to remain anonymous because privately-held Facebook does not disclose its results."
Actually, I'm writing an article about it: "Are headlines phrased as questions always best answered 'No'?"
I'm not sure the Post Office's problems are related to technology. Their union negotiated a "no layoff" provision in their contract just this year. Why would you agree to that as an employer? Then there is the problem of defined benefit pensions where you end up keeping people basically on staff long after they stop working for you. The Post Office needs to go bankrupt and clear these contracts out and move forward without a union ideally. They might need to wait for Obama to leave office before doing that.

As for jobs there's always work to be done. There's an infinite amount of work in fact. In a free market involuntary unemployment should be zero because someone would always be willing to pay something for a given amount of work. I have work I need done now that I just do not have time for. I also know finding someone to do that job for what I'm willing to pay is very hard since people seem to get by without working via means I do not fully understand. I'm at home today caring for my family who are basically all sick and I'm seeing a lot of men just wandering around doing nothing. I'm going to guess that the incentive to work is absent in their life for one reason or another.

Not sure libertarian means that you want people left out of the system and starving though. I am a libertarian and I've spent 90% of my time post college life running or helping to run a food pantry in my spare time. Seems silly to suggest that libertarians don't care about such things.
I think part of what Rushkoff is saying is that the transition from classified ads to Craigslist should be a win for society without caveats.

People placing ads are better off -- they don't have to pay to place the ads, and their ads are more widely seen. People responding to ads are also better off -- they don't have to buy newspapers, and have much better search and scan capabilities, et cetera.

But thousands of people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry, and thus are worse off. Yet the Craigslist transition has not taken anything away from society. Those that lost their jobs are not now contributing less to society -- their jobs would be glorified make-work in a post-Craigslist society. It should now be easier for society to feed, clothe, house & entertain these people than it was before, yet they are not getting fed, clothed, housed and entertained as well as they were before. It's also hard to argue that they do not deserve to be fed, clothed, housed and entertained.

It is a failure of capitalism. Markets are about the distribution of scarce goods, but do not work so well when the goods are not scarce. Capitalism is still better than every other system we're aware of, but I believe that there is a better system out there yet to be found, and Rushkoff is one of those helping to search for it.
The number depends on your cost structure. I can tell you that where I worked, we traditionally planned on keeping most servers in service for 40-72 months.

When Nehalem processors came out, the economics shifted, and there was a financial case for retiring devices at 24-36 months and consolidating them into virtual machine clusters.

Without that consolidation opportunity, we probably would have extended the lifecycle of our server longer to preserve cash in 2009.
No idea...I'm in no position to psycho-analyze whomever downvoted D:
Thanks for the huge compliment, as well as taking the time to read so far.
heroku is far more expensive if you have any amount of data, or if you need a background worker. I run 3 rails sites, with background jobs, a search engine (sphinx), etc. All on a $30/month vps, and they run great.
I still think we're headed towards an era of "glocalization". I haven't heard this term since college geography courses, but we're headed back to an age where we are all local blacksmiths and silversmiths. We'll all be working for ourselves, but instead of being forced to sell to people in town, we can sell globally. Probably most of the people on this board fit into this categorization, but a much larger percent of the population will migrate towards this lifestyle over the next few years.
Not to mention, as bitcoins are inevitably lost here and there (a deleted wallet.dat here, a hoarder there, a transaction wired to a mistyped address that doesn't exist) the supply of bitcoins will actually shrink.
Post is being downvoted, but it's a valid point. Lots of things have been used as currencies. WW2 POWs used cigarettes; some Pacific islanders used huge, immovable rocks. If anything, BitCoin is much more like a currency, because, unlike commodities, it has no other use.
> Perhaps when Bitcoin reaches supply maturity the value will stabilize

I absolutely hate Krugman, but this is Econ 101 and even he gets it right. Bitcoin was a flawed experiment from the start because it has an absolute supply limit. Reaching that limit won't help. It'll make things worse. The money supply needs to expand for healthy economic activity and growth. If it doesn't, weird shit starts to happen.

Here's an example. In a normal economy, the population is constantly expanding. That means you need more $$$ in the system for each new person. If more money doesn't enter the system, the value of money goes up because of increasing demand and you start experiencing deflation.

Deflation is really really bad. Imagine you're a store owner. All of a sudden, people stop buying your stuff. Not because they don't want to, they love your stuff ... they just don't have enough money. So you lower your prices. Things go back to normal. Your own expenses go down as well, after all, everybody experienced deflation.

No big deal, right? This is what happens when a computer scientist creates a currency. Just adjust to the new price level, right? WRONG. It IS a big deal.

Think of the psychological effect of having to CONSTANTLY lower your prices on your goods. At some point, you'll hang yourself. You want to charge more, not less. It is absolutely depressing and has a real effect. Deflation is absolutely horrible.
Great, entertaining writing style. Probably the most readable intro to Git I've ever read.
It's not a hate of people. It's hate that is created by process. I worked on Yahoo Mail's frontpage section for awhile. While I was developing the newer version for more advanced browsers the older version was being developed by a team in banglore. As far as I could tell they were writing code just as well as we were. The reason I hated working with people in banglore was that we were on exactly opposite schedules. I would have days long fights about bugs over bugzilla because I couldn't ever just have a conversation. When we did have meetings they were always at the least awesome time like 8:00 pm on sunday night.

I don't begrudge them working in their daytime either. Why should an engineer have to work through the night. I just think it exposes a problem with outsourcing work.
It's a little amusing how popular these WebGL reimplementations of 2004-era OpenGL demos are.
Diginotar: Iranians the real target
The difference between the cold war and 9/11
Energy efficiency is a great argument in favor of using cloud based web services. (We just put in solar panels on the roof of our house, so I am admitting my green biases.)

Green-goodness aside, everyone wants to save money so it is a good idea to periodically take a hard look at your split between in-house servers, using AWS, Rackspace, etc., PAAS, and services like GMail or Yahoo mail.
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Microsoft Points Generator 2011 Exactly what this does is gives you microsoft points for free. it does this buy hacking into xboxs server which isnt easy to do. So yea im making this public and sharing to everyone.
This was such an intriguing article until he posited that our citizens who formerly worked in manufacturing could replace their aspirations of long-term employment in a stable economy with some generic digital goods production that was never elaborated on in the article. I have to assume he meant they should all make doll clothes in Second Life.
Show HN: Breezy comes to iOS
[video] Introduction To Git With Scott Chacon Of GitHub
Git is conceptually simple, but has a baroque interface. It's nearly impossible to form a proper mental model of what's going on under the hood from its CLI.

The point of this article is that if you take the time to learn how git is actually constructed, the CLI becomes a lot more bearable, and is less likely to leave you in distress when Something Unexpected Happens.
They weren't hit as bad yes, but they suffer in many other ways from their small endowment. It's one reason why they have one of the highest tuition costs of any university.
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I was originally going to post that sometimes I wish gifts like this would be given to smaller, less fortunate schools. A top tier school like CMU is always going to be able to find new sources of endowment. I still believe this in general. However before reading the previous comments, I had no idea how small CMU's endowment was compared to other top tier universities. If the numbers I read are correct, CMU's $815 million is only 2.97% of Harvard's $27.4 billion. Not nearly what I assumed it was.
I am stunned that anyone would ever use them in the first place. After going through domain registration with them, and being appalled at the amount of up-sale, I decided they aren't the company I would want to trust with anything.

I have been using dreamhost for years, and they make registration management painfully simple (and honest).

Also GoDaddy had an issue years back where they were apparently scooping up domains that people didn't finish checkout with and then selling them at a higher price.
Electronics are a special market. I think people have in general come to accept and understand that the money they lose in buying electronics now, instead of later, is small compared to the utility they get now.

It also helps that constant development and improvements keeps the decline in pricing small. An iPod today, while much more impressive, I believe still has a similar price to 10 years ago.
Interesting. In a similar vein, see the paper internet project: http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/09/paper-internet.html
80-1 P/E valuation seems a bit steep to me. I still see this as a $25 Billion company in the long term, which isn't bad for a site that gets much of its revenue from display ads.

Here's a list of websites by 2010 revenue:

http://www.incomediary.com/top-earning-websites-in-the-world...

You'll notice that just about every site in the top 15 sell goods and services (physical: Amazon, eBay or digital: Netflix, iTunes) or search ads (Yahoo, and Google). Display ad based sites languish at the bottom for several reasons, including the fact that the content of those ads are not what you came to the site to engage with.

If the numbers are right, then Facebook is bringing in about 1/3 the revenue of eBay, but analysts on secondary markets and elsewhere are giving it a valuation twice that of eBay's: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EBAY or five times that of Yahoo's which has twice the revenue: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO

Hopefully people can see through the hyperbole, and find a fair market value for this company.
If we go all the way to a technological singularity in which not even "knowledge workers" are needed... we'll need a new way to distribute wealth.

Between 1960 and 2009, employment in IT in the US rose by a factor of 1.6, while the population grew by a factor of 1.7

http://lumma.org/microwave/#2010.10.17

and many women entered the workforce, so the labor pool expanded by more than 1.7.
It's only cheaper if your time is worth nothing. Digging through pages of upsells takes time. I prefer using a registrar where I don't have to do that. (I use both Namecheap and eNom.)
A similar model is being followed in Europe where the unemployed, disabled, recent mothers and the poorer people are provided some sort of basic support by the state. The higher earning people have extra cash to live more comfortably.
The executive order you link to has not been in effect since the 70s.
this guy might have a hint or two, or maybe you could collaborate if you go that way:

http://blog.cudachess.org/
Collecting a currency wouldn't be a problem if there was some type of Bitcoin bank. These people who are hoarding the currency could put their Bitcoins in the bank for a promised interest rate, and in the mean time the bank could loan out the money to borrowers for new investments, thus growing the economy.

I'm also not sure how much Krugman has looked at the price of Bitcoin. Every time I've looked at the price it continues to go down in terms of USD. A couple months ago it was around $16 now its at $7.

I think Bitcoin's real problem is the fact that it's not actually a commodity, because it's price isn't backed by any real goods. In that sense it's more similar to the dollar.
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There was a conflict while rebasing. In this situation you generally do one of:

1. Resolve the conflict and continue rebasing.

2. Drop the conflicting change and continue rebasing.

3. Abort the rebase operation.
So, Did Matthew Epstein get hired by Google? Here's the video.
oops, sorry about that :). I guess my inability to remember names extends to software as well.
Are we going to be bandwidth hogs or cloud computing patrons? A three-way debate