skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my thought: why have one server proxy request to another Web server instead of having the client use the API directly?

Your main Web server could just serve the initial page / application / whatever, and then the application lives on the client, fetching data from the API and formatting it as needed. You end up with proper MVC in the browser.

That's what I did for a small side-project of mine last week and it worked very well. I detailed how I built it here: https://plus.google.com/118077068834135870002/posts/62agb7qp...
> [Education] does not guarantee that a person will end up in the top 1 percent, but it increases the likelihood.

Only very slightly, which is the point that Krugman et al. are making. The main determinant of whether you, personally, are in the top 1% is whether your father was.

> I have not seen any data on this, but I am willing to bet that the top 1 percent are more educated than the average American; while their education did not ensure their economic success, it played a role.

Mankiw is doing what is called out in this article as bullshitting:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/inequality_and_bullshit...

Mankiw is bullshitting. He is attempting to obfuscate a fact which he knows to be true, by throwing a bunch of other half-truths (of course education has some increasingly minimal effect on your life outcomes; that will always be true, it will still be true even when that effect is a hundredth of a percent) and seeing if any of them stick. Mankiw is fully aware that he's bullshitting.

The purpose of his post is to give people who are already inclined to believe the whole thing is a "liberal plot" a handhold for their beliefs, a rope to grasp at. He knows it's fake, but if you WANT to believe that inequality isn't increasing due to a class of crooks running the U.S. for their own benefit, now you have something to hang your pre-existing belief on, courtesy of Mankiw.

What an embarrassment.
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When costs go up, producers become less willing to supply product at a given price. This shifts the supply curve left, and establishes a new equilibrium at a lower quantity but higher price. Of course, with regards to oil, demand has been exploding in developing nations, which has pushed the demand curve to the right. Now, picture pulling the supply and demand curves to the left and right, respectively, at the same time to see how that causes the equilibrium price to spike.

As for speculation, it's hard to tell what speculation is really doing here. Speculation is, to an extent, the mechanism through which the market incorporates knowledge about the future scarcity of a good into the price of the good. Whether or not we've hit "peak oil" we're clearly in a situation where oil extraction is getting more complex and expensive and demand is exploding. And oil resources are clearly finite and we'll run out sooner or later and there is no alternative in sight. Given these factors, the price of oil should be exploding.
I don't know about you guys, but James Altucher is one of my favorite bloggers on the net right now.
I find the title very misleading. Although this website seems to be a nice summary about HTML5 security, I don't see anything that qualifies as "cheat sheet". That title seems to be pure link bait.
Just wanted to say, your comment is not very useful.

You admit that you haven't downloaded it, yet write a lengthy "review". If you had downloaded it, you would know it has no skin support.
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I hope this question doesnt come off as too new naive but due to the amount of links on the front page about ML - what is so fascinating about ML??
Why is there not the same level of interest/links on topics such as cryptology, graphics, circuits, comp architecture ?
Ask HN: Best team management site for software?
I have been using plan.io for my project management, but decided I want to see what else is out there. I recently signed up for Asana, but what I don't like is there is no repository. Being that my project is building a website, I find it somewhat necessary to have a place to dump files when needed.

I checked out Github, but before signing up, I just wanted to get opinions on what the best online team management site is for websites. I want something simple like Asana, but with advanced features like a repository and version tracking.
re no need for a hypothetical aids vaccine (or the cervical cancer one) if you don't "sleep around" or take drugs:

I assume that you've never heard about rape? Or for that matter coming into contact with HIV positive blood in an accident, or any other infection vector?
mpd/mpc then?
Hi Markkat, thanks for the heads up. There was a small jquery bug. It should be fixed now.
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Vladd, that sounds great. I can be reached at startupontop@gmail.com or paul@startupontop.com
This reminds me.. whatever happened to Anonymous' vows to take down Facebook today? Are they still standing on that?
Great post by James Altucher here, one of my favorites regarding luck and startups is also this one about market timing: "Market Timing is a Skill Not Luck" - http://altgate.com/blog/2008/12/market-timing-is-a-skill-not...
Is there a way to register as an individual? It seems that you must have a company to be able to register in developer program, right?
Do you run a games startup? I would be happy to feature it.
> I don’t think tech writers necessarily use monospace fonts for good reasons—most likely they’re simply accustomed to it, and it doesn’t occur to them that there’s something better out there.

Well, this coder that also happens to know his typography also uses monospace fonts, and for good reasons.

I have brainstormed a bit now and then of how to enhance Python code with typography, just as an experiment, typeset some code in a nice way, but to use proportional fonts you'd have to work with tabs and ... well the only way I could see it work is to (re) write an IDE to automatically do this typesetting and layouting while the code behind what you see is still normal Python code that would look like you'd expect in a monospaced font, too. Because you can't expect code only to be readable in one specific IDE and not in others.

That's one of the important parts of typography, you always need to work within the limitations of the medium, while producing things that look good. And while superficially, you might consider the medium to be "computer screen", you'll find that eg webpages and code views really do have different limitations that need to be taken into account when thinking about their typography. A little bit analogous to designing books or newspapers, both are made of paper, but very different styles and design choices (that are partly influenced by their respective limitations).

> Many well-designed proportional fonts have fixed-width numerals (if not by default, then available as alternates) to address alignment.

Saying this almost makes me thing you don't actually write code. As someone else points out, fixed-width numerals are only a solution if there are not preceded by other characters on the line. Otherwise you need to work with tabs, but lots of programmers prefer spaces and that's not something you want to make them change.
Well, there are a lot of crappy apps in the catalog already.
Anthony Lane takes on this question (why do/should people still go to the theater for a movie) in this week's New Yorker:

"There’s only one problem with home cinema: it doesn’t exist. The very phrase is an oxymoron. As you pause your film to answer the door or fetch a Coke, the experience ceases to be cinema. Even the act of choosing when to watch means you are no longer at the movies. Choice—preferably an exhaustive menu of it—pretty much defines our status as consumers, and has long been an unquestioned tenet of the capitalist feast, but in fact carte blanche is no way to run a cultural life (or any kind of life, for that matter), and one thing that has nourished the theatrical experience, from the Athens of Aeschylus to the multiplex, is the element of compulsion. Someone else decides when the show will start; we may decide whether to attend, but, once we take our seats, we join the ride and surrender our will. The same goes for the folks around us, whom we do not know, and whom we resemble only in our private desire to know more of what will unfold in public, on the stage or screen. We are strangers in communion, and, once that pact of the intimate and the populous is snapped, the charm is gone. Our revels now are ended."

I think it's interesting even if you don't agree with him (he's as much a part of the "old guard" as anyone I guess, as a grumpy snobbish Brit writing for the NYer, and therefore is has something invested in the nostalgia of going to the theater, even if not a monetary investment).

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2011/11/07/1111...
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> Before entering the theater I can choose among theaters
> and compare the opportunity costs of my movie-going
> experience (which would include the utility of consuming
> popcorn after its cost).

Doesn't this answer the question right here?

People don't do that. Everything we know about cognition and human decision making (from neuro scientists, not from economic philosophers) tells us that humans are not rational actors making decisions using game theory.

All the answers certainly show the descriptive power of economic philosophy, but since the same group could be just as convincing about "why movie theatre popcorn is so cheap" I'm not sure what the point is of debating these things in a framework without any predictive power.
Why is it paid? What value are you providing for startups to apply for a paid listing?

You don't even have a pagerank as of yet so why do you charge?

First build up value then charge

Vow! $10/month to just get a link from a pr0 directory?
I don't want this sound like yet another anti-label rant but as I see it, this is mostly a chicken-egg problem caused by the big labels, that are unlikely to be charging Spotify the same fee per stream but rather a flat fee that is so high that Spotify is still at loss and can't afford paying more to smaller players. I'd imagine if more artists went independent, things could be better both for them and Spotify.
But that's one of my favorite fonts!

Wait, what?
> to make people pay $233 for his tex

That much money for a textbook? Sorry, but I have to say it: WTF does it contain? And pardon me again for my French, but just today I stumbled upon Part One of a 1782 edition of Rousseau's Works in an antique book-store, priced at ~ 40 Euros (ironically enough, it contained this: "Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Origin_and_Bas...).
i used to have a pre, i did web os dev for it, but it never took off. Today I have an android phone, and when Amazon ships my fire i'll have a tablet too. I feel too dedicated to the android platform to change back.
Yes. I have heard about "other infection vectors" with AIDS. I'm guessing the double entendre of "jab things into your body" escaped you.
Already has a stop button for new top 50 check, I'm busy with optimizing the way it works (maybe load new content only if top is in focus)
Gates did an amazing job of taking advantage of my many bosses ignorance in the early 90's. We all still pay for that, though less and less it seems. Thank goodness he left Balmer in charge.

As for the the whole redemption through philanthropy thing, it's fun to watch the wealthy compete in the legacy game. Go Bill!
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There are 2 types of developer accounts. One is free and one is $99. I think you have to have the $99 account to put your apps in the catalog, but the other account gives you access to all the tools and dev resources.

Side note, how is your touchpad's battery life? Mine surprisingly sucked.
Yeah, it only took about two days, but most of that time was spent on design that could have been spent on designing a PPT deck instead.
This pattern is very interesting, although I'm finding I develop a quite a bit faster on server side frameworks like Flask/Django... One thing I don't like about the pattern is that you have to send the templates to all the users (static), even users that don't have access to the those pages (for example, an admin page). Have you run into this? Of course you could also send the templates via JSON...
Related: Bank Transfer Day -> http://mashable.com/2011/11/05/bank-transfer-day-on-facebook...

I think the idea is that you bail on your bank and get a different one, or possibly none.

Although personally I'd advise against a run on the banks, it's never worked out well at any point in history.
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When will we see a Chrome OS tablet?
It's a good device in general and with android coming in in the future, knowing what I know now, I'd probably still buy it (got one already, so I don't have to).
So you're considering a liberal arts degree
The existing patent system doesn't guarantee you'll be compensated. In fact, most patents are worthless. The award system could easily incorporate a patent scheme, based either or first to file or first to invent. The important difference between this system and our current one is that licenses are not negotiated. Compensation is decided after the fact based on actual use.
Eh. I was arguing the direct opposite. I have the feeling that you're just looking to pick a fight.
Ready, fire, aim. Focus on making the idea functional before you waste time splitting equity for a theoretical business. After you get something tangible, it will be clear who has the most passion and energy for this - at which point you can start formulating an equity agreement. In a way that is organic, as opposed to arbitrary.
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If you're looking to roll your own, you might want to look into the work done with X-Trace.

Also, my M.Sc. thesis is focusing on doing distributed event tracing for web applications. I'm not sure if I'll end up open-sourcing it or not, but some of the work has been published http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1958783
Both account types are free, and have always been free for webOS.

https://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_user&vie...

There is no fee required to distribute in the catalog, for either a paid or free app.
Cool.
I'm disappointed that there isn't a video for hidden markov models and other models for time series tough, just slides. The schedule says that session is in march, maybe by then there will be a video online.
wow, who in their right mind would pay to go to that?
The temperature slider at the top which when changed dynamically shows the gas/liquid/solid state of each element is a nice touch.
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One thing I've been thinking about for an architecture like this is to use an event machine on the frontend and make the API calls asynchronous to negate the latency issues.
Short answer, they never did vow to - http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57319073-245/anonymous-say...
You've never tried to integrate two PHP projects, eh? As in: Whoops, you guys also have a class named "user"?
Also http://mapitat.com/ - lacks the ability to draw a polygon about the area you want to live in, which would be pretty killer.
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"jab things into your body" is not the only such vector. There is also "having things jabbed into your body" (a subtle but important distinction).

Your post implies that if someone is infected with the HIV virus it's their own fault. This assumption is toxic, and makes people more hesitant to apply resources towards trying to treat and cure people with this disease.
It's like telling a person with lung cancer that "It's your own damn fault for smoking" when it is perfectly possible to develop lung cancer without ever having a smoke.
Yep, thats a big reason. Always load the possible next actions upfront, and when the user clicks, its immediate.
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Chrome OS is Google's baby so a Chrome Tablet is very likely. Android is the result of a more aggressive gambit from Google; as part of a short term strategy to aggressively compete against Apple & Microsoft; to maximize momentum and leverage the 'open source' buzzword.

Long term, it won't be surprising to see Google transition it's efforts to Chrome exclusively. Eventually dropping Android support entirely (but they'll do it with nice PR so it looks like they just "gave" it to the open source community).
Perhaps the front-end can always be open sourced since the business-critical parts all sit on the back-end.

Advantages of doing this:

* Clients can run their own copy of the software

* Other developers (or even clients) can submit pull requests directly instead of issue ticket

* The monetization potential can be maximized
Ridiculously short sighted analysis. So you sell 143 CDs and make your thousand bucks. Good for you. End of the road. Then you sell another 155 CDs on CD Baby. Make another thousand bucks. Yep. End of the road.

In the time that it's taken to sell 298 CDs, and effectively reach 300 people, you're telling me you wouldn't (for free) make the music available to thousands of users and then just share the hell out of it? How much music gets streamed by Spotify users just looking to try a track out? That too counts as revenue.

If it were me, I'd distribute across as many channels as quickly as possible and hope that I catch on as opposed to "burning out" each channel one by one in the most painfully slow marketing campaign ever.
I find the potential fascinating. ML allows computers to solve problems without a human and become more powerful tools that can eventually act on their own. The extent to which this is possible is not clear yet, but is potentially very far-reaching and can be very empowering for human-kind, in all areas of our existence.
The other topics you mentioned are interesting as well, of course, but their potential impact is much lower (although computer architecture can border on ML).

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Here's a simple suggestion. Carve out a portion of the Prime fee for book borrowing, say $12/year. Since you can rent 1/book per month, each publisher gets $1/month per borrow. Someone takes six months to read your book, you get $6. 1000 people check out your book this month, you get $1000.

The price is just an example, but it seems a reasonable compromise. Fixed fee for the customers, variable fees for the authors.
I bought the device because I honestly believe that WebOS is an interesting take on a tablet OS (and I like it much better over Android). However I will not be purchasing any apps on the device. I use it strictly as an eReader.
Right now, we import foreign workers to do cheap labor but we could take unemployed citizens and subsidize their wages to have our own do those jobs instead...Is every home clean and freshly scrubbed all the time and is a freshly cooked meal always waiting?

The fact that maid/cook wages have not dropped to $7.25/hour is strong evidence that unemployment is caused primarily by the unwillingness of many Americans to take available jobs. I'd happily pay $10/hour for a maid, but you simply can't find people this cheap where I live.

We don't need to subsidize people's wages to solve this problem. We just need to stop paying people not to work. After all, why clean people's houses for $7.25/hour when you can just collect unemployment for 99 weeks?

Note that where I used to live (Pune), plenty of people were employed as maids/cooks/etc without subsidies. They weren't paid not to work. Instead of welfare, they had the Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee (styled after the New Deal).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi_National_Rural_E...
I haven't used this product so perhaps I am misunderstanding the article. It seems to confuse sales royalties and streaming fees. Streaming fees are 1 cent for big names and 2/10 cent for small names, is that it? And sales commissions for outright downloaded sales are not specified. But then $1 "per stream" is suddenly brought up in the last sentence without explanation. $1 per track download or sale is somewhat industry standard, with iTunes' 99 cent tracks. But $1 per stream or single listening is not normal at all. The two seem to be very different things, downloads and single plays. To me, the article seemed to confuse them.
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I signed up since it's on the homepage of Hacker News and perhaps getting a peak in traffic for some days. I can always cancel before getting charged.

I agree, $10/month is way too much for a service without traction.
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That sounds like what I'm doing. Thanks for the advice.
I'll check that out, thank you
Your client side shouldn't have any PHP in it and it should be the Javascript making requests to the REST API. Is there a reason why you are not doing this?

What you have done here is just add another tier on your backend, when you don't really have to and don't really need it. This is something you do when you have hundreds of thousands (or millions) of visitors, not something I would worry about before you even launch an app.

I was surprised when I came to the point of the post where you describe the client - I thought the point of your API (and the post) would be to describe a single page app with only an API on the server side.

Edit: what aedan said, as well :) you should really take the time to just do the 'client' in javascript + html + css - it is totally awesome. Your client is then static and you can CDN and the hell out of it. Twitter is the best popular example of this architecture where the same API is used for their own apps, including the website, and for third-party developers.
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Using the site: trick makes it search on twitter.com rather than for vulnerabilities in twitter itself.

good luck
His leadership style has directly resulted in Wikileaks being ineffective as an organization, however. For example, it's been two years since Assange started publicly claiming he had documents from Bank of America that could probably bring down the bank, yet they remain unreleased to this day, and, at this point, there are indications they've been destroyed entirely.

That's all happened because Wikileaks didn't have its house in order internally, not because of any outside forces.
This is a musing of mine, so it may be completely wrong.

HP most likely "resumed production" so that they could clear out any remaining stock. I can imagine that they had warehouses full of parts that were just not put together yet and had already paid suppliers for. These would have been written off and either sold back to the vendor or been destroyed. Also, it is entirely possible that HP had a contract with their manufacturer for a certain time period and if they broke that contract they would be out X where X is bigger than Y which is the amount it would cost to build and ship these devices at a loss.

This isn't the first time that I've seen a company do a "last run" to clear out the remaining parts before shutting down a product for good.
Another advantage to this is that you can have other types of clients in parallel. For example a native iOS app could call the API directly.

This native app could be made with client side web tech and packaged with PhoneGap.

Would also be interesting to try to implement the client in such a way that it both can run on the server (in node js, outputting static pages to browsers) and also as a pure client side web app, packaged with PhoneGap.
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"programmed in low level c++" no less!
Silverlight is required to use the Panopto viewer. - FUCK YOU!
This is for the 32 GB TouchPad which sold at the fire-sale for $150. The $99 one was for a 16 GB TouchPad which apparently they no longer have.