skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why build it when screwing and popping out babies is far cheaper and already works?

Why build a word processor when pencil, paper, and a scribe is far cheaper and already works?

It's about scale.
Steve, you were right
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You mentioned your numbers are for Canada but I'd like to point out some things about the US.

8 hours a day is the norm here. A lot of the minimum wage workers (lower than 10$ an hour) work even fewer than the 40 hours that would constitute full time as a way to reduce businesses supposed obligation to cover healthcare / 401k / etc. I've seen in my experience many workers get cut off between 35 and 38 hours in a week to avoid this.

I would anticipate that very few people, less than 5%, of people making over 26k in the US work more than 54 hours a week... It just isn't done that way here.
I agree completely... I was hoping to see a live version. Live versions can help OSS spread and generate hacker interest.

However, it should be noted that I'm thankful that the author decided to share this.
So if everybody in the country had a masters degree people would all earn 2.5x as much?

Obviously an increase in PhD programs in french-fry frying would raise incomes even further.
:)

With the first round of hiring I looked at how far the candidate got in fixing the bug. There was a workaround and then there was a fix for the root cause. If the candidate found the workaround quickly then that was equal to fixing the root cause less quickly. Almost no-one actually fixed it though, so mostly it was a measure of progress. How efficient are you at developing hypotheses and testing them? How good are your hypotheses?

Now in this round I can't cross-compare as easily, so I'm expecting it to be more subjective. Basically I'm looking for people that I have a hard time keeping up with.
Mozilla labs played around with that in Ubiquity, a natural language command line interface for firefox.

https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity
In the context of Kroft asking "how such an intelligent man could make such a seemingly stupid decision", human are naturally afraid of surgery, no want want their body open unless they have no choice; Steve too.
One interesting tech angle to this story and the other wars in the Middle East (Iraq and Afghanistan): the rise of remote-controlled warfare. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/...

Comparing Iraq, a messy invasion that drug on for a decade and cost hundreds of billions, to Libya, a tactical exercise that lasted a few months and cost only a billion plus, might not be a fair comparison, but there is no question that remote reconnaissance, targeting, and attack capabilities have improved dramatically since 2001. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-stealth-drone...
<sarcasm> Clearly they all need to apply to Phoenix University, get a $60K loan from Uncle Sam so they too can get that sweet $54K job </sarcasm>

Not saying that education is not lacking but rather that there is a already a predatory system set up to get this people deeper in dept without necessarily providing a better chance at getting job.
Get away with it? I doubt it. The EU digital agenda states, among others:

"The right to privacy and to the protection of personal data are fundamental rights in the EU which must be – also online - effectively enforced using the widest range of means: from the wide application of the principle of "Privacy by Design" in the relevant ICT technologies, to dissuasive sanctions wherever necessary."

Neelie Kroes is commissioner for that digital agenda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelie_Kroes#Commissioner_for_D...). Her track record facing large companies should be a cause of concern to Facebook.
I started writing a comment but it went Yegge on me so I put it here: http://tech.puredanger.com/2011/10/20/real-world-clojure/
But it's unclear if this is what "everyone else" wants as well. The most interesting group, I think, is not the mostly tech-illiterate who want to store their garden pictures and videos in the cloud, nor the tech-elite who are willing to trust online storage with large swaths of their lives and businesses.

It's the group in between that is the most interesting to these companies right now. Those who are relatively well informed about major technologies and their uses. Do they really want to have their information mostly stored off-site, or do they simply want larger and larger local storage mirrored by online back-up for peace of mind and easy sharing?

I would guess that this is the largest (apparent)consumer market and one of the reasons why this is where most of these companies have their focus right now.
I was extremely surprised to read that the guy in charge of a company that almost exclusively produces highly expensive 1st-world gadgetry was himself disdainful of conspicuous consumption.
Hi Jon! here it is almost the contrary, I wrote the code especially to run it as a real service. It is just that it needs a few more days.

But actually... I can just run it easily in a server of mine just to show it to you. Let's try to install it... just a moment.
I don't have to trust anything. I am perfectly fine with not having an opinion on a subject of Libya or Gaddafi or any other evil-du-jour. Especially, when there is oil involved (which always seems to be the case). It gets way too complicated to judge given the facts available.
I've never heard of anyone being denied entry, in practice, because the minimum-wage guy (actually immigration officers earn a median salary of $46,0000) at the airport doesn't like their face.

It's true that they legally can deny entry to someone with a valid visa, but in practice it has to escalate a few levels up the chain of command before they can do that. A low-level flunky trying to deny someone entry for specious reasons would get into trouble.
Thanks for sharing. I'm coming up to speed with Noir myself, and it's very helpful to see how others are building their websites with it.
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The XZ-1 looks good, but there's no viewfinder. As a DSLR user who looks to switch to a smaller camera, I'm just not going back to the camera-at-arm's-length-to-view-the-back-LCD thing to take my photos.

The Fuji X100 is the only large-sensor prosumer camera that has a built-in viewfinder (attachable viewfinder is out of the question as it doesn't give you a true enough preview), and so it's the only one I'd be willing to switch to. Come to think of it, the new Sony NEX-5N has an electronic viewfinder that might work, actually.
Note - I have no experience in building or monetizing mobile games. Still sharing an idea for problem 2

1. Somewhat similar to Wii, after every X minutes of game play, display a popup with a one minute timer asking users to take a break. to play non stop ask them to buy a premium version.

2. Ask users to pay for higher levels of game maybe ?
Great stuff, thanks antirez. I like it when creators of libraries build a complex system to eat their own dog food. It helps me visualize use cases other than simple 15-minute blog projects.
So use the 'Send To' feature, which lets you share with some 10 or 15 other social services out of the box, and even lets you manually add your own. You can ignore Google+ completely if you don't want to use it, it's just going to be the default option. I can't see how you'll be forced to read anyone else's links through G+. One of the reasons I like the service is that it's easy to keep in touch with people but also easy to filter out stuff that I'm not interested in.
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Why do you consider code generators, monkey patching & DSLs to be "testing tools"?
A statement that may have some degree of truth to it (disclaimer: I own at least 4 of these products and indirectly worked on them), but strange to rant about it on HN of all places.
Ah, exciting. I use reader all the time and have wanted this from day zero.
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As a fairly young person whose health isn't that great, I find your assertion that 54 hours/week is "not too much to ask" to be disturbing, to say the least, particularly for that kind of crap pay.

I'm lucky when I can do a full 40, and I make a lot more than $26k. A LOT more.
Thanks this was one of the main goals, to have a non trivial example, and even to put it into production.

It is very helpful for me to vest the clothes of the user, it makes me understanding a lot more about Redis. If you are always in the other side of the table you miss a lot.
This looks really handy. It's disappointing that there's only partial support for IE7.
Wouldn't disagree with you at all.
There are a lot of 'em, but I doubt they account for 50% of the working population.
> Don't use templates, they suck.

This is surprising. Why not make minimal use of ERB or Mustache?
This is awesome, thanks! I wanted an alternative to HN anyway. :)
I suspect because he wasn't so interested in traffic this time.
What does this prove?
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I'll check tomorrow; I simply used it as a telephone and was forced to interact with UI features to do so: first impressions are sometimes quite important, and it really did the opposite of wowing me.
Sounds similar to Skeleton (http://getskeleton.com/) but a little more in-depth (I noticed more attention to forms in Foundation, which is nice).
A lot of people live in a bubble where the only people they know where those who they went to (expensive private) college and (wealthy suburban) high school with. At that point you literally never get to come in contact with people not as fortunate as yourself. You get to believe that everyone had the same opportunities that you had, and that those who are earning less are just lazy or entitled. I'm not accusing the parent of that, just bringing some perspective to the debate.
Real world Clojure
The real problem is that there's a huge disparity in talent. The worst of us are worth a whole lot less than the best of us. The question is: what do we do about that?
I think this is a great concept. I've half-started at least a dozen projects that never made it off localhost. I want to finish some of the better ones if only to stick them up on Github and a Hostgator account as a living portfolio.
Have you tried geonames? I've not specifically used it for the US but that kind of information is in there for other countries. Only drawback of using geonames is that it can be a bit of effort getting what you want out of their feed.

This seems to suggest the data you're after is in there:
http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/postal-codes-us.html
Those that knew what to look for saw this coming before even he ran for president.. As soon as he voted to give retroactive immunity to telecom companies spying on US citizens, it was clear what stuff he was made from.

I still very much admire his propaganda ability. His campaign was amazingly successful. Yes, Bush being Bush helped a lot, but still. The disconnect (even among the intellectual liberals who rabidly supported him) between the perception of who Obama is and who he really is, is amazing (even after all this time).

Nobody denies that it is easy to lead and brainwash ignorant masses with fears of 'terrorism', 'communism' & 'homosexuals' but one has to admire the ability to brainwash relatively liberal and intelligent people. Looking back at Obama I will mostly remember him winning the AdAge 'Marketing Campaign Of The Year' award.

http://adage.com/article/moy-2008/obama-wins-ad-age-s-market...

He put Apple, Zappos & Nike to shame.

And then him getting the Nobel Peace prize. That was just the cherry on top.
I don't think the Libyans would have been able to kill him without our help.
I think your analysis is half right: it explains why the rich are doing better, but not why the poor are doing worse. The latter is occurring because the shift of manufacturing to lower-cost countries has increasingly eliminated the possibility of middle class jobs for those without a college degree. Manufacturing jobs have been replaced with low-value-add service jobs, which naturally result in lower pay.

Even if we were to ratchet taxes on the wealthy back up, this wouldn't do anything to bring high-value-add manufacturing jobs back.
This is awesome, it has loads of data, I can use it all, thank you
Here we are: http://178.79.145.225:9999/

I'll leave it running for a few hours assuming it will not crash. It's very new code ;)
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As a private citizen, it's my goal to have no debt, and savings in excess of my future debts.

Can someone explain why it's good to have a global economic system that is at great risk if the United States gets rid of it's debt?
http://www.datatables.net/ is nice.
Civilized =/= morally good. It's not what you do, it's how you do it.
Jobs may not have acted irrationally. Have you looked into the procedure that he needed? It is not a tonsilectomy. Here is the latest I found about the surgery:

"Over the last 15 years major pancreatic centers in the United States have developed excellent results for the Whipple surgery. In almost all the major centers the death rate from this surgery is now less than 5%."

That is a 1 in 20 chance of dying on the operating table - makes base jumping seem safe.
The Middle East and the West all have "rules of law", here are some examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

Both were written some time ago. Both have been modified, "interpreted" or just plain ignored. People are people no matter where you go. Power ebbs and flows to different people and groups over time. You are currently born into the group with the most power. This does not make you more correct, better than, or more civilized than others. It just makes you lucky.
Cool idea. Curious, how will it be different than Startup Weekend? How will you concentrate more on the finishing aspect of projects?

Also, love that you're doing this in Holland! Great little town.
This is really cool. I'd suggest, though, that the creators of the site give more info about the venue and the people that'll be there- I live in Chicago, so it would be really easy to head there. I could probably drag a bunch of people with me, but I know they'd want more info.

Totally exciting though, and I like the choice of place.
For a maximum vertical resolution of 768 pixels it is quite expensive compared to a macbook air.
Posted this on reddit, seemed to have a good reaction.

I made this list while getting ready to launch and it has been incredibly helpful now that we are trying to get the word out about the new startup.

This list is incomplete and can always have more sites added to it.

If anyone wants to add to it, send me a message at greg at mailslayer dot com.

Hope this is helpful
Linkbait title from NPR. It's clearly not a secret government report, since if it was then it couldn't have been obtained via a FOI request.

It is a genuine concern, though, what would happen if US Treasury Bonds ceased to exist. There's a good argument to be made for the US not completely paying off its debts.
I can't speak for anyone but myself of course but living the 'don't be evil' motto would result in Google sometimes leaving money on the table if taking it would involve betraying some trust. When this comes up it is inevitably a privacy violation that people are concerned about, but sometimes its a bait-and-switch type situation like the new pricing for AppEngine.

I don't think anyone believes them to be a charity or a non-profit, but if you could show how a billion dollars in the quarter was not collected (reducing their free cash flow from 2.8B$ to 1.8B$ for the quarter) because to do so would have required sharing 'too much' information about their user's browing habits, or what they stored, how they used AppEngine. They would get tremendous kudos and support from the community and Wall Street would mercillessly pummel them. I mean really, who wouldn't pick a billion dollars up off the floor?

That sort of wall street punishment would depress their stock price, and that would hurt the employees who feel 'better' when their stock options are worth something than when they are worthless. It is a vicious circle.

Remember the discussion in City Slickers [1] when Bruno Kirby's character tries to get Billy Crystal's character to admit he would cheat on his wife if the situation was 'right.' (and by right he generally meant there were going to be no consequences, no one would find out, etc etc.) And at the end Billy Crystal says "God would know." That was a wonderfully crisp treatise on integrity, and it illustrated, the difference between externally applied values versus internally upheld values.

It seems few people in life have the level of integrity that Billy Crystal's character shows, and so the process seems to boil down to keeping enough consequences in place so that employees won't violate a company value, and having the will to fire people who step over the line, even if the company benefitted from their action.

'Don't be evil' is, as many have pointed out, really too squishy to be actionable. But something like 'if you have to choose profit over privacy, choose privacy.' would be. Certainly not as catchy though.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101587/
I love the idea! But no project is ever finished - only abandoned.
He should not work for the world? Are you saying all the products he help made is only for his own enjoyment?
There are currently only five provinces/territories in Canada that mandate a minimum wage at or above $10/hour. Those are Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, and Nunavut. Even then, Manitoba and Nova Scotia only made it to that level on the first of this month. Nunavut is an anomaly in and of itself because everything is expensive as hell up there - it has a ridiculous cost of living from what I'm told - because it's remote and shipping supplies is costly.

Also, why do you think it's acceptable for people to only have one day a week away from work? Why is a nine hour workday acceptable? Are you taking into consideration that lower income workers are more likely to have to live further from work, and use public transportation to get to and from their place of employment (or to the grocery store, etc. but that's outside of my argument). So these people should have to work nine hours a day, plus any unpaid breaks they take. IIRC, my girlfriend is paid for breaks but not for lunch, so let's add a half an hour to this example to accommodate that. So we're at 9.5 hours per day, six days per week. Now, the worker has to walk to their bus stop - and to do it early so as not to possibly miss the bus - and maybe take a 15, or even 30, minute bus ride. They do that twice a day, to get to and from work. That's adding possibly an hour, or even more, to their day. So you're advocating that asking someone to spend nearly 11 hours a day, six days a week?

My first job out of college, doing some shitty COBOL programming, was 42.5 hours per week (40 working hours, plus an unpaid half hour a day for lunch). Because I was making enough cash to afford it, I lived within walking distance of work. It added maybe 15 minutes per day to walk to and from my job. I made between 38 and 43k for this, depending on when in my employment you asked me.

So why does it make so much sense for you to ask someone to spend an average of 66 hours a week of their time to make $28k, when I spent about 44 hours a week to make $43k?

I'm not even including the few weeks that I had to put in extra hours - no week ever really exceeding 60 hours from my recollection - at various crunch times, since I was paid out for that time, and the outlier in time was met by an outlier in pay. My hourly wage exceeded minimum wage by more than double, so including that would only skew the calculations further away from your argument.
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The coffeeshop fallacy is, in fact, a fallacy.

People don't open coffee shops to drink coffee all day any more than someone would open a bar because they want to drink all day.

My brother is a wine maker. He is insanely passionate about wine (Pinot to be precise). When he's not working he's talking about and sharing wine. But at the end of the day, he's just a farmer. He tends his vines, picks the fruit, puts in vats, waits a while and then pours it out into bottles. It's horrible, torturous, back-breaking labour for him. But he does it because he wants to put the best damned Pinot on your table.

That's why you open a coffee shop.

That's why game developers build games.

Anyone passionate about wine knows what it means to make wine, and anyone passionate about coffee knows what it takes to make coffee. The coffeeshop fallacy assumes our coffee drinker knows no shit-all about coffee.
Judging by the hordes of people on the streets with signs, desperation doesn't sound so quiet lately.
There is a big difference, which is likely to become apparent just by inspecting an example of a shared link blog. Let me repeat the URL of the one I am subscribed to:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/patrissimo

The difference between an ordinary blog and a shared link blog is that in a shared link blog, the posts (I want to call them "items" but know of no one else who calls them that, so "posts" it is) are written by people other than the owner (i.e., "patrissimo") of the shared link blog. All "patrissimo" did to put the post in the shared link blog was to check the box labelled "Share" or the box labelled "Share with note" at the bottom of every post in Reader (where the box labelled "Mark as read" is also to be found).

Well, more precisely, if he checked "Share with note", he also had to type in text of the note to be attached to the post. And there is a bookmarklet that he could have used instead of checking one of the two aforementioned boxes.
You can raise taxes without complicating the tax code.
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The basic premise of this article is suspect. The US would still issue enough T-Bills to provide stability even in a zero-debt scenario... it would simply buy other safe, long-term assets to hold.

If, for example, the US were borrowing money at 3% by issuing T-Bills, it would just buy a basket of high-grade foreign and corporate debt at 3.5% and earn a spread of 0.5% while continuing to provide adequate liquidity of T-Bills.
That's exactly what I thought. Anyone with more knowledge care to compare / contrast this and Skeleton?
Here's the problem: when I share something on Reader, I know that it will only be seen on Reader by my other friends who have specifically opted-in to say "I want to see stuff Nathan has shared". It is very reasonable to add a feature allowing me to comment on these shared items, since that's a pretty big value add.

When I share something to Plus, now it shows up to people who are on Plus. They are not in "let's read my RSS feeds" mode, they're in "let's see what my friends are up to" mode. My shared article, instead of being just another item to read and potentially comment on, has intruded on their social activity. If they wanted to read about quantum tunneling, they would have gone to Reader, not to Plus. Plus is where you go to read about your cousin's new haircut.
Not to take away from the point, but I'm always initially skeptical of statistics.

For example, this is also true:

50% of all taxpayers make less than the median EVERY DAY
Really confused as to why "read the original site" is a feature. Getting mainly text, without the original site's design, is one of the best features of RSS to me.
Is the title accurate? From the linked page:

"The bad: Our more expensive configuration offers no discount from a comparable MacBook Air, and leaves out some basic ports and connections."
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Planck's constant is not the smallest unit of distance. It's not a unit of distance at all.

You're thinking of the Planck length. It is indeed proposed that the Planck length is the smallest meaningful length, but this is by no means proved.
Which is still a much better chance than trying to defeat the cancer with alternative medicine...