skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr. Krugman's point, very succintly, is that money is power, political and otherwise, and that as it concentrates into fewer hands (as has happened to a huge extent in the last 30 years), those at the top start to behave like a ruling class - an oligarchy.

it will always be the case that politicians are more responsive to those with money, especially with the current judicial doctrine in the USA, that money is speech and therefore all attempts to regulate its use in politics is basically unconstitutional. that's the real issue with wealth inequality.

Mr. Mankiw is just arguing sideways to Mr. Krugman by making the very obvious point that more education betters your life's odds. And since Mr. Mankiw is a very bright guy, I can't help but think that he's doing this on purpose to muddy the discussion.
It is interesting to see whether users interested in new startups want a directory (links organized in a category-based model) or a blog (where new, fresh information is served periodically on an ongoing basis as it becomes available). I assumed the later when I created http://www.DailyWebApps.com ; I use WordPress which has built-in support for a category taxonomy so I kind of get the best of both worlds.

If you're interested it would be nice to collaborate in this area. Thanks for the useful resource.
There's a list of theaters in the linked source article:

http://moviecitynews.com/2011/11/steve-jobs-the-lost-intervi...

The Landmark site also has specific showtimes per-theater:

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=...
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This is the full interview video:
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/11/02/watch-steve-jobs-disc...

edit:

It was watchable a week ago, but now you have to register I guess?
Possibly, but many will anyway, and Apple will profit from it, while Android manufacturers won't.
There was a recent survey which asked java devs which jvm languages they were taking a serious look at. Scala came out on top with groovy as the runner up. Kotlin was an also ran. Survey results:
aftershox.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/JVM_Survey_Responses.png
The local library pays proportionally to the number of simultaneous readers it wants to be able to handle for the book. For popular books the library will by more than one copy.

This breaks the analogy between Amazon's library and local physical book libraries.
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I don't really see the hate for these people. You get the chicken pox once. The earlier in life you get it, the less troublesome it is.

I'm not going to argue against vaccinations, but the reality is that we have much more long-term data about having kids play together than the chicken pox vaccine. Both options are probably equally good at this point, and most people have personal experience with the first one and not the second one. Therefore it's not particularly odd to want your kid to get chicken pox naturally.

(I don't buy the argument about "giving the immune system a workout", though.)
I can imagine performance being an issue (as mentioned in the article, but without any numbers) - anyone know of any benchmark results?
This may not be a case of stupidity. It could very well be simple ignorance that a chicken pox vaccine exists. Until I saw this article, I was previously unaware that a vaccine for chicken pox was ever developed.
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Thanks everyone for the feedback - we ditched the next/previous buttons. I kept a 'start' button at the bottom of the first page because I wanted to set up for the user that it all scrolls down from there, plus I just had to keep a giant button somewhere on the page :)

And good idea about giving some sort of visual cue the keyboard buttons work. I think I might work on something to indicate that. Thanks!
I love Masonry so much. I want to marry it.
Yes - there is correlation between income and education, but there are other forces that produce that correlation.

For instance, how would this correlation change if companies no longer required a degree for hiring? It would change a lot.
Because sending highly infectious biological material through the mail system can be exceptionally hazardous for anyone who may come into contact with it. Adult chickenpox can be lethal.
That regression (which is called a mincerian wage equation & economists have been running it for about 40 years) will give you the average percentage increase in earnings (if you do it in logs) from another year of education. That average measure can be consistent with lots of different dynamics---which is Mankiw's point. Perhaps another year of education increases earnings by 10% across the board (deterministic view) or perhaps is increase by 10% the chance that your income will increase 100% but 90% of the time does nothing.

Note: All of this is just correlational---there are serious problems w/ treating these regressions as establishing causality, but that's another issue.
When I read the title, I hoped they had built a replacement for the tedious XML declaration of plug-ins, with Commands and Workbench Core Expressions and all that.

(Example:
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclips... )

Am I right that Eclipse Xtend is just not targeted towards extending Eclipse at all, despite the name?
What do you say the relative of someone who had a vaccine and immediately became crippled and couldn't walk because the reaction damaged their inner-ear? Just co-incidence? No p-value with a sample of one? Would you make them take that vaccine? Or let 'em slide on this one? I'm not sure your government regulations would deal with this case.

The immune system is an organ like the muscles, brain and heart. Putting a little stress on these organs is actually good. Just because the autism/vaccine fiasco was fraud doesn't invalidate all concerns. For instance the school system forcing girls to get "anti-cancer" vaccines when there is an effect alternative (i.e. "dont' be a promiscuous"). The parents can make that choice ... or the kid when she becomes a teenager.
If polio or small-pox are threats, certainly the good out weighs the bad. But chicken-pox? Not so clear cut. AIDS? Again, don't sleep around and dont jab things in your body and you won't get AIDS.
>You get the chicken pox once.

False.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles
An interesting idea, but do you think many American citizens would take these jobs, even with subsidized wages? I personally don't think they would, but I'd be interested to hear what others think.
Someone at work bought two, one each for his under 6-year old sons so they wouldn't fight over them. Don't see that as a long-term market.
Do We Believe Everything We're Told?
>> "It should not be that hard to take income (or labor income) and regress against educational level and get a pretty good sense of how much inequality is related to educational achievement, and how returns to education have changed. My gut feeling is it explains some of it, but education has not that much to do with the vastly increasing income share of the top 1%. One man's 'stochastic' is another's 'uncorrelated'."

I think Mankiw is actually right about the 'stochastic' returns to education- but he isn't admitting the real reason. I believe it's because the returns to going to a select few schools studying a select few things do create outsized returns. I.e, graduating from a Harvard/Stanford MBA or Law program makes it much more likely to place you top 1%. The number is institutions that this is true for is very small. In a sense, I don't think the actual 'education' is causing this stochastic return, but the people you meet and opportunities people get at the oligarchical institutions.
Three most important issues in ML are missing for this course:

* Feature selection, Overfitting, Bias-Variance tradeoff

Maybe one of the prof Mitchell's students can make the missing slides available online?
You can believe the unknowns associated with the new chicken pox vaccine aren't worth the well-known and manageable hassle of having the chicken pox, without also believing crazy things about vaccines causing autism or sending infections through the mail.
Actually Lion adoption has been phenomenal so far, from a numbers standpoint.

And I had not issues with my 3 machines, FWIW.
Most of the people I know who had an iPhone 4 sold it for a 4S. I don't think it was so much a Siri thing (it doesn't work very well in Greece).
>What do you say the relative of someone who had a vaccine and immediately became crippled and couldn't walk because the reaction damaged their inner-ear?

The same thing you say to the person who got struck by lightning five times. On a societal level, you work with the 99.99999%.

>The immune system is an organ like the muscles, brain and heart. Putting a little stress on these organs is actually good.

Just to verify: you took one bio course as a college underclassman and you think that makes you an immunologist.
People need to stop using the term "top 1 percent". We do have a serious (and dangerous!) problem with oligarchs in this country, but a 99.0th-percentile income does not buy entry into the upper class (which might comprise 0.05-0.1 percent of the US population). Not even close.

The upper class (as opposed to "the rich", which is a much larger and looser set) is a socially closed, parasitic network of people who maintain position by peddling favors and influence, and who have done a great job (in comparison to historical counterparts) of making the process appear meritocratic, even though hard work and education are actually contrary to their values. Now, not all rich people are upper class (Jobs wasn't, Gates is debatable) or parasitic crooks. Most rich people aren't. Likewise, not all upper-class people are rich (although they could easily become rich, or famous, if desired).

The reason average people in the US are so parasite-friendly is that, when they think of "rich people", they think of scaled-up versions of the $500,000-per-year neurosurgeon (statistically "top 1%") or small businessperson who has been working her ass off since age 4-- not scummy investment bankers and well-connected influence-peddlers (e.g. the Bush family). If they understood how society actually works, they wouldn't fall for that ruse.

No one wants to "soak the rich". On the other hand, most of us who are awake deeply desire an end to the culturally underaccomplished, corrupt plutocracy that has brought a nation to epic embarrassment and idiotic, endless war to two foreign countries.
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I think you can view it in segments here without an account: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221185/Video_Steve_J...

I'm not sure if it's the whole thing or not.
Like the other commented who replied to your post, I'm left with the feeling you didn't read the article (or at least, not very carefully). For instance, you write:

>If you drop hundreds of billions of dollars paying for government workers that the government cannot afford, you are not simulating anything [...] Likewise, if you cut taxes for the rich, and they continue to spend their money in the same way, you are also not doing anything except to run up the debt.

That is the exact point made in the article: that both the Keynesian (Dem) and Chicagoan (Rep) approaches are not going to help in creating jobs.

In addition, you claim the article

>takes whatever the current problem is and announces that it is insolvable

The article closes with noting "no economic theory offers [unemployed Americans] easy salvation" (which is certainly true) and suggests that having a more highly-skilled workforce would help the problem. Do you disagree with this point? Wouldn't it be easier to employ liberal arts majors if they developed a useful skill?

I'm a grad student in Economics, and usually I think the NY Times does an abysmal job reporting on economic issues, but this article did a decent job.
To your list, I'd like to add Jaynes's 'Probability Theory'
A few chapters are freely available here: www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Publications/PDF/PT.pdf

(The publisher asked the book's editor to stop distributing the whole PDF.)
This is why there's a huge literature in economics on trying to measure the causal impact of more schooling. They've used everything from state-level changes in compulsory schooling laws, proximity to college, changes in grants policies, variation around cut-offs that determine eligibility etc. In all of these studies, the picture is quite clear: more schooling has a positive, causal effect on average earnings, with the estimates around ~6-10%.
The interface feels a bit on the skittish side – it's one of those pages where you're afraid to move because it's going to change something, and where dragging the mouse around threatens to give you a seizure. And I'm not sure the color scheme is going to win any design awards.

But, still, excellent. There's a great deal of information in there. It beats consulting a big paper handbook.
Especially when the target audience for such a class is probably likely to have an outsized portion of *nix users.
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Yes if a company makes higher profits by eliminating workers then they should lose the savings from their taxes.

If they moved the profit and terminated the workers, that year they would still have to pay full taxes. The new company would not have people for a year so no credits - they also wouldn't have profits to pay taxes on either. There is no way to game the system, you cannot shuffle workers because you lose credits.

Why is this so complicated to appreciate? A large corporation's worth to society is not to ship jobs overseas but to create domestic jobs. How else do you encourage them to not ship jobs overseas and get slave labor for pennies?
Good idea, I hate the fact that directories force everyone into sections, What about a Games start up?
Stanford also uses Silverlight and Flash:

http://171.64.93.201/ClassX/system/users/web/pg/view_subject...

Maybe now it's considered as a "distant learning standard"?
New? EE started in 1996. If anyone's a copycat, it's SO, and they weren't even the first.

EE went the venture capital route in the last century, and did exactly what SO is doing now: burning through money trying to build eyeballs with no business plan other than taking venture capital money. It failed then, and it will fail now because the revenue stream doesn't support the increased costs.

EE tried the advertising model in the early 2000s: get lots of eyes, sell ads and pay the bills with that. It failed then, and it will fail now; only a few companies have sufficient traffic to be profitable (Google and Facebook lead the list, but everyone else needs some other revenue, or needs to share content (like the NYTimes does) to help offset costs.

The only business model that works AND SCALES is to charge for services rendered, like your cable company does. like your ISP does and like your plumber does.

Did EE implement it in the best possible way? Nope. Instead it followed Google's rules for SEO, and got punished for it because it was better at it than anyone else. So it's rebuilding itself: http://beta.experts-exchange.com . Did its members like it? Nope, but that didn't stop the company from doing it, and now they're listening to their members more because it turns out the members' warnings were right -- because they've been there before.

When SO starts putting all kinds of ads in your face and you start complaining like frightened banshees and nothing happens, you can cash in your reputation points and find another site that will have the same magic bullet SO does. When Quora starts tracking every little thing you do to "personalize the experience" just remember that its roots are in Facebook -- and the goal is to turn you into the product, because that's what advertising based sites do; they can't sell ads without it.

EE is honest. You're not the product; you're the customer, even if -- especially if -- you're the one answering questions.
If the library is paying a bulk/discounted price such that the author's cut of the price for each book sold is effectively zero, then it doesn't matter how many books they pay for simultaneously. A billion times zero is still zero.
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Using Lion just fine. Only problem is Photoshop, but that's really Adobe's fault. They've had years to properly support Expose and Spaces.
The video is no longer available. I'm assuming the copyright holder has pulled it.
No, the award system that's being discussed leaves applicants with no certainty that they'll actually be compensated for disclosing. That's not the case with the patent system; subject to modifications, competent patent applicants are virtually certain to get a patent 7 years after applying.
Isn't this taking the Steve worship just a wee bit too far?
I think you should take the frontend one step further and have it live completely on the client side. It is fully within the realm of possibility to build a JavaScript/HTML application for the front end that only interacts with your API.

Is there a reason you didn't do this?
Maybe not necessary, but likely accurate. You can say that price collusion is illegal but until those laws are enforced that's not much of an argument one way or another.
If Netflix wanted to go to Best Buy and buy dvds and lend them out they legally could, but that doesn't stop the content providers from being able to make other deals like this. It easily could be worth it for netflix if the dvds need to be replaced less than every 100 viewings on average.
While it's true that a lot of Node libraries assume *nix and make system calls, a surprising number of libraries are written in pure Node. Just clone the library from GitHub and put it in the node_modules directory and you're good to go for a number of popular libraries.

I've played around with Node in Windows and Node without NPM is seriously gimped.
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The only commercial CL I've used is Lispworks, which is an awesome product. However, the main reason i bought Lispworks was because of its GUI component (CAPI) which turned out to be crap.

I now use CCL when I need a native Cocoa interface, and SBCL when I don't.

Clojure vs. Common Lisp? I haven't really given Clojure a fair shot because I don't like the idea of targeting a virtual machine. Common Lisp (at least the implementations I use) generate code for an actual machine.
Search is not their product; adspace is.
One of the more useful things I've seen on HN. However it seems to only really apply to B2B. There is a bit of a hand wave about B2C at the end. Would love to see more thoughts about its applicability there.
About the bonus link:

It does not make sense to compare ensamble methods (bagging & boosting) with single instance classifiers. In practice, you try all classifiers and then you use best to create an ensamble. The paper leaves me unsatisfied, thinking that probably bagging or boosting SVM would give the best results.
Yes, that is what it did for me when I clicked it. It brought up a new email in Thunderbird (remember that?) filled in as you describe.
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There's no need to isolate: just pay fairly. 3$/hr for programming work can't be considered fair by any stretch of the imagination, imo.
Why not let the front end sit entirely on the client?

EDIT: What aeden said.
The fact that the 1% are better educated in average doesn't prove that the latter leads to the former; "Empirically observed covariation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causality" and all that.

One possible underlying common is inheritance: I'd be willing to bet that the child of a family in the 1% is much more likely to be in the 1% in adulthood, even if they drop out. And of course, a child in a 1% family has much more chances of being able to afford higher education.

Citing from The Inheritance of Inequality:

Recent evidence points to a much higher level of intergenerational that was previously thought to be the case. America may still be the land of opportunity by some measures, but parental income and wealth are strong predictors of the likely economic status of the next generation.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.115...
Direct3D was initially much worse than OpenGL, which they saw as a threat because it was cross platform. To this day they are doing something similar with the refusal to adopt WebGL as a standard in their browsers.
Seems like a case of median vs the mean. Krugman's saying that we haven't seen a broad-based increase in pay as productivity rose, because of what he calls oligarchic trends.

Mankiw is saying that the education input into that equation has highly variable returns to the individual, but the average of incomes is rising in the line you'd expect from education.

Basically, Krugman's talking about the median, Mankiw's talking about the mean. I think the interesting question is why they've diverged much more radically in the last 3 decades than the preceding 4-5.

PS Mankiw's intro book is awesome.
Mankiw's logic seems a little circular... education buys you the golden ticket, but then the process for determining the winners is stochastic. What determines the distribution of the stochastic process?

If more people get educated, and the stochastic process stays the same, doesn't the distribution of outcomes stay the same? So in what sense is the distribution related to education?

If in some areas network effects got more important, and Windows became ubiquitous, or Mankiw's textbook... and then industry got pretty powerful and able to defend the cash streams, without worrying about taxes or checks on market power... then the stochastic process became more winner-take-all.
Eh, ish. If the total supply of shares is 5% of the company, they'll be worth more individually than if the whole company was up for sale. That's just supply and demand at work. If you genuimely think that the company is worth 20 million and can buy 5% of it for 1 million and stop anyone else from doing so, that's a really good deal.
How did I also forgot roll.io :) It is one of my favorites. Thx.
I updated list.
In the UK at least the library also pays a per-loan (a few *10c) to the author.
http://www.apartmentlist.com has most of those features. Plus it adds a recommender to help you sort through your search. It doesn't scrape Craigslist so the quality of the apartments is really high, and it still has 1.9 million of them.

It just launched in September, so expect to see more of those features you are looking for to go live soon.
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WxPython: Creating a "dark mode"
Of course, it's a little easier to defend "our" theories because they are actually peer reviewed and predictive.
Have you considered going to a tanning bed? I have heard this works very well, improving mood and general outlook during the dark times. I plan on doing this 1-2 times a week when the winter gets going hardcore here as an experiment.

In reading up on this subject, just a few minutes is all that is needed, the point is not a tan, just exposure to UV and brightness.
Like me.
Clarification: I did not take any undergraduate biology courses.

You don't need prestige academic credentials to read about it in the popular press, type in some search terms, and come up with this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis . There is no checking of your SAT scores or college GPA or anything inorder to do this, so give it a try. They may track you via cookies, but I recommend taking a chance.
Occupy Wall Street Ads Hit TV This Weekend (enabled by a startup)
The ad space was crowdfunded via LoudSauce, a media startup based in SF. In the near future, we will be using TV and OOH ads to scale mobile apps developed by other startups. (I'm an advisor - @charles_baker)
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This seems to prove my point, since they look identical. :)