skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't the psychological effects of needing to constantly lower prices – this happens all the time in the tech industry, and everyone in that industry is doing just fine psychologically.

Rather, it has to do with the fact that constantly down-shifting prices cause people not to buy nearly as often as they would if prices were stable or slightly inflationary. As a result of that, the economy slows down (sometimes dramatically).
You can get much better supported, more feature-full (and also more "unlimited" and oversold) hosting for $5 or less from people less scummy and likely to shut off your box or domain than GoDaddy.

Seriously, is DNS so hard that typing in the nameservers of your shared hosting provider or DECENT VPS provider is so unthinkable? Or is it registering for a second account? I simply do, not, understand.
That's not the point. The point is that the government can make it illegal to own gold by executive order anytime it wants.
Florian Mueller alert.
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There's a difference between "rawr, property ownership makes people dicks" and "property owners are the ones encouraging and permitting dick behavior to happen".

Straw men are silly.
If anything, those examples prove that it really could happen.
Without some regulation , why would the work week become shorter ? for many people , working a 40 hour work week barely covers their expenses. why would they want to work less ?
If you program in .NET, Visual Studio Magazine http://visualstudiomagazine.com and MSDN Magazine http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx are both available in print. Visual Studio Magazine is a free sub for qualified Devs, MSDN either comes as package or can be subscribed to separately http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee358702.aspx
Was not familiar with this method, appreciate the heads up guys. Did some quick micro benchmarks and it looks like I got an 11.5x speedup in some code that was using Exceptions for flow control.
Long term, technology can lead to our society being more peaceful and enjoyable than ever before. The short term is the problem though as there are so many people without the skills to work in the future that the transition may be too painful for society to make it to the long term.
Yes, for someone who has never use Git is a very nice introduction to it.
This may be just me, but I won't use GoDaddy because of their advertising. Their "sex sells" approach seems geared to re-inforce the "boys-only club" view of tech.
I just bought a domain from Name.com yesterday (in an effort to escape from GoDaddy) and I'm surprised at how nasty their interface is. These big registrars really try to make their users suffer.
Assuming that robots are free (gratis) but not free (libre), and that there's enough land for robots to farm, and enough water to irrigate it.
PHP in 2011
That's a pretty amazing amount of stuff for buying a few books – also an interesting lesson in aligning partners and motivating people to buy now.
HN does not allow clickable links in the description :) just in the comments (just enter http://thelinkyouwant.com)
Upboat. The guy left with all the bitcoins has a lot of bitcoins. What else?
This is a strange discussion. The topic of this article is not communism but Marx's predictions that industrial capitalism would become unsustainable. The author clearly states he does not see communism as the solution.
I'd suggest checking out Dan Pink's work, e.g. his A Whole New Mind book. I've admittedly not actually read it, but from interviews and occasional talks I've seen, it considers essentially the same thing: humans being replaced by automation, the need for a sea change to handle the shift, etc.
Part of it was that SVN was the last service running on a server I wanted to shut down. The other part was simply momentum. Github (and therefore Git) were too exciting to not want to be a part of. I didn't want to be left behind. That said, SVN was perfectly serviceable, though I don't imagine I'll ever use it again.
Value is more a function of future revenue, and margin, than it is of past revenue. So upward momentum, which Facebook has and Yahoo and EBay do not, explains the higher valuation.

Also, valuation comes from the expectation over all possible outcomes. Perhaps there's a 60% chance Facebook winds up just a $25B company. But there's also a 38% chance that it becomes a $200B Google and a 2% chance it becomes a one-of-a-kind $400B post-Google monopoly. The weighted average of those outcomes is $99B, even though your "$25 Billion company" sense remains the modal/most-likely outcome.
I struggled for several hours last night to fix the history of a git-svn repo that had fallen out of sync. Eventually I started to grok it and the fix took all of two commands. I think that this semi-obfuscation may have been an intentional attempt to improve the SNR of kernel contributions - by putting in place a mild cognitive obstacle...
>why didn't they do a beautiful girl's face instead?

Because it's a tech demo and it's a known texture in the OpenGL community? Not everyone in CS wants to stare at "beautiful girls", fortunately the Internet has created an outlet for such desires.
The last three are pretty much in place. The friction and unrest we've seen around the world recently comes from the first two not being calibrated correctly enough.
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Should writers care about the opinions of people who do not read their entire article, but leave after seeing a diagram of a Model T?

I think the intended audience of the article are people who are already at least vaguely familiar with Git, but do not know its inner workings. The thesis seems to be "Git is complex, but not as complex as you might fear reading 'man git'".
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Except that libertarianism is rife with narcissistic hedonists. A subset to be sure.
Quite frankly there's no more reason for "why we moved from SVN to Git" topics anymore. It's been beat to death.

Better to keep up while the team is small than to try to move even more people over later and turn into mega-corp still using CVS.

Learning something new isn't necessarily a bad thing. I question people that are unable to try to learn something new every day. It takes a few minutes of your time and you can learn something. Sure, git might take more than a few minutes… but why not TRY?

As for requesting why they switched from subversion to git… yea, as I said, you have a billion articles written out there by now about WHY. There aren't more needed. The benefits are pretty clear if you read any one of those other articles.

Of course, this more leads into "why git and not mercurial (or any other DVCS)?" Which again, has a billion other articles written up on it.
That's like saying "It's a little amusing how popular these web reimplementations of 2004-era word processors are". Dude, being on the web makes a huge difference. No software to install is massive. You can't link to a program running on your desktop. It's a great leap forward.
That explains it then... I knew I had seen them in other comments, and I must have just assumed it would work in the description.

Learn something new everyday, thanks!
Amazing. Just amazing. I like!
'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!'

Another way of looking at this is, "in the old days, a household could be supported by one parent's work and the other could raise children. Now, both have to work to pay the bills, and children get less time with parents and more time in institutions."
"power structure of self-absorbed property owners" implies that people who don't own property aren't self-absorbed, or that the power structure of property owners is responsible for greed, unemployment, and undereducation. Otherwise, why mention a power structure of property owners?
Every union "no layoff" provision I've ever seen was a case of the union choosing to forego contracted CoL raises and some various health benefits in exchange for keeping jobs. Typically it will be cost-neutral compared to layoffs and keeping benefits.

The employer wouldn't sign up to it if it was a pure money loser. They're not crazy :)

Also, Obama already suspended Saturday delivery. So not too sure what he has to do with a perceived unwillingness to shut down the post office. (He also cut taxes, stepped up immigration enforcement and didn't close gitmo).
It's also a good book by David Packard on the birth and evolution of the company.
This was copied/pasted verbatim from the court documents.

The Google "engineer" used work at Sun and is currently Google's Chief Java Architect.

"Q. BY MR. JACOBS: Do you have a recollection of accessing Sun code while you were working on TimSort?

A. I don't have a recollection, but I'm perfectly willing to believe that I did. You know, I think the similarity of the signature, the fact that, you know, the three arguments are in the same order and have the same name, you know, is a strong indication that it is likely that I did."
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Technology rising productivity (and so needing less people to create the same products) is at the base of our wealth. The real problem is that the pace of technology innovation (and jobs transfer overseas, and other changes) can be too fast for people to keep up with those changes. Public action to both slow down some changes, and to help in adapting, can become a necessity in those times.

But right now too many people believe the ideology that the market will fix everything itself, even in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence. It is just too good an excuse to just mind your own business, and everyone else be damned, I guess...
High-quality head scans that are free for general use are not easy to come by. Lee Perry-Smith has somewhat immortalized himself by releasing his scan to the community:

http://www.ir-ltd.net/royalty-free-high-quality-scan

But... for another angle on why not use a beautiful girl's face, here's an interesting theory:

http://filmicgames.com/archives/679
(a bit off-topic)

Oh no! I now see cognitive dissonance everywhere. I realized that it's the same with git: maybe we like it so much because it took such a hard time to master. I still don't feel like I master it. However, reading some books on git and understanding the philosophy did make it feel simpler.
Scvngr always struck me as more of a Foursquare competitor than Groupon.

Honestly, I thought they had a lot of really good ideas, and they leveraged game mechanics in a really interesting way, but, unfortunately, they just didn't ever have the user base that makes that sort of service feel worthwhile.
Chicken and egg. If the workers can't pay rent the market will correct rent down. It's that it takes too long to correct and someone's bound to be evicted before that happens.
"property owners are the ones encouraging and permitting dick behavior to happen" implies that people who don't own property aren't permitting dick behavior to happen. They are. They can.
One more vote from me to Moniker — their control panel might be a little bit more awkward and buggy than it should be, but the services are stable and non-disturbing.

And in general, it is usual a good idea to have separate service providers for domain name registering and for hosting.
But you could have kept waiting and prices would have kept falling. Eventually you spent your money anyway. This seems to indicate that it wasn't the situation of falling prices that prevented you from buying a TV, since that never changed, but some external factor.

Prices don't fall linearly, in many cases, but hit a floor representing the cost of manufacturing and distribution. Then, different brands have different price decay curves. Finally, the price decay of a given good has to be offset against the buyer's utility function. In practice, I don't sit there and calculate everything out; I start with a budget and a list of manufacturers I prefer, and then look for the best products that fit within those constraints.
A counter-argument is that people invest in new enterprises even when the banking real interest rate is positive.
Sure, but there is a lot more in those documents than just these samples.

It is very easy to skew a picture one way or the other by cherry picking a pile of paper and mr. Mueller has a long enough history that I'd be wary of anything he produces.
Are you suggesting that 3/4th - 9/10th of spending is on luxury goods?
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Yes! the last interview I had with a very well known company lasted 3 months from the first mail from recruiter to his last email. It went weeks in between phone interviews to schedule the next one and often involving me to send few mails to ask for feedback. And for onsite he forgot about sending a confirmation mail and it took several mails to arrange a onsite interview which took 3-4 weeks of delay . And its not that I did poorly in interviews and they have to think twice for next interview and often my interviewers gave me their email to contact incase of any delay. And this is not one off experience there are few more companies and recruiters who doesn't respond for days until I send a mail. I do interview candidates for my team we often try to get feedback on the same day or next day so we can decide upon to hire or at least update candidate on the status.
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>Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff -- it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

It's a little more complicated than that. The economy is a huge, complicated machine. The reason we have enough stuff is it mostly works to convince people go get up when the alarm goes off and go do something they'd rather not do instead of fishing or playing video games. If we start just giving people money because we can afford it we will quickly be unable to afford it.
There's no way that there's a comparable level of jobs. You know how many people the newspaper industry used to employ nationwide? Craigslist had substantially less than 100 last I heard (maybe they've grown a bit), pushing a way larger volume of classifieds, without any expensive correspondents or any of that news crap.

As the original commentator stated, bringing their jobs back would be silly make-work now that they're obsolete, nobody's suggesting that. But it does present a problem.
I've always thought that a 30 hr work week should be regulated, forcing employees to demand higher wages in order to survive, forcing employers to raise wages, and forcing CEOs to be paid less, thus reducing the income gap.
The organizations holding them for me are chartered banks regulated by the government of my country, if they decide to allow freezing the amount I have larger problems.

As it happens I consider the need for a private third-party money transferring organization to be one of the larger failures of North American consumer banking systems, but I digress. It's slowly improving in Canada, I can now do inter-bank digital transfers between my accounts without shelling out $50 for a wire. Maybe in another decade or two we'll get to SEPA level.
This reminds me of the world's geekiest joke.

Q: Why do Cray supercomputers have a clear panel in the front (you can see it in the photos)

A: So you can Seymour Cray.
I found this.

Why Factories Are Leaving China
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_21/b41790110...

Fan is expanding his factory in Vietnam, where wages are $100 a month, one-third what he pays in China.

$100 a month. that's amazing.
I think the issue is the pronounced effect of market disruption.

In your example, if an industry is disrupted to where it now employs 100K instead of 1M people, the problem that arises for the short term is up to 900K people will be without employment for some duration. Eventually new jobs will be created and we'll be back to relative equilibrium, but that takes time.

In an ideal situation, these dips could be more quickly counteracted, but realistically the market isn't so efficient in which that would ever be possible, so other systems need to exist to support individuals until the market reaches equilibrium again.
> We have not enough engineers and too many workers without useful skills, or in many cases the ability to gain them.

Separation of concerns is our current solution to that problem.

In software development, for example, good developers are hard to find, so we split the job up to add a designer role into the mix. Still finding it hard to find good people, we're now seeing the UX role come in. By giving each person less to do, the knowledge required to the job is reduced. You don't have to be a genius to be a part of the team.

In agriculture, another industry I am close to, you have the same thing. One person drives the tractor, one person tends to the animals, one person repairs the equipment, etc. because it is hard to find a good farmhand that can do it all.

We will eventually see the same shift for robotics as they become more and more prevalent. You'll have one person to diagnose the problem, one person to replace the part, etc. as the labour needs dictate.
You could look at it another way, HP is expanding into more software services / enterprise tech. They're probably going to spend a lot more money in this sector than they used to, thus expanding the product catalog.

Granted, killing WebOS means somewhat shrinking the product catalog, but there weren't that many WebOS devices out there anyway, nor much prospect of selling them for the original asking price. If HP sees a much larger market in enterprise tech, going into that while killing the tiny market of WebOS devices is worthwhile and doesn't violate point number 10.
I find the premise of this article (the 10,000 Apples thing) laughable-maybe that's the point. Every business in the world is struggling to create 1 Apple right now (except maybe Exxon-which is bigger today?). The chances of 10,000 Apples coming out of China's me-too business culture is too much of a long-shot to be overstated.
Interesting points, ig. When it comes to revenue, I ask myself "Why do people come to your site". The magic for Google/Yahoo is that you come to their site to leave their site, to find answers to questions like "Where can I find a diamond engagement ring?" and then they get the answers, and some highly relevant, highly lucrative ads.

For eBay, and Amazon, you come specifically with the intent to spend money on their site.

For Facebook, the name of the game is to get you on their site, keep you there, and to bring you back tomorrow to chat with your friends, something like AIM was 10 years ago, but with a better ad network. So far, with all of the businesses that want me to like them on Facebook, none of them have asked me to buy anything on Facebook, just spread their ads -- paid and earned.

Could Facebook be the next ebay or Amazon? Sure, if they want to let every business on their site use their "Pay with Facebook" feature to sell anything. For me, this would justify the current valuation not display ads.

Here's a link to LinkedIn's Q2 revenue (120 Million: http://mashable.com/2011/08/04/linkedin-q2-beats-street/), which again shows that display ads (plus premium membership fees) don't add up to what search ads, or commission fees do. Even for a site like LinkdIn which is more popular than either Amazon (30 Billion in annual revenue) or eBay (8 Billion in annual revenue).

I don't doubt the social utility (pardon the pun) of such networks (I am a founder of one myself), but I question just how much revenue these kind of peripheral ads can really generate.
Mentioning the existence of a power structure of property owners does not automatically include all property owners.
Wow, that's an excellent point. That doesn't happen easily with gold. People retrieve gold from ships sunk hundreds of years ago.

Actually, is there an efficient way that physical gold or other precious metals can be intentionally destroyed or put beyond use? Has anyone tried to use this technique to corner a market?

What would happen if Hugo Chávez actually got his hands on 211 tons of actual gold and announced he has verifiably shot half of it into the sun? Presumably, you could make money on such an event through the options market.

So it's a great point that it's comparatively easy to do such a thing with Bitcoin. It's even entirely possible to do it by mistake (i.e. a programming error).

Physicality is a fantastic hedge against loss.
He also mentioned that in general any limited commodity such as bitcoin or gold is worse than the current system of currencies.
The key word there is "solely."

If your company only exists to make money, it will tend toward a state that doesn't create real value. It will be a company of charlatans.

The quote needs to be taken in context with the other quotes. The message is that companies need to aim for a higher purpose. This isn't just philanthropic white-washing, but this grounds the company and forces it to understand people and society. From that understanding the company can serve its customers better which is the true path to profitability.
Let's face it: SSH into an VM and write code there is not an enjoyable experience. Yes I can do a proper deployment into the VM right after I make a minor change in color of the 10px square box located at the bottom of the page, but it's really a pain in the ass to have the deployment delay. Oh, right, the deployment process just takes 10 seconds!
Not could. Did. Many times.
1. What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich.

Bitcoin is facilitating transactions. The Bitcoin economy is growing, slowly. There are a lot of people, including funded startups, working on making it useful in more cases. It's far, far too early to say that Bitcoin isn't facilitating enough transactions.

2. Bitcoin hoarding is not due to the fixed total supply, but due to the expectation that the Bitcoin economy will grow. If there was built-in inflation at 3% and the economy was growing at 20%, hoarding would still happen.

3. No matter how much hoarding is happening, there will be some exchange rate from Bitcoins to dollars. The existence of a traded exchange rate is proof that some people think Bitcoins are not undervalued. These people will be willing to spend their Bitcoins.

4. The claim that Bitcoin is worthless because of guaranteed
deflation is self-contradicting.

5. Volatility is bad for a currency, but this is an addressable problem. Bitcoin-priced marketplace The Silk Road offers its sellers currency-hedged escrow.

6. Even if it fails as a currency, Bitcoin is interesting and novel as a technological invention. For the essence, see the last paragraph of Hal Finney's insightful email from 2008 (and the surrounding thread): http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099...
In fact it's not a question of being in the game or out of the game, just a question of time preference. The sole purpose of accumulating money is to eventually spend it. Maybe it will be spent tomorrow, maybe by future generations, but it will eventually contribute to the economy and allocation of resources on whatever schedule and for whatever purpose the owners of the money deem best given their unique situations. The argument in support of inflation is that it's somehow preferable, in the vast general case, for people to spend their money sooner rather than later, and worth using force to accomplish this. It's as presumptuous and arrogant as it is arbitrary, an essentially totalitarian position.
In a race to the bottom, we all lose.
Great! All we have to do is convince poor people to be happy living at a subsistence level, and convince rich people to be happy supporting them!

Seriously, I agree with his point that, say, building bridges in order to create jobs is backwards. But his plan seems to require changing basic human motivations.