skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are counter-arguments to be made.

1. should people be made to flip burgers or stand in cashier booths when society doesn't really need that. You can order off amazon for example, or eat healthier food that you make at home. Those burgers flippers could then instead be training to become engineers. It might take them longer than an academically gifted person, but they'd get womewhere if they didn't need to flip burgers everyday.

2. If you increase the price of labor by increasing the minimum wage, more opportunities for automation come into play. If burger's flippers were too expensive, restaurant chains might install robots that did it instead. Over time, burger slipping would be even cheaper than the previous minimum wage burger flipper.
This is a non-starter for several reasons, mostly relating to spam.

First, you can't just give people cash. They will immediately turn to spamming, and you'll get crap data. You need to do statistics, comparing turks to other turks, and only pay the ones who don't spam. It's highly likely you can't do this in realtime.

Second, you need to track the identity of your turks. If worker X is known not to be a spammer, then you want to assign work to X preferentially. Similarly, if worker Y is a known spammer, you want to refuse him work.

Third, most poor people are not working and are not looking for work. Only 30% or so of poor adults are in the labor force at all. Why would they decide to start working at a mechanical turk station when they seem to have little desire to work anyplace else?
It would be no different than if a thousand companies banded together to source labor below minimum wage by paying per task, and sharing that labor around rather than employing each laborer in a "job" (eg in a metro area with high population density). Those companies would be paying for net full time labor, while evading the minimum wage responsibility.

This is not the sort of disruption we want in the marketplace. Let's say someone rolls this out, with moderate success. What's to say a company like Wal-Mart wouldn't crowdsource stocking shelves? We already see some people taking advantage of low-income workers (giving less than 36 hours to avoid health insurance coverage, etc). This would be another opportunity to lower costs all around without much of an upside for those doing the work.
I disagree that you would have to mandate hiring. The local Walgreens needs 5 people to man the store. Do you think they'll just close up shop? Of course not. They'll have to pay more to their employees, and we (the customers) will have to pay an additional, say, 5%.

As for the welfare reform: people route around obstacles. I think people have been able to game the current system too. "Disability" is one such option; claim a physical disability, and get $1000/month in disability payments (or that's what I've heard). Earned Income Credit is another such option.

My basic point is: just like in any learning algorithm, we need a gradient that will drive people in the right direction. The larger the gradient, the faster the movement. :)
I totally agree. Let me explain.

What's wrong with it, when it's clip art, is that it's contrived and overly specific in an oddly sexist way. Even worse, it's not explicit in its sexism, but it appears as a statistical pattern -- that is, the gender distribution is not 50/50 but more like 10/90; and the headset-versus-phone distribution is similarly out-of-touch with reality, at least at those offices without a dedicated customer support team; and minorities and Asians are almost completely absent because you might think of that bad word "Outsourcing".

The problem is not with whiteness, womanness, headsetness, or clipartness, but the intersection's ubiquity in the face of its unlikelihood. It appears everywhere and the problem is precisely "I just saw that on ten other sites, and I'm willing to bet that this is nothing like the person I'd actually be talking to if I called them up." If you just gave me real people working at your company, rather than clip art, that would already be a great start.

But, as I said, I agree. Yes, it says a lot about me that I see such a pattern, interpret it as "someone's trying to manipulate my subconscious" -- even if that wasn't their intent, it somehow hits me that way -- and then refuse to do business with people who I interpret as manipulative bastards. It also says a lot about me that I can't escape that feeling even after I have cogitated it.

But I still feel justified, because the companies who grab random images because they haphazardly think "this is what my customer wants to see" are not the sorts that I want to subsidize. I would rather have a company that's so lazy that they don't look for clipart at all, than a company that sets out to find clipart and then gets lazy somewhere midway along and, as you say, "just grabs a random image of a woman with a headset." Laziness is good, but if you're not going to be lazy, be special.
I will do him one better. How about he opens a storefront with locked down machines that do nothing but mechanical Turk and rents them out for 1 an hour. Maybe wow gold farming .

Anyone have an concerns about the ethics of this? On one had 6 net is better than 0, on the other hand it is fairly predatory.
scamming the government ("disability", etc.)

You know that there are loads of actual poor disabled people? Not everyone on social welfare is a leech on society. Have some compassion.
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. It's entirely true.

Think about button sizes. The iOS UI widgets are a specific physical size, optimized for the average human hand, which is then translated into pixels. Because all iOS devices have the exact same "pixel dimensions" (sure, there are four times as many now, but that doesn't matter much), supporting this is not a problem. The distance that the user will have to reach for a button and the dimensions of said button are physically identical on every single iPhone and iPod touch.

Android devices are many different sizes and shapes, so this sort of consistency is practically impossible (although I'd be really impressed if someone pulled it off, surely there's a way to get physical device dimensions in the Android SDK?).
Oh, yeah, I understand that. If it's something you consider yourself to be educated in already then you should be able to skip around some of these issues and make a note to send the publisher. I go off half-cocked in these education discussions sometimes.
There are some Mixergy interviews which should give you some good pointers. For example, this one - http://mixergy.com/trevor-ginn-interview/

Note the transcripts are free even for the paid interviews.

Edit: I'm guessing you are aiming at the Indian market. There is a lot of good budding music talent there, but I haven't seen a good social network for young musicians. Maybe you should build one and then your store around that.

Watch this talk by Andrew McDonough of Tribesports, which started out as a sports goods ecommerce platform, but then started really taking off when it transitioned to being a sports community site - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/dogfooding

Edit 2: Have a look at http://fandalism.com/home/ for inspiration. If you don't want to build your own network, you could probably use one such upcoming network.
Thanks for the feedback :D Genuinely appreciated.

I'll keep working away at it.
i hope this is incredibly subtle satire.
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> On another note: I think minimum wage should be much higher; say, $20/hour. This may not sound like a good idea, but think about it: it should be high enough that a freeloader has serious economic incentive to get off his ass and look for work! Another way to look at it is: I would much rather pay more for something, and have that extra money directly go to a worker's pocket; than route the money circuitously through government taxes, bureaucracy, non-profits, etc. to that person on welfare.

How about work as the incentive?

We have crappy parks and yet we give money to folks who don't work. That shouldn't be.

And don't give me "they can't afford day care". For every group of four parents on aid, one does day care for the other three while they work.

Crappy jobs are the best incentive.
For all the success that micro-lending has had in India and other countries, we haven’t really seen those benefits in American Urban areas.

I thought the USA had "micro-lending", but they were called "payday loans"?
You are correct; my comment solves a different problem than the one in the article!
An army of human editors who filter out the noise.
I thought it was more or less proven that stock photos (like headset girls) do in fact work, how dull it may seem.
I'm a serious introvert who isn't shy too. Thing is, it took a lot of practice to get that way and I find it hard to believe it was natural for ant other introvert to not be shy too. My practice wasn't deliberate and one day I woke up and realized that yeah, I'm still am introvert but I'm not shy anymore.

The thing that changed my shyness was performing in front of people. I was always bad one on one but if I had to present to a large group I was in heaven. First I played in a band while in high school and now I give presentations to clients and anti-drug talks to parents, teachers, politicians, and students and I love it.

Getting over my one on one shyness was a matter of having to do it out of necessity. I'm running a one man company here and I have to be able to network and sell. I'm not totally good one on one yet though. If I'm near someone I can't relate to in some way then I become awkward and act like a mute but as long as I can find one thing, no matter how small, that we can relate on then I'm good.

This post made me think of a guy I was talking with at a chamber after hours event this past week. He was from Dale Carnegie (I hadn't heard of them till then) and I was having trouble relating and thus was being shy so I asked him for advice and at that point we really hit it off and he not only gave me some great advice but introduced me to some great people. He pretty much told me just about the exact same things this slide was trying to get across. And that's one of my tricks. If I find myself unable to relate and becoming that awkward mute then I'll try to ask for help. It doesn't always work and it's a last resort but when it works i get amazing results. I'm just amazed at how willing people are to help young, struggling entrepreneurs.

Getting involved with anything is also great advice for introverts. I'm on the board of a charity and I've done a lot of free work for them and that has really helped me to connect with fairly important people. There are state officials that know my name and respect me. It's amazing! I'm over here not knowing what the hell I'm doing and these important people know me and have my number in their phones. My intention isn't to brag but to illustrate that this stuff really works. I'm just some random, introverted kid barely into his second year in business and somehow just talking to people has opened the doors to some aweso,e opportunities.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. In the end he doesn't even buy it but wastes hours of his own potentially billable hours on trying alternatives and complaining. He also wastes the developer's time along the way.

Just buy the app if you like it. Put your money where your mouth is.
why? Don't you think it could be an idea?
Vim: inline JS syntax highlighting behaving the same as on a separate file
Facebook spies on phone users' text messages, report says
>* cat file | cmd vs. cmd < file*

I tend to prefer the cat version as the flow of the command follows the left-to-right direction in which I generally read, and it makes things easier for less experienced users to read and understand for the same reason.

It does make things less efficient of course, as there is at least one extra memory-copy of everything and extra process context switching, but in most cases your drives or network are the bottleneck not CPU speed or memory bandwidth. Also, when working on the command line you can drop in useful tools like pv in place of cat.
Apple Prepares To Pull Evi From App Store. Did It Slap-Down Siri?
You can have statistics figure that out for you. Are turkers good at judging ads based on past data. If not, maybe it's because you weren't presenting the right metrics for the turkers to judge and so you keep reiterating until you do. This is actually a good business for a startup, you get runaway success such as google has (the data keeps improving your lead over rivals).
Acupuncture as we think of it has not been in continuous use for very long. It's only about a century old.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-forefather...
+ its references.

(On top of that, I also remember reading somewhere, but cannot remember where or vouch for, a claim that the metalworking technology required to produce needles as long, narrow and supple (non-brittle) as acupuncture needles simply did not exist until recently, maybe early 20C, maybe 19C, but certainly not 16C or earlier China, let along 20C BC China.)

...even ignoring the fact that appeal to antiquity is a logical fallacy, again very much not the cup of tea for a well-bred rationalist.
This is not necessarily true. A client could easily have the api version segment of the url in a central configuration location.
Time zones don't change that much.

Depends on the scale of your application. If it's truely global, then timezones change often. I think Russia tends to change it's timezones every 5 years or so
The Note uses a separate input mechanism for its S-Pen input, which is licensed from Wacom. They could use the capacitive input layer for both finger and pen input, but that would not work as well -- compare Galaxy Note reviews to Samsung Vu reviews.

So the pen is actually adding significantly to the cost of the Note, which is probably why they're shifting the pen-less Tab to the low-end of the market.

Jobs called a pen an 'automatic failure', but he's not Korean, Chinese or Japanese. A pen is a much better input mechanism for Chinese and Korean characters than a keyboard, virtual or no. In North America, the target audience for the Note probably overlaps fairly well with the type of people who buy Wacom tablets for their computer -- a very small minority, but those who do love them.
Articles about PVS-Studio and Coverity
I concluded that my articles are much more interesting than the write concurrency. Please compare.
PVS-Studio:

http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0077/
Almost certainly - other Samsung tablets can be used to make calls.
> there were massive price disparities between old and new textbooks

Yes, that's a good tip for students to be aware of.

Here is another. In college I discovered that I could buy used textbooks in the college bookstore if I got there early enough, and I could sell the same textbook for $1 under the bookstore price by showing up at the class the next semester and standing outside the door at the end of class. Using this method I spent on average less than $10 to use the latest versions of required college textbooks. (There were many I kept though.)
Coverity:

http://www.bradenton.com/2012/02/23/3896742/open-source-code...

http://www.coverity.com/library/pdf/coverity-scan-2011-open-...
In a room full of introverts, I'm the guy in the corner. Well, at programmer meetups I am, anyway. Shy and introverted are two different things, but in either case it extends to electronic interactions as much as it does to person to person interactions. Plus, I think an person who makes presentations may be shy, but they are still outgoing by most standards.
At what point is a condition abusive? Usually you can set whatever conditions you like as long as they don't contradict existing laws.

If paying for music is so abusive then why not just make your own music instead?
> I really believe that Israel has been moving in the wrong direction.

I agree with everything you wrote but this. Twenty years ago, the great peacemaker Yitzhak Rabin (Z"L) wouldn't have been willing to think, let alone say, that the Palestinians actually deserved a real-life independent state, rather than some little dependency/colony of Israel. Now even people on the right have to pay lip service to the idea of an independent Palestinian state.

There have been a lot of quite dangerous panic reactions to this in certain segments of the right wing, but I think long-term Israeli politics is inching ever so slowly towards more reasonable positions.

(And... off-topic it goes again. Ugh.)
You can either take away welfare benefits; or you can give much more rewards for working.

A third, mostly unexplored option, is to reduce the status/luxuries of people accepting welfare.

I.e., instead of receiving housing vouchers and money to buy food/clothing, they could receive dormitory rooms (no TV or XBox), healthy dormitory meals and government issued grey jumpsuits.

Under such a system, there would be a significant incentive to get a job and no one would go hungry.
If you want left to right you can do

<file cmd
Craigslist and information asymmetry
While he did invent lots of stuff, I think it's pretty undisputed by the people close to him such as Jony Ive and Andy Hertzfeld, that Steve was famous for claiming other peoples ideas as his own.

[Edit: Jony Ive describes this in chapter 26 of the biography. See folklore.org for more examples.]
I did my BS academic time in 3 years and partly agree with this statement here. On one hand, doing the absolute minimum delivers minimal or no debt; saves time; and gets you into the full-time, non-intern/co-op workplace faster (a larger paycheck and potentially more interesting stuff) and out of the classroom. I optimized for time, cost, and good grades. As I never liked lectures as an education medium (mostly boring) and hated the BS of American college curriculum requirements (even after shaving a year off with course credit from high school, there were still unnecessary requirements), I was satisfied with the result from the view of time spent.

On the other hand, doing a minimal degree delivers minimal results. I didn't develop a focus for what I wanted to do professionally with my degree because I only took minimum requirements. The degree program just seemed like a to-do list, and all I wanted to do was check off boxes. I didn't have time to go deeper into something; this may have affected job prospects. I got a degree to do software engineering but didn't establish what I should do with software engineering beyond getting a job as a software engineer. I got a good job out of college but probably missed out on other opportunities.

Regardless, the choice of whether to compress the schedule or extend should be relative to an individual's needs. For example, if you can't afford large college debt, compress the schedule to what is affordable. Work out the trade-offs.
Might as well wish for a Deathnote that was Touring Complete.

The story emphasises that Deathnotes are fairly literal, and that if you try to push it you'll just get a heart attack death.
In some older versions of bash, when dealing with process substitution, you actually needed the dash.

For example

get_data | tee >(cmd)
get_data | tee >(cat | cmd)

would fail but

get_data | tee >(cat - | cmd)

would succeed.
How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync?
GP didn't assert there weren't poor disabled people; merely that if you are a [sc. non-disabled] poor person it is possible to scam the government into paying you disability benefits.
Google, Now in Privacy Debates, May Have Outgrown a Conscience.
It's been done (though instead of money, candy and instead of the urban poor, UC Berkeley CS students):

http://hci.berkeley.edu/cs260-fall10/images/b/ba/FinalPaper-...
I'm the opposite, great with a group, bad one on one. I think that introverts and/or shy people have the gift of being great listeners. Sometimes in trying to be social we try to do all the talking but forget that we're awesome listeners. In your case it sounds like you take advantage of your ability to be a great listener. People love to talk about themselves so you draw them to you by being able to listen. I think thats an important lesson for other introverts. Extroverts are great at talking to people and introverts are great at listening. Both are essential skills for networking and both should take advantage of their respective skills.
In fact I really enjoyed the discussion with Rafe.

I believe, that our pricing model was just the trigger for him to reflect on software pricing in general. It certainly isn't his everyday purchase decisioning scheme. :)

Pricing really is a very tricky thing. Especially for software where there is no cost of distribution. Users have to realize that there are a lot more factors that need to be taken into account than just development or delivery cost.
Thanks for the feedback; that line has been rewritten in the published post to be less insulting.
FYI you can add line numbers (cat -n behavior) within awk directly as so:

awk '{print NR, $0}'
My Weekend Project - Bravura(Time Series Data Visualization)
Selectivizr, a JavaScript utility that emulates CSS3 selectors in IE
That sounds like a pretty good idea, walmart crowdsourcing shelf stacking. Startups might be able to offfer that as service smaller stores right now.

Also, the possibility for automation is then great as well. Companies could offer assistive devices and software to the freelance shelf stackers for increasing their productivity, all they way to full blown robots.

Can also apply this to other tasks such as crowdsourced burger flippers and crowdsourced cleaners.

There's a lot of opportunity in automation of service businesses such as retailer and restaurants, but it seems like the industry does not take much interest in applying robotics to the task. This crowdsourcing system would be a way for nimbler companies to introduce more technology into the system without going through the management.
While this is interesting data, I think that it is far too early to be judging the adoption of ICS, especially against Gingerbread.

On a technical level, ICS is a much more demanding upgrade (e.g updated graphics drivers that are pushed harder). You can see this with Cyanogenmod, which is well behind their Gingerbread pace, not to mention the bumpy road most (all?) of the official updates have had so far (e.g. Nexus S upgrade halted, XOOM and Transformer upgrades late, Transformer Prime has had a nearly continuous stream of fixes, including one yesterday, etc.)

To take it from the another angle, we already have more public commitments for ICS upgrades than we ever had with Gingerbread. A big part of that is that more people care this time around, so there has been a lot more pressure on manufacturers to disclose their plans, but I'd still argue that is an encouraging sign.

To me, it feels more like ICS has been in a public beta since the Galaxy Nexus release, rather than true, official release. My hunch is that Google just hasn't wanted to admit that. In any case, I don't think we're going to know how ICS is really doing for a while.
I would imagine that school districts could co-operate among themselves to begin a project like this without Federal leadership. That they do not is telling.
Trigger point therapy has made a world of difference for me, too, both for RSI and for neck problems due to and old motorcycle accident. Check this out:

http://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Point-Therapy-Workbook-Self-Tr...

I was first introduced to it by a physiatrist (no, not psychiatrist), which is a real MD. They had a team of essentially physical therapists that worked on trigger points. Even if your insurance doesn't cover massage, most will cover visits to such places, since it's under the care of a doctor.
Thanks for replying. "Current industrial consensus" isn't that size is most important - far from it, approximately nobody pays any attention to that. Programs are routinely built by slathering code and people are proud of how much they write instead of how little.

Yet it seems to be what the evidence is telling us.