skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subtract corruption and politics from Spain and you get a really good place to live.

Besides, the people being offered jobs abroad are capable of getting a job in Spain.

Usually, people forget about the natural unemployment rate of Spain, which has always been really high. That includes underground economy.

So, yes, there's an alarming problem with unemployment, but numbers shown are imprecise.
Can you link to the source for that info?
Well articulated comment. Indeed it has become much more abstract. I guess one way to think of it is:

If someone is trying to raise money for an oven it may be fairly difficult to find people willing to invest. If investors are found, it may be difficult to agree on a fair arrangement.

The stock market has grown precisely because it offers price discovery and liquidity. Putting shares on an open market lets the fair price be discovered, and when investments are priced fairly they become more liquid, which means there is less risk to the investor b/c he/she can change his/her mind about the investment decision and not be stuck with an investment that no longer meets his/her objectives.

This lowered risk leads to more investment, which in turn leads to even fairer prices, and so on.

I think the key point about HFT is that to the extent that HFT provides liquidity (which it does by adding orders to the book at competitive prices) it helps with price discovery.

Since the "fair" price is a function of the risk various parties are willing to take by their willingness to risk trading at the wrong price, HFT not only makes prices fairer but its participants risk their own capital to vouch for the prices. Clearly if things turn out unexpectedly, the HFT firm is footing the bill b/c of its devalued inventory.
I totally agree with this. Programming for work and programming for myself are two totally different things. Maybe we're all 501ers when it comes to only wanting to give a certain amount of time to your employer.
For it to be ignored, it better be below 1% market share. Try explaining to your invesors that users least likely to understand why they can't do business with your site are unimportant. If your market is "developers"....it might be OK to ignore ie8 at 5% and explain why in some js that detects it.

However, for majority of e-commerce sites, even 1% would mean a loss in sales that would be unacceptable to many business owners I know

Source: I work in web hosting -- e-commerce mostly.
GDP is often positively correlated with welfare improvements, but it doesn't have to be. The focus on maximizing GDP rather than welfare is merely an example of gaming metrics.

For a problem like unemployment, the question to ask is why the market isn't clearing. There might be a lack of demand for labor, but why haven't prices fallen until supply meets demand? The answer isn't as simple as "not enough GDP."
The Current State of Client-Side Storage
In Chrome: Settings, Under the Hood, Customize Fonts. Set the "Minimum font size" to something comfortable.

Firefox: Options, Content, click the Advanced tab under "Colors and Fonts". Choose a minimum font size that's comfortable.
Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immediately, but there may be others.

Thrift[1] and Cassandra[2] as well, FWIW.

[1]: http://thrift.apache.org

[2]: http://cassandra.apache.org/
A very well-reasoned comment. I wonder if anyone has done simulations of the various scenarios.
What the US government could learn from New York's Tech Boom
48 bit's is plenty to use time stamp truncated to whatever accuracy you need + either random assignment or giving each machines it's own range to assign numbers. Until you need more than 100,000 ID's per second when you just need more bits.
$10 is just as dumb and arbitrary. To assume that some of the obscure, well researched non-fiction that I enjoy will sell many more copies simply because the price is lower is naive.

The answer is no price control. Forecast demand, costs and what an acceptable return on the book is. Then let the market sort it out. If that's $1 or $100, so be it.

In the end the publishers no longer matter; it's all about distribution.
I don't think anyone here is going to convince you of going one way or the other, it seems like you've made up your mind.

A couple of points to think about with whatever you do:

How you perceive things affects what you gain from them. If Uni "isn't for you" then sitting in class you're not going to learn anything. If you say "this might be useful, maybe not today, but someday" then you'll get something out of it.

You may run into problems finding a job without a degree. While freelancing is fine now, how do you know you'll want to do it forever? I worked with a guy that ran his own consulting company for over 10 years, and had 3 employees. The economy crashed and he found himself looking for a full time job. While he had the experience to cover himself (being in his 50s), what if this happens to you in 3-5 years? There's a reason college sports players still get degrees.

There's a lot of growth that occurs at school. I recently had the opportunity to work with someone around my age that didn't go to college. I expected him to have a baseline of knowledge that he didn't have. There were communication problems because there was no common baseline. I also noticed a certain level of immaturity that I didn't notice in my peers who I went to college with.

There's also some amount of perseverance demonstrated by completing a degree. I don't know anyone who liked 100% of their college classes. Besides the required learning the piece of paper also signifies this. What does dropping out project to others about yourself? Will they realize this initially, or will you have to explain it to them? There's no right answer to this question.
Get Your Business Online With Google
Yes. We do. Within 60 days.

See http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe..., which is specific to g-mail, but the same rules apply for other products that store user information. There is a whole team that works on this to monitor the process and help product teams implement the policy.
My real estate broker is a pain in the ass.
While I concede this is a problem for those wanting to do mass hosting of SSL, I'd hardly say that's what's holding back the secure web. Way too many devs outright refuse to run on SSL in situations where it would work just fine. Some have old notions of computational overhead of encryption. Many are concerned about what SSL does to caching. It's just hyperbole to blame Microsoft for this. The note about when SNI was released is illustrative of that, since mod_ssl didn't support SNI until quite recently. Prior to that, one had to use mod_gnutls which created a whole raft of different issues.
Iceland seems to have fixed the problem the correct way: default.

This is the part that dumbfounds me, Iceland ignored the common wisdom when they common wisdom said that very bad things would happen to them if they did not listen to the "smart" people. They went ahead and did it, and none of the bad things happened, further things got a lot better. But somehow we allow everyone to convince us to ignore the blatant evidence that Iceland presented that those saying don't default are pretty much lying through their teeth, because they have a conflict of interests.
FreeBSD 8.3 released
> Unmarried: Man earns $200k/year, pays his maid $25k/year. GDP = $225k.
Married: Man earns $200k/year, pays his wife $0. GDP = $200k.

At a 10% income tax rate: First case is $22.5K/yr, second case is $20K/yr.

So yes: GDP is the same as income for the gov't for practical purposes.
Found an interesting article that takes a crack at explaining how the creative commons licensing works. Many people out there who use content without worrying too much about IP. But if approached correctly, the web has plenty of content out there, that can be used legally to augment your ideas/arguments.
How is that YC-specific?
On that note, this might be the perfect opportunity for some never-before-herad-of Russian billionaire to make their mark as well by providing similar services to the rest of Europe that may be underserved if SpaceX really takes off in the US. (Apparently when I don't sleep I think in puns, so apologies for that.)
"what good are you?"

That's just an awful way to judge someone. Just because he chooses not to give away his work, or do any side projects at all does not mean he is "no good". There is more to life than writing open source code you know!
I don't know if that has ever been tested in court. Most universities are accepting (or even encouraging) of professors to share materials online. However, sharing materials online and making money off course materials are 2 different things. Currently, I would say professor because he/she is free to take course materials when switching universities.
...will be used to remove porno-scanners and grope-checks from standard security.

Has this ever happened? Has the TSA ever given up on a security screening practice that had become a widespread routine?

If 70% of people are passing through security without being hassled, their PR problems nosedive.

If 70% of passengers walk through the screening point without removing their shoes, without walking through a metal detector, without having their bags x-rayed, etc., and the other 30% are singled out for special treatment, won't that 30% feel extra persecuted? The TSA's PR problems are mainly related to rarer-that-30% outrages like selecting comely young women for pornoscanning, interfering with uncommon medical equipment, etc.
And, if his luck holds (and I really hope it does!), mankind can escape our single-planet limitation and actually colonize the solar system !
Israel Launch First Cyber Defense Army
Being relatively young, I don't know if what I am going to describe is new or not.

I am under the impression that the advent of a globalized internet culture has fostered the nostalgic phenomenon. If you are a regular reader of any social websites where people can publish content you can see the extent of this among people from "Generation Y": clothes, old games ( Prince of Persia on Apple 2 anyone ?), actors, movies, music, etc... It doesn't even have to be good, it will be put on a pedestal anyway.

What enables us today is that these old things which use to be forgotten by previous generations can now be accessed at will: old videos are put on Youtube, old pictures are backed up everywhere, memories are slowly becoming immortal.

I am absolutely not a nostalgic person myself so I don't feel the impulsive to think about oldies but I think it's a very interesting thing to analyze, maybe it's even a bit worrying: Could these fond memories hold us back?
Cool! Didn't know this page existed. I maintain a similar list of courses over at Class Central - http://www.class-central.com . In addition to Coursera's courses the list also includes courses from Udacity and MITx for easy comparison.
The alarming headlines on these articles won't help Spain get any better. Sometimes it seems politics and the media just want to see Spain sink.

Maybe it's just that seeing it from the inside doesn't render it that bad.
Adoption by ventures is interesting, but I think the real power here falls in the ability of inventors themselves to 'unionize' in a sense. Say a movement began where a significant portion of the top patent producers took a pledge to one another to only work for companies under the Twitter Patent agreement.

Sometime, in less than 17 yrs from today, the balance of 'defense only' patents to normal patents would make offensive patent litigation prohibitively expensive.

Suddenly, there is a group of people on this planet - not lobbyists, not politicians, not investors - actual IP producers who can change a broken system for the better. To me, this is the most exciting potential of the Twitter Patent Hack.
See http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

Deleted messages are wiped within ~60 days. The delay is needed to ensure that all copies of the message are deleted, including those that may be on tape.
The Graph All H.S. English Teachers Should Mount in Their Classrooms
I'd add to the listed reasons that you cannot collect the "paro" subsidy from outside of Spain, and they seem to be serious about enforcing this now.

Right now, and for the first time since Franco times, Spain will be a net emigrant country (2011 stats to be released soon). Germany is a popular destination. UK as well.
Were Van Gogh a programmer today he would have been late blooming second-career type rockstar cowboy coder that burned out in a half a dozen years before killing himself. He was an amazing artist (my favorite of his time) but is exactly the cautionary tale that your 501-type would point to.

... actually, that sounds like _why but without the whole suicide thing in real life.
If SpaceX can put the costs to launch a satellite into orbit on their website, then you'd think that enterprise software companies would be able to price their software ......

By the way SpaceX is my favourite company of all time. Elon Musk is living my 6 year old self's dream (actually my dream is still pretty similar, just haven't got their yet ;p )
You are affirming the consequent. It was never stated that this was a property of only YC.
Keep in mind that those $3bn are mostly "future" revenues that will be generated over the next 5 years (http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php).
How to advance the mobile web
Smugness is in the eye of the beholder.
Envisioning Our World: Visualizations That Inform and Entertain
My partner, Joe, pushed a fix for that (it was an issue with a grid image and Linux). Let me know if that did the trick for you!
Thanks, its always great to see how things went.
> "The total company expenditures since being founded in 2002 through the 2010 fiscal year were less than $800 million which includes all the development costs for the Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon."

Wow. Facebook could have started an entire space program for less money than they spent on Instagram.
I'm not so sure. OOP entered the scene and became a dominant paradigm in a short amount of time - this doesn't happen without massive amounts of evangelization (from existing users) and marketing, neither of which can be particularly smug if they intend on being successful.
"...as long as it's acknowledged that without putting in the extra hours to learn, grow, or ship..."

Something is wrong with a job that doesn't fit those things within a normal 40 hour work week.
I'm not sure what you mean by "honest".

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/12/james-hamilton-on-shad...
That's actually my current setup. It still kind of defeats the purpose though; I have to be logged in to Google Voice in order to authenticate logging in to Gmail with the same account. I'll wait for them to get a little more creative before I expect it to be much safer.
and thus my INCREDIBLE description
I don't see the nature of the teeth you refer to, unless everyone's making the assumption that all patent inventors are noble and cannot be convinced, at any price, to license their patents for evil purposes.
Creating software that helps whoever uses it is the only immediate requisite for being a useful programmer.
I'd agree with this. Ellison definitely seemed to have more of a steady hand when he had Ray Lane as COO; a textbook pragmatist, Lane was the diametric opposite of Ellison, and the balance between the two worked really well.
I am not the parent, but I'll take a swing at it.

I don't trust a private corporation.

When private organization acts in ways contrary to how I want, I can fire them.

When the government acts in ways contrary to how I want, I have to live with it.
Trades don't clear in milliseconds. Trades are agreed to in milliseconds, just as bank transfers are. I.e., once you push the "make transfer" button, the wheels are in motion, it just takes a day for the money to actually move.

The same applies to equities - once the trade is made, the wheels are in motion. But actually transferring the securities takes up to 3 days.
I do not think I would hire anyone in Spain if I was a business. There is a requirement to pay 6 months of unemployment for every 1 year of employment.

So there is a negative incentive to keep old employees and not hire anyone new, due to the instant severance required at termination.

It is kinda of like paying 150% for only 100% of a good.

Employment policy has far more to due with unemployment than any other metric. The instant increase in youth UE was due to a huge percentage of youth workers being in the construction industry that took one of the hardest hits in the downturn, and the fact that replacement cost of any full time employee is to high to attempt fiscally.
Not trying to add one more "VIM IS BETTER" comment like happens on every thread about editors, but I have an actual, for-real question: who wants to help make a Vim workalike version of this? Because I would donate to that (in time, meager Vimscript skills, money) in a heartbeat.
Perfect post. The dreams of the fortunate ride on the backs of the unfortunate. It's good to remember this on those days when you're not enjoying your work.
Breakthrough in solar cell technology archives 40% efficiency
That's just something smugly people say. ;-)
Can I get a 30 day free trial of one of their launch vehicles?
yeah, wonder if you could do something like, here's 3 essays, rank them from best to worst

fancy algorythm

fit all the essays onto some sort of generous curve

grade

seems like essay a > than essay b > than essay c would get you better results than having each grader come up with a number from 1 - 100 or a letter from A to F, as everyone has different norms as to what they think should count as a 90 (or an A) or whatever
YouTube is definitely not the same era. Google was started in 1998, and was firmly part of Bubble 1.0. YouTube was started in 2005 by former PayPal people. I see no evidence that their early employee equity deals were influenced by Google management; if you have some, please provide it.

I can't, of course, prove anything about this week's equity deals by looking at IPO numbers because median time-to-exit is circa 7 years and we had a long period with few IPOs. But I don't have any reason to think that people today are doing something much different. But these historical numbers seem in line with current advice. E.g.: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much.htm...

You also ignore my request for evidence about your sweeping statements about the current state of things. Unless you have some, I'm going to presume that you're one of the many anonymous disgruntled people on the Internet. If you did get screwed, I'm sorry about that, but I don't think that's reason to go around tarring a whole industry.
Indeed. One might argue it even stunts the potential for greatness: after all, you best can solve problems you've directly experienced.

That might be part of the reason we have thousands of tools to increase programmer productivity, but there are piles of money to be made by providing a simple MVP in a market that's totally untouched.
I had the same reaction to that comment. If anything, I have more respect for people who do jobs I'd find soul crushing.
I never implied that what SpaceX is doing isn't awesome (full disclosure: I'm moving there in 6 weeks! :), just that I didn't understand the parent comment that this particular flight is something groundbreaking.
The worst thing related to this happened to me just today. Google maps gave me different result for address search. Like the little mark on map was placed on different place than it was when I tried it in private tab (and just to make sure in other browser, also not logged in). It is a really weird thing to do (and dangerous too -- I almost sent a friend on a wrong bus).

The reason why I think this happened is different numbering system. You see, I entered street name, number and city. I meant street number, "normal" google maps showed result using the street number, but when I'm logged in I get result not by street number but rather distrcit number (not sure if I'm translating this right). Really bad behavior in my opinion. Also, there was no note on other results, or did you mean, or anything like that.
loved it as well!
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Email Vs. Facebook: The PowerInbox Struggle
Just curious, why haven't you switched yet or have planned to switch 'anytime soon'?
Your earlier comment sounded like you were saying that a company adopting this patent hack would be hard to sell to other investors. Isn't selling companies to other investors what an early stage VC does?
Yep, funny how all the traffic spikes look almost the same...check out a similar analysis on thetaboard: http://www.thetaboard.com/blog/hacker-news-frontpage-post-mo...
Offering the inventor a cut or upfront payment would violate the terms of the IPA.
Hi mende, thanks for your comments, a few things I can think of right now:

1. we want to change the current peer review system, instead of letting 2 or 3 reviewers deciding your paper's fate, why not take advantage of ALL peers in your field? We're not quite there yet as it is a big goal, and we believe this is the right direction to head to.

2. academic journal publications are growing exponentially, how to select good papers from noise? PubUp provides peer curated selection of papers that are worth reading.
As a counterpoint to your enthousiasm: Windows 7 does a number of things better. But I recently went back to XP for a while and was amazed about my productivity. I'm not starting apps that much so the improved start menu isn't that special. Window management hasn't changed much and I think keyboard navigation seemed easier. I would pay a small amount to downgrade.
It depends a lot on who your users are, what ads you show them, how they're positioned. It seems like a decent number for a bunch of mini-games, but it's really hard to generalize.
Investors lose more money to patent trolls than they make from licensing patents or suing people. If they can do things to fix the system overall they'll win in the long run.
It's true: you could fix these specific bugs with JavaScript (though I don't know if you could ever get Services working!) But you'd get a huge amount of standard behavior if your code editor were based on Cocoa's text system. As it stands, you'll always be playing catch-up as AppKit changes the behavior of Mac OS X's text views from release to release (and as the rest of the apps on the system move with these changes "for free").
Can you elaborate on how you merge clusters? Many times a clusters will be just single-doc clusters, how to check if you need to merge two single-doc clusters? (it seems like the same process that was done in the first place to create the clusters: doc x doc similarity)
I saw a hologram of will.i.am at DLD in Munich alongside Cheryl Cole roughly 3 years ago. I don't see what the fanfare is about? It seems like we have just discovered it, but its by no means nothing new.
So here's my challenge to app devopers
Is that really why? I worked at NASA for a while, and everything we did was in theory public info (to my knowledge, at least) - but nobody had any incentive to make anything actually available. (It's a shame - lots of cool stuff is jus sitting on hard drives).
I recently traveled for 6 months without a data connection on my phone and used the Google Authenticator app without any problems at all. I changed the timezone setting many times too.