skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe what I was suggesting wasn't clear enough.

If you need food in 100 days, you can pay for the futures for that day, or in 100 days the actual spot price, whatever it turns out to be in 100 days. You generate demand for the futures or the actual commodity, not both. By acting early, well in advance, you could get a better price if the price is going to go up. Even if you have zero idea where the price is heading, by buying futures continually well in advance, you could smoothen out the volatility for yourself.

So, why would it make the problem worse?
I'm not even sure what that means! What does that mean? an example?
Which apps? Would like to teach some basic math to my 4 yr old.
I also reproduced something like this.

On "Step 1: Add Friends", it showed people who I actually know (presumably who have my phone number, since that's the only info I gave that actually relates to me)

On "Step 3: Profile Information", it offered many more people, most of whom I don't actually know (presumably friends of the people from step 1)

Note that to trigger the mobile-number-confirmation request, you may need to enter dubious-looking profile information. In my case, I entered a name like "Blaah Blahh", with a throwaway email address from www.mailinator.com. If your fake name is too realistic, it won't necessarily trigger the security check.

I do have the same mobile number on my primary account, so it's possible they found me that way. But either way, it's notable that in step 1 they managed to show just the people who I would expect actually do keep track of my phone number.
Thanks for the info - I was unaware of those devices.

I guess what I was getting at was not so much that you could survive with your inner ear, but that you get a lot of feedback from a vehicle that you don't in a simulator. That's not relevant to this study if they didn't use a simulator, though...
No, it's because they can't spare support resources for other browsers. If they know the flaws they have to support workarounds for, they keep support to a manageable level.

They could, of course, just hire more support staff, but then their productivity would drop and the CEO would have to shave five feet off the length of his next yacht.
AFAIK, none of the providers offer such a thing. A nice, idea, though.
Jackpot - the name is the trigger, possibly combined with an own-domain email address.
Your address book become the most valuable asset in this social web era.
Food prices are a larger percentage of average income than since records began.

No.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/September08/Findings/Perc...

http://theintrinsicvalue.com/research/food-inflation-how-muc...
I read several comments made about those who lost their jobs can now re-train themselves and apply their productivity elsewhere. But would there really be such opportunities in today's hyper-efficient economy? Think about iPhone apps. Only a small percentage of developers at the top make money. In a sense, the rest of the developers are out of work. Now, if they were to apply their productivity elsewhere, they would need to find a different market. So, they might try the Android market but there too, there are only small percentage of people making any money. Do you think there would be enough markets in the world for everyone to be in the top percentile that makes money?

Furthermore, the efficiency is an effect of the entire market. It is the market collectively that identifies the best products/ideas and rewords them disproportionately. We humans have limits in how quickly we can become efficient. At the rate the world is becoming efficient, we humans cannot humanly catch up with that speed. It is dehumanizing to expect people to do so. So, I don't think it is fair to blame those who failed to adapt quickly enough.
Ask HN: Which would be a better splash page?
After receiving some mixed feedback on my previous splash page, I put together another one. I was hoping to get some feedback on it.

Option 1: http://www.mesmira.com (the new one, high-level concept and some explanatory pitch text)

Option 2: http://www.mesmira.com/splash (a screenshot of the actual product with the value proposition as text markers)

Option 3: not good enough. Again!

Any suggestions/feedback would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Aditya
I have been thinking this exact thing lately, having been off Ritalin for months and recently started taking it again. My eyes feel awful at the end of the workday, something I did not notice in the exact same work environment when I was off the medication.
yes! listen to the public - the actual public. not special interest groups and corporations. our current lobbyists and these groups are the ones who put us here in the first place.
Efficiency does not kill jobs. Efficiency only kills OLD jobs and creates NEW jobs. Specialization ensures that everybody has a job. We're not coming to some futuristic scenario where machines will do everything for us and people will have nothing to do. This is complete nonsense. We're only advancing, like we've done since the stone age. There's nothing new here.
Reading both pg's comments and the article, I think the point here is that college is a great vehicle for moving ahead in life. But the vehicle may be headed to a destination that doesn't work for you.

In other words, use college for your own advancement, not to necessarily complete a pre-canned course of study. If you're Zuck and you've created something that's on fire, then it might make sense to leave early. If you want to become a neurosurgeon, you're probably just getting started. It all depends on your personal situation. With a lack of goals and traction in life, staying the course on some 4 or 6-year study program might be the best thing to do.

You can't mix up structured education and learning. Structured education is great for some things, but at some point you have to switch from structured education into self-directed education. That point is going to be in a different spot for everybody. Those that try to tell you that it is one way or the other -- years and years of college versus just drop out and do it -- are oversimplifying the situation drastically.

Use college. Don't let college use you. The guys that are $100K in debt with a degree and no job prospects are just as screwed as the guys who dropped out and can only get minimum-wage labor (In fact, I'd argue the drop-outs might be better off, as long as they have a strong culture of self-education, networking, and ambition -- at least they know their behind the curve and are going to have to continue to adapt drastically to survive whereas many college grads do not -- but that's my bias.)
Hey, your link to hastagifypro in the article links to another article (about Twitter marketing). Intended?
Because, as the article says, it can reveal Facebook accounts that you didn't knew your friends had, such has this friend of the OP who has a "straight" and a "gay" FB account.
A workforce on an old browser is an awesome way to stagnate innovation. If you complain about this on some sites (ahem...reddit), you will receive replies from thousands of self-loathing IT staffers who will give you a thousand bullshit reasons why supporting even newish browsers is "impossible" for a large company.

In nearly every case, the old browser in the standard image is there because of some terrible legacy software from the late 1990s that: (1) was premised on the notion that the runtime environment would never change, and (2) is licensed from a vendor who charges obscene amounts of money for any change. Either that, or some useless "intranet" that nobody invested in since 1998.

I will never for the life of me understand why these companies don't create desktop shortcuts to the IE6-based tools, and let employees do their other browsing in a newer browser. It comes down to laziness and apathy, and the dynamics of a big company that has matured to the point where too many second-rate, CYA-oriented people infiltrate the ranks of management and operations.
We can evaluate a lot of things that are one inferential step away, because of the parallelism. But we're very bad at bridging more than a few inferential steps because parallelism is almost of no use there. It's very difficult for a human brain to think a few chess moves ahead, but incredibly easy to dismiss a thousand obviously stupid moves in a fraction of a second. The human brain has to precompute almost everything in order to function.
And then what? Continue the thought experiment. One person owns all the land. What does he do with it? Does he rent it to people? Then those renters are willing to pay a price to use the land in order to generate some kind of return. The economy expands. If the land owner refuses to allow people to use the land, what was the point in accumulating it all in the first place?
Yes. Passing Charset arguments as String not only forces you to deal with the checked UnsupportedEncodingException, but it's also brittle: it's easy to make a typo (is it "utf8", "utf-8", "UTF8", or "UTF-8"?) and get a runtime failure.

Guava solves this problem by defining standard Charset constants in com.google.common.base.Charsets ( http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git-history/v10.0... ). Java 7 also brings java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets ( http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/charse... ), but Guava will do for now :)
Japan's IT industry is so thoroughly messed up I don't even know where to begin. However, for the scope of this article, I would say that Japanese enterprise solution companies (this is where the so-called "system integrators" live) is a tangled, incestuous mess. I'm only going to talk about one small aspect of it. One of the great tragedies of the Japanese software industry is how it seems to have taken on the worst aspects of the construction industry and the manufacturing industry. Many of the large companies dominate the industry, at least in terms of large contracts from major corporations and government. Some names that come to mind are NTT (the telecoms giant has a whole universe of IT subsidiaries), NEC, Fujitsu, etc. Yes, all companies from Japan's past glory days. Naturally, these companies get the lion's share of stable income. Of course, they have more work than they can handle or do so they naturally close the contract THEN find a company to implement it for them.

Middlemen
Casual students of Japan might have heard of "shitauke" which roughly equals outsourcing but the concept is completely different. Just as many Japanese car manufacturers have their own go to parts makers, these parts makers might have their own go to parts makers ("magouke" or grand children outsourcing). So basically, you have this massive web of IT companies that are inter-connected and related in some way.

So big corporations get contracts, little companies get the scraps. This distorts the market because naturally the companies with big name brand value keep a greater share of the profit while the weaker outsourcing companies make it happen. So even within these outsourcing companies, they might try to cope by hiring temp programmers (yes, this is common in Japan and they live in internet cafes no less) or even outsourcing it to a third world country.

In most cases, the big IT corporations (that hire top recruits from the best colleges) are filled to the brim with project managers who might have the raw ability or potential to code but spend their front line career simply writing up specs and enforcing ridiculous deadlines.

As an anecdote, many symptoms of this malaise abound. ATMs malfunctioning because of bad system code (prevalent when upgrading systems created by mega bank mergers, the latest and most notorious being on the recent earthquake when a donation account took down the entire bank), the Tokyo Stock Exchange shutting down from massive trade volume (despite having nothing like American high frequency trading), the pension system database not designed to give people unique keys (or something like that), etc.
Did the article explain why that second class of wheat wasn't replaced with another (cheaper) staple food?
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My thoughts too. A mention of Netscape but not Chrome? Has to be several years old.
The inevitable end-game with a capitalist approach is that profit motives take precedence, and those of us who have a problem with that believe some things shouldn't and cannot be motivated by profit.

The analogue to this hypothetical situation is the US health system, both in terms of the political/economic ideal and the controversy.
Ah, there lies the rub. Thanks a bunch.
And what does the talentless auto-worker who got laid off do in this robot operated future?

I have a feeling the entertainment in the future will look an awful lot like really bad Youtube videos.
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Facebook was quick to react and removed it (for now?)
I can't speak for others on HN but I come here seeking knowledge, to understand. Not as forum for activation. This knowledge is then to be used to take action in the real world.

That may not be through pushing a cause or donating to a charity, but by getting myself into a position of greater power and authority to make a real impact when I can make an impact.

I see articles like this as cards at my disposal, that I will refer back to when the time is right and the chance is there, to make a dent.
Indeed it is. Upon my realization that I should try harder to disqualify you, Edit timer has already passed.

So I will offer my clarification here.

This notion, that somehow in Eastern Block everybody had their basic needs covered in an egalitarian fashion while in Western Capitalism, to get any kind of (fair?) treatment one better be lined with cash is sorely mistaken.

In reality Eastern Block was very much as your average 1% > 99% scenario. The ruling elite (Cream of various Party organization and their relatives) had it all (doctors, money, travel, education,...).

If an unprivileged person wanted some of the services that were reserved for the Party elite - one would have to pay bribes all the way to destination.

Average folk didn't get any meaningful service level on security, education, health,...

So basically the only difference between East and West is/was that in West you don't have as high probability of being imprisoned/killed/have property confiscated while trying to go about doing business.

Furthermore in regards to Yuri - his parents were obviously well liked by the regime (high, excellent positions) which enabled them lucrative careers and lifestyles.

In Soviet Russia - you didn't get to travel round the world and do business - unless Regime could be certain that you can be trusted (e.g. are a part of the system).

p.s.: For reference check Northern Korea, whats going on there was pretty much the golden standard for socialist regimes.
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>Your argument about candle-makers is also a straw man: thus far through our history, we've been able to replace each declining low-skill industry with the ascendancy of another equally low-skill industry (argiculture to factory labor, factory labor to "service" work, etc.) But that era appears to be coming to an end. In a world where there are no jobs for people in the bottom X% of intelligence, we don't automatically get more innovation -- we just get structurally unemployed people.

Not a straw man at all.

Low Skill Industry will just change its definition. Maybe computer programming becomes a "low-skill", commoditized field. Who knows? It will be probably be something we haven't even thought about yet.

It's funny you ask someone to "prove it". You are also restating a popular theory, but your theory has failed when we look at economic history.

>But that era appears to be coming to an end.

That's news to me. Before the recession, there were more jobs being created than at any point in history.
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Sounds like the wild west to me. I didn't get a say in whether or not some random bored kids downloaded a bunch of CP and possibly wrecked a long term investigation run by people I actually did get in a say in electing (well, I don't live in the US, so I didn't, but you get the point).
That's not the problem. That's the fallacy.

Sure, right now it's ridiculous to think that some tooth-paste screwer is going to go and get a robotics Ph.D. However, that will not be the case in the future.

Using a computer at all used to require advanced training. Not anymore. We grow up on them, and things like "data entry" are low skilled jobs. The same will be true of building robotic arms.
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What do you mean by "playing fair"?

Like, in post-war Japan and Korea they decided how many big corporations they are going to grow, allocated resources and appointed people in control. Those became for-life managers to multi-billion corporations because they were in the right time in the right place. Was that fair?

The "wealth" had to go somewhere and some people got it with some effort. What should have they done?

How would you differentiate between someone who got a piece of USSR industry and pillaged it, and someone who ran his piece wisely?
Sorry, I used the wrong terminology.
Hi Aditya - just my opinion, but I like the 2nd one. The only thing I'd change with the 2nd is the visual treatment of the buttons along the top - they seem a little crowded.

Slightly tweaked version here:

http://www.djconsultants.com/mes2.jpg
I'm confused as to how this is possible. Are people syncing their phone books from cellphones to Facebook?
Food didn't get harder to make, but the price of food went up around the world, and it still hasn't gone down to what it should be.

Is there really any confusion as to who lost their shirts?
Your comment might be misunderstood. While Guava now requires Java 6 to compile, it is not required to run it. Guava is still targeting Java 5. You can use it by declaring a Maven dependency or by adding the latest Guava jar to your project libraries... But yeah, it forces you to upgrade your compiler.

There is an issue to create a Java 5 backport branch when Guava moves to Java 6: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=32
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Rolling over is a routine operation. Say you hold a long position on 1 contract of X with expiry in December. At the expiry date, you simultaneously sell a offsetting contract of X (canceling out your long one), and simultaneously buy a new contract with expiry in March.
Do you already know some of that free material, and do you spend everyday of your life learning at least a little bit more of that free material? Do you build things at a weekly rate? If not, then you should probably go to college, as you will learn a lot faster and network while inside there (given that you socialize with other dudes a lot). Maybe someone else has a different view, as I'm in Canada and don't spend as much on education so it's easier for me. -- Just saying this paragraph to people thinking about not going to college now.

Zuck and Gates were successful dropouts because they went to college and learned that it wasn't what they expected. Too much courses to take that they didn't like, classes not going fast enough, social life not as good as other people said, not much meaning in going to classes (basically fill in x reason).
The same reason it wasn't in the Soviet Union. When a centralized planning authority makes farmers grow one thing, that's what people eat. They don't have a choice.
I could not disagree with you more.

SV Entrepreneur types, as a generalisation, are more like the farmers in this article selling there wares than the WS Bankers. Sure people are money obsessed but they do it either by being profitable or by selling equity in value creating businesses.

I think the Google slogan of "Don't be evil" is the best summation of the average tech entrepreneur these days, generally because they are smart respectable human beings. They are looking to solve a problem that exists, for people willing to pay.

Of course there are always bad apples.

There is nothing broken about demand and supply, only the steps in between are broken, which the financial institution's such as Goldman saps on.
That is clearer. But right now that would increase demand for futures even more, over the current situation, and if the futures prices are higher purely for speculative reasons, you would reduce volatility but pay a lot for that.

Whereas if you sell future production into the market now, you realise gains from historically high prices, and hopefully make a profit.
Not sure why you're down-voted.

When governments buy into the mentality presented in the article, this becomes a real concern. In reality it's difficult to financially support people who can't work, but not incentivize people to not work.
They don't mention ie 7+ either. It's possible they just ignored it, but given the other browsers mentioned it seems likely that this was written when 6 was the most recent Internet Explorer.

So we could easily be talking 2006 or before.
There's an old economist joke that goes like this:

What happened whe the Soviet Union gained control of the Sahara desert? For five years, nothing, then a shortage of sand.

It seems we can replace Soviet Union in such jokes with Investment vehicles.
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Spending isn't the problem. Students unwilling to work is. Most who fail my classes just don't try.
FWIW, I looked into this a few months ago. I don't have any cites, but I found some reasonably persuasive articles that light-on-dark is best only for dimly-lit rooms. If you're in a bright office, dark-on-light is best. (And being in a brightly-lit room is probably best for mood and alertness anyway.)

The origins of dark-on-light as "readable" are old-school monochrome computer terminals, where the resolution was so low that if you used light-on-dark, you'd see all the individual pixels - light pixels lit up, dark ones didn't. We're past that now.
You know I've been wondering about Facebook saying they have 500 million + users but I wonder if they count the deactivated. Which is a fancy word for suspend.

I went to delete my account the other day just because there is so much crap and it's time wasting and I go searching for delete but couldn't find a link! I then came across the deactivate which I had heard about before and went with that but they still keep all my data and it's ready for me just by logging in again.

To delete I had to Google and find an actual link in a forum on how to fully delete my account. And after I found the link you are taken to this page that asks you to confirm and then you have to wait two weeks (I guess to let people go back after Facebook withdrawal.) I guess what I'm getting at is: Facebook makes it easy to deactivate with a false sense to their users that it's sort of being 'deleted.' Yet they are keeping everything, even messages, from your account. I wonder if they still count these accounts in their user count?