skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've basically nailed it.

Money is just an information-carrying mechanism. A lot of people fetishize it because they see the immediate effect of "If I had money, I could buy things." Ultimately, though, the economy is built on goods and services: if nobody produces those goods and services, then nobody will be able to buy them. Giving everyone money doesn't change this, it just changes the measuring stick.

The same dynamic plays out with demographics and retirement. If you have a smaller fraction of the population producing things, then standards of living will necessarily fall (barring productivity increases), regardless of what sort of financial trickery you use to redistribute wealth. Social security, individual retirement accounts, pensions - it all doesn't matter. If you replace social security with investment-based IRAs, then you'll just see steadily rising asset prices as a demographic bulge goes through working age, and then steadily falling asset prices as that demographic bulge retires. The relevant factors are the fraction of the population working at any one time, and their productivity rates. If you can't change these, you can't change standard of living.
Have you used the most recent WinZip? I had to install the demo to open a .zipx file that nothing I had would unzip. It's a little scary - they've gone quite markedly beyond what you would expect from a compression tool.
Ahem, this is so wrong it's not even funny. I'm just calling it out because there are people here who are just learning how to code. You always create an index, on pretty much every query. That's as basic as commenting your code.
That's true, but if you have full control over who can see your information (i.e. "I allow it to be anonymized and used for genetics/cancer research in exchange for information about myself, for myself"), it's not a problem. I just get frustrated when the will of the vocal few override the welfare of the silent majority.
Love how this ranks immediately above Jeff Atwood's "Serving at the Pleasure of the King". HN kids are as fickle as they are retarded.
Videogames don't cause cancer, but I wonder whether we'll look on them as being sort of like cigarettes or alcohol in a few decades. There are enough "Wives of Warcraft" stories out there to suggest that normal models of human volition break down when presented with highly addictive material.

In related news:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1983234,00.htm...

South Korea Cracks Down on Gaming Addiction

He was pleased last week when the government ordered what
it calls a "nighttime shutdown" for gamers: the Ministry
of Culture, Sports and Tourism directed the operators of
the three most popular games to block people under age 18
from playing games between midnight and 8 a.m. starting in
September. Another rule will significantly slow down the
Internet connections of young players if they engage for
too many hours into the night, rendering the more
graphics-intensive games unplayable, and several other
bills are pending in the National Assembly that could
restrict kids' gaming habits even further. "It's a great
idea," says Yoon. "Video-game addiction is having bad
effects on our generation. The kids have to study and grow
up eventually."
A disjoint suggestion, I would sincerely request some readers to go check out http://www.amazon.com/In-The-Plex-ebook/dp/B003UYUP6M/

It is a fascinating book and one that I regret not reading earlier.
Does that account for the economic distortion of subsidies? As more money becomes available for a given good, the price of that good will rise.

You see that a lot with student loans: they don't actually make college more affordable, they just let colleges charge higher prices. And with agricultural subsidies: they don't actually help poor small farmers, they just let Monsanto charge higher prices. The way to work out affordability issues is to fix the underlying supply & demand problems, eg. finding new ways of manufacturing a good or delivering a service that don't consume as much labor or resources, and then open up competition in that market so everyone has an incentive to adopt these new ways.
I always thought The Economist was about as amusing as it needed to be.
5 valid points and all applicable to Android development as well.
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Just from the first sample (http://diveintoios.com/samples), it seems a bit heavy, listing many things that aren't necessary to get started. Customers can get that detail from a reference book/website (e.g. you could supply it as a supplementary pdf).

I think for a video, people would like the experience of being guided through by someone knowledgeable. They don't want a book; and they don't want a dry lecture. They want a substitute for an expert friend at their elbow. You don't need to impress with exhaustive detail - a beginner can't absorb it anyway.

So, for example, just say "⌘B to build and run it", instead of the several commands you go through. And not list all those methods for UIViewController. Instead, start with what is a UIViewController, in terms of the user-experience. i.e. why would you want one? Then, once the listener is motivated, introduce how to use it with an example.

I'm reminded of Steve Jobs, always thinking of the user's point of view (not the complete technical details); and using huge fonts with a small amount of text on slides.

But... honestly... maybe some people want exactly what you are doing. (if your younger self would have benefited from it, that's strong evidence that someone else would too.) Including the accent, your youth, audio quality etc. For each person that X is a negative, there can be another for whom it's a positive. Target those people who value what you value. You don't need to please all the people - just really please a small number, and that's enough for a one-man venture. Once you have a foothold, you can broaden your scope.

(Of course, if you strongly agree with some of the suggestions here, then they are now your values - and you should adopt them!)
How do you feel about your purchase? I was ready to buy until I viewed a sample and decided I couldn't handle the accent and audio quality. Does the quality of the video take your mind off this?
It's so trivial for Gmail to do PGP that it was testing email signatures two years ago (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/02/gmail-tests-pgp-sig...)

Indeed, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail could get the ball rolling here completely transparently to users and with relative ease, thereby preventing thousands of phishing attacks in the process. If they did, then webmail would suddenly become useful for talking to banks, stockbrokers, foreign dissidents, avoiding craigslist scams, etc. etc.. But not only have Gmail et al not implemented any features like these, but they've not even uttered a peep as to why.

Their silence here is conspicuous.
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Sitting in your room and reading the internetz does even less.
No, I was talking more about their business side -- killing off everything that isn't a direct profit center and moves towards unopenness (no Honeycomb source code, etc).

In regards to UI, I wouldn't mind if they copied Apple more there but only if they copied the good (great defaults) without copying the bad (no ability for power users to modify the defaults).
Honest opinions, am I chasing a lost cause? 
I'm working on a project in which the sign up goes live in one week and I'm starting to get a lot of negative feedback and have sunk around $35,000 into the process. (Not my money at that!)

To be honest I thought the world was my oyster and I'm now in a constant state of anxiety.

Basically I've built a social payments service in which you can make a payment to someone and have it appear in their bank account direct in 3hours. At a cost of 5%; So $100 would cost you $5.

The social aspect is kind of cool and I can't wait to ShowHN.

Is this as worthless as people are suggesting?
Here djb discusses his proposed protocol for encrypting the internet. http://27c3.iphoneblog.de/recordings/4295.html
Why is she unhappy that a retailer gets their cut for supplying the MITM service?

I don't like Apple philosophy in the slightest and don't own any apple gear (old ipods excepted), so I'm not a fan of theirs in the slightest. But this 30% thing is just a non-issue. They're a retailer providing content. 30% is a boringly normal number for the retailers cut.

If amazon wanted to share their profits with the retailer (like book publishers have to with brick and mortar stores) then those books would be available. If Apple allowed those purchases for free, then they don't get any benefit for providing the service.
"This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use; they do not apply to blank computer CDs, even though they can be (and often are) used to record or "burn" music from the computer to CD. The royalty also applies to stand-alone CD recorders, but not to CD burners used with computers. Most recently, portable satellite radio recording devices contribute to this royalty fund. [13]."

I've never seen one labeled for use with music. I doubt that's by accident.
What I discovered recently when doing a new Rails 3 app was that the RESTful CRUD stuff is all boilerplate. This is true about Sinatra apps, too: Every GET, POST, PUT and DELETE are just wrappers around find, create update and destroy. I used Rabl for generating JSON, so it was possible to write a single serialization for all objects. So why not just boil everything down to the minimal code required?

Something like this:

handle '/blog'

That's it. This makes some assumptions:

* That /blog maps to a class Blog which it can load and save.
* That you either use "fat models" (with callbacks that munge data and perform actions when data changes) or external observers (like ActiveRecord's observers).
* That the model supports all four CRUD actions.

When you want additional verbs:

handle 'GET /blog/search' do
MySearchEngine.search(params[:q])
end

Or object-specific ones:

handle 'GET /blog/:id/search' do |blog|
MySearchEngine.search(params[:q], :blog_id => blog.id)
end

In fact, aside from extra verbs, you could get away with no code at all, since you could introspect the database layer to discover which classes are mappable.

My app is a JavaScript-based single-page HTML5 web application using Backbone, so there is almost no server-side frontend code, meaning my app is basically a server-side database anyway.
Totally agree, try Braid, Portal 1 & 2, Limbo, Minecraft, Karoshi, World of Goo.. Outlets like xbox live arcade and ios app store make it easier for indie developers to reach a large audience.
Starcraft II, wow. Is there something wrong with me that I found that game too difficult and stressful?

I gave it an honest try, and it's certainly exciting, but once I found myself having made a huge stack of flash cards to study the relationships between unit types it started to feel a bit too much like work. Sort of the opposite of the "hook you slowly" dynamic.

Anyone else have this experience?

So how does Blizzard extract more money from you?

Expansion packs. Wings of Liberty is just the first campaign of Starcraft II.
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70% is about right, give or take. Depends on the industry. But retailers certainly don't ever take only 3% like payment gateways do.

This whole 30% thing comes from a new demographic that has never had any previous experience with business, who don't really understand the value of distribution channels and middlemen.
Yes, I read the article.

"Do you suggest sea water is a remedy for dehydration. Or are you suggesting osmosis doesn't occur across cell membranes. Or maybe you're disputing the process of osmosis altogether and the transfer between varying salinities. Which one is it exactly?"

I just mean this: whether seawater causes dehydration in small quantities is a complex question, one which reading this article will provide absolutely no insight into.

"You can't extrapolate the sodium in Gatorade to drinking straight sea water. That's not only haphazard, but completely irresponsible considering we're discussing health and survival."

I never said that seawater is hydrating? Seawater lacks glucose and may have too high a salt concentration to promote hydration even if it did contain glucose. My apologies to anybody who misinterpreted my post after finding themselves stranded on a desert island.

"Also, the images depict cells all over the body; not just in the small intestine and certainly not villi."

The images are clearly presented in such a way as to suggest that simple osmosis between cells and seawater-containing blood is the operative factor in determining hydration. This is totally untrue.

"Sure, this isn't the most robust explanation of a bodily function. This is an expedition travel website. It's not the Journal of Medical Science."

That doesn't give them license to just make stuff up.
350 million million is 350 trillion. Seven times the world GDP.
Which came first? Quake 3 or the papers? This defines how interesting it is. I've seen a lot of folks working through Quake's code lately. Hard to tell if they are originators or appliers, but either way it's much more interesting than reading bland examples from a book.
350 trillion is a lot. I doubt there are many people on earth whose wealth is 6 times the GDP of the entire world.
2011 Hackmeeting at Noisebridge, Oct 15-16
Does GitLab/GitHub use git objects to store the issues file? If not, then using this software does in fact significantly increase your likeliness to lose data, since your single server will crash and you only had a local copy of your source code, not your issues.

[edit] I just checked: GitLab stores issues in a database separate from git, therefore unless you have a solid backup plan for those, it will significantly increase the likelihood of you losing data. GitHub stores wiki pages at least as git objects, so when you clone your repository, you have a full backup of all of those.
Most people are focusing on modern reasons. The historical reason is that when the internet was being developed, public key encryption hadn't been invented yet. The 1960s and early 1970s was when the internet was created and it was only until the mid 1970s that public key encryption came about. The problems of secure key exchange hadn't been solved at the time. Even if those problems had been solved, clock speeds were measured in megahertz [edit: sometimes kilohertz]; every clock cycle mattered.

Fast forward to today and this legacy has remained. Many protocols are being retrofitted to support encryption, but it's similar to why railroad tracks are the width they are: Roman chariots used the same width.

Additionally, don't discount developer laziness. It's much easier to debug a plaintext stream than an encrypted one.
There are examples which cannot be done free as far as I know. For example, I love to go paintballing. To make it cost less, you can buy your own paint and own your own equipment. But it still costs money because I don't own a giant plot of land or have 100 friends with their own gear. Then I have to buy the paint itself on top of that. Can you find me a non-paid version that matches that experience?

I suspect most people go out to have fun. What is fun? Meeting people and creating experiences/memories. Sure, you could sit with your friends at someone's home every night but that gets boring honestly and turns into the same people and patterns.
Ha. The last time you could make a full $49 by putting something in the app store was the time these guys lost their contract with a western company.

Listen... you hear that? That's the Titanic creaking.
I was watching Occupy Raleigh earlier today at the State Capitol, and I didn't see any evidence that the police were planning to interfere. There were about eight officers on-site, but they were mostly just watching. Maybe the possibility of police misconduct is a bigger issue in other cities.
I use them for faster searches -- like going from the current page to a traffic estimate of that page on compete.com, or domaintools information for the site. Really speeds things up.
The "safe" lifespan of an SSD, this is just hear-say so don't criticize that, is around 1 year. Any more you get is just a bonus. I think I read that on codinghorror.com...

Anyway, I've got a Mac which probably doesn't support the latest, greatest SSD features. And my experience with HDDs says an average of 5 years life is pretty easy to attain. Therefore, for someone who needs cheap space with decent lifespan the HDD is the obvious answer.

And at 10x the cost for a reliable SSD ... sorry. I may be a programmer but I do draw the line at expensive stuff (I don't even on an iPad or iPod, my Mac is almost 2gen old...).
What Can We Learn From Dennis Ritchie?
There's not really enough information here to tell. Are you getting negative feedback from people who have actually used / tested the product or is it just people opining on the idea itself? Now that I no longer carry cash, it is actually really hard to pay a friend. I ran into this problem yesterday and I still owe a friend $15 for lunch. There's not a good way that I've found to solve that problem (especially in 3 hours) from my cell phone. In short: I'd be pretty interested if this was well executed.
So what, Chrome always warns when it downloads PDF
It's difficult for me to drink fresh water in large quantities (more than a liter an hour) but when I put electrolytes in them, I find I can drink somewhere on the order of 2x to 3x more.

I buy these 100 at a time - seems to do the job pretty well.

http://www.hydrationdepot.com/Qwik-Stik.html
People will always try to convince you that your idea is "worthless." It's your job to convince them otherwise. Seriously, think about why you started this project in the first place, what made you say "yeah, I'm going to work on that?" In the event that it doesn't work, you'll always be able to say "I tried it." Wait until its launched and let your customers validate it, not spectators.
I was going to complain about how this was extreme, but that would be redundant given his URL. The point isn't that we all can/should live off of ~$7,000/year, it's that we can cut down on the crap we don't need, or things that will be gone or obsolete in a year or less.

However, the great thing about this article is that it reminds me to find some kind of balance. The impression I got was that the author spends nearly half his time budgeting and penny pinching, with little room to enjoy life. Or, if I could be a little more presumptuous, convinces himself that he enjoys this life so that he doesn't have to go out and earn far more money.
On the topic of food...it's interesting that Tabasco is specifically mentioned. I'm originally from Louisiana, and my family and I prefer Crystal hot sauce; we think it has more flavor.
Read up on water intoxication deaths of marathoners and discover why your simple idea is wrong.
Only way to tell is to launch.
If people really cared, they would figure it out. That's the point of making them release the source- it can be figured out.

It is my opinion that nobody has screwed around much with the Kindle because it pretty much already does everything everybody wants it to do. Biggest want I've ever heard was that it doesn't support ePub, but you can convert to mobi so I don't think anyone has really been aching to patch it.
I find Dwarf Fortress quite hard to get into, but smart friends are talking about it.

So how would one describe DF in this framework?
Why did this get upvoted so many times? It has been available for years now.

I'm afarid to say that I think people upvoted this without even reading the link. I'd bet that 200+ people who voted for this thought it was the source to amazon's proprietary components. Its not, its gpl'ed code that has been available for as long as amazon has sold the kindle.
The community has had that option ever since the Kindle v1. Amazon has honored the license ever since they launched.
Warning to visitors number 3: The video doesn't tell you anything about what Soundcloud does.
Oooh I want to play that game! Somebody please make it:

Giraffes vs Mambas
Have you seen venmo? They do social payments with overnight transactions for free (instant payment to your venom account and overnight payment to your bank)

In their case, they took vc money and it looks like they are eating the bank fees ...
AIPaint: A Sketch-Based Behavior Tree Authoring Tool
The way to fix this is for the ISPs to charge the MPAA members to process any accusations.
This was the result from the three strikes legislation in New Zealand, and since the law and $25 fee came into force a month or two back there have been _no_ recorded requests from the MPAA members to ISPs.
It makes it obvious that even the MPAA knows that the claimed losses are a bunch of hogwash.
I suggest you to read this book: The Lean Startup. It explain how to drive your startup using tests and how to validate your strategy or change it. They are many examples of successful business who has changed their strategy many times before getting successful.

http://theleanstartup.com/
They're two entirely different things... this is actually powered by gitolite and looks incredibly easy to setup
Why You Can’t Invest in My Awesome Start-Up
The worm adjusts its genes to target the prevailing clone

(via sex). This is why.
One interesting angle this highlights is the trouble with figuring out what (if anything) to do about activity that is perfectly legal individually, but can be disruptive if done en masse. It's obviously legal, and not trespassing, to go to your bank. It's also obviously legal to go with 2 or 3 friends or family members at the same time. Also most likely, with a van full of 8-9 people who happen to all need to withdraw some cash (maybe you're heading together to a strip club or casino or something). At which point does it become illegal to organize a group of people to go (legitimately) use the bank's services simultaneously?
Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft are different games. This poster is referring to Starcraft 2, which does not charge a monthly fee.
Sent you an email, maybe I can help you out :)
So, it's just like GitHub except GitHub has wiki's that are stored as Git objects. Or are you saying that GitHub also stores issues in git? I don't understand how this is an argument against GitLab.
I would like to know how that effects affect SEO.
Well it isn't worthless and if you are $35K in the hole, you should just try to release some MVP and see what feedback you get. You do not want to waste too much time if it will not work, but be sure before closing shop. Most startups do not die. They commit suicide.
Interesting. I guess for every individual, a percentage of their productive efforts is due to necessity, and the remaining percentage is due to something else (pride, greed, generosity, competitiveness, creativity, boredom, vanity). We could call this ratio the Capitalization Index, CI.

What I'd like is to see the CI for a large cross-section of society. Of course, you'd need to come up with some sort of test to reliably measure it. Like giving them a million dollars and seeing how much work they continue to put in...
I don't know why there has to be just one reason that organisms have sex

I'm inclined to agree. I'm not sure why the author limits themselves to parasites. Parasites are not the only selective pressure that can be addressed via genetic recombination.
All of the IEEE floating point standard is an approximation :).

It's a cool hack but very mid-90s centric and not that all applicable today. In modern pipelined processors with segregated register files the cost of moving a piece of data from floating point registers to integer registers and back again -- along with pretty much all modern instruction sets (SSE, AltiVec, NEON) coming with instructions that give you a means to calculate a reciprocal square root (either directly or with an estimate + refine) -- means that such a trick is no longer practical.